This article... http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-tell-youre-getting-too-old-video-games_p2/... hit a rather unnerving cord ith me. I turn 26 a week after Skyrim's release. I also have a daughter, a fiancee, college, 40 hour a week job, and a household to keep stocked and stabled.

I'm lucky if i get three hours a week to play video games, and more and more of those hours are being passed up for crappy ninties scifi movies on netflix (which os the only t.v. i watch outside of Adventure time and Yo Gaba Gaba with my 7 moth old).

Now skyrim is something i am truly looking forward too. TES had as much of an impact on me growing up as Zelda, Star Trek, and DnD. Now alas, as those DnD nights turned into poker nights, i find myself in a corner where i'm afraid i won't enjoy Skyrim as much as I did Daggerfall or Morrowind. Music doesn't reach down and grab me like it did when I was 15. Movies don't sweep as far away and convince me quite as much that i can be and do anything. At 26 you pretty much know what your capable of. The grand adventures of fatherhood and midterms makes blowing up death stars seem so trivial. Will it do the same for killing dragons? Or is that part of me that is capable of being that far detatched from realty really dead?

If it is that svcks cause i really enjoy that part of me.

The way things are looking it'll take me a week just to get past the manditory three hour character creation anyway...

Is anyone else looking at this same black void?

I applaud you, sir. I'm 33, but no children.

Hopefully you can game your 1-3 hours on Skyrim.

This is about playing skyrim as an advlt. With like.... a full blown life outside of the game.

I wish I could call 26 old.

If you enjoy video games, play them. My girlfriend thinks im too old to play games and im only 19. I have a job, im in school, and im in a band. But I still make time for games because its something I enjoy.

Lucky for me i'm unemployed and single :hehe:

...Maybe "lucky" isn't the right word :ermm:

I hear you there lol.


And you just got to pull that child out of you again if you can and just play Skyrim and have fun with it as much as you can!

Studying, working and still playing good games (no times for "crappy, but still interesting" ones though)
Although I have no kids (maybe that's a main difference here)

I'm 26, 27 this October 29th. I'm engaged too. But I plan on playing the [censored] out of Skyrim whenever I get the chance.

It has been a struggle, I will be honest. I don't have a lot of time for video games lately. I kind of have to fight for my vidya time but I love video games so it's worth it.

Its not your age I assure you I'm almost 31, but the difference between us is that eventhough I have kids and a husband I don't have tons to do so I can spend lots of time playing. You never really know til you play it, it may reawaken the stuff you lost or it may not.

Old? 26 is ancient. 22 is old.

Two things here, I literally have about one hour a day to myself that i'm not studying, working, fathering, sleeping, eating, or fianceeing, and ten minutes of that hour is walking my dog, so....

And I am really worried that the lack of time i'm capable of investing in the game will reflect on the amount of emotional draw i'm able to reap from it, and the story i want to play out.

Real life should always come first. It's as simple as that. You should still get SK, because it will be fun. Just don't expect to play it all in one sitting. No one can do that with a Beth game anyway, it's just how big the game is.

I get tired of hearing gamers whine about getting old. I'm a fifty-eight year old gamer. I have a twenty-one year old daughter. I play video games when I feel like it and when I don't feel like it, I don't. It's as simple as that, folks. Do it or don't do it, but don't waste your life moaning about it. Do what makes you happy and get on with your life.

I second this.

Oh, i'm getting alright, i just got this sinking feeling like it would be in better hands if i was 16 and had eight hours a day to kill.

If life were only that simple, eh?

60 is old. 26 is fine. You just need to stop watching crappy 90s scifi!

It's kinda hard to give any real definitive advice, as I don't know anyone on this forum personally, so I don't know what any of your lives' entail, but I can relate to and understand the detachment/ disinterest from fantasy games. The realities of life can and will catch up with all of us at some point, and the thought of video games or table top games in the midst of our looming priorities seems almost impractical. For me, the only solution (if you can call it that) was simply asking myself what I wanted to gain from these games. Entertainment? The yearning to immerse myself in a fantasy setting without having to worry about various elements of my life? The chance to interact with an intricate story and shape a fictional world?

I was still able to achieve everything I wanted from video games despite my growing worries, without having to sacrifice any of my responsibilities in my personal and professional life. It's all about time, balance, and knowing your priorities. If you play a game and feel as though as you've been wasting your time, then rethink the entertainment value of video games for you. If you play it and can still be enjoyed and pleased, then you know where you stand.

Sorry if I wrote too much. I hope this was helpful.

If you're unable to make the time for things you enjoy then perhaps you need to reevaluate your priorities. Family, education and careers are important but everyone needs "me time" and if you're not getting any "me time" then it's time to start cutting back on some things. Um... probably not family as I doubt any of your kids are old enough to move out yet. But I think you get the picture.

This thread just depressed the hell out of me.

But those are hilarious
(For example Guyver movie- banol story+ bad acting+ bad setting= best comedy ever)

Same boat minus the kiddo. Any vacation or sick time you can use? At this age, it may be harder to suspend belief as much, but the difference is made up by actually enjoying the ability to pause real life for a second.

Well, I'm 25, but I have no life. Maybe I will get to play through Skyrim faster than you, but in the end, I still have no life.
It's all about being happy with what you get. Age is not important.