test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Options
"Old ppl in mah Trek!"
System
Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Funny, I still see so many about ESD and even in other MMO games entirely complaining that many of the other players are "too old" to be playing video games...
You have to think about it from the stance that video games were really only JUST catching on about 30 or so years ago, i.e. the mid 1980's. Right along with the (then and ongoing) leaps and bounds in computer technology at the time. It therefore makes little sense to me that just because someone hits 30 years of age and beyond that they would simply stop playing video games. Especially when some of them, myself included, are among the original gamer generation. Even moreso in this particular game, being that Trek pioneered the genre more than 40 years ago and has since upkept a massive fanbase of all ages... And in any case, I wouldn't complain too loudly because of the rampant "old fogies" running about ingame. Who do you think most of the mods and designers are for a good portion of the gaming industry overall? I'm willing to bet it's the original gamer generation.
You have to think about it from the stance that video games were really only JUST catching on about 30 or so years ago, i.e. the mid 1980's. Right along with the (then and ongoing) leaps and bounds in computer technology at the time. It therefore makes little sense to me that just because someone hits 30 years of age and beyond that they would simply stop playing video games. Especially when some of them, myself included, are among the original gamer generation. Even moreso in this particular game, being that Trek pioneered the genre more than 40 years ago and has since upkept a massive fanbase of all ages... And in any case, I wouldn't complain too loudly because of the rampant "old fogies" running about ingame. Who do you think most of the mods and designers are for a good portion of the gaming industry overall? I'm willing to bet it's the original gamer generation.
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
ill be 29 in a few days ..... my moto is play to you die and then hope the afterlife has a computer :eek:
laughs to her self
[Old Fogey Voice]...Wait till I get my cane... then we can go beat the tar out of them young whipper-snappers... [/Old Fogey Voice]
as computers become more of a way of life in schools and recreation its becoming more ingrained in our life and in the past the now older generation did not have that. my mum and dad never had computers when they were young so they dont really understand them or even need them now. i doubt i will ever stop using a computer no matter how old i am, so the gamer in me has been there since the beginning.
i and my group were about dont know, 18 - 20?... we had a LAN in a Sport hall or something and there was a movable Wall... after 30 minutes of NOISE we put that wall between all the 13 year old Counter Strike kiddies and us, suddenly the decibel level went down to a normal value again and everyone was lika "aahhhhh".....
and we made equally fun of them annoying younglings in our UT2k4 clan.
...haven't seen any of that behaviour in STO yet.
I'm 29.9 myself. Next year I'll be 29.99, then 29.999. Hopefully nobody will catch on >.>
You keep that up and you'll eventually turn into a lizzard.
I'm personally going to be comming up on my 23rd, 29th b-day in October.
Or my 31st, 21st B-day.
Yeah, I tried that, didn't work for long. I think my mistake was actually letting people know I had a birthday, don't draw attention to it and let me know how it went.
Also, if you get married, you're going to be told, "Oh no, mister. If I've got to be 30, you're sure as hell going to be 30, too." Even if you're 28, you're going to be 30 and you're going to like it.
Lol, someone go fetch my walker... Yes, the transwarp capable one!
I was shocked shortly before I left Guild Wars, as I discovered that aside from myself the guild I was in consisted almost entirely of folks 45+... And I'd have never been the wiser if they'd not just mentioned it one day out of the blue. I was all, "Wait a tick... So am I the only one here still in his twenties?" It was a moment of revelation on my part.
This comic comes to mind.
I hear there's an EQ3 in development. * ponders*
Edit: Another relevant comic.
I get it, nobody wants to be in the choir that sang the song to end the world, but blaming the age group that's predominantly wanted more challenge in video games, but whose opinions are disregarded because we spend twenty times what they do on games is patently ridiculous.
I wouldn't be too hard on them... Until said time when again I see them ranting in zone chat anyway lol. Time is a funny thing in the fact that trends and things once coveted fade. Eventually either joining the realm of the nostalgic or simply becoming something utterly laughable. All things in good time, they'll be no different at our age no doubt.
It almost makes me force them to play Diablo II and look for a Stone of Jordan. You will be lucky if you get one in six months.
Or putting together ANY set.
Talk about hard. And I don't ask for them to play in D2 hardcore mode, where you get killed. Once. Then it's game over, make a new character.
I can almost hear the whining and the wailing...
Oh don't get me started lol... I still play that game and anxiously await the third one... And Hardcore mode was something else entirely. One tends to fight MUCH harder when he/she literally only has one life to live.
But yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. As most games nowadays seem to be catering more and more toward "user friendliness"... Which is ultimately making the games easier, and the gameplay itself cheaper overall. Come to think of it, mentioning set items and the like, my lead character in STO doesn't have a single item onboard ship or on his person that is not at least rare or better.
WTF? yesterday i had my windows open (the ones in the wall) and there was a Kid outside literally singing that song!!!
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
They are called the now Generation...heheh I guess Im one of those first generation gamers been almost 29.:cool:
What blasphemy is this?... Children... Outside... It's utterly unheard of!
I thought the new term was "Millennium's"?
I'd just resigned myself to calling them the "Spongebob Generation"... Who can say definetively?
Er not really, you'd need to be in your late 30s/early forties and remeber things like playing space invaders in an arcade, or Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum, or Missile Command, or any of those old games.
Or the very first 'MMO' - Gauntlet
Don't forget PONG.
finally the pc
Gets walking stick out
Ive heard of that one to...think there are a few discriptions for them lol.
Maybe we should invent a few hahaah.:D
We didn't have computers & computer games when I was growing up, not until the ZX 81 came out, then followed by the trusty Commodore 64. I hated all the twitchy Platform games of the time so my younger brother used to take the controller & I'd guide him ... he's 43 this year & still plays GTA III & Red Dead Redemption, but he's not as good with the controller these days, having joint problems. My Older brother loves the Sims series.
We used to play the old text-based adventure games, incorporating my dolls & my brothers Action Men. We even played the Star Trek based one & I used to write my own adventures & play Game-Master as my brothers played through. We established our own set of main characters, & one of my Captains & Crew in STO is based on those same characters.
My first 'real' computer was DOS, & I couldn't figure it out, so I sent it back. I rediscovered Computers again in 1998, with Windows. Been gaming since then, primarily mmo's since 04 (SWG)
Am I too old to play computer games? Hell no.
Would I ever stop playing computer games? Only when I'm dead, unless there is gaming in the After-Life.
I would be more embarrassed if I was one of those boring people who just sat & watched TV during their R&R hours.
In games I am always mentally active, whether I am fighting an 80 foot Dragon or traversing a Black Hole in the depths of space, or maybe fighting shoulder to shoulder with two dozen other fellow adventurers closing rifts & tears into other dimensions ... .... Life is an Adventure ... Life is Exciting ....
... maybe tomorrow I'll be doing the Kessel Run in less than 11.5 parsecs
Because I can!
:cool:
I was rocking on my commodore 64 back in the day, so are you sure about that?
There is no reason why age should stop gaming...my dad who hasnt touched a computer ever in his life has just bought one...oh the training and headaches I will get from that lol...but I plan to slowly introduce him to gaming mahahahaha.
Shhh dont tell him, he must not know my deviant plans.
Rocked the hell out of my Atari for most of the 80's, til 88 when I got a NES for Christmas.
33, and hopefully got 40+ years more of gaming coming.
Also, my mother (62) has recently gotten into online gaming...started with that Farmville dung, now she's onto Freerealms.....I'll have her playing real MMO's by 65!
Plus, with this IP, it's not that amazing to see people who are 40+ playing. If you were 10 when ST launched, you're 55 now.......
Edit: I do find the whole "under 25 you're a tard" arguement amusing. The people MAKING and approving the games, movies and whatnot are mostly in their 30's or older. Not too many movie studio heads in their 20's. See the latest SW and Indiana Jones film to see that the "old school" people can make TRIBBLE too.
I beat you!