Do You Think You'll Outgrow Video Games?

" at some point yes. ill probably just be too busy (wife, job, social life, kids) to play video games, although my kids might get into it and i could play a little with them then. "

" I won't outgrow videogames any more than I'll outgrow reading. However, what I think about a lot these days is how much longer gaming will be a viable activity for me. As we age, we get slower and our eyesight gets poorer and our minds perform less efficiently. How long until we are physically not able to keep up with the games we want to play? Hell, it's already hard enough to keep up with all the teenagers and 20-somethings in an FPS if they're any good. Not to mention RTSes (Starcraft, etc). How much longer before I have to put down the controller, because I can't see the television, hear the activities, or react quick enough to events? "

Its a medium and mediums have genres. I won't outgrow games like I won't outgrow music, unless one day the only kind of music being made is soft country rock and polka. Everyone in the gaming industry would have to collectively agree to avoid the genres I like or execute them terribly for me to quit for any prolonged period of time.

I might be busy, but holy crap, I can't wait to play games when I'm 70. By then I'm hoping it's all controlled by thoughts or something like from Gamer or AI. It sucks that by the time you get to that stage in gaming, you're about to die but might as well enjoy it.

I don't think I'll outgrow them, it'll just get to the point where I'm like 70 and I'd rather read a book.

I feel like I've outgrown it a couple of times already. But it's always managed to draw me back in with games that blow my mind. So as long as that happens, I'll be pretty into video games.

This gen is it for me. If my PS3 breaks and the next-gen is here, I'll just buy another PS3.

" @christ0phe said:

"Can you see a 70 year old man with Kinect, or playing Wii? "

People have already forgot about oldschool! "

Maybe. I hope not.

" @HandsomeDead said:

" Yep. I think I'll get to the end of this generation and fizzle out. "

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25 and about to buy a new 360...so no, I doubt I ever will. It's one of those things people say simply because videogames haven't been around long enough as a mainstream thing to "outgrow." I'm sure by the time TV was turning 40, there were still tons of people who thought it was a flash-in-the-pan technological culdesac.

I just wish games would grow up. 

You're saying 'outgrow' like games are still aimed at kids and tweens. So naw bro.

Hahahahaha......no.

" @christ0phe said:

"Can you see a 70 year old man with Kinect, or playing Wii? "

People have already forgot about oldschool! "

" @Gabriel said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" Yep. I think I'll get to the end of this generation and fizzle out. "

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gotta love the people with 1000s of posts on a videogame forum lying to themselves "

" I just wish games would grow up.  "

 I was thinking about this in the shower for some reason.  Am I still going to be 50 and playing video games?  Is there going to be a time in my life where video games just peter out and I stop playing them altogether. 

 
 It's kinda hard picturing us keeping up with emergent technology as we get older, especially as it becomes more advanced. 

To the extent my friends did, no.

I actually feel like I'm close to outgrowing games a bit. I still find the concept of creating games interesting so I doubt I'll ever stop reading about games, watching QLs on GB and so forth, but I rarely get to sit down and REALLY enjoy a game. The last game I really enjoyed was Call of Pripyat, in terms of when it was released and so forth. Before that, I guess Uncharted 2. Still, there is very little few games lately that really catches my attention, which is sad. I mean, I'm not even that old for Christ's sake!

Dude - in 50 years computers might be able to simulate all of existence in perfect fidelity. I'm gonna be high on virtual speedball. Fucking virtual sex slaves. Driving a virtual Ferrari over a fucking cliff. Throwing handgrenukes with my penisfinger hands. Yeah - in that world, every handshake's gonna be a handjob! Fingerlickingly titilating! 
 
Hell no - nobody will ever outgrow gaming. Gaming will outgrow humanity and put us in the place of gods. This is what we will do with that power! 
 
Penisfingerhands High Five! 

I'm going on 35 now.  If I haven't by now, I don't think 15 years will make a difference.

Yeah, at my age (32), if I was going to outgrow video games, I'd have done it by now.
 
As long as I can operate a controller, I'll be gaming.

I don't think you can outgrow games, but I think my tastes will change down the line as I grow older and maybe at some point I may stop because of more urgent matters like having a family but for now no

I'm a bit too old to outgrow anything.
 
If the prices get too high, and the industry goes Digital Distribution only, I may stop buying/playing new games,however.

Yeah probably, I don't think I'll ever completely not care about video games but I'd say my interest in games peeked around 3 - 4 years ago.

" @Bellum: He enjoyed it a lot.  I put in about 5 hours and had to stop because my machine was struggling.  Since then I have put together a new system so I will probably pick it up again soon.   "

Nope. Never. At least, not any time soon. I love the escapism.

maybe when i outgrow reading, listening to music, and watching movies/tv. 
 
it's just another form of media now.

Maybe my taste in games will change, as I've noticed it has. But I hope I keep playing long enough to see this budding medium blossom into its own.

I don't think it's so much "outgrowing" them as it is I'll have less and less time for them as I progress into my later years. It's already happening right now when I'm finishing school.

Thinking you'll "outgrow" gaming is a bad way to put it. Makes it sound like you're going outgrow playing with toys or imaginary friends. It's just an entertainment median. Do you outgrow music or movies? 
 
My interest in the industry fluctuates, 1-2 years into last generation I dropped all interest in console gaming completely and just played MMOs.

" I will probably always play games. Maybe not as much as I do these days. But I doubt I will ever just stop. "

I doubt that I will maybe I will not stop its until im dead. I pron wont have as much time in the future but I will def still be playing them

dude there will always be gameing in your life small or big it everywhere now in days its just less noticeable 

" @Jais said:

" I just wish games would grow up.  "

This. There's been flashes of it, but if games continue to be at the level they are 10, 20, or even 30 years from now then yeah, I could see myself growing out of them.   However, as long as games like those by Team ICO keep getting made, I'll always be playing somewhat, I'm sure. "

Video games will always be a part of my life. I'll never quit in regards to solo gaming or gaming with others in the same room. Online gaming, however, will never be something I will care for going forward. I'm too old for the Internet and ergo, too old for the audience that embraces online gaming.  So, me, I'll never outgrow gaming. Hell, I'm not even done discovering everything that has been released in the last 40 years.

The more I play the more I find the only thing I outgrow is my tolerance for bad game design.