Is ANYONE Older Than Me?

I am 49.75 years old and considered a groomer by most online players.   I only started to play because of my 2 boys and now I've done Gears2 on Insane, Reach on Legendary and The last 4 COD/MW's on Veteran (the last two straight from opening the package) and several other games on the hardest difficulty.  Has age caught up with you??  Do you find yourself dying quickly in multiplayer and in LIFE.  Because I do. 
 
If you are over 40 we'll start a group, use a Zimmer Frame for a logo.
 
Molitor5901.

There are a few people I know of that are definitely older than you. I don't want to publicly bust them out, though!

" There are a few people I know of that are definitely older than you. I don't want to publicly bust them out, though! "

Claude passed the century mark a few years ago. He is both wise and immensely powerful.

" Claude passed the century mark a few years ago. He is both wise and immensely powerful. "

I always thought hitman might have been so old, he evolved into a cloud of intelligent gas.

" I always thought hitman might have been so old, he evolved into a cloud of gas. "

" I feel somewhat relieved. Being age thirty-three, I don't feel so old anymore. "

Heh, I knew three people over 60 whom I used to play Ghost Recon 2 over Xbox Live with constantly (Pre-360). They were awesome.

Man I'm still the nice young age of twenty! Life stretches before me with near limitless possibility! (was this what you wanted to hear?)

I have to say congratulations, I'm less than half your age and I still have to take regular breaks for sore fingers (arthritis is a definite for later on). You're clearly doing pretty well

i turned 21 the other day so... no, not exactly. 

" @Molitor5901: I'm twenty and my dad is just turned 51 on the 17th I keep trying to get into games but he has a little trouble with the controls any advice for him :) "

My age is a palindrome but I'm under 30 yet old enough to be a child of the 80's :). 
 
Respect for getting into gaming. Back in the PS1 days I played a little GT with my dad but he soon got sick of having his ass handed to him.

" @Molitor5901: I'm twenty and my dad is just turned 51 on the 17th I keep trying to get into games but he has a little trouble with the controls any advice for him :) "

" @GunnBjorn:   I remember 33.  The viagraless years "

It's funny how 50 is old when it comes to games, but in real life, "old" is more like 75-80. I guess the same can be said of bank robbery and break-dancing too.

I'm still a spring chicken (42 years old) but my positive k/d ratio days are well behind me. However, I still plan to get my share of kills as soon as this new Reach map pack becomes available. ;)

I guess I am the whippersnapper at our Giant Bomb rest home being a year under "Zombie Dad".  I started gaming like a few of you in the 1970's with Pong and the scant few arcade games popping up around metropolitan areas.  Later it was a 2600 and then a computer followed by various home consoles though the decades.  I can't say that you'll see me on the FPS killing fields anytime soon since while I enjoy a good shooter as much as the next geezer, I don't have the patience for online competitive multiplayer.  RPGs are really my game of choice, so if you drop into Bioware's Star Wars MMO next year, perhaps I'll see you.   
 
I never think about the useful things I could be doing rather than gaming because the truth of the matter is if I wasn't gaming, I'd being doing something else as equally wasteful.  Why do we get it into our heads especially as we mature that our free time must be productive to some degree?   Why can't we just enjoy fun for the joy it brings?  Now, that isn't to say I don't sometimes wonder if I had spent the hundreds of hours I've devoted to specific games on learning a language or an artistic skill how much more enriched my life might be.  It's human nature to wonder "what if?", but on the same note, I know who I am at this point and if I was going to do any of those things, I would have done them or (more precisely) I would finished doing them.  So, I choose to not dwell on the lost time.  For whatever reason fate set me down this road, I am a gamer today as I have been since I dropped my first quarter into a machine over 30 years ago.  It makes me happy.  That's enough for now.

" Heh, I knew three people over 60 whom I used to play Ghost Recon 2 over Xbox Live with constantly (Pre-360). They were awesome. "

" I am 49.75 years old and considered a groomer by most online players.   I only started to play because of my 2 boys and now I've done Gears2 on Insane, Reach on Legendary and The last 4 COD/MW's on Veteran (the last two straight from opening the package) and several other games on the hardest difficulty.  Has age caught up with you??  Do you find yourself dying quickly in multiplayer and in LIFE.  Because I do.   If you are over 40 we'll start a group, use a Zimmer Frame for a logo. Molitor5901. "

" @sodiumCyclops said:

" Claude passed the century mark a few years ago. He is both wise and immensely powerful. "

Indeed. I saw him swallow a hurricane once. "

"I'm getting more and more busy with my work, relationships etc. Everytime I (want to) play a game, this thought runs through my head: ''Can't I do something more useful right now?'' And that takes away the pleasure of gaming."

Oh sweet, I hope I'm still playing games at that age. Maybe the zimmer frame club will still be going!
 
My dad won't play anything but lemmings, but man did he love lemmings!

Get off my lawn, YOU GODDAMN CAMPERS!  *drops controller and shakes cane*

"Get off my lawn, YOU GODDAMN CAMPERS!  *drops controller and shakes cane* "

" I feel somewhat relieved. Being age thirty-three, I don't feel so old anymore. "

Hell, I'm only 25 and I still feel kind of "old" here. Then again, it doesn't bother me at all :D.

Oh mighty Claude, please come forth and grace this thread with your presence.

Are you the kind of old where we have to speak loudly and slowly so you can understand or the kind of old where we have to speak quietly becuase loud noises might give you a heart attack?
 
Also Claude is the friendly neighbourhood old guy. He's very nice. I once sat on his lap and he had a magic hat which he would tell us to put our hand in and stroke the magic rabbit that was inside. Nice old man. He gave Nintendo games but I wasn't allowed to tell my parents about them.

" @GunnBjorn said:

" I feel somewhat relieved. Being age thirty-three, I don't feel so old anymore. "

I'm 18. Now you must feel old again. :D "

I am 18 and I felt old when thinking about this: Those born in the year of 2000 are now 10. 10! I remember that freaking year. I need to sit down.

" @Meteora:   Do Tell.  And BTW what are u wearing ?  ;0) "

" I feel somewhat relieved. Being age thirty-three, I don't feel so old anymore. "

I just turned 30 and I already feel that I get my ass handed to me constantly in online multi-player FPSs. I hope I'm not losing my twitch reflexes already. Oh well, you're only as old as you feel and I still feel like I'm in my early 20's so I'm going to stick with gaming for a good long while yet.

" @awesomeusername said:

" @GunnBjorn said:

" I feel somewhat relieved. Being age thirty-three, I don't feel so old anymore. "

I'm 18. Now you must feel old again. :D "

16  u mad? "

" @Jack268 said:

" @awesomeusername said:

" @GunnBjorn said:

" I feel somewhat relieved. Being age thirty-three, I don't feel so old anymore. "

I'm 18. Now you must feel old again. :D "

16  u mad? "

Hell no! 18 is much better then being 16! I enjoy being 18 more then I enjoyed being 16.  "

my dad bought an xbox360. came with sonic. he couldnt get the controls right so he got frustrated and gave me the xbox360. I probably should of told him that noone gets the controls right on a new sonic game..... oh well i love the 360.

" @Jack268 said:

" @awesomeusername said:

" @GunnBjorn said:

" I feel somewhat relieved. Being age thirty-three, I don't feel so old anymore. "

I'm 18. Now you must feel old again. :D "

16  u mad? "

Hell no! 18 is much better then being 16! I enjoy being 18 more then I enjoyed being 16.  "

I am so old I couldn't remember my age. recently I thought I was 31, than my wife told me I was 32... Ugh, one year of my life...gone.