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Subject: You're 23 and you still play Halo?
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I have been asked this question recently. Why, I am not sure. Am I suposed to not be playing video games anymore? Am I "too old?" What is the difference in being 18 and playing and being 50 and playing? Once you hit a certian age do your hobbies magically change? Is what you enjoy not relevant anymore after the age of 20?

I just don't get it. If someone could please let me know why it is actually bad to spend my free time doing something I enjoy I would greatly appreciate it.

  • 06.03.2007 4:18 AM PDT
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I'm 41 and I play it. Big deal. Some people play basketball, some people play video games.

Of course, it's all a matter of moderation. If you're 23 (or whatever age), have no social life, your living quarters are constantly a mess, you eat delivered pizza every night, don't know who the president is, etc. because you don't take time away from the game, then there might be a problem.

  • 06.03.2007 4:26 AM PDT

-blam!- i stopped playing video games when Super Nintendo was out .... about 22 years old ... then i became a manager of some fresh IT grads and let them bring in games when there was downtown .... when they came in with H2 i was like this games Multiplayer is awsome and it got me right back into it ... now im 31 now and love playing w/ friends .. also i have never even played H1... yes its true

  • 06.03.2007 4:38 AM PDT
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Apparently when people hear anything over 20 playing Halo they instantly go to the "Living in your parents basement" stereotype.

  • 06.03.2007 4:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: DAMAGE703 .. also i have never even played H1... yes its true

Ah that almost makes me sad, best game ever created IMO.

  • 06.03.2007 4:40 AM PDT

Back off man, I'm a scientist.

yeah I'm 23 years old and I'm pretty sure my girlfriends parents hate that I play halo, especially her dad, like when I talk about it he's always has this "oh geez, he's talking about his kid stuff again" face I collect comics too I know he thinks those are dumb, he always tells my GF I should sell them

  • 06.03.2007 5:54 AM PDT

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im 20 years old, i dropped out of school in grade 9, I dont live in my parent's basement, I've stayed in my room. its IS a constant mess. I eat mcdonalds and chicken wings and fries from work. after I found out about halo 2, I had found out what I wanted to do. now I work and play halo and dont pay rent and have no future, nothing to look foreward too except for weekly updates and halo 3 to come out. halo 2 improved my life alot. the things I used to do that i basically replaced with halo were infintitly worse than being a dishwashing halo player. halo is good for you. my favourite part is shooting.

  • 06.03.2007 6:03 AM PDT
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You're hanging around the wrong people. You need to stop hanging around judgmental pricks.

  • 06.03.2007 7:20 AM PDT

I'm 58 and I'm the only guy who can prove I swordflew to the Scarab gun in Outskirts and got it. Still kicking ass!

  • 06.03.2007 8:52 AM PDT

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I suggest you just go with your tastes. If you're tired of playing video games when everyone else is playing them, then don't play them. If you're at that age when people generally don't play video games but you still like them, then why not do what you want? Just don't listen to them.

  • 06.03.2007 10:36 AM PDT
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It all depends about how much. If you play maybe in spare time or something its all good. Its all in moderation like NoobWinegeek said.

Im not as old as you guys but people on XBL say that kind of stuff to people I play with and I dont find anything wrong with it...

  • 06.03.2007 11:25 AM PDT

Posted by: Army of Two
Grumpy do you have a video? Sounds cool.

This is the long version. A team called Trinity (comprised of three clans from High Impact Halo) put out vids Trinity 1 and Trinity 2, Episode 1. I was asked to be featured as a tricker and I did the swordfly then. This vid also features a great trickster named SRL. Please enjoy:

OutskirtsSFtoScarabGun 44.29 mb

This is a link to the thread at High Impact Halo, in case you want lower or higher res:
HIH

I'll give you a shorter version later because I'm making a tutorial for Single Vehicle Sword Flying.

There is absolutely no modding involved in this vid. HIH will not allow that nor would I want to.

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  • 06.03.2007 11:35 AM PDT
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my uncles 50 something and plays it

  • 06.03.2007 12:18 PM PDT
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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

I remember reading something that said the age of the average gamer is 29 these days. If that's true, then the overly judgmental people who you associate with didn't even get their pointless stereotype right. I think that says a lot about those kinds of people.

Although, I don't think people who are over 25 play Halo 2 online as often as the younger gamers. We're still out there in the (perhaps hundreds of) thousands, again negating the assertion that only kids play games.

I'm in my mid-twenties, and though I don't play Halo 2 online that often anymore, its simply because I overplayed it for about a year. I kinda got bored with it. I by no means "out grew" it though.

Incidentally, its only a hobby. If that hobby is not hurting anyone, then why would anyone really have a problem with it? Meh. Sometimes rational is far from a universal language.

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  • 06.03.2007 12:39 PM PDT
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For me, its a hobby. I'm 23 as well and have been doing it since I was 5. I got a degree, a good paying job, and am an average adult save for the fact that I spend a couple of hours a day on games after work. I've dated judgemental people (dropped them like a bad habit quick) and have been around enough of them to have learned to just avoid em, or tune their criticism out. Everyone likes different stuff. For me, its videogames, anime, gardening, and cooking.

  • 06.03.2007 1:45 PM PDT

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Im 36 and play halo 2 online all the time, plus run my own business. My mother on the other hand, has a gamecube, xbox, and a ps2, she doesn't play halo, but she plays a hell of alot and she is 68, so I think you are alright at 23.

  • 06.03.2007 1:53 PM PDT

Play in your world get PWN'd in mine!

I wanna be 100 and still owning the -blam!- outta halo2 :-D maybe halo 16 by that time! woot!

  • 06.03.2007 2:11 PM PDT
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I'm 21 and I play everything. I can't stand the people who judge gamers. I grew up in a family of gamers with my dad playing whatever came out. If you want to judge someone for something, judge football nuts who pain their faces up and make their married lives miserable all for the sake of sports. Now THAT'S Rediculous! Games can be anything from a social passtime, a hobby, right up to a lifestyle for some. I really thought gaming was becoming mainstream enough for people to accept gamers, but I see we're still a ways off.

  • 06.03.2007 2:30 PM PDT

I'm 22 and my roommate is 24 - we both play. Nobody has ever asked me this question before.

  • 06.03.2007 3:52 PM PDT

Leave no man behind. But be prepared to stand alone.

Good to hear from Evilcam on this one. Am I right to assume that when someone of his stature says something in a thread, it will be taken as truthful and settled? I'm grinning wide when I ask that, of course....I'm 48. I love playing video games. Is that weird? Funny how some people say, "Well, you know, those video games these days, they're ruining our youth!", or some variation of that idea. And then you get some of the same people, along with kids in some instances, who express surprise whenever they learn of someone my age playing. The look on their faces speaks volumes even if their mouths just hang open with no words coming out. "You are too old for video games, that's for the kids!" I'm like, "Whatever you say." Well, if games have started an epidemic of maladjusted youth or if folks over 18 are too old for gaming, what are we to do?! Seriously, as long as Bungie, Epic, Ubisoft, EA , and Capcom keep putting together games like they have in the past few years, I'm gonna keep gaming. My motto with respect to this whole topic is, "Game till you're lame. Then adapt and overcome."

  • 06.03.2007 4:36 PM PDT

Im 26. I just recently started playing Halo 2 online and I am no doubt nothing more than montage footage for all you PUNKS!! But i love it. I have a BA in communication, a really hot fiance, a good job and i play guitar well. There is nothing wrong with being into video games as a hobby or more. The average age of gamers today is 29, so there go all your stereotypes. As John Lennon once said (dont quote me on this) Waisting your time doing something you enjoy , isnt time waisted.

  • 06.03.2007 5:06 PM PDT
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Too old for videogames? Ask Doris Self, that eightysomething year old granny who is the world Q-Bert champion. Her chief rival is a 70 something year old gent who is second fiddle to only her.

  • 06.03.2007 5:21 PM PDT