Is it wierd that i just turned 30 and bought a DS?

Yeah, well I actually will be 30 on the 11th, DEc on Thursday. I own every console and a kick arse gaming pc (excpet the 360, as I would never want to be raped by a cheap no good console that makes me pay to play online). I already got all the pc, ps3, psp and wii games that are out now and was gaming when Final Fatasy 1 and Castlevania 1 first came out, in fact FF1 and Dragon Warrior were my first console rpgs (phantasie 1 and pool of raideance for pc rpgs)..so when I seen that the ds has a remake of both ff3 (the only one i never played as the original imported translated nes version i have, I could never get into) and FFIV(2 in US) along with Dragon Quest4(dragon warrior4 in US) , orcs and elves(a favorite cell phone game of mine), Chrono trigger, and 3 sotn type castlevania games... those games are the reasons I had to get one, and had my fiance buy one for my for my birthday. I got ff3,ff4, castvania dos, ooe, DQ4, and orcs and elves with it. I really love it.

I still love my psp though, but this is cool too!! To be honest I would of probably just stuck with only the psp as a handheld if I could of got these games for it as I love all the psp rpgs, i still couldn't resist those 3d remakes of ff 3 and 4 and castlvania. I do think the ff remakes could of been better on psp, but I am not complaining as they seem really good so far.

One of the reasons I was holding off getting this for so long was the large amount of kid centric games(pokemon, half the ds games on the rack that have baby looking characters, not talking about animie(like disgaea as I love that) but some of the box art really looks like baby charcters, then there is the thought of how gba had made so many games easier didn't appeal to me), casual games(cooking mama, diner dash etc..), and girly games(nintendogs, animal crossing, barbie, etc..).... These games that i got are all hardcore games, something that is missing on the wii and turned my wii into my girlfriends console for ddr basically. What I want to know is if you guys think its strange for me getting one, and if any of you are older then 20?

Dude, grow up. The DS is for small,uninformed, illiterate children. Ignoramus...

Kidding, my dad has one and he's older than you. Der's nut'n rawng wit it. Enjoy your DS. :)

Considering how heavily Nintendo has been catering advertising to people of your age group since the launch of Wii, I would not say its strange that you got one.Wrecked69

Hey! Animal Crossing isn't girly! Sure it's childish, but not girly! I said I was kidding when I called you an ignoramus, but now I may reconsider...Nomoreblasphemy

[QUOTE="Wrecked69"]Considering how heavily Nintendo has been catering advertising to people of your age group since the launch of Wii, I would not say its strange that you got one.world69star69

They have been heavily advertising to people who appear to be in their 30s and 40s, yes mostly casuals, but being casual or not has nothing to do with age. I'm just saying its not weird for someone whos 30+ to own a wii or DS, regardless of what kind of gamer they are, and for some people, maybe not YOU, but for some, the commercials are a huge reason why.

One of the reasons I was holding off getting this for so long was the large amount of kid centric games(pokemon, half the ds games on the rack that have baby looking characters, not talking about animie(like disgaea as I love that) but some of the box art really looks like baby charcters, then there is the thought of how gba had made so many games easier didn't appeal to me), casual games(cooking mama, diner dash etc..), and girly games(nintendogs, animal crossing, barbie, etc..).... These games that i got are all hardcore games, something that is missing on the wii and turned my wii into my girlfriends console for ddr basically. What I want to know is if you guys think its strange for me getting one, and if any of you are older then 20?

One of the reasons I was holding off getting this for so long was the large amount of kid centric games(pokemon, half the ds games on the rack that have baby looking characters, not talking about animie(like disgaea as I love that) but some of the box art really looks like baby charcters, then there is the thought of how gba had made so many games easier didn't appeal to me), casual games(cooking mama, diner dash etc..), and girly games(nintendogs, animal crossing, barbie, etc..).... These games that i got are all hardcore games, something that is missing on the wii and turned my wii into my girlfriends console for ddr basically. What I want to know is if you guys think its strange for me getting one, and if any of you are older then 20?

i'm not far off from 30 myself and bought a ds back in june. and btw i LOVED the first dragon warrior game when i was a kid. i can remember being bummed that i didn't have the $15 for a nintendo power subscription when it came packaged with dragon warriorgfmetal

dude u cant afford $50 for 1 time in 1 year? I dont even remember when I entered in my live subcription card in thats how good the deal islogin

I bought my first DS when I was 31 years old a few years ago and now I am 33. I have been gaming since the Atari 2600 era, before most users on this forum where born.

It is unfortunate that many of my generation are reinforcing society's stereotypes by being selective of what games they play due to their age and believe that in order to maintain their masculinity (most gamers are males) or maturity then need to play violent or "mature" games. I hate violent and "mature" games and always have since the 64-bit era.

Not wierd at all man! I am soon to be 27 (in feb) and i bought a DS a few Christmas's ago!

Ive also been gaming since atari,nes and old computers!:P

I own every console and a kick arse gaming pc (excpet the 360, as I would never want to be raped by a cheap no good console that makes me pay to play online). world69star69

LOL:lol:. I'm 20 and play my DS regularly.

There's nothing weird about it. The DS has a lot of "kiddy" games but its also got a lot of brilliant ones too, as does the wii... Nintendo is just trying to advertise to a very wide audience (Younger/older, casual/hardcore) So people will eventually feel as if Nintendo isn't catering to their needs because they are dividing their attention to all the different (potential) gamers...

Whether this is smart or not is a controversial subject, they could be doing the best thing in gameing history... or they could be spreading themselves too thin... Either way, they welcome all areas of the market; including 30 year olds... ;)

Yeah, well I actually will be 30 on the 11th, DEc on Thursday. I own every console and a kick arse gaming pc (excpet the 360, as I would never want to be raped by a cheap no good console that makes me pay to play online). I already got all the pc, ps3, psp and wii games that are out now and was gaming when Final Fatasy 1 and Castlevania 1 first came out, in fact FF1 and Dragon Warrior were my first console rpgs (phantasie 1 and pool of raideance for pc rpgs)..so when I seen that the ds has a remake of both ff3 (the only one i never played as the original imported translated nes version i have, I could never get into) and FFIV(2 in US) along with Dragon Quest4(dragon warrior4 in US) , orcs and elves(a favorite cell phone game of mine), Chrono trigger, and 3 sotn type castlevania games... those games are the reasons I had to get one, and had my fiance buy one for my for my birthday. I got ff3,ff4, castvania dos, ooe, DQ4, and orcs and elves with it. I really love it.

I still love my psp though, but this is cool too!! To be honest I would of probably just stuck with only the psp as a handheld if I could of got these games for it as I love all the psp rpgs, i still couldn't resist those 3d remakes of ff 3 and 4 and castlvania. I do think the ff remakes could of been better on psp, but I am not complaining as they seem really good so far.

One of the reasons I was holding off getting this for so long was the large amount of kid centric games(pokemon, half the ds games on the rack that have baby looking characters, not talking about animie(like disgaea as I love that) but some of the box art really looks like baby charcters, then there is the thought of how gba had made so many games easier didn't appeal to me), casual games(cooking mama, diner dash etc..), and girly games(nintendogs, animal crossing, barbie, etc..).... These games that i got are all hardcore games, something that is missing on the wii and turned my wii into my girlfriends console for ddr basically. What I want to know is if you guys think its strange for me getting one, and if any of you are older then 20world69star69

Can I tell you something Worldstar? I stopped playing Video games for at least 10 years or so. The last portable I bought was an Atari Lynx. And then one day like magic someone had awesome game on a old school GBA. The GBA was left behind with some games Monster Rancher,Gridiron,Nancy Drew and one game that grabbed me to playing a bit:Golden Sun. (Holy crap get it) This GBA was the first model. So they didn't have the backlight. A few months later DS was about to be released. When the DS was released I got Super Mario 64 package via Gamestop. I didn't own a N64 system nor did I own a super nintendo. Um, I was mesmerized by that game from the start. I got the DS and it's still my best investment but Im backwards because I am thinking of getting a PSP now as well and a Wii. I just bought Chrono Trigger and i am immersed in this game everytime I play it. Even though I have a stumbling block on this game on a area where the controls are not working for me. I am thinking of doing something drastic and paying someone to get past this problem area for me.

I remember buying Contra around the time it was released. I remember going to Kay Bee Toy Stores and getting this game and remember hard it was. I remember buying Ninja Gaiden and I remember the first day I played the Sega Genesis.

I see now it's on the DS and I have the GBA version

Why this phenomenon happening, I think it's because alot of people are drawn back to the veteran games as the lure in the same way that classic rock stations effected people in the mid to late eighties. I don't call it nostalgia it's just something to hold onto because the world moves so fast now. It's necessary to keep yourself from going insane. I remember how much work I had to do to get a game system on my own and prune trees. I bought it at Service Merchandise and the NES came off the conveyor belt. :) Now anyone can get that system relatively easy and all the cartridges are pretty cheap. But we didn't have Rental places in my area for a looong time.

I wanted to keep the old game systems with me so I bought a speciality system called "GP2X" which is a open source gaming system that plays all 2D machines from Atari to Sega Genesis.I love that as much as my DS. And there are so many games I haven't played. It's hard to decide which games to play on that system. I have the whole Neo Geo library on one SD card. Not really impressed with the games they made for it. Alot of it was limited and carbon copy fighting games. I do have the whole NES library on my SD card though :)

The point is, you are just experiencing what everyone is experiencing. The one thing you remember from playing video games. That particular energy and feeling that we all got when we played Atari,Nes, or whatever system it was. The hours and years it took to design a game are the same reasons why Harry potter fans wait for a year or so for another Novel,Why James Cameron Fans are excited over Avatar,Why GNR fans lost it over Chinese Democracy finally coming out. It;s the labour of craft and the strive for excellence in connecting with audience that loves that expression being created.

Thats why so many people go to the DS because of the GBA library and the fact that DS has finally found it's rhythm for the right games for the DS library. It took a few years and garbage was coming out. But this system can hold out for another year or so. Nintendo will have a different system configuration by then. The GBA port elimination was a mistake. Everyone was buying used GBA games for their library. Don't eliminate choices. No one gives a crap about a digital camera. I hope DS designers lurk on this board. Understand that by now it's retarded to put add on features that have nothing to do with gaming.

P.S. (or is that DS) I really looking forward to purchasing "Bob's Game" in 2009. That's such a great story how that game was created.

I hope the new DS realizes that to be a fully functioning 3d machine it's going to need a new overhaul and a new revolution of portable gaming.I wasn't too impressed with the DSI. I never even bought the DS Lite because I heard issues with the diagonal pad that would probably drive me crazy. For DS to get me to commit to another system it's going to have to be a dual system

Totally Agree with the above statement:)

I bought my first DS at age 39 and here I am at 40, still playing with it.

OREGON TRAIL FTW! (green and black screen)

Man, I loved the golden days of Nintendo. Pure Greatness.

I'm about to buy a DSlite for my daughter for Xmas. She wants a pink one, but we'll have to see about that. The only reason I don't want her to have the pink one is because I'm totally gonna buy Phantom Hourglass, ChronnoTrigger, and a few other games for it for myself.

There's nothing wrong with owning a DS no matter what the age is. Now days, if you own a PS3/360 and are above 30 people look at you for playing traditional games as a nerd imo. The DS/Wii is where it's at when it comes to society, and you will fit in just fine.

The DS is for all

enough said

No. What's weird is that you're 30 and still seeking affirmation from strangers. :?

There are a lot of "mature" games out there - Brain Age, etc. So if you need to prove you're mature, play those.

The rest of us will simply enjoy ourselves with Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Zelda, Harvest Moon, and the like.

By the way, I'm 59.

I'll be 27 in a few days and fully agree with you about the DS. The main reason I have yet to purchase a Wii is because other than Mario Galaxy I didn't really see any games that I wanted to play.. ok maybe Raving Rabbids but, I bought the gold limited edition Zelda DS Lite just before last christmas and have yet to regret it. I wanted to be able to play my revamped Mario and Square Enix games on the go and have been exceptionally happy with it.

I know what you mean about the casual games on the DS which are the majority. I'll probably end up getting my GF her own DS soon so she doesn't keep me from playing Chrono Trigger while she is playing Cooking Mama lol.

There are books and movies made for kids. Does that mean we should stay away from libraries and DVDs?

The DS really is for everyone. There is no age to enjoy games like Mario Kart, New Super Mario Bros, Professor Layton.Of course there are games on the DS that are made for kids (Imagine series, Barbie, etc) but no one expects you to play them.

I'm 26 and I own 91 DS games on the last count:P. I enjoy Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and I'm even a Pokemon fan. My favorite games are the Castlevania series, RPGs like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest and SRPGs like Luminous Arc.

By the way, I love Orcs & Elves !

no it isnt weird that ur 30 and have a DS..if u like it then whats it matter? no one cares..im sure people aint gona see u with ur ds then start laughing and pointing!

I bought my first DS when I was 31 years old a few years ago and now I am 33. I have been gaming since the Atari 2600 era, before most users on this forum where born.

It is unfortunate that many of my generation are reinforcing society's stereotypes by being selective of what games they play due to their age and believe that in order to maintain their masculinity (most gamers are males) or maturity then need to play violent or "mature" games. I hate violent and "mature" games and always have since the 64-bit era.

malkiko

As for all the "childish" games out there, I sometimes wonder if some of these gamers were gamining when they were that young. I was, and I bought and loved a lot of games back the that I'm sure older gamers didn't care for, but they were there and available and appropriate for my age. Even now, I buy a few DS games that are based on properties I like if they're a decent price. TMNT, Transformers Animated, Ben 10. While they're not great games by any standard, they aren't terrible and for the $10-$20 I can definately afford the 5-6 hours of entertainment I get from them.