Will you ever get to the point where you lose interest in games as a hobby?

I've posed this question to myself in the past. I'm nineteen years old, and I've been playing games regularly for over fourteen of them. I can quite easily say that I will always love gaming, so it will always be among my top hobbies (AKA choice 4). But this has got me wondering, just how long and how much do you think you will continue to enjoy games?

Will you always have a great love for games, or as life takes its course, will your interests slowly be drawn elsewhere? Are you someone who has a never-ending obsession that borders on unhealthy (you know who you are), or are you just a casual and/or younger gamer who sees your current interest in games as just a phase that will end quickly? Maybe you feel you will always enjoy games from time to time, but you won't have the passion for them that you have today.

Understand that when I say"lose interest," that doesn't include not having as much time for games once you've obtained your life's steady job and/or got married and had children (unless you lose interest as a direct result of that :P).

For me, I will always love video games.

Always. :)

I don't see myself losing interest in games. Ever. In the same way that I don't think I'll ever lose interest in film, television, music or literature.

I'm 23 now, I've been gaming since I was 4. I love games more now than ever, I think - and really, I don't see that chnging. I have much less time to game these days, but I don't enjoy it any less than ever. In fact, with recent releases like The Orange Box, Hellgate and The Witcher, as well as numerous other games coming this month, I think I'm enjoying gaming right now more than I have since 2004.

So long as the quality is there, I will be too.

I plan on playing games forever. Im 24 and have been playing games since i was 3 or 4. Good old days of the vic 20 and such. go games!!

People watch tv and i play games :)

Issnt this like when movies first came out? everyoen thought that sooner or later people would get tired of watching movies?

I see Games as a kind of an evolution of the entertainment buisness, so Id say No, I vill never stop playing games, there will be times of my life when I will play less, but I will not stop. It is an exelent way to fet new impressions, provoke feelings, and get a story told. just an evolution from when our forefarthers sat by the fire telling stories.

For me, I will always love video games.

Always. :)

THERSOfi

Well, I'm pleasantly surprised at the number of fairly devoted gamers :). A little disquieted that a plurality of people seem to have a gaming addiction, though :P.

I don't see myself losing interest in games. Ever. In the same way that I don't think I'll ever lose interest in film, television, music or literature.

I'm 23 now, I've been gaming since I was 4. I love games more now than ever, I think - and really, I don't see that chnging. I have much less time to game these days, but I don't enjoy it any less than ever. In fact, with recent releases like The Orange Box, Hellgate and The Witcher, as well as numerous other games coming this month, I think I'm enjoying gaming right now more than I have since 2004.

So long as the quality is there, I will be too.

mfsa

Hell ya! Im in exactly the same boat (tho i dont have hellgate...yet!). Just got the Witcher as well and I havent had this much fun since, well, since Portal.

Honestly, I will play games til I die. People my age (20s, low 30s) were thefirst generation to actually beraised around video games, so I feel its a part of who we are. I can easily see myself forming a guild for World of Starcraft 3 with my roommates in the retirement home in 60 years. Or maybe a sweet Counterstrike clan! And I will still be playing Deus Ex then too!

i don't really have a choice.....gaming has become too time-consuming to me. i imagine i would switch to console .....and sooner or later i would have to quit gaming altogether.

I'm 24, I've been playing games for a long time now. Since I was 5 or 6 or something. I don't see myself ever stopping. I mean, at this point it is really like asking someone "will you ever stop watching TV or movies"? Of course not. It is entertainment and I love doing it.

I dont even think of video games as my hobby anymore. Its just who I am, like others have said, its like watching TV or a Movie. Just in a better form becuase we get to interact with it. I laugh when people say a video game is a bad influence on kids when in reality, I am more tempted to go replay something in real life after watching a movie than if I were to actually be doing in a video game.

About a year and couple of months ago I got into competition games(mainly DM Dueling) and I love it. For a while I was playing 8-12hrs a day, 7 days a week, just training and learning all that I could. Ever since that I just cant think of what I do as a hobby, its just something I do like eating. You crave for it when your not doing it, but sometimes you can get too full and stop for a while. But not after long, your eating/gaming again.

You have an "online" life and a "real life" life. It's all about what you think is more important. petek480

pffffffffft, online life is mo' important. Duh!

:roll:

People my age (20s, low 30s) were thefirst generation to actually beraised around video games, so I feel its a part of who we are.

mrbojangles25

That my friend describes exactly why I (and others) love video games. We were raised with them, we took video games as a form of entertainment since we were kids. And thats the reason why I dont see myself loosing interest on them.

Any hobby that distracts the human man from any form of violence is sufficient.As many things,if we haven't had such hobbys,we would obtain a violent attitude.I'll just say that videogames nulled human instincts a long time ago,just as other "hobbys"...

Well,i would leave this to a more philosophical person.Im not as bright as some people.

as a college student, i find myself playing less and less games throughout my college years. mainly due to the fact that i dont have enough free time to play. but when i do get freetime, i dont know what to do with myself and i usually end up watching a movie or actually working ahead on homework (eep).

I am starting to grow out of it, but trust me, i LOVE playing games... just no more time... =\

Just got the Witcher as well and I havent had this much fun since, well, since Portal.

mrbojangles25

That's great! Did you manage to get an imported copy? I don't know exactly how much was censored for the US copy, but I can tell you that you may be missing out on a butt naked green skinned dryad walking around if you didn't get an import copy.

I heard reports of 80 hours of lifespan thrown around by developers, which i took to be the usual double it and add ten that developers tend to do when talking about their big games, but I'm late into chapter 2 and I've been playing it around twenty hours so far - unless chapter 2 is disproportionately large, the witcher could well be an eighty hour game.

I think it's probably the game of the year right here. If only for hot naked dryads.

I think you'd. When i was young every game was so interesting & fun to me such as contra, ninja gaiden, double dragon and many many more. But now it's hard for me to even find games that really interested me. I think i'd keep playing, just not as much as i would enjoy when i's younger.strifejohn

This is true too. Mainly when I lost interest for a couple months nothing was exciting - every now and again I'd play C&C3 or Dawn of War, but now -especially this month- there are so many huge-name games coming out it's going to be almost impossible not to find something.

Doubt it.

My interest certainly wanes now and then. Actually, I haven't really been gaming much lately (haven't even played an hour in the past couple days,) but I don't think I'll ever stop turning to gaming as a major source of entertainment.

For a while now, I've had the opinion that PC games and games in general are gradually declining in quality, whereas the fancy graphics and effects are considered more important then gameplay. It's been a while since I had a game that really made me feel like the time I spent on it was worth every single minute.
Time isn't really on my side lately, neither, not that that's really strange or a problem. I was expecting to be gaming a whole lot less within a short while, as there were very little games that interested me.

However, then I bought a new PC, I had been saving for it for a while, and I though I might as wel buy it and enjoy what I can, and then I could still see if I was gonna drastically cut down the gaming.

Now, I'm actually looking forward to games that didn't really interest me before, the Crysis demo for example was kind of a surprise to me, I hadn't expecting anything from it beyond great visuals.
In other words, I feel like my interest in gaming has been renewed, and although I still haven't found THE "next gen" hardcore RPG, I'm pleased. You could say I'm becoming (or already am) a casual gamer.
I still don't game that much now, usually only during weekends, but it's still a lot more fun then it was a month or so ago. Funny isn't it. :)

As for the question wether or not it'll stay like that, it most likely will.

For a while now, I've had the opinion that PC games and games in general are gradually declining in quality, whereas the fancy graphics and effects are considered more important then gameplay. It's been a while since I had a game that really made me feel like the time I spent on it was worth every single minute.
Time isn't really on my side lately, neither, not that that's really strange or a problem. I was expecting to be gaming a whole lot less within a short while, as there were very little games that interested me.

However, then I bought a new PC, I had been saving for it for a while, and I though I might as wel buy it and enjoy what I can, and then I could still see if I was gonna drastically cut down the gaming.

Now, I'm actually looking forward to games that didn't really interest me before, the Crysis demo for example was kind of a surprise to me, I hadn't expecting anything from it beyond great visuals.
In other words, I feel like my interest in gaming has been renewed, and although I still haven't found THE "next gen" hardcore RPG, I'm pleased. You could say I'm becoming (or already am) a casual gamer.
I still don't game that much now, usually only during weekends, but it's still a lot more fun then it was a month or so ago. Funny isn't it. :)

As for the question wether or not it'll stay like that, it most likely will.

ShotGunBunny

Im kind of in the same boat..How ever did you ever try bioshock..Its got a great invention and great story..Even though the game is short its still one of the best gamesoof the year..

Now to start on the topic

Hell no..Ive been playing games since my father bought home pong...Than it was the atari from there i went to the commodore sixty 4...Dont any one tell me this isnt a pc when it was the first pc either...Was bye far better than any pc games made today, ill tell ya that much...It had innovation..Had stuff i still miss today...Does any one miss them card board cut outs you printed with, the hot keys intact on your games i do..

Any how ill never stop buying games..Im married now, im sure children are on the way some day..Even when ive got my kids..Ill sink a hour in there of gaming now an than..Than when my kids grow ill be back to playing again...Ill than inroduce them into the gaming world...

Have games changed yes..So have the people..All i here no is graphics this graphics that...Than there are those who say they dont care about graphics...Than go out an buy that graphical game...When are you kids going to realise today that graphics do not make the game...Gameplay makes the game..Thats also what the reviewers of gamespot have gotten away from...

Conan for instance they bashed this game...Yet its one of the better games ive played this year..Could the camera angle be better hell yes...Its still one hell of a game...

Hellgate london full of bugs im playing..This has what ive been looking for, its a great game..They innitiated stats into there game...

Oblivion where do i start..Where it was a great fun game..I hated what the devs did...Freaking scaling system...Ive yet to pick it back up cause of this stupid system...Hope they dont make a mmorpg like they been talking...There is to many mmorpgs..That dont have enough high lvl stuff to do...How many mmorpgs. have you done of late that get boring, after a certain lvl...

Well will i always game yes..Question shouldve been answered as this..Will you always game or will you look twice at what game you purchase...Ive been reading more on games of late that ive been buying..Mad doc this year from bethestha did this to me..Made me a better consumer...Ill look at gameplay now more than graphics..