Do you believe you'll stay a lifelong gamer?

[DeviantProtagonist]

This sprung after some contemplation, so how do you feel? As someone twenty-four and going, I wary of the stop one could experience in later life. Moreover, it's not impossible to realize one's taste can become more disconnected -- even jaded -- by the mainstream, along the 'edgy' general consensus surrounding this.

In spite of that, however, one reason I'll keep playing is that I'll someday look to a career as a game developer -- or at least casually -- following my sheer content as a soon-to-be computer technician. As well, I grew up with gaming for the longest time. My passion finds itself either way, gradual shortcomings be damned.

But in fairness, I know full well of the burnout from my initial point -- these trends all just feel samey to me. This also reflects in that daily things as of now take precedence -- like college life -- and I find myself playing games less, let alone buying them until bargain price. Recently I've a bad habit of incompleting games.

Nevertheless, I intend to make as much time as possible in regards to retirement; nostalgia is nice in itself, especially when you've made memories fonder with others.

[Naryoril]

Yes i do believe so. I like to try new things, to illustrate that just a list the sports i practiced in a club over my life (im 31 now) more or less in chronological order: football/soccer, track and field, artistic gymnastics, alpine skiing, ski jumping, nordic combination, floorball (a kind of hockey), archery and iaido. Some of them i only did for a short time, others i did for years (about 5 each for ski jumping and floorball, iaido is at 7 years and counting).
I also had a lot of other hobbies like playing instruments, biking and so on, also for varying durations.

There are only 2 things that i did from very early on and i still do:
One of them is reading, but nowadays i'm reading much less than i did 10 years ago. When i read now it's mostly in japanese, or light novels which were translated. Before my japanese became good enough to actually read manga and light novels, i hardly read any book for years (with the exception of a few light novels like Haruhi).

And the other one of course is gaming. It always was and still is my favorite hobby, but compared to my youth i now have the money to buy as many games as i want, so nowadays i'm gaming much more then back then. But i am still quite selective with my games, i probably finish around 85% of them, but by now i know what i will like, so i mostly buy those (mostly JRPGs).
I just think it's more engaging than watching a movie or reading a book, you get the best of both (long and complex stories from books paired with the visual representation from movies) and you get the gameplay on top.
So unless something comes along that takes these aspects of gaming and combines them with even more and goes to the next level (and i have no idea what that could be) i don't see any reason why i should ever stop gaming as long as i am physically capable of doing so.

Of course, interests can change, but it has been so long with me and is such an important part of who i am, i really can't imagine otherwise.

[MetalPredat0r]

Since I'm eventually going to be making a career out of video games, I'm essentially a gamer for life. XP!

Yeah, gaming's been a part of my life ever since I was in Kindergarten, although video games themselves have been around me for practically my entire life, really.

I do plan on eventually broadening myself out with this such as making let's plays, getting more systems, and playing more games, whether new or retro.

I definitely see myself being a gamer even in my late 20s/early 30s since people like that are becoming increasingly more common nowadays than ever before, mostly because these people have also been gamers for years, as early as the NES days.

Though I fear myself being that one guy that goes "Back then, we didn't download our games to our consoles! We had to actually go to the store and buy it physically ourselves! We had to work to get our video games!"

[Amazing_Grace]

I've been getting so involved in RPGs and finding some great ones lately that I feel like if I were to stop playing, it'd feel like my life was missing something.

I really love gaming. It's a form of distraction and stress relief for me. And there are so many different genres out there that as my tastes grow and evolve with me, I can just alter the kinds of games I play and keep playing.

So yes, I do believe I'll be gaming for a very long time. Maybe not forever, though I've done research that indicates elderly folks who game are happier and live longer than those who don't. Something about the stimulation of the brain. It helps keep your memory sharp.