Eternity At what age do you think you'll finally give up RPG's forever?

[King Crispy]

Peer into your own future and answer the best you can. Honesty counts!

 

[Ebonsword]

I'll probably want to play RPGs until I die.

My concern is that there soon won't be any around worth playing.

But I guess once I get old enough and lose my memory, I can keep playing the ones I like over and over and each time will be like playing it for the first time.

 

[King Crispy]

Please note: If you've already supposedly given up on RPG's forever, as phtmyr claims to have, please PM DU for immediate self-ejection. Thank you.

 

[Irenaeus]

When I get out of my teens.

 

[oldmanpaco]

As soon as i can afford a ps4 to play BF1 on.

 

[thesheeep]

Stop?!

Wtf, man?
I already can't wait for my retirement to finally have the time this hobby deserves.

 

[laclongquan]

We probabbly should as the Administration to look into the Codex database, figure out oldster's group, Check which one stop coming, and provide the answer.

 

[Azrael the cat]

Can we add a couple of options. I need a 'fuck you, 50 is about a decade away, and my grandparents are still alive and independent in their late 90s, so you stopped halfway through the fucking count you idiot' option. And I'm pretty sure Crispy needs a 'been there, passed all that' option.

I'm probably in my most marginal years for gaming. Kids to look after, career etc, so I just sneak in a few hours on the weekend here and there, and then during the holidays (as in, compulsory christmas-NY break, not the 'take annual leave and go overseas', obviously) I choose a good game (sometimes new, sometimes old) to play from start to finish.

Once the kids get old enough to go through their teen stage of not wanting to know me, I'll probably have time to add a few hours of mid-week gaming back into the schedule. After they grow up, I'll probably be back to high-school levels of gaming time, even with 'doing fuckloads of other stuff' factored in, just because it's such a time-sink off my hands.

Then there's retirement. I see no reason why retirement shouldn't utterly smash my earlier peak gaming periods of 'school holidays' and 'university undergrad'. Think about it. I'll be way less horny than I was then, and even though I'd hope I'll still be married, I'll have a 65yr old's sore back and lack of stamina, so it's not like that's going to be the distraction it was then. I'm not going to be doing all the other stuff like sports and parties and drugs and socialising (though I'm already planning to spend a few hours a day sitting out on the driveway telling kids to get off my lawn). You can only travel the world so many times, especially when you're that age.

Retirement will probably be the first time in my life when I'll actually have so much gaming time that I could theoretically join a hardcore mmorpg raiding guild.

Edit: and then there's dementia. Oh sweet dementia. Finally I'll be able to spend 1000s of hours playing through all those Elder Scrolls games.

 

[Roguey]

I don't believe it's possible to gauge when you'll lose interest in something unless you're already in the process of doing so.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

RPGs have never been my main genre of interest when I was a teenager, but the older I get, the more I appreciate them.

 

[DragoFireheart]

After I die.

 

[anvi]

Why would you stop at some certain age? Makes no sense.

 

[Barnabas]

RPGs is the one genre I don't get bored with. I was once really big into survival horror (still am to an extent), but I haven't really been into a horror game since Amnesia the dark descent. I think survival horror went to hard into not incorporating combat and that I disapprove. Im still a huge fan of Silent Hill 2, 4, and 5 (Homecoming) and I wish they would return to that formula.

 

[Sigourn]

Never.

RPG is love, RPG is life. It's the one genre I can never get bored of, because every FPS feels like every FPS, every racing game feels like every racing game, and once you get bored of shooting at things, you will never find it enjoyable again. And ones you get bored of racing cars, you will never find it enjoyable again.

Only genre I can compare RPGs to is adventure games, then again, I don't like being railroaded in an adventure.

 

[dagrims]

Between Steam and GOG I'll probably be continuing to buy RPGs, and not play them, until I am a senior citizen. My queue of owned but unplayed games is much longer than the list of games I actually played. I spend more time reading about RPGs here and looking at all their pretty icons on my desktop than playing the games.

 

[santino27]

40s here and already getting there. It's less that I don't enjoy them and more that I very rarely finish them at this point.

Why would you stop at some certain age? Makes no sense.

It's a generalization, but for many people, their lives change fairly dramatically from decade to decade; i.e by 30s, there are kids involved, in the 40s, you're worrying about paying for their college tuition, and by the 50s, you've realized they grew up to hate you. Different stages of life mean a potential for different distractions and a decreased likelihood of caring about RPGs or CRPGs.

 

[thesheeep]

Kids. Always ruining everything

No wonder you want to scream to get them off your lawn.

 

[naossano]

Depends of what you mean.

The more I am busy, the less I play games. And rpg are the games that require more time, not just because length but because of commitment into your playthrough. I could stay long periods without playing rpg, playing games, watching movies or series, reading books. That doesn't I stop caring about them. Although I am a bit more picky, have less patience for fillers and genericness.

 

[anvi]

40s here and already getting there. It's less that I don't enjoy them and more that I very rarely finish them at this point.

Why would you stop at some certain age? Makes no sense.

It's a generalization, but for many people, their lives change fairly dramatically from decade to decade; i.e by 30s, there are kids involved, in the 40s, you're worrying about paying for their college tuition, and by the 50s, you've realized they grew up to hate you. Different stages of life mean a potential for different distractions and a decreased likelihood of caring about RPGs or CRPGs.

You could just not have kids and then enjoy your life.

 

[nikolokolus]

I didn't give up on RPG's. They gave up on me.

 

[Dux]

I'll continue to play RPGs until the day my mind is fried entirely and I'll spend my remaining time on this earth chronically dehydrated and unironically blasting Good Charlotte on a fucking walkman whilst parading around town in nothing but Beatle boots and a two sizes too small speedo.

At least then I wouldn't be pissed off all the time at awkward game mechanics, ham-fisted plots, unresponsive game engines, cheating AI, grinding, restrictive dialogue choices, cockney voice actors, obnoxious party members, Elves, oversized shoulderplates...

 

[Luzur]

Well, there are less good RPG's being released nowadays so...

 

[Azarkon]

Probably never. Video games are the television of our generation, and last I saw, the previous generation never stopped watching television.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

I nearly posted 'But what is an RPG?' unironically in response to Luzur's resignation. It's too late for me - save yourselves...

 

[Lady_Error]

I think I'm getting more choosy in what kind of RPG's I spend any time on. Only the best that come out maybe once or twice a year. Anything below that is not really worth my time.