The How many Candles are you Burning poll. (How old are you)

[RASPY]

It's funny how teenagers talk about feeling old. I remember that little phase.

[billiam]

18 xD I'm not a fan of the poll being from 11-20; makes me feel too young

[elfoam]

I'm nineteen, although I've done a lot more than your average nineteen-year-old. Someone on this very forum told me he thought I was in my 30's, which is flattering and all but no 30-year-old has a foul mouth like I do.

Lots of 19 year olds are a full year into their world travel though. Too young to be stuck on a ps4.

[nWo_Y2J_2015]

How old are you ???

[gizz01]

18 xD I'm not a fan of the poll being from 11-20; makes me feel too young

 

Pfft .. im in the 31>40

[SinZer0s]

I'm....... 13 yes i'm a kid

[Amnesia.]

Just turned 23 yesterday.

[am30]

At what age does the number of candles become an outdoor fire hazard?

 

Youngest in our crew is 20, couple in their mid-20's, most in their 30's and the oldest is in his mid-50's.

[PrisonerOfEarth]

34, been a gamer since the age of 9 or 10.

[marco6158]

I'm 18.

 

But let's be serious. Does age always matter? To me it doesn't, I saw people acting/talking like a 10 years old at the age of 20+ but I also see "kids" which were nice, educated and good to play with.

 

It's yet interesting to see which is the average age of "GTAforumers" but in my opinion what really matters it's not the age, but how smart someone is, but we can't really open a topic asking if you feel smart or no, we'd already know the answers.

[ThaSouljaCity]

This dude right here turns 20 this coming up Saturday

[degas93]

 

 

 

Me in the world of gaming i'm probably ancient at 43 compared to most others ( I feel like it anyways, lol )

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Awesome... lol..

 

So just like me you have watched the Gaming world evolve to what it is today...

Do you find these modern games like GTA to be lacking in content or is that just a young persons view who hasn't had to spend hours on end playing Asteriods/Pong.. lol

Modern games. Hmm. My cynicism gets the better of me, here.

 

I'm sympathetic to a generation of males (primarily) who are becoming more and more under the influence of intense addiction, every day.

Addicted to a natural drug, created by the own bodies, that they have no control over, designed by an industry that is more malevolent, in my opinion, than the cigarette companies today.

 

Children being exploited and lured into an addiction labeled as "fun" and "games."

Stuck in their addiction for 400-800 hours, then begging to spend their parent's money on DLC to play 400 more of the exact same thing, just a different color.

 

An entire generation of children, spending their best years of creative, productive energies, mindlessly deteriorating on a couch, while their dreams evaporate, one level at a time.

What skills are they learning? Who are their role models? What are their aspirations? Can you get into Syracuse or UCLA with background in Call of Duty? Will a level 300 get you hired?

 

These modern games. They scare me, mostly because while I can control my time with them, my four kids cannot.

Sure, I set limitations, guidelines, etc. But they're already hooked. Between social media, video games, cell phones, and computers, there's little time left for a brisk walk outside.

 

Consider where you and I came from. When games were something you could "feel" when you walked into the pizza joint, movie theater, bowling alley or arcade.

The deep, hauntingly rich sounds of Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pac Man, Centipede, and Missile Command were almost holy.

Not to mention the pinball machines. They were alive!

 

What can I say, we were blessed and we were lucky. We didn't have DLC or upgrades or Next Gen... we had quarters.

We didn't have 3 quest options, 200 side missions, 400 level-up options, or decisions like what color the shoes on our horse should be... we had a High Score to beat.

 

It will be both very interesting and yet, somewhat frightening, to see where all this goes and how these 7 year olds who call me "n-word" and "f#gg0t" will grow into the real world.

But one thing is for sure, the modern gaming of today will be the reminiscences of this generation.

 

What will their fondness of reflection be? Cheers.

 

 

Well, please enlighten us, how '' a brisk walk outside'' is going to help the kids get into UCLA? There are many things in life that we cannot change, and videogames deal with a lot of those issues, mainly- escapism. I spent a fair bit of time living in England, and a cloudy cold summer would have been much worse if not for GTA San Andreas back in the day. See, if a person is looking for somewhere to escape, he will find other ways- alcohol, drugs. And I think that videogames are a lot better at that, since while the latter two could help you integrate socially, they lack valuable life lessons that books, movies and games can provide. Growing up an orphan in a post soviet country that helped me develop my personality a lot, Red Dead Redemption and some other games are great in that matter. Some of the games like RDR and the early installments in the Assassin's creed series, as well as Call of Duty black ops made me interested in certain periods of history, what helped me be more attentive during those classes or read on my own. In the end, I don't want to trash you but you sound like an overprotective parent who feels like he or she does not have authority over his/her kids or lives in the nostalgic fantasy of the ''good old days'' and is trying to find excuses for not being a good enough role model.

TLDR version- if you feel like your kids are doing something wrong, talk to them, help them get interested in the things you think are important to them. Trust me, intelligence and social skills are mostly built in, they rarely come from outside. One of my former best friends in life was very introvert and spent most of his teenage years playing videogames and reading books. He found his friends there, and now he is more or less a successful person, and so am I, despite being 22. Good luck.

[TCMike]

I'm nineteen, although I've done a lot more than your average nineteen-year-old. Someone on this very forum told me he thought I was in my 30's, which is flattering and all but no 30-year-old has a foul mouth like I do.

 

You've never driven with me in traffic then.

 

Edited January 3, 2016 by TCMike

[Jenkiiii]

I feel like a dinosaur at 26. Good to know there's people older than me playing GTA.

 

I went through the 'dinosaur' phase in my early 30's when I had career to think about, and I just felt 'too old' for all this video-game lark any more, but about five or six years later I got myself a new console and it all started up again, and now I play video games more than ever, and so do my two boys and even my wife to an extent. Only my eldest daughter is sensible enough not to really bother.

 

You lose interest and then come back to games again, as a sort of mental regression. Even though I'm approaching 50 I don't feel like a dinosaur at all. Funny - I guess you're as young as you feel. And why shouldn't we be playing games into our sixties and seventies? Are we just going to stop and stare at the walls?

[zombrex2311]

 

6

 

Sorry Fella I want your age not your I.Q

 

Ah! Nice one. xd I'm 20.

[LeAuxChord]

23

[manitouscott]

40. First video game was in the arcade at a pizza joint, back when you had to hustle quarters to keep playing!!

 

First console commodore 64, d&d which took 2 controllers to play.

 

Current video games are AMAZING and just what I dreamed of when I was a kid playing atari.

 

I def struggle with addiction tho. Have to reign in my play time and get out for hikes to keep touch with reality (yuck)

[JackCarter]

Turned 23 last month. In my core circle of friends I made on GTA,I'm actually one of the youngest. Ranging from 16 to 55. I somehow got lucky in finding good people on a game like GTA.

[MikeyDLuffy]

About 12050 days old.

[Lazid]

20

[jabloki]

25

[Mr. Scratch]

2000 years old, or 4.5 billion, depending on how you look at things.

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

I lived on this planet for decades....getting closer to the dark side every year

[Robaldinio]

I always find it ridiculous every time these threads pop up the majority of people are 25+ yet that is certainly not reflected by my experiences of actually playing the game (and listening to the voice chat).

[VanessaMagick]

 

I'm nineteen, although I've done a lot more than your average nineteen-year-old. Someone on this very forum told me he thought I was in my 30's, which is flattering and all but no 30-year-old has a foul mouth like I do.

Lots of 19 year olds are a full year into their world travel though. Too young to be stuck on a ps4.

 

 

I haven't travelled outside of my home country and haven't left my home state in years, but I mean more about different sort of experiences. For somebody who spends a majority of her time inside on the Internet, I've had an eventful life thus far.

[Guest Member1626225]

I'm 17 right now. To be honest, I'm not looking forward to turning 18 years old...

[eyman]

I started playing when i was little as well, Driver 2 is something special to me. im safe to say im above the age restriction of GTA

[mkjah222]

My dad used to work with them (Atari's) at his office along with other computers. When they started to replace/upgrade or just throw out old machines he was allowed to take them home.

He made one up for me that was better than the ones you could buy so I was able to play games that my friends couldn't get to work. I think it pretty much covered about 3 different versions and had added ports for making music.

Safe to say that my first PC after that time blew my mind.

(duno if the quote is working at the top, it isn't for me. If this is the case sorry for the random sounding post.)

Edited January 3, 2016 by mkjah222

[Panto_Driver]

18 in 2 months. The first gaming experience I had was on a neat little console ny mum had in 2001. They weren't the most exciting games ever but I was three so I loved it to bits. It used to play a cheery little 8-bit jingle when it started up. Good times.

[hugh750]

i'm 49.