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

[GTA-Biker]

Right now I´m still 22,but I´ll be 23 by the end of the month.

[Dirty Hairy]

a/s/l

[gizz01]

I think the 70+ votes are not so accurate.....

[Mr. Scratch]

 

 

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.

Virtual experiences don't translate so well into real life, I'm afraid.

[NearExpansion]

I read a lot of views and Comments from people, which makes me wonder sometimes how old are the people that play GTA Online...

 

Thought it might be interesting to know...

 

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

 

I've been playing since the Binatone pong era, right through Atari 2600, Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Nes, Snes, Master System, MegaDrive, PS1, PS2, Xbox 360, Xbox one.. and others in-between..

 

So to me a game like GTA 5, is still quite mind blowing when i think back to how gaming use to be...

 

Now wheres me slippers gone...

Very similar experience here - I'm 52 soon.

 

We had the Binatone pong replica, then a Dixons cartridge machine mimicing the Atari. Went down the home computer route through Spectrum 48K, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Amiga etc. Never liked Nintendo, only experienced Snoopy Tennis and some other LCD handheld I can't remember title of, that just seem a bit 'meh'. Became a Playstation worshipper from the original, PSone, PS2, PSP mark one, PS3 and slim. Will one day upgrade to a PS4 probably when a slim comes along haha. Never liked the Xbox controller, so avoided them.

 

Vice City was first GTA that got me hooked and played all Playstation varieties, GTA SA and GTA IV were simply brilliant games. Still enjoying GTAO after 2 years, so much that I've barely completed the GTAV story mode as many times as either GTA VC, SA or IV.

Edited January 3, 2016 by NearExpansion

[Synophrys]

23

[PoeticWhisper]

20, will be 21 in March.

First console I remember playing on was the NES. It was before my time, but I got the PS1 late, (like 98' 99') so I was using the NES before that. I would also occasionally play some games on a really old Macintosh with my sister. I've been gaming since I was born basically. I'd played older consoles even though they were out of style. My grandmother had a Atari, and a Sega Genesis somehow found it's way into my possession in the early 2000's. Think the first GTA I played was Vice City, and that was around 2003 I think. I was like 8, lol.

[xoC18H21NO3xo]

I'm 40 going on 12

[TheDoombringer]

I'll be 30 in about 2 weeks

[CarimboHanky]

i turned 30 yesterday so yeah!

 

got my first NES console back in 1991 and being a gamer since, playing on Nes, sega genesis, N64, sega dreamcast, ps1, ps2, ps3, ps4, xbox, xbox 360 and pc.

Edited January 3, 2016 by CarimboHanky

[xoC18H21NO3xo]

i turned 30 yesterday so yeah!

Happy Birthday! May you continue to terrorize Los Santos (and hopefully Liberty City) for many years to come!

[Tekno_Gecko]

19, first year of uni just moved out my parents place...

Well, country to be exact.

From Australia to the US to the UK in 19 years...

Edited January 3, 2016 by DoctorRileyPhD

[Quinn_flower]

26 lol

 

Happy b-day hanky!!!!

Edited January 3, 2016 by Quinn_flower

[LeakyLine]

Seventeen. This year, 2016, i'll be eighteen.

I still feel fourteen though, heh. f*ck responsibilities, let me sit around, eat Salt N' Vinegar chips and drink Pepsi.

Leave me alone, adulthood

[blk95ta]

I was born during the last year you could get a Pontiac 400 in a Trans Am.

[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.

Virtual experiences don't translate so well into real life, I'm afraid.

 

 

Oooooooh, f*ckin' gotem

[SkylineGTRFreak]

Seventeen. This year, 2016, i'll be eighteen.

I still feel fourteen though, heh. f*ck responsibilities, let me sit around, eat Salt N' Vinegar chips and drink Pepsi.

Leave me alone, adulthood

God dammit adulthood, stay away from as all. With nearly 21 I feel the same way.

 

But man, I miss hanging out with friends... all on the sofa, large pizza and playing GTA San Andreas, NFS, Burnout... those were the times man... makes me sad some time to just sit there with my headset and play with people I don't even know. Not the same

[badmoon]

Don't feel like a dinosaur or a fossil but learned to program back in 1975 and built my first computer back in 1978. Started working in games development in the early 1980s.

[RossCA]

I'm 43 and have questioned my maturity by playing this game, but it seems i'm pretty much normal lol

I'm 43 also, but I never let people I'm playing with know. lol

[Silencer81]

34 years. Started on the C64 and 8088. Saw it all!

[TheDiablo]

23

[Mr. Scratch]

 

 

 

 

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.

Virtual experiences don't translate so well into real life, I'm afraid.

 

Oooooooh, f*ckin' gotem

Riiiight... I have no idea what that means.

Edited January 4, 2016 by Mr.Scratch

[BenStone]

36, still feel 20. GTA Online is really the only multiplayer online game I've ever played/liked. I'm pretty much more into single player story modes, which these days are more like interactive movies.

I started on Atari, then NES, then Super NES, and then I didn't have a gaming system or play video games again until I bought a PS3 a few years ago. Now I have an Xbox One. So pretty much every game looks like a miracle.

[Typhoeus]

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Edited December 16, 2016 by Typhoeus

[fw3]

 

 

 

 

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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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.

 

You asked that I enlighten you (actually, you asked me to enlighten "us," but really, it's more appropriate to speak on behalf of yourself, not an entire forum), but alas, I cannot.

 

You asked how "a brisk walk outside would help kids get into UCLA?" My answer is, I do not know – because that is not what I said.

 

You conveniently took two separate statements, worked them out of context, and reapplied them to suit your comment.

 

What I said was:

 

"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."

 

The first statement regards young people's valuable time spent on video games instead and questioned their abilities in learning life skills, prepping for college, getting a job, and dreaming about their lives.

The second statement reflects upon my own time experience with video games and how my own children are affected by them and social media, leaving little time for the simple things in life (hence the "brisk walk").

I known some women who like to twist statements out of context to support their argument, and recognizing that comes only with experience in age.

 

Something I would not expect a 22 year old to likely understand.

 

Cheers and congratulations on being a successful person, for whatever that may mean.

[scaldy78]

We've reached a point in time where people have to stop equating Video Games as a pastime reserved for children only. i love when I get the "aren't u a little old for video games?" yet no one questions adults being too old to go see Star Wars, or Spider-Man movies. Lol, it's a different medium of entertainment and one that I'd rather partake in than watching a stupid fake reality TV show.

 

If it ain't sports, Walking Dead or Gotham I'd rather be on my console playing GTA if I'm going to spend time in front of my TV.

[Bnd]

19.5

 

//But my voice is probably 13 (

Edited January 4, 2016 by Bender.ㅤ

[PrisonerOfEarth]

a/s/l

Oh, man! I haven't seen that since those Yahoo! chat room days.

[phattoni]

28 here started playing Sega Genesis, then onto PS1 where my brother showed me Tomb Raider was hooked on PlayStation then PS2 came I played all of GTA 3, Vice City and now on GTA 5. PS3, and now on PS4. It's my virtual heaven.

[CrysisAverted]

There are 0-10 year olds among us.