Is anyone else playing fallout 3 here really old? I am 34 and started off with an atari, before VIC20, Spectrum 48k, Spectrum +2, PS1, PS2, XBOX360

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not unless 24 is old... I've maxed out Fallout 3, and my first console was a NES, then I jumped straight to PS1.

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i'm 32...  34 ain't old, knock it off.  i've been a gamer since the days of vectex and artari.  if games continue to become more sophisticated, like fallout, i'll be a gamer till i die. 

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Yeah - I have visions of taking 2 weeks off work to go and play Fallout 10 VR when i'm 44 in a purpose built Virtual Reality dome !!! Bring it on....

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 deisenaut wrote:

Is anyone else playing fallout 3 here really old? I am 34 and started off with an atari, before VIC20, Spectrum 48k, Spectrum +2, PS1, PS2, XBOX360

Since when did 34 become really old?  :P

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 F3K0 wrote:

 deisenaut wrote:

Is anyone else playing fallout 3 here really old? I am 34 and started off with an atari, before VIC20, Spectrum 48k, Spectrum +2, PS1, PS2, XBOX360

Since when did 34 become really old?  :P

Most gamers in general range from ages 12-18.
Most RPG gamers in general range from 14 - 20 I think.

I'm 15, so I can't really judge what old is, cause Deisenaut's been along more then double that I have, but for gaming, he's pretty old.

Still, he doesn't compete with people I've met over WoW. I've met a 51 year old guy over WoW. xD

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i've heard that most gamers are in their teens and 20's, but who knows...  way back in the early eighties when gaming was just getting started (remember pac-man fever?) games were naive - but, they've become more sophisticated and evolved like the film industry.  i grew up with games and it's silly to think i should stop just enjoying something because i reach a certain age.  games will eventually lose the stigma of being for kids, and geeks; and it'll be games like fallout, mass effect, and grand theft auto that lead the way.  it's funny that the previous poster mentions that most gamers are 12 - 18.  the esrb says that for a mature rated game you have to be 17.  i guess that means you can only have fun for a few more years before you have to grow up.

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 HOWLER 77 wrote:

i've heard that most gamers are in their teens and 20's, but who knows...  way back in the early eighties when gaming was just getting started (remember pac-man fever?) games were naive - but, they've become more sophisticated and evolved like the film industry.  i grew up with games and it's silly to think i should stop just enjoying something because i reach a certain age.  games will eventually lose the stigma of being for kids, and geeks; and it'll be games like fallout, mass effect, and grand theft auto that lead the way.  it's funny that the previous poster mentions that most gamers are 12 - 18.  the esrb says that for a mature rated game you have to be 17.  i guess that means you can only have fun for a few more years before you have to grow up.

Stupid, isn't it?

I never really understood ratings. Just because I play GTA doesn't mean I'm going to go out and rob a bank and kill people. That's why I'm playing the game - to see what it's like, or, kind of like, or kind of not really like at all with added fun.

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[I was in] last stand and he went to teabag me thinking I was dead. I then knifed him in the taint.

Yes sad to say I am 52 years old and bought the system last year when Fallout 3 came out on xbox. I'm an old falloutguy, played fallout 2 and fallout tactics. When I got out of the Navy in 1976, home version video games were just getting started. Todays games are light years a head of what I played. I think the first system was Atari and then Nintendo 8 bit.

There are older gamers then 34, that's as normal an age for gamers as 12 or 20 is as we have all grown up with video games. My dad is 44 and is sitting in the living room playing Eve on his computer as I type this. He has been gaming most of my life (I'm 21). A really old gamer is 50 or up, but even then there are tons older then that that break the mold.

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Glad you said that, Im 30 now, and most people I know that play games are younger than me.

I have had Commodore 64, Amiga 1200, NES, SNES, Megadrive 1+2, PS1, PS2 and now Xbox 360.

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I'll still be playing video games when I turn 60.

Enough said.

17 though.

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don't want to remove from the subject, but maybe you guys can help me. do any of you play gears of war 2? i'm after some people to play online with who won't just quit, so we can make some proper progress. I figured some older gamers are less likely to throw a tantrum, and leave. thanks guys

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Sorry, I dont have GoW2, But I dont Throw Tantrums and end Up with a smashed controller. So, You might wanna check out some other games I have, see if anything could work out.

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 xX ToPxCaT Xx wrote:

Sorry, I dont have GoW2, But I dont Throw Tantrums and end Up with a smashed controller. So, You might wanna check out some other games I have, see if anything could work out.

Oh ok thanks mate.

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27 been playing games since i was 5  played all and every allout game ever made

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40 year old gamer. Playing games for 20 years now, i started with the portable Atari Lynx followed by the Sega Megadrive, SNES, Neo-Geo CD, Neo-Geo AES, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, PS2, Nintendo Wii and now the Xbox 360. Yeah, you could say that gaming is a way of life for me.

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gaming is a way of life... maybe even a relgion?

 upon death we shall all respawn as someone else! lol

hmm i wonder if its poss to get it classed as a relgion!? lol  from this day forth every bloody form that asks for my relgion will be filled with "other" and "Gamer!"

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54 years old here...ahh the days of DOS gaming....LOL

I am 43 years old. Play Fallout, Halo, Fable 2, GoW, etc.

I have been gaming since games began. Had a pong machine, then Atari, then began on an Apple II and programmed in Basic language.

Just finished Fallout 3 on my PC, but even though it is a powerful laptop, it cannot handle the high powered graphics settings, so I will probably replay FO3 on the Xbox shortly (to try out the evil life in the wasteland).

I'm 36, been gaming since I played Pong on an uncles pong console.

It's amazing how far video games have come, when I see a youngster complaining about the graphics in Left4Dead I shake my head in bewilderment.

32 and I was blown away by Fallout.  I just think it nails alot of things you look for in a game and then some.  Just a complete game.  My all-time best game list .  

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Super NES)
2. Fallout 3

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Born in 1967 and as long as I'm able to I'll keep on playing video game as long as there is video game to play.

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35 here.  Started with Combat on the Atari 2600, then Gauntlet on Commodore 64, Sega Megadrive, Playstation, Xbox and now Xbox360.

My friend and I programmed a text based game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on C64 when we were 12.  Probably made it about 100 pages into the book...

I'm 18, been gaming since I got my hands on a Gameboy. Used to play those things to death!! Still remember how the game went from a sturdy brick to a blow on it to hard and it will break but you need it for Pokemon clam-shell.

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I'm 40 - first true console was the Binatone, followed by Intellivision, C64, mega drive, saturn, dreamcast, ps1 ps2 xbox, 360....
Not to mention all the PC's purchased to feed my gaming habit....

Gaming as a religon,..... now that I would be a religon I could be classed as a fanatic!!

Fans of many genres, adventure, racing, FPS, RPG and so on

"My missus said if I didn't stop playing games she is going to leave me....... damn it, going to miss her!"

I am 60. After buying my wife a Wii Sport package last Christmas, I bought Blazing Angels and World at War just to try them. I was very disappointed in the controls and video quality using Wii. I could tell from watching G4 on TV that there was better stuff available.  I went to Target in January and left with XBOX 360, HDTV LCD, Fallout 3 and a Prima Game Guide. That is about the last time I saw any members of my family. They all stay upstairs and the basement has filled with empty pizza boxes and Dr. Pepper cans. I put out lots of Roach Motels, so its not THAT bad down here. I did take a brief break to visit the real Vault 101, which is locared at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV. I recommend a tour of the Congessional Bunker to all Fallout 3 folks.

I am 42 + atari didn't come out until I was in high school.  I would come home and play the heck out of it for hours.

Be 41 in January...started w/ Mattel Intellivision, used to love the old Odyssey system, never cared much for Atari.  Graduated to Sega 1, Playstation 1, XBox, then the 360.  Love FO3.  Its either that or the Call of Duty series that is my all-time favorite game.

I'm 21. Started with the original Nintendo with the original Gameboy. Then graduated to SEGA Genesis to Nintendo 64. Had a Dreamcast but that was years after it came out. Didn't get another big system till the PS2 about two or three years after it came out.