Is it ok for grown men to play Video Games ?

Markcusa
Markcusa Posts: 21 Member
edited November 27 in Fun and Games
Do you guys think its ok for grown men to play video games ?.
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  • oberon0124
    oberon0124 Posts: 10,524 Member
    I don't play them. Yet I see no problem with this in moderation. You would not believe the number of ladies I have talked to on here for hours. Why? Because they're hubs or SO was playing games all night. I see no problem at all. In moderation.
  • Mrj183
    Mrj183 Posts: 1,428 Member
    why would it not be? we grew up on Atari and sega master systems. its no different than the generations before us being into books or records
  • Luke_I_am_your_spotter
    Luke_I_am_your_spotter Posts: 4,179 Member
    as long as they are paying their bills and being responsible who cares if they play video games.
  • Tialuna18
    Tialuna18 Posts: 9,591 Member
    edited December 2015
    As someone who was going to school for Game development. the young adult + adult market is still one of the largest that video games are made for. Those who say video games are for children either clearly have never played a variety of video games or don't like them. Gaming has become a profitable lifestyle and past time for some who've managed to make a career out of it. I know I'm not a male but my boyfriend and I will continue to play video games into our later Adulthood. There are so many different genres of games that keep up with our interests. Video games are an interactive experience. It's a narrative that can only be played out on such a platform. You wouldn't stop going to the movies once you hit adulthood so why video games?
  • andyluvv
    andyluvv Posts: 281 Member
    Tialuna18 wrote: »
    As someone who was going to school for Game development. the young adult + adult market is still one of the largest that video games are made for. Those who say video games are for children either clearly have never played a variety of video games or don't like them. Gaming has become a profitable lifestyle and past time for some who've managed to make a career out of it. I know I'm not a male but my boyfriend and I will continue to play video games into our later Adulthood. There are so many different genres of games that keep up with our interests. Video games are an interactive experience. It's a narrative that can only be played out on such a platform. You wouldn't stop going to the movies one you hit adulthood so why video games?
    Someone give this girl a cookie!


    And op, really?
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    If you see video games as something for children, you should do a bit more reading - it became another medium for interactive storytelling. There are some amazing stories out there being written for it and it's no different to going to the cinema or reading a book.
    http://www.techtimes.com/articles/84016/20150914/how-video-games-have-become-the-perfect-storytelling-medium.htm

    On that same note, if you give this to your children I'd think you're an awful parent (as clearly it was not the target demographic) http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/until-dawn-one-best-written-horror-games-well-worth-playing-this-halloween-1526261
  • JackKopCh
    JackKopCh Posts: 8,042 Member
    Tialuna18 wrote: »
    As someone who was going to school for Game development. the young adult + adult market is still one of the largest that video games are made for. Those who say video games are for children either clearly have never played a variety of video games or don't like them. Gaming has become a profitable lifestyle and past time for some who've managed to make a career out of it. I know I'm not a male but my boyfriend and I will continue to play video games into our later Adulthood. There are so many different genres of games that keep up with our interests. Video games are an interactive experience. It's a narrative that can only be played out on such a platform. You wouldn't stop going to the movies once you hit adulthood so why video games?

    Marry me <3

    I'll be playing games even when I'm old and can't control my poop shute :flushed:
  • SithnessQueen
    SithnessQueen Posts: 144 Member
    As long as you don't care about being beat by a woman :)
  • synchkat
    synchkat Posts: 37,368 Member
    Why not. It's a hobby just like most others.
  • Marqiiz
    Marqiiz Posts: 707 Member
    Of course its ok. As long as all the priorities are taken care of & no one is being neglected.
  • MalkinMagic71
    MalkinMagic71 Posts: 1,433 Member
    I'm 32 and play video games. I grew up on Nintendo(got an NES when I was in Kindergarten in 1988). As all other things nothing wrong with it in moderation. I still work a full time job, I'm married, I pay the bills that need paid.. I provide for my family. So really it's no different than any other hobby, IMO.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    What makes playing video games any worse of a hobby than sitting in front of a TV watching other grown men run around in spandex? Personally, I work 50 - 60 hours a week. I like to spend my free time with my fiancee, then reading, then playing video games, in that order.
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    SithnessQueen wrote: »
    As long as you don't care about being beat by a woman :)

    Yea, maybe at this one:
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  • JackKopCh
    JackKopCh Posts: 8,042 Member
    Why is this all about men too? Woman now take up 48% of the gaming percentage.... it's the biggest entertainment platform, apart from porn :P
  • jlahorn
    jlahorn Posts: 377 Member
    I'm a 42-year-old woman with a successful career and a happy marriage. I haven't stopped gaming since I first picked up Zork. More recently, I haven't stopped playing Fallout 4 in my spare time since launch day :D

    Games are fantastic entertainment. Why would it *NOT* be ok?
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    yes and women.
    I plan on playing halo tonight
  • SithnessQueen
    SithnessQueen Posts: 144 Member
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    SithnessQueen wrote: »
    As long as you don't care about being beat by a woman :)

    Yea, maybe at this one:
    1cbc40fb60f0cdc621bb76080ebb2dd7.jpg

    That's my favorite one. Well that and the sandwich maker.. That one gets really Intense.
  • LiftingRiot
    LiftingRiot Posts: 6,946 Member
    Ill play hell out of some video games!!!!! Im 36.

    I laugh at those that say "In Moderation" lol. Thanks John Madden.... Anything, no matter what it is, is bad if you take it to extremes. Moderation is key in everything
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    SithnessQueen wrote: »
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    SithnessQueen wrote: »
    As long as you don't care about being beat by a woman :)

    Yea, maybe at this one:
    1cbc40fb60f0cdc621bb76080ebb2dd7.jpg

    That's my favorite one. Well that and the sandwich maker.. That one gets really Intense.

    Oh my GOD! I went from wanting to make you really mad to wanting to make you my girlfriend... :lol:
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    Personally, I've put about 70 hours into Fallout 4 since launch day. I know guys who have easily spent that same amount of time in that same time span at the bar, drinking and watching sportsball. Neither of us are bothered by the other's choice of how to spend their time.
  • SithnessQueen
    SithnessQueen Posts: 144 Member
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    SithnessQueen wrote: »
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    SithnessQueen wrote: »
    As long as you don't care about being beat by a woman :)

    Yea, maybe at this one:
    1cbc40fb60f0cdc621bb76080ebb2dd7.jpg

    That's my favorite one. Well that and the sandwich maker.. That one gets really Intense.

    Oh my GOD! I went from wanting to make you really mad to wanting to make you my girlfriend... :lol:

    May the force be with you!
  • brillmer87
    brillmer87 Posts: 1,977 Member
    i really really hope it is.. otherwise im in big trouble lol
  • Raynne413
    Raynne413 Posts: 1,527 Member
    Sure! My boyfriend plays games every day. Sometimes I even play them with him. LOL He quit playing Dance Central with me, though, because he never wins. And I only randomly play RockBand or Guitar Hero because I suck. LOL
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    Yes, and grown women as well. :P lmao. Play them, not let them take over your whole life, mind. Husband wants Fallout 4, but to play it he will need a new game system. I need to see if I will get a Christmas bonus this year. If I do, I will buy him the game system. If not, he will have to save up for it. As for me I am more of a PC games point and click adventure/puzzle game player. The good old days of that are past tho. :( That was the nineties. Every once in a while I still find a good one.
  • sw33tp3a15
    sw33tp3a15 Posts: 1,674 Member
    I'm not a man but I'm a grown woman who plays video games so if I'm allowed I'm pretty sure men are too!
  • Raynne413
    Raynne413 Posts: 1,527 Member
    gothchiq wrote: »
    Yes, and grown women as well. :P lmao. Play them, not let them take over your whole life, mind. Husband wants Fallout 4, but to play it he will need a new game system. I need to see if I will get a Christmas bonus this year. If I do, I will buy him the game system. If not, he will have to save up for it. As for me I am more of a PC games point and click adventure/puzzle game player. The good old days of that are past tho. :( That was the nineties. Every once in a while I still find a good one.

    My boyfriend and I are looking at buying a house and we'll need double systems for everything because I want an exercise room and will need the XBox 360 and XBox One for my Dance games, and he wants an entertainment/gameroom for him and his friends. LOL
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    It is ok? Sure. But I don't/won't date "gamers." I have in the past and I can't count how many times I heard "just one more level." By the time that level came, it was an hour later and I just wanted to go home. I have no interest in a grown man who plays video games for hours upon hours a day. I was never allowed to have a video game system as a kid and now as an adult, I have zero interest in them at all.
  • Creiddylad1
    Creiddylad1 Posts: 266 Member
    Pretty sure most of us gamers, (and yes most of us are adults) wonder why is would be "wrong" for anyone be they a guy or girl to enjoy playing video games.
    Most of us can balance work, life, find time to work out and still have time to go fight dragons or do raids or kill zombies as a way to relax.
  • _incogNEATo_
    _incogNEATo_ Posts: 4,537 Member
    ValerieMartini2Olives wrote: »
    It is ok? Sure. But I don't/won't date "gamers." I have in the past and I can't count how many times I heard "just one more level." By the time that level came, it was an hour later and I just wanted to go home. I have no interest in a grown man who plays video games for hours upon hours a day. I was never allowed to have a video game system as a kid and now as an adult, I have zero interest in them at all.

    How does every thread turn into past dating experiences for you? LOL
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,024 Member
    _incogNEATo_ wrote: »
    ValerieMartini2Olives wrote: »
    It is ok? Sure. But I don't/won't date "gamers." I have in the past and I can't count how many times I heard "just one more level." By the time that level came, it was an hour later and I just wanted to go home. I have no interest in a grown man who plays video games for hours upon hours a day. I was never allowed to have a video game system as a kid and now as an adult, I have zero interest in them at all.

    How does every thread turn into past dating experiences for you? LOL

    I've dated a lot.
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