Thread: Past our gaming prime at 24?

Is it because of age or because most people start getting real lives by then? Just saying I still can get pretty damn good at games when I don't have the wife and kids bugging me all the time.

Originally Posted by iLLusioN

Is it because of age or because most people start getting real lives by then? Just saying I still can get pretty damn good at games when I don't have the wife and kids bugging me all the time.

I was thinking that too after I thought about the subject a little more. It's definitely not a hobby that requires a lot of physical characteristics. Like you said I'd assume if a 24 year old and a 44 year old did nothing but play video games, they could move their fingers just as fast as the other. The article on the other hand is talking about how a person reacts to the information they receive from the game they are playing. I don't know who has the advantage in that case if both ages played a game equally as much. I guess I'd give the younger age group the advantage, but not by much.

I'll come back to this thread in 20 years and let you know.

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Now to touch on something Blonde said. Making an assumption that "older" players play slow paced, tactical games because of speed is just inaccurate. In many cases myself included tactical slower based games are far more of a challenge to win then run and gun. Anyone can play run and gun and get good at it. Tactical requires a mindset that younger people in most cases cant truly grasp yet. Now if we could get someone to release a game worthy of actually being tactical. BF4 is pretty and not bad but i sure wouldn't call it tactical.

Of course there are other reasons that gamers move from genre to genre, but I don't think anyone can argue that as you get older your reflexes diminish.

There are degrees of difficulty in any game that one must 'master'. "Run and Gun games" can be just as much of a challenge depending on what level of competitiveness you are playing. Ya anyone can join a Call of Duty server and get kills. Move to the competitive scene and let's see how good the common player is. One of the reasons I, and probably many others, try to find the competitive scene in any game I play. As I stated in my second post, after thinking about the subject more, play-time is a huge variable in this discussion.

I was wrong in wording my post to be read that one of the reasons that the older TPG gamers play slow, tactical games is because of speed. I shouldn't assume that. There could be 100s of reasons they choose to play those types of games, but I will say that majority that I know have slow reflexes. But saying that age is the sole reason for those slow reflexes without any other research is wrong. It takes hours and hours to hone ones skill in anything that they do and majority of the time it's the teenagers and young adults who have that time for video games.

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Tactical requires a mindset that younger people in most cases cant truly grasp yet.

And yet a 17 year old can join the military...with the parents consent. Tactical can be learned just as easy as reflexes needed for run and gun. (And any smart gamer knows there are tactics with a run and gun type game. Most just choose to run around wildly and shoot whatever moves, thus why it appeals to children) You put in the time and effort for anything and you can be good at it.

Originally Posted by Mr_Blonde_OPS

And yet a 17 year old can join the military...with the parents consent. Tactical can be learned just as easy as reflexes needed for run and gun. (And any smart gamer knows there are tactics with a run and gun type game. Most just choose to run around wildly and shoot whatever moves, thus why it appeals to children) You put in the time and effort for anything and you can be good at it.

17 year olds aren't allowed into the military because they can be taught to think tacticly, but because their heads are still mushy. The military can break them down, and build them back up into a soldier who will follow orders without question. You won't get that with a 40 year old.

Originally Posted by dex71

17 year olds aren't allowed into the military because they can be taught to think tacticly, but because their heads are still mushy. The military can break them down, and build them back up into a soldier who will follow orders without question. You won't get that with a 40 year old.

'I will definitely fuck you up, Pyle!!

Did you know the human brain has the ability to hold even more information than the encyclopedia? Don't tell my what humans can and can't do if we are going to start talking about technicalities.

The point trying to be made is that just because a game is tactical doesn't mean a younger mind can't comprehend it...children well that's obvious. I'm not going to argue semantics with DG, I already know you'll regurgitate more info than I can.



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I have played "tactical" games since I was 14; hexagon maps with die-cut counters. Old school wargames that take hours, days, or evern weeks to complete. I was a good player at the tactical level, but didn't really fully grasp the strategic and operational levels until my late 20s. To this day, am drawn to games that have a "bigger picture" aspect to them. Nature or nurture? Both prolly. WIll say that my reflexes do suck, tho mostly due to my sh**ty eyesesight since my mid 20s.