Are there any old farts out there?...Or am I the only one.

Accident_Pr0ne

Dreyfron wrote: »

Accident_Pr0ne wrote: »

I was wondering if there are any people out there with the same hobby as me....If so feel free to invite me in your friends list....Maybe to team up sometimes.

@Accident_Pr0ne
50 years old

I presume you are on EU server?

Yes I am

Evanis

Censorious wrote: »

My god, this game is FULL of kids! They think 50 is old.

I know, right! I'm 45 years old and I've been a PC gamer since my father brought home a Timex Sinclair ZX81 back in 1981! That little gem had only 1kb of onboard memory and no dedicated video processor... It ran very simple games and puzzles, but at 12 years old, I thought it was an absolutely magical piece of technology. Now I'm playing ESO on a system that would have been considered extraterrestrial technology back then!

SwordBlaster

And another one here (41). Proud to enjoy the first MMOs ever, called MUDs. All you needed was a telnet terminal and lots of imagination (no graphics, just text in their beginnings).
Hope i can find some guild that accept some old spanish fart that takes its time on game just to enjoy it!

AstroCat

43 here, gaming has been a life long hobby for me since I was a kid in the 70s!

firewatch

50 YOA... been playing RPG's since the 80's. "Pool of Radiance" was one of my favorites. Anybody else remember the "Forgotton Realms" series? Good stuff...

Lochmann

56, and stay offa my lawn ya little buggars! <Fitfully waves his cane over his head then totters back into his house and slams the screen door behind him>

Rainwhisper

firewatch wrote: »

50 YOA... been playing RPG's since the 80's. "Pool of Radiance" was one of my favorites. Anybody else remember the "Forgotton Realms" series? Good stuff...

Played every one of those gold box games! Loved them all.

shiva7663

57 !!

Rhylanna

firewatch wrote: »

50 YOA... been playing RPG's since the 80's. "Pool of Radiance" was one of my favorites. Anybody else remember the "Forgotton Realms" series? Good stuff...

One of my all time favorites! I haven't thought about that game in years!!

AgriyaTheGrey

51 and counting. ...very, very slowly because I don't really want to get to my last number.

unicorn1844

Windshadow_ESO wrote: »

65 and when I am gaming I feel like I am young again no longer mobility impaired by my health problems... There are a lot more of us out there that you might think you young whipper snappers! Why back in the day we played with punch cards and paper tape input and while dragging a troll uphill both ways through hip deep snow.... Kids just have no respect anymore.... Grumble where are my pills.....

62 here and I can't agree more. In fact I think ( my opinion only) that MMOs should really be age restricted to those of us who are retired. The rest of you have jobs, kids, school, dogs, cars, and tons of stuff that make you go afk way too often. I get so tired of starting a dungeon only to hear "Sorry I got to go cuz I have (insert xyz) tomorrow" or "Sorry gotta get the kids (insert xyz)". Us old folks already did all that and now we have a fixed income that can pay that 15 dollars a month and way too much time on our hands. I too am mobility challenged and the gaming community has kept me sane for the last six years.

Now where did I put that old slide rule, someone needs whacking!

JunkyardWolf

@GruntDoc Don't forget the $100.00+ a MB for ram :P

flintstone

unicorn1844 wrote: »

Windshadow_ESO wrote: »

65 and when I am gaming I feel like I am young again no longer mobility impaired by my health problems... There are a lot more of us out there that you might think you young whipper snappers! Why back in the day we played with punch cards and paper tape input and while dragging a troll uphill both ways through hip deep snow.... Kids just have no respect anymore.... Grumble where are my pills.....

62 here and I can't agree more. In fact I think ( my opinion only) that MMOs should really be age restricted to those of us who are retired. The rest of you have jobs, kids, school, dogs, cars, and tons of stuff that make you go afk way too often. I get so tired of starting a dungeon only to hear "Sorry I got to go cuz I have (insert xyz) tomorrow" or "Sorry gotta get the kids (insert xyz)". Us old folks already did all that and now we have a fixed income that can pay that 15 dollars a month and way too much time on our hands. I too am mobility challenged and the gaming community has kept me sane for the last six years.

Now where did I put that old slide rule, someone needs whacking!

Thats funny........!!!!!!!. I'm 63......love playing my games.....

Dante_Marquis

46 here and my wife who also plays is 45

stabbykitteh

I'm 45. Nice to see I'm in good company

Sherrieg

69; Female and loving this game; although I am having a hard time with Molag Bal

Misty

61 in July and loving my games more than ever.
I do miss my text adventure.

Sue_D_Nim

Misty wrote: »

61 in July and loving my games more than ever.
I do miss my text adventure.

Oh, yeah. I loved text adventures. Happy early birthday. I'm July also, but a few years behind you.

Madval

41, and I have 3 wondeful daughters. Playing video games since 1978

Rainwhisper

@Misty‌ - I have a complete archive of the old Infocom games. They are still fun to get out and play.

AlexDougherty

By the sounds of it, the question should have been "Are there any youngsters playing this game??, because we old farts outnumber you"

And I'm Forty myself.

JohnSRice

Accident_Pr0ne wrote: »

I was wondering if there are any people out there with the same hobby as me....If so feel free to invite me in your friends list....Maybe to team up sometimes.

@Accident_Pr0ne
50 years old

JohnSRice

you young whipper snappers. you all kids, I'm 67 last march.

scriber

Windshadow_ESO wrote: »

As one looks over this thread from the other side of qualifying for my bus pass (65) I an a bit muddled over how many youngsters in their 30s and 40s are self identifying as "old farts"
But unless you walked 5 miles to school each day (uphill both ways through hip deep snow) dragging your siblings on a sled behind you are not (yet) an old fart.

Why back in my day you young whippersnappers we programmed our computers with punch cards and don't forget your class I'd punch card when you take your deck to the computer center to run it and for gods sake don't drop and pie (scramble the order of the cards) your deck as the card sorter at the center has not worked in years... Get your batch process card and hope when you come back the next day that your run print out does not consist of one line
*******SYNTAX ERROR IN 5********
We used to play Star Treck on the line printer if we could get intern jobs working on the PDP-10 our university shared with every department

HARUMPH! Kids today!

Harumph! I don't know about the others, but when a lot of the players seem to be >18 it can certainly feel as if you're an old fart, whether you truly qualify in the strictest sense or not. :P Just recently I impressed (shocked? horrified?) a lad because I'd had a NES as a kid, "U really are old!" he said to me, lol. (Spoiler: I turned 30 barely two weeks ago, hah) I imagine I have more in common with a lot of the folks in this thread (at least general personality wise) than the, ahem, 'colorful' youngsters I see shouting all over the place in zone chat.

tino.antoninieb17_ESO

44 here

fromtesonlineb16_ESO

Rainwhisper wrote: »

@Misty‌ - I have a complete archive of the old Infocom games. They are still fun to get out and play.

One of my most cherished gaming moments was, after the best part of 5 weeks totally stuck I was able to figure how to get the cube to a location you couldn't take to in Spellbreaker: so long I've forgotten the details but the total "you damned idiot why didn't you think of that before" moment was priceless.

Caroloces

There's quite a nice guild for older players called Antique Ordinatus Populus (http://antique-ordinatus-populus.enjin.com/home). It's designed for mature players and I love being a part of it. It's nice to have a cadre of people who are always willing to group quest, do dungeon runs, or travel to Cyrodil.

I'm 64 myself, but feel like I'm still in my 30s. I've been gaming since my Amiga days in the late 80s, and I work with kids in school as a technology instructor. One of my goals this summer (aside from mastering all crafts in ESO) is to learn Minecraft, so next Fall the kids and I can build fabulous structures.

Gaming is a fabulous pastime involving problem-solving and collaboration with others, and I pity those "grown-ups" who consider "video games" a trivial waste of time.

BTW, I will NOT go to my grave till I become Emperor of Tamriel!!!

Whisper292

I'm 48 and not feeling quite as old as I did before I read this thread.

Adramelach

45 here. Check out www.TheOldTimersGuild.com - they have an ESO chapter, along with ones for many other games

crowfl56

If your aren't over 60 you aren't even close to old, turn 68 this week but as long as I don't look in a mirror I feel about 25.
Old farts rule.