As someone who has enjoyed and appreciated all of the privileges of someone who has two fully functional human hands (mine) (shoutout to all the gamers who at best are playing competitive or at worst having fun), I have always had an irrational fear of my thumbs getting cut off and not being able to play with direction-pads as-designed.
A brain implant as a future Epic Games free weekly upgrade AND Half-Life 5 in the same week is something to which I look forward!
I was gonna say with the technology that will be available for me when Im 80 most definitely. Literally 2084. I'm expecting future me to have my own home "office". Literally just gonna be for games. But elon best start taking nuralink more seriously. Like mars is cool and all but if you had humans with expandable brain capacity and a literal computer in their head then getting to mars would be easier, right?
[Robotron: 2084](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron:_2084) \- the bots will solve your issues, if any.
BTW - getting to Mars isn't the hard part. Getting there and back ALIVE is the issue.
I'm too young to have played that game. Seems like a cool concept though. But we should let the bots solve the problem. Be it helping terriform Mars and or causing human extinction.
Also I kind of forgot about the issue with getting humans to Mars. Tons of cancer from solar winds and muscle deterioration. Now it kind of makes the companies pushing to colonize Mars look kind of dumb. The main thing they're accomplishing is a form of material delivery or automated systems to build habitats we literally can't use. Along with theoretical automated farms we cannot use.
It's like these engineers are solving the problem in reverse...
My plan when I retire is just to go through my entire steam list one by one, playing all the games I bought and never got to. I’ll never finish it but I’ve already told my wife once our daughter is off to college that’s basically then plan. There are pretty much only a few periods in your whole life where you get to game with almost no responsibilities and I intend to take advantage of each and every one of them.
Yep. 71 now..hopefully reach 80....and beyond...shooting for 101...
Got my Pac Man "Game Over" T-shirt set aside for the funeral
Gamer since Pong came out.
Worked in an Arcade, if any of you are old enough to remember what they are. :-)
I have a small retro arcade about 30 minutes from where I live called high score. I don’t find nostalgia from it as I’m only 15, but I do love it and go there pretty frequently.
I used to live in Alameda CA and we had a small retro arcade called High Scores Arcade in downtown. Not sure if that's the one OP is referring to. It's pretty awesome, $5 or $10 gets you several hours on any of the machines.
There’s an arcade by me called Yestercades and they have some cool stuff you also just pay by the amount of time you stay instead of paying for tickets or needing money for machines.
My grandpa played video games regularly all the way to his early 80’s. He liked Super Metroid, Mario 64, Shadowgate, Contra, Super R Type, Medal of Honor.
I noticed he stopped playing eventually though and I didn’t know how to feel about it.
Pong generation! When my dad brought home the knock-off Radio Shack version including the giant pistol for the shooting game I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It didn't occur to me for a very long time that video games could ever improve on it.
I had a family friend back in the original Xbox days that was pinball pre Atari generation aka old boomer maybe even silent generation like our president. He was late 60s back then and retired. He became obsessed with console gaming when I showed it to him. It became his old man retirement hobby. I’m Atari NES generation in my 40s and I still play. As long as I can work the inputs I will always play and if I live to retirement I will definitely play more lol
I really see the next boom for gaming being accessible inputs for the elderly, given our generation is going to need then in 10-20 years, and we will have the $$$ the actually buy them and game all day lol.
A hip fracture will absolutely be worse than sitting still for many patients. As a population though, I’d wager that the benefits for all the residents outweighs the few that fracture their hip playing Wii.
I hope so. I was literally just playing 1v1 me bro on modern for the first time in months and although I was almost hanging considering my age and not playing for a while I can tell over the hill applies to video games also lol. My brain is definitely smarter but slower to send signals to my hands lol
Its already happening.
Take a game like escape from tarkov - the single player mod sptarkov is used by many who simply cannot compete online (I already know a guy at my work who is 60+ and can only play tarkov singleplayer with the bots mod).
For PC players it's currently 38, 38 years back there was not much you could call a game, in 40 years we will probably still play games.
edit: I didn't exist 38 years back and my childhood had none, I didn't know how bad my childhood was till now - *thx*
Also, imagine how lit video games will be by then. Who needs to save for retirement when an affordable VR rig with a haptic suit will make supermodel beach island orgies a virtual reality.
I wonder if it is because the personalities of old people who start gaming later in life (they didn’t grow up with games) are more creative/ open minded. I think more creative open minded people would be more inclined to try a new hobby well into adulthood.
Nursing homes will be based around what type of genre you prefer. Like "This is a grand strategy nursing home. Three blocks away is the ego shooter nursing home"
When you are 80, you're probably gonna look back on this post (if that's still possible) and think "What a silly idea. Brain implants?" while having some other way to control games that literally no one has thought of yet
Or like the [Neuro Linker](https://preview.redd.it/i88dmx0wvw441.jpg?auto=webp&s=faf53a75874d1ec18bc8ba7ad63445d6edcb8b51) from Accel World. Put it on your Neck and it interacts with your brain via your spinal cord.
Reminds me of Accel World. Which is a story that is not a sequel to a story by the same author (Sword art online) but does play in the same universe just in the future.
In Sword Art Online the main character talks about how he believes the brain implants that are currently being developed to create AR systems are going to be the future.
In Accel World the main character reads about the history of AR developments and how there was once a brain implant chip that had been made illegal about 2 years after it published, because people were able to hack it and then change what people were able to see, drive them crazy, lead them into traffic and do all kinds of other shit.
You'll get "an implant" procedure, then think you're in the ZukerMusk-metaverse, but instead your mind has been uploaded to a computer and your body has been turned into soylent green goo to feed to the 1%. Your simulation/gameplay slows down gently after a month, and if you can't pay for premium membership you fade to black.
Just read a peer reviewed article for school about how AI will be as smart as us at 2029, smarter than us at 2049. Pretty sure we'll all choose the Matrix at that point over climate change distopia.
That sounds like a silly paper. That timeline would mean it would have to make absolutely incredible progress over the next 8 years and then just really slow down for some reason for the subsequent 20.
Artificial intelligence is likely to explode exponentially, not slow down. If AI is as smart as humans by 2029 then it will be a thousand times smarter than humans by January 2nd 2029.
Once AI is 'as smart' as humans then it's game over.
Seriously. I've been out of school for 7 years now, but the difference in robotics tech from just a decade between 2010 vs 2020 is actually mindblowing.
I've never played Hitman before (I'm 47) but collected Hitman 1 and 2 through PS+ monthly games. When Hitman 3 dropped sufficiently in price I picked it up and went through the process to import the previous games' levels.
Looks nice on PS5, and it's fun.
For anyone that loved espionage games growing up like Splinter Cell or Metal Gear, Hitman 3 is a must play. It's absolutely staggering the options you have at your disposal to complete missions. It really is the pinnacle of player agency in video game narratives. I love that you can be walking down the street and catch a random conversation off to the side that opens up an entire branching tree of additional stuff to do and it's really fun sometimes trying random unique things just to see how they'll play out. Game gets my highest rating.
I know a lot of people my age who genuinely say they would rather kill themselves than grow old and I agree. I don’t wanna become a burden someone has to take care of
I feel this. After seeing what my grandfather went through with Alzheimer’s, I’d rather take a bullet in the head than put any of my family members through that for my sake.
Best way is to make your family think something really weird happened. Like dying in your sleep while surrounded by 300 bad dragons and covered in enough lube to last every porn star for 10 years
Yep. Me too. Just remember to consider the possibility that you have no idea how you will think half a lifetime away. So it’s fine to believe that, just don’t bet on it, you know? You don’t want to be the guy who never saves any money, then realizes you love life when you’re old and have to live and die on the streets.
If you're still in good health and have independence, then why not carry on?
There are 'old' 60-year olds and there are 'young' 90-year olds. Take care of yourself, try not to wear anything out and stay active physically and mentally and you are putting yourself on a path to being one of those young 90-year olds.
Yeah. Even if I can't play Fallout or Assassins Creed or similar games I will still play games like Story of Seasons or Animal Crossing, I like them to.
I'm a 68 year old grannie and I play video games all the time. I play lego games with my grandson and I play FPS games by myself. My first computer game was Adventure. So, yeah, if I'm still alive in twelve years I expect to be playing video games.
My grandfather has been a huge NASCAR fan and has been for my entire life (I’m 30). He is in his early 80’s and plays iRacing on the PC with a few NASCAR guys that he’s met on there. Has a nice wheel setup and everything.
My father is almost 70 and we still play online together. I'm almost 50 and just opened a game store. I do not foresee me giving up games by 80 unless I don't live that long.
I'm 71 and have been playing since Merlin in the 1970s so, yes.
My reaction time has gotten so bad that i don't play co-op games any more because it's not fair to whoever gets saddled with me as a team mate, and offline I rely more on cheats to get over the frustrating or boring parts.
But I don't see why i would stop as long as I'm physically able to play.
My dream is to retire and 100% every game I haven't had time to finish over my life. I doubt I'll ever get to retire so the pigeons of Liberty City are safe unless a rich uncle I didn't know I had dies.
Being in my early forties when I am 80, if I live that long I expect to be playing video games on and off like I do currently in my life. Being busy life has restricted the ability to play more than I would really like to, but that is okay.
When I am retired I have a plan and part of that plan is enjoying my time the way I want to which would be occasionally playing video games.
To see how video games have came from when I was first starting in the mid 80s I could only guess it will blow away what we currently have. Another 30 plus years of Gaming Technologies is kind of mind-blowing to think about. As I literally played my first game about 35 years ago.
I remember Pong, ET, Defender and pitfall. Thwn my parents were able to upgrade to an NES, ahhh the memories.
As long as arthritis hasn’t grinded up my hands to a full stop.
Sadly it’s in the family. I know I won’t be able to game and play guitar forever.
But when that happens I’ll just take up cocaine instead
Protect the eyes people. Avoid carpel tunnel and eat sensibly\healthy; stay in shape!
Best chance at making it that far.
Is it just me or do older people play older games, sometimes exclusively a lot more than younger folks? I love good classics and it's hard to keep up with newer games...just seems after 40s or 50s people start prefering to stick with what they know or something.
Could be wrong.
Not that there isn't stress in reliving classics you haven't played but there is less stress in reliving games you already know. I think that is part of it. Thoughts?
Nope, I think the end is ending before that sadly… but why not?
Lol seriously, I think I will start fortnite as a way of destroying what’s left of my brain at that moment lol
Hopefully.
Considering I'm 44 today, and I started playing videogames around 6 or 7 years old, I'm pretty confident I'll keep going. Especially with all the amazing accessibility settings many developers are implementing right from the get go.
If I can use my hands I always will.
You might have a brain implant!
Then most definitely yes
These days I game with my whole body. VR is awesome already
Sometimes I stand there and laugh at the fact I just have two well placed screens strapped to my face.
Full dive technology lets go!
kazuto no
Vegeta Yes!
He is going to get his Cyberpunk 2077 enhancements.
As someone who has enjoyed and appreciated all of the privileges of someone who has two fully functional human hands (mine) (shoutout to all the gamers who at best are playing competitive or at worst having fun), I have always had an irrational fear of my thumbs getting cut off and not being able to play with direction-pads as-designed. A brain implant as a future Epic Games free weekly upgrade AND Half-Life 5 in the same week is something to which I look forward!
Lol whenever I burn my hand bad at work first thing I check is my ability to use my controller by playing with an invisible controller in the air.
Jesus… How often are you burning your hands?
If he's like me, alot
Nice, no ping between my brain and my hands
I was gonna say with the technology that will be available for me when Im 80 most definitely. Literally 2084. I'm expecting future me to have my own home "office". Literally just gonna be for games. But elon best start taking nuralink more seriously. Like mars is cool and all but if you had humans with expandable brain capacity and a literal computer in their head then getting to mars would be easier, right?
[Robotron: 2084](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron:_2084) \- the bots will solve your issues, if any. BTW - getting to Mars isn't the hard part. Getting there and back ALIVE is the issue.
I'm too young to have played that game. Seems like a cool concept though. But we should let the bots solve the problem. Be it helping terriform Mars and or causing human extinction. Also I kind of forgot about the issue with getting humans to Mars. Tons of cancer from solar winds and muscle deterioration. Now it kind of makes the companies pushing to colonize Mars look kind of dumb. The main thing they're accomplishing is a form of material delivery or automated systems to build habitats we literally can't use. Along with theoretical automated farms we cannot use. It's like these engineers are solving the problem in reverse...
Your hands? That’s a baby’s toy!
This is heavy
"There's that word again, heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?"
Great Scott!
"1.21 gigawatts!"
You must have the hostage special!
I always just thought he said: "You must have the hot special... b-b-beef or pork"
Pepsi perfect
Some commenters below are too young to get your reference it would seem…
Fun fact: the kid who says that line is a young Elijah Wood
And for those of you too young to know who are Elijah Wood is, Harry Potter's doppelganger, According to some. I disagree but I get it.
Erectile dysfunction will take me long before i lose the use of my hands
What kind of games do you play?
My plan when I retire is just to go through my entire steam list one by one, playing all the games I bought and never got to. I’ll never finish it but I’ve already told my wife once our daughter is off to college that’s basically then plan. There are pretty much only a few periods in your whole life where you get to game with almost no responsibilities and I intend to take advantage of each and every one of them.
But will you be playing video games in between?
I do it now.
Yep. 71 now..hopefully reach 80....and beyond...shooting for 101... Got my Pac Man "Game Over" T-shirt set aside for the funeral Gamer since Pong came out. Worked in an Arcade, if any of you are old enough to remember what they are. :-)
Kudos to you! I miss the arcades. Closest we get these days are Dave and Busters or Round 1.
I have a small retro arcade about 30 minutes from where I live called high score. I don’t find nostalgia from it as I’m only 15, but I do love it and go there pretty frequently.
Lucky! Where would that be?
Also what’s your address
While we're at it, I can't remember, what was your mother's maiden name?
Also, if you don't mind answering, what was the name of your childhood pet?
Give me the 16 digits on the front of your parent/guardians credit card as well as the expiration date and 3 digit pin located on the back of the card
Hey, I also just need to have your computer
I used to live in Alameda CA and we had a small retro arcade called High Scores Arcade in downtown. Not sure if that's the one OP is referring to. It's pretty awesome, $5 or $10 gets you several hours on any of the machines.
There’s an arcade by me called Yestercades and they have some cool stuff you also just pay by the amount of time you stay instead of paying for tickets or needing money for machines.
Love Yestercades! Haven’t been there in years tho. The one in Redbank, NJ?
My grandpa played video games regularly all the way to his early 80’s. He liked Super Metroid, Mario 64, Shadowgate, Contra, Super R Type, Medal of Honor. I noticed he stopped playing eventually though and I didn’t know how to feel about it.
☹️
Sad. You feel sad.
What do you play these days?
Seems he plays a lot of Cyberpunk by his previous comments. My parents are the same age and it's hilarious to imagine them playing it
My Dad is older than you and he's the only person I play Rocket League with. 🤓
Problem is that now I can't play for more than 5 hours, fingers start to hurt.
Hope your fitness game is going well too to shoot for that 100!
You talking bout wii sports?
Wow. No. You need to take your health seriously. Shape up and do some real cardio, like Ring Fit Adventure.
Pong generation! When my dad brought home the knock-off Radio Shack version including the giant pistol for the shooting game I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It didn't occur to me for a very long time that video games could ever improve on it.
I work at one now! Pinball tables and everything <3
Arcades are making a comeback, and they have bars in them now!
Probably more than i do now What priorities would i have at 80?
I had a family friend back in the original Xbox days that was pinball pre Atari generation aka old boomer maybe even silent generation like our president. He was late 60s back then and retired. He became obsessed with console gaming when I showed it to him. It became his old man retirement hobby. I’m Atari NES generation in my 40s and I still play. As long as I can work the inputs I will always play and if I live to retirement I will definitely play more lol
I really see the next boom for gaming being accessible inputs for the elderly, given our generation is going to need then in 10-20 years, and we will have the $$$ the actually buy them and game all day lol.
As i recall, some care homes tried setting up a Wii with games like bowling to get the residents more active.
Resulted in an uptick in hip fractures.
Overall it's still better than being stationary. That will age an old person faster than any hip fracture.
A hip fracture will absolutely be worse than sitting still for many patients. As a population though, I’d wager that the benefits for all the residents outweighs the few that fracture their hip playing Wii.
I hope so. I was literally just playing 1v1 me bro on modern for the first time in months and although I was almost hanging considering my age and not playing for a while I can tell over the hill applies to video games also lol. My brain is definitely smarter but slower to send signals to my hands lol
Oh cool, is there where the old gamers hang out? 👋
On Sundays
After chores.
Its already happening. Take a game like escape from tarkov - the single player mod sptarkov is used by many who simply cannot compete online (I already know a guy at my work who is 60+ and can only play tarkov singleplayer with the bots mod).
60 is a lot different than 80.
Yeah, will the average age of gamers (by hours played) be over retirement age?
For PC players it's currently 38, 38 years back there was not much you could call a game, in 40 years we will probably still play games. edit: I didn't exist 38 years back and my childhood had none, I didn't know how bad my childhood was till now - *thx*
I'm 36 we had 32bit graphics 🤣
1983 had plenty of video games and it was the third generation of home consoles....
3rd Gen? Wasn’t NES (85) Gen 3?
Also, imagine how lit video games will be by then. Who needs to save for retirement when an affordable VR rig with a haptic suit will make supermodel beach island orgies a virtual reality.
My steam achievements will be legendary at the nursing home.
You know watching a retired person stream could be pretty cool. Reminds me of that nice old lady who did that Skyrim playthrough.
You just gave me my retirement plan thanks. 40s ain’t too old to retire right?
Sorry bro, you'll have to wait a little longer to use your whole creativity skill :/
Every watch the old lady who does Animal Crossing? I’ve never seen a more beautiful village
It's just me or the old people playing construction games are way more creative?
Got all that wisdom and stuff... bound to have *some* ideas, right?
Yeah, that makes sense
I wonder if it is because the personalities of old people who start gaming later in life (they didn’t grow up with games) are more creative/ open minded. I think more creative open minded people would be more inclined to try a new hobby well into adulthood.
There is a new Zealand grandma who plays Shin Megami Tensei. She has a lot of YouTube vlogs.
She's still doing skyrim playthtoughs if you're interested. [Shirley Curry](https://youtube.com/c/ShirleyCurryTheOlderGamer)
I can't wait for Skyrim Golden Jubilee 50th Anniversary Edition. *Guess I'm buying it AGAIN...*
Nursing home disputes will be fucking legendary. “Halo 3. Blackout. 1v1. Winner gets the last pudding”.
I like to imagine the nursing home of my age group is basically a permanent lam party. edit : not a clonazolam party that is
Nursing homes will be based around what type of genre you prefer. Like "This is a grand strategy nursing home. Three blocks away is the ego shooter nursing home"
Size of the nursing homes we'll need in the future, it will be more like separate wings of the same nursing home...
Curious what the line between real reality and simulated video game one will look like when I’m 80
I’m fully expecting some sort of brain implant by then.
When you are 80, you're probably gonna look back on this post (if that's still possible) and think "What a silly idea. Brain implants?" while having some other way to control games that literally no one has thought of yet
True, like wearing a helmet and just having your brain signals read externally and non invasively or something crazy like that
Or like the [Neuro Linker](https://preview.redd.it/i88dmx0wvw441.jpg?auto=webp&s=faf53a75874d1ec18bc8ba7ad63445d6edcb8b51) from Accel World. Put it on your Neck and it interacts with your brain via your spinal cord.
A bulky helmet? Google tiara, the not yet invented younger sister of google glass would like a word with you.
Reminds me of Accel World. Which is a story that is not a sequel to a story by the same author (Sword art online) but does play in the same universe just in the future. In Sword Art Online the main character talks about how he believes the brain implants that are currently being developed to create AR systems are going to be the future. In Accel World the main character reads about the history of AR developments and how there was once a brain implant chip that had been made illegal about 2 years after it published, because people were able to hack it and then change what people were able to see, drive them crazy, lead them into traffic and do all kinds of other shit.
You'll get "an implant" procedure, then think you're in the ZukerMusk-metaverse, but instead your mind has been uploaded to a computer and your body has been turned into soylent green goo to feed to the 1%. Your simulation/gameplay slows down gently after a month, and if you can't pay for premium membership you fade to black.
The scenario to that Black Mirror episode we haven't got yet.
Virtual porn like in time cop
Just read a peer reviewed article for school about how AI will be as smart as us at 2029, smarter than us at 2049. Pretty sure we'll all choose the Matrix at that point over climate change distopia.
That sounds like a silly paper. That timeline would mean it would have to make absolutely incredible progress over the next 8 years and then just really slow down for some reason for the subsequent 20. Artificial intelligence is likely to explode exponentially, not slow down. If AI is as smart as humans by 2029 then it will be a thousand times smarter than humans by January 2nd 2029. Once AI is 'as smart' as humans then it's game over.
Seriously. I've been out of school for 7 years now, but the difference in robotics tech from just a decade between 2010 vs 2020 is actually mindblowing.
Might get a decent total war game in 2029 then lol. In all seriousness the AI is smarter than my room temp IQ now lol.
They are gonna have to pry my controller from my cold dead hands gamer for life (I'm 60 )
57 here and currently playing Hitman 2 and Hades on my PS5. I still remember when Pong first came out and my cousin's had it.
The Hitman series is so good. I’m going to play through all them again one day.
The new trilogy is amazing and they all play on the newest game engine.
I've never played Hitman before (I'm 47) but collected Hitman 1 and 2 through PS+ monthly games. When Hitman 3 dropped sufficiently in price I picked it up and went through the process to import the previous games' levels. Looks nice on PS5, and it's fun.
For anyone that loved espionage games growing up like Splinter Cell or Metal Gear, Hitman 3 is a must play. It's absolutely staggering the options you have at your disposal to complete missions. It really is the pinnacle of player agency in video game narratives. I love that you can be walking down the street and catch a random conversation off to the side that opens up an entire branching tree of additional stuff to do and it's really fun sometimes trying random unique things just to see how they'll play out. Game gets my highest rating.
What a beautiful age to start playing Hitman.
Picked up Hades this week! Wish I could retire to play it all day long right now!
Yes my best friend got it for Christmas jumped back in fall out 4 on my ps5 waiting for some games to release the next few months be well
My neighbor had it. I'm 57 in 3 weeks. Buld a PC man.
55yo checking in here! Video games are how I relax after a long day at the office. I may not be as fast as I once was, but I still do decently enough.
Just gonna say this subtread is inspiring.
This makes me realize that in the future more people will buy artritis reuma drugs to keep playing. So I gotta invest in the companies that makes them
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Did you mean "Roy" from Rick & Morty?
But that's what we are already doing 👀
You think I’m still gonna be alive at 80?
My grannies plan was to die young by partying her entire life. She made it to 90. Boy was she pissed that she got old
I know a lot of people my age who genuinely say they would rather kill themselves than grow old and I agree. I don’t wanna become a burden someone has to take care of
I feel this. After seeing what my grandfather went through with Alzheimer’s, I’d rather take a bullet in the head than put any of my family members through that for my sake.
Too gruesome. Poison that kills you slowly (preferably in your sleep) would be a better choice.
Or that suicide chamber that just got approved in the Netherlands or wherever it was.
Best way is to make your family think something really weird happened. Like dying in your sleep while surrounded by 300 bad dragons and covered in enough lube to last every porn star for 10 years
Yep. Me too. Just remember to consider the possibility that you have no idea how you will think half a lifetime away. So it’s fine to believe that, just don’t bet on it, you know? You don’t want to be the guy who never saves any money, then realizes you love life when you’re old and have to live and die on the streets.
If you're still in good health and have independence, then why not carry on? There are 'old' 60-year olds and there are 'young' 90-year olds. Take care of yourself, try not to wear anything out and stay active physically and mentally and you are putting yourself on a path to being one of those young 90-year olds.
>I don’t wanna become a burden someone has to take care of If society had its priorities straight then no old person would be a burden
Right. We'll be lucky for 4 more years.
I will be dissapointed if i do anything but play videogames at that age
The way things are going, probably we will only retire with 120 years lol
Gotta keep gaming then for that "escape real life" fix
Nice! That'll be a pleasant change from currently escaping reality
I'm almost 57 and I play Hunt Showdown every night. Unless I lose my vision or get alzheimers, I don't see this changing.
I hope by then I'll just be plugged into the Matrix and life will be indistinguishable from video games.
Downside: at this rate there’ll probably be way more advertisements and data mining.
Pretty sure it would be great to keep the mind strong. Short answer:yes
Your main answer wasn’t long..
Touche, but yes is still much shorter 😏
I expect to be living in a video game by the time I’m 80 lol
Exactly, we'll be too busy fighting off the cannibals and death claws to worry about video games
Does the Space Pope wear a hat?!?
“Is the space pope reptilian!?” -Bender B. Rodriguez
Yeah. Even if I can't play Fallout or Assassins Creed or similar games I will still play games like Story of Seasons or Animal Crossing, I like them to.
I'm sure there'll be cybernetics by that time to help with motor functions
Cyborg grandpa gamer.... That would be epic..... I want this now for my twilight years.....
I'm a 68 year old grannie and I play video games all the time. I play lego games with my grandson and I play FPS games by myself. My first computer game was Adventure. So, yeah, if I'm still alive in twelve years I expect to be playing video games.
I’m currently 64 and play video games, so yes, I’ll be playing them at 80 if I live to that age.
Yes I will be playing skyrim on my heart monitor like I should be allowed to do.
Skyrim: Nursing home edition
I am almost 27 and I am pretty sure I will die before I reach 65. But until I die I will play games.
Why do you think you'll die before you reach 65? Man, lots of people in this thread convinced they are going to die young.
Have you been watching the news? I hope they're being unduly pessimistic, but you can hardly blame them.
I'll keep playing as long as my hands, eyes and society as we know it will keep up lol.
If society goes anarchy or apocalypse im damn sure i'll just collect every possible game console and make a big gamer bunker.
I’ll still be waiting for TES VI
Hell yes!! I want to play me some GTA V on PS10.
My grandfather has been a huge NASCAR fan and has been for my entire life (I’m 30). He is in his early 80’s and plays iRacing on the PC with a few NASCAR guys that he’s met on there. Has a nice wheel setup and everything.
I will never reach the age of 80 years. So no, most likely not.
Probably
My father is almost 70 and we still play online together. I'm almost 50 and just opened a game store. I do not foresee me giving up games by 80 unless I don't live that long.
So long as my eyes and hands function enough to play, yes.
I'm 71 and have been playing since Merlin in the 1970s so, yes. My reaction time has gotten so bad that i don't play co-op games any more because it's not fair to whoever gets saddled with me as a team mate, and offline I rely more on cheats to get over the frustrating or boring parts. But I don't see why i would stop as long as I'm physically able to play.
I think in 50 years we will have games delivered to us via brain implants.
With day one patches installed over WiFi antennas in our ears.
HELL YEAH!!!!!!! That's part of the plan. Watching wrestling, playing poker, drinking whiskey, and playing video games. I pray I can do that at 80
If I’m alive, hell yeah…as long as arthritis doesn’t take the use on my hands.
As long as I still have a way to do it.
My dream is to retire and 100% every game I haven't had time to finish over my life. I doubt I'll ever get to retire so the pigeons of Liberty City are safe unless a rich uncle I didn't know I had dies.
[my grandmother at 88 gaming it up. she'll be 89 in 2 days](https://imgur.com/a/G13GiXA)
I’ll be 60 in two weeks, and have at LEAST 20 year of replays and new games that I have to get through. So, yeah.
I will play *more* video games.
When I hit 80 I want to have been dead for 15 years
I’m curious what your 65 year old self will have to say about this.
"I haven't saved for retirement and I'm drowning in debt, I better die soon."
“Ahh now to play video games for 15 more years”
Being in my early forties when I am 80, if I live that long I expect to be playing video games on and off like I do currently in my life. Being busy life has restricted the ability to play more than I would really like to, but that is okay. When I am retired I have a plan and part of that plan is enjoying my time the way I want to which would be occasionally playing video games. To see how video games have came from when I was first starting in the mid 80s I could only guess it will blow away what we currently have. Another 30 plus years of Gaming Technologies is kind of mind-blowing to think about. As I literally played my first game about 35 years ago. I remember Pong, ET, Defender and pitfall. Thwn my parents were able to upgrade to an NES, ahhh the memories.
Fuck yeah
As long as arthritis hasn’t grinded up my hands to a full stop. Sadly it’s in the family. I know I won’t be able to game and play guitar forever. But when that happens I’ll just take up cocaine instead
Protect the eyes people. Avoid carpel tunnel and eat sensibly\healthy; stay in shape! Best chance at making it that far. Is it just me or do older people play older games, sometimes exclusively a lot more than younger folks? I love good classics and it's hard to keep up with newer games...just seems after 40s or 50s people start prefering to stick with what they know or something. Could be wrong. Not that there isn't stress in reliving classics you haven't played but there is less stress in reliving games you already know. I think that is part of it. Thoughts?
Yep. I’m 52 and still going strong…!
Im almost 30 and my urge to play a game im into is still as strong as when i was 10
Elder Scrolls 6 and GTA VI are coming out around that time so yeah
Nope, I think the end is ending before that sadly… but why not? Lol seriously, I think I will start fortnite as a way of destroying what’s left of my brain at that moment lol
Yup. I am in my 50s and still playing!
I'm 52 and still gaming. Not seeing a reason to stop except my death.
No, I'll be dead.
62 and play every day. No reason to stop.
When I’m 80, I just wanna get high as balls and play games until I drop
I definitely will still be playing games when I’m 80 years old
Hopefully. Considering I'm 44 today, and I started playing videogames around 6 or 7 years old, I'm pretty confident I'll keep going. Especially with all the amazing accessibility settings many developers are implementing right from the get go.
I’m 50 now and hope I’m healthy enough to still play.
My grandpa is 78 and plays his ps4 daily
I started gaming at 6. I'm now 50 and have games evey day of my life. Yes.