Why are Millennials playing Video Games into their 30s and 40s?

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Because reality sucks. I've always hoped when I die, I will be able to experience any part of the multiverse I want on demand. Being able to be a badass dragon slayer or a millionaire whenever I feel like it then switch when I get bored. That would be paradise to me. Unfortunately until I leave this existence, video games are the closest thing I have to paradise.

Like thats exclusive to millenials.
That hobby just got a lot more mainstream the last 10 years. thats all.
Its a trend. And theres nothing wrong with it unless you spend all your free time on it.
I dont really see a problem with that.

Widespread porn and drug abuse is far worse.
Or what kids get taught in school.

What's the difference between playing video games and watching tv?

We were basically the first generation raised with good in-home video games. They're just as normal to us as books, tv, or movies.

Because they are too pathetic to stand up to reality.

What's the alternative after work and socializing anyway?

watch jewish owned shows?

>Giving the baby the least cool controller

They'll be shit parents for sure.

Building a business

Ive been looking to build a computer for the past 4 years. Im not biting, fuck that. Gonna lose all sorts of gains for all the titles i miss throughout the years. Ive had my fill playing WoW beta all the way to Wrath of the Lich King.

> /played
> 11 months, 23 days, 6 hours, 54 minutes, 22 seconds

>millennials
>30s
>40s
OP confirmed idiot and faggot

My father has played video games since the release of the Gameboy. Took a work vacation to visit him last week and he was playing SOCOM II on the ps2. Says he misses the online. He's 69.

I just turned 40 and have noticed I've been rapidly losing interest in gaming in the past few years. I just realized all the fucking time I've wasted on them instead of living my life, going out meeting people and forming relationships.

Maybe I'm finally starting to grow up...

no worse than previous generations and television

playing games is the only thing that i can find fun in this fucking modern society

fuck society
civilization collapse when?

fpbp

Millennials aren't 30 yet

>woman is playing the male
>male is playing player 3
>female is played by a pair of shoes

what the fuck is wrong with these people?

Yes they are

Im too lazy for business and our govt taxes are bullshit high its not worth it at this point.

I just throw money on land for rent like a parking space cause people dont seem to think ahead after making a house in my country.

Millennials are early 1980s to mid 1990s

underrated post + gif combo

Because the recession is the end of hope.

/vr/ here and this image triggers me. I can ignore the photo shopped non-game they have on the screen but FFS the console isn't even on.

>Why do Boomers still watch TV into their 70s?

Here is a red pill for you OP. It's ok to waste time doing whatever the fuck you want as long as you dedicate some of that time to doing something important. Now what you should be implying is these people should have children playing the video games.

>tfw 27
>video game designer
>translator
>freelancer of all kinds of stuff
>play video games whenever I want
>live by myself and have all the time of the world to do fuckall

i'm a 30 year old millenial

Are you sure you know the definition of millennials?

SILLY MILLIES.

VIVA LA Z!!!

I quit video games and began reading (mostly Sup Forums) related books instead. Impress your idiot friends, and maybe they'll imitate you

The millennial generation applies to anyone born after 1994. Stop cutting math class paco

Games are just becoming boring now. There is no variety as there was say 20 or 30 years ago.

Your average AAA title is a shooter on rails, or one of those 'open world' things that amounts to 'go here, press x'.

You might find it more enjoyable to look into smaller, independent games. /hell, download Renpy or something and make your own.

>they are literally enjoying motion pictures
>they are literally enjoying rock n roll
>they are literally listening to rap music
>omg they are literally still gaming.

>30s and 40s
Millenials are not that old.

because its greatest form of media entertainment, you stupid fat cuck.

I used to play a shitload of computer games when I was between 9-20.

I am 23 now, and I hardly play computer games or vidya anymore, except when I am visiting some friend and we play a multiplayer on a console.

Why? Because while it's fun, you can feel how you are not learning anything as an adult if you play a game. It feels like a huge waste of time. I spend shitload of time on Sup Forums and I feel this is actually a better use of time because I get to interact with people on various topics, and I learn new stuff every day about nuances of politics, different countries and such.

Millenials are gen y, you're talking about gen z

Wait can you explain what you meant about the parking spaces and the rent and shit? I'm a little unclear

SILLY MILLY. Each one of you think you speak for the entire generation. What you think a 20 year old has in common with a 34 year old if love to know.

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/25/millennials-overtake-baby-boomers/
>Millennials, whom we define as those ages 18-34 in 2015, now number 75.4 million

Error in your logos: If you can experience anything, and be everything, then there is no being, you are a totality and are therefore nothing.

kys

Because until I can work as a atmospheric tech on a spacestation space station 13 is the closest I have

> live by myself

Yeah ya do...

Maybe you should have been doing both of those things simultaneously.

This.

> Why are people enjoying things in their 30s and 40s ?

i persoanlly play games because i love to kill
it satisfies me,
that's why i play red orchestra 2, rising storm
and fallout 4, when you can cut the limbs of people and their head, and blow the out their inside out

It's easy, user, just earn money and look for an apartment that has access to a high speed internet connection.

it isn't just video games. They're clinging to other things intended for children like pokemon and Harry Potter. Sad!

Videogames are fun. What other reason does anyone need?

there is nothnig wrong about video games themselves
in fact, they could be an amazing art form
too bad its pretty much impossible now that western gaming has been completely ruined forever by SJW, feminism and other millenial bullshit
also modern (((art critics))) will never accept them as an art form either
now the bad thing about them if you're a retard and play shit MOBAs like league or MMORPGS and shit like that which you can get addicted to, that's not videogame's fault though, its mostly the player's (also these games usually are shit so they deserve being addicted for having shit taste in games)

>because i love to kill

then just walk outside, schlomo

A know a few guys who play video games. It is pathetic. Please grow up into a man. Real life is the game now, stop playing pretend.

>Poorfag town that's really cheap
>Poorfags build houses with no carparks
>Me buy land
>Carsellers selling cars with retardedly low downpayments
>Poorfags buy cars with nowhere to park
>Me build car storage and then they rent

Living the dream.

What's the deal with this picture? It's obviously not Mario Kart 64, which I just finished playing with my gf. We play my old N64 because it's a nice little break from everything else where we can compete against each other. I don't play much else other than the occasional Paradox game or Red Orchestra 2 a few hours a month...

For me it's not even an issue of being a waste of time, it's that they don't make anything that feels like it's worth my money anymore. I don't want to buy a $60 incomplete game, then be expected to buy a $50 pass to get the rest or each segment in $20 chunks. The dick heads (CoD and BF players mostly) that ate this shit up and made it the industry standard should all kill themselves. I've purchased a grand total of 3 games over the past two years.

This. I will never understand
>Stupid goyim! Enjoying your leisure time? Why won't you be a man and work like a dog for me all the time

What else would they do?

well, cant do that and not getting arrested here, to bad i dont live in america, would join the army there to kill some sand niggers with m134 minigun from a chopper.

Fpbp

Day of the rake soon

This

I used to play a SHITTON of vidya when I was young, even though I did not enjoy it most of the time.

Nowadays I go urban exploring, draw, read or just go for a walk through the woods with my dog.

Video games are so boring and I do not feel bad at all for dropping them, contrary to what most video game playing people believe.

>dude you don't enjoy vidya???? dude your life must be so boring!!!

Funny how with 25 years and a childhood of vidya I am the one who constantly pushes other people to go outside and take up another hobby, while every normie who spent his childhood playing football and watching TV now plays vidya all day.

Ironic to say the least

Your country allowes you to kill as much muslims as you like. Why don't you do something useful?

Which god made it law that video games are only for children?

People like things they grow up with.

Kind of. My final straw was Rome II: Total War. I torrented it, but it was buggy as fuck and froze mid-battle a lot. I think lots of games these days are rushed and you never know if it ends up being fixed or not, but the initial experience will always be ruined.

>why are you still playing video games
is the new
>why are you still watching tv
is the new
>why are you still listening to that rock n' roll racket
is the new
>why are you still dressed like a greaser
is the new
>why are you still not smoking cigarettes
is the new
>why are you still using a 1911 instead of a revolver
is the new
>why are you still moving out west with a wagon train
is the new
>why are you still colonizing America
is the new
>why are you still using a rapier and not a longsword
is the new
>why are you still Catholic and not a tree-worshiping pagan
is the new
>why are you still a Roman citizen
is the new
>why you smash Grog with club and not rock

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>no real job prospects if you don't live in one of the major hubs in the country
>friends have all turned into SJW faggot
>creators of shit you liked have all turned into sjw faggot


No jobs to raise kids on so guess I'll play vidya

Enjoy your leisure time by interacting with real life. Also, a lot of video games are stressful. After a hard day of work, the idea of entering into a simulation of a war zone is stupid and not leisure at all.

>If you can experience anything, and be everything, then there is no being, you are a totality and are therefore nothing.
wtf are you on about
>want to have a qt anime waifu
*teleport to the part of the multiverse where anime is real*
>now im bored and want to explore space instead
*teleport to the part of the multiverse where humans colonized the galaxy*

etc etc

It's literally the best type of existence and it wouldn't stop me from being anything.

WRONG

millenials are near the 2000s

early 80s lmfao

but you live right next to a group of wild sandniggers who want to bath in your blood, what are you waiting for?

Funny I always imagined after death we should get to run a full debug mode and have 100% control over reality

IDK.

Why is my baby boomer mother still playing online deathmatch games at 60?

because people grew up with it, and video games now are more fantastic than ever before. I only have time to play games on the weekend these days. But I know I will never stop because my kids one day will have gaming systems and I would love to play them with my kids.

Because American Boomers and gen x'ers all just sit around reading Nietzsche and Voltaire all day and talking it over with their friends, right?
Fuck off. The moment I give a shit about anyone bitching about what I like is the moment I stop getting grown ass men and women asking me to help them with everyday technology that's designed to be used by consumers.
Also
>30 and 40
>millenials

it just seems like some sort of stupid placeholder muguffin for some shit Nintendo or video game related.

great life lesson ya sick cunt. what part of real life did I miss last night when I was playing vidya in between loads of laundry?

Pathetic.

Grow up and do something with your life.

Any of you on here who still play video games as adults need to literally fuck off to Reddit.

>urban exploring
Is this a thing? What is it? Please elaborate, sounds cool

>Funny how with 25 years and a childhood of vidya I am the one who constantly pushes other people to go outside and take up another hobby, while every normie who spent his childhood playing football and watching TV now plays vidya all day.
This is interesting, haven't thought about it like this.

Because they're fun

I can see this
Killing kids gets old after being hit with a few assault rocks

>30's and 40's

normal men stop losing interest in video games around their late 20's. anyone that's still playing games at 40 (only exemption is if you're playing with your kids) needs to re-evaluate their life.

Is that accurate? Millennials are only 34-35 at their oldest.

Gen X is currently 35+

See pic related.

well because its bullshit propognda, the army is shit here, getting orders from pussies leader in charge. they are to much "humanitarian" because of constant heat of the UN, who would want to serve in that shit army

Its like 84-98 i think

That's gen z dummy.

I don't know, it's only normal that people that grow up playing video games keep playing video games, people just didn't have the ease of access to video games than they did years later, thus, giving the, then, current generation access to a new hobby.

I play video games around 3 hours a day when I'm doing nothing, at this age, you can no longer spend all day playing video games unless you're really set on beating the game but other than that, pointless.

>Grow up and do something with your life.
Nothing within the realms of present reality would satisfy me, so what's the point?

I haven't been to Sup Forums for a long time but this image triggers me

Your father has great taste

Would operate with

What do videos games have to do with reddit retard alert

the modern day descriptors for them are retarded.

For me, Millenials would be 18-26 year olds while Gen Z are 14-19 year olds now

>buying a brand new title for $60

>Im too lazy for business
>Me build car storage and then they rent

Thats literally what business is

because, israel army is shit, you cant just drop in afghanistan from a chopper shouthing hoorah and spray. mostly you'll die because of incompetence commanders, shit operations and 100% trying to be humanitarin,

playing games is fun. having a kid is not. qed

>live by myself after years in the dorms

it fucking sucks, I really didn't realize how much of a damned extrovert I was until I moved into an apartment for grad school. Always gotta be going out to see friends now.

Not him but lead a pretty active life, I travel around the world quite regularly.

What do you expect me to do in some shitty airport for 4 hours while I wait for my flight? Or even the flight itself?

Videogames are great. I can't read a book in loud places with lots of people around, I can't focus. It's much easier to just play a videogame.

Homeland Generation??
Sounds kinda like "fuck off to your own country" generation to me.