Azureth
Supreme [H]ardness
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Now I realize this will be reminiscent of a "get off my lawn!" type topic but never the less I can't help get it off my mind.
I am 30 and while not "old" especially compared to lots of other things I admit spending time with much younger kids can certainly make me feel like an old man.
For instance a few months back I was playing wow with a friend and a friend of his who is 19 was playing with us and he actually is quite good but somehow we got into talking about old games and he went on to bash them saying how they were stupid he couldn't believe people played such (as he put it) "shitty looking and playing" games.
Then went on to talk about how stupid hard they all are. I then replied saying well that's what I grew up with and even though they were quite hard you got used to it and learned the game and gained accomplishment from it when you did finally beat it.
He then said "why would you want to play a game because it's hard, that's why I hate the dark souls games" I said it's really something you had to grow up with to understand and since he loves call of Duty games I sent him a video of Doom (1993) and said that was my first FPS and he watched it, laughed and said "I'm sorry" and went on to say how terrible it looked.
I realize it was a rather pointless argument but I have to admit it kind of felt like a punch to the gut in a way.
On the bright side though when I was at my friends he had his 18 year old brother there along with one of his friends who was the same age and he had his 3DS with tons of VC games and he said he loves retro games and beat both NES Zelda, and a bunch of other hard games I forget. He did say he couldn't get past Frankenstein in castlevania though. But I thought that was pretty cool.
But anyway has anyone here been made to feel old when around younger gamers or the like?
I am 30 and while not "old" especially compared to lots of other things I admit spending time with much younger kids can certainly make me feel like an old man.
For instance a few months back I was playing wow with a friend and a friend of his who is 19 was playing with us and he actually is quite good but somehow we got into talking about old games and he went on to bash them saying how they were stupid he couldn't believe people played such (as he put it) "shitty looking and playing" games.
Then went on to talk about how stupid hard they all are. I then replied saying well that's what I grew up with and even though they were quite hard you got used to it and learned the game and gained accomplishment from it when you did finally beat it.
He then said "why would you want to play a game because it's hard, that's why I hate the dark souls games" I said it's really something you had to grow up with to understand and since he loves call of Duty games I sent him a video of Doom (1993) and said that was my first FPS and he watched it, laughed and said "I'm sorry" and went on to say how terrible it looked.
I realize it was a rather pointless argument but I have to admit it kind of felt like a punch to the gut in a way.
On the bright side though when I was at my friends he had his 18 year old brother there along with one of his friends who was the same age and he had his 3DS with tons of VC games and he said he loves retro games and beat both NES Zelda, and a bunch of other hard games I forget. He did say he couldn't get past Frankenstein in castlevania though. But I thought that was pretty cool.
But anyway has anyone here been made to feel old when around younger gamers or the like?