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Are ever too old to play video games?
#31
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
(March 2, 2015 at 11:33 am)Chad32 Wrote: Any game that has a deeper meaning to it is worth playing at any age. This War of Mine is a recent example.

The Last of Us is fantastic in that respect. I've never seen a game make their characters feel so alive.

It's also a great game to rub in PC snob's faces. Smile
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#32
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
I've never seen or played The last of Us. I think I was turned off by a trailer that had the character killing someone for little to no reason. Like in TWoM, I go out of my way not to mess with other civilians. Even if it means going into a warehouse with a bunch of badits that will shoot you on sight.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#33
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
For little to no reason? Not sure what you're talking about. It's a survival game where you have to kill to stay alive.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#34
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
I've only seen the trailer, so I don't really have much to say about it, except there's a man and a girl. He does reprehensible things that the player may or may not have control over. When a guy is on the ground, cowering, you lose any justification for killing them. Unless that guy was really evil, and the trailer didn't portray that well.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#35
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
I'm turning 52 this month and I still love video games. Especially RPGs.

Well, video games weren't arround when I was young - except for Pong and a few pixel shooters at the mall - so I have a lot of catching up to do in my later years.
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#36
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
(March 2, 2015 at 12:07 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I've only seen the trailer, so I don't really have much to say about it, except there's a man and a girl. He does reprehensible things that the player may or may not have control over. When a guy is on the ground, cowering, you lose any justification for killing them. Unless that guy was really evil, and the trailer didn't portray that well.

The main character is a bit morally ambiguous at one point. It's about a zombie apocalypse that breaks out and a man's young daughter is killed by the government. It cues to twenty years later in a dystopian setting where he's a criminal running guns amid talk of a revolution against the government state that came into power after the apocalypse, and he and his partner end up getting tasked with escorting a girl that is the same age that his daughter when she was killed across hostile territory, and getting into any further would provide spoilers but suffice to say, your character makes a moral journey that turns him into the good guy.

If you were concerned about sketchy moral implications with this game, don't be, but it is deep and complex, which requires some seedier situations.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#37
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
I miss them, but I would not go back to the life style of playing again. The new ones do look good with there enhanced graphics and game play engines. I look at the new ones and they look the older ones with better graphics and a slightly different storyline. My view is that they have not changed much since the early 2000's your typical shooter, RPG, MMORPG, and adventure games. I compare it to the same plot in a book just with different names and the same base line concepts.
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#38
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
So long as you don't abrogate other responsibilities that comes with age in favor of playing video games, you are never too old to play video games.
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#39
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
Including video games where you play hide and seek by turning into objects.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#40
RE: Are ever too old to play video games?
(March 2, 2015 at 9:48 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Including video games where you play hide and seek by turning into objects.

You don't mean by any chance Divinity?
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