Is gaming better as a kid or an adult?

Anyone can be a parent. Being a good parent, however, takes sacrifice. There are only so many hours in the day. And sure, I could game once they're asleep but that means the laundry,dishes, lunches, etc. can't get done which is a direct impact on their lives and your own. Most young parents will have to deprioritize gaming for years to make everything work. Imo good parenting comes with selflessness. Once your kids are properly automated you can slowly regain leisure time.

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As a kid I had time play games but no money to buy games. As an adult I have money to buy games but time to play games …

I remember Cyberpunk 2077 sucking me into its world, I sometimes walked slowly through the streets taking in sights and sounds.

I had that all the time as a kid, Monkey Island, Betrayal at Krondor, you name it. For children, like you said, everything is new and a fantastic experience, give it enough years and it becomes not stale, but normal.

Now, many years later it has become rare. But when it happens it's awesome again.

That's also my reason for not being excited over GTA 6. It will never live up to feeling of 3, Vice City or San Andreas, even 4. Those times are over for me. 5 was fun, but nothing special anymore.

Maybe you should take a long walk off a short cliff.

As you said, there are pros and cons. A child's brain is something else, I remember excitement and curiosity that an adult's brain just cannot replicate. I don't think I'll ever feel what I felt when I played Half-Life or World of Warcraft for the first time. Games are still enjoyable though - just in a different way.

I'm in my early 40s, and I've found that I enjoy story-based games played on an easy difficulty more. Life is stressful enough nowadays, so I don't need the added stress of competitive gaming.

For me, it's a different kind of enjoyment. Now, I'd rather let my mind wander through a story-based game than frag anything that moves.

For me personally the steam deck was a game changer, now I have a little pc I can carry around with me. I no longer needed to worry about those long ass quests or lack of save points because I can just put it to sleep and pick it up later when I have a moment.

It's still not as great as being able to sit down and just get lost in a game but it's better than not having time at all.

Maybe you should collect your shitty, entitled, poorly informed take and just fuck all the way off? Again, you clearly have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. You're either a troll or an entitled moron.

Speaking of time management, this concludes our conversation. Goodbye.

I think gaming as a kid was better simply because of the fact there was a bit of mystery to it.

you rarely knew about upcoming game releases unless it was a major title or was heavily advertised in like GamePro or EGM. most of the time you'd go to the store or a rental place and you'd discover a game right there on the shelf. Some of my favourite games I never knew existed until I rented them from Blockbuster. And many times recommendations game from previously said magazines or word of mouth via your friends. And if a game was cancelled prior to release chances are you wouldn't be bummed about it simply because you probably didn't know it existed in the first place.

We don't have that now. now everything is covered from head to toe everywhere or in early access or whatever. takes the fun out of it.

Also there was nothing better than picking up a game and reading the manual on the drive home.

you also have the capability on purchasing it with your own money

Some of us got our sea legs at a very early age.

i think it depends on your circumstances in life more then anything else

The pros of gaming as an adult is that you now have the money to go buy all the games you wanted to play as a kid. The cons are that you no longer have the time.

I have to say that the lack of responsibility and abundance of time makes gaming as a kid better.

I mean rpgs are closer to virtual worlds now. I gotta give it to adult just based on games being better than I was a kid. still love that old sega shadowrun though.

gaming is better as an adult if it's something you never did as a kid. not knowing how something works adds to the fun of playing a video game, and kids are blank slates when it comes to experience.