I'm Too Old for This S***

Source article: You’re Too Old for Video Games… Go Do Something With Your Life

http://fashionablegamer.blogspot.ca/2012/08/youre-too-old-for-video-gamesgo-do.html

Ask anyone who’s been playing video games long enough and they’ll tell you that at a point in time, one game or another had them captivated more powerfully than any movie or book ever could have. It seems the gaming industry has managed to alienate its engagement with games that are solely single player focused, and tend to have a campaign with the intentions to build you up for the multiplayer content.

Why worry about plot progression, variety or artificial intelligence when the real games out on Xbox live or the PlayStation Network. Developers have a get out of jail free card with their games online ability to carry itself, through a less than satisfactory storyline. No problem, taking on some Brazilian at any time of the day on FIFA is awesome, but listening to him constantly smack talk me with broken English and a Portuguese accent, irks me like no other.  

Playing video games online lately has been about as fun as school must have been for the kids that got beat up every day by the emotionally challenged bully. That’s not even the worst part. For games that involve teamwork, even the slightest of mishap,s can get one yelled at by an unknown person who thinks their ‘experience’ gives them the right to treat you like Toby from Roots.

The truth about the aversion to multiplayer felt by the older generation of gamers doesn’t lie in the mechanics of a games multiplayer itself, but with the younger audience that plays these multiplayer games, and their lack of respect towards their peers. Obviously games don’t have to be with a set of randoms that spawn camp you until you’re ready to pull your teeth out, but realistically, at a certain age it is near impossible to get a group of friends, the same age,  together to even play a single game. Life won’t allow it.