Ouder worden is iets waar niemand aan ontkomt, en ook het gamen word dan een hele andere ervaring. Want als je jong bent is het kloten voor geld om een game te kopen, en als je ouder bent heb je werk en kan je elke game kopen die je wilt, maar dan zit je weer met tijd gebrek voor je vrouw en kinderen. Nathan Birch van de website Gamma Squad is pas geleden dertig geworden (de leeftijd dat je ook urine begint te lekken) en begint te merken dat vroegah toch alles beter was, ook met de videogames. Daarom heeft hij deze lijst gemaakt en daar staat ook op:

There's Not Enough Time

For years I had a real size obsession when it came to games - the longer a game promised it was on the back of the box the more excited I got. Hearing a game took less than 20-hours to beat was enough to immediately turn me off. Now, unless I have somebody paying me to finish a game quickly, a 20-hour game can take me weeks or even months to complete.

Taking that long to get through a game often really deadens its impact. You forget what you were doing last time you played, you're always trying to re-familiarize yourself with the controls, and there's no sense of momentum - you hit a hard spot and sometimes you end up stuck there for weeks. It would be like if you tried to watch an episode of Mad Men in 1-minute increments over the span of two months.

For maximum impact I think, ideally, you should try to beat most games in around 5-10 play sessions, but when you rarely have the opportunity to sit down for longer than an hour to play, that RPG is going to take you more like 40-50 sessions. I can only imagine how bad it will get once I actually become a for-real adult with kids and a house and all that stuff.