Originally posted by Peach
The idea that games are for kids is and always has been a fallacy. They've always been primarily made for, marketed towards, and played by adults.
Agreed, adults have the most money and won't limit themselves like they will oftentimes with kids.
Still, I think people are just surprised at 37. My brother is 39, and he's basically the first generation of gamer, since Atari was big when he was a pre-teen. Gamers existed in some form before that, but never reached a wide audience. My assumption has always been that anything much beyond his age (say, 40 or so right now) and you'd see a sharp decline in gamers, with most of them ranging 18-35. If this stat is right, I'm wrong in my estimations.
My toughest opponent was with a guy names Liquid'Sheth, I faced him in a placement match in SC2. To put this in to perspective, I'm a Platinum SC2 player, which may sound impressive but it's not. The league ranks goeBronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Masters, Grandmaster. Sheth is a Grandmaster, who plays professionally... all the early game pressure I attempted to put on him was crished and within about 15 mintues I was royally humiliated. The guy was super nice in chat though.
As for the average age of a gamer, 37 my arse. Maybe if you include pensioners who play tennis on the Wii... but still probably not.
Originally posted by Smasandian
One of the guys I went to school with was a professional CS player.Let's just say, 4-5 of us verses him and he still kicked the crap out of us. We usually won the match but there were times when he headshotted all of us when we were waiting for him.
Absolutely amazing.
Same here. I went to high school with two of the leaders of the clan UGP, one of them was arguably the best CS player on the west coast. I was really into Counter Strike in High School and was in one of the better west coast clans and played against him on occasion. I was pretty good at the game and would sometimes be able to compete with him if I was on my game, but he was just absurdly good.
Spooony, that's awesome that you played against Sheth, he's one of the more well known non korean pro players. I always thought it would be cool to play against a pro SCII player, even if it means getting demolished.
Originally posted by BackFire
Same here. I went to high school with two of the leaders of the clan UGP, one of them was arguably the best CS player on the west coast. I was really into Counter Strike in High School and was in one of the better west coast clans and played against him on occasion. I was pretty good at the game and would sometimes be able to compete with him if I was on my game, but he was just absurdly good.Spooony, that's awesome that you played against Sheth, he's one of the more well known non korean pro players. I always thought it would be cool to play against a pro SCII player, even if it means getting demolished.
I remember him saying his brother was one of the best but I didn't catch his name or the name my friend uses for professional games.
But I do know that his brother headshotted three guys in a row with a handgun while flashbanged and he knew the exact route they would take to get him.