Well is quite rare in 2022 to find a teen that has never played a video game yet. I with two musical schools finished, and I play video games. It's hard to stay away from gaming platforms because today, the game industry is significantly evolving, and everyone can find one he likes. One game that I play it for years is WoW. I'm still interested in it; even though it's old, it's still engaging. My best friend and I always play together, and it's suspicious about my items and gear. I'm getting all of this from this site where you can buy gold to give yourself a boost and develop faster.

Has anyone here tried World of Warcraft? I heard a lot about it and would like to try it. Can someone tell me if it's worth it?

At your age, no! Why would it be weird? If you were in your teens, twenties, or thirties, yes, that would be weird! But I tried to keep my sons away from video games - busy with sports, scouts, pets, musical instruments, etc. But, as happens with their generation (30's), they were exposed to video games, and LOVED them!! I have played games before, but only with my son who is a computer person and has designed video games. I do it to spend time with him, not because I like the games!

I think you spent your childhood more productively than most.

Nope I grew up with Pinball. But I had friends with video games so tried now and then. I even have one or two on my computer and have a Wii at home.

Don’t know that I have, either.. but my time with a guitar was equally brief

It’s ‘let’s walk’ & ‘let’s talk’ (and observe & appreciate nature) with me.

No, gaming culture didn't appeal to me. My son liked it, but my daughter had no interest in it. So it's a combination of opportunity and personal interest. 8 and 16 bit games were the norm when I came of age so the crudeness was no help.

If I were unattached and living alone I might explore No Man's Sky or something just to pass the time but when you're involved at all with people there's just no time or energy for it. I suppose it would matter whether your S.O. were into gaming and whether one could play some sort of multi player game together, etc. But gaming is such a time suck I'd be wary of it even if I were "flying solo".

In some hypothetical future games might become realistic, detailed, plausible and immersive enough that, in combination with VR technology, one might have to make the existential judgment whether a sufficiently enjoyable alternate universe is more habitable than the real one. Just as today some people choose not to live life without the aid of mind-altering substances.

I haven't played one in many years. I played a few when I was little on the Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum (and learned to write code for them, too), but they never interested me much and I far preferred riding my bike. I played more when the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master Systems came out, but they always seemed boring too and I couldn't really understand why people spent so much time playing them. My sister, who was far more into them, got a first-gen Playstation when they first went on sale so I tried a few games on that too, but once again I couldn't see the point. That would have been about 1995; I haven't played one since.

Nope. I never played a "video game" either!

Yes, me too. Although I played Tetris at work sometimes.