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Do you spend more time reading about games than actually playing them?
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I'm finding this a lot lately. I tend to spend a lot more time on things like forums and game websites than I actually do playing the games themselves. I often get interested in a few upcoming titles, follow them and whatever information is released, and then come release day either do or don't buy them depending on how things panned out.
But these days I tend to spend more time just discussing games (past, present and future) on forums, reading game websites, and sometimes just cruising gametrailers to see what's new. But I don't actually PLAY as much as I used to.
I think a large might partly be down to the lack of effort needed to do something like surf the net compared to actually making the effort to make progress in-game. And the nature of the games I play is that I often prefer harder games since easier games are just dull. But often I'll get stuck on a level / segment for a while and then just abandon it for a while because I can't be bothered at that point to finish it. Other times I just don't have the time to dedicate to a game at that point, and it's easier to spend a short amount of time surfing the net instead.
Really I'm not too sure why I tend to game less while still being interested in the gaming scene as a whole. Maybe I'm more interested in the idea of gaming than actually gaming?
Is anyone else finding themselves in a similar situation?
But these days I tend to spend more time just discussing games (past, present and future) on forums, reading game websites, and sometimes just cruising gametrailers to see what's new. But I don't actually PLAY as much as I used to.
I think a large might partly be down to the lack of effort needed to do something like surf the net compared to actually making the effort to make progress in-game. And the nature of the games I play is that I often prefer harder games since easier games are just dull. But often I'll get stuck on a level / segment for a while and then just abandon it for a while because I can't be bothered at that point to finish it. Other times I just don't have the time to dedicate to a game at that point, and it's easier to spend a short amount of time surfing the net instead.
Really I'm not too sure why I tend to game less while still being interested in the gaming scene as a whole. Maybe I'm more interested in the idea of gaming than actually gaming?
Is anyone else finding themselves in a similar situation?
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I'm a very bad offender of procrastination, or not completing games once I start them. Hell, check out this corner of my desktop, all of these are games I have installed, ready to play, and I've only played LotRO, and about an hour of Baldur's Gate I, while the others haven't even been booted up yet.
I find that I'm much more interested in the background scene of gaming: the buisness itself. I can discuss futures of companies, franchise resurrections, acquisitions, breaking news, and company transactions until the cows come home, and I like to think that I'm decent at it. I'm into gaming the same way many people are into sports: They don't necessarily watch the game for the game's sake, they're constantly eyeing changes, and potential hits and misses. "Ooh, that fumble's going to cost him a shot at making All Pro this year, making his fantasy league rank go down". They really don't care that so-and-so won the game, they're focused on a different layer of the game.
I find I don't have much time for gaming, I don't have time to sit down and sit there for an hour, whereas I can come on here and catch up with gaming news in brief stints.
It's probably why the games I play are more like Guitar Hero and less like Oblivion
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Judging by your background, it looks likely that Mass Effect will be suffering the same fate. ;-)
I think I'll have to agree with the people who say they're interested in what's happening in the industry. It's not like I own a console, but I'm constantly interested in things like the Wii and and the directions it's taking the industry, and how Sony's going to overcome its substantial hurdles for this generation.
Though if I'm playing a game competitively I will often spend hours upon hours theorycrafting and strategizing.
Yes. This is perfectly normal and a sign of maturity, you getting kinda a gourmet over time, sharing experiences and actually listen to peoples opinions or giving advice here and there.
This road leads sometimes to more esoteric stuff, in my case the love for old games and getting those to run under modern OS, as well as taking pleasure in game music actually, as well as showing increasing interest in remixed soundtracks, or the demo scene (where the new grapic wizardz are being recruted from) kinda expanding knowledge not only forward but also... history ^^
Lately also makeing strange videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtP6oQ6gf4s
And ranting about corporate politics of course...
But its a good thing. A sure sign you are ready for a job in the industry, writing reviews (yes, i did that too)
or working for a game company. The "scene". Not everybody has to be a programmer. There are forum admins, GMs and customer service personell to name a few.
You have to be ready to move to a foreign country, but its usually a great adventure and a lot of fun. Btw... they are looking for GMs for Warhammer online currently i belive.
shit, I've just been buying them and then organising them alphabetically...
I think they're atm the most innovative games.. and the cheapest ones :P
What the hell are you doing cut this out.
Also I spend more time reading about games than playing them because the games themselves get old eventually and I am a minor with extremely limited funds.
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me too, been setting goals to finish a game before moving on etc.
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If I had to break it down, I would say I play games for about 10 hours a week, but I read about games (including forums) about 12 hours a week, counting every time I visit websites, read forum posts, etc.
I get up around 6:30 and head for work at 7:30. I get home around 5, take the dogs for a walk, eat dinner, spend a little time watching the news and talking with my wife. Then I take the dogs for a walk again at 7:30. Do some more chores around the house until 8:30 or 9. Then I spend more time with my wife and she goes to bed around 10pm.
At that point I can either start up a game or just chill or go to bed myself. Depending on how tired I am it's a toss up.
I read the forums while at work. So yeah, more time spent reading about games than actually playing them.
Which is nice, i spend that time going out and being social.
But i read about games a good bit, or the industry as a whole.
I can't even remember the last time I was so immersed in a game that I kept on "one more level/quest/whatevering" until I realized that it was 3-4 AM, and that I only had a couple of hours to sleep before I needed to get to work. I think it may have been KOTOR.
And yeah, I read about games much much more than I actually play them since I can digest it in smaller chunks.
I have a pile of games I need to finish (in some cases start) including ICO, Beyond Good & Evil and Resident Evil 4, yet I just spent an hour reading the Pokemon thread and I don't even own a copy.
I know exactly why I have a hard time gaming. Most big games these days, you can't get through any significant progress in anything less than an hour ... and I usually don't have an hour of spare time. Meanwhile, I can check in on the forums for 5 minutes at work and post a few messages and get back to what I was doing.
When I get home though, I'm mostly waiting for my girlfriend to come on AIM because that's pretty much the only way we get to talk during the work week. (And the TV is too far from the computer and too small to do both at once.) That's probably why I've been so good at keeping up with Animal Crossing Wild World, ... because I can play it while watching TV or while sitting in front of the computer.
EDIT: Also, I cannot tell you how absolutely awesome I think it is that the VC games (except for N64) have save states when you exit them for a quick resume. I can spend 5 minutes playing through a level of Castlevania and then quit and get back to what I'm doing without losing my place.
I am certain I did not have this problem -- at least to such a degree -- until I began lurking here regularly. The diverse interests of the participants of this forum are terribly alluring to a curious and idle mind. The balance of things is such that I must now devote at least one day of the weekend exclusively to gaming or I would never actually play a game at all.
What makes this even worse is recently dropping a good $1800 into a system for gaming. I'm starting to think i may need to find a new hobby. I think i'm done with computer gaming
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I like to download game trailers on Live, cos they are teh hueg and pretty. Mostly I don't really give a shit about gaming industry news, could only name a few names in the industry, and don't follow sales figures. Doesn't really interest me.
When it gets to be about June, though, I go crazy for football game news.
I'm getting the same thing as well. Even if I have a couple of hours free, I have to pry myself off of forums to actually play.
A fairly big advantage of all the Game On threads that we have is that they more fully integrate playing games into the community. You can get off the forums and go actually play a game, while still having it be a forum-based activity.
Do I spend more time doing that than actually playing games? Sometimes. We've been in the Summer drought recently and I haven't bought a new game in weeks, so lately, yeah. But when there's a decent amount of new released, I definitely spend more time playing games. Starting in late August I definitely will be.
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