Video games

i find that i cant play them anymore
or atleast i try not to.
its one of my addictions that i cant handle in moderation
if i sit down and start playing a game, ill prolby end up playing it all day
if not all week, etc
infact, thats how i spent most of my high school years

 

I aint a game freak, i'll play when i got free time and nothing better to do

I rent rather than buy, 50 bucks for a disc is too damn high for me
I'll play a good high quality game and thats about it, something like basketball and GTA games, or someother equally destructuve and rampant game like GTA as too ease off some stress. if not a bloody explosive game, then its the story that'll drive me to play, anything interesting none of that RPG bullcrap....Speaking of which...i suggest God of War, Great story, Lotta gore great fucking game

 

i had a gamecube but i sold it because i didnt play it....... and ive seen some friends get addicted. tthere aright to have fun occasionally but all those war games are just disgusting. I was walking around blockbuster a few weeks ago and saw that they made the war in iraq into a video game.

 

I really don't like them all too much. I have horrible hand-eye coordination so it's no fun for me. I bought Kingdom Hearts and I love it, but I can't play so I make my brother play for me and I just tell him what to do and where to go. I hate shooters though.. they bore me.

Computer games are more my style, although my computer needs a huge overhaul. I'm addicted to the Sims 2 although I haven't played in awhile because it's so slow on my computer.

 

Video games? They've been a part of my life for quite some time. What I am most impressed by is the fairly recent Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. If you enjoy video games in the slightest; you have to try this game. Sure, the story at the start may seem annoying and what not (unless of course you can appreciate what Rockstar and Rockstar North, the companies that made the game, were trying to do with it...), but after you open up the entire map, there is no limit to what you can do.

Well, there is, but I doubt you'll find it within 500 hours of play at the very least... Free roam gameplay, impact physics (ragdoll physics would be hard to realistically render with the sheer amount of data that is present at one time during gameplay); just a huge array of things to do and ways to do them. You've got weapons to rampage, cars to race, motorcycles to stunt, helicopters to explore... the list goes on.

Anywho, to keep this rambling from getting ridiculous: games are really cool, and some of them are more than games actually (Silent Hill 2, for example). I don't let them interfere with my social life and what not (Halo 2 actually encourages team work), but they definately suck up a lot of my free time.

 

what I can say, I just love playing them. hell, when life sucks (like when everyone is bitching at you or when a girl cancels on you) or when you got nothing better to do, I just pop in a disk and have fun.

but remember "Everthing in moderation"!!!!

 

Lets see vido games. Well I play them. Sometimes I do get cared away a little. I think that they are better than watching a sitcom. Football for instance is a strategy game like it or not. You have to know where your man is going to be when you throw that ball, how close he is to a defending player, if he is going to be a safe man to have to ball in 3 seconds, can he have a hold on that ball in two seconds. How far can he take that ball in 10 seconds after hes got a good hold on it and you got to know all that in 10 seconds max. I think that is better than watching somethink mindlessly for half an hour. Plus it builds up hand eye cordination. One of the best things for a docter who works with mechanical tools to save lives is to play an hour of video games a day. I agree thier are better things to do with your time but what is so different from watching tv other than you have to think to play and you don't to watch tv. Unless its a mystery of coures.

 

Ya, football has some strategy to it; but nothing really beats Counter-Strike. One of the best FPS multiplayer games ever made. Games like that took strategy; but the older games take even more strategy IMO. Like Goldeneye...

 

How is Goldeneye it looks like a kinda cool game.

 

war games are evil.....also most of them are not very good anyway:H

 

That shows how much you know about games. War games are some of the best. I know you are killing people, but the look of war games are killer.

 

video games teach people physics, history, etc and help problem solving skills... some games consist of as much reading as in books.... no video game is 'evil'... video games are productive and most of the times educational.! Most war video games have a lot of history in them... bf vietnam, 1942, Call of duty, etc

 

Marijuana

 

I love flight sims, those pwn all, rpgs are great but they have to have to have a good story to be any good

 

i agree 100% Mui.

 

I second that.

 

I was pretty much brought up on video games. An earlier poster said that games destroy social skills. . . I don't know if thats true, but I am evidence in favor of his claim. I think it was when the Nintendo 64 came out that I really got into the obsession. If I wasn't at school or hanging out with a friend, I was playing. I have all three of the newest game systems, but have rarely touched them in the past year. The interest has subsided, and I'm left wondering if all that time spent playing videogames IS responsible for my lack of social skills?

Not that videogames are entirely evil or anything. You can't deny that they improve hand-eye coordination, and I bet you people who play videogames will drive their way out of a near-collision much easier than somebody who doesn't. Even so, if that thing about video games and social skills is correct (and I honestly think it might be), then I extend a big middle finger to the videogame industry.

 

bikshu, what you said on page one is the most hypocritical thing ive ever heard anyone say. "videogames are addictive and detrimental to social skills they're ok when they're used to teach you to be a good soldier (i.e. kill)."

 

You don't need to be a good human to be a good soldier..... so it's not hypocritical at all...

not good per se in a good v. evil matrix but good in a good v. poor quality situation

 

I've observed that games are getting more and more complicated and difficult to play. It also seems that gamers are getting far more competitive. It seems that games are no longer just about entertainment for a lot of people. People seem determined not only to be able to complete the game on their own but to be better at the game than anyone else they should meet online. They'll find that they want to develop their skill level as far as they possibly can, and in order to do that will practise it constantly to maintain it at a level of excellence just like any other skill. That's worrying surely. Yeah, it's great to be able to kick people's arses at games, but surely it can only be worth so much time energy and effort! There must be other things out there that people ought to be doing. They should channel their motivation into a skill that could set them up for life. Well unless of course they think they can go on the Halo 2 pro tour and make a living, but that is really unlikely.

Myself I play games for fun, on my own. I don't even play online that often because the gamers you play against tend to be very boring people and also very bad losers. So usually I just play FIFA for fun.