Poll: As time goes by, have you noticed games draw your attention less?

[Fallswhale]

I still enjoy a healthy level of gaming, but I have not been truely excited for something in years. Even rarer is when I will buy anything for full price. I have made three new release purchases over the last year, Mario Kart Wii, UFC Unleashed, and Tiger Woods 10(Wii edition). The first is a mainstay of any gamer, casual or hardcore, of additional note I am a fighter junkie and this is by far the best technical fighter I have got my hands on in years. Woods kinda threw me for a curve as I hadn't purchased an EA sports game in the last decade.

I borrowed my buddies SF4 just to try it out to find out if I could reignite that old black magic and was just as bored with it as I was with SF3 3rd strike digitally remastered capitalist pigdog cash grab. I will admit that I am not a big FPS fan and have felt that there are a lot of games out there that I have no intrest in.

The last surprise I had was No More heroes and I still haven't had the time to finish it. I guess that is a fairly clear indicaor that I have definately cut down the amount I game, but by the same token I took up WoW again and lost a lot of spare time to that until last month.

I think I have become a Social Gamer and most of my purchased games that I have enjoyed playing have good live/split screen multiplayer if not online. I get alot more use out of my Wii and virtual console then my PC or PS3.

 

[barryween]

I go on the computer more then game but still get a kick out of it.

 

[newguy77]

I'm in between the top and second ones. I game a lot, but I have a full time job, too.

Game just got verbed, cookie for reference.

 

[Zero-Vash]

I'm between regular player and casual. I play a lot and on days that I'm not working or out I end up gaming most of the day. But I do work, I have a girlfriend, and I play frisbee regularly with some friends.

I voted the second option more because most of my free time is gaming.

 

[Borrowed Time]

I'm in between the top and second ones. I game a lot, but I have a full time job, too.

Game just got verbed, cookie for reference.

Calvin and Hobbes? Where Calvin tells Hobbes "I like to verb words."?

 

[black lincon]

I go through cycles. my pastimes go through, anime, games, or tv. I'm always doing one of those things if I'm not doing something else(like hanging out with friends or doing stuff around the house). but I usually do one much more than the other, now I'm gaming a lot due to getting into some classic older games, right now I'm playing through KotoR, which is amazing from what I've been through. and I have 4 more games lined up after this, plus there are a few more that I could think of adding to that list.

 

[Neotericity]

I really enjoy gaming and am awaiting a cornucopia of releases. So yeah... I voted the second option because I can't admit to the firs... I have friends! *storms out of room*

 

[Borrowed Time]

I really enjoy gaming and am awaiting a cornucopia of releases. So yeah... I voted the second option because I can't admit to the firs... I have friends! *storms out of room*

It's ok Rogue, we know, we know. *pats Rogue on the shoulder* Who here wants to be Rogue's friend?

 

[Beefcakes]

I'm more of a casual gamer, at this point.

I just don't have fun like I used to.

Like you used to? At 16?
I know I, in fact, am only a year older, and that maturity should taken not by age but by actions and intelligence (which I know you have, from what I can tell)
But how has gaming become less fun already?
You should definitely be getting more mileage out of your gaming...

On topic err, I'm going to vote the second option, as while I game alot, like alot, I still have a life and such, so the first would be a little too extreme
Optimally, I would choose between the first and second option, but eh, I make do with what I'm given, and with out the 'Beefcakes' option, its number two for me.

 

[Beefcakes]

Like you used to? At 16?
I know I, in fact, am only a year older, and that maturity should taken not by age but by actions and intelligence (which I know you have, from what I can tell)
But how has gaming become less fun already?
You should definitely be getting more mileage out of your gaming...

What can I say?
I am jaded. I enjoy change - most games are simply more of the same.
Amusingly enough, I used to play WoW, but there is a logical explanation - the people I interacted with provided the aforementioned change and challenge.
People are the greatest game.

Is that why they say the most dangerous game of all is man?
Game being in the hunting context, of course
Not that I would know at all whats its like to hunt people...
I don't give hem the chance to run

But yes, thats why I play games online a majority of the time, so the experience is always changing, and the environment never the same!
Except the fact the levels are always the same...
And the other people always suck...
[small]-Ponders life-[/small]

 

[Xvito]

Well, I still game... A lot.

Although I'm only sixteen. Maybe your question was targeted to the elderly (above twenty).

--Xvito, keeping it excellent.

 

[steeple]

i still play games but less and less games actually makes me want to go out and get them...

 

[Borrowed Time]

Well, I still game... A lot.

Although I'm only sixteen. Maybe your question was targeted to the elderly (above twenty).

--Xvito, keeping it excellent.

Well, do you have hair growing in "funny" places? Actually, wait, don't answer that. Nah, it's mainly because of the fact that even when I was 16, my look on gaming itself had changed from when I started at 6, or even 10 or 13 for that matter. It took different kinds of games to keep me interested, let alone AS interested as when I was younger. It's more of a question from when you had first started gaming to now.

 

[Blackadder51]

I found that as life goes on the pull of gaming has somewhat lessened which is a sad thing

 

[Kif]

Honestly I think quitting WOW is the best thing I've done for a long time as I was noteably anti social during that period. However my gaming pattern now compared to before WOW is less during the day purely because I've graduated from uni and have a 9-5 job and during the evening it's about the same as now have to do things like feed myself and sleep where as before I had to do things like go out with friends to get drunk 5 nights a week and band practice.

What has certainly changed is the type of gamer I am, I no longer care about 100% completion and hard or impossible modes etc etc. I'm quite happy to complete it once on normal and let that be it.

 

[stompythebeast]

during school i socialize more and go out more, being stuck in your dorm/library doing hw and studying for days and nights straight, you miss the sun. But funny, how when its summer time or vacation i go on gaming binges, playing games 12-15 hours a day, just play and play, barely get enough sleep. Its like im trying to catch up on all the hours i missed during the school semester. Im a freaking hardcore PC gamer, and im damn proud of it.

 

[Ezzay]

I still call myself a gamer, although not as much as I did in my early teenage years.

Nowadays a new game I want to have a crack at will come out, I will finish it in a few days, and that's that, wait for the next game to come out.

I still enjoy playing them, however I no longer have that thought on my mind as I am driving home from wherever I went this time.

Its much more of a hobby now than a lifestyle, I'm sad to say.

 

[Xvito]

Well, I still game... A lot.

Although I'm only sixteen. Maybe your question was targeted to the elderly (above twenty).

--Xvito, keeping it excellent.

Well, do you have hair growing in "funny" places? Actually, wait, don't answer that. Nah, it's mainly because of the fact that even when I was 16, my look on gaming itself had changed from when I started at 6, or even 10 or 13 for that matter. It took different kinds of games to keep me interested, let alone AS interested as when I was younger. It's more of a question from when you had first started gaming to now.

I first started gaming when I was seven...-ish. So I've been gaming for nine years. I think that I even game more than I used to... Okay, maybe not more than I did when I was twelve, after all I did stay home from school to game sometimes. But that worked out fine, since school's an abomination anyways...

--Xvito, keeping it excellent.