Year: 2008

I have played 2 online games, City of Heroes and World of Warcraft for a couple years now. I only play for a couple of hours at a time and still enjoy both. I have a group of friends that I play with and we talk to each other using headsets and a program called teamspeak. Sometimes the conversation is more important than the game.

Michele sent me.

Michele sent me back!

You know, if it isn’t fun any more then give it up for something that makes you happier. ‘do the officers job’ sounds too m uch like work! 🙂

I have a great fun driving game for the PS3 called Stuntman Ignition. I really have been impressed with the PS3 games. There is one called Uncharted: Drakes Fortune which is a good shooter and puzzle game. I like a bit of problem solving mixed in 🙂

[chuckle] One reason I’m looking curiously at a PS3 is all the driving games it has 🙂 Not really played many of those on PC. Need For Speed 3 was amazing but that’s from a while ago.

Yeah, we’ve had our fair share of the teenage boys in the Mercs. They can be amusing to watch but they can also end up getting a bit too big for their boots. I have a little band of people who don’t like me too much because I was the one who ended up dealing with them (bit of a problem with officers not behaving like officers in the Mercs)

That’s probably one of my reasons for not wanting to play Wow too much – people wanting me to do the officer job I tried to give up ages ago.

I’ve never been into online gaming but whne I had an N64 I used to play far too much Doom 64. I loved that game. Now I have a PS3 I have bought some more games and some of them are really good. I’m far too busy to let it take over my life though!

I think the reason all those other players online were so good and spent so much time on it is because they were all teenage boys (or unemployed)! You know the ones who act real hard online but are just kids in real life. I understand the online gaming world is full of them, frustrating the people who play and have real lives! 🙂

Hmm – are games getting more complex perhaps ? I got thoroughly taken in by the ones I found via The Bluest Butterfly’s Thursday 13 the other day 🙂

PS Tetris is lethal for chances of the housework getting done 😉

I was heavily into the original Super Mario Brothers, and the really old Tetris that used real Russian background music and had cheerleaders for when you achieved a level, but now I’m more into Bookworm and Snood.

I’m here from Michele’s. Game on!

I used to be hugely addicted to games, far too many of my waking hours were devoted to seeing more of computer games and even some of the sleeping hours too. Recently though, I’m seeing games as far too much effort and a bit of a waste of time too.

I think I’ve been having a gradual realisation of that waste of time aspect, plus the multiplayer games like World of Warcraft let me compare myself to all of the other players. A year or so ago when the first WoW expansion came out, I suffered a huge amount of frustration because working hours meant I couldn’t keep up with all of the other players out there. My highly charged competitive instincts were wanting me to be the first at everything and having a job meant I simply couldn’t be the first to do anything in the expansion. Not enough hours in the day and all that.

Nowadays, I’m still comparing myself to the other players but I’m realising that they’re treating an online game as something more important than their job. The game actually becomes their full time job. However, they aren’t earning money through their ingame endeavours, at least not money that can be spent in the real world. The addicts are also descending into that fantasy world, losing parts of themselves in the process.

Today, I had a good few uncommitted hours where I could have buried my head in a game but I found myself quickly coming out of Baldur’s Gate 2 with thoughts of “I really can’t be bothered slogging through this.” Perhaps another of those ‘if you’re not enjoying the game, why are you playing it?’ moments. Games tend to require effort for a reward of a one dimensional predictable experience, whereas a good book is relaxing and fun. My main PC with all the best games on it has actually been off for 2 days when it’s usually on 100% of the time.

Maybe I am gamed-out (if there is such a term!). That won’t be a bad thing, as getting out from behind the pooter desk will allow me to :
Do much neglected housework
Put the fence panel up again
Allow my eyes to see a little more than 18 inches to the monitor screen
Get some reading done
Not aggravate my RSI by being hunched over a keyboard

And probably most importantly, let me focus on real world stuff instead of going to bed with my mind racing on options for improving my in game characters. Time for the oven to go on and for me to relax in front of a dvd with my dinner, instead of pummelling my brain thinking of ways to beat a game.

PS New stuff still gets my interest, I’ve probably just seen a little too much of the normal formula.

[chuckle] I try to avoid the NHS as if they have the plague 😉 (too many stories about MRSA … but also knowing of people who come out of hospital worse than when they went in)

Lol – I just like sneaky ways of doing things or methods that are completely different from how everyone else does things. I can be orthodox when I need to be but different is more fun 🙂

Thanks for the visit 🙂

I’m not here via Michele. I trust that’s acceptable.

I suppose a hot water compress would be too difficult to use then? I know I’m an American and we hear things about the NHS, but have your English people really run out of hot water?

Bugger.

I will pray for you.

Cheers.

Could well be – ice packs could close down the jugular or carotid, meaning less blood getting to the head … Never a good thing 😉

Never really liked the idea of using ice packs – the ice deadens pain but that deadening means you’re more likely to aggravate what you’ve just injured.