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28 Nov 2011, 10:05 pm

I'm actually starting to cut back on video games after all it's made me less soical and depressed and I got serverly addicted to them.
But I'm still looking forword to some video games I just won't spend as much time with them as I did runined my life =/



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28 Nov 2011, 11:09 pm

I don't don't like them. I could never play longer than an hour and I think they are boring.
I realize many people play video games as an escape but I prefer to read a book or listen to music.



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28 Nov 2011, 11:11 pm

Because WrongPlanet is much more interesting. :)


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29 Nov 2011, 2:58 am

My interest changed. I don't play them much anymore and I prefer my Nintendo 3DS. I just never feel like playing them and have to force myself to play. I prefer Gamefly where I can rent.



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29 Nov 2011, 10:16 am

I'm too competitive...I'd end up hurting someone out of frustration. :oops: :twisted:


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29 Nov 2011, 10:38 am

I've played games all my life. I still play but they have to be quite special for me to bother with. I can't do another generical platform, puzzle or shooter game.

I am busy but I probably play a game of something at least once a day. My brain likes to relax by playing games.


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29 Nov 2011, 12:37 pm

Social stigma.



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29 Nov 2011, 12:52 pm

1000Knives wrote:
I found out running around in a real forest was more fun than running around one on a television screen, and kicking a punching bag was more fun than playing Street Fighter, and driving my real car at midnight on backroads is more fun than playing racing games. However, when I can't do those things, video games are there. So they still have a place, but I just eventually found out going outside and doing things was pretty fun and usually benefited my body and mind more than video games


You do realize the same could be said about other things to right? like reading a book, watching a movie, playing a board game etc...

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To an extent, sometimes you can't, like you can't ride your bike in the snow very well for example, so that'd be appropriate to play video games, but if it's sunny out, you know, why stay inside and play video games? It's pointless. I wanna solve my snow problem, though, and get some cross country skis, and hit up the woods near my house with them.


Nothing is pointless if you like doing it.

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Really, 90% of video games just emulate things you can probably just walk like a mile from your house and find or do anyway. Some people play for the social aspect, however, I rarely play multiplayer games with other people, and never played any MMOs, and played Forza online for maybe a total of like...an hour in my entire life (though I've logged probably about a thousand hours of playing that game alone.) .


Really? 90% really? well I suppose you could, but you would end up either dead or in jail.



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29 Nov 2011, 1:23 pm

I've played video games since childhood and always will.

I haven't played Runescape as much lately but I was hoping to get back into it. The creators of that game made a lot of updates I didn't like and they are adding more and more things that are exclusive that I can't obtain and moving more towards microtransactions. I liked that the game used to be fair and that anyone could get anything (excluding discontinued holiday items) if they put in enough time and effort.



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01 Dec 2011, 5:08 pm

Sometimes I play more and sometimes I play less sometimes I can't decide which of my twenty one consoles to use also I don't plan on stopping I spent over a thousand dollars on consoles alone over a period of twenty years