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 Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:28 am
What I mean is, what purpose do video games serve in your life? Are they a hobby? A distraction? A past-time? Something else?
For me, I've found that I play video games during some of the roughest times in my life - kind of to escape from reality for a while. When things are tough is usually when my obsession is the worst.
Of course, I play them a lot normally, as well. Whenever I need a burst of adventure that just isn't available in real life.
What about you?
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:39 am
For me its a hobby...
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:22 pm
Well, primarily it is a hobby and a source of immersive entertainmaint, but also I relish the sense of satisfaction when, say, completing a hard game on it's hardest difficulty setting (just did Far Cry 2 on Infamous this very morning, felt great) and I agree, it can make an excellent escape. I've invested stupid amounts of time in RPG's, over 200 hours on my particular favourites (FF12, Fire Emblem, Persona 3 for example).
I find it also helps improve my reflexes and sense of awareness, and even helps me in other areas. For example, I even studied Mitsurugi in Soul Calibur 2 to improve my sword techniques...
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:50 pm
Sense of accomplishment, hobby, way to entertain, get the hell out of the bad times in life....the usual responses.
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:44 pm
It's all the things you listed to me, a past time, an addiction, entertainment, a distraction to the strains of life, but as I've gotten older, I've been looking at it as an art and a future for my life. The game industry is on my list of goals to head for in the future. In a big way it's a sense of expresion, simulaation games give me abilities to turn the world upside down.
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:45 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:41 am
Put Leisure Suit Larry down now, good man...
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:28 am
you forgot addiction.
i play for entertainment and achievement. i love when i beat a game i have been working on for wks or months that have given me a really hard time at times. its so just much, heart
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:12 am
Entertainment mainly.. If I get bored and nothing is on tv, I play the ps3.
Others would be stress relief, playing with friends online (normally just using it as a free phone xD)
All depends how I feel at the time really
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:53 pm
Mainly hobby, I think.
I also play f.e. FF12 just because of the storyline. Well, I like the gameplay too, but I like to see how the story goes. =]
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:15 pm
Video games for me are entertainment, a hobby. Sometimes characters can become role models of sorts,and games also help take our agression and annoyance; very therapeutic wink
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:46 am
they keep me entertained and from getting bored..... they also give you exercise depending on the game.
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:49 am
They can also hurt... I belt my sister in-law in the gob with a wii mote...... It wasn't funny at all.
Well, until the next day.
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