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I've got enough to do without playing videogames!

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Ignore the fact that I'm on Gaia, please.

*needs an option for people who say none of the above, but still play video games. stare

Yeah. stare

I'm pretty good a the "shooting the other people" part.

I'm awful at the "don't get yourself shot" part. sweatdrop

Unfortunately, all my "Halo buddies" live back in my hometown, and they don't have their own Xbox 360's, so I'm stuck either playing through campaign alone, or finding random strangers online to play against/with. It's still crazy fun, though. cool

Then you're missing out. mrgreen

I used to not 'get' FPS games, until I played Halo on PC and realized that I wasn't losing interest in video games, I was just losing interest in slow, repetitive, redundant RPGs and platformers, which were all I had ever really played. Stuff like Final Fantasy, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Ultima, etc. I believe The Legend of Zelda series has been the only constant in my preferences in all my 16 years playing vidjagaymz.

Sure, FPS games get redundant too, but it's harder to get bored while running around with an adrenaline rush pulling the trigger like mad. I never got that kind of rush of fun when playing Final Fantasy :b

When I was little, I'd play any game I could get my hands on, which was mostly the same games I'd had for years, and whatever emulated games I could find. I'd play them over and over and over, sometimes just because it was better than lying on the bed, drooling on myself (as there was nothing fun to do outside in the 110 degree humidity). These days, I'm REALLY PICKY, and I only play games when I really feel like it, not just as a way to pass the time. I don't like the feeling of sitting down to play a game, and halfway through a level, it's like biting into a stale chip in a bag of your favorite flavor of chips. sad

So, then, Forgedawn, what kind of games do (did) you play?

I've played and beaten dang near every Zelda game, although I too got bored by the end of Windwaker... I think I just needed to go beat Ganon and I'd be done, but I just never went back and did it.

By the "new one" do you mean Twilight Princess? Because I think The Phantom Hourglass for DS is out, now (not a big DS fan, so it will be a while before I get it).

I never played many PC-games, mostly because I didn't have a computer at home until around 2000, and even then it was an outdated piece of crap that could only play NES emulators and solitaire. By the time I got a computer that could actually play modern PC games, I'd already gotten so deep into console gaming that playing PC games just never felt right.

The only games I still like to play on PC are classics like Diablo II and Command & Conquer 2: Red Alert, which are really hard and frustrating to play using a controller.