Do you play a lot of video games?

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Writing as a man who has far too much free time on his hands, I would like to play more video games. Unfortunately, however, I have an ugly proclivity in which I run around in circles. Thus, sitting down in front of a TV/PC for hours is quite difficult for me. As an overlapping condition of ASD, I think I may have ADD/ADHD.

I don't play them as much as I used to. I mostly play on my 3DS and prefer handhelds now because I can take them with me everywhere than being stuck in one room. I think having kids changed it. I have so many games on my system I don't even play so I have tried to limit it now and try and play my other games to finish and then delete or until I get stuck. I recently removed two of my son's games on my game system because he has enough educational games already he has for his LeapFrog so he doesn't need Lola Panda games. But I have a big SD card so I don't have to worry about deleting games really. I have 148,057 blocks to go to go until the card is full. My top games are Pokemon Shuffle, Pokemon Picross, and Nintendo Badge Arcade.

I play a lot of games but mostly older games from the ps1 to ps2 era. A lot of the new games out right now are not very good. The only 2 games i would but for ps4 are disgaea 5 and persona 5.

I don't play nearly as much as I used to. Sometimes I feel it's difficult to just sit down and play a game. I feel like I should be doing something more productive, but I'm not sure what that is. I usually play a couple games a year now. I've recently played GTA5, MGS4, and Fallout 4. I play mobile games all the time though.

I'll admit right off the bat i play too much video games, since i started gaming when i was 4. My most played games are the Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, Burnout, Need For Speed, and Pokémon series, as well as World of Warcraft, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and New Vegas. Others i play alot include the Mercenaries games, GTA, True Crime, XGRA, Runescape, FF14, and Dragon Age series.

Here's everything I've played on Steam:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/shaarga/games/?tab=all

And getting on for 100 hours in Crysis 3, 25 hrs Kane's Wrath, 70 hrs Tiberium Wars, not to mention MMOs like Archlord and World of Warcraft, aswell as old Command & Conquer titles which I played all my childhood.

I'd estimate 1,000 hours all time for every game I've ever played to date.

My favourite has to be Witcher 3 (148 hrs) though - so much story; beside Eternal Sonata which made me cry (Wolfenstein: The New Order ending not so much).

I love playing video games and have other hobbies as well. I'm almost 23 and beating a video game isn't one of my priorities because I know need to get out of the house and other hobbies are good to have, too.

I keep having that train of thought and decided to do something about it, so went to a club for an underground music gig. It started at 19:00 and there were no trains home until gone 07:00 the next morning. By 02:00 I was so bored! I had that moment 'I could be sat at home playing video games right now' - the music was enjoyable and not a bad venue, but I just like the ease of transition that you have with multimedia - you're not stuck at a venue even when you no longer want to be there.

Have you found any ways around that problem, or even experienced it? What other hobbies have worked for you?

Shaarga- I read books on my Kindle Fire, read manga, watch random TV shows and movies and want to take a pottery class. I still live at home and don't get out of the house very often so I haven't experienced that. I have epilepsy and I can't drive and I also live in a rural area.

I also enjoy fashion.

I've had that same thought, of needing to get out of the house more.

But... screw that. There's nowhere to go. I'd go over to friends' houses.... if I wanted to pass out from boredom while watching them play Call of Halos or whatever damn stupid AAA game is big right now (if it's not obvious, I tend to have extreme hate for most AAA games). Used to go to a friend's place frequently but recently... no. Too much dull.

And there just isnt anywhere else to go. I'm in the middle of nowhere, and the area I live in is what I call a "jock town"; all anyone cares about around here is alcohol, sports, and making idiots of themselves, and I'll have none of that. Things like even simple bookstores dont exist here (literally, there arent any). They require thinking, you see. Bah. Not that there's anything but clothing stores for miles and miles anyway. If I want to go somewhere, I have to leave the state entirely.

Generally if I get bored enough I'll get in the car and drive in random directions down roads I've not been down before to see what happens. This is about as exciting as it gets.

Also it's cold out. So heck with that.

I need more caffeine.

^Is your avatar/username of Cave Story fame by any chance?

I have a DS, 3DS, PSP. GBA, and a Wii, though I barely use the last two game systems anymore.

'The best place to hide something is in plain sight.'

Very rarely, if I'm really bored, I look up a geological map of an area, read up on what minerals and fossils can be found in the various mineral deposits, then go out scanning the soil for anything of interest. I found an ammonite laying on the surface by doing that.

When I was 10 I used to smash rocks in my lunchbreak at school and found a vein of purple crystals in the middle of the playing field.

The UK is mostly a pile of clay and belemnites, but if you're somewhere rural in the US for example, you could find some interesting (and valuable) fossils/ mineral deposits.

Of course, you can return empty handed a lot of the time, but you usually find at least something.

The value of it isn't that what you found is particularly useful, but it's something you couldn't have predicted would be there (unlike zillions of mobs dropping the same old generic loot).

I guess that's why I play video games: for the predictability, but you sacrifice the thrill of unexpected finds (or in the case of well randomized game, complete the game).

Yep. I found that the character's personality is extremely similar to how mine is IRL (I've no idea if I come off that way on forums, where I tend to be way more careful about what I say or how I act) so I started using that name when I was having trouble getting any OTHER name on a couple of forums. I was told so many times over the course of a week that "it's extremely fitting" that I've just stuck with the name since. Though I think it would have gotten attached to me permanently even if I hadnt done that last bit on purpose.

People I know find this entertaining.

^I'm on easy mode and it's still a hard game. Darned spikes. I haven't even got to the hard boss fights yet! Gah.

Eh, it's not as hard as it looks.

I'll give you two hints though for the mid/late game: Dont trade away the Polar Star gun for anything. You'll get multiple opportunities to, just dont accept them. The reason why will become clear later... IF you go back to a certain location that had something to do with the gun early on. If you do that and find the gun's owner, THEN let him have it.

And secondly, there's a scene where Dr. Booster suddenly and for no apparent reason just falls down this vertical corridor, landing with a thud at the bottom. DONT go down there and investigate. Just ignore that this happened and move on. I dont want to spoil WHY, but if you go down there you will miss out on a very useful thing later on that you're going to want.

Normally I dont like to give hints to players, preferring to let people figure things out for themselves, but in THIS case, there is no "figure it out" because the game never even offers the most vague hints that these events have extra meaning. Which when you think about it really is a bad design idea. For such a good game, I'm surprised those sorts of things are in there in a few places.


On a side note, there's a few hilarious things in there to find too. The first time Balrog shows up for instance, he asks if you want to fight, and if you say no, he'll just go "okay" and launch through the ceiling and leave. Dont see THAT happen in games very much...

^I'm going to keep trying, and if that doesn't work I'll try to enlist the help of my video gaming friend.
Thanks for the tips! I actually said no to Balrog's first fight, just to see what would happen.