Having to do two things at once as playing video-games?

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I know I can't mutli-tak but....
I love video-gaming, but I can't seem to play unless I am also doing something else on my laptop at the same-time. Otherwise I get bored of playing? o.O;

It somehow helps me keep focus. So I am playing for 15minutes, get bored. my face wanders off to the laptop I've been listening to, and sometime passes and I go back to playing. I think Netflix has negatively impacted me. xD

Last edited by Infoseeker on 29 Mar 2011, 1:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

No no it's Having to do 5 things at once while playing video games and I never get bored. Perhaps the game you are playing does not interest you at all and you are simply playing it to pass the time. perhaps getting a video game that keeps you glue to the screen would be a better choice.

What I do:
1. Playing a video game
2. Watching TV
3. Listening to music
4. Responding to Steam IMs
5. Browsing the web on a second computer.

While still giving equal attention to all these things.

I do that too. I have 2 televisions and a PC in my living room and I'll be playing Xbox on one TV, watching a show on the other while chatting and surfing and listening to Pandora on the PC.

Yet at work I can only do one thing at a time....well.

Maybe you should find a better game.

Yep.. you need a better game.

you using a PC or a console? Console games don't have the complexity of PC games..

I do this sometimes. Actually, I am right now
I've got a TV with my Xbox 360 in my home office along with my desktop computer.

I do this all the time. I'll have a video game going and either an audiobook or a Netflix movie playing on my laptop next to me. It makes leveling up in RPGs and I can learn something when I'm playing.

I do that when I grind in RPGS...but that isn't even fun.

The accomplishment after its done is amazing.

That's rather cool actually, to be able to multitask while playing a video game. What genre of games are you usually playing when your attention drifts?

What if a game were made to purposefully allow, but not require, such multitasking? Perhaps if there were a way for a game to be played on multiple adjacent computers/consoles (or at least multiple peripherals) it could be rather awesome if done well.

When I issue orders to the battlefleets of my interstellar empire, it usually takes a long time for them to arrive at their destinations, so I have free time to argue here.

I focus 100% when playing. I often lose track of time and get frustrated if someone or something interrupts me But I'm mostly into intense shooters and FPS/RPG/action/adventure mixes. I never play strategy games.

Rather, you may want to look into a game that requires micromanagement of certain tasks as part of accomplishing the main task. For example, there's a game called Apache Longbow 2 , a helicopter simulator, where rather than pressing one button to cycle through available targets (as most other games do) you have to micromanage the entire radar target sweep, target acquisition, visual confirmation of target, laser designate it or radar lock it, arm the correct weapon type and THEN you can fire it. If you don't you may hit friendly units that are in close combat with enemy units.

In multiplayer you could have your friend fly another helicopter called the Kiowa. Kiowa is a scout helicopter that is very fast and very small...and it has a lot better radar and targeting systems...which allow the gunship (apache longbow) to be hidden behind a mountain and fire missiles that go over the mountain top and are then guided to target by the Kiowa (or have the kiowa transmit the targeting data to the apache).

aaah i miss that game.

That's the kind of stuff that completely absorbs your attention and demands focus. The only modern game to have had something similar to this is EVE ONLINE when you fly the sensor ships... but its not the same anymore as EVE has become too arcade point and click.

Last edited by Dantac on 01 Apr 2011, 1:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah, I'm usually doing this when its an RPG. Action games I have no choice but to close my laptop to progress.

But I do learn from what I am watching. I love watching British comedies as I play.

I do this aswell i usually play toontown on one laptop and wizard101 on the other while watching doctor who lol

I too like to play games and simultaneously watch Dr Who.
The best combination I find for me is an RPG on DS, sudoku or something on my iPod, watching something and reading an article. Perhaps I should get some more engaging games...