What is the latest you have stayed up till playing video games?

AlecEiffel

mustang121 wrote: »

I played a weekend and night of Mass effect 1 through to 3 and felt like a loser for it. What had I achieved? What a waste of time and effect that would have been better served at learning piano or home improvement tasks.

Meh, it's a hobby and so long as its part of a balanced life who cares if you waste a weekend now and again. I've wasted weekends gaming, weekends watching box sets, but also spent weekends walking in the hills, gardening, helping people move, or doing work.

Idorego

Until the next morning, daylight. We were primary school kids, and I don't think we would have made it through the night without waking my friend's parents up without muted video games to keep us occupied. It's kind of like a fun challenge at that age, we got in trouble when they realised though

Nilrem

mustang121 wrote: »

I played a weekend and night of Mass effect 1 through to 3 and felt like a loser for it. What had I achieved? What a waste of time and effect that would have been better served at learning piano or home improvement tasks.

But did you really have any need or wish to play piano or do DIY?

Gaming is a hobby, as long as you keep what you're doing balanced it doesn't really matter if every now and then you have a long gaming session.

It's a problem if you do it every weekend, or at the expense of everything else, but as a form of non physical relaxation it's no worse than watching TV or films, or reading a fiction book (some of the best games I've played have had a better story than many fiction books).

I tend to have the odd very long gaming session, but that's rare and when I've got nothing more important to do but want to relax/have fun
Other weekends I might spend the same sort of time doing stuff in the garden, working on a project in the garage*, decorating the house, or visiting friends.

*We have a great sawdust factory set up out there, complete with finger loppers (of various types and sizes), inadvertent caltrops, high power nail files etc.

fozmcfc

I occasionally think, maybe I'm playing for too long, but it isn't affecting my life, so why not.

I tend to drop in and out of gaming, much like with a TV/Film boxset, when I have the urge to watch one every now and then.

Some games such as Civilization V, tend to require 15 hours + to play a standard game from beginning to end. So I tend to leave that for when I have a week off work and not much too do. So only maybe 4 or 5 games a year of it.

Open World games like GTA V, Watch_Dogs and Sleeping Dogs, take over a large part of my spare time, but generally only for a small time period such as a month or two, when I might play them on most days for 1-3 hours.

To many people see gaming as still for spotty teenagers, those days have past and gaming is massive. I've had people sneer about me saying I've been playing 50 + hours on GTA V, then I remind them, but you play candy crush saga several times a day, it's still gaming.

Nilrem

Aye, people forget that things like Candycrush are still gaming (and people seem to notch up as many hours on that as a lot of "hardcore" gamers in things like Halflife).

I actually find gaming quite sociable, as a lot of my gaming has tended to be either playing with friends (starting back in the days of things like Mariokart), or online as a team with friends.
These days even when playing single player games I'm usually on voice comms chatting away with friends who may be playing the same game, or different games

The best bit is, if you're reasonably careful about your gaming it can be very cheap entertainment.
I think I racked up about 150 hours playing Terreria with some friends (not bad for a game that cost under a tenner when it was new), and 50+ hours playing Raccetear which cost a fiver (it's basically a game where you play the shopkeeper of the sort that you find in RPG's).

mustang121

I guess I know what you mean, everything in moderation, and all that jazz.


I still cannot help but feel like a sad act if play for long periods at a time. Although that said, I cannot remember the last time I played on the Xbox one as I'm bored of GTA 5 and I'm waiting for Halo 5 in October.


That and its now spring so I an concentrating on the garden, organising my wedding and writing up assessment for my diploma. (which I'm supposed to be doing now, but instead I'm browsing this forum).


Oh and we have tenants, so we have to share the living room.

fozmcfc

mustang121 wrote: »

I guess I know what you mean, everything in moderation, and all that jazz.


I still cannot help but feel like a sad act if play for long periods at a time. Although that said, I cannot remember the last time I played on the Xbox one as I'm bored of GTA 5 and I'm waiting for Halo 5 in October.


That and its now spring so I an concentrating on the garden, organising my wedding and writing up assessment for my diploma. (which I'm supposed to be doing now, but instead I'm browsing this forum).


Oh and we have tenants, so we have to share the living room.

That's just it in moderation and not affecting your life, particularly family, health and job.

My mainstream gaming significantly dropped once I got connected to the Internet in about 1998.

I would now rather be without a TV, then the net. I would say at least 3/4 of my gaming is now casual games on Facebook etc...also on the net of course.