Test of your gaming passion
 

If you had the chance to be in a room with all the things you need (a lover of yours, maybe, food you like, etc) without any of them things that are living being frustrated by it (you might wanna let them play with you for multiplayer, some friends too, and have other console copies for them to clock games on too) and you could spend all week with your body magically unable to sleep and not be harmed by it, playing any game thats been released before the week had begun on any console...

Could you handle it?

Playing games constantly, of any kind, etc. Maybe even random games.

I realized that I used to dislike games by disinguishing whether I thought the idea was boring or not (Gran Turismo, Nintendogs...) but I realized, I'll play ANYTHING! o.o I dun have the time or money to, but I am so obsessed with gaming I could play for months on end with the time to. I'll prefer diff games depending on the mood and they'd have to be half decent, but theres almost no games I hate outright. Except the extremely unheard of, low budget and badly done ones.

Could you handle playing for that long and not be bored? While your at it, how many hours do you play a day anyway? Do you like all the hours? Do you get bored towards the end? How many hours would you WANT to play? How important do you see games to you? etc.

I'm not an outgoing person as such and it would be an opportunity but I don't think I would be able to handle it. I love gaming and would love to have played more games, but my life isn't just about gaming. When I am away from it I can to reflect on it. If the situation was that I could play any game on any console I think I would get to a point where I would question myself as to what to play, and I'll just be sitting there plugging away at some random game.

thats prolly a better stance than the one I have on gaming, my stance is money consuming and will prolly weirden my boyfriend out when I live with him ^_^ (I have sent him phone txts in the middle of the night before whining about me running out of shotgun shells on RE4...)

Only reason I am this obsessed with gaming is that, aside from cooking and spending time with my lover, its prolly the biggest thing in my life. Ever since a child, I have been obsessed with the feel of gaming. One person said they didn't like FF7 on another forum that much, but liked the legend surrounding it. o.o quoting them, "The otaku, kinda, the fanfics, big essays writen by the fan, the money it brought in, the feel." or something like that. Aside from my OBSESSION with the idea of playing a game and finding almost all of them fun anyway, I love the legend and characters surrounding the gaming world.

It might be unhealthy and pathetic to some, but thats how I see it.

Tbh, for social reasons, your way is much more logical, electric

I have to say honestly yes, i'm currently on summer vacation till I return to cegep in august and for the time I wake up till the time I go to bed I spend most of my time (if not all) playing video games >.> and almost all my firend are gamers too so a lot of time I play with them at my house or their house or even on internet. I don't think I'll had any problem to spending a lot of time playing games because I already do it, but if you mean to play for the rest of your life then no, and I guess that anyone would say no to do the same thing for the rest of their life , because it's just sad XD

but I have to say that something I stop playing, I don,t think it's because i'm bored of video games it's sometime I just feel to do nothing, like lay down before theTV and still watch it even if there's nothing good playing XD

Heh, I'd play games for 8 hours a day everyday if I could. o.o My obsession I dun think will ever fade. Games affect me in so many ways... I get creeped out in survival horror, always get juice from fighting games, will play ANYTHING. I'm prolly too innocent not to get affected by them... or so my friends say. They poke fun at me calling me a little kid cause of how easy games change my mood x.x same with sweet foods.

I finally got MGS3 and Dragon Quest 8 yesterday, I'm gonna have a plug at them on monday. and, thus insues sleepless nights o.o

I probably couldn't play games for that long even if I had no other priorities. I can play RPGs for at least two hours and I may continue on if the story is interesting, but for fighting, sports, action, or even survival horror games, I stop playing sooner.

wow, how very suprising. I wish I wasn't as obsessed as I am sometimes, but wow, dun think I could quit games that easy and in such short time o.o how much do you enjoy the gameplay you DO get in?

I think my longest "streak" was 14 hours, but that happened only once. Atfer that, I didn't touch a single game for quite some time afterwards.

So, as much as I love games, I probably couldn't stand playing them non-stop after a day, let alone a week.

I meant in a single gaming session in one day. I play games on a consistent basis throughout the year with maybe a few weeks of not touching one due to finals, going overseas, or if I happen to have work and the like.

I guessed you played consistently, but do you find it entertaining during the short time each day you play? Its really not that much time, by my standards anyway. I'm suprised you can cope with that short ammount of time, but then I had a friend obsessed with games to the point of suiciding over losing his copy of Chrono Trigger, who played around that sort. So I guess time doesn't reflect interest all the time, more so endurance and obsession.

Elwe, thats near my longest streak. I used to play 10 hours a day all the time, but once got up to like 18 in a row. Not much more, but considering my normal is a decent ammount... Yeah. 14 ain't bad at all though. Especially for someone with a life. (eg not me)

Did you just play it straight through, or did you ever take quick breaks? I know I'd get a huge headache if I didn't do that. :p

Those 14 hours were mostly driven by a need to find out what happens next, which is one of my greatest vice. So, I'd say that about 7 hours was fun-driven, and the rest was the unquenchable need to know.

I paid the price with a nice little headache. ;)

Headache? Considering the ammount of vanilla coke, fanta, and fruits and other shit I was consuming, along with jumping about and throwing high kicks at the air through sugar high excitement, and how obsessed I was with the game and how I was sitting near the screen...


...You'll be suprised to hear no.

x.x 14 hours on FF7, 4 on Perfect Dark.

Although I may not play for more than three hours these days, I do still find the games entertaining. RPGs require a bit more time because of the text or dialogue to sit through, but I like to take my time with them anyway. One game I can recall (The Bouncer for PS2) was so short that I finished it in a single sitting. The Metal Gear Solid games also felt short since I managed to finish each in at least two days or less.

It really depends on the type of game, because I'm entertained differently depending on the genre.

Considering I played MGS through a 2 day rental on a weekend despite alot of rather perverted distractions I engaged in with someone I know, uhh... Yah. It is prolly one of the most shortest game series I've ever played. Its worth the hype it gets for the quality, but they're still so damn short.

RPGs, take alot of time indeed. Theres text and you have to keep playing to get any ammount of gameplay in. In an action game you can get substance in five or ten minutes. In an RPG, it can take half an hour at least in some cases. o.o

I would probably play less if i didn,t buy FFXI 2-3 years ago XD and now i'm a big mmorpg fan and it took a lot of my gaming time, so much that now I buy console game and doesn't even finish them XD(arg Is till need ot finish tales of legendia, grandia 3, silent hill 4, resident evil 4 and MGS3) when I'll stop FFXI I,ll probably go find another mmo...

Heh, if you need another MMO, then alot of people love WoW. But alot of hardcore MMOers I know all prefer Everquest to it for the bigger world and more options it has, as well as better coding. Everquest II is out now too, maybe you could try it out, and WoW too.

I need to finish RE4 too, and I just brought MGS3 x.x I want Grandia III! Last time I checked it wasn't out in UK. What happened? Is it out now?

Most of the time I honestly have to motivate myself to play games, even if I enjoy them immensely. Of course, early on I'm all "omg this game is awesome" and play it every chance I get, but soon enough I just lose interest in playing it that much. I still enjoy it immensely when playing it, it's just that getting past that first hurdle of actually starting the game up that I usually do not really succeed at.

I was never really all that fond of long gaming marathons. I always feel like I should stop after so-and-so hours/minutes of gameplay, and oftentimes do so. Even if I have nothing else to do. I just cannot bring myself to play the same game for 8 hours or something like that. With RPGs maybe I'll play for quite a while if the story interests me, but for most games I just can't.

Hell, early on during my quest to beat Shadow of the Colossus I used to play only long enough to get from the Temple to the colossus and defeat it. (strictly) One colossus per sitting for me. Later on I started doing 2/3 in one sitting but yeah... was never all that fond of sitting down for long hours playing the same game.

Unless it's something like Winning Eleven/Pro Evo, but even then that's only if I'm playing with other people... which would mean that I'm not playing the game for the whole time. I can do a combination of playing+watching for a while, but just playing? Nah.

Unless you're talking about Championship Manager/Football Manager.

I think I could handle it, assuming I had all my needs taken care of as described above - it'd be a great way to go for all 300 battle trophies on Star Ocean III. Also, there's a lot of games I'd love to play, but just don't have the time for - I'd love to have a week off like that.

I doubt that this is actually a test of your gaming passion, more a test of, are you the gaming obsessive? In that case Klonoa, you have passed with full marks!

Damn Championship Manager. Always that incentive to prove to yourself you can win. That is one game I can easily clock up hours on.

I once spent 12 hours on Football Manager 2005 in one sitting.
I had to stop once i realised that it was daylight again. God damn FM2005. :aargh:

I tend to put in about 6 hours a day gaming now. Not always the same game though.
Oblivion sucked me in when it first came out, i racked up something like 30 hours in 3 days.

i'm not really sure that i wouldn't do it. most of the time i'll keep myself buoyant with the in-game tasks at hand. as long as i'm not playing the same game for the week stretch, it might be ok. even then, i would look at it as a test of endurance, so the focus of the game skews from relating to the actual videogame to a game of whether or not i would drive myself insane playing the same thing over and over (rolling up 500,000 roses without moving a muscle but to drink 2 glasses of lemonade anyone?). as long as i didn't have to sacrifice the basic necessities of living and had contact with the outside world readily available, i probably wouldn't have a problem. it's the security of being able to have a place to go once the fun ends that matters for me, so this "vacation" would surely be welcome in my book.