How Do You Spend Your Gaming Time?

Dan, your engrish is really taking over. :P

On most games, I spend my time paying close attention to detail. Like, really close. You do not want to watch me play games like Oblivion and BioShock. I carefully plan out almost everything I do. The usual result? I either get bored of the game, because all of that planning isn't rewarded adequately by the game, or I 100% complete it.

I am an in-depth gamer. It's a blessing and a curse, because I sometimes spend too much time trying to make sure I do things perfectly when I should just try to have fun with it. My goal as a developer is to find the optimum amount of both to form a game around, making sure that trying to do things perfectly is also fun.

Well if I get a new game I usually play the hell out of it till I'm utterly sick of it, even if I finish it, it took me 3 playthroughs of Batman: AA for me to finally get tired of it and thats after I 100% it. Then I go back to playing Call of Duty and Gears of War till I buy my next game.

I used to be an avid RPGer ... then MMoer ... now games just bore me. I WANT to finish Oblivion and Fallout, but I fall asleep!!

I'm an achievement whore. I get as many as I possibly can by myself before being forced to find someone else to play it with me. I only recently started playing Borderlands. It's an excellent example of my gaming achievement OCD. I've beat it two and a half times now, but I still have about 40 achievements to get (mostly multiplayer and DLC stuff). I'll likely keep playing it until I get them all. I still have about half a dozen more on MW2 to get as well. Damn Special Ops...

By the time I "100%" a game, I've usually beaten it and played through it at least several more times, trying desperately to find every little thing (because I have no life). By then, I'm usually sick to death of playing it (Bioshock and Oblivion are excellent examples) and go back to playing something like CoD online until I find something new to occupy my time with.

I'm studying medicine so I don't have a lot of time to play as I've used to. There are tons of games I'd like to play, tons of franchises I haven't even touched yet but I need to grit my teeth and pass them on.

Nowadays I treat games like bottles of wine. I carefully observe a lot of bottles (games) I would like to drink (play) until I make a decision. When a decision is set I take my time drinking (playing) it so I can enjoy its color (graphics), aroma (music) and most importantly taste (gameplay) to it's fullest potential.

Dang... its fullest potential. Sorry for the bad grammar.

Kijan you're a med student? I'm graduating from med school this weekend... Definitely don't have the time to game that I used to, but I find that as I get older I'm less and less interested in multiplayer (except AC:Brotherhood really hooked me for a while) and more all about games for story and art. I can't wait to dive into LA Noire. And I'm already obsessing over Arkham City :)

Yeah, I'm a first year though. I don't play MMO's or games based on multiplayer anymore. Only the occasional match on TF2. Singleplayer games with good save options have become my choice of gaming. :P

I pick a team-based FPS to play and then proceed to keep that son of a ***** running to the point where my hard drive gives up and starts to permanently annex sticks of RAM.

First CS, then CS:S, and now TF2. I made you a chart:

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When I have a free moment I will pop into a single player game. Once I finish the story I am done with it and move onto the next one. Late night on the weekends I will drunkenly play multiplayer, most likely Halo.

I'm gonna go ahead and suggest STALKER again, Dan. Still baffled that it hasn't made it to console yet in some form. And IF you decide to give it a shot, go with "Call of Pripyat" They got everything right by the third try.

Dan, watch this. It's important to your job:

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Get rid of the BLAH.

I usually have some game that I'm trying to be "good" at. Right now it's Starcraft2, previously it has been Street Fighter 4, tekkens, Warcraft 3, or even Resident Evil mercenaries mode. I get really into it. Often I find myself thinking "wow I really have to eat/sleep/pee" (usually not all 3 at once) right before I click the button to find a new ladder match. It's tough to stop. I may have a problem.

I also like to play fun games, which is probably he healthier side of the hobby. Right now it's portal 2. Since I'm not being constantly graded, these games are a lot easier to put down and pick up according to a real world schedule.

I use gamefly to get single player games (IE la. noire, batman AA etc) and buy multiplayer games that I play when I'm between single player games. I save hundreds a year in single player games using gamefly and I also play some games I never would have otherwise and get a chance to test multiplayer games in case they suck or I don't like it before I buy, so it works out pretty well.

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