I don't. Mostly because of the fact my computer cannot run current games. Also had a wii, got bored with it.

well you're a bit retarded if you're gonna ignore a whole area of media for no real reason, but whatever

what was the point of this thread?

I don't because I am not a gaming faggot. Enjoy being a virgin with your PlayStation 3.

Excuse me sir. I disagree.

FAG.

>>2483298
I play TF2, every once in a while, but I don't consider myself a "gamer".
In fact I hate the whole gaming culture, the cost and the time wasted playing some useless shit and the fucking crass commercialisation.

Think back 10 years ago and video games where much tolerable since they were still seen as a new medium of entertainment, (inb4 a trillion faggots correct me on this trivial crap). Therefore it wasn't as badly advertised and stuffed in everyone's face.

Used to love them, barely touch them anymore.

I feel guilty that I grew out of video games.

I'm not a gamer, but I am a fucking sucker for Bemani and other such music games. I haven't played them in months, and when I'm active I play no more than about 3 hours a week.

>>2483367
>wasn't badly advertised

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69_l1oZ2b2M

Then what the fuck are you doing here.
Everyone in here likes videogames, people who say they do not after me are OP.

Used to do it quite a bit, up til about Sophomore-Junior year in high school, so I'm clued in on the foundations of gaming and I can understand when people talk about it generally, but I know jack shit about any particular game that's come out in the past few years.

Shit just got boring compared to other stuff I was growing into; I do wish I still had a copy of Call to Power II installed, since that let you actually be creative and thoughtful with your strategy, and was a different game every time, as opposed to running the same damn map shooting the same damn stuff, unless it's multiplayer in which case running the same damn map shooting stuff, or building up some base defenses and a bunch of infantry units and a few mammoth tanks or whatever and rushing the other base. But otherwise I don't miss video games.

Anyone know a good place to pirate Call to Power II, actually?

Wth, even normal social people play video games. Some people who did a study on whether video games make kids violent game to my school last year when I was in High School. They said they found that someone who doesn't play and video games is actually probably having social problems, because most people at least play them socially.

4chan keeps me entertained enough so that I don't play video games. Every now and then I buy a new game for my Xbox 360 but after I beat it I quickly go back to 4chan. Although I used to play Wow.

>>2483367
>(inb4 a trillion faggots correct me on this trivial crap)
Except for your whole arguement is based around that fact. That's like saying "in before any counter points".

same here

i'm 23

I was never very good (poor sense of direction, spastic clumsy nature)

however I did enjoy lots of NES, Genesis, N64, and PSX growing up. But not in a serious way.

I evolved to PC gaming circa 1998, got into StarCraft and C&C and AoE, and then HL and half-life mods which were all the rage during 2001-2004

For me single player story based games are tedious, like reading a boring book or comic. I like the thrill of real-human hunting, and cannot go back to bot combat.

The last games i played were half-life mods and BF1942. I tried to get into games recently but lost interest too soon.

I think a prereq for gaming is a carefree childhood-state of mind

>>2483476
Go on /v/ and tell me they're all carefree and childlike.

Childlike maybe, but only in that they are immature, carefree...no, they rage at anything.

I only play emulation (n64, snes, mame, gba, etc) and the occasional random multiplayer game with friends. Probably average under 30 minutes a week playing video games.

I also watch almost no TV. TV just bores me so much and I hate advert breaks so I can never watch it for more than a minute or two without getting bored.

I lead a pretty active life and work full time so the computer is my only entertainment at home.

gamer for life, i don't see anything wrong with that

i do other stuff too. like smoke pot

I used to play video games frequently, but I'm sorta growing out of them. There's just other things to do.
I haven't gotten a new game in half a year, and no games can keep my attention for long.
I'd rather play them socially, or at least online ones.

>>2483516

SMUG ASSHOLE.

robobumpbampboo

I'd never played a video game in all my life until last October, when a friend of mine sent me Persona 2 and an emulator.

I used to be a gamer... born 1986
Nintendo
SNES
N64
PS1
Dreamcast
PS2
GC
Xbox
Xbox 360
PS3

But nowadays after losing my virginity during the first year of college. I find myself either playing something like 30 minutes of TF2 or something like RE2 on PS1 or some old school DKC2 on SNES a week or a month. gaming to me is pretty much dead. only revisiting old classics from time to time.

This may be a copy pasta thread, but seriously fuck vidya.

Even /v/ doesn't play video games any more, what a fucking waste of time video games are. They may be a step up from playing with action figures and using our own imaginations as children, but what the fuck are these losers doing playing with video games as adults? Fuck kidults. Real men have real talents.

Learn to play a real instrument (before learning, ask yourself if the instrument you plan on learning is extremely common in rock & roll bands. If yes, that instrument is shit and you should kill yourself for thinking about playing it), mow the lawn, learn to properly groom yourself as a man, flirt with women, get married, wear a suit, have children, get a mortgage, put away money for retirement, and college, hide as much of your assets as possible and get divorced, buy a sports car, have sex with younger women, die alone.

>>2483298

Hey OP, you would fit right in on /v/. No one there plays video games.

>>2484903

your life amuses me

I play the dijde, my instrument kicks it pipe style.

I dislike them. I dislike them so much. I think the only games I ever got into were things like Spyro the Purple Dragon and SSX Tricky, and that was when I was just a stupid kid. Now I see these people that were formerly bright and interesting and friendly turn into assholes with no motivation for anything beyond WoW or whatever fucking waste of time and money they're into.

At least the internet serves some purpose depending on how you use it. But video games.. honestly, I see no particular value other than maybe hand-eye coordination.

>>2483393
That probably was so bad back then, it made it hilarious, I don't mind that too much. I'm talking about the hype created before a game is released, eg: Every fucking bus has some giant HALO crap stuck on it, with the words "believe" or something underneath. Now, 80% of people looking at that won't know what the hell is going on.

>>2483470

It's because I really don't care about the "history" of gaming. It's trivial to me, the beginnings of gaming were interesting, but the shit these days is stupid and unimportant.


As a kid I grew made to believe video games were a waste of time (which they are). All my friends had the snes and I would constantly be over to play Super Mario Bros. or something, (dig dug was particularly awesome). But I wasn't allowed to have any consoles.

My dad introduced me to PC gaming, Prince.exe, Wolf 3D, Operation Neptune and so on. I was starved to begin with so I to me this stuff was like crack. Then StarCraft came along, and pretty much raised me as a kid. After our computer dying, I had nothing, so I won a PS2. (it was a amusing bet, I'll tell you later). And tried getting into console gaming.

It fucking sucked, every game I had was sub-par, except the GTA series. Vice City was pretty much the only game I played for a 2 solid years. Then I bought a PC, got a few games and played those, I finally played online and after a short while I realised that multiplayer is filled with many many faggots. TF2 and DoD is tolerable because they are games designed with great amounts of finesse and creativity. They still entertain me.

I lurve video games.
OP hurt me greatly by implying that I am a waster.
JIHAD ON OP

>>2484903
Repeat after me: I am free.

sadsahifgosabBLOCK

>>2483298
>bawls


Who the fuck buys/drinks this fucking shit, really?

I only played The Sims, Pokemon and Mario.

I pretty much think they're a waste of time and haven't touched anything since I was in high school. That said I got sucked into playing City of Heroes and have been enjoying that although it's starting to wear thin. Once I quit it, no more for me.

>I don't read game manuals or anything of that sort, either

Who does?

Used to play them a hell of a lot, now only on Saturday's if I don't go out and that's it. I'm not really into them as much as I used to be, still enjoy them but I can't be arsed with games being hours and hours long anymore. I like short sweet games that are fun and keep me interested.

I play my DS.
I don't play any other games usually, but sometimes if I'm at my brother's I'll play his 360.

all i do is play 360, eat, drink, smoke, and fuck.

how about that?

Sports games. All kinds I play.

ITT: People abandon a decent media because "itz fur kidz!".

Fuck off. I'm not going to sacrifice my enjoyment of games to get pissed in some dive with strangers I don't even care about just because "its what you should be doing".

I play sports (you know, on a field?), skydive, spend time with my family AND play games. What is it with you faggots that you can't enjoy an hours gaming? Is it because you fear being sucked in? I'd bet most of you sit in front of the TV watching mindless drivel like X Factor or American Idol.

My mom got me into gaming (I used to watch her play Zelda and Ninja Gaiden), and I still play tons of games...MUCH better use of time than watching TV or browsing 4chan.

I have an NES, Gameboy, SNES, Genesis, GBA N64, PS1, Gamecube, PS2, DS, PSP Wii, PS3 (As you can tell, a Nintendo and Sony fan). I play video games at least...6 hours a week, and still have a great social life.

i don't play video games. i mean, sometimes i play pokemon roms while i listen to audiobooks, and if i'm with a group i'll play halo or gears or rock band or whatever. and i would probably buy a ds just to play pokemon on it, if i couldn't get so much pot for that money. but i'm glad i can say i'm not one of those guys that loves video games. now if only i could get rid of the internet...

I tend to play very little nowadays, even though I love strategy games (Civ IV, MoO2, Galciv 2, HoI2, etc.). I just don't have the time.

I only play with friends and beer and a console.

>>2489241
There is no greater way to spend your life
I salute you good sir.

OK I'll be slagged as the oldfag that I am but it's basically you play now what you played as a kid, plus and minus. The first computer game I played was Adventure, text only, and it was written in FORTRAN, I shit you not. Shit was fun, but you had to make huge paper maps to track it.

By the time that shit what drew colored pixels on a piece of glass came by, I was bored. Mario Bros and all that shit? You gotta be kidding.

(One exception was those console 'space war' games with the monchrome vector graphics; the motion is STILL cool in a sick retro way.)

My 15 yer old nephew is a WoWfag and he is quite good. I've watched. I see the attraction. While I am sure that if you do that shit since age 5 your reflexes will be better than anythingI could learn now, I can see how I would get good at WoW. It looks like fun. Problem is, I don't give a shit about it.

I do other shit, like make large complex behavior machines out of machinery and electronic components (from scratch, my designs) that do scary things. Art.

moot should make plugh and xyzzy do shit in 4chan.

pic unrelated, and no, I'm not that old! Cool though, huh?

>>2483552

fucken go for it. There's a lot of guilt on 4chan over life's pleasures. I don't get it. Fapping, gaming, whatever. Like there's some list somewhere of what you "should" do.

Go ahead, be 60 and play Wiiiiiii or whatever there is then. What's the big deal? Conversely, if i not longer serves your needs, drop it.

I only play counter strike and even then, i only do it on a rare occasion. That, and sometimes i'll break out the rare 264 game if i'm feeling nostalgic. Still, i find video games to be a huge waste of time; i mean i get why little kids like them, but i fail to see how anyone over the age of say 15/16 can get any enjoyment out of being a "hard core gamer".

>>2489703
I meant N64 obviously....

>>2489703

Look at Shadow of the Colossus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kki8LhtnRw

That's why it's still fun to be a hardcore gamer. You just can't get the same felling/experience from watching TV/reading books.

OP here. Holy shit you faggos are still posting in this thread?

A+

well I do play video games, but you didn't say I should'nt post here if I play video games