| I know quite a lot of people with consoles, but very few who actually play games more than 'occasionally'. I never play multi-player games. Ever. This is why I get so worried at the whole 'multi-player is the future' thingy. |
Gamer isolation • Page 2
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Hicksy 2,677 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMy friends don't seem to see my gaming habits as ibad but do question the amount of money I spend on them. On the other hand when I point out how much money they just pissed up the wall over the week and how many games they could have bought from it they kinda begin to loose the argument.
I see gaming as a affordable and extremely enjoyable form of entertainment. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMost of my mates play games, some more than me. It was when I hooked up to Live that I was seen as a spod beyond spod, with my Madonna ear piece, Pro Evo league etc.
Luckily my flatmate, who is Star Wars: Galaxies mad, out spodded me by buying a joystick and throttle for Jump to Lightspeed. Its fucking huge. And is as yet unsupported by the game. Oh how we laughed. -
Captain-Fetid 659 posts
Registered 17 years agoBlerk wrote:
I know quite a lot of people with consoles, but very few who actually play games more than 'occasionally'.
But MS and Sony see this as a good thing, and hope they will be able to shove the next-next-gen consoles down these people's (who constitute the majority of console owners) throats. I fear it will not work. -
Surferrosa 471 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMy partner and my kid are both gamers \o/, none of my friends are though - I don't even mention to them that I game (I think it's viewed as being a wee bit immature especially for a female speeding towards their forties; guess I should be interested in interior design and dinner parties then, blech).
I hope I die with a joypad clutched in my old, cold, cold hands having just beaten my personal best at something or other - although we'll prolly be able to control games with a chip inside our heads come that time, woohoo.
God, I wonder how it will all evolve and what gaming will be like in 200 yrs time... -
Max_Powers 1,256 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMy problem is that most of my friends are 'casual gamers'. They appreciate the past time but aren't good enough at most games to engage me in a good multiplayer romp. Sure I play with them sometimes but 'holding back' for half an hour isn't really fun.
I used to love Streetfighter, Mariokart & Goldeneye matches with a couple of my friends. Now that they are older their suffering from:
a) a lack of time to really get good at certain games
b) RSI
c) a disinterest in the medium
Luckily I have a younger brother (and he has fanatical gaming friends) who still lives with our parents and thanks to the wonders of Xbox Live (and previously Quake) I can now compete again with a whole lot of young people in frantic matches of Halo 2, Splinter Cell and Burnout.
It's fantastic! Plus, I also feel it keeps you young at heart. I have quite a serious daytime job, acting all mature and shit, but at night I'm hollering and whooping like the best of them.
(I've also tried PlayStation Network Gaming, but other than Socom II, it just didn't work properly. Seemed like every week I got a new PIN, network name, updated disc or shit just didn't work.)
Live or multiplayer internet gaming I've found is the best antidote to Gamer Isolation. Otherwise I would still be playing CIVIII... -
Most of my friends are gamers of one description or another, only two of them could be termed hardcore and that's in specific areas which don't always collide with my own.
Several casuals which I try my best to educate but I've come to the conclusion that their barometer for how good a game is, is how popular it is. Seriously. One thoguht Tomb Raider was fantastic right up until AoD but was bragging how great it was and how much time he'd spent "playing with Lara Croft (hur hur) up until it filtered through that everyone else hated it.
So he sold it.
He won't play anything I loan to him unless his friends have heard of it.
/Sighs
There's a definate perception of gaming as immature, a waste of time. Mostly by people into something far less interactive or stimulating, as always. -
tengu 10,294 posts
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