How do you personally make time for gaming?

[Jmustang1968]

Which podcast do you help with Key-Glyph?

The Legacy Music Hour, which features 8-bit and 16-bit video game music. The two hosts used to put together an episode every week where they played tracks and discussed them, but they've cut back to one a month. We pad those releases every other week by publishing music-only "mixtapes" of their past episodes' playlists, which I put together for them.

It's a lot of fun, and Brent and Rob are the best.

Ah very cool

[mjmjr25]

I got back into gaming when my kids first got into gaming, about 6 years ago was when my now 12yo daughter wanted to play the last system i'd purchased, which was the gamecube. From there, my gaming has mostly surrounded my kids and probably 50%, right down the middle, of my purchases are for them.

As for gaming time - I consider it gaming time if they are in the room playing and i'm reading a book, or doing internet time. We do this about 3 nights aweek for 90 minutes after dinner.

For me, I have 30-45 minutes each night after the kids are down and my wife is doing her ni-night routine. Sometimes I play, usually a PS3 or PSN download game, something quick and mindless.

Very few games are indepth and require more than 15-20 minutes of play at any given time. The exception being if I get into a Run N' Gun, Platformer, or Shooter. Then i'll dedicate some time for real play. Usually an hour right before or right after dinner.

Occasionally we'll dedicate an entire weekend to gaming - if for nothing esle to try and experience something with more storyline to it, or to beat an entire game, usually a point 'n clikc adventure.

Most weeks i'd say I play 3-hours, my kids play 6-hours.

If i'm into a shooter, like I have been with Mushi Futari 1.5 the past 2 weeks, than that doubles / triples - to about 6-8 hours for a week.

If we do one of those dedicated weekends, every 3-4 months, then that week will be 40+ hours of gaming.

Multiplied out I probably play 275-300 hours a year.

[MrPopo]

Nothing is more boring than having everything you ever wanted.

It's true. I'm 30. I've been paid to play video games, write about video games, analyze the news, and watch cartoons. I may change careers in the next few years and write for television, and I write short stories on the side(and have written one movie novelization) and may one day get paid for that. At the rate I'm going, I'll be out of dream jobs by the time I'm 40.

...most of my dreams involve writing.

My parents sometimes ask if I get bored of playing video games. I think if I was concentrating on one specifically, like getting really good at TF2 or LoL I probably would. But each video game is like a book; they're all different with something new to experience. So even though at a very gross level I'm doing the same thing all the time it's always something different. That's what keeps me from getting bored.

[Exhuminator]

So even though at a very gross level I'm doing the same thing all the time it's always something different. That's what keeps me from getting bored.

We are all different people with different needs and wants. And if a life absolutely chock full of playing video games fulfills you on a personal level, than so be it. That's your call, your choice to make. I won't judge you for it.

Personally speaking though, I would not give up having an intimate relationship or parenthood in order to have more gaming time, as those two things bring far greater enjoyment in my life than slaying pixels ever has. I also prefer to do my own yard work because it's an extra avenue of getting physical exercise. And I'm too neurotic to let a stranger clean my house.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Personally speaking though, I would not give up having an intimate relationship or parenthood in order to have more gaming time, as those two things bring far greater enjoyment in my life than slaying pixels ever has. I also prefer to do my own yard work because it's an extra avenue of getting physical exercise.

We're not so different, you and I...

And I'm too neurotic to let a stranger clean my house.

Nevermind...

[Exhuminator]

I would let a robot clean my house though. If that counts.

Especially a sexy android dressed like a French maid.

[fastbilly1]

Especially a sexy android dressed like a French maid.

Done:

[Exhuminator]

Got me loins rocked up 'eh.

[TSTR]

28, don't do anything as much as I should. This includes working (not at the moment, hehe), spending time with both significant and not-so-significant people, making music, playing games, reading, on and on and on. I am what you might call "lazy." Except for the internet, which I am probably clinically addicted to.

But, for a more detailed answer, I also like to consider myself a "burst" type of person. If I get into something, I'm gonna go hard at it until it doesn't interest me anymore for the time being. For example, I crushed like 5 different manga series over the past couple weeks, ranging in length from ~30 to ~200 chapters each. However, I haven't played games worth a damn. The same thing happens no matter what it is I'm doing; it's just kind of how I go at things.

Sometimes I wish I could focus and prioritize things better, but often I just don't care enough to. It's my body; I'll do what I want.

[Ack]

But, for a more detailed answer, I also like to consider myself a "burst" type of person.

A buddy of mine refers to this as a "feast or famine person." Don't feel bad, I'm pretty similar. I'm feeling an urge to tone down my SNES gaming and move back to PC for a bit, particularly GOG. I blame playing through Quake 2 at the start of the month for this.