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A good one for debate on the Sift. What do you think?
My two cents: As a recovered video game addict, I used to spend upwards of 40 house a week gaming. Two video game magazine subscriptions, researching tactics, visiting gaming websites, you name it. I could go on and on...
More good info here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U1T9ZumALk
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aCmWoVrHDc
My two cents: As a recovered video game addict, I used to spend upwards of 40 house a week gaming. Two video game magazine subscriptions, researching tactics, visiting gaming websites, you name it. I could go on and on...
More good info here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U1T9ZumALk
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aCmWoVrHDc
And as far as I'm concerned, the only game that people get addicted to, out side of Korea, is WoW. Which we all know truly blows.
Customer, you've been gaming for 24 hours, you should eat and sleep for a while..
I've given up games in the past, and I've always gone back. I hope I don't this time.
I think anyone who doesn't think gaming can be addictive is either in denial or just hasn't encountered the phenomenon.
I used to love to play as much video games as I could...and then I got into guitar.
I'm pretty darn addicted to the internet though. D:
In the past I was addicted to Quake 2 for a time. In my 2nd year of university I got Quake 2 for Xmas. After a month playing the solo game I went online and spent most of February 1998 drinking coffee and soda, eating fast food and donuts, and becoming an expert Quake 2 player. I don't think I went to more than a couple classes, and I'd be sketching Quake 2 drawings instead of taking notes, and I'd always get the urge to flee whenever I saw green in the corner of my vision -- look out, BFG! Then I got into working out and remembered I was at university surrounded by girls, and that lessened the addiction a bit, althought it basically split my focus between working out, girls, and video games. Then when I left town to go home for the summer I had to return my roommate's extra 3D card, and I wasn't about to play it in software mode. At the end of summer I bought myself a 3D accelerator and got back into the game with moderation.
I got addicted to Quake 3 in winter 2000/2001. For around two months it was all I wanted to think about. I got into a hardcore routine of buying 2 or 3 large coffees and sitting down for 6-hour ass-kicking sessions on CTF4 (space capture the flag).
Then in summer of 2001 I got pretty addicted to Tribes 2, and by then I had invested in real gaming hardware like a $500 video card, surround speakers, 19 inch monitor (pretty big back then). I'd stay up all night, enjoying myself immensely, playing for up to 10 hours at a time once or twice. I think Tribes 2 is probably still the most fun I've ever had playing video games.
Other multiplayer games I've been near-addicted to include Rainbow Six, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, and Aliens Vs Predator 2 (highly underrated!).
These days I lay out a lot of $ for gaming hardware (4GB RAM, X1950XTX CF Master with X1900XTX in crossfire, X-Fi Platinum, Dell 3007 WFP, Logitech Z5000, etc.. okay CPU is a generation behind.. X2 4400+), which can mostly be expensed to business, but which I would probably have anyways for hardcore gaming. Sorry for the e-peen but I love to talk gaming hardware and share gaming nostalgia.
I expect I will soon be addicted to Crysis.
My husband and I both play WoW, HL, Counterstrike, and Team Fortress, but we do that instead of plopping our butts on the couch and watching American Idol every night. Neither of them are particularly healthy things to do, but we've picked our poison and enjoy it. We both still hold down full time jobs, the cats still get fed, the lawn gets mowed, and we have social lives.
(Besides, I kinda like squicking folks and work who say, "So, did you see who got booted from the island last night?" by responding, "No, but we did kill a dragon, and I got an awesome wand..."