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Gamers on RIU ?
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patrickkawi37
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i also lost a little bit of life due to runescape haha. but as soon as all the new updates came out and they fucked up the playerkilling i was out.
tip top toker
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Ah, i was having a bath and had a brainwave. I'm installing Freelancer again!
I don't think the game in question has anything to do with how much of your life it will consume, just the individual. For example folk might argue that runescape or Wow or whatnot are highly addictive because of what there is to be done and the length of missions or whatever, yet look at counterstirke, a hugely repetitive semi-boring game, my brother will play over 50 hours a week on that because he's just that kind of person, he'll find a game he enjoys and play it to bits. In contrast, i will and have played all these "addictive" games, and after an hour or two regardless of how good they are, i'll still quit and do something else.
I don't think the game in question has anything to do with how much of your life it will consume, just the individual. For example folk might argue that runescape or Wow or whatnot are highly addictive because of what there is to be done and the length of missions or whatever, yet look at counterstirke, a hugely repetitive semi-boring game, my brother will play over 50 hours a week on that because he's just that kind of person, he'll find a game he enjoys and play it to bits. In contrast, i will and have played all these "addictive" games, and after an hour or two regardless of how good they are, i'll still quit and do something else.
*sigh* wow and other "non closed ended video games" as i like to call them are no more addicting then COD, Mario Kart, ect
tip top toker
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That is my point. Yet there is this notion that people just get plain addicted to the specific games, normal exmaple being WoW, when in reality it is simply that it is the gamer, not the game.
Fou/nd an old mario kart cartridge just a few hours ago, now here on earth is the console to go with it. Doh!
Think tomorrow might be a day of freelancer. Just started as a full time chef and it's stressful as FUCK, rather liking the idea of spending my day off sat around pissing my hours away on silly games
Fou/nd an old mario kart cartridge just a few hours ago, now here on earth is the console to go with it. Doh!
Think tomorrow might be a day of freelancer. Just started as a full time chef and it's stressful as FUCK, rather liking the idea of spending my day off sat around pissing my hours away on silly games
there were some studies on video games and addictions but not enough research was put into it in my opinion there is an underlining cause for video game addictionThat is my point. Yet there is this notion that people just get plain addicted to the specific games, normal exmaple being WoW, when in reality it is simply that it is the gamer, not the game.
Fou/nd an old mario kart cartridge just a few hours ago, now here on earth is the console to go with it. Doh!
Think tomorrow might be a day of freelancer. Just started as a full time chef and it's stressful as FUCK, rather liking the idea of spending my day off sat around pissing my hours away on silly games
social anxieties for instance, people cannot be social in real life because they have a hard time, if they are behind a computer they may find friendship ect without all the paranoia that involves social anexites, so they may play a LOT of computer games to compensate for social life same goes with things like argoraphobias and such
AMCHEESIER
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whats up guys im a ps3 guy im playing kingdoms of amalur reckoning at the minute, played skyrim before this got well engrossed took up a good bit of my time. ive played games since i was a kid i started with space invaders, before i got the atari 2600 a classic machine had tons of games pitfall frogger pong the list is endless but my memory draws a blank. played through the commador 64, amiga 500 nd a 600, nes, the master system, megadrive, snes, 64, ps, ps2,ps3, i had a couple other consoles too but you get the picture i love gaming. i have just started playing world in conflict soviet assault but i only have a laptop. ive just set up my ps3 pad to work with the game but still need a bit of practice. anybody play battlefield 3 or ruse on the ps3? whats everybodys opinion bf3 vs cod???? hope your all good and staying high
tip top toker
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Who knows, not for me thouhg. I am socially shy not to have a single real world friend other than kuroi, but i still find no appeal in having video game friends. In fact near every game i play i play in offline mode because i find it more fun than having to deal with little internet shitheads. I'm just me though, a conclusion cannot be drawn from one persons opinion. Not even sure why this point is still being discussed, like with anything and everything, it's the person, not the activity. In the same way not everyone who drinks whisky is an alcoholic. Some people are, some people are not, and for those who are, doens't matter what the beverage, in the same way that for those who are, doens't matter what the game. If they get absorbed they'll get absorbed
WoW pretty much stomped every MMO's dick in the dirt, but not being a fan of having to grind out XP via repetitive mindless mob killing or "quests", I soon decided that DAOC would be my first and LAST "grind" game.
[ Release notes V1.348A62b-8:
Equipment - This mandatory update will take all the shit your character owns and make it virtually useless against any of the new shit we're putting into the game, especially the exceedingly rare shit that will only drop once out of every 500 attempts at random. Skills updates - We have decided to randomly fuck up various player skills so that some will be ridiculously overpowered, while others will be nerfed out of existence. Why? Because FUCK YOU, that's why. New player skills - We have added new skills that not a single player called for, or wants, that will be either lame as hell, or far too powerful, in order to facilitate the unbalanced nature of our game play. Players can achieve these skills by completing more quests with the same requirements as above, or by killing 1,043,205,009,993,351 random mobs between the hours of 3:00-4:12AM on the second Thursday of each month. Bug fixes - None. Because FUCK YOU.
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smok3h
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I beat this a few months ago. I loved it, but my only gripe is that it is just way too easy. I was really hoping for a sequel, but unfortunately the studio got shut down
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Hepheastus420
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jigfresh
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Woohoo... I found a fourth to make BL2 cheap.
Amcheesier, not sure what to say about BF3 vs COD. I enjoy playing cod better, but enjoyed the game play of battlefield better, does that make any sense. It's like having one night with a real classy model type gal, but I just keep going back to my nasty chick at home. I loved flying jets in BF3, with the graphics and my big tv, I got a little woozy on the big turns. I like the graphics of bf3 better. I feel like the weapons and physics are more realistic in BF3. I also feel like the game was more fair, whatever that means. But yeah, I only spent maybe 4-5 hours on BF3 multiplayer... and who knows how many on COD. Wife had to tell me to stop playing it because I would always get in a bad mood.
Amcheesier, not sure what to say about BF3 vs COD. I enjoy playing cod better, but enjoyed the game play of battlefield better, does that make any sense. It's like having one night with a real classy model type gal, but I just keep going back to my nasty chick at home. I loved flying jets in BF3, with the graphics and my big tv, I got a little woozy on the big turns. I like the graphics of bf3 better. I feel like the weapons and physics are more realistic in BF3. I also feel like the game was more fair, whatever that means. But yeah, I only spent maybe 4-5 hours on BF3 multiplayer... and who knows how many on COD. Wife had to tell me to stop playing it because I would always get in a bad mood.
AMCHEESIER
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hey jig i know exactly what your saying. i used to be a cod man myself i played them all, my favourite was world at war playing war, although i have spent a fair few hour on all of them. my best ever score was 124kills for 13 deaths but i broke the 100 kills mark quiet a few times, cod is a good shooter no doubt but i think bf3 took the shooter to the next level, the gameplay is alot fairer less glitchs less hackers bigger maps and alot more realistic. not just jets but choppers tanks allsorts, i must say bf3 won me over bigtime. but in saying that i aint played on it for a couple months, i needed a change.
jigfresh
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My friend absolutely sucks at the driving. I think it's a fun added challenge. I can't stand the inventory and shopping and comparing. But everything about it overall is awesome. I play with the sniper and miss having my bird from BL1, but I'll live. I love the physics of everything. I'm happy. And the badass level/ points thing is interesting how it goes across characters. Not sure if I think it's cool or stupid, lol.
NJSkaPunk
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Yeah I'm just spreading the tokens around. I have lent my friends the first Borderlands in hopes that they'll buy the second. I actually love comparing weapons and selling them off. The loot is what attracted me to the first one. I just hope this game is longer than I expect it to be.