Anyone else too busy for video games?

Just thought I'd rant a bit to the PS3 community here...

Just a little about my situation...work in IT, married for 3 years, and a new born son.

30 years old, who then goes to the gym after work...get home, have dinner with the wife, then have to kick the kid around so he has a father...

Next thing I know, it's 11pm, and it's close to bedtime, and I barely get any gaming in anymore! I usually play games only on Sat/Sun, and even those are limited.

*sigh*...I'm sure everyone else has a similar story...whether it's with school, significant other, or kids...but I miss the days of playing games until 2am on a school/work day :(

AND...with all these great games coming out...i am missing out...I have them, but can barely play them. I need a job that lets me play games for a living :).

i hear ya buddy.....i hear yaredeemer12

good to know there are others out there :)...I used to be able to stay up until 2:30am and wake up at 6:30am every day when I was in my mid-20s...but alas...age has caught up with me :). Young ones...cherish your younger/single years :).

They should hurry up with the cloning technology, that way we could have a slave clon that goes to work while we stay playing video games at home.

:D

Yeah, there's just so many great games and not enough time. I'm 30 and between work and spending time with my wife it's tough. Usually I can find some time on the weekends, but I have season football tickets to my college team and that keeps me very busy so right now I feel like I hardly have any time for gaming. I've got LBP, Fallout 3, and Deadspace sitting at home and have hardly touched any of them, plus I'm picking up Resistance 2 next week.

I think I may have to use a few "sick" days to really get some quality gaming in lol.

[QUOTE="redeemer12"]i hear ya buddy.....i hear yashabazz5th

good to know there are others out there :)...I used to be able to stay up until 2:30am and wake up at 6:30am every day when I was in my mid-20s...but alas...age has caught up with me :). Young ones...cherish your younger/single years :).

I'm overwhelmed bro. I pretty much shot myself in the foot when I told all my real life friends and gamespot friends that I'll be buying every new big hit title day one. I was WRONG. I thought it over and there's no point of me hoarding games, buying them at day one prices when I should just buy and play one game at a time. By the time I get to the other games, the prices will drop and I could save myself some cash. It's the most practical and logical approach. But now it seems, I've only purchased Dead Space.. and I'm almost done with that. In a week, Gears of War 2 will release, and I'm buying that day one, no questions asked. GOW2 will occupy me for 2-3 weeks, and many weeks after that for multiplayer action. When I get over that, I'll buy Fallout 3.. and work my way from there. Perhaps, I'll rent some games, who knows. I just end up selling them anyways, so I might as well rent.

You guys are fortunate though. Less time for videogames means you're spending it in more productive places. I wouldn't care one bit if I didn't play videogames for two weeks if it was because I was doing something that would help me or someone else in the longer run.

I would give up my PS3 to have a new-born son/daughter.

Oh and to answer your question.

Resistance 2, Motorstorm 2, MK vs DC, Little Big Planet, GTA4, PixelJunk Monsters, Eternal Sonata, Dead Space, Bioshock.

Just be sure to keep a functioning system in storage and the game alongside it, then when the kiddos are grown up and your retired you have all the time to play :)

Ah yes, I could just see some old guy playing Dead Space and having an Active MI right there... what a way to go.

I go to school monday through thursday and work friday through saturday, but I still find a few hours here and there to play games, because I have no social life.somesthetic

lol, at least you're honest :).

Some good posts tho...don't get me wrong, I love everything that is going on, it's just funny how things have changed as i have gotten a bit older :).

Im 15, and to be honest I dont have a lot going on. My schedule Monday through Friday consists of going to school and heading to the weight room right after. This makes me get home at around 5. I always get my homework done, and dont even get a lot of it. I also have a job, but state law says since im only 15, during the school year I can only work for 2 and ahalf hours after school during the week and then on the weekends I can work as many hours as I want. But, because of that law my job doesnt really interfere. Once baseball starts in the Spring, I wont have a lot of time cause we have practice or games everyday after school and usually wont get home till close to 7. On the weekends, im usually working or out with my friends. I'll usually get a lot of gaming in when im home at night bored as hell. Otherwise, during the day im out doing things.

Hard to play a lot when you have a wife that doesn't like video games. I have to get up early on the weekend to get some quality time in with my PS3 before she wakes up....darn guilty pleasure.Thetaguru

Sounds like someone needs to invest in a small stock of light sedatives...:| Waking up at 4pm never hurt anyone.

I am pulling down 17 credits this semester, The time to play games is very limited, but I gdo play it helps relieve the stress from studyiing for exams.

8)

Video Games can be good when your busy - Im currently studying for my finals in my professional accountancy qual - so from about 7am-6pm Im tied up commuting and working - then 7pm-930pm im studying in the library - then I just sneak an hour of gaming in before bed.

If I wasnt studying I'd be out socialising and probably wouldnt have time then!

Just thought I'd rant a bit to the PS3 community here...

Just a little about my situation...work in IT, married for 3 years, and a new born son.

30 years old, who then goes to the gym after work...get home, have dinner with the wife, then have to kick the kid around so he has a father...

Next thing I know, it's 11pm, and it's close to bedtime, and I barely get any gaming in anymore! I usually play games only on Sat/Sun, and even those are limited.

*sigh*...I'm sure everyone else has a similar story...whether it's with school, significant other, or kids...but I miss the days of playing games until 2am on a school/work day :(

AND...with all these great games coming out...i am missing out...I have them, but can barely play them. I need a job that lets me play games for a living :).

shabazz5th

I am 35, single, and rarely have time for gaming. When you gotta work, clean house, laundry, cook supper for youself, the hours fly by. The bad thing about the time factor is that games are time sensitive entertainment. I can not enjoy the games I bought 10 years ago because the graphics are so horrible. Try playing the first Medal of Honor. lol

I still have tons of last gen Xbox games that I never got around to playing. Quite a few from last year. Assassin's Creed is still new in the wrapper. lol I paid 60 bucks for it, and I could get the same thing now for 20 bucks. Right now, I am slogging through Tales of Vesperia, determined to beat it before moving to the next. Then I have:

SW Force Unleashed

Brother in Arms

Infinite Undiscovery

Metal Gear Series

Crisis Core

Dead Space

Saint's Row 1 and 2

Far Cry 2

Fallout 3

Almost makes me wish I was born a lot later in life. When I was growing up, I probably beat 80% of the NES library, and those games are total crap compared to today's titles.

After work I don't feel like playing games. Passive activities like surfing the net is what I do most. I don't even watch a lot of movies anymore.Bunnyslippers

I totally agree with you...I feel like crap since I can't keep up with my friends about playing the newest games..but at the same time when I come home from school I never feel like playing a game since it takes a lot of time sometimes to get into things.

I usually prefer to surf the web or maybe listen to some music with the tv on in the background. That's just me I guess.

[QUOTE="Bunnyslippers"]After work I don't feel like playing games. Passive activities like surfing the net is what I do most. I don't even watch a lot of movies anymore.unknowndrk

I totally agree with you...I feel like crap since I can't keep up with my friends about playing the newest games..but at the same time when I come home from school I never feel like playing a game since it takes a lot of time sometimes to get into things.

I usually prefer to surf the web or maybe listen to some music with the tv on in the background. That's just me I guess.

I don't even listen to music anymore. My tv is also on in the background.

Well i can see my self in your shoes when i hit thirty but i just hit 21.

I work a FT job in IT and a lot of overtime is avail so of course i take the extra cash when i can. I play semi pro football...nationals this week so its my last week of practice and playing on saturday. Between work and football i prolly get in 12hrs of gaming on the 5day week. figure about 2-3 hours a day if that. Like today i work 8-430 ima get home settle in and prolly by 7 i'll start gaming. If i am lucky i'll get started that early. But when football is over i am going to be back in the gym and then in jan i am trying to go to college @ night. PLus i want to start taking certification classes and stuff as well. I seen someone else post about hoarding games and i just has an epiphany. It does make sense to wait a while before buying games. I have some still in plastic, on all 3 systems check the sig lol. It sucks and i cant wait to get that extra hour of sleep in my life...or maybe when we turn the clocks back ima make it the extra hour of gaming lol. Oo and let me say my Son is due in DEC so yea no partying/gaming is visible in my future.

I have college classes on Mon, Wed, and Thursedays. The days I have off I mostly game and go on here.

They should hurry up with the cloning technology, that way we could have a slave clon that goes to work while we stay playing video games at home.

:D

mirko_j

I go to school monday through thursday and work friday through saturday, but I still find a few hours here and there to play games, because I have no social life.somesthetic

[QUOTE="shabazz5th"]

Just thought I'd rant a bit to the PS3 community here...

Just a little about my situation...work in IT, married for 3 years, and a new born son.

30 years old, who then goes to the gym after work...get home, have dinner with the wife, then have to kick the kid around so he has a father...

Next thing I know, it's 11pm, and it's close to bedtime, and I barely get any gaming in anymore! I usually play games only on Sat/Sun, and even those are limited.

*sigh*...I'm sure everyone else has a similar story...whether it's with school, significant other, or kids...but I miss the days of playing games until 2am on a school/work day :(

AND...with all these great games coming out...i am missing out...I have them, but can barely play them. I need a job that lets me play games for a living :).

jeffbase33

I am 35, single, and rarely have time for gaming. When you gotta work, clean house, laundry, cook supper for youself, the hours fly by. The bad thing about the time factor is that games are time sensitive entertainment. I can not enjoy the games I bought 10 years ago because the graphics are so horrible. Try playing the first Medal of Honor. lol

I still have tons of last gen Xbox games that I never got around to playing. Quite a few from last year. Assassin's Creed is still new in the wrapper. lol I paid 60 bucks for it, and I could get the same thing now for 20 bucks. Right now, I am slogging through Tales of Vesperia, determined to beat it before moving to the next. Then I have:

SW Force Unleashed

Brother in Arms

Infinite Undiscovery

Metal Gear Series

Crisis Core

Dead Space

Saint's Row 1 and 2

Far Cry 2

Fallout 3

Almost makes me wish I was born a lot later in life. When I was growing up, I probably beat 80% of the NES library, and those games are total crap compared to today's titles.

actually played moh within the last year...yes its ugly...but i thought it was still enjoyable.

i hear ya buddy.....i hear yaredeemer12

Same here. Once you're married that is almost the nail in the cauffin, I don't want to imagine how awful life would be with a kid (I hope I'm sterile so that will be an easy way out).Even if the wife is out for a while, you just know there could be a call any minute or if even if she goes to sleep, the guilt just kills you to not be there. Pick up and play games are difficult to enjoy and god forbid any game with substance that you would want to get heavily deep into the atmosphere and world. Survival horror is hands down my favorite genre and Silent Hill 2 is one of my favorite games of all time and I haven't even bother trying to play the following Silent Hills, Fatal Frames, Rule of Rose, Siren New Translation (screw Blood Curse) etc etc- I still have to own them though.

Anyways, this is one of two reasons I'm considering selling my factory sealed, 2 year warrantied 60gb PS3 on eBay soon and then my MGS4 80gb next year. Maybe I should wait til next year for the 60gb hmmm... no one will have them new with warranty by then.