I bought a PSP 1001 just for when I had to go in the hospital because their wifi didn't allow any gaming sights and I wasn't buying a laptop just for that so I got the Williams collection ( I think) just for Joust and would play till my arms or hands went numb. Then one time they made me go in hospice care for nursing care for a while but they let me bring my PS3 and big screen TV there so I let my roommate use the PSP and it got stolen and they replaced it with a 3001 and I bought Pro Street and GTA Liberty City Stories and quit loaning it out. lol I had still been using it because someone gave me Madden 09 and Franchise is pretty fun on Advanced but a couple days ago the replacement charger I bought didn't seat right and broke the pin on the socket so I'm shopping on eBay deciding whether to buy a cheap PSP or some other handheld. I really need one for ambulance trips and waiting rooms.

The first console I played was the NES but it was my little nieces so I didn't buy anything, just played her Mario, or Duck Hunt if I was drop dead bored then a friend turned me on to Tecmo Bowl which was awesome fun back then, we were working for a Volunteer Fire Dept. and out of state and brought that with us and played season after season with bad teams, Chicago was so easy to go undefeated with the running game, right, left, right, left, etc. But the SNES was much more fun, F-Zero made me buy one of those myself but that's all I had besides Super Tecmo Bowl, then I was paralyzed sometime later and got the NES and boy did I buy a lot of games, and then had an even 100 with the PS2, (but PC for online FPS) and countless with the PS3 so yes the PS1 was the console that REALLY got me into gaming.

I've found myself wanting a newer Madden, but not the newest, I don't want to pay $60 for it. Just one a couple years old that has an owner mode like one I had on the PS2, where you could change cities, build a newer bigger stadium, set ticket prices, even set concession stand prices and of course play your team. The better your team the more tickets you'd sell and the higher you could set your prices. Is there a Madden with this mode in the last 5 years? If there's a few maybe suggest the best one in your opinion.

I try to lose myself in the game and think of it as real life with me as the hero. So I would say I play seriously but fun is a side effect of playing this way. If I wasn't having fun I wouldn't do it. I have found, however, that games that make me mad are usually the most fun. Not an irritating kind of mad, like because of glitches or bugs but the kind of mad that comes from working so hard and failing. Hard games are generally more fun than an easy game. I've had games make me so mad I literally threw the controller. But I would pick it up and go again because when I finally beat it I jump up and scream YES!! NOW!! Take that Mother &#@^%er. :)

I'm constantly playing Gran Turismo 6, then when it gets later at night I'll play different very long open RPG games. Right now I have dug Oblivion out and playing it for about the 4th time, I average around 550 hours per play. I'll also replay Skyrim, Fallout 3 and New Vegas. When I want faster game play I'll usually play one of the CoD MW series, sometimes one of the Black Ops or even Ghosts. I have also played Resistance 2 and 3 as well as Killzone 2 and 3 to death. I can't count how many times I have beaten each one of those. But the most played definitely goes to Skyrim, easily topping 2500 hours. 2nd either Oblivion or Fallout 3 with at least 2000 hours each.

@robotopbuddy: Ok, I'll just try a mainstream browser then, thanks for the help.

@Lulu_Lulu: It's also been found that people who take lots of pictures on vacations don't remember them as well as when they don't. Different subject but same idea.

A good storyline is everything to me, when good enough, it has made me continue playing a bad game, the first Deus Ex comes to mind, not that it was really bad but needlessly repetitive making you go from one end of the map and back for every single mission. Had the story been bad I wouldn't have done it, but the story had grabbed me so I did it. As many others have said, some games don't need it, for me that means Gran Turismo and the last Madden I played was 07, but even it had a sort of story you were in by playing the Career mode and choosing to take trades to other teams, picking you manager, even demanding to be traded etc. Not a proper story but it was nice. I wish Gran Turismo would do that. Perhaps have to wait on an invitation from a promoter to your next race dependent on your performance on previous races, the same with car you win, have sponsers vie for your attention by dangling a nice modded Skyline in front of you to race for them. They do have a guy that writes you a letter inviting you to a special event, but that's FAR from a story. But as it is friends have pushed me into previously hated genres like RPG's when Oblivion came out by telling me about the great story and side stories, which led me to the Fallout titles and then Skyrim, great stories you had to play the game a few times, or at least go back to a save you kept where the story split, as in Fallout New Vegas where you choose to work for 1 of 3 people, or Skyrim where you join 1 of 2 sides in the war, although there isn't much difference there, but it was good enough as the game had replay value that I didn't mind playing it a 2nd time in a different role, even a 3rd time to see what it was like relying on magic instead of swords and axes. Although you can use both, but not to the full extent. To reiterate, a story is everything to me, and always will be.

I can't participate in any discussion on the Home page. That's really irritating. I can go to forums and reply, make new topics, or anything else but the interesting new articles? I'm shut out. Thanks Gamespot.

@Ducati996R: I agree with you there, I'm going to be catching up on a couple CoD titles I passed on earlier and hope something unexpected pops out there.