Classic example. Tell your parents they can't have plans with a human life. Ask them also would they give you more $ necessary to do things that are far costly outside or be indoor and save far more by playing games. Also, when you are outside you are exposed on far more life threatening dangers than home. Tell your parents that if they continue to treat you like that they won't be your parents for too long. I had a real life friend committed suicide when he was 21 that resulted from his family having too much expectations of him and how his life should turn out to be.

Best thing you should tell to your parents, the more they let you experience gaming to its fullest, the sooner you'll find other things more interesting like focusing on your career path when you are 20.

Some web sites you visit on a daily basis. I'll start...

space.com

other gaming forums (won't name it here for obvious reasons)

the garbage called cnn/yahoo/bbc and some newspapers from my native country

sadly tmz.com

the obvious....facebook/youtube

Pretty much this is it for me.

Recent GTA IV/V, Tomb Raider, Mass Effect, Far Cry, Batman, Witcher and other mega popular titles do not interest me?

I've also literally not spend $ on any new game after DCUO (this was January 11th 2011). So, I'm looking at almost 4½ years where no developer has delivered anything that would open my wallet. Here is the odd thing though...From 1990 to 2010 I'm confident that I hold the record in most time spent on gaming. I've finished 90-95% of all the first generation consoles like Nintendo, SNES, PSX, some Dreamcast and a lot Arcade games before these consoles.

From around 2000 I found myself spending most $ playing LAN multiplayer PC games before I finally got my own PC in late 2001. From 2001 to 2011 I've found myself playing fewer games but for longer period, due to their multiplayer/social aspect. I've been part of most MMORPG's as well and I've spent significant time on RTS/FPS games like Half Life, Counter Strike and Star Craft since I got my PC.

I'm also not suffering from a burnout. I just look at these popular games, MOBA's as well but they don't grab my attention, mainly because they feel more of the same. I'm still desperately trying to find a game I can see myself play long term. Something that's taken more seriously and mature. Games like EVE, Ultima Online and SWG for example, with persistent worlds and tons of features, ways/paths I can play them with my ship/chr/car or whatever I consistently develop for long term goals.

I mean, am I asking too much?

I've given up on trying to find the best multiplayer I'll enjoy the most. 25 years of hardcore gaming allows me to enjoy any product for what it is as long as you can as well.

This game it will be for me to just pass the time until X game arrives eventually that I'll see myself spending $ on. So, pick a F2P multiplayer PC game for me and by end of this weekend I'll install whatever gets most votes, thx.

If you could play one game or are playing today share it to the community. You are welcome to voice your reasons why the game has kept your interest and hopefully it will draw bigger player base thx to it.

Multiplayer games are my best preference since I'm part of a world, community and they have the best funding to keep me interested with content or game design. In 20 days my WOW sub expires after 3 months of WOD and I'm not having fun there at all.

So, I'm definitely moving on and trying to find a new home....Something newer, fresher is preferable. I've been thinking about Marvel Heroes lately, any thoughts on that one?

http://i.imgur.com/j7bynU3.jpg?1

The picture says it all....I was fortunate to find a SS of some bounty who was so proud he got me that he had to upload it to his site.

The worst thing that can happen to someone who's spent his life gaming more than anyone else around here is to just one day lose interest in 99% of games that are available out there...

Born in 1985, since age 5-6 I start hanging from early hours to evening in the local arcade store. Then the Nintendo came, the super Nintendo, game boy, and dream cast. I've played almost every single game available through the golden era and enjoyed so much. Then moved to LAN, counter strike, half life, quake, unreal tournament, star craft. I spent so much $ playing hourly cuz I could not afford a PC. Then moved to a different country, got my hands on a PC...and never bought a console again.

Internet, multiplayer games were a blast. I continued with the same FPS, RTS and other genre games as well as the new MMORPG genre which stood by from everything else. So, over the last 13 years I focused the most on these MMORPG's, which were something far more complex, with depth, with virtual worlds...

The way I see single player games today is just with better graphics, but far less innovative, more generic, short and easily cheatable, through choosing easy modes or saved states to just blaze through contents. This has been my primary turn off from single player games, the fact no longer I have to think and think hard to solve problems, to overcome challenges or really get emotionally attached to a single game.

Square, Konami were some of the best companies who truly understood the concept of RPG. Xenogears, Suikoden and early Final Fantasy series as examples. Now I can't even touch Final Fantasy 13. Automated combat, only one single item to equip as armor (accessory), that did it for me. It felt too linear and familiar as well.

Anyways, it truly sucks to lose interest in gaming. I'm probably an anomaly, cuz who here has played 99% of all games available from 1990 to 2006, but hasn't played 99% from like 2006+. What I found was how I love sticking and playing one game for prolong time with high value, community and simply making my own name, story around it. Sadly, today the most complex genre "MMORPGs" seems to be overrun by cheating, exploiting, paying to win or some other serious issues that are left unaddressed because they are rushed too fast into the market.

I truly wish one day to be part of a virtual world MMORPG where I can truly immerse myself and have the opportunity to explore a difference experience than the one I'm familiar IRL. We have the tools and technology available, but people today somehow still enjoy some of the most primitive, basic and simplified genres like FPS, MOBA, or some generic, linear short lived single player stories...

But that's the thing, I refuse to buy a console just to be able to play a game that can run without any issues on my PC. It's the reason I've never bought a console after DreamCast.

Short summary. I've played and completed 90-95% of all Arcade, NES, SNES, PSX, Game Boy, etc games. Last console was DreamCast and played LAN at some net café on PC, playing SC, CS, UT, etc. Once I moved to Canada and got my PC never bought a console again. I just enjoyed online games far more like Ultima Online, Half Life, Star Craft etc.

I played the crap out of MMORPG's after Ultima Online, many P2P and F2P, but around 2010 I've lost complete interest in PC single player games. DC Universe Online is the last MMORPG I've bought and enjoyed a lot for year and a half and so.

I've only played Skyrim (barely played through the story) and Civilization 5 for some time and completed only few other single player games on PC like Dead Space 1 and Batman Arkham City (first one). What turns me off the most is the generic, shallow stories and lack of deep, long stories, something like I remember enjoying a lot back in the days from Xenogears to Suikoden, FFVIII and so forth.

The PC version of FFXIII I only played it for an hour. I felt the lack of depth to what I can do with my character as well as the generic story, blah. I mean a lot of things have changed in the gaming industry....and for me to worse.

So, today I find myself still stuck with WOW after 10 years and enjoying the arena aspect the most out of it from anything else out there. I don't even get what's the big hype with all these Witcher, Dragon Age titles (which I've never showed interest playing). I've played Mass Effect 1/2, but became too boring for me to bother finishing.

I'm just curious if there is anyone else out there who's been in my shoes and who's played almost anything out there from 1990 to 2000. I've been so fortunate to experience the golden age of MMORPG's from 2001-2005 like SWG for example. I guess once I see how far games can go and what they can do I have hard time to settle for less and something mediocre or generic, something so familiar and overdone.