On average, how many hours a day/week do you play video games?
 

For me it depends. I can go days/weeks without playing an hour or less than that per day. There's others where I'll play about 2-3 hours per day.

So, I'm gonna say about 7 to 14 hours a week usually.

What about you?

It depends for me as well, on the days I have to go to work, I would say on average 30 minutes a day but on my days off, maybe 2 hours a day on average.

None anymore.

Too little quite honestly not enough

I'd say a good five hours a week. But that's not nearly as much as I'd like.

All day every day, boyeeee.

At least 1 hour a day, on weekends/day off at least 2-3 hours.

People who don't play videogames are missing out. In just the last few years so many excellent games came out.

Less than three hours a week.

I play quite a few hours. Daily. add me on psn: "kaptainmyke"

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It's funny but I used to play more on a daily basis when I was a kid/teenager. Even though back then I was "forced" to study and do my homework by my parents, unlike nowadays where I can choose when I feel like studying or doing some uni work. So you'd think I'd manage to play less games when I was a kid and my mother told me near midnight to turn off the console and go to bed :lol:

There are just too many great games coming out. The PS3/360 gen had so many excellent games it's ridiculous, and I'm not talking about FPS either, but it had so many great games in so many genre's.

Plus Nintendo games have been consistently good on Wii and DS, and now 3DS and Wii-U/Switch.

It's insane, videogames are so much better than movies or TV shows. They've caught up and surpassed them entirely. Why would I want to watch someone be a hero in a movie when *I* can be the hero myself in a videogame? Now that games are so realistic we don't need action movies anymore.

I used to play a lot of video games when I was younger, and had more games to play with.

It is quite a different scenario nowadays since I hardly ever play anything. I used to be able to play within an online game site, and it recently got shut down.

I'm still bummed about that.

On average 0 hrs/day, but when I get hooked into a game I can play it from a few minutes daily to an hour. Depending what type of game it is, if you give me a RTS game I can spend an entire afternoon playing it or if I just want to beat a game I spend about an 1 1/2 every day until I finish it but for the most part I don't really game much and the previous examples are the exceptions of me not usually playing games.

It's also hard to define playing games, does the electronic sudoku on my phone that I use on the subway count? I am counting it but there are such passive games that I hardly count as really "playing" a game.


People who only play videogames are missing out. In just a few steps from how you'll find so many excellent things to do.

Games aren't realistic at all, games have become crappy movies since they don't have the high quality writers of movies so you're left with a repetitive game or without any real challenge now. There are tons of great movies that only if you watch hollywood blockbusters you'll never understand. You can read books and use your imagination to tell a story. There are very few video game stories that are even on the caliber of good movies/shows and I'm talking about the "critically acclaimed" stories on video games. Seriously watch some of those "Video Game The Movie" that compile all the cutscenes and story elements of games, you'll get bored out of your mind and see how ridiculous the story is that you only forgive because you are playing as the character and it helps transition between two levels.

I play 2 hours every two weeks. School consumes most of my time now
2 years ago, I would play 4 hours per week.

No, sdp, sorry but you are wrong here. Even with the sheer mass of cinema scenes in modern games, there's still plenty of actual gameplay. Look at the big budget games of today like Uncharted, Mass Effect, Tomb Raider, Dishonored 2, Doom, The Last Guardian, Overwatch, Dark Souls, Dues Ex, Yakuza 0, Resident Evil 7, Nioh, Horizeon etc.

It seems nobody on this forum knows anything about games other than Cure and I. We seem to be the only two hardcore gamers on this forum who keep up with all the modern releases and follow the industry. I don't know what happened to the rest of you, but this place used to be filled with actual gamers.

Only Cure and I know anything about games here. We are hardcore gamers.

It's really hard to say exactly. I'll try to sneak away to play my Nintendo Classic and then my son will come in and say that he wants to play. So I might end up getting in maybe like an hour for the whole week?

Inflated ego much?
Face it dude; gaming isn't what it used to be. Most games that come out usually fail to capture the interests of a lot of people, compared to older games. They usually don't bring much new to the table. How many reskined COD games are you gonna buy until you're tired of 'em? Pair that with overinflated prices for new games and consoles that become "obsolete" compared to a new model a few years later. Because of this interests dwindle. Personally, I figured the modern game market was crap a long time ago, that's why I just dedicate my gaming time to what I consider the good stuff: retro and bootleg systems. I'd much rather play NES or Super Pong than XBone or PS4. The graphics may not be the same, but who cares about stuff like that? All that matters to me is gameplay, and to me, older stuff delivers more than whatever the modern stuff can spit out.
Also, I'm not surprised that not a lot of people post about games here, there's not exactly much traffic on this site in the first place. As for you guys being the only people who "know about video games" that's bull. There are tons of accounts here, and by your logic only two known about games? :roll: There are others, I'm sure. They just decide not to post about them for their own reasons.

Way to take the bait, man.

Not that I'm happy about being lumped in with CyberCubed, but yeah, this is the argument people who know nothing about actual modern games make.

I flat out didn't mention any casual FPS games to prove my point. It's like you guys have no idea what games are. I don't buy Call of Duty at all.

I'll tell you my PS4 collection, not counting HD ports or anything but new games:

Uncharted 4
Bloodborne
Dark Souls III
The Witcher III
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Dishonored II
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Overwatch
The Last Guardian
Ratchet and Clank
Metal Gear Solid V
Resident Evil 7
Dying Light
Infamous Second Son
Fallout 4
Batman Arkham Knight
Doom
Star Wars Battlefront
Gravity Rush 2
Yakuza 0
Nioh
Horizon Zero Dawn


I'd love for to tell me what "re-skinned" games there are here. The only online multiplayer games I really have is Star Wars Battlefront and Overwatch. I am a single player gamer mostly.

Did you look at my post, brah? :cry:

If I push myself to stay awake every night,after putting my daughter to sleep...Maybe 6hrs-9hrs a week?

Don't have as much free time as I used to have. It sucks, but it's okay.

Anyone who doesn't have at least 1-2 hours to play videogames a night either doesn't manage their time correctly or is too busy with kids. For those of you without kids, it's rather easy.

You guys probably waste most of your time browing online forums or sites than playing videogames. Cut back on the computer and you have more time to play games.

What makes you think they don't use their free time to consume other mediums such as anime/cartoons, comics, books, movies or tv shows?

Says the guy with 30000 posts.

He has the oddest definition of "intellectual" I've ever seen. He says ehe doesn't even read books that aren't comics. He just watches cartoons, posts on forums and plays games all day. Unless he considers himself some sort of cartoon/message board/video game scientist.

Usually play 1 hour of games every night but don't have much variety in games and don't have any interests in games released these days.

The only games I play regularly these days are Pokemon Showdown, Counter-Strike and Super Smash Bros. Melee

As said, they're an accumulation of me being here since 2004, for over 13 years. If I had just registered here 5 years ago and had that many posts, that'd raise an eyebrow.

I've literally been here for 13 years. That's nearly a decade and a half. A large amount of posts when I visit all the main TMNT sections and the side sections would be expected.

You make several posts a day, though. I've only reached 1000 posts around 2013-2014 and I honestly think I already have a quite high post count considering how small these forums are. If I had gotten one thousand posts per year ever since I had joined I'd still have less than 10000 posts. So yeah, CyberCubed, you post a lot. Not to mention you also reached about 90 thousand post on IGN quite early on and I imagine you have a ton of posts on Serebii as well.

About 2-14 hours a week of MarioKart7 on the new3dsxl. Lately though I have been cutting my time short due to more and more hackers joining in and spoiling all the fun. :roll: :lol:

Revisionist history by CyberCubed. I joined pretty much at the same time he did and he was not a frequent poster, look at my post count and I actually used to have as many posts as he did during the first few years, it wasn't until the 2010's that he started posting en masse.

And to answer CC question about how it's impossible to find 1-2 hours a day, I'm guessing he doesn't do exercise because that takes an hour or more of my day, so there goes my daily gaming time to health.

When I joined this place in early 2009 he stuck to the TMNT sections only. And he kept reminding everyone else that Lionsgate didn't release the Hokum episodes on DVD or wtv that was about. Back then people already got annoyed at his threads lol

Not that much recently. The last two games that I spent a lot of time playing were Zelda - A Link Between Worlds and Sonic Boom - Fire and Ice.

I had like 30,000 posts on serebii and bulbagarden before I got banned there, lol. I've also been on both those forums since 2004-2005 or so.

I was especially active during the Hoenn and DP seasons because I watched those regularly when they aired (aside from the original seasons I saw as a kid). Had fun arguing with all the crazy Misty fans who were there at the time.

Does anyone here have stories of games they got into over 10 years ago? I'm talking about games that you still check out even to this day. For me, the only 3 regular video games I play have been out for than a decade and I haven't been interested in maining anything else ever since:

1. Pokemon: I started when I got Pokemon Ruby for the GBA in about 2005. Was instantly hooked to the series then and started playing FireRed, Leafgreen, Sapphire and Emerald as well. Then I got a DS in 2008 which was when I began playing Diamond and Platinum. My DS then one day broke and I didn't play Pokemon for a few more years until I discovered emulators. That got me into the gen 1 and 2 Pokemon games. However, I never got into Black and White and never tried it, instead just quitting the mainstream Pokemon games completely when I discovered Pokemon Showdown which I still play to this day since 2013.

2. Counter-Strike I discovered in 2006 I think when my dad first got the family a desktop PC and I was allowed to buy one game for it. Browsing the flea market of cheap games, I discovered Counter-Strike. It looked interesting so I chose that game (mostly just due to the awesome looking packaging of a SWAT team). When I installed it onto my pc, I was instantly hooked. Ive tried out Counter Strike Source and Global Offensive as well and liked them, but its 1.6/Condition Zero which keeps me coming. Even the Deleted Scenes mode is a guilty pleasure for me and Ive had so many good memories playing Counter-Strike for over 10 years, from inviting friends to play Lan, to having all the different skins, to the experience and feel of the game in general. Still play it occassionaly every week and proud of it.

3. Super Smash Bros: Where do I begin? Well I guess at my cousins house where I saw them with this weird purple toy box with a kiddy gamepad attached to it. Weird as the console was, the game it was playing looked absolutely stunning. Mario and link duelling on Pokemon Stadium, what an awesome concept! I was instantly hooked and it became I sole reason I used to come to visit my cousins so frequently about 10 years ago. Even better, we were neighbours so it was less than a walk in the park. Anyways, I put alot of hours into Smash Bros Melee back then and it became even better when I got a Wii and began playing Brawl. My cousins also showed me their N64 with a working copy of the first smash game so I got the best of all three worlds. I enjoyed all 3 smash games immensely at the time. However, when I moved away from my cousins (overseas), I sort of lost interst over time. That is until last year when I tested Melee on the Dolphin emulator and it worked! I plugged my laptop onto the tv screen and use a Ps3 controller to make melee feel like the good old gamecube again. I've never played Smash 4 for the Wii U and 3DS. I love 64 and brawl alot but Melees my all time no.1 favourite and I still play it to this day. Watching competitive melee videos is also fun and its helped me develop my skill over time.

30 thousand in total, right? What did you get banned for, out of curiosity? Was it those Pokémon fics you wrote that got you banned?

I dunno what kind of reputation you have on Pokémon forums, but I remember you being quite well respected on the TMNT and Pokémon IGN boards. btw, remember LightSpeedDash?

Same thing I am here, or anywhere. Some people think I'm crazy or trolling, others find me funny and interesting.

for the 3rd time: I PLAY A SH!T TON OF VIDEO GAMES. thanks

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OVER

Why the anger?

Are you trying to get like, cred around here? No one cares.