2016 was 10 years ago. What games were you playing at the time?

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Man, you could still have some time for gaming. Just set aside 1 hour of free time a day, even with kids you can do it.

I spend 90% of my free time gaming. Usually 3-4 hours after work,I would never read or exercise over game. I also don't cook any "real" or major meals outside of simple stuff.
Red Dead Redemption and its sequel are great, and just think of all the Nintendo games you could play with your kids like all the new Mario and Zelda games.

Gaming is a way of life. I wouldn't have it any other way.

See, this is the kind of thinking that makes me believe that video games are a bad habit. My kids don‘t have any. You know how they spend their time? With reading, sports and making music. While I‘m typing this (yeah, not winning any dad awards lol), they‘re playing LEGO. I have enough intellectually neglected kids at school.

[CyberCubed]

If you set a time limit it wouldn't be so bad. Like 1 hour of game time, then 3+ hours for your kids to do anything else. You can easily buy a Switch and play all the modern Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Kirby, etc. games or other kid-friendly games with them. And these games are pick up and play, meaning you don't have to spend a lot of time investment and just play a level or two before stopping.

Our generation pretty much grew up with videogames, and young kids wind up playing cell phone games or mobile games which are even worse as they become teens. I'd rather see Gen Z/Gen-Alpha play real games. We grew up with Mario and they should too.

[Prowler]

CyberCubed is the textbook stereotype of a hardcore gamer lol. Not all of us are like that.

I cook dinner every single day, for example. I don't skip dinner or order pizza instead. I love video games, but I don't eat while gaming or anything like that.

Does gaming eat up free time I could be using to exercise and read books instead? Sure, but same applies to wasting time online, to be fair. So it's not all gaming's fault.

At the end of the day, we are the ones who make use of our own time. Perhaps having gaming as your favourite hobby is not a good idea if you like to do other stuff that also requires a significant amount of time, though. I've met people who play video games but stick to rather short games or games that they can just pick up and play once a week or so. They don't play long games like The Witcher III, BOTW or JRPGs because "I don't have the kind of life that gives me time to play 100+ hour games!"

CyberCubed is single, and so am I. I guess that helps a lot. If I had a wife and kids, I probably wouldn't have time to game either.

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by Prowler

CyberCubed is the textbook stereotype of a hardcore gamer lol. Not all of us are like that.

I cook dinner every single day, for example. I don't skip dinner or order pizza instead. I love video games, but I don't eat while gaming or anything like that.

Does gaming eat up free time I could be using to exercise and read books instead? Sure, but same applies to wasting time online, to be fair. So it's not all gaming's fault.

At the end of the day, we are the ones who make use of our own time. Perhaps having gaming as your favourite hobby is not a good idea if you like to do other stuff that also requires a significant amount of time, though. I've met people who play video games but stick to rather short games or games that they can just pick up and play once a week or so. They don't play long games like The Witcher III, BOTW or JRPGs because "I don't have the kind of life that gives me time to play 100+ hour games!"

CyberCubed is single, and so am I. I guess that helps a lot. If I had a wife and kids, I probably wouldn't have time to game either.

You are right about wasting time online, it's a horrible habit. I still spend about two hours online every day which needs to be decreased.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Prowler

How was the Doom reboot?

I guess I shouldn't have called it a reboot, as Doom 2016 is really a sequel. But it's an OK game. Gets a little monotonous when you get to a certain point in it but it's still fun.

Doom: Dark Ages => Doom => Doom II => Final Doom => Doom 64 => Doom (2016) => Doom Eternal.

Doom 3 is the only one that isn't canonical. Which is too bad because I loved that one best. So creepy! It oozes atmosphere.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I guess I shouldn't have called it a reboot, as Doom 2016 is really a sequel. But it's an OK game. Gets a little monotonous when you get to a certain point in it but it's still fun.

Doom: Dark Ages => Doom => Doom II => Final Doom => Doom 64 => Doom (2016) => Doom Eternal.

Doom 3 is the only one that isn't canonical. Which is too bad because I loved that one best. So creepy! It oozes atmosphere.

I've only played OG Doom. It's fun and has aged WAY better than Wolfenstein 3D, despite only coming out a year or less afterwards. It's shocking how poorly Wolfenstein 3D has aged.