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After reading posts about how gaming may or may not affect your life etc, has anyone here ever actually played a game for a length of time, and then just got on with life?
Example:
I was playing GTA3 the other day. I had spent 3hrs running around Liberty City stealing cars, shooting joggers and trying to get the army to come out because I wanted a tank race with them. I was so deeply immersed in the game and forgot all track of time.
And then I went down to the town for some provisions.
On my way, as I walked alongside the road, I had absolutely no urge to yank someone out of their car and drive away.
Once in town, it never once occured to me to climb to a rooftop and start taking potshots at passers-by. This is because I did not have a weapon and I had forgotten already that I had played the game that morning.
Or when I had been playing Return To Castle Wolfenstein all day Sunday.
The following day, not once did I get the urge to smash open the boxes outside and see if ammo lay inside. Nor did I prowl the cellars of my work and hunt for nazi creatures that may be down there.
Or take the shocking example of playing Gran Turismo non-stop.
I had to then go out and drive to London.
I was heading down the motorway and saw a car rapidly approaching in my mirror. He was sure to over-take me and get there quicker.
So what did I do? Bearing in mind my gaming world mind requires me to move over and shunt him into the wall?
I lit a smoke,turned the radio up and had yet another Ginster's sausage roll explode in a cloud of pastry once I bit into it.
I didn't try to race him, I didn't try to force him off the road and laugh, looking behind me with no awareness of what was approaching.
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I don't know, maybe it's me but when I turn a game off I then forget all about it until such a time that I play it again.
I don't expect my world to morph into a game environment and I don't mistake visitors for aliens arriving to invade my science complex.
Because I don't have one.
Because it's just a game.
Example:
I was playing GTA3 the other day. I had spent 3hrs running around Liberty City stealing cars, shooting joggers and trying to get the army to come out because I wanted a tank race with them. I was so deeply immersed in the game and forgot all track of time.
And then I went down to the town for some provisions.
On my way, as I walked alongside the road, I had absolutely no urge to yank someone out of their car and drive away.
Once in town, it never once occured to me to climb to a rooftop and start taking potshots at passers-by. This is because I did not have a weapon and I had forgotten already that I had played the game that morning.
Or when I had been playing Return To Castle Wolfenstein all day Sunday.
The following day, not once did I get the urge to smash open the boxes outside and see if ammo lay inside. Nor did I prowl the cellars of my work and hunt for nazi creatures that may be down there.
Or take the shocking example of playing Gran Turismo non-stop.
I had to then go out and drive to London.
I was heading down the motorway and saw a car rapidly approaching in my mirror. He was sure to over-take me and get there quicker.
So what did I do? Bearing in mind my gaming world mind requires me to move over and shunt him into the wall?
I lit a smoke,turned the radio up and had yet another Ginster's sausage roll explode in a cloud of pastry once I bit into it.
I didn't try to race him, I didn't try to force him off the road and laugh, looking behind me with no awareness of what was approaching.
---
I don't know, maybe it's me but when I turn a game off I then forget all about it until such a time that I play it again.
I don't expect my world to morph into a game environment and I don't mistake visitors for aliens arriving to invade my science complex.
Because I don't have one.
Because it's just a game.
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VenomByte wrote:
> I wonder if I'd have said that I've I hadn't played The Sims so much?
"..said that IF I hadn't.."
Damn. I'm not hungover, honest.
> I wonder if I'd have said that I've I hadn't played The Sims so much?
"..said that IF I hadn't.."
Damn. I'm not hungover, honest.
I wonder if I'd have said that I've I hadn't played The Sims so much?
When lounging outside a French cafe, very much like the one in Broken Sword, imagine my consternation when a clown didn't turn up with a bomb accordion. What's happening to the world when sadist clowns don't blow up bistros?
Venom, I can't say that I have to be honest...
Does it ever work the other way around? Do you find yourself wanting to do ordinary things in a game?
Ever been playing need for speed and wanted to reach for the bottle of coke you always keep in your glove compartment? Or have you been horrified at the idea of speeding, as you might scratch your porsche? Have you ever tried to call a truce with your opponent on Tekken, because otherwise you'll only hurt yourselves? Did you ever try to get batman to go home for a coffee, because really it's just not his problem?
Ever been playing need for speed and wanted to reach for the bottle of coke you always keep in your glove compartment? Or have you been horrified at the idea of speeding, as you might scratch your porsche? Have you ever tried to call a truce with your opponent on Tekken, because otherwise you'll only hurt yourselves? Did you ever try to get batman to go home for a coffee, because really it's just not his problem?
Some of you people scare me.
syphon filter 2!!
when me and my mate played it we walked around the streets pretending to shoot people and they actually kind of got scared and walked off or maybe they just thought where ill in the head. also we imitaded sniper rifles with pellit gun at people at the bustop outside my window.
when me and my mate played it we walked around the streets pretending to shoot people and they actually kind of got scared and walked off or maybe they just thought where ill in the head. also we imitaded sniper rifles with pellit gun at people at the bustop outside my window.
After playing GTA3 for a while I took a short trip down to the local shops. As I walked down my road, I noticed a car parked on the right hand side. It was very nice, and GTA3 suddenly came to my head. I didn't have the urge to steal it or anything, but I wondered what it would be like. Would it be as easy as on GTA3? In GTA, stealing cars is something that takes no thought. Is it the same in real life?
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