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I love video games. Not as a passion – I’m not a nerd who sits at home day after day playing games. I have a social life, as do almost everybody on these forums. I mean, the typical ‘hardcore gamer’ is so unbelievably stereotyped that even mentioning the word ‘hardcore’ when talking about gaming brings up references of dark rooms late in the night and spotty teenagers. Doesn’t happen, I tell you.
As many people know, I have got a PlayStation2, an Xbox and a GameCube. How I managed to wind up with all three consoles, I don’t know. Why, I also don’t know. I never play my PS2 anymore and am only keeping it for Final Fantasy 10, and my Xbox was pretty much a spur-of-the-moment thing. Selling it in the Freeads tomorrow wouldn’t dent my gaming schedule in the least. There aren’t even any games which I look forward to. I pretty much only use my GameCube, and even there I’m seeing a serious lack of games.
I remember last Christmas. Every week, my friend and I would go into town and probably buy one, if not two games for the PS2. There were so many releases, so many ‘must have’ games. It was a great time I tell you. We both loved games, and we’d both have brilliant weekends. I don’t know where it has all gone now. I’ve lost my interest in gaming, lost my passion. My friend now has an Xbox and plays so infrequently that he wouldn’t even admit to love gaming. We don’t talk about games, we don’t discuss magazines. The passion has gone out of our gaming.
But then there is the PC front. My friend has broadband now, and plays online games frequently. He got a new PC, you see. Brilliant specifications with an amazing graphics card. I also have a brilliant new PC with a great graphics card, but not broadband. So while he’s harking on about online gaming, downloading massive things in short spaces of time and the rest of it, I’m left with the clunky old 56k dial up and a strict limit of 50 hours a month. Which means by this time in the month, I only go online for about half an hour a day. I am persuading my dad to get broadband, but at the moment it seems unlikely.
As I said, I love video games. It used to be my passion, my life. I live in a small village about ten minutes drive out of a town called Romsey, which many of you will know if you live around the South of England. I go to school in Romsey, all my friends live in Romsey and I don’t consider myself to be a country boy, since I generally spend my time in Romsey. The thing is, between now and last Christmas, things have moved on. My friend has become much more interested in the opposite gender, and consequently has become much more (in his view) ‘mature’. Gaming isn’t his hobby now and he likes to chill, listen to music and go out. I’d be happy to join in – my life doesn’t revolve around gaming – if it weren’t for the slight factor of where I live. So consequently, I can’t join in anything, and I feel as though I’m losing a friend. He seems so much less interested in gaming now, and I’m at a loose end. I love gaming, but I seem to play it so infrequently and there is so little which interests me. Is this what they call growing up?
I spend a lot of the time on the internet. MSN messenger is great since my mate has broadband and a PC in his room, so I can talk to him loads. I miss video games. I miss those days when we’d go into town and buy PS2 games and go home and spend hours on multiplayer. I miss my friend as a gamer now. It may be said contrary to this view, but I believe that video games are for children. And as I grow up, and so do my friends, I start to be drawn away from the seductive worlds waiting to be explored in gaming. Video Games are for children, and I guess that I’m going to have to deal with my departure from the world that I’ve loved for so long and indulged in passionately. I’m selling my PlayStation 2 after Final Fantasy 10. I’m going to also sell my Xbox and will probably keep my GameCube just in case. I will miss gaming, but I’ve started to realise that there is more to life than polygons. I am leaving gaming. And I think that I might just be growing up a bit in the process.
As many people know, I have got a PlayStation2, an Xbox and a GameCube. How I managed to wind up with all three consoles, I don’t know. Why, I also don’t know. I never play my PS2 anymore and am only keeping it for Final Fantasy 10, and my Xbox was pretty much a spur-of-the-moment thing. Selling it in the Freeads tomorrow wouldn’t dent my gaming schedule in the least. There aren’t even any games which I look forward to. I pretty much only use my GameCube, and even there I’m seeing a serious lack of games.
I remember last Christmas. Every week, my friend and I would go into town and probably buy one, if not two games for the PS2. There were so many releases, so many ‘must have’ games. It was a great time I tell you. We both loved games, and we’d both have brilliant weekends. I don’t know where it has all gone now. I’ve lost my interest in gaming, lost my passion. My friend now has an Xbox and plays so infrequently that he wouldn’t even admit to love gaming. We don’t talk about games, we don’t discuss magazines. The passion has gone out of our gaming.
But then there is the PC front. My friend has broadband now, and plays online games frequently. He got a new PC, you see. Brilliant specifications with an amazing graphics card. I also have a brilliant new PC with a great graphics card, but not broadband. So while he’s harking on about online gaming, downloading massive things in short spaces of time and the rest of it, I’m left with the clunky old 56k dial up and a strict limit of 50 hours a month. Which means by this time in the month, I only go online for about half an hour a day. I am persuading my dad to get broadband, but at the moment it seems unlikely.
As I said, I love video games. It used to be my passion, my life. I live in a small village about ten minutes drive out of a town called Romsey, which many of you will know if you live around the South of England. I go to school in Romsey, all my friends live in Romsey and I don’t consider myself to be a country boy, since I generally spend my time in Romsey. The thing is, between now and last Christmas, things have moved on. My friend has become much more interested in the opposite gender, and consequently has become much more (in his view) ‘mature’. Gaming isn’t his hobby now and he likes to chill, listen to music and go out. I’d be happy to join in – my life doesn’t revolve around gaming – if it weren’t for the slight factor of where I live. So consequently, I can’t join in anything, and I feel as though I’m losing a friend. He seems so much less interested in gaming now, and I’m at a loose end. I love gaming, but I seem to play it so infrequently and there is so little which interests me. Is this what they call growing up?
I spend a lot of the time on the internet. MSN messenger is great since my mate has broadband and a PC in his room, so I can talk to him loads. I miss video games. I miss those days when we’d go into town and buy PS2 games and go home and spend hours on multiplayer. I miss my friend as a gamer now. It may be said contrary to this view, but I believe that video games are for children. And as I grow up, and so do my friends, I start to be drawn away from the seductive worlds waiting to be explored in gaming. Video Games are for children, and I guess that I’m going to have to deal with my departure from the world that I’ve loved for so long and indulged in passionately. I’m selling my PlayStation 2 after Final Fantasy 10. I’m going to also sell my Xbox and will probably keep my GameCube just in case. I will miss gaming, but I’ve started to realise that there is more to life than polygons. I am leaving gaming. And I think that I might just be growing up a bit in the process.
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Aggg.. don't leave gaming.
It rules!
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It rules!
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I love video games. Not as a passion – I’m not a nerd who sits at home day after day playing games. I have a social life, as do almost everybody on these forums. I mean, the typical ‘hardcore gamer’ is so unbelievably stereotyped that even mentioning the word ‘hardcore’ when talking about gaming brings up references of dark rooms late in the night and spotty teenagers. Doesn’t happen, I tell you.
As many people know, I have got a PlayStation2, an Xbox and a GameCube. How I managed to wind up with all three consoles, I don’t know. Why, I also don’t know. I never play my PS2 anymore and am only keeping it for Final Fantasy 10, and my Xbox was pretty much a spur-of-the-moment thing. Selling it in the Freeads tomorrow wouldn’t dent my gaming schedule in the least. There aren’t even any games which I look forward to. I pretty much only use my GameCube, and even there I’m seeing a serious lack of games.
I remember last Christmas. Every week, my friend and I would go into town and probably buy one, if not two games for the PS2. There were so many releases, so many ‘must have’ games. It was a great time I tell you. We both loved games, and we’d both have brilliant weekends. I don’t know where it has all gone now. I’ve lost my interest in gaming, lost my passion. My friend now has an Xbox and plays so infrequently that he wouldn’t even admit to love gaming. We don’t talk about games, we don’t discuss magazines. The passion has gone out of our gaming.
But then there is the PC front. My friend has broadband now, and plays online games frequently. He got a new PC, you see. Brilliant specifications with an amazing graphics card. I also have a brilliant new PC with a great graphics card, but not broadband. So while he’s harking on about online gaming, downloading massive things in short spaces of time and the rest of it, I’m left with the clunky old 56k dial up and a strict limit of 50 hours a month. Which means by this time in the month, I only go online for about half an hour a day. I am persuading my dad to get broadband, but at the moment it seems unlikely.
As I said, I love video games. It used to be my passion, my life. I live in a small village about ten minutes drive out of a town called Romsey, which many of you will know if you live around the South of England. I go to school in Romsey, all my friends live in Romsey and I don’t consider myself to be a country boy, since I generally spend my time in Romsey. The thing is, between now and last Christmas, things have moved on. My friend has become much more interested in the opposite gender, and consequently has become much more (in his view) ‘mature’. Gaming isn’t his hobby now and he likes to chill, listen to music and go out. I’d be happy to join in – my life doesn’t revolve around gaming – if it weren’t for the slight factor of where I live. So consequently, I can’t join in anything, and I feel as though I’m losing a friend. He seems so much less interested in gaming now, and I’m at a loose end. I love gaming, but I seem to play it so infrequently and there is so little which interests me. Is this what they call growing up?
I spend a lot of the time on the internet. MSN messenger is great since my mate has broadband and a PC in his room, so I can talk to him loads. I miss video games. I miss those days when we’d go into town and buy PS2 games and go home and spend hours on multiplayer. I miss my friend as a gamer now. It may be said contrary to this view, but I believe that video games are for children. And as I grow up, and so do my friends, I start to be drawn away from the seductive worlds waiting to be explored in gaming. Video Games are for children, and I guess that I’m going to have to deal with my departure from the world that I’ve loved for so long and indulged in passionately. I’m selling my PlayStation 2 after Final Fantasy 10. I’m going to also sell my Xbox and will probably keep my GameCube just in case. I will miss gaming, but I’ve started to realise that there is more to life than polygons. I am leaving gaming. And I think that I might just be growing up a bit in the process.
As many people know, I have got a PlayStation2, an Xbox and a GameCube. How I managed to wind up with all three consoles, I don’t know. Why, I also don’t know. I never play my PS2 anymore and am only keeping it for Final Fantasy 10, and my Xbox was pretty much a spur-of-the-moment thing. Selling it in the Freeads tomorrow wouldn’t dent my gaming schedule in the least. There aren’t even any games which I look forward to. I pretty much only use my GameCube, and even there I’m seeing a serious lack of games.
I remember last Christmas. Every week, my friend and I would go into town and probably buy one, if not two games for the PS2. There were so many releases, so many ‘must have’ games. It was a great time I tell you. We both loved games, and we’d both have brilliant weekends. I don’t know where it has all gone now. I’ve lost my interest in gaming, lost my passion. My friend now has an Xbox and plays so infrequently that he wouldn’t even admit to love gaming. We don’t talk about games, we don’t discuss magazines. The passion has gone out of our gaming.
But then there is the PC front. My friend has broadband now, and plays online games frequently. He got a new PC, you see. Brilliant specifications with an amazing graphics card. I also have a brilliant new PC with a great graphics card, but not broadband. So while he’s harking on about online gaming, downloading massive things in short spaces of time and the rest of it, I’m left with the clunky old 56k dial up and a strict limit of 50 hours a month. Which means by this time in the month, I only go online for about half an hour a day. I am persuading my dad to get broadband, but at the moment it seems unlikely.
As I said, I love video games. It used to be my passion, my life. I live in a small village about ten minutes drive out of a town called Romsey, which many of you will know if you live around the South of England. I go to school in Romsey, all my friends live in Romsey and I don’t consider myself to be a country boy, since I generally spend my time in Romsey. The thing is, between now and last Christmas, things have moved on. My friend has become much more interested in the opposite gender, and consequently has become much more (in his view) ‘mature’. Gaming isn’t his hobby now and he likes to chill, listen to music and go out. I’d be happy to join in – my life doesn’t revolve around gaming – if it weren’t for the slight factor of where I live. So consequently, I can’t join in anything, and I feel as though I’m losing a friend. He seems so much less interested in gaming now, and I’m at a loose end. I love gaming, but I seem to play it so infrequently and there is so little which interests me. Is this what they call growing up?
I spend a lot of the time on the internet. MSN messenger is great since my mate has broadband and a PC in his room, so I can talk to him loads. I miss video games. I miss those days when we’d go into town and buy PS2 games and go home and spend hours on multiplayer. I miss my friend as a gamer now. It may be said contrary to this view, but I believe that video games are for children. And as I grow up, and so do my friends, I start to be drawn away from the seductive worlds waiting to be explored in gaming. Video Games are for children, and I guess that I’m going to have to deal with my departure from the world that I’ve loved for so long and indulged in passionately. I’m selling my PlayStation 2 after Final Fantasy 10. I’m going to also sell my Xbox and will probably keep my GameCube just in case. I will miss gaming, but I’ve started to realise that there is more to life than polygons. I am leaving gaming. And I think that I might just be growing up a bit in the process.
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