I have to agree with you there.
I've lost my housemate to this woeful game. Now he spends all of his time in his bedroom playing this game, day and night, often missing out on meals and what not just to play the game. We never ever see him anymore. He has been getting colds and the flu a lot more lately as well. I'm betting his ammune system is way down. Its so weird, even though he lives in the same house.
As for the game itself, it bores the hell out of me. To slow and crap. I like playing games, but in reality, don't get much time at all to play. I'm to busy doing other misc things. Ocaisonally I'll get an hour here to there on the xbox, but thats about it.
cheers!
Exactly my thoughts as well. I barely have enough time with my day to day life to find half an hour here or there to play a video game, and then I think i'd nearly rather do something else, although i do enjoy the occaisonal game now and then.
I've found my g/f's Nintendo DS is perfect for this kind of thing. Pick up and play for 5 or 10 minutes at a time is my kinda thing.
Plus I'd rather play a game that requires skill, rather than enormous amounts of time to get anywhere.
You may point out all the supposed positives from playing these games, but my housemate, who plays hours upon hours of World of Warcraft, never ever comes out of his room to do anything, but eat and sleep. And even then he has lost appetite and would eat a minimum of 1 meal a day on the weekends sometimes, which is clear unhealthy.
He has been sick more and more lately, from colds to sore aching muscles and bones, obviously from sitting in the one place and not moving for hours at a time.
I hardly ever see him at all now, and he lives in the same freakin house as me. My other housemate and I joke about brushing the dust off him when he leaves his room, cause its so rare.
Although he might be making lots of aquaintences in the online world, he has become hugely anti social in the real world, and I do mean massively anti social.
He is one of my best mates and its rather worrying about how bad he has become all because of a video game.
Paying money every month to sit on your arse in your bedroom is something that really just doesn't interest me honestly, but each to their own I say.
I can sit in my bedroom for free without paying anyone...:-)
My girlfriend has recently been hooked on the nintendo ds. And she has never liked any games from any system. I think the different approach to the games with the stylus makes a bit of difference.
Its so weird...
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I have to agree with you there. I've lost my housemate to this woeful game. Now he spends all of his time in his bedroom playing this game, day and night, often missing out on meals and what not just to play the game. We never ever see him anymore. He has been getting colds and the flu a lot more lately as well. I'm betting his ammune system is way down. Its so weird, even though he lives in the same house. As for the game itself, it bores the hell out of me. To slow and crap. I like playing games, but in reality, don't get much time at all to play. I'm to busy doing other misc things. Ocaisonally I'll get an hour here to there on the xbox, but thats about it. cheers!
Exactly my thoughts as well. I barely have enough time with my day to day life to find half an hour here or there to play a video game, and then I think i'd nearly rather do something else, although i do enjoy the occaisonal game now and then. I've found my g/f's Nintendo DS is perfect for this kind of thing. Pick up and play for 5 or 10 minutes at a time is my kinda thing. Plus I'd rather play a game that requires skill, rather than enormous amounts of time to get anywhere.
You may point out all the supposed positives from playing these games, but my housemate, who plays hours upon hours of World of Warcraft, never ever comes out of his room to do anything, but eat and sleep. And even then he has lost appetite and would eat a minimum of 1 meal a day on the weekends sometimes, which is clear unhealthy. He has been sick more and more lately, from colds to sore aching muscles and bones, obviously from sitting in the one place and not moving for hours at a time. I hardly ever see him at all now, and he lives in the same freakin house as me. My other housemate and I joke about brushing the dust off him when he leaves his room, cause its so rare. Although he might be making lots of aquaintences in the online world, he has become hugely anti social in the real world, and I do mean massively anti social. He is one of my best mates and its rather worrying about how bad he has become all because of a video game. Paying money every month to sit on your arse in your bedroom is something that really just doesn't interest me honestly, but each to their own I say. I can sit in my bedroom for free without paying anyone... :-)
My girlfriend has recently been hooked on the nintendo ds. And she has never liked any games from any system. I think the different approach to the games with the stylus makes a bit of difference. Its so weird...