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[Kreeeee]

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[Kreeeee]

Seems in my absence everyone has also stopped playing games as I can only russle up a few people for gaming a night.

No, you just keep playing the same old game which a lot of people have lost interest in. I play just as much as I ever did but not on Halo 3, and I imagine it's the same for many others.

Kreeeee, I think you might find it work out exactly opposite to how you imagine. Because you will have moved away from your mates, you might find that you are more keen to get online to catch up and play with your Uni mates. And shunning boring Alrik and me in the process.

I doubt it, I think most of them will just stop gaming or play PC games only.

Too many games these days splitting up the FL userbase. People rarely want to play the same game as anyone else after a title has died down from the initial launch rush. Too much choice these days

I find it's the opposite with krono and alrik. They refuse to move on from Halo 3 so I pretty much never play with them any more.

 

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I'm a nipper at 22

 

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No one's moved anywhere yet. I have just finished uni, and will be moving from Bristol to Birmingham (crap place ) whilst my mates will all be moving back home, to Guildford, Newport, Sheffield etc.

I will have to make new friends in Brum, which isn't an issue as I move around so much I make new friends easily, but the issue is that my new friends and I will all be in full time employment rather than student bums and this thread is to find out if many people in that situation still game socially.

I have a great group of friends I play XBL online with but I'm a social gamer and really enjoy it a lot less if I'm sat in a room on my own

 

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Damn you and your ninja edit kreeeee

Just going on the number of Blue Shiny orbs that have flown my way in Halo I can imagine you'd be a right royal PITA to sit next to playing something like SSIV, I can imagine you'd be mashing my buttons, or if I went to the loo, you'd open up the custom controller and switch the wires around so that everything would be backwards.

I don't think I ninja edited anywhere other than to fix typos.

I only mess about on Halo so much because I'd get really bored trying to play it seriously. It has a very draconian format to it (weapon/powerup system mostly) and I don't really like that.

I think I've always played SFIV/Brawl fairly when playing with friends or at the Bristol uni LAN events as they're much more competitive games.

One of the things about growing up is that you need to learn to manage your work social life balance. I'm sure even you could make a few friends and you might even find some gamers at your place of work, that are of similar age, and live locally enough to come over for a few games.

I have no issues making friends or having a social life, but a social life amongst work colleagues generally involves things other than gaming, such as nights out drinking, golf, or sporting events traditionally.

(Although the married ones find that hinders their gaming time).

Having said that we didn't play that much at uni as we found a lot of better things to do than play video games at the time.

Luckily my gf is a gamer too so I don't have that issue.

With the sheer amount of free time I've had at uni I have been able to spend a ton of time doing various things and still have large chunks of time I could spend gaming. I certainly won't be able to do all these things once I have a job that takes up more than 2-4 hours of my day and I'm pretty sure I'll drop gaming if I can't do it socially.

 

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Az need bi/tri-anual LANs!

 

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actually thats another thing why I game more on XBL....I hate playing coop games locally where the game ends up split screen (gears or halo?), annoys the hell out of me. I prefere to have the whole screen to my self lol so coop over live works well for me

Get a bigger TV.

 

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Why do you feel that way? Split screen for coop, mario kart etc. is great as long as your screen is big enough, no?

I'd understand for versus FPS gaming though but that's about it.

 

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I did a proper degree so I have more spare time now

Computer Science at University of Bristol is not a proper degree?

 

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I couldn't cope, they're both far less well behaved than any child I've met!

 

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There are very few games I can split screen on. I cant share sound or vision

That's because you're mentally incapable

I'm sure there must be a different reason for the others.

 

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I love the people that keep attempting to make this a dig at my social life, especially when they know nothing about me

 

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I just hate sharing screen space, I'm very selfish! Get off my land!

Surely having your mates sitting next to you makes up for that though.

My only issue with split screen is when my nobber flatmate presses the guide button as I'm getting chainsawed in GoW2 online =/

However, as he is sitting next to me I can shout abuse to his face

 

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Name and shame him, we all know its John

Of course it's John, no one else is that much of a pain in the ass, not even you.

I'm surprised given how competitive you are that you endure people like John mucking things up for you.

Heck I'm not just screen possessive I'm team possessive. I get stroppy if team mates answer the phone mid-game. I think thats one of the reasons Miss K no longer plays with us.

I'd actually much rather play a crappy luck based game with people around me than play a competitive game without. I'm surprised how competitive you try to be though and the excuses you have given your crippling lack of talent for gaming

Im afraid thats likely to be the sort of attitudes to gaming you are likely to encounter unless you enter into a profession where this is the norm

That's what worries me

Even if I had 3 friends round for a gaming session, I'd much rather go online in a party together than be limited to 2 vs 2 or 4 player free-for-all.

Likewise, but that's social gaming at its best. 2 Wii's = 4 player Mario Kart online vs a bunch of random people on the net, which is a riot.

It probably would if I had any friends close by that were into gaming, sadly none of my friends are these days.

I see myself in that situation soon.

 

[Kreeeee]

The solution seems simple, get your kids into gaming