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Manlove is my forte said:
Seems in my absence everyone has also stopped playing games as I can only russle up a few people for gaming a night.
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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 :)
 
There hasn't been a 2nd controller in my consoles since I was a kid livign with my parents. I suppose having no real friends helps. Amanda used to tag into my online Halo 3 games for a laugh but that's about it really.

I used to play Halo and Fusion Frenzy with my old friends back in school wish was epic fun but that died off when the moved out the uni and never came back. I suppose you really do have a point, I quite miss those gamin sessions and is probably the reason my Xbox doesn't get so much use these days.

Anyone wanna be my fwiend?
 
None of my friends around this area really play games any more; most have gone back to their respective home towns. I play online a lot more than i used to, but then i also play overall a lot less.
 
Manlove is my forte said:
Seems in my absence everyone has also stopped playing games as I can only russle up a few people for gaming a night.
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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.

Manlove is my forte said:
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.
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I doubt it, I think most of them will just stop gaming or play PC games only.

dannyjo22 said:
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 :)
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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.
 
Even my RL friends aren't MP gamers I normally just chat to them on party chat while playing SP games. Most of my RL friends are such casual gamers, buying perhaps one or two titles per year that playing a gaming god like myself really is no fun for them.

My RL friends pretty much never play on live more than once or twice per year.
 
Kreeee did your mates move away from you or did you move away from them? Because if it means a lot to you why did you let them move away?

Do you not have any other local friends you can game with? All of my mates from uni all play Eve online so I have to look to xbox live when I play online - and a couple of mates from my 6th form who are gaming fanatics.
 
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 :(
 
I play socially about once every month. One of my best m8s games as much as I do and we normally have a drink atleast every month sometimes more depending on sporting events on the telly and always have a good few hours on Fifa, FN3, SF4 etc.

If my other halfs brother and his partner are over we normally have a laugh on GH/RB and Buzz but that only a couple of times a year at most.
 
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.


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.

When I used to work close to my home, my mates and I used to drive to my flat during lunch times for a quick gaming session.
 
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Kreeeee said:
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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Depends on who your new mates are going to be really. Some of mine play games, some don't. The ones that do, the fact we are working does not hinder us from finding time to play (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. Probably play more now that we are working adults than as uni students. This is more a testament to how little time we played at uni, as opposed to how much we play now !!
I am sure I end up playing PS3/360 at mates place or vice versa once/twice a week, which is more than enough at the moment.

Usually play a game for an hour or so at mates place or vice versa if they have a console. Depends who is around really, if others are around who play games we do, if not we do something everyone can enjoy.

Gonna go mates place this evening and play some SFIV :)


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I don't get to do it as much as I used to at uni but I still do get to play at least once a month. GH:WT and Madden get rolled out a lot.

We also play at work sometimes. Nick a bunch of TVs/projectors and get some 8 player GoW action on. :)
 
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I don't get to do it as much as I used to at uni but I still do get to play at least once a month. GH:WT and Madden get rolled out a lot.

We also play at work sometimes. Nick a bunch of TVs/projectors and get some 8 player GoW action on. :)
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They frowned upon us when we took over a meeting room at lunch time and put PES on a projector (the console and projector belonged to us)... The guy who brought them in actually got told off (but that might have been because he was a bit of a slacker generally)

I might have to find out who the gamers in my new office are and see if I can convince them to play a few in-office games
 
Manlove is my forte said:
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.
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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.

Manlove is my forte said:
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.
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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.

rp2000 said:
(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.
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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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