Is gaming a hobby?

XRAY said:
Yes. The negative ideas regarding gaming as a hobby is just part of the historical stereotype of the overweight, video-gaming, man-child, shut-in who lives in his parent's basement surviving solely on Cheetos and Pepsi-Max.
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its time for a new stereotype for gamers :D
 
Tombstone said:
Kind of ironic though that a person does a hobby to relax, yet gaming seems to create more frustration than relaxation. Frustration at trying to get a game working, frustration about the bugs, frustration about crashing and performance, frustration because player X just killed you for the umpteenth time. Seems its more frustrating than relaxing :D
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I couldnt agree more, nothing relaxing about playing games.
 
Single player games are relaxing / enjoyable for me, I very rarely get frustrated by those. MP I do also enjoy (different kind of focus and concentration) but yeah sometimes, thankfully not often, I will have a bit of a curse to myself. :D It's SP that I enjoy far more anyway.
 
Probaly something id have termed my addiction as when i did rather a lot of it in my younger years:).

Even then though, it was nothing more than a healthy mix of various activites. Something to be thankfull for, being older when games/computers were not everything in life as they are to your average teenager these days, it was allways a 50/50 mix of going out with the mates/round somebodys house on the computer.

But in saying that, on my cv i have listed it as a hobby.. not gaming per say, more computing along side fishing, pinball ect...

Now it's as casual as flicking on the tv, not something i sit down to do, id call it more an interest now, fueled mainly by the fond memory from the past.
 
I would say computers are my hobby, and then that can be then split down to building, gaming, programming, ect ect. I take pleasure from gaming.

I don't really drink, where a lot of people do, and instead of spending my money going out every Friday, Saturday night getting wasted I spend it on PC parts and games.

So yes it is a hobby
 
Tombstone said:
Kind of ironic though that a person does a hobby to relax, yet gaming seems to create more frustration than relaxation. Frustration at trying to get a game working, frustration about the bugs, frustration about crashing and performance, frustration because player X just killed you for the umpteenth time. Seems its more frustrating than relaxing :D
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This is why I mostly play slower paced games. Online shooters are way too stressful. UK Truck simulator is a stress-free, relaxing (boring) experience. :D
 
Because all people who play games are GEEKS AND NERDS !!!!! so it cannot be a hobby.......

I personally class myself more of a geek than a nerd :p
 
My wife plays all those facebook games and loads of little games she plays on her iphone, yet she would never call herself a geek. She Easily plays as much gaming as I do. The thing is all her mates and friends at work do the same.

Like someone has already mentioned that computers are the hobby not just the gaming. 10 Years ago I was classed as a geek or a nerd now its cool. I use my pc shopping for food, clothes, dvd, games, a wife:) houses. I think I would shrivel up and die without a pc.
 
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PapaLazaru said:
It is on my CV. Not been asked about it yet but a nice reply stating that I often command 6 squad leaders who in turn have squad members in a large scale real time battle can only look positive. :D
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If nothing else, they'll applaud your ability to put a positive spin on just about anything ;)
 
Assuming that everyone in an MMO makes an avatar as much like their real live selves as possible, then yes. A great many of them :p
 
Course it works in a CV. All you've got to do is pad it out with some bull**** about working as a team or performing under pressure and it becomes relevant to pretty much any job application.
 
Computing for me is a hobby, it just happens to encompass gaming as well. Which is why I prefer PC gaming as there is more scope to tinker/change stuff. I like tinkering with stuff, just like a hobbyist in other things would. Tinkering with my PC, adding/making mods for games, tweaking hardware etc... If I gave up computing and just played games on a console or something I wouldn't think of it as a hobby, it'd be just another form of entertainment like music or films.
 
I've heard people refer to watching movies being a hobby also.

I don't see what the problem is. Surely if you dedicate any amount of past time doing something then its a hobby as it is something you do regularly to past the time.
 
It's a grey area, defining what is a hobby or not. Everyone has their own view on what constitutes a hobby. For me it means being pro-active in something, being creative, adding your own slant on something. I don't consider music/films or watching telly a hobby even though I've spent lots of time enjoying them. But I have no probs with others thinking of them as such.
 
Ozzie Dave said:
It's a grey area, defining what is a hobby or not. Everyone has their own view on what constitutes a hobby. For me it means being pro-active in something, being creative, adding your own slant on something. I don't consider music/films or watching telly a hobby even though I've spent lots of time enjoying them. But I have no probs with others thinking of them as such.
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No but its not hard to twist them to certain things. Watching/Listening to how they're produced and what not. But gaming is a world apart from sat on your arse watching tv. You don't do anything to watch tv, you don't have to think, if you did shows like Big Brother wouldn't exist. Whereas gaming can be strategic, tactical, teamwork, managing, logical, puzzling, etc, etc. It actually requires something on your end.

And frankly there is probably just as much, if not less, 'activity' if you list Fishing as a hobby...
 
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