So many games, so little time.

feedtheram said:
My daughter (first child) was born 3 weeks ago and for some reason i still bought 8 games in the Steam sale - i've already got 3 or 4 that need playing prior to that! I dont think i'll ever grow out of gaming - just find it harder to get the time to play.
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When my daughter was that age I played more games than ever on my PS3.

It went like "It's okay Mrs Meths you must be absolutely knackered. Go to bed early and I'll watch the baby and make sure shes settled."

Thing is the baby just slept in her moses basket and I was free to game with the volume low.

Got through Valkyrie Chronicles, Burnout Paradise and a couple of others during my paternity leave.

Happy times.
 
I find gaming is quite an addiction, I regularly see 3-4am if no-one interupts me. No family commitments helps quite a lot but moving in with the other half soon so that will probably be the end of it. Not sure if it's a good or a bad thing :S.

I quite like tinkering with the PCs though. I think I prefer this to gaming really but booting up a game is a lot less effort.

I find if I have a REALLY good game then sleep suffers as it's easier to go without sleep than the girlfriend or the job.

Edit:// Oh and I sympathise with the OP - got at least 4 MUST PLAY games in shrink rap and 4 more on steam that have never been downloaded.
 
I get home from work at 7ish, straight to the gym, home again at 9, cook and eat dinner by 10, get half an hour of gaming/TV in, then read a book and fall asleep.

Thoroughly depressing - I'm only 23 :(
 
Tafkap said:
Now there’s just not enough hours in the day to satisfy me. And of course I’ve got Mass Effect 2 just round the corner!!

To summarise: responsibility as an adult of 36 years of age sucks, I want to be ten. Or do you think I should be growing out of computer games now??
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same age same problem

IT sucks
 
Chris Beard said:
moving in with the other half soon so that will probably be the end of it. Not sure if it's a good or a bad thing :S.
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Depends on your partner really. My wife goes to bed quite early so I up to the office for "tap-taps" (yes that's tap-taps as in the keyboard sound, not fap-faps!) and she is quite understanding of my geekyness. So I'll probably be online and playing games for about 2hrs from now.

It's more of an issue if she goes to bed later, say anything after 23:30 and I feel a bit guilty retiring upstairs so will normally give the gaming a miss.

At the end of the day you have to make a call, how important is gaming relative to other things in your life? For many people here it will rank quite highly so it is only fair and proper that you spend a lot of time playing games and push other things out of the way. I know I won't be around forever so I try to jam in more hours at night while I still can.

I do need to cut down on foruming though as it cuts into valuable gaming time.
 
Time, Money, Youth- Pick 2

I'm 22 and have noticed that when I was at uni I could barely scrape together the £30 per week I needed for food. Now I have a full-time job, I can barely scrape together the time I need for playing PC games.
 
41 a 3 and a 5 year old and a wife. Luckily for me she goes to bed about 10pm so about 2 nights a week from about 7.30 I play Eve to midnight. Also recently i rekindled my love for cod waw:) In my bachelor days like a lot of ppl I would have major gaming sessions on evenings and weekends. Oh how I miss them.
 
Case in point - here I am at 12.40am, having spent a couple of hours with Dragon Age which have simply flown past.

The wife's in bed and I'm up early in the morning, probably knackered. Major suckage. :mad::mad:
 
Case in point, I posted at 22:51 with the hope of getting some gaming in but now it's time for bed and I haven't done any :/

One solution to the Time<>Money seesaw is to aim for the middleground, i.e. work part time. Most people are scared of doing that though, it's a big step to say "ok, I'm going to take a xx% pay cut so I can spend more time enjoying myself". A 4-day week with Mondays off appeals to me as Sunday is usually quite a big night for online gaming.
 
HangTime said:
Case in point, I posted at 22:51 with the hope of getting some gaming in but now it's time for bed and I haven't done any :/

One solution to the Time<>Money seesaw is to aim for the middleground, i.e. work part time. Most people are scared of doing that though, it's a big step to say "ok, I'm going to take a xx% pay cut so I can spend more time enjoying myself". A 4-day week with Mondays off appeals to me as Sunday is usually quite a big night for online gaming.
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I'm kind of the opposite. Working full time and doing freelance. I have somewhere near zero free time :/
 
I've completed 1 game in the past year (Dead Space). Full-time job + wife + kid = no gaming fun.

I have Dirt2, Gears of War 2, Prince of Persia, Mass Effect, Crysis Warhead and many other games waiting to be played, so that'll prolly keep me busy for the rest of my natural life.

Ginga
 
I'm 30 and moved in with my other half a year and a bit ago. It's difficult to get the time in like I used to, but I'm not doing too badly.

As another poster said, when your partner comes in and and asks you if you'd like to do something with them the answer 'no thanks' doesn't always go down too well.

I'm lucky that she travels a fair bit for work though. Sometimes I take a day of leave from work while she's away and get in a proper sneaky old-school marathon :)

I think the best thing would be to get her hooked on some sort of addiction that'll keep her going while I game. Hmmm...
Knitting? I'd end up wearing a load of crap!
Online Poker? Too expensive!
Heroin? Too messy!
WOW? No, I couldn't do that too her!
 
I think what I need is basically the entire world to entirely 'freeze' for 6 months. No-one moves - no news -- nothing happens -- So I'm left, completely on my own, to do all the gaming I want to do. And after 6 months everything just magically starts up again.

I think I've got 6 months of solid gaming (full time) 'stacked up', to play all the games I currently to a level where I feel satisfied I've got what they offered out of them .. and I'm not even talking about buying anything else -- I'm talking about what I own now ..
 
Back in 2004 when I worked 2 jobs (one from 9am-4pm and the other 8pm-1am) I used to only play games when I got back from my night job. I finished HL2 in 3 nights. Every night when I got home all I did was play HL2. :D
 
Engram said:
You must be near the end then!
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So I've heard, lol!

As per a previous poster, I could quite happily take a few months off to catch up.

I think if I didn't have a job or partner, you could leave me for about three months and I wouldn't be bored one little bit. All those games, films and books I could get through... I think in the modern world, if you have any level of interest in something, you really can't get bored.
 
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