Can a Grown Man...

[Jack_Dawson]

be addicted to a video game? And I'm talking 36 years old, not 21. Professional, own my own place, drive a nice car...and I can't stop playing Far Cry. I even had a dream about it. WTF?

[knowbody0]

1. take it as a sign

and enjoy your time there. ive been there and done that. don't worry.be happy. you will learn about yourself-guaranteed

[BiggJawn]

2. Spent 20 hours once playing "Aces of the Deep"

Man, I used to play that EVERY chance I got...

[Jack_Dawson]

5. WTF is that?

:freak:

[BiggJawn]

8. You don't KNOW?

Oh, Man....AoD is ONLY the GREATEST WWII U-Boat sim ever written....

[Floogeldy]

3. Yes

Yes

[yellowdogintexas]

4. hell yes and so can a grown woman. Older than you.

no different than being addicted to any other aspect of the computer world.
internets
email
chain letters
DU

[Floogeldy]

6. You're addicted to chain letters?

Are you serious?

[TroubleMan]

7. Married with 2 kids, one on the way - same thing

If you play a video game for too long you'll have dreams about it. Same thing with any game. When I was a kid and played in chess tournaments, I would see pieces moving in my head when I closed my eyes.

[Shell Beau]

9. My husband and I would play Mario Tennis on

the Game Cube for hours at a time. He plays "Call of Duty" now for hours at a time. It is totally possible. Especially when you are trying to beat the game.

[hfojvt]

10. sorta the way I got with Spider solitaire

at the difficult level, but I won about five games there and went back to medium where I have played over 1800 games, but mostly as breaks between research and posting on DU, etc.

[skygazer]

11. Of course

The median age of people playing those games has been climbing steadily upward. Your generation is one that grew up with more and more sophisticated gaming and the price of the games means that people such as yourself are more likely to be able to afford them than your typical slacker teen or twenty-something. Just makes sense, really.

I'm 44 and hubby and I, while not addicted to any of them (due mostly to our complete lack of skill) love to play. Video games have come a long way from Pong.

[ContraBass Black]

12. Absolutely.

A good video game can never be outgrown.

However, if I were to dream about a game, I wouldn't want it to be one in which I'm stranded on an island with hundreds of trigger happy mercenaries looking for me.

[alarcojon]

13. I still love the adventure games and the civ building games

Still Life, Echo, Age of Empires, Civilization (Sid Meier), Tropico, Return to Mysterious Island, Post Mortem, etc.

And I'm 39. I guess math professors get to be eccentric, though. Gotta love it!

[Jack_Dawson]

17. What's a civ building game?

:shrug:

[alarcojon]

20. civilization building

you start out with some people and a few supplies. You begin to collect more supplies and explore your surrounding environment. When you have enough supplies, you start constructing buildings such as temples, barracks, markets, etc. You may have to do battle with opponents, or you may try to use diplomacy with them. You try to create the greatest possible civilization - typically you can try to do this through military, cultural, or spiritual means. Age of Empires is probably the best of these, and AOE III is coming out soon. $55 a pop, too.

[ET Awful]

14. LOL . . . well, if you're going to pick a game to get addicted to, Far Cry

isn't a bad choice :). I had a lot of fun with that one.

I can't say I had any dreams about it . . . that IS a bit obsessive.

[Jack_Dawson]

16. So now you're judging?

Just kidding it's like taken over my life or something. The magic of a $150 video card is not lost on me.

[ET Awful]

18. $150 video card? That's CHEAP buddy :)

If you were really addicted, you'd have a $400 video card :)

[Jack_Dawson]

19. Seriously?

The most expensive one I saw was $199.

Mine is 256 MB, blah blah blah. What does $400 buy?

CD

[ahem]

22. Here's a nice one:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7189348&type=product&productCategoryId=cat01151&id=1113953684817

[ET Awful]

25. LOL . . . that's way overboard, even for me :)

I think the most I've spent was $399 (for a Radeon 9800 XT when they came out).

I think my current card (the plain jane 6800, not the overclocked jobber you linked to, and AGP instead of PCI express) cost me $300 or so when I bought it a while back.

[billyskank]

15. I'm 29 and I'm addicted to Doom 3

I don't think I've dreamt about it yet though.

[chknltl]

21. Vidiot: Me

I own an X-Box and a PS2. Hooked on first person shooters and role playing games. I recently finished "Destroy All Humans", it was a blast, funnier than hell. (An alien invader, very arrogant and equally naive invades America of the late 50s). Oh and I remember the late '50s early '60s!

[Borgnine]

23. Of course.

Although I'm 21, so perhaps I'm a bit biased. But I plan on playing them at 36, at 50, at 80, and in the grave. They're no longer just kid's stuff, and it's a great way to relieve stress and escape in a fantasy.

[hickman1937]

24. Why all of the qualifications?

Would it be more shameful if you were a 25yr old garbage man, or a 40yr old janitor?