I started playing Borderlands on Friday and noticed this morning that I was up to 28 hours of play. That's not even including my slow grind through the Winter Assault expansion for Dawn of War (I'm determined to finish all three expansions before starting DOW 2). Prior to Borderlands I racked up over 260 hours replaying Neverwinter Nights 2 and the Mask of the Betrayer expansion, since I kept changing class and alignments. Given it hasn't been that long since I started that one, I think I'm averaging between seven and eight hours a day. Steam helpfully tracks the time spent, as if to remind me that I still spend almost all my spare time playing computer games. I'm glad such counters didn't exist in the 1980s and 90s. Playing WoW for so long has made me a lot more tolerant of grinding through content, even when its repetitive. As long as there's some kind of cookie at the end, a quest completion to reach or whatever I'm okay to let the hours roll by.
Hmm. Let's see! About 2.5 hours on Monday nights playing games with Nate for our in-person gaming. 2.5-3 hours on Tuesday nights None on Wednesday nights, that's tabletop gaming night 2.5-3 hours on Thursday nights None on Friday nights, we almost always go out Between 4-5 hours on Saturdays Between 4-5 hours on Sundays So, a lot. 15-19 hours per week, give or take 12-hour Assassins Creed marathons when my wife has a migraine and just wants to lie on the couch and watch me stab dudes for a day, or when we spend a day out at the park or go on a hike (and then stab dudes).
And your significant other is alright with you basically ignoring her and her son? I don't play nearly as much as I'd like to and there are several reasons for that. WoW burnout was certainly part of it and a desire not to fall back into that sort of abyss. Also spending time with my wife doing more interesting things. Also I don't like to hog the TV. I want to spend more time playing games I'm just finding I don't have the spare time to do it.
Lately, maybe an hour or two on weeknights; more on weekends but it varies significantly. Right now I'm not really engrossed in anything (playing through DoW2: Retribution but I usually just do 1-2 campaign missions at a time and that's enough) so the 4+ hour binges are rare, but I can lose serious time to games like ME3 co-op or (presumably) Torchlight 2 once it rolls out.
I haven't actually played anything in over a week - I've been finishing up a Let's Play, and Matt's been playing Tales of Graces on our free nights. Since that's a game I want to watch, I haven't been asking for the TV on our off nights. Usually, though, I average about 12-15 hours per week.
Actually, I do maybe 90% of the household tasks, if not more. If I'm home and not gaming, I'm making lunch for her son, keeping an eye on things while his friends come over, doing the laundry, washing the dishes, feeding the outdoors animals, etc. It's my raiding penance, heh - ever since I quit raiding almost four years ago I've taken on pretty much all of the normal day to day routine. What I don't do much of is sit down and watch TV. We do maybe an hour or two of that a day. It also helps that my computer is in an open part of the house so I'm often gaming in conjunction with other things. It would never work if I had my own separate space (kind of ironic given how much I wanted that).
It's been kind of hard to say lately, since although I'll leave Minecraft running a large chunk of the evening, a lot of it is spent idling while waiting for things to finish and I occasionally drop back in for short bursts before going back to idling. In general though, maybe 2-3 hours on a weekday, and highly variable on weekends, with the occasional bursts where I'll put in 6+ hours at a stretch on something that really grabs me.
So you spend between 9 and 10 hours either watching TV or playing video games a day? I don't spend that many waking hours in my house a day. Are you unemployed?
I'll usually play for 30-60 minutes in the mornings, after my wife has gone to work and before I have to get ready. Unless it's a day where I go to the gym. Then, if I can, I'll play during my lunch break at work. Other than that it's pretty intermittent. If I've got a free evening or a chunk of time during the weekend I'll spend a few hours playing, but since I've been in grad school those free moments have been few and far between. Looking forward to graduating!
No, but I do keep weird hours. I got up today at 2.30 AM and spent four hours gaming before going into work. The hours spent gaming are a bit higher on the weekend though.
I am lucky I have a lot of time off. I'd say I game at least 20 hours a week if not more when I get into something. No kids no responsibilities other then to walk the dog.
None most weeknights, then a few hours each on Saturday and Sunday. If there's some little XBLA thing I'm into, then I'll play that for a half hour on weeknights, but I don't usually feel like diving into something that takes a lot of brain power after work.
I do GRTS Club on either Saturday or Sunday morning and early afternoon (so like 11am to between 3 and 5pm). That's pretty much the limit of my gaming these days.
What I would give for 20 hours a week of gaming... Now is the worst time of year for me in terms of gaming time. My kids are starting back with school and school sports so every night after work is filled by running them to and from practice and/or games, helping with homework and generally spending a few quality minutes with them in between. That means no downtime until 9:00-9:30 usually, and then I still have to do some maintenance on my own life(pay bills, make lunch for work the next day, catch up on email,etc.). So I might get 1 or two hours a night to myself after all that, and at least half those are spent with my wife watching TV together or just catching up on each other's days. Weekends are nearly as full, as I need to get house and yard work done between football and soccer games and other weekend events. I'd say in the late summer and early fall I am lucky to see 7-8 hours of gaming per week, or about an hour per night. I can stay up until 1AM if I want more, but do that too often and I pay for it dearly. Winter is better. The kids sports slow down and it gets dark earlier so you can't do much outside. I can get up to around 90 minutes or even 2 hours a night in the winter if I'm lucky, though not every night. Spring brings the return of sports (baseball, soccer) and is much like late summer/fall. Summer is very good, as there are no sports once baseball ends and demands on my time are fewer. I can occasionally see a 3 hour gaming session in the summer (9-midnight). I figure my backlog will still be there (and growing) when my kids are finally old enough to drive themselves to practice and don't want me to spend as much time with them. I will be sad yes, but I will have video games to console me. (Ha, pun!)
I would need to keep a log, but anyone who is in the same addicted boat as me could just say "Fucking Ascension", which means any spare second you are taking turns if any are available. Aside from that, sporadically based on what I am excited about and that feeling comes and goes with regularity. The majority of my gaming is firmly in the iOS category, which is in small bits to large chunks of time throughout any given day.
I don't watch tv, I don't go to movies, I listen to music wile gaming. Depending on the tasks that day I can spend most the day gaming, or most of it running around with real life nonsense. I would rather be gaming.
A number I'd be ashamed to admit, but then my summer job is over, classes haven't started back up yet, my girlfriend is out of town, and neither of us have kids.
Gaming gets in the way of my forum postin' time. But I'd guess if you include all forms of gaming including tabletop I'm at 30+ hours a week easy. We don't have kids or TV, so it isn't hard to find that much spare time lying around.
I have a tough life, the other half forcing me to play Botanicula because she got stuck. Not sure how that's possible, but whatever. I'll tend to do about 16-18 hours a week, more if the Internet went down ;)
I have no idea. Like Tyjenks I play a lot of Ascension turns in whatever small breaks my day gives. I usually play a few hours every night, but mostly stuff like Civ V, which I can do while reading BF or watching a show on Netflix. And my kids are at an age, where I can now game with them or game while they're doing something else in the room.
Hmm. Anywhere from 0-4 hours per day during the week (in the neighborhood of 8am-12:30 pm, after work for me currently) although that number will drop next week when I hit English Comp 2 on tuesdays and thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays (my two nights off) vary. If it's tabletopping nights then very little, although i'll usually marathon ~8-10 hours after I get home Saturday night so I'm going to bed no earlier than 5 am, in order to readjust the sleep schedule. I'm also in my late 20s, and have 2 dogs, no children, and am single at the moment.
I got in a solid 2.5 hours last night! My son was all excited when I got home from work because he read about all the changes in Minecraft 1.3.1 and wanted to update and start a fresh co-op world. We spent a couple of hours getting established, building a base of operations and exploring some pretty extensive caverns we found nearby. It was win-win since I both got to play for an extended time AND spend that time hanging out with my son.
Not nearly enough. Now that I'm a jobless bum though, it's picked up significantly. Finished Mario Land 2 the other night in one sitting, though it's not very long or anything, it's just a rare thing for me to have a 2-4 hour gaming session.
As an average, I would say at least two hours a day, every day. My wife gets in maybe half that, but she watches more t.v. than I do. We're both in our mid-forties, college grads (my bride is a Ph.D.), excellent jobs, no kids, no car, own home. Can always find time to play :)
Not enough. I squeeze in maybe five or six hours during the week, depending on my work schedule, and then on weekend afternoons. So let's call it fifteen hours on average. My problem is that I'm a Nerd For All Seasons. If gaming was my main passion in life, that would be one thing. But I'm also a movie nerd, a music nerd, an amateur musician, and I have a job and a marriage to uphold. Even without the distractions of kids, there's not enough time to do all the cool things I want to do. There's a glorious six-hour stretch on Saturday afternoon when I have unfettered access to my big-ass television, and in those six hours I have to make a choice between games and watching movies that my wife won't watch with me. It's like the nerd version of Sophie's Choice every week.
Sounds like you're livin' the life! (I mean that sincerely, not sarcastically. that's pretty damn awesome.)
I can usually squeeze in a couple of hours a few nights a week, with maybe a max of 8-10 hours in any given week, typically before bed and after I've put the kid to sleep, but I'm in agreement with madkevin. So many pursuits to go after. Do I choose to watch a show or movie I've been meaning to watch, read a book (I've had the latest Steven Erickson staring at me for two months without cracking it despite pre-ordering it!) or play a game. This is probably why I still haven't finished Borderlands 2, but I'm 30 or so hours in now and getting closer!
Aye, well, it works for us. I do feel like I'm missing out by not having kids; I feel like that's probably one of the most profound and transformative experiences a person can have, but we both come from an abusive childhood, and that whole thing is just not for us. Living downtown means we don't need a car, which, from the outside, looks like another huge money-sink; plus we get to ride our bikes everywhere and keep fit :)
If you do decide you want kids, and for whatever reason you don't want to make your own, adoption is always a very respectable option. I'm not really one for kids (though that may change as I get older), and I can't actually *have* kids of my own, but if/when the time comes I'll be adopting. Major benefits: you are, in many ways, saving the life of a kid that already exists, AND you can get one that is already done with the diaper stage! It's win-win!
Some of those were actually new to me! A couple of my favorites: I guess these are not safe for work I promise not to spam any more.
