Why do you play video games?

You know, I finally realized something. Anyone that plays games ususally has a reason and it' s something thats never really talked about. I myself play games for a couple.

When I was younger and in elementary school I couldn' t stay focused because I have a.d.h.d. and video games were the one thing that could hold my attention and god did they ever. Everyday after and before school, weekends, and even when I' d wake up in the middle of the night.

Now that I' m older though it seem as if they are my way to cope with problems in life, my escape if you will. Like at this moment in my life I' m fighing for my 5 month old son trying to at least get visitation and the only way to stop thinking about it long enough to go to sleep is to junk on kingdom hearts for a while. It also seems like the bigger the problem the more hardcore I play and I lose track of time but when all is said and done I' ve usually forgotten what was bothering me (at least long enough to sleep).

So why do you guys play games?

I like to shoot people in the face.

Im a veryangry disturbed person and games let me have my fantasy,and then i can learn new violent moves in games that i use on old people irl.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I fell in love with a blue hedgehog, and he kept me out of trouble. So I stayed
away from all the bad kids, and hung around the safe ones that always talked
about safe things... That being said, they liked to do stupid things in Science
class like smoke a roll of A4 paper and stuff Branflakes in them.

Sonic was the first game I played... (tetris was the first game I saw as my Mum
wouldn' t stop hogging it when I was 5, she used to sit on the worktop and play
it all day)

My reason for never hanging around and getting in trouble after school was
because of games.

Ages ago, games for me were fun and entertaining, but now I play them because
I feel that I want to make my own now. But that can' t be done until Shenmue 3
comes out, then I can finally say I have played the best that gaming can offer
and it' s now time for my contribution.

I also believe you have to be pretty intelligent to play games.. I had a heated
debate (call it what you will) with my sister and I said that girls that say they can' t
play games are stupid, because they then say I prefer to read and games are
for kids.....

Hold on....

2 YEAR OLDS can read... but they can' t play games, so how is gaming for
kids?

They can also watch movies... but can' t play GAMES!

So most girls are stupid, the ones to whom the above applies to of course,
myself Majik and Quez have found that some spanish speaking girls are
quite good at kicking arse at Ghost Recon..

(Oops went a bit off-topic)

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Going off topics is great and i love the post lol! I love meeting female gamers it shows that there really is hope in this world! but on what you said about the staying away from bad kids there is a point to be made from that. Parents get mad because all kids now days want to do is sit around the house and play games, would they rather they go out and run with a bunch of fuckin hoodlums smoking crack because yes contrary to popular belief there are worse addictions than gaming, lol!

Parent get mad that there kids are... we' ll call it fluffy (obese) I' ve played games my whole life, sittin' on my happy ass and I' m skinny as shit (my metabolism is decent too though) not cause i dont eat cause i can put some food away, but see when i was hungry I' d get myself something to eat and I' d do it my damn self (yes walking to the fridge is exercise). Instead parents are doing it by running shoveling Mcdonalds and easy mac down there kids throat because they' re too lazy to cook REAL food. For those that dont know Mcdonalds causes fat people!

That 14 year gilr,i told her to bring it on,but she left,damn coward

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

ORIGINAL: QuezcatoL

That 14 year gilr,i told her to bring it on,but she left,damn coward

Lol, that reminds me of this girl that I was playing doa with and she completely wiped the floor with an ' ' ss' ' player I couldn' t stop laughing especially as he was so arrogant.

When i win big hard games in Table Tennis i like to write them,---Noobi,you lost,hahaha!

And when i win against girls i like to write,Atleast god gaved you boobies.

Hahahah. owned biatch!



That might be the reason why i have so much negativ feedback

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I also play games because it is a great alt to going out on Friday and abusing your
liver. Now, my Halo 2 nights shall be replaced with " Gears" nights. Then " GearS"
nights shall be replaced with " Finish the Fight" nights.. and so on..

I have a really great idea for a MMORPG, I could be onto a multi-million £
franchise..

*Sketches wicked ideas*

That makes my 11th project to make money with... This is why I love playing
games!

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

ORIGINAL: QuezcatoL

When i win big hard games in Table Tennis i like to write them,---Noobi,you lost,hahaha!

And when i win against girls i like to write,Atleast god gaved you boobies.

Hahahah. owned biatch!



That might be the reason why i have so much negativ feedback

Lol quez where do you get this stuff ' ' at least god gave you boobies' ' . By the way I didn' t know anyone actually wrote ' ' player reviews' ' .

A strange man came up to me when I was young and brought me to a dark alley way, he offered me some Video Games, I declined but he would not let me go untill I played, I have heard my Parents and countless other people rant to me about Video games and how they are destory your health, but I was too afraid too say no, So I played a little.

I started easy, a little nes now and then, I was young, and foolish...

I wanted more, I NEEDED more, The snes came around, its super colourfull graphics made sure I was hooked, I could not imagine my life without Video Games.

By the Time of the Playsation relase, I was an addit, I lived for Video Games, Days turned into nights, often I' d go hours playing, without food, drink or sleep. I had to walk around with dark sunglasses, as my eyes were very weak and only used to the dark room with the televsion, My skin was very pale, I never steped into the sunlight, My sleeping was erratic, My parents rang a Doctor, But i locked the door and continued playing,

I pretended I was taking drugs, just to cover my Video Game addition, I needed help.


And still do.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Videogames is the ultimate art form as it contains everything from music, proffessional art, movie directing and voice acting to interactivity, litterature, and history.
Asking me why I play videogames is like asking why I like culture.
Videogames are fun, challenging, educational, escapistic (is that a word?) beautiful, rythmic, unifying creations that you can enjoy both by yourself and with others.

ORIGINAL: ginjirou

Videogames is the ultimate art form as it contains everything from music, proffessional art, movie directing and voice acting to interactivity, litterature, and history.
Asking me why I play videogames is like asking why I like culture.
Videogames are fun, challenging, educational, escapistic (is that a word?) beautiful, rythmic, unifying creations that you can enjoy both by yourself and with others.

...
So, so gay.

I know, are you hitting on me .

Of course.

We could make a Brokeback Mountain-esque movie about two gay Samurai!

I like to play video games because I like discovering new things in them. Not only, like, getting to new levels and exploring, but also unlocking things. I think more games should have easter eggs. And there SHOULD have been a nude code in DOA:XBV! I have the nude patch, so it doesn' t matter anyway.

We could make a Brokeback Mountain-esque movie about two gay Samurai!

I' ll get Ang Lee on the phone now. I can see the trailer as we speak.

" Two lone samurai, with nothing but eachother, find themselves torn between love, and honor. Though their love is strong, the hate of their feuding clans threatens to tear them apart. Following in the footsteps of Akira Kurosawa' s The Seven Samurai... and anything with Pauly Shore in it. This is KOIJI MOUNTAIN"

Why do you play video games?

Because it' s something I enjoy.

...escapism.

I play games because they are very entertaining and I just love the site of a well put together game. Its become as common to me as watching television.

ORIGINAL: Chee Saw

Of course.

We could make a Brokeback Mountain-esque movie about two gay Samurai!

That has " Oscar Nomination" written all over it! It has to finish with one Samurai commiting Hari-Kari, because he thought he' d left the other for dead, then the other Samurai walks in on him just as he dies. The biggest amount of gay crying since I took home that Emo kid from the Bullet for my Valentine gig and bully rammed him.

Ooops

I play video games so I can live out my homo erotic fantasies with like minded individuals on Call of Duty 2 on xbox live. War is soooooooo gay.

4 fun.

i always like games i hung around with loads of friends who played streetfighter and Gran turismos i never won anything but i kept trying to play no matter what.

Then i decided to play Racing games specially ridgeracer i realised i am ok at it, then i heard 360 comes to play online with ridgeracer6 & dead or alive4.

Other than simple fun, I can' t think of any reason in particular why I play them.

I like to play games so I can complain about them In Internet Forums.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

me too

I usually play videogames because i like the storys of some games, for example hitman, the four games are very entretained, tlaking about other class of games the players can lean as it is seen in the brain trainer. this game it teaches to you as it is the level of your brain and that on the one hand seems to me very well.

the games that but i like are those that have good histories and those that have good graphs when these playing

I rarely do anymore, now that I have discovered the internet.

Of course, that will soon all change when I get my hands on a copy of Kingdom Hearts 2, my(and my bro' s) own Nintendo Wii, my(or my brother' s) own Xbox 360, my own PS3, games for each of them, many, many DS games, and much more probably...

When I do play them, though, it is mostly for multiple reasons. One reason is to actually find out what all the fuss is about. Then there' s escapism, and to obviously enjoy the game. Then I play multiplayer games, just to have a laugh(and have fun), really. I enjoy myself the most in multiplayer, though. If I am playing a game without a multiplayer option, then me and my brother simply race to the end of the game using seperate files, which is pretty fun as well.

By the way, tiz, I started gaming when I was 2. I also have a few brilliant ideas that I wish to use in the gaming industry some day. I' m not sure if any of it was false and just pitty, but I have received a LOT of praise for my ideas. So you' d better watch you back.

Well... unless, of course, you would like to join forces with me and we can create a game so awesome that it would finally allow us(and more importantly, me) to have full access to world domination!!! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

My mum died when I was just nine. I had always been into computer games casually up until then, as any child of the 80' s was. But when she died I had a massive void in my life, it felt cavernous like nothing could fill it.

My dad had always worked abroad, but was back to look after us and he really didn' t have a clue where to start! He went on to make some monumental mistakes, but started strongly by buying me a Jap MD on import and a Game Gear shortly after!

When I got a game I played it thorugh to completion, then i' d do it again, and again, trying to get the total time down each time, by the time sonic came out I' d complete that a few times a day just to stay in shape.

For me it was a massive slice of escapism. Even bad games were great then, immersive and had me taking on the roles of charecters I played in game when we were out playing with mates building gang huts etc.. In fact I remember playing crack down so much (which was a bad gauntlet style top down sci fi shooter) so much that me and my little bro were convinced that' s what we wanted to do when we grew up.

Anyways, throughout the time when I grew up games were always there to take me away from when times were bad. But they wernt just escapism, they became something more, something I could see every creative effort of vast teams of developers crammed into one product for me to enjoy.

I have all the other consoles too, but SEGA have me a rich vein of consoles which to this day are still really special and have vast amounts of sentimental meaning to me. I can remember where I was and what I was doing with my life according to what big games I completed and where, rather than by thinking for other achievements like school!

I' m not saying I' m not well rounded these days, in fact I had a gaming drought Mid PS2 /Xbox / PC last gen for a couple of years where I disconnected from gaming almost completely just dabbling every now and then, but that will never take away from me the true respect I have for games, and how special they felt when I really needed distracting as a kid!

More recently some very bad things happened to someone I loved, and I have been with them every step of the way. I thought I had been through the worst of things and although I cant say I used gaming to help those who were hurting - in the wee hours when I personally couldnt sleep, or in the short respite I had between making people ok and healing them emotionally I found solice in the DC with games like Shenmue, Sonic Adventure and Various RPG' s.

Despite sometimes being down (not depressed, jut a bit sad perhaps!) the games still made me elated and sd I got older I began to think that gaming, or ' playing' as a form of interaction fills a fundamental gap in our psyche, giving us time to switch off and interact without the worries of day to day life and instead of it being an unfulfilling task - leaving us stimulated and more mentally supple to deal with the stresses that life will throw at us in the same way that sports and hobbies can also do..

But other activities can not transport you to out of this world places fueled by human emotion, imagination & interaction.

I have done various games related creative jobs and moved between them and jobs with IT. I now find myself teaching about games on a daily basis and am looking again to teh future to see where this all may lead. It is a lot of hard work, and I really dont get as much time to play as I' d like, so in turn I' m not as good as I used to be, but there was a time not too long ago when I was untouchable at almost any game. I' d like to think that time will come again - but until then I have resigned myself to the recreation area of XBL waiting for the right time (and space) to achieve true greatness at something again!

I play video games so I can live out my homo erotic fantasies with like minded individuals on Call of Duty 2 on xbox live. War is soooooooo gay.

Y' know, I' d ask, but, I really am content with not knowing.

Games have been a part of my life since I was about two. My Grandma bought my parents a Snes for an anniversary present, and they played for a little while, but eventually life took over, and it reclused to a shelf behind our TV. I dug it out, and with help from my older brother, plugged it in. My parents were amazed that the two of us who didn' t have six years put together, plugged it in and started playing, so they left us be. Granted, I was awful, and felt amazingly happy if I could beat the first level of Super Mario World, but it kept me busy, and happy, so my folks couldn' t complain.
The Snes was fun, but I didn' t really consider myself a gamer untill my brother and I got an N64 and a Playstation in the same year. I had no memory card for the Playstation for a few months, but even still, i was on it every day, playing the same levels over and over again, just because I thought it was the best way anyone could spend time.
So for the most part, I play games for the same reason I read books or watch the news. Because It' s been a part of my life for so long, that It' s like second nature to me.

I play to release tension mainly, it' s just a way to unwind. SOme of it is social also. Me and my friends get together and play and have a few beers. It' s jovial and fun. Also, even if I' m playing alone, it' s just something that isn' t work, and to a certain degree, I feel like it keeps me thinking more so than just sitting on my ass watching tv would.

I fail to get why people cant accept why we play games,its fun k?
Yes you might get stressed in some games when its all about winning,but no one force you to play them.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

i am addicted. my first game was age of empire for the PC. I was 6 or 7 when i started playing games. But my first console game was mario kart 64, from there i only played n64 and gameboy color games till 2003 when i sold my n64 so i could get money for my ps2 then in 2004 my brother bought me a n64 and a bunch of games for my birthday. it kept me out of trouble at school somy mom couldnt complain, much.

You know, I hate this same Avatar thing people have, I thought eddie was talking!

and Naked Snake, I believe you have something of mine...

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Screw it. I' m getting something other than a Link avatar. I' d normally tell any noob to change theirs, but, this is like the fourth time someone' s picked both of those Link avatars. (both were mine at some point) I' m changing mine to something obscure, and keeping it that way.


Ahhh... much better.

I play video games with the hopes and dreams that I' ll be able to conquer Joe Redifer at some thing, some day!

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

I think Terry plays games to sign in, scare people, download content, and then
be away for 8 hours and then sign out.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

Terry, how do you know Joe isnt lieing after all these years?

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

I play games to have fun! really is there any other way to put it. You can put all kinds of other words to it, but it always comes down to fun!


FUN

i skipped everythng but heres my answer. why do we [play games? to get awat from REAL life. we go there for our imaginations. not just for " fun" . well, make up your reasons. i will.
i play it for everything xcept for the grapichs. a little is enough, but eh. i dont need a SINGLE blade or some cool looking grass slowing down my gaming. or lagging it. we need what makes games games. Violence, Fantasy, and most of ALL, girls. violence seperates the game from " abc,123!" from these vids: http://youtube.com/results?search=Mortal+Kombat+&search_type=search_videos&search=Search. look at it then compare

awat=away. " Even though he died, he still in our hearts." CHEESY
crap. anyways ill be typing morinic stuff for about.. 2mins. Roxx and rul32 the Hou2e. w3 havfta go 1n ze cave and xcava1te the or3s. 312e th3 monk3y sa1d, oh aaahh eee ah! le1s go to japa/\/.
Kewl stuff here folks.




we play games to look at ourselves in another galaxy. Have u ever imagined that u were Kratos and started MK' ing those people? Do u wish u were him in that sex minigame? i know u do. look at this, we imaging ourselves in another world. we thnk we is him, he is you and us is that bird. this was supposed NOT TO MAKE SENSE