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[Ryujin]

I don't know where adults find the time to play videogames.
Maybe if I were single? But isolating myself for hours and hours would not sit well with my spouse.

My niece and her husband have dual gaming rigs, with 50" TVs, set up side by side in the living room.

 

[Umbran]

My niece and her husband have dual gaming rigs, with 50" TVs, set up side by side in the living room.

Cool, but my wife is not a videogamer.

It isn't even that she minds videogames - she bought me an Xbox One some years back, when Overwatch came out, because it was big and she thought I might like it. But it turned out to take, as I said, hours and hours of time of me off playing a game. Even that's okay now and then, but it doesn't work as a habit, which means I don't get to really dig into any games.

 

[Umbran]

We're such a sad lot, forgotten how to celebrate things and instead we prefer to tear each other down.

Tearing things down is easier than building things up.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Cool, but my wife is not a videogamer.

It isn't even that she minds videogames - she bought me an Xbox One some years back, when Overwatch came out, because it was big and she thought I might like it. But it turned out to take, as I said, hours and hours of time of me off playing a game. Even that's okay now and then, but it doesn't work as a habit, which means I don't get to really dig into any games.

I think a lot depends on playstyle and the game in question.

Overwatch is absolutely a game where I suspect most people play it alone in their room -- you need to watch for things; you can't get distracted; and there's a lot of chatter on the channel.

I play mostly RPGs, like Horizon Forbidden West (which I need to get back to and complete), or Red Dead Redemption 2 (which I have no desire to develop past Chapter 2, but I need to complete the side challenges), or Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. All of those I used to play when my wife was in the room as well, maybe reading a book or whatever. But we could chat for a few minutes and then I could get back in the game; it has a pause feature, which a live game does not.

When my daughter's awake, we're trying not to expose her to gratuitous videogame violence; at least, not for a few years yet. So, we mostly play things like Minecraft on Peaceful mode, or the current favorite Dredge (the Lovecraftian fishing simulator), or Disney Dreamlight Valley. Animal Crossing would also be acceptable, as is this new game I Kickstarted, Mika and the Witch's Mountain.

Lots of options, and sometimes my wife is playing while my daughter is playing with her Little People and I'm on the laptop working on stuff for our Traveller game. It works. But not with live games, certainly.

 

[billd91]

Good riddance to that thread.

If it’s the thread I’m thinking of, I’ve got my settings at 20 posts per page and I was seeing 2-3 only per page at the end there.

 

[el-remmen]

I don't know where adults find the time to play videogames.
Maybe if I were single? But isolating myself for hours and hours would not sit well with my spouse.

Yeah, the trick for me is I either play with my wife (she not as into video games but does play occasionally) or I sometime play after she's gone to bed for a bit. But the reality is, since having a kid I have not had more than 30 to 60 minutes to play video games at any given time - and since I don't play online co-op games, that feels like more than enough. Anyway, I have minis to paint.

 

[el-remmen]

My new plan (but don't hold me to it), is to take a break from the boards for the two weeks leading up to a new WotC book release and the two weeks after and to take the last two weeks of December off every year too.

 

[payn]

My new plan (but don't hold me to it), is to take a break from the boards for the two weeks leading up to a new WotC book release and the two weeks after and to take the last two weeks of December off every year too.

How did you settle on two weeks?

 

[RealAlHazred]

How did you settle on two weeks?

Maybe they rolled 4d6 for the number of days? That feels like a gamer move!

 

[el-remmen]

How did you settle on two weeks?

It's a fortnight?

But I don't know, it just seemed like a good number. Do you have another recommendation?