I'm still fairly obsessive over racing games because I'm a massive racist.

There are some real iPhone gems out there. My spirit for those is raised because they are made on fairly low budgets (other than the obvious viral ones which have been assimilated into EA games) so you get the idea there is a spirit of gameplay rather than graphics for sales.

I'll happily play a game that looks like it was drawn by a four year old if it represents some level of difficulty.

If you have a smartphone you should get Pocket Racing 2. I'm trying to get to world #1 in the time trial lap times. I'm in the top 10 for a few tracks but I'll probably never achieve my goal.

for a while i was very *shrug* about games but a combination of gt5 and metal gear games got me pumped again

I'm still fairly obsessive over racing games because I'm a massive racist.

There are some real iPhone gems out there. My spirit for those is raised because they are made on fairly low budgets (other than the obvious viral ones which have been assimilated into EA games) so you get the idea there is a spirit of gameplay rather than graphics for sales.

I'll happily play a game that looks like it was drawn by a four year old if it represents some level of difficulty.

If you have a smartphone you should get Pocket Racing 2. I'm trying to get to world #1 in the time trial lap times. I'm in the top 10 for a few tracks but I'll probably never achieve my goal.

actually i think we should make a thread for iphone games because i have some good ones and always want more recommendations.  i think i'll go that ! ! !

also yeah i have a hard time getting excited over games because most of them suck and none of them let you play cool girls


e: i made an iphone game thread http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=83287.0

Maybe I could try making board games/trading card games and selling those, can't see them selling as well though.

Play more of them, and you might find yourself getting inspired. There is a weekly gaming club I go to, and if it weren't for the great library they have and the game hungry community to participate with, I think I would find myself a much more jaded individual. (I still bring my MTG cards up there every week, but I am okay with not using any of those for weeks on end, since it means I have played a bunch of other great games I would have never been exposed to otherwise.)

Even with the online type modern games, such as Diablo III or the newest battleshooterwhateverfieldofduty, it can still feel like a very singular experience. Not nearly as much fun as playing something where everyone you play with are actually in the same room.

I don’t desperately want to rent every game on the shelf at Blockbuster like I once did, but the games I play now, and enjoy, I enjoy them in a way that dwarfs my past experiences. No bluff here.

this is me

yeah that's normal massy. just get into boardgames and cardgames with your close friends, those are way more satisfying than games. i actually wrote like several paragraphs but i was in a daze and couldn't sum it up properly... now i just sound smug. i have tried to get into games again but holy shit besides physically numbing you, uh isn't like ALL games' point more or less how well you manage within the rules/micromanagement of events? arreanging when and how click what and how smoothly etc and you really get nothing in turn, just some sort of static satisfaction but no gratification or any actual skills or figure out anything new.
sort of related but i'm kind of figuring out new interests/things to develope in my life but i really dont' know what the heck i'm doing or what should i do... groan, sorry, but to topic: basically Massy, you'll probably be happier with restricting your time on games (if you aren't good on spotting the difference between actual enjoyment/gratification and the videogame sort of arreanging things in order) on certain games only, idk. i still can't summarize this and i'm probably also wary that maybe some of you identify/categorize yourself as gamers which might make this a touchy issue.

board games rule so hard i wish more of my friends lived closer to me so i could play 'em more often.  i've picked up quite a few two player games for me and my friend who does live nearby tho, we're really into uh WORLD WAR 2 DOGFIGHT CARD GAMES which sound pretty awful but are surprisingly fun???

the last time one of our other friends was in town we played lego creationary and it was fantastic everyone should get that game i really wanna play it with my entire lego collection sometime tho but it'd probably take forever with people digging through parts

I haven't been into video games for about 8 years. every now and then I hear about something cool from SWers and occasionally I'll get really into whatever game that happens to be. other activities have just replaced gaming over time

same thing is happening to my internet time, actually. I remember I used to spend a load of time exploring websites and reading articles and comments, but now I just have a few sites I check whenever I dial in

fuckawesome escapist fantasy for manchildren

haha yes. this is the game market. game publishers will evaluate a development team's work and make sure it's enough of a fuckawesome escapist fantasy for manchildren, else they'll tell em to make changes. needs to be sexier, more steampunk, more epic, more teen spring break, more zombies, more angry birds

yeah, they are really good (board/card games). i'm pretty much like earl but i've been giving second thoughts to games but that just doesn't work out. i just feel inherently happier doing something else. even uh more smarter games like civi 4 or idkj openttd or maybe crusader kings? don't really work/really, either you need a fucking fantastic story/scripting but otherwise card games do all the same in a much more smaller and doable scale. idk idk like this is pretty interesting topic, games as a platform for anything (space chat plus other unknown frontiers??) but the bottom line is that- fuck i can't make this without calling all games complete bullshit since there's already exceptions to rule here and there (and especially here!! time to time) and i think they have some unintentional/subjective artistical value in the aspects of them... we'd have to verge into the spacechat/more esoteric/abstract convo about games for that purpose so i guess my previous post pretty much is my stand on this topic, hope it's worth anythin at all...

Angry Birds is shit and let move on from that.

my gaming sprite is week at the moment since backing up everything is pissing me off.

Well, I probably play games as much as I ever did except when I was a young kid when I played them much more. There was a period, when I was first at college and had a sliver of a social life, when I wasn't playing them at all for months, but that died down and now I tend to play them on a kind of rotation of getting sucked into a couple of games and playing lots of them, then not having anything interesting left and not playing for a few weeks. Heh, pretty interesting, huh?

It's not something I necessarily think is okay, but I'm not a happy person in general and I think the gaming problem is not one I am capable of facing head on by going cold turkey on games. I think it's a product of the unhappiness rather than the cause, so with some life changes that I need to and am going to put into motion I'll get to a level with this kind of activity that I am happy with. I'm just talking about things like feeling like my life is going somewhere, putting myself into an overall better situation - one that is conducive to the kinds of activity I want to be involved in rather than one which is conducive to slop and also shit

There is also that I actually enjoy some games on a level which doesn't make me feel like I am a festering waste, so I won't ever stop playing games, but I will, in the event I manage to become a happier person, stop feeling comforted by the bullshit they provide for me and have the strength to ignore those games which only have 4-5% of life to 95% of slow death ratio.

Or, maybe the games aren't a product of the problem or the problem at all and I just see them this way because of other life factors. However, there might be something in that I still play games amongst the most out of all the people who I know from this circle and I am also expressing a more general dissatisfaction in my behavioural and thought patterns. Maybe they are connected, maybe they aren't. Maybe I'm universalizing some specific problems over other ones and one day I will be happy and still be playing all this bullshit.

Deep ambivalence and discontent. This post isn't a statement, really, it's just me pondering this and making the thoughts known. Use it as raw data for a hours gamed/suicide attempts graph.