criticism of your maturity and video games

[DickDalewood]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

To add to this... I just got promoted, and I work out for an hour and a half every day.

I'd say I'm plenty mature, and most likely more disciplined, compared the the guy judging me while shoving fast food down his face and watching reality TV.

[Matt10]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

Yeah you shouldn't care about what people think of you but if you're playing 2-3 hours a day your wasting time IMO. Couple hours a week cool beans, game away.

We all have potential to become great at something but how can we when we don't work our way to become great and live our dreams. Playing video games does not help you become better at anything but playing that video game.

Some posters here won't like my opinion but its the truth. Can you honestly say that a video game has changed your life for the better? Hey if your a 4.0 student, making millions, the best shape your body can be or mentor youth in your community and you still can play 4 hours a day then man keep on gaming.

But if you are not where you want to be then you have to see where you are wasting your time. Not here to bag on anyone's hobbies but obviously the OP is questioning what he is doing is right or wrong and I'm providing my insight on it.

Take the hours you spend on a game and use it to make a difference for yourself, your family and your community and those by far are greater achievements than anything you get from a game.

Could not disagree with you more, my man

If it weren't for video games, I would have never found my love for computers. I learned how to build my own PC just so I could play the best games out there. As a result of building a game from scratch - I know everything there is about the inside of a computer. It's also why I'm going to school internet systems development. It's also why I'm the IT Guy at my job (even though it's not my title) and everyone comes to me to fix it. It's why I'm being groomed to be the next net admin as a result.

Plus, I spend a lot of time playing video games because I don't go out. My wife loves this because she knows where we are in our relationship. She knows I'll skip the strip clubs and bars.

Oh - and I fixed 20 students computers last quarter so they can do better in their online studies. I'm also part of the salvation army and volunteer as the network admin for the last 5 years.

I say play video games all you want. It's worked for me - and as a result, my family and my community

[Jasong7777]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

Caring what others think about you leads to stress.

Too much stress leads to death.

Do You.

[Bullit]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

I would like to add this. so there

[24]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

I would like to preface my statement by saying that as long as you enjoy doing something who cares what anyone else thinks? If you get satisfaction out of gaming for a couple hours a day who is anyone to judge.

That being said I believe that eventually the whole video game criticism will come to an end. As every year passes the kids who grew up with video games are becoming adults. It wouldn't surprise me that in 20 years from now a high portion of the adult population is gaming.

[beast10]

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Well I'm not an adult but I have a huge passion for basketball video games and mainly my cousin gets on me about it... I mean to tell you the truth it actually helps me out with my real life game though, mainly my post moves.
I just can't stop I really wish I wasn't introduced to video games but it's just addictive.

[Hooe]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

Can you honestly say that a video game has changed your life for the better?

Yes.

At the wet-behind-the-ears age of ten, my parents bought me a well-known PC video game titled Duke Nukem 3D. No, the content of that game itself did not change my life for the better; we all know Duke Nukem 3D as (for the time) an extremely graphic, sometimes crude, always over-the-top first person shooter. Disregard whether the content was appropriate for the moment, particularly for a ten-year-old; it wasn't, it still isn't. What Duke Nukem 3D represents in this story, rather, is the capturing of my imagination; it was an extremely fun game with as well-constructed and alive of a world as any other game I had played up to that point. The levels had working subways, elevators, teleporters, underwater exploration sections, controlled building demolitions, puzzles, traps, even inane things such as working bathrooms, working pool tables, working security cameras networks, enemies that pathed waypoints, environmental hazards such as slime and pistons... I was in awe that a computer game of all things could do all this.

I spent the next eight or so years of my PC gaming life exclusively with Duke Nukem 3D learning exactly how that game worked, every nook and cranny. On my own time, I learned how to use the developer-provided tools to make my own maps to mimic the functionality I saw in the commercial levels. I started poking around at game variable files next, first making simple changes like to ammo count and enemy health, later learning how to changing enemy and weapon behavior outright, even adding new ones. I built a modification of the game as a high school project, repurposing the game as a 3D environment in which to review material from my AP European History class.

Duke Nukem 3D alone inspired me to pursue computer science in college. Duke Nukem 3D was the jump-off point from which I was inspired to join a video game development club while in school, hoping to learn all the steps as to how something like that is done. Duke Nukem 3D in a way inspired me to join forces with two grad students I met through the club I was in, agreeing to spend a summer working in a smelly hotel conference room seven days a week building (in tandem with three other great guys I was in school with) what would become Ash by SRRN Games. Duke Nukem 3D is still the driving force for me as I now work for SRRN, hoping to one day be able to make a game that was as fun and inspirational for someone else as freaking Duke Nukem of all things was for me.

Video games are now my chosen career path. In a way, I have chosen to make video games my life. It is what I have chosen to do with my life because I sincerely enjoy video games and so long as I can make them and be paid for it, I will.

If I'm not a mature person because of this, then I'd rather be immature.

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Unrelated side-note and epilogue: this is my explanation as to why I was looking forward to Duke Nukem Forever so damn much.

[bigbob]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

Yes.

At the wet-behind-the-ears age of ten, my parents bought me a well-known PC video game titled Duke Nukem 3D. No, the content of that game itself did not change my life for the better; we all know Duke Nukem 3D as (for the time) an extremely graphic, sometimes crude, always over-the-top first person shooter. Disregard whether the content was appropriate for the moment, particularly for a ten-year-old; it wasn't, it still isn't. What Duke Nukem 3D represents in this story, rather, is the capturing of my imagination; it was an extremely fun game with as well-constructed and alive of a world as any other game I had played up to that point. The levels had working subways, elevators, teleporters, underwater exploration sections, controlled building demolitions, puzzles, traps, even inane things such as working bathrooms, working pool tables, working security cameras networks, enemies that pathed waypoints, environmental hazards such as slime and pistons... I was in awe that a computer game of all things could do all this.

I spent the next eight or so years of my PC gaming life exclusively with Duke Nukem 3D learning exactly how that game worked, every nook and cranny. On my own time, I learned how to use the developer-provided tools to make my own maps to mimic the functionality I saw in the commercial levels. I started poking around at game variable files next, first making simple changes like to ammo count and enemy health, later learning how to changing enemy and weapon behavior outright, even adding new ones. I built a modification of the game as a high school project, repurposing the game as a 3D environment in which to review material from my AP European History class.

Duke Nukem 3D alone inspired me to pursue computer science in college. Duke Nukem 3D was the jump-off point from which I was inspired to join a video game development club while in school, hoping to learn all the steps as to how something like that is done. Duke Nukem 3D in a way inspired me to join forces with two grad students I met through the club I was in, agreeing to spend a summer working in a smelly hotel conference room seven days a week building (in tandem with three other great guys I was in school with) what would become Ash by SRRN Games. Duke Nukem 3D is still the driving force for me as I now work for SRRN, hoping to one day be able to make a game that was as fun and inspirational for someone else as freaking Duke Nukem of all things was for me.

Video games are now my chosen career path. In a way, I have chosen to make video games my life. It is what I have chosen to do with my life because I sincerely enjoy video games and so long as I can make them and be paid for it, I will.

If I'm not a mature person because of this, then I'd rather be immature.

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Unrelated side-note and epilogue: this is my explanation as to why I was looking forward to Duke Nukem Forever so damn much.

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[AUChase]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

So CM, what you're really trying to say is that you hacked your copy of Madden and cheated against me in Week 1 ? I'm not sure if we should even have our rematch in Week 4 now that I know all of this.

[mattlanta]

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I don't give a **** what people think about me playing video games. As long as it entertains me and makes me happy I'm gonna keep doing it.

Agree completely.

[jeremym480]

Man.... if only my parents would have bought a copy of Duke Nukem 3D for me as a boy.

There's no telling who I would be and what I would be doing today.

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[Hooe]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

So CM, what you're really trying to say is that you hacked your copy of Madden and cheated against me in Week 1 ? I'm not sure if we should even have our rematch in Week 4 now that I know all of this.

Console games don't lend themselves to modding, though; one can't change the files on a DVD-ROM (ROM = Read Only Memory) and one can't even get on XBOX Live with a mod-chipped XBOX. Duke Nukem 3D, on the other hand, was a PC game, so modifications could be saved to a local disc and read in-game, and moreover either specifically or unintentionally designed to be as open and flexible as possible for those that knew how to work with it. DOOM was the first PC game to really pioneer such flexibility, though the tools with which to make modifications were not user-friendly whatsoever.

[bigbob]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

I forgot.

I should spend my days watching Jersey Shore, sippin' cosmos and fist pumpin' to Skrillex.

[C the Lyte]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

My mother-in-law approached me this weekend saying "You know, you're almost 30. How much longer do you plan on playing video games?"

Video games and video gamers have evolved, quite drastically so. But the stigma of playing games is as dated as ever.

[CMH]

Re: criticism of your maturity and video games

I think RockinDaMike has a strong point, but just chose some poor words to express it.

As for the thread, I'll always game. I don't game often because I spend free time also watching television or movies, moderating here, and doing other enjoyable things, but the hobby will never go.

At times I hate death because I know there will be better games tomorrow than the ones I can play today, and I won't be around to play them.