OK, so this game came out on the 19th. Since then my typical day is work until 5 then go home. Once there I fire up the game just to play for a few minutes while I think about dinner. Then I think, well I will just do this one quest stage or find this one area then save and go eat. Then I think, well, this building looks interesting, let's go in there. Oh, this NPCs wants me to do what? OK, I'll do that. Next thing I know it is 11PM, Midnight or even 1 AM. Too late to eat by that point.

Long story short, I have not eaten dinner, other than an occasional bowl of cereal, if I remember to buy milk, in over a week. As such, I have lost inches off of my waist. To the point where I had to add a new hole in my belt.

So, what lifestyle or physiological changes have you experienced because of this game? Do you remember what your family and friends look like? Is your back hurting from sitting one position too long? Do you have conversations with Super Mutants in your sleep?

Play Fallout: New Vegas! You'll lose all connection to your friends and family, but it's worth it right?

The FONV diet! Nice!

Unfortunately I find the opposite as I tend to keep snacks/beer within easy reach and loose track of how much I've consumed.

Nice job. One thing I don't want to do is lose weight. I haven't been putting off dinner, but I've been eating it after I play a little sometimes. I have been missing breakfast. I'm not a cereal person. I prefer eggs and bacon and I haven't been in the mood to cook for myself. Then while I'm playing the game I think, "it's just a game" and that motivates me to get my lazy butt up and cook food for myself. I also like to workout and I have been half-assing it the past week and a half.

For the first time in months my sleeping schedule is all out of wack again.

I am on the New Vegas diet too. I lost a few pounds after barfing up my roasted radroach in nuka-sauce.

Luckily for me I took ill shortly after buying it so I haven't particularly felt like eating and I can only manage around four hours of sleep a night if I try.

See, playing games is better than the Gym...

Im on holiday at the moment, so i can eat and play all day long, ive clocked a lot on hours and ive only had the game 4 days.

The more you play fallout, the more your room becomes like Vault 101, sealed forever.

Haha great thread CCNA. :goodjob:

I actually think the expectation of the game and build-up to release was the most changing for me. I got massive amounts of things, tasks and chores done that I normally am not so aggressive about. I even finished the walls and floor of a new art studio for my wife - something I had been putting off because of the amount of work involved. There were other things, but I so wanted to Just Play Fallout: New Vegas when it came out drove me to get massive amounts of stuff done. My wife now wants a new game release at least once a year that I fall for (lol).

The night of the release was extremely strange, wonderful and terrible all at the same time. I will let that night go, best to forget it.

From Day 2 forward it has been amazing - all of that project stuff stopped cold - lol! Actually I am still getting things done, but Im also getting some dividends back on getting ready ahead of time. I still have to finish sanding the spakle which should take 10 minutes but has been delayed for days - promised wife to finish this weekend. Work has been fortunately light, but my wife's horse stepped on her foot and doubled my fatherly-duties this week. My wife and I have debated who is in more pain, her with a swollen foot and me being stuck in the real-world when the wasteland becons!

Sleep is down to at Most 4 hours a night so I can play some every day and still maintain my schedule, but I can only hold that for awhile before things will start to slip. Still now that the goodness has taken hold of my mind, now that I have confirmed that I can transfer the best parts of my airport into New Vegas, I'm totally addicted to Fallout: New Vegas and can't look back.

The dream is realized. Now there is just the living of it to look forward to - definitely Good Times.

Obsidian in my view deserves a :turtle: for this game IMHO.

Miax

Haha, EXACTLY the same here!

Anyone else find it ironic how a game where you have to make sure your character eats, drinks and sleeps to stay alive (in hardcoe mode) causes you to forget to in real life?

I sit down to play, and before I know it my wife is coming downstairs because it's way past time we usually go to bed. She is an understanding person, I must say.

These.

I tend to keep gatorade and chips about.

Like Fallout 3 I am obsessed with Fallout New Vegas. I think about the game while at work, I have dreams related to it, etc. I am probably lucky as far as the bugs reported, I have a PS3 and have 26+ hours in the game and have had it freeze on me 3 or 4 times. Since I played FO3 and know these issues I expect it, and save frequently. I do have a tendency to come home from work and start playing for hours. Then I realize I am hungry and make something to eat way to late at night which probably isn’t good for the waistline

I lmao'd.

The day this was released i was alone the whole weekend. Till 10 am to like 7 pm i had only eaten 4 small breads, nothing more. Then it thought that i should probaly eat before i die, went to store, bought some chips and cola, played till 4.30 am. The best day of my life.

I can't play any games for very long at a time. I'm just taking my time and enjoying New Vegas, so nope I'm not skipping meals cause of it.

:rofl:

NV isn't doing my truck any favors. I still need to go outside, put the exhaust back together, replace the battery cables, reinstall the battery and recalibrate the tach...and I keep getting disctracted by New Vegas. At most 90 minutes of work, most likely just an hour, bu-OH hey look, a shiney new plasma rifle for my collection!

This.

This game is messing up my life. I love it :celebration:

It's really all I can think about. I just glad I haven't found everything and I can quote what everyone says like in FO3 :shifty:

This. I've been up until 5-7 in the morning playing and wake up betwen 3 and 4. Bah. Good thing my girlfriend doesn't care and my job has weird hours.

Edit: Fixed miscellaneous errors.

Yes, I have been staying up later (2 am most nights, 3 once in a while), and I keep having dreams about playing New Vegas.

Probably the sleep deprivation isn't a help.

Wow, this thread is depressing!