haha, I can't play any other game anymore.

I with you man. Before Skyrim was announced, I was popping with excitement for Dragon Age 2 and The Witcher 2. I'm still looking forward to those games, but Skyrim has dwarfed any anticipation for any other game. It's crazy. It's like I'm just going through the motions for trying to get into other games.

While there's nothing wrong with being a bit of a hermit if you want, I'd advise that if you are totally bored with everything right now, try something different. Maybe even go to a party. I'm not saying you have to (I wouldn't) but maybe just to end the monotony of waiting like this. But there's plenty of other options too. Go to a library and browse, go out with friends more often, visit a gallery, get into a card game, whatever.

But don't do drugs.

True dat!

7 years ago I was unemployed for around a year, I always seemed to have so much time for gaming it was great! I still kinda miss that time, when I could be up all night playing Medieval Total War 2 and Morrowind :biggrin:

Fast forward 7 years and man it`s depressing! - Married, Working 9-5. Couple of Hours gaming during the week when i got the energy..being older and responsible svcks! thats "real life" for you.

i did the whole wild man bachelor lifestyle for years, drank enough to knock most people out, every weekend, partying hard. It go boring after a while..so yeah real life is overated if you listen to what others suggest is a "good time"

I`m just trying to get through till Skyrim comes out and i`ve already told my wife that i`m having a week holiday to enjoy it. Some things are just meant to be savoured and in peace and quiet...(think i`ll pack her of on holiday for a week :laugh: )

Am I the only one here who like's having a job? I mean I LOVE gaming, but I also need other things in my life.

Oh well, people are different...

Get a girlfriend, play some sports, join a gym, read some books.

There are plenty things you can do to pass the time that doesn't consist of games, energy drinks, alcohol, and what I assume would be work.

I live in Finland, we have more snow than you do and we got this thing called "kaamos" which means that sun doesn't rise at all so it is practically night all the time. Also it is -37*C which is -35*F . Still I have no problems experiencing real life, so you shouldn't have either. It is not healthy to play games all night and day and I think that you should be thankful for Skyrim for helping to get rid of your game addiction.

Whoa you just made me think of that film "30 days of night"... oo:

Well, it does sound like your in serious need of "getting a life" but i don't think that's the advice you want to be hearing haha. If you really dig the whole fantasy thing (as i do) then maybe try to satiate that appetite through ways outside video games. I would suggest reading George R.R. Martins series "A Song of Ice and Fire". The first book is called "A Game of Thrones" and is a fantastic read. So far the series has 4 books out and each is about 1000 pages, so it should eat up a good amount of your free time. Also there is an HBO series based off the books coming out this April. Additionally you could try getting into pen and paper RPG's. They are extremely fun if you have a bunch of friends with over-active imaginations. The only other advice i can give is Dragon Age: Origins. I know you already said you have it and are tired of it, but maybe you should give it another shot, it really is a great game and if you take your time with it, it can easily last a solid 60-70 hours.

But i really do think you should just go out more and get a job

When this happens to me I find a good book that svcks me in and read it. Preferably a series of books that are already several books deep.

HAHAHAHAHA! This must have been the best response I ever read on these forums!

It's like Skyrim is svcking all the anticipation out of me.

I'm still looking forward to several games distractions before 11-11-11, but am I really excited for them? Not so much. Everything else has become "filler" to pass the time until then (with the possible exception of Deus Ex).

This is going to be my strategy, also. Neither have I played it before, so this is relatively easy for me.

Unfortunately, the two games I am most interested in purchasing in 2011 will be coming out within weeks of each other, perhaps even the same week. :sadvaultboy: The other two games I will be purchasing both come out a week apart in May. Wish I could arrange release spacing that was more convenient for me ... .
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Is there a flaming ball lit somewhere out there? wow, scary....

There is nothing wrong with playing a game for 12 hours straight. I have a fiance and I own my own business and I can still play 12 hours straight often if I want to. Just because you play for long treks of time doesn't mean you will get out of shape and blobby or have no life, it just means your filling your life with something you enjoy and that's what life is all about. Life isn't worth living if you don't have fun while you live it.

Then if it actually works out, tell her "Yeah, I only started talking to you to get my mind off of a videogame."
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+1
I'm heavily introverted; I like spending my free time in solitude. The quiet is peaceful.
To the op, Skyrim ain't coming out for a while best to just try to ignore the coming awesomeness and enjoy the games out. My gaming is seasonal, heavy during spring and fall.

Did you just ask did I have a PS3? Did you even look at my sig?

"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can hear, what you can smell, taste and feel, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain" Morpheus, the Matrix.

Now, seriously. It's a big error to make your world revolve around a game, a very big error. Yes, it's good to spend some time with games an disconnect from real world and all of that. But a life cannot be reduced to playing games. Never. Even if the real world is not perfect. Refusing to have something to do with it doesn't solve anything.

I can't seem to get much into games anymore as well. I tried playing Morrowind again, but I left it for the same reason that made me stop playing Morrowind : My notebook just can't handle it properly.

Right now I'm only playing games that are related to some of my other interests, like FIFA 11 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 or R.U.S.E.

Sorry to double post but I am not a hermit. I just don't like go outside during the winter because its cold and there is alot of snow. I hate really hot days during the summer as well but thats the season I leave the house.

+2 (or more).

I've actually had my good ration of "social life" (aside from the work, which is already social enough), and currently I'm nowhere as confy as I'm in home, minding my own business on my nice PC, or reading my books, or playing with my dog. So I have no problem of being (semi?) introvert, too.



It's not around "a game". It's about what you like to do or you don't.

I've a friend who spend hours and hours of his free time painting figurettes. And no one says he's "evolving around a game".

Spending time on what you like to do is normal. But getting depressed and stop doing things for not being able to play a game is not.

Well, I get sad, at most...

But what I mean is that I like solitude, too, and to avoid contact with RL as much as I can. Azura knows I've already contacted "too much" with it.

Yeah, then fast forward a couple of years and she will be your wife, you will have some rugrats crawling around, piles of laundry, sleepless nights (afore mentioned rugrats) and be working your job to pay for them all :hubbahubba: .