I really liked playing pen and papers with my friends as well as video games. I like Portal, Neverwinter Nights, A Perfect World, The Sims (I'm playing Sims Medieval right now...), Left for Dead, and adventure games as I come across them. I love me a good video game, but most first person shooters are really stressful for me. Left for Dead is one that I like on occasion with the hubby, but I get way too stressed to play it for more than a section at a time. Plus, zombies are scary!

Gamer chick here! EQ,EQ2,WoW and tried a few others that I never really got into.Right now taking somewhat of a break from all 3,lol.I went out and bought a WoW card when all SoE games went offline,and then hopped on EQ2 to see what I was missing since I got some free time when the servers came back up.Since the weather is nice,I'm only getting on sporadically.

I also on occasion will play a game or two on the Wii.Rockband 1 and 2 with the family,or Wii Sports Resort with the youngest.

My brother loves Halo! I am not good at it.

I am personally looking forward to the new Gears that is due out in Aug? Or did they push back the date again? I really like that game, and the campaign.

Haha, I liked Halo 1 and 2 a lot, but to me, the COD multiplayer is just a lot more fun, better set up, more personal. Setting up classes, customizing your guns, etc really adds a layer to the game that is just missing for me in Halo.

I do have 1,2,3 and Reach, though, if you ever want to play, but I only ever really play Team Swat. XBL ftw!

I hate that! You seriously have to play daily to stay on top of your game. I took like a month off to play Fallout: New Vegas, and after that I had to take my sensitivity back down to 8 on COD. I'll move it back to 10 in a few more days. Also, the routes people run are entirely different now! I'm getting back into the swing of things for the new map pack on Tuesday, are you getting it?

Yeah. I mention loving 8 and get some eyerolls from fanboys :lol: But I don't care. I really liked it.

About the only thing that didn't make a lot of sense was the whole "Hey we all knew eachother as kids, but we forgot".

But, hey almost every FF has one of those suspension of disbelief moments. :lol:

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Side note: About the only thing I don't play are FPS. I am TERRIBLE at those games. Not to mention, if stuff like ghosts and zombies jump out at me I'm liable to throw the controller at the screen.

I love playing Metal Gear Solid on the PS2. My favorite game of all time is the Legend of Zelda on my SNES and on the Wii (but only for a short time on the Wii). I cannot play a lot of the new games because I get motion sickness. I know thats weird, but I seriously have to take some Dramamine if I plan to play for a while. YES THIS IS A SAD THING!!!

I freakin' loved FFVIII! The only part I didn't much care for was the "catch Rinoa in space" mini-game thing because I didn't actually like Rinoa all that much and would've been pretty much okay with seeing her burn upon re-entry into the atmosphere. I always wanted to create an Edea costume for Mardi Gras. :)


Wow, that is a list of my all-time hit parade of games right there. I still replay Baldur's Gate and BG2 every once in a while. Another game that I still return to again and again is Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. Sure, Oblivion was good, but it just didn't have the hypnotic, haunting quality that Morrowind does. (And I'll bet that any of you who ever played that game now have the incredibly awesome music running through your heads at the mere mention of the title. In case you're now craving it, here ya go. Best. Game. Music. Ever! :D)

The eventual release of Skyrim is making me light-headed with delight. Ditto Diablo 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Going to go listen to the Morrowind music a bit more and think about rummaging around in Dwemer ruins. Man, I loved that game's atmosphere. <3

I love playing games but I tend to give up 3/4 of the way into the game. :o We can't afford new games when they first come out, so I wait a while for the prices to come down. I like fantasy RPG type games, like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Oblivion. I also like Assassin's Creed 2, The Sims, Infamous, and Little Big Planet. My sister and I used to play Zelda on N64, and lately I play PS3. My computer is full of music files (only 80 GB of space!) and I constantly have to delete files to make room so my computer can function. Because of that, I only play Oregon Trail 3 on PC (don't laugh!) and I have to play it from an external hard drive. :(

I really want to get Heavy Rain, Infamous 2, LA Noire, and Elder Scrolls: Skyrim when it comes out.

I'm a PS3 gal! My name on PSN is...shock horror...riestrella. Feel free to add me, and anyone else who happens to see this message!

Lovely & Nola Celeste: So glad I'm not the only FF8 lover! Yeah, that part in the story is a bit lameo. I always kinda felt sorry for Rinoa that she was the odd one out kinda just like "uhh...guys I'm still here" There are definite plot holes in the story, but it was my first FF and the first game I fell in love with. I was such a fan girl!
And Nola, I hated that mini game too! I always failed at it. But I really liked Rinoa, I think it's because I liked her look and the fact she got to get all lovey dovey with Squall ;p

I don't play online competitively because I don't really have many shooter games to play on. And I get really tense and nervous that I'm going to die haha.

Oh my goose! I forgot to mention! Anyone a Silent Hill fan/general Survival Horror? Silent Hill 2 is a masterpiece.

I'm currently playing FFVI and FFIX (reeealllyyyy wanted a classic RPG to play).

Anyone seen the Battlefield 3 trailer? I saw it while I was working in the cinema and I had a nerdgasm... looks so good.

Was going to check it out, but glad that we haven't - our lives just started in on a chaotic path, and so we currently don't have time. I wish we did and, come winter, I'm sure we'll give it a go.

As for other games...my husband and I both have played WoW (for the horde, biatches.), but grew bored (and frustrated with our slacker guild) just before Cataclysm came out. Still love the game, and still love to talk about it, but we have invested our time into other things.

Honestly, I'll play just about any video game out there.

I haven't been into RPGs as much as I'd like - I love to read the sourcebooks and would love to actually game, but I've got a great deal of social hesitation and it kept me from forming groups when I was younger. We have tried to get a Rifts campaign going online with a group of friends, but post-based (and chat based) games can be hard to keep going and not as enjoyable.

This winter (when we can breathe, *laughs*), I'd like to get a small group going around our tiny little town, maybe start a Dead Reign campaign. We'll see how it goes. We'll be moving into our cabin this summer...when winter comes, and -50F hits and the highway is closed, I'm sure we'll find the time.

This actually brings up a question I have related to gaming and weight loss. When I play COD, I predominantly play Search and Destroy (on Black Ops, MW2 it's ground war all the way) and when I do so, there are often times where I am the only person alive on my team, so I can't talk to my teammates, and there are multiple people on the opposing team alive. During these times, my heart rate skyrockets. I can hear it beating, I can feel the blood pumping. And this often lasts for several minutes. Do you burn more calories playing a game at this level of intensity than you would watching TV? I'm doing the same activity (sitting there) but my heart rate is WAY higher.

Also, I've seen the Battlefield 3 trailer, and watched the expo at E3. I'm pretty stoked about the Kinect integration!! It does look gorgeous, but of course that's PC gameplay. And Battlefield always looks fantastic, their online multiplayer is just SOOOO slow-paced. Of course, I'll buy it. Stupid Novemeber. I always drop like $200 on video games that month. I'll probably wait a month for Battlefield, but MW3 and Skyrim are both first day purchases for me.

I've been a gamer for a long time, back since my atari 2600. I've played Everquest (met my fiance on there), WoW, Starcraft, Starcraft 2. SC2 is the only game I like pvp in, though I find it very stressful.
I also play League of Legends co-op custom games with my fiance vs. ai. Let's see. I also had a lot of fun with Magika, such creativity when it comes to spells for that game. Elements is great too if you were ever a magic the gathering or other card game fan. Loved Dragon Age, that story made me all teary eyed.

Also a gamer. I grew up on Nintendo so I still have a soft spot for their franchises, especially Mario, Zelda, and Harvest Moon. We have a wii which we bought mostly as a novelty for my wife, who did not game before and was interested in the wii sports and the motion controls when they first came out. It isn't used much. The last time I had it on was for Super Mario Galaxy 2 (which was fun, and pretty to look at for the wii, but I never did finish it). We also have a DS lite that we share (mostly for Zelda and Professor Layton games, honestly).

Most of the gaming here is done on the ps3. I like survival horror/fps but not exclusively. I'm very into Red Dead and the Uncharted series. Other favorite games around here are legos in their various incarnations (the wife likes the Harry Potter game best), LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, etc. We have the PS move, again purchased for the novelty last Christmas and not used much at all (the Gladiator game is cool and GREAT exercise but make sure you clear a lot of room, and Heavy Rain was cool to replay with the controls).

Since your heart is basically the only muscle affected, I suppose it burns through a few extra calories, but that's probably less 1 per minute or something like that, heh.

In fact, you're probably raising your cortisol levels (the stress hormone) which makes it harder to burn fat, especially belly fat. But I think the overall stress relief from gaming would balance that out in the long run. :D