So across the 3 consoles, ~3,100 hours... over 8 hours a day with no days off (and the year isn't even over).
Mate, that is genuinely cooked.
What are you currently playing?
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So across the 3 consoles, ~3,100 hours... over 8 hours a day with no days off (and the year isn't even over).
Mate, that is genuinely cooked.
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Each to their own but man that would do my head in my eyes would be cooked and my head feeling like its exploding.
And you haven't even seen my Steam stats
I should also remind you that the Xbox and Playstation game counters are not always 100% accurate. They can be VERY wrong. As an example - I recently started playing Alien Dark Descent on Playstation with it being a PS+ free title..... have put in 5 LEGITIMATE hours of game time..... The game time played counter on the console reads 59 hours. But sure I "play" games 24/7.
I've given a run down of my "free time" in the past (5-6-7:30am - then 6/7pm - 11pm). I know for a fact that I do not game for 8 hours a day EVERY day. I've also laid out what I can and do do from time to time, I can run the Xbox, Playstation, PC/Gaming Laptop and Switch at the same time - BUT not actually be playing them. Whether I'm running sports/fighting game simulations and checking results etc. - https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/what-are-you-currently-playing.1059348/page-254#post-86298607 multi tasking the same game
In any case cry me a river
There are worse problems in the world
Not trying to be overly judgemental on what someone does with their time, but I can't even imagine hitting those hours if I had an unlimited amount of money and no job/wife/children/responsibilities. I literally don't even work or sleep those many hours in a year, nor would most people!
Even in my carefree uni days I wouldn't have come close to those kinds of numbers.
I just purchased the PS5 version of Robocop - now own it across Xbox, PC and PS5....................... 3 copies of the same game purchased UNDER the original RRP of a single copy #winning
Also it might shock you to know that I've added another hour of game time on WWE 2K24 - by simulating a royal rumble match while I was outside gardening....... SHOCK HORROR
The same reason why I run simulated sports games on console and pc (often at the same time), for fun
Its very easy to multi task and physically do other things while a game is running
You do you of course, but you could have bought three different games instead
Correct different strokes for different folks.
Logically yes I could just replay it over and over and over on the same platform originally purchased on. However playing it on a different platform is an entirely new experience for myself and one key reason why I like to do it.
I don't even buy as many games as I used to - the early 2000's - 2012ish was when I was at my worst (or best). If I didn't have the clean outs I used to have, I'd easily have collected 600+ physical Xbox 360 games (as an example). Similar to my dvd buying ways, I'd walk into a store.... and walk out with at least 1 (but commonly several) new titles.
How do you have so much time is my question.
I gave an outline of my potential gaming window time frame (that I don't take advantage of all of the time).
6am-8am (sometimes 5 if I can't sleep)
6pm-11pm (sometimes midnight)
11pm-5/6am = sleep time
8am-6pm = work time frame
It's not that hard.
Right now there's a movie on while I am running an AFL 23 simulation match on the ps5 AND I'm waiting for the next tournament match to start in Rocket League on pc.
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Do you ever get gaming burn out?I gave an outline of my potential gaming window time frame (that I don't take advantage of all of the time).
6am-8am (sometimes 5 if I can't sleep)
6pm-11pm (sometimes midnight)
11pm-5/6am = sleep time
8am-6pm = work time frame
It's not that hard.
Right now there's a movie on while I am running an AFL 23 simulation match on the ps5 AND I'm waiting for the next tournament match to start in Rocket League on pc.
Just picturing trying to look at the screen and even simming matches I’d be so sick of any form of game playing that much time on them?
I know everyone’s different but I think if I spent even half that time on gaming in a whole year alone it would do my head in to the point of not being able to play them ever again.
I’m not judging you as I said everyone is different and there’s nothing wrong with that I just find it fascinating you can have the willingness to keep it up.
5-6 hours each night is a lot.I gave an outline of my potential gaming window time frame (that I don't take advantage of all of the time).
6am-8am (sometimes 5 if I can't sleep)
6pm-11pm (sometimes midnight)
11pm-5/6am = sleep time
8am-6pm = work time frame
It's not that hard.
Right now there's a movie on while I am running an AFL 23 simulation match on the ps5 AND I'm waiting for the next tournament match to start in Rocket League on pc.
I don't do it every night! That's just an outline of my free time.
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I gave an outline of my potential gaming window time frame (that I don't take advantage of all of the time).
6am-8am (sometimes 5 if I can't sleep)
6pm-11pm (sometimes midnight)
11pm-5/6am = sleep time
8am-6pm = work time frame
It's not that hard.
Right now there's a movie on while I am running an AFL 23 simulation match on the ps5 AND I'm waiting for the next tournament match to start in Rocket League on pc.
That's some serious discipline to get to work on time after fitting in before work gaming. My entire morning schedule is thrown if I even need to poo. I need to be out the door and on my way by 630am though including most Saturdays and don't get back until after 5pm, usually closer to 6pm (and midday on Saturdays). I actually wish I could game those hours but I'm down to 2-3 hours a night then reserve weekends for marathon sessions.
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If Mickleboy calculations are right and the 8 hours a day gaming that is some serious gaming pre and post work I have no idea how anyone can manage that time. I’m lucky to get 30 mins a week at present and those 30 minutes I’m undecided and can’t settle on a game
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I reckon there’s been two games over the last 20 years I’ve been able to play for more than 2 hours in a session and that’s been GTA online and Red Dead 2.
Everything else after an hour I’m bored or brain fried from the screen.
I did manage to get 20 mins of GTA online last night it’s not bad this time of year with Christmas and the snow setting.
Everything else after an hour I’m bored or brain fried from the screen.
I did manage to get 20 mins of GTA online last night it’s not bad this time of year with Christmas and the snow setting.
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Played it way to much. Absolutely loved it. It's up there with witcher 3 as my favourites of all time.I reckon I spent one hour on BG3. Downloaded the trial, it kicked my arse on the lowest difficulty setting and I nope’d out of buying the game.
Anyone played the silent hill 2 remake? Thoughts?
Thinking of grabbing it. $69 on the ps store.
Thinking of grabbing it. $69 on the ps store.
I played GTA Online for an hour on Friday night and an hour yesterday morning, hope I don't get addicted again (something about the repetition of collecting $$$$$ for the businesses every 48 minutes).
I think it varies in my youth I could marathon play games like Sonic, Super Mario for hours (even after finishing I'd either try to beat previous high scores or improve finishing times). I could also play SF 2, MK, early Tekken entries for hours without getting bored.
Something happened in the late 2000s - just lacked the patience for fighting games and hours long marathons became 30-45 minute sessions (or not play them at all for months). Granted in recent years Injustice 2/MK 11 I marathon fighting games again.
Similarly driving games used to fuel my gaming sessions (NFS, GT, Daytona in the 90s and part way through the 00s/10s). These days unless they're special, I rarely play them. I finished Forza 6 and 7, but haven't finished a Forza Horizon game. The NFS series has been crap for years. Although I played and loved GT 7..... but haven't touched it since finishing the career menus.
Today in about 2.5 hours of time I've played
Vampire Survivors (on pc) while running a Royal Rumble sim in WWE 2K24 on ps5.
Then had a few games of Rocket League on PS5 while running a AFLW match sim via AFL 23 on pc. And a quick bash at UFO 50 after that.
I've been doing other stuff since then, but interrupted my domestics to post here before resuming and won't be doing any gaming again until 7-8pm tonight.
I shall continue my diary entries because everyone is curious
I'm human in that I can get tired of playing the same games (eg: Rocket League has been a constant over the last X years.... but if I play it nightly for weeks on end I'll have periods where I won't play it for days, weeks, sometimes months).
As for overall gaming burn out, yes that is a thing with me - but if I do experience it my other interests like reading or my marathon TV series/movie watching substitutes the gaming habits.
My 2023 gaming stats will be on posts from this time last year as well. I think I did game much more this year compared to 2023 and that's even with a 4ish week break when I was interstate earlier in the year! And also when I marathoned Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul & 24 throughout the year...... compared to previous years where I'd just binge watch things.... this year I still got gaming done in between.
EDIT I'd also like to dispute the 3100 hours - meaning "I must game 8 hours a day every day". If you combine my Switch/PS/Xbox stats together it looks INTERESTING (although as I said at thr time, if you added my Steam hours it'd easily be over 4000 hours (even worse lol).
But the key thing to remember and thus I'm pointing it put again. I multi task and play more than one system at once. So while the total amount of hours looks bad, sitting them it's virtually 3.8-4.something hours. I looked at my Xbox stats last night and while they were huge. My actual hours played was barely 2.1 hours there.
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Yeah this is why my most played games would be Age of Empires 2 skirmish games (can wrap a match up in an hour), sports games (10-20 min matches) and things like that. Old school FPS I'll play a level or two and stop. Even something massive like Far Cry or Assassin's Creed I'll usually highlight something on the map, complete whatever it is, then stop.
The last game I lost time to would have been the original Warhammer Total War. This was before I had kids and somehow stayed up until 3am with work the next day. Do not recommend and haven't come close to doing something that crazy since
