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Admiral Huddy

27-11-2006, 18:18

Ok, sad question but they do me.

If I haven't got past or to a specific point, that's it I'm awake..

Yesterday afternoon I was playing CoH and there is this particular mission I can't seem to win. I spent 2 hours and got nowhere. So I give up for the eveing but then find myself thinking of nothing else other than how I can overcome this obsticle.

I normally leave a game when i've just completed a mission or sub-mission.

If I told my Mrs that was the reason i was ake, i'd be in the dog house. :(

What about you guys?

Or am I just a sado?

:D

Haly

27-11-2006, 18:45

Yup definitely :D
Also if it's an addictive game, i'll quite easily forgo sleep for one last go. Saturday night I was playing Fight Night Round 3 on the 360 with a guy, we didn't notice the time......ended up finishing at 5am :embarassed:

semi-pro waster

27-11-2006, 19:16

Nah I can't say a game has ever kept me awake although I have on occasion found myself mentally running through a section in my mind, usually when I am bored and meant to be doing something else.

kaiowas

27-11-2006, 20:43

I used to play tetris in my sleep.....

Haly

27-11-2006, 21:17

I used to play tetris in my sleep.....

Me too :D
Something about that game that gets into your dreams so easily.

I dreamt of Halo too, but that was because of me and my ex playing it on co-op all day.

Mohinder

28-11-2006, 02:01

I do occasionally find myself lying in bed thinking about stuff I need to do in Oblivion.. or at work, not working..

Feek

28-11-2006, 11:27

Pebs

28-11-2006, 12:20

I got quite obsessed with getting my first character to lvl 50 in DAoC, any spare second I'd log in and do just a bit more. I used to eat sleep breathe it, one of the reasons I stopped gaming.

Admiral Huddy

28-11-2006, 13:45

After days playing CoD I remember sitting in the office at work looking at an office over the other side of the road and thinking that I'd be best off using the sniper rifle to take out the people I could see in the window!

haha yeah i do that too. I get to Chelmsford railway station and pull out my Dual Ingrams so I can get a seat on the train! That's quite disturbing really :embarassed:

Garp

28-11-2006, 14:56

Playing games has taught me how to stay awake when needed :)
Some games I've been up to the small hours playing completely un-awares.

Dymetrie

28-11-2006, 15:11

Games don't keep me awake.

Games don't take over my life.

I certainly don't calculate travel distances by how many jumps there are or refer to going fast as "activating the Microwarp Drive" and I certainly don't write guides for Eve when I get bored at work....

d'oh

Feek

28-11-2006, 15:28

How many jumps from Swansea to Stoke Newington, btw? ;)

Dymetrie

28-11-2006, 15:31

How many jumps from Swansea to Stoke Newington, btw? ;)

5 if you don't mind going through low sec....

Davey_Pitch

04-12-2006, 12:08

Aye, games have kept me awake on many occassions. The Champ Man/Footy Man series are one of the main culprits for that, often staying up stupidly late to finish a season or to try to sign a new player in the close season. The Civ games have also done that to me several times in the past. I don't get it quite as much on console games as I'm often sat on a comfy bed or couch so it's easier to relax and let sleepy feelings come over me.

Saying that, I'm still planning on pulling an all-night gaming session when I'm off over Christmas :D

Justsomebloke

04-12-2006, 12:34

Yes is the easy answer.
The first time i truly got addicted to a home play game was with Populous and Sensi. Time stopped in my world when i played Populous and even now i can feel the rush i used to get from completing that next level. I think i took it to level 157, after that they started taking all the good stuff off you.
With Sensi me and my younger Bro used to play match after match with only breaks for arguing and fighting ;D
Nowadays i can be up quite late with RFactor as a lot of the Top racers are Aussie so i need to adjust for the timezones. This means i am up in the early hours and time is irelevent if in the right race against the right guys.
Has to be said though that No other game has ever took me as bad as BF2.
Time logged is over 1300 hours since the day of release about a year ago. I think it averages out to 25 hours a week or so :shocked:
What can i say. Telly is crap, i live alone and obviously have Far to much time on my hands.
Hopefully with recent developments in my life rebuild i will fill more of my future time with much more constructive pass times.
I s'pose the only thing i am rich in is time, for now anyways :)

iCraig

05-12-2006, 00:05

Yep, I often get into bed pondering about a task that I'm trying to complete.

I've been known to get back up out of bed at 3am and put my midnight thoughts into practice, as I couldn't sleep on just a theory, I needed to know if it worked or not before I can go to sleep.

killerkebab

05-12-2006, 15:56

After playing Max Payne, I used to have dreams that I was him and shooting lots of random people.
Vixen Sax?

killerkebab

05-12-2006, 15:57

I s'pose the only thing i am rich in is time, for now anyways :)Le temps c'est comme l'argent... en plus savoureux :) Get Hoff to translate that one, I'm not sure I could get it to sound right in English. I'm sure he's heard it before though.

Fayshun

05-12-2006, 16:52

Le temps c'est comme l'argent... en plus savoureux :) Get Hoff to translate that one, I'm not sure I could get it to sound right in English. I'm sure he's heard it before though.

Babelfish says Time it is like the money... in tastier

:confused:

Admiral Huddy

05-12-2006, 17:07

semi-pro waster

05-12-2006, 17:36

Babelfish says

:confused:

I'm guessing it is something like "money is like time, it is to be savoured" but "en plus" normally means "more than" if memory serves so it may be "money is like time but to be relished more". Bear in mind that I haven't done French is about seven or eight years so I could be way off. :)