BIG gamer here - longtime Planetside 2 / Path of Exile / torchlight / Diablo (just to name those mentioned here) player alongside a great many major title games from almost every genre (except football).
Also in my current "playlist" - No mans sky, Star Citizen (KS backer), Elder Scrolls Online, War Thunder, Space Engineers, Tyranny (RPG, VERY interesting take on the genre and worth a look) and replaying the Metro 2033 series from the start, but using the redux variants, to name a few. My steam list is obcenely large and that's not the only platform I use - GOG and Epic as well - and I'm not even the worst among my social group, I know people with far more games than I.
(feel free to PM me if you also play any of those - LOL I'm only a "nutter" in here because rorschach makes my blood boil with his BS - I'm quite different when gaming, you'd be surprised)
I did stop playing fast paced twitch style FPS games a while ago though such as fortnite, that even I have absolutely no interest in sinking 10 hours a day into that, the way streamers do, although the money would be nice
I only play my consoles occasionally for RPG's, as I also agree FPS games on a console is utter pants, and is virtually impossible as a stealth / sniper which is my preferred playstyle.
It's a wonder I get anything done at all!
I'll play most things, and even manage to finish a few now and again
, but never understood why people would cheat themselves out of playtime "just to get it done" why? If the game isn't doing it for me, I stop, move on and maybe give it another try later - using cheat codes and god mode just makes me wonder why bother at all; is it a "I'm going to finish this game, even though I hate it, because I paid for it" mentality or something else?
Arma is one game I've not ever played, though have watched many YT vids of it - seems the kind of game that needs a decent squad of people to get the best from it, rather than idiot randoms queued up on a server.
LOL Squeakers, not heard that before - but I've met quite a few people under 16 whom are pretty savvy - there are young people I've met playing Eve Online (a notoriously difficult and mentally challenging game to get into which I've been playing since 2009) that if they apply skills they have learned in the game to RL, will do well.
As a balance to that, the most ruthless S.O.B I know in Eve Online is... 87! I hope I'm still gaming at 87.
Gaming excercises the mind in ways that watching TV or even playing many sports, just cannot.
Just to counter those with negative viewpoints of gaming like Septic, sorry Spectric and Bourbon, for me the online community is a way to connect with people in a way I find difficult offline, and have met a great many very interesting people with some of those friendships lasting to this day, long after we have moved on from playing that game.
There are gamers for whom gaming is the ONLY way to connect to the outside world.
I'm a VERY different person online, confident and a leader of men and women - yes really - I say that without boast, it's just a fact**, and has been for many years and I think is also true of a great many other "gamers"; people whom the real world dismiss, but whose virtual presence commands thousands of real life people as happens often in games like Eve Online.
** people keep giving me a job / position in the command heirarchy, which I take as a very serious commitment and in several instances, have abdicated the Guild Master / Corp Leader / Outfit Commander position in favor of giving it to me, so I guess I must be pretty good at it.
I just wish I was 40 years younger, then I might get to experience an early version of "The Oasis" from the film "Ready Player One" - though I'm still regularly awed by some new games - though the debacle around Cyberpunk 2077 is why I NEVER prepurchase a game and also never play a newly released game on PC anymore, I'll wait 6 months or even a year - because the recent(ish) practice of dev houses releasing games that are little better than a beta (not including all those "early access" titles) has become all pervading, seemingly even for self publishing houses like CD Projekt Red, whom should bloody well have known better!
