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How do people find so much time to play games?
pearlsandplums
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I've noticed on this forum, and other gaming sites that people seem to have so much time to play games. Just wondering how people do it.
By the time i get home from work, have dinner and get the house sorted its usually about 8. I go to bed about 10.30/11 and that only gives 2-3 hours (excluding everything else), but ive seen people (claiming at least) completing 40+ hour games in days.
The bigger games that take 120+ hours, would take me years to finish.
By the time i get home from work, have dinner and get the house sorted its usually about 8. I go to bed about 10.30/11 and that only gives 2-3 hours (excluding everything else), but ive seen people (claiming at least) completing 40+ hour games in days.
The bigger games that take 120+ hours, would take me years to finish.
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But in September work will ease off back to normal and then I might 10-20 hours of gaming in a week.
I suppose the gist of the story is, different people have different amounts of free time to devote to gaming. Things like work, wife/girlfriend, kids, other hobbies all influence the time we have for gaming. And our level of interest in gaming has an impact too. You will find the time for gaming if you really want to.
I work 4 days on, 4 days off, so when I'm on rest days I have nice big chunks of time I can dedicate to gaming or whatever else I want to do.
I can probably manage a maximum of 2-3 hours a day playtime. I still manage to get through epics such as Witcher 3, but it does take me weeks or even months.
Never thought of booking time off when i game came out. I had images of people not sleeping and continuing to work whilst trying to play GTA v
I'm exactly the same. Nowadays the only time I get to play games is if I need to help my youngest on Lego this or that lol. And even then, the controller is being grabbed off me as I get told, that's find Dad, I can do the rest now.. That in itself can only be for about 10 minutes, then it's off to do stuff around the house etc.
I've always wondered exactly the same thing. I work 42 hours per week and then when I get home I sort out the house. I don't know how these people manage it!
During the week I game for an hour in the evening when my wife is in the bath and our 11 month old is asleep.
It's also a toss up each morning prior to work whether I game, watch TV or do the ironing for another 30 mins or so.
Weekends I try and encourage my wife to visit family or friends which gives me gaming time too. Fortunately I don't socialise outside of work, so I rarely need to fit in offline friends.
Where will we get the time for XV and VII Remake ??
Oh there will be even more sleepless nights once they come out haha. VII Remake in particular.
I have done this on a few occasions the last time I did this it was for the Fallout 4 release and I hope to get a few days off when Forza Horizon 3 comes out.
However this does get annoying if you manage to get time off work and then they move the release date.
Make the time.
Decide what time to play and stick to the time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28677674
http://www.statista.com/statistics/487130/average-tv-viewing-time-per-day-uk/ (might be hidden behind paywall if enough people click it)
If people can find the time for that then it's easy to find it for playing games instead. I barely watch any telly outside of football. Been watching the Euros, but when the season is on I might watch an hour of general tv in a week + my favourite team's matches. If they're playing two that week, which is the maximum, that's about 5 hours a week of tv in total or 43 minutes a day for me. Based on that I have 3+ hours more than the average person available for playing games each day.
Course, we're only talking averages there. Some people will actually watch a lot more tv than that or play a lot more games than that.
They make time.
Since buying my house on my own, I found it even easier. Go to work get home and game.
Then my car obsession took over me, and i had a family I rarely find time to really sit down and play them. If the weather nice outside i'd play around with my cars, If its crap i'd play a game, but my daughter would find ways of stopping me.
Alienation is the hardest game i've ever played due to laziness of the developers not patching a pause menu in single player. Ive barely played it. I took about 1 1/2 month to complete Uncharted 4.
But, however it took me about 3 weeks to complete and platinum Final Fantasy VII in December last year.