Are You A Snailgamer?

[MarkN]

My friends, do you take forever to play games?
Does a game that should take you maybe 20-30 hours to play instead takes up to a year or so?
Do you go days, weeks or months in between gaming sessions?
Do you save and reload numerous times to try various attempts to get through one particular level or area?
Do you have more games than you've got time to play them?
Do you buy games before you've finished the ones you've already started, and then buy more?
Do you have Short Attention Span Syndrome (SASS) and play a game for a short period of time and then start any others and then go back to the first ones later?
Do you forget the plots of the games you were playing because it's so long between gaming sessions, so can't remember how to pick up the mission you last saved?

If you've answered yes to all of these of questions, my friends, then you...yes, you...are a gen-yoo-wine snailgamer! Stand up and be heard!

My name is Mark, and I'm a snailgamer!

[Kalbrecht]

Well, I'll answer yes to a few of those.

And you forgot:
Do you forget the plots of the games you were playing because it's so long between gaming sessions, so can't remember how to pick up the mission you last saved?

[MarkN]

AHHH!!! How could I've forgotten that one! I'm so guilty of that myself! Thanks, Kal! Well, as you can see now I've added it to that, my very first post on 3D Gamers!

[Ojnod]

I am definately a snail gamer. I still have yet to finish games like Medal of Honor (heh, I didnt even touch my expansions yet). I have restarted the game from the beginning about 4 times either due to losing saves or the last rule. I think I last stopped right after the sniper town level, but who knows it has been forever. I have had the game since the day after launch.

I am not a big fan of most SP games. I usually get distracted with their MP and go play that.

[Mara]

Yep, I confess to being a snail gamer. I've even started games over because I've forgotten where I was and what I was supposed to be doing! Ah, the shame of it all! :(2:

*hangs head in shame*

[Logan]

Yep, yes to definitely all of those, and then some.

[Shaolin K]

I'm a snail gamer all the way. I spend so much time in games exploring just about every nook and cranny because I want to discover everything there is to discover in the game. This is especially true for RPG's.

[Bruenor]

Hey! MarkN from Avault, cool. Welcome :thumbup:

Yep, I'm a snailgamer. You almost have to be when you have a toddler at home though. It's near impossible to play while the kid is awake, and by the time she goes to bed, I'm too damn tired to give a damn about gaming.

In the meantime of course, I keep on buying more and more games, and my pile of unfinished games grows to beyond manageable levels.

Bruenor

[Jagndeke]

If you've answered yes to all of these of questions, my friends, then you...yes, you...are a gen-yoo-wine snailgamer! Stand up and be heard!

:group2:

Guilty as charged 80% of the time. :hide:

[Chylde Roland]

Yeah, I am too. Mainly because I have too many games to play, and sometimes can't decide which one I want to play. So I give up and go read a book instead. :lol:

[Mr. Natural]

6 months straight of playing Morrowind exclusively on Friday nights to get to Dagoth Ur = snail gamer.
:shades:

[MarkN]

Hey! MarkN from Avault, cool. Welcome :thumbup: Bruenor

Um, and who is this other MarkN of whom you speak, kind sir? I swear I've no idea of said person. Could be just one heck of a coinky-dink, don'tcha think? ;)

[FreemanHL2]

I think my problem is staying interested. I can play Gran Turismo for 12 hours straight (yes i have done it, with only 1 meal in 12 hours!). i suddenly feel like a very dedicated gamer, but i suppose that was a while ago, slowly but surely your time deos tend to be partitioned amongst other things besides gaming.

Anyway, it's games like James Bond and Freelancer that i really haven't finished and probably don't want to. these games are either to boring to complete or they're just really toooooo looonnnnnggggg to keep playing (Freelancer).

There's also that other issue, i think many people here have the same problem and haven't admitted it yet. FORMATTING!!! Arrrrggghhhhh. I use my computer for a lot of heavy work (Graphics) and i tend to some across a lot of hard drive problems. There is nothing like the good old format. Once finished you begin to install your copy of windows (Windows XP proffesional of course) and then the latest in your colection, and then... you suddenly realise you were almost finished winning the game and have to start over!!! you either start over and re-format again before winning, or you just lose interest in the game and move on. That's life.

[SupaTroopa]

I am "now" a snail gamer as I've gotten older and have more responsibilities and my time decreases.

Trying to figure out what to play between my PC and my Xbox is mind boggling - never finished Far Cry or Painkiller completely, nor Halo quite yet, working on Morrowind GOTY again, playing ESPN NFL 2K5 currently like it's the last day on Earth, then I started Fallout 2 again for God's sakes and the whole thing is just killing me.

Can someone help?

I think un-installing EVERYTHING on my PC other than Morrowind and Fallout 2 would be a good thing for me so I can concentrate on nothing else when I feel like playing my PC games. But only after I finish my 2nd time through KOTOR as a dark side Jedi...but crap I never even came close to finishing Thief on my PC either...ugh.

I think I can handle the Xbox as it's made for game swapping.

Help....

[Gaim Mastr]

I'm probably the antithesis of a snail gamer. When I get a new game, read the manual and install it, I tend to spend brutal numbers of hours playing straight through it. I almost always finish an FPS the same day that I install it.

Games like RPGs that take a large number of hours I'll spend several days, all day, every waking moment, playing through them.

Once I start a game and start getting immersed into its atmosphere I want to stay with it for as long as that game holds my interest.

[Shardos]

yeah, I'm not a snail gamer lol
whenever a new ps2 gbame comes out, my friend will come over, we'll rent it, and we'll literally sit at the tv until we beat it (minus the bathroom breaks and food stops)

[DanTheManPR]

I play games as fast as I can.

[OldsterHolster]

I'm not quite the antithesis that Gaim is, but I do finish every game I buy before moving on to the next one. I actually have to try to pace myself when I find a particularly good game so that I don't finish it too fast. Gaming has become a pleasant and enjoyable part of my life, and I look forward to a couple of hours almost every night, real world permitting; so I go through them pretty fast. Maybe its just a personality thing, or my age; but I can't imagine not finishing anything I start for whatever reasons. I would feel like the game beat me. Edward.

[qster]

*stands up*

I'm a snailgamer! \o/

It's all good though, the longer a game lasts the better value for money I reckon.

[FreemanHL2]

I guess i do tend to play my favourite titles a lot. Thing is i don't get as much time as i use to. don't you people have school or jobs? Holy ****, if only i had the time to sit around ALL DAY playing??? Anyway i tend to turn the difficulty all the way up first time round, or if there are a lot of difficulty levels (quake and Unreal) i pick the second from the hardest.

[Gaim Mastr]

don't you people have school or jobs?

I don't. Not what I'd call a real job, anyways. :p:

[Mike_pi_phi]

Im not a snailgamer but i do get extremely frustrated when a game's difficulty level is soooo over the top *cough* Ninja Gaiden(Xbox),Super Ghouls and Ghost(SNES) */end cough* but that frustration gives me incentive to finish the game.

I sat 6 hours straight and finished Max Payne 2 t(**t)

[SabbathU]

Hi, My name is John U...

and....

I....

am....

a....

Snailgamer.....

It's....

been....

three years....

since....

I actually finished a game!

Let's see... Started Warcraft III 2 years ago - unfinished
Started Planescape 3 years ago- unfinished
Started Anachronox 3 years ago- unfinished

Lucky I saved the 'save game' files. So when I'm ready, I'll reload and keep on snailin'!

[LX.]

I play my games through and through the same day they are installed. I still play RTCW, though, but it's only the MP that I play, which is actually keeping me interested for the past 2 years. It's kindda old-school now, but I'm pretty leet at it.

Someone mentioned playing quake and unreal on second to highest difficulty: I've never played quake, but I have played Quake III and when it's on nightmare, it's pretty easy for me to win when it's against more than one bot. The game's too hard for me with one on one maps, so I will never beat Q3A on nightmare. As for the new game of Unreal, which in UT2K4, it's uber tough on the highest degree of difficulty (I won't want to play games that are too hard/too easy.