Fun and Games!
I am addicted to games. I am certainly not a gamer, don't know how to play that many, and absolutely HATE shoot-em-up games* (I nearly broke the PS3 when playing Drake's Fortune, out of sheer frustration).

However: put me in front of an easy platformer (Lego Starwars/Indy/Batman, any of the Ratchet and Clank) and you simply won't see me for a few days. I'm obsessed with collecting every single coin possible, buying every extra, and collecting every character. I get tetchy if I'm stuck speaking to a boring person, as I'm thinking "why am I at this party? I could be playing Lego Batman!"

At work, it's worse. I'm addicted to online point-and-click/room escape games. Love the buggers. I try to confine myself to my lunch hour, but I'm starting to play earlier and finishing later every day.

I'm going to buy Prince of Persia after Christmas. I'm sure that's a bad idea.


*I like watching people play them though. Watching Mr the Emperor playing Drake/Biosphere etc is really entertaining. I love the look of the games, when they're richly detailed and well-designed.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 11:19, 5 replies)

I am lusting after the new Prince of Persia so badly
I'm gonna have to buy an Xbox to play it on...

Fuck knows how much of my life I wasted completing all 3 on the PS2! (including one where I got about 3/4 of the way through and hit a glitch, then had to start again from the beginning)
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 11:21, closed)

FPS games shouldn't be played on PS3
I love my FPS games, spend far too long playing them.

And I still almost break gamepads any time I try to play my favourite games with them. So don't write them off!

Saying that, Lego Star Wars et al are really addictive games!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 11:24, closed)

I likes room escapes too
But it's so hard to find decent ones.
Especially after you were introduced to them via The Crimson Room :(
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 11:46, closed)

Lego Star Wars is soooo much fun.
I used to play it with my ex all the time. Good times... :P
Haven't played Indiana Jones or Batman though, I'll have to change that soon :-)
(St. Dymphna, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 6:06, closed)

Batman
Get Batman instead of Indiana, it's much better.
(b3kaMN, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 20:25, closed)