PS3, same name
PS3, Loach232
Can I ask folks to tell me how old they are in this thread?
Especially, those of you taking a day off, or those of you that have invested vast amounts of time in some of the other versions?
2909 hours? My Gawd!
I am old. I know it. I don’t like to admit it, but when I read threads like this, I realize how out of touch I am. And the best part is, I own GTA I, II, and III.
I suck at all of them. I wish I could play the newish games, (and by that I mean anything on a PS1 or above platform) but the truth is, my hands are too big for the controllers, my brain is too full of other crap, and I just don’t have the time to devote to learning the games no matter how much I want to.
I have a PS2 console, and I have never found the need to upgrade (and probably never will) because there are a billion used games out there for the PS2, and the only one I can have any level of success is the NAMCO anthology series with Galaga and Galaga 80 on it, which are the only two games I play on it regularly. I play poker, and some other moron games that require no skill.
If I could learn to play these games, I still don’t know where I’d find the time. But you all don’t sound like you are in college to me, so what are we looking at here… Early and mid 20’s? 30’s?
Thanks for anyone willing to share. I am fascinated by your devotion!
I’m 27, an insurance adjuster with a seven month old. Average day: come home some variation of cooking, cleaning, take care of the baby, get her to bed. The wife usually goes to bed fairly early, so I’ll play a couple of hours before bed.
Somewhere between mid- and late-30s myself with a full-time job and a part-time job. I’ll usually get to play a couple of hours, a couple of nights during the week and on the weekends I might get an extended session of 4 hours or so. So for a 40-hour game it’ll usually be about six weeks to finish it if I don’t lose interest first.
When there’s a big game like GTA, Fallout, Skyrim, etc. that I know I’m going to spend a lot of time on I’ll usually just buy the guide book at launch because I don’t want to miss stuff, but I don’t have 50 hours to devote to finding pigeons to shoot or bobbleheads to collect. The $20 for the book is more than worth the hours of faffing about that I don’t need to do.
I’m 46. My first game system was a variation of Pong. Video games are my main recreation when I have alone time. I don’t have alone time very often.
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Oh man I love Trevor soooo much!!! He is just so much more fun than the other characters imho, and fits perfectly in the GTA world 
Any Xbox users here that want to add me before GTA online starts, it’s djoelie84 there. Really looking forward to that. At this point me & my boyfriend are both playing it on my account, but that may change when GTA online starts.
I’m 36. And when we’ve finished sucking each others’ withered, thirty-something dicks here (and gta5 goes online) my PS3 name is deadfred77, if anyone wants some relatively co-operative ultraviolence.
I finally pulled the trigger on that PS3. Got a nice deal (IMO) at Amazon, the 500MB PS3 and GTAV for under $300, after tax and shipping.
I loved but never finished GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas. Never had the console for IV, and the PC version was supposedly an abortion. Guaranteed here by Oct 1, for the first day of my birthday month.
Nah, it’s fine, except maybe the controls, especially while driving. The very low Amazon reviews are because some feel that* any* DRM ruins the game completely and thus deserves one star. I played San Andreas on PS2, but I understand the jet flying parts were nigh uncontrollable on Pc.
Thanks to those of you who shared your age and in some cases occupation.
For those of you who can spend 2 hours + on a game like this, how do your spouses react? Especially if you have kids? I would think that would be a battle of contention, but admittedly, I’m just imagining my own situation.
Also, with all the time you’ve spent on a video game, do you ever think “man, if I spent that kind of time learning the piano, I could be Beethoven by now!” Or, substitute guitar for piano and Eddie Van Halen for Beethoven.
I blew through the game pretty quickly. I’d say I have about 12 or so hours into the game, so it isn’t like its taken over my life. My wife is fine with it. Of course, we have no kids, so that helps, too.
Well, it’s not fun doing that stuff for me. Being Van Halen or Beethoven would be great, but it’s not fun, now, to put in the effort to become a virtuoso.
I play once my kid goes to sleep and my wife has her own hobbies.
Tennis? Yoga?
Haha, I’m 28, & the only problem my boyfriend has me with me gaming in this case is that it’s a single player so he can’t be holding the controller all the time so no real problems there.
I agree with Yorikke, I play games because I enjoy it, not to actually learn something honestly.
That being said I study psychology & have learned that there in fact seem to be cognitive benefits to playing video games, & not just the brain training games but also FPS & strategy games. Cognitive control, reaction times and spatial awareness seem to improve in regular players as compared to not (regular) players. Might not be able to write symphonies with that, but still
None of us could become Beethoven or van Halen because we were not born with the unique genius.
But anyone came become David Lee Roth with a few vocal lessons and enough chemical assistance.
I just beat the game last night. A part of me just wants to start over and try to do things a bit different.