# Non-video gaming and gaming dopers, a question please? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 20, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-video-gaming-and-gaming-dopers-a-question-please/514465 "2009-10-20T10:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-video-gaming-and-gaming-dopers-a-question-please/514465/81 "2009-11-04T21:29:18Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > and I’m trying to get X-Com to run on my system. DOSBOX lists this title as fully supported, so if you haven’t tried that yet, it sounds like a good place to go. > [@](#): > > 1. Boredom. The last major game I played was Diablo 2:Lod, for about 4 years. After creating all the major builds, getting all the major equipment, it just became too boring to continue. I didn’t even load it on my new computer yet. Wait, wait. You played a game for 4 _years_ and you are citing…boredom as a reason you dropped out of the hobby? I’m confused. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-video-gaming-and-gaming-dopers-a-question-please/514465/82 "2009-11-04T21:57:32Z")
> [@Airk](#): > > Wait, wait. You played a game for 4 _years_ and you are citing…boredom as a reason you dropped out of the hobby? I’m confused. I liked collecting stuff and taking new builds through the game, when I got all the equipment and did every build I wanted, that was it. There were days when I would plan a build, and then realize I already did it. For example, it got to a point where I had built every single possible variation of the lightning sorc, for example, even oddball ones like 100% strength or 100% dex. Also, in the first few years, I played on [blizzard.net](http://blizzard.net), when I switched to single player, it just got crazy. On [blizzard.net](http://blizzard.net), it took a while to finish a build, as you had to party and wait X minutes to mule items. In single player, you can use player /X to set the number of players, and there was software for easy muling. I could (after getting all the eq) run a character to level 85 or so in a day and a half. I think my record was finishing Nightmare in ~20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-video-gaming-and-gaming-dopers-a-question-please/514465/83 "2009-11-05T01:32:03Z")
The thing is that computer games have grown and matured a lot in recent years and really are light years beyond the stuff that was coming out in the '90s. There were some classics then- the _Crusader_ series springs to mind- but it’s a bit like someone saying “The last car I drove was an HQ Kingswood back in 1976 and it wasn’t interesting enough for me so I’ve never driven a car since”. Also, I think the people talking about board games and the like in this thread may have misinterpreted the modern meaning of the word “gamer”, too… ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-video-gaming-and-gaming-dopers-a-question-please/514465/84 "2009-11-06T15:09:53Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > I liked collecting stuff and taking new builds through the game, when I got all the equipment and did every build I wanted, that was it. There were days when I would plan a build, and then realize I already did it. > > For example, it got to a point where I had built every single possible variation of the lightning sorc, for example, even oddball ones like 100% strength or 100% dex. > > Also, in the first few years, I played on [blizzard.net](http://blizzard.net), when I switched to single player, it just got crazy. On [blizzard.net](http://blizzard.net), it took a while to finish a build, as you had to party and wait X minutes to mule items. In single player, you can use player /X to set the number of players, and there was software for easy muling. I could (after getting all the eq) run a character to level 85 or so in a day and a half. I think my record was finishing Nightmare in ~20 minutes. Yeah. Like I said. Why not…try a new game? The fact that you somehow managed to suck 4 years of entertainment out of a $50 purchase and that that somehow, after those 4 _years_ no longer amuses you should not be taken as any sort of fault with the hobby. In fact, it kindof hurts my brain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-video-gaming-and-gaming-dopers-a-question-please/514465.md?page=4)