What video game are you playing right now?

The Game Room
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I beat it in a few days, and it’s more Need For Speed than Forza 4, but I love it. The playground games are insanely fun, and are better than those in F4 because the world is more open. Give me your gamertag and I’ll send you a car club invite.

Speaking of Forza 4, I finally beat every single race. All of them. The entire Event List, the World Tour, everything. It was endless, it was tedious, and now it’s over. Yet I still play. It’s such a good game. The only problem is the online stuff, it’s so hard to link up, even with Horizon. More than a few times I’ve tried every game on the list and can’t get in. I haven’t played a game of Car Soccer in months because I just can’t connect. It’s very frustrating.

Anyway. Forza Horizon and Black Ops II are my current games, with Forza 4 and the original Black Ops seeing time occasionally. MW3 and Battlefield 3 may someday come out again, but I just couldn’t get into them. I really tried, but they didn’t do it for me.

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I just got Skylanders: Giants, and have dropped a few hundred dollars on the figurines so far and plan to buy more. I am nearly a 27 year old man. There is no excuse for this behavior, but admitting it is the first step, right?

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Aren’t I already in through Forza 4? Or do you need to add me in Horizon as well (I have the tag that ends in 722)?

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I’ve been getting back into The Sims 3 (Nightlife edition) again. But my gnat-like attention span prevents me from making any sort of progress. I literally have about 20 different lives going right now.

I start up a game live my guy (or gal) through to about adult-hood before I think to myself, “Gee, I bet being a doctor instead of an author would be cool.” Either that, or I branch off one Sim into three or four different life-lines because I made some inconsequential decision that I felt I might need to back-track on.

What it all boils down to is that I’ve got doctors, chefs, athletes, authors, painters, bums, criminals – all of whom have barely made it into adulthood – that I leave hanging because I get bored with them and create a new doctor, chef, athlete, etc.

I have never aged a Sim into an old person. Not once. But I usually play the game on Epic setting anyway, so it takes something like 600 in-game days to get there, and I just don’t have that sort of stamina.

Oddly, I’ve never married off a Sim or had a Sim have a baby. Just like life – that scares me.