Do you feel bad gaming for long periods of time?

[GypsyElder]

I'm wondering if anyone feels kinda bad gaming all day. It's not uncommon for me to spend a whloe day, literally gaming, if I'm in that mode and if I know I don't have anything important to do within that day and the next. On the weekends for example, If I don't have to work and I'm too tired to go anywhere I'll game all day long, and I enjoy it but sometimes I feel like I'm wasting my day. I think it just comes from me feeling weird, not having anything else better to do with my time.

Although that doesn't stop me

or if not the "I feel like I'm wasting my day" kinda feeling, it's something along the lines of "omg, I'm gonna mess up my eyesight from staring at the screen for so long" feeling lol

[Elyon Seraphim]

You know what? I love gaming all the days, But at times... Even i gets bored of it and wants to do other things, To bad that i never can come up with anything...

Most of the time, If im not playing video games, I watch TV.

P.S: I do't actually care of myself staring at the screen all day. LOL.

[Xanatos]

I'm gonna mess up my eyesight from staring at the screen for so long" feeling lol

Can't say I had that feeling, my eyesight was ****ed up since the day I was born, though I just recently started to wear glasses, weird.

As for felling bad, yea, sometimes I do feel bad for wasting my time on nonsense, never though for playing games as I never could play for long period of time no to mention all day long.

[The Dark Crystal]

^Same here

It's been a long time since I have dedicated a whole day to gaming, but when I used to, I would end it with a guilty conscious. For various reasons, including feeling like a bum, but mostly the same as described in other posts

[Furore]

I feel awesome spending a full day gaming these days.
Between work, shopping/bills/anything in town and social commitments I rarely get the opportunity to game an entire day so when I do the feeling is great.

Never really understood the videogames is a waste of time way of thinking. You could say the same for most hobbies/leisure activities, but they do something really important.
They keep a guy relaxed so he's ready for the next less than fun work shift.

[Jin]

I feel bad when I don't game for long periods of time. I feel like I'm losing my love for it or something. Then a new game usually comes out or I start up an old classic and everything's right as rain again.

[Pete]

It depends on the day. If it's a cold and crappy day, then I don't mind posting up and playing a few hours of games. I can't really stand JUST sitting around all day though, that really bugs the hell out of me.

If it's a nice day, I'll actually feel guilty, if I don't spend some time outside doing SOMETHING, even if it's just laying outside and getting a tan.

I'm an outdoors kinda person, what can I say?

[Mr Walrusman]

It depends on the day. If it's a cold and crappy day, then I don't mind posting up and playing a few hours of games. I can't really stand JUST sitting around all day though, that really bugs the hell out of me.

If it's a nice day, I'll actually feel guilty, if I don't spend some time outside doing SOMETHING, even if it's just laying outside and getting a tan.

That's pretty much the same with me.

[Dodie16]

If I'm enjoying my time when I play games, then I don't feel bad, but if it feels like I'm just doing it to pass time, then yeah I feel a bit guilty. I feel like I'm not imaginative enough (or I'm just plain lazy) to come up with something more constructive to do with my time, so I just fall into what is the norm for me.

Even when I play games all day and feel bad about it, it doesn't bother me nearly as much as when/if I slept the entire day. That's when I really feel guilty.

[Josh_R]

I find myself gaming for prolong periods of time often. My mornings are very busy, but after 12 my day winds down. It is not uncommon for me to spend the remainder of the day gaming.

If it is good weather or my bro's wanna hang then we find soemthing to do. We often go camping, and night fishing. If you haven't gone go, best time to go fishing. I love the outdoors.

[Ralz]

Gaming is my only way to spend time. The world isn't as fascinating as it used to be, so I gotta make do. I am not ashamed of my obsession. In fact, I am well-known as a gamer at my school and certainly back at the house.

I would read a book or something, but I'm not much for reading. (There are plenty of school days when I doze off from reality and think about getting back at the boss who beat me the night before.)

[Rocky]

If I'm not busy or something, then I don't feel too bad about vegging out and playing some videojuegos. There are definitely worse things to spend time and money on than videogames.

[SuperSabin]

I don't feel bad at all really. I have been told by other people to do something else and I really don't like it when they do. I have done other things and I still have done other things besides playing video games. I try to take breaks more often now that I wear contacts.

[Che]

I can literally play games from the time I wake up until I go to sleep. However, it does make me feel guilty to do that, like I haven't accomplished anything in that day. Usually lowers my self esteem and makes me suck at videogames, so it's a win/win for me to not do that.

For example, if that was confusing:

I can play videogames for 16 hours straight and feel guilty/start to think about it while I'm gaming, which messes up my gaming (usually am playing online multiplayer games).

or

I can not play for that long, and be really good at the game because I don't feel so guilty about playing it.

It affects my performance.

[Unknown Entity]

I don't feel bad about gaming at all. Between college, coursework, chores and the rare occasion when go out with a friend, it's pretty much all I can do to keep myself entertained. Other than web surfing, and hanging out with my family. Also, it's my favourite hobby, and takes you away from the real world for a while, which can sometimes be a well-earned pleasure when things get stressful.

I love the great outdoors, but I live in the middle of the City. There's nothing 'great outdoors' about that, especially when you've paid enough to get some fresh air away from the City.

[final fantacy_tifa]

yea i do cus when im at a friends an i game the hole time when there at school there mom n dad yell y r the dishes done or something like that n i feel bad cus i was gaming instead of working lol

[bahamuts heir]

Actually since my sister would not do homework if she could play video games, we both were reduced to 4 hours a week(which is bullshit) and when I do get to it's only an all nighter(like a birthday thing I did with my friends) or on holloween
so no, but I feel wierd for sitting down for so long

[Serah]

I usually don't play games till about 8pm and I usually only intend on playing them for a couple hours before bed but I get waay carried away and usually look at the clock and its like 5am or something stupid... and then I'm like >_< crap

But if I play games for too long I get a temporary blind spot right in my line of vision and its like really annoying lol >_<

[Confessor]

I don't feel guilty at all even though my room-mate thinks the games are stupid. She doesn't know what she's missing. I play them because my room-mate goes home every weekend due to the fact she lives an hour from my campus. Me on the other hand I'm like two days from campus, so I have no one to complain at me. I'm even trying to get a club together here at college. We'll see though.

[Meier Link]

The last time I did that was clear back when my son was really little. Just a few months to be exact. He was a handful and I decided I was taking the day off to do absolutly nothing except game.

I was playing FFXII on a second play through to be exact.

After about 8 hours of game play I decided it was time for a short break. I put down the controller and didn't pick it back up for almost a month. I felt bad because my wife was having to take care of EVERYTHING and I was being a lazy bum.

When I was younger I had no problems wasting away my days and not thinking twice about it. I actually loved to do that and get drunk, maybe vice versa. Growing up sucks heh but the kids and the smexy wife is worth giving up a little bit of gaming. Atleast I still get a few hours in a week.

[Mythgraven]

of course not! gaming is 1 of my favorite things to do. if i dont play for very long i pretty much forget wat i just did in the game.

[Sean]

Before I met my (now fiance) I never really minded sitting around playing a game all day on my off days.

But with her around I start to feel like an insensitive prick for ignoring her for a video game, so I try to keep my gaming within a few hours, or not at all when she's around. If it wasn't for her, I'd be raiding 3 nights a week in WoW. For about two months I'd raid anyways with her here, and it started to kinda bug me a bit, so I just gave it up all together.

[WilsonDean1990]

i normally get a headache, like the other day i played mw2 with my frineds for about 7 hours straight, had a a really bad headache. When i was younger i woul normally play on Final fantasy games all day when i would come in from school.

[DragonHeart]

Not really, mostly because it's not something I do all the time. When I'm in gaming mode I will spend as much time as I can playing, particularly if it's a really good game. However, I usually only get into this mode when I get a new game, which doesn't happen much anymore. After about a week I'll get back to a more decorous pace or as is more usual, I'll stop playing except on my days off until I get the next game.

It's no different from when I get really into a good book or when I spend a lot of time on here. If I don't have anything in particular to do, I don't see why I'd feel bad about it.

I probably have a different perspective though since I'm single, live alone and have no social life. /shrug. That said, when I do have the opportunity to go hang out with someone I don't think twice about putting that controller down. It's something I do when I'm not doing other things, not an excuse for me to not do anything.

~DragonHeart~

[darknesse]

I dont have any problem gaming all day, but thats partly because of my lonelyness i guess. My friends kinda abandoned me when i left school (i wasnt friends with anyone in my year level, they were all pricks). Since then, there hasnt really been much for me to do apart from that and work.

[Xtrmn8r_V.13.7.3]

I can usually play vidoe games for days on end, depending on how long they take to clock, whether it's a new game or not or simply whether i like it or not.

I don't feel bad when playing video games becuse i like them, and the last time i played a video game for three days was when i was nine. . .I was playing warcraft (The RTS) on ps1 and i accidentally forgot to go to sleep for three days because i was trying my hardest to clock the game. After i stopped playing my eyes were blood red for about a week, and everyone kept asking me if i was stoned at school, lol, good times. . .

I recently (About a/two year(s) ago (That's pretty recent!)) I played TLoZ:TP and that game kept me going for a while, because it took a while to clock and it was fun, i liked both the gameplay, e.g swing wii mote to slash sword and the fishing at the fishing hole. That game's pretty kool.

[Dancing_Corpse]

I don't feel bad about playing video games for long periods of time because I don't see why I should. Its my time and if I want to spend it playing video games than I should be able to. Although I do occasionally feel bad when I get slightly more sleep deprived than I usually am (Which is already quite a lot) and than have to go to school and cant concentrate in school (Not that I usually do but its nice to have the option). Video gaming isn't a hobby, it's a way of life and unless you devote all your time to it you wont be able to be successful in it. xD

[-Xu-]

Depends, if there's a new game out or I haven't anything more pressing to do then no. I enjoyed sitting done and spending my day playing mario galaxy 2 the other day when I got it.
I only feel a bit bad when I've neglected something else like friends, work, other hobbies in extended time for gaming.

[Kilala]

In the past I may have spent the entire day gaming and not given a hoot. I preferred pixels to people ^~. Eh hem... However, now I am more sensitive to such situations... I mean once I started going to Uni, it was amazing I had people who wouldn't leave me alone and made sure I did stuff outside my room xD.

Even before I left, I started to limit myself. One game I was completely addicted to, and well it was bad. But I saw the signs and gave it up... so now when I play a game I play for enjoyment and not for obsessive pointage or anything ^~.