Comments on: Gaming Habits – When Is It Too Early?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:19:00 +0000

I don’t play much at night. I usually play in the afternoons or sometimes in the morning while eating breakfast on the weekends. But usually during the evening I’m either working, doing homework, or out with my friends.

By: theRat

theRat — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:03:27 +0000

Only in vacations I have played in the early morning, but not so much lately.
I personally tend to game into the deep night, sessions going as far to 4 am, when exhaustion and your white wolf running into water because you fell asleep finally crush you

By: Gonzo

Gonzo — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:06:11 +0000

I’m around 30, no kids, married (to a woman who likes games almost as much as I), with a regular 9-5 job, and I think any time is good for gaming. While I don’t play any games over breakfast, every once in a while there comes a game that I’ll wake up thinking about (most likely because I’d been playing it so much I had a dream about it) but those are very few and far between. And even then, I’ll have breakfast first then maybe a little wake n’ bake if it’s that kind of game(Rez). This most recently happened with Dawn of War Dark Crusade. When I finally got a day off, I observed the aforementioned ritual and proceeded to enjoy Dark Crusade’s violence and gore from around 10 to well into the afternoon.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:43:24 +0000

The only time I’ve played a game at 5am was when I was up all night playing N64 after getting one on overnight hire from the video store. We had to get out money’s worth!

By: iLLwiLL

iLLwiLL — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:11:38 +0000

I gets my game on mostly on weekend nights, specially after throwing back a couple very cold ones and beer balls start piling up. Sometimes I may game on week nights if I get hooked trying to reach an objective in a racing game, but I usually shake it off in a couple of nites and settle back to gaming on weekend nites. The beauty of gaming Friday and Saturday nites is that you’re already home after you wake up on the couch from the previous nite of drinking and gaming as the feeling that you don’t have to go to work descends on you while you inspect the fluid level on that beer bottle by your side to make sure you didn’t leave it half full when your lights went out.

By: NotAwesome

NotAwesome — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:05:43 +0000

It depends on how obsessed I am with a game. For the story-based ones, or RPGs with strong narratives, I can get drawn into the point where the first thing I do is turn on the console. This only happens on weekends though. Weekdays I’m at work.

My productivity is also highest in the mornings, so this is when I tend to get all of my work done anyway. Playing games is a nice way to unwind after work.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:22:11 +0000

I work nights sometimes and on those days I can start my day off with an hour or two of playing. Once every six months or so I have a videogame binge that starts with pajamas & cereal on a saturday morning and ends in the evening with a case of beer–there is no better way to relax after some really stressful days/weeks/months.

By: Chillyhollow

Chillyhollow — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:49:17 +0000

Definitely as you grow older, you will find your gaming shifts to nights and weekends. Whether you have kids or not, you will still have responsibilies that mean from the time you get up in the morning until after supper you will be too busy to relax and game. Unless you have a commute where you can sit and play on a hand held console.

It’s just a fact until you retire. After retirement, you can play any time but the habit of tending to responsibilities until after supper will be pretty fixed by then. Beloved is retired and doesn’t usually game until after mid-afternoon at the earliest.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:03:15 +0000

Yeah I can see how the kids would alter habits but I wonder if the would be the same even if you did not have any?

By: Jansen

Jansen — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:59:36 +0000

For me it is never to early to play, but I am only 19 and have very few responsibilities at the moment so who knows how I will fair in my late 20′s.