How do you game?

[futurefields]

Strictly one game at a time?

One story line game and one multiplayer based game at a time?

Free for all?

I find myself playing one story based game at a time, while I have a few more multiplayer and/or grindy games that I play whenever (Diablo 3, COD4, lately Shift 2 for racing).

I wont, for example, play an Assassin's Creed game while playing Batman Arkham City, because I get messed up on control schemes and also start to lose interest in the individual plots.

 

[Maximilian]

One big free for all.

Ill trash noobs in LoL then be trying not to kill my kerbals (seriously brave chaps for going up in anything I designed) in kerbal space program and maybe later wander around the mojave wasteland in new vegas. Thats just recently, ill get bored and stuff changes, except LoL its been pretty consistent for the past few years.

 

[HeXen]

Just one at a time because time isn't something I have much of each week for gaming.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Usually 2-3 games at a time, no real patterns, but usually only 1 multiplayer game at a time.

One big free for all.

Ill trash noobs in LoL then be trying not to kill my kerbals (seriously brave chaps for going up in anything I designed) in kerbal space program and maybe later wander around the mojave wasteland in new vegas. Thats just recently, ill get bored and stuff changes, except LoL its been pretty consistent for the past few years.

Come join the Dota master race.

 

[fixbsod]

Usu it'll be one big game at a time with a deep plot / long game / grinding and at the same time some small little ones to keep it light. For now I'm doing Path of Exile and a little Leisure Suit Larry, a little Stanley Parable, etc. I find it hard to do multiple big ones at a time, not just due to the plots and whatnot, but often as I will just get more engrossed on the new. Like I was doing Arkham City, but then the GFWL reset hit and I haven't really touched it since. I was set to do another Dishonored run thru but PoE has not released me from its hold yet.

 

[BFG10K]

Usually single player games one at a time.

 

[Zenoth]

I currently have games-in-progress in 7 games on Steam and in 5 games in my GoG library, all of them being games with story/campaign modes. As far as multi-player goes some of those same games do have an online mode I play occasionally as well. I also play three MMROPGs lately. In just one day I can play short sessions of many of them, or depending on how I feel or if I have enough time to dedicate to just one long session then I'd progress just one or two of my games. I'd say that it just generally depends on my mood, but I usually don't play more than 2 or 3 different games in one day. There's always exceptions though, for example during the past two weeks I've played something like 15+ different games, seven of which have been recently-purchased (Steam sales oblige). I have enough time, however. I'm still in vacation for two weeks.

The one game I've been progressing at least once every day since the past week so far is Tomb Raider (2013). I only play short sessions, sometimes I don't actually progress the story but simply travel back to previously-visited areas to complete the maps and find all the secrets. I think I would have been able to complete it in about three days maybe if I had only played that one. But since I play it maybe 45 mins per day or so then it's taking me a while, but it's ok I'm used to consume my game campaigns slowly to let the fun persist.

I also have other game's campaigns which I started two months ago and only play them maybe once every week, Saints Row 4 (still not completed and it's still my first playthrough) and TW: Shogun 2 (only my second full campaign since I bought it) being two such games I only play at such intervals. It varies a lot in my case, that is unless you bring me a game like the original Mass Effect, or Dragon Age: Origins. In such cases I would play every day, every available hours, until the realization that I forgot to eat and sleep for a week. That did not happen since Skyrim which I've played a good 4 days almost without pause a week after it was released (except eating less than usual and sleeping maybe two nights out of that marathon).

 

[Childs]

One game at a time. Usually a multiplayer for months or years, then a bunch of single player games in a row, then back to multiplayer.

 

[slpnshot]

Free for all. I just log on and choose whatever game fits my mood. If I want hack and slash I'll play whatever RPG/Fantasy game I have installed at the time. Needing to vent, I'll play shooter. Etc.

This does throw me off with controls if I go back to a game I haven't played in a while, but a quick glance at controls more or less solves the problem.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Generally one game at a time with regards to singleplayer, occasionally one strictly multiplayer game (such as Battlefield), and always the possibility of Counter-Strike.

 

[Dankk]

I play whatever I feel like playing.

 

[Jacky60]

I generally crush, conquer, destroy while seeing opposing players begging for mercy on their knees at a spine chillingly high fps with all eye candy turned up to 12. One game (two max) nearly always just one for years (max 2 years try others in between). Arma 2 then 3. Four years pretty intense relationship.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I don't play more than one story based game at a time.

 

[Maximilian]

Usually 2-3 games at a time, no real patterns, but usually only 1 multiplayer game at a time.



Come join the Dota master race.

Tried it, couldn't do it though, LoL is complicated enough for me :awe: Plus im too used to playing rammus and nasus.

 

[jlchoi]

I don't play more than one story based game at a time.

Same. I might hit up some FPS or RTS on the side if I want a little variety, but otherwise I tend to stick with a single plot-based game (usually RPG's) at any given moment.

 

[Kadarin]

I play Civ 4 BTS very, very casually, and that's about it right now. I used to play EVE Online, but that's a game that demands hours a day to get anything real out of it, and I just don't have the desire to do that anymore. I'd much rather experience real life

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Right now its mostly been World of Tanks and World of Warplanes but before that I was exclusively CSS. I play L4D2 too.

So I play all at the same time

 

[Snock514]

I play whatever, been struggling to find a game to play constantly, might pick up kerbal space program but I don't know if that'll hold my interest for too long. Usually it's 2-3 multiplayer games and maybe a single player one thrown in. I don't game for story.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Usually one per genre at a time -- Borderlands 2 or Saints Row 3 not both, one story-based RPG, one ...?

I don't necessarily ever finish any of them though . I need to stop with the Borderlands and get back to the story missions in SR 3 so I can move on to SR 4.

 

[thejunglegod]

One story driven game at a time with a little bit of LOL and GW2 thrown in. Ohh and the latest addition, Hearthstone.

 

[DeadFred]

How do you game?

Like a boss!

 

[crownjules]

My multiplayer itch gets scratched with LoL and Planetside 2. Diablo 3 has also been seeing a little play time lately.

When I want a story/RPG, right now it's Skyrim.

If I want some strategy or simulation, I go to Crusader Kings 2 or fire up Pharaoh Gold.

 

[DigDog]

1 online, 1 offline game. online for butt-punishing-pwng, offline for relax.

 

[pathos]

Normally, I have multiple mmo's I play. Normally I restrict it to 1 p2p, and any number of f2p. Currently have no p2p ones going through. Have 2 f2p games.

Along with that, I normally will play 1 or 2 games, whether on console or pc, that I play. Currently, I have 1 console game on pause, so not really playing anything at this time.

Eventually, I'll go finish that game, and then start something new.

 

[rivethead]

I used to play one game at a time. Strictly.

But then I decided that life is too short to be that strict. Now I play whatever I feel like when I feel like it. It makes no sense to play Defense Grid when I'm really in the mood to play a FPS. And vice versa.