Do you have a game console ?

[ratewhore]

I've a Wii. But the kids play it.

WHS

[realityhack]

You figured out which end of the tennis racquet to hold yet or is the missus still giving you an ass whooping?

Last set we played, 6-0. To me!

However her dad thrashed me in a later set - and he's 73.
Silly chopping/slicing all over the place. Git.

[gingerjedi]

Never could see the point of wasting so much time on computer games. Get outside, take up a sport, get some fresh air.

Have a mate that plays them all the time - what will he have to show for it?
Another friend spends all day playing them - but he designs and tests them for a living.

I sort of agree and as I tend to play a lot more in the winter than the summer months, other than the lack of physical exercise I don't see why it should be viewed any differently to watching a film?

[Board Game Geek]

I think it's definitely more productive than watching a film.

A film may passively entertain, but a compute game is interactive and stimulating. You can make decisions in a computer game, and this expend brain power. You cannot in a film. (Atmosfear DVD doesn't count!)

Not that I am knocking films, as some can be though-provoking.

There is just more milage in a good computer game.

[realityhack]

I sort of agree and as I tend to play a lot more in the winter than the summer months, other than the lack of physical exercise I don't see why it should be viewed any differently to watching a film?

I suppose - if the game has an interesting storyline, or requires considerable grey matter to complete. I had in mind racing games, like Burnout - which are interesting for the first half-hour, then become repetitive.

[gingerjedi]

I suppose - if the game has an interesting storyline, or requires considerable grey matter to complete. I had in mind racing games, like Burnout - which are interesting for the first half-hour, then become repetitive.

I'm playing Fallout 3 at the moment, it's an RPG set in a post-apocalyptic, retro-futurist Washington D.C, it’s more gripping, imaginative and thought provoking than any film I've seen in a long while.

[Board Game Geek]

I've just finished Far Cry 2, and the over-arcing storyline was interesting to say the least.

You play a mercenary looking to make a living in a pseudo-African country, riven by war and fighting between 2 political parties.

As such you are free to work for both sides (or go it alone if you wish)

Your actions have consequences upon the story and you also get an idea of just how messed up these conflicts can become.

As a game it's first class, but you also appreciate some of the politics involved as well.

Without giving any spoilers away, the ending is quite interesting as well.

[Moscow Mule]

Without giving any spoilers away, the ending is quite interesting as well.

Is it Mark Thatcher-esque?

[Board Game Geek]

Lol !

Not quite.

An interesting twist on the mercenary outlook however.

[Ravello]

PS3 played nightly. Back to playing CoD4 after giving CoD5 a bash and getting hacked off with the massive number of bugs and the crap server connections.