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Days where you do absolutely nothing but play a game all day.

I play very little now a days. But recently I finished ratchet and clank for ps4 in two days. Because I loved the game. If the game is good then why not?
 
qa_engineer said:
I do this every so often when a new game comes out. Just make sure you have some balance in your life and you're not neglecting anything else like your hygiene, health, pets, children, and significant others. If you've taken care of that then why not enjoy your hobby?
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Exactly.

I make sure to have done my work, my studies, some social shit and then do a day like this.

Makes you feel less of a loser!
 
Wish I could be back in college to do something like that again. Ever since I had kids the longest play session I got is a few hours.
 
i consider days where do things i dont like as wasted. therefore playing a whole day isnt wasted at all.
 
I start Summer classes Wednesday, so I've been doing nothing but gaming until then. I got nothing else to do, so I'm making the most of it before I have to deal with fucking physics.
 
While I've spent a distressing percentage of my life playing games and I often try to ask myself whether or not I should be doing something else (people who create things don't spend a ton of time consuming things after all), there have actually been relatively few times I've spent the entirety of a day playing something, even when I was a kid. The handful of times I have done so actually didn't feel like a waste at all, strangely. I guess it normally comes during a time where I desperately need to escape from the world and kind of "reset" myself.

The last two I can think of were a day spent on Game Dev Story on iOS, and a few years before that, Chrono Trigger DS.
 
I do this every now and then but it always makes me feel like total garbage. I try to be productive but when a new game comes out that I want I sometimes go a bit overboard w/ it.
 
This is pretty much the only way I play games. I rarely have the motivation to start a game nowadays anyway, but when I do, I'll be engrossed for hours and hours (I don't neglect basic needs though, of course). The only exception will be casual multiplayer games I can jump on briefly, I've played both short burst and long sessions of Overwatch this week. If my circumstances ever reach a point where I truly struggle to fit in just an hour of time, then I couldn't see myself bothering to even play games any more, especially since I love getting lost in expansive RPGs. I feel like I would stop enjoying it.

I will experience this on Tuesday with Blood & Wine, can't wait.
 
You have to decide if you enjoyed it or not. If you did you dont have to feel guilty. I wish i had a day every week to play my favorite games (current are Witcher 3, Gta online, Rocket League, Football Manager) all day long.

When its every day then it might be a problem.
 
My most crazy days are those when I have nothing to do and wake up early, just start a game and play 6 hours
But that rarely happens
 
Miletius said:
Agreed OP. Ultimately you feel like a rotting log for doing nothing but gaming for a day straight. I haven't done it in a long time (WoW days for me). After a few hours, I just have to get up and do something for a while.

At the same time, I almost feel like society is programming me to be uncomfortable with the notion, and that I shouldn't feel bad for spending my free time how I want to spend it. However, that notion never wins out for me nowadays hence going out and doing something for a while afterwards.
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This

I only work part time and have the ability to pump hundreds of hours into games everyday but i dont because society does tend to make you feel bad when you do it.
 
I spend my entire Spring break playing Persona 4 after spending an entire month playing Persona 3. I felt empty finishing the games.
 
I do it now and then. Civilization will fuck up my day good. I'll play it for 10 straight hours or more with no problem.

I also don't see a problem with it. You feel guilty about it because other people make you feel that way about your video gaming. As I've gotten older, I've realized that everybody has these time sinks, at least happy people, and some are just more socially acceptable than others. Don't ever feel bad for time spent doing something you love. Life is too short to make it shorter by not finding your zen hobbies.
 
I'm off work next week, so I'll probably spend a few days lounging around and playing games.

I need to finish off Doom and 999 and then get started on Blood and Wine and Hitman: Episode 3.

I don't feel shit about it because my job takes a lot out of me. I've earned the right to a few lazy days.
 
Even before I had my kid doing that made me feel like garbage. I need to do something productive. Shit like mow the lawn, clean up, organize things, play with the dogs or learn something on youtube or somewhere.

Not sure why since I don't look at people who do play all day as losers but man I feel like one if I just game all day. Can't figure it out.
 
If it was my choice I would be playing video games all day but well life.
Plus its summer and its fest season and movie blockbuster season so well that takes over our time.
 
When Uncharted 4 came I played the game for about twelve hours straight. That was after playing four hours when it unlocked at midnight ET.
 
lol i do this pretty often
i dont feel its a waste of time as im enjoying myself

got a week off coming up after i finish todays shift

75% of that will be me sitting in front of my pc ( Other than sleeping )

and i wont regret it
 
I plan on doing this once im done with my medical residency. Pick up a ps4 neo and go to town. Its going to be glorious, and hopefully ff7R will be out at that point.
 
17 Seconds said:
i hate to break this to you, but being able to do whatever hobby you enjoy all day is about the best life will probably get
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Took the words right out of my mouth. I'm on day three of a four day weekend and I've played maybe two hours. Wish I could play all day.
 
Everytime a new Bethesda RPG or Rockstar open world game drops I take a day and do nothing else. Will probably also do the same with Hearts of Iron IV. I can only ever justify doing that on a game's release day...I always feel weird and guilty randomly playing a game all day.
 
Been off work for the past few weeks with a broken foot. Most days have been used to catch up with TV shows and my backlog of games, finished off Dark Souls 3, Saints Row 4 and Persona 4.
 
koopathecat said:
This

I only work part time and have the ability to pump hundreds of hours into games everyday but i dont because society does tend to make you feel bad when you do it.
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Do you live on Venus or something?

Y'all really need to stop giving a shit about what other people think. Life is much better if you're not constantly trying to live up to arbitrary societal standards.

Guilt tripping because I'm spending a day doing what I love? Sounds horrible to me.
 
My girlfriend is out of the house for business trips off and on all summer so other than polishing some scripts up and working on conceptual stuff for some films and work (which I only go in Monday's, Wednesday's, Thursday's and Saturday's for 6 hours) I have all the time in the world.

Problem is, I can't really push myself to do it much. I will when Mirror's Edge comes out, but normally I need to go out and do something with some friends or run some errands purely because I get claustrophobic being inside for so long with nothing productive to do.

I wish I didn't get like that since my backlog would be a lot shorter but hey, what're you gonna do.
 
Anytime I get a new mainline Neptunia game, like right now with V II. 38 hours inthe past 8 days. I'm just exausted atthis point but I can't stop. This is in hot weather and an enclosed room too. Have ac on 77 during day (to save elec money) and window open when its 70 outside at night.

As an aside: games I did this with in 2015:

Splatoon for the first few days.
DanganRonpa: Another Episode. 20 hours in 4 days.
Corpse Party: Blood Drive - 19 hours in 5 days.
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes - 68 Hours in 12 days for 100% online with randoms.
Neptunia Rebirth 1-3
Persona 4: Golden - 89 hours in about 3 months, so nt as active but still alot.
Several days at a time in Smash 3DS online.
Obviously more in previous years but thats 2015's greatest hits

In 2016 I did Life is Strange at 17 hours in 3 days. In addition to sveral days of Monster Hunter 4's online.

I always get exausted but its such a great feeling to just be hooked on a game and can't stop until its beaten. And I got a few more games I'd expect to do this with this year:

Zero Escape Vol. 3
Yomawari
Persona 5
And Severed when I get it.

Yay great video games!
 
What I wouldn't give lol, I'm lucky if I get a full hour.
As for feeling bad about it, it depends.
I haven't been able to do that for a long time but back when I was single there was the occasional day where I had the day off but my girlfriend would have to work so unless I had some errant to do I was fine with putting that day into gaming and not feeling bad about it at all. I need to go out at least once though to get some air and interact with other people.

If I'm gaming while knowing I could be doing something else that needs to get done I feel bad about it of course but the same happens if I'm watching tv or whatever.
It comes down lazyness and it happens to everyone.
 
I work damn hard in my week so if I feel like gaming all day on a Saturday, fuck it. It's pretty much a more cost effective form of entertainment than raving, that can cost me over a hundreds when you factor in buying new outfits, grooming, drinks, taxis,club entries and reserving tables.

That said, pretty much because I have a very short attention span, I can never just game all day. My "gaming days" usually include sneaker cleaning, consoles cleaning, PC repair, gaming related web browsing (including gaf) watching FGC streams and going to the gym.

In between all of that, I doubt I play longer than 3-4 hours total.
 
I could easily spend a day playing games, but only if I'm playing with other people. These days my attention span doesn't let me play a game for more than 2 hours when I'm playing alone before I have to take a break and do something else.
 
I get one of those every 2 weeks or so on Sundays. As a matter of fact, today I'm doing just that. Usually I'm either working or out with people, so I use days like these to just blast through games or other entertainment.
 
Technically I could do this but I'm not sure I have the attention span or would feel great about it afterwards. The only game I ever do it for is World of Warcraft's expansions. I come close to it with new Diablo 3 seasons at the very start as well. But I always feel physically awful afterwards.
 
I did this often when I was a kid, but since I grew up only a few games have made me take days like this. Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 & 2 and Bloodborne come to mind. When you are employed but have some time off these are the best days.

When Smash for Wii U came out I think I took five days off and just played from waking up to bedtime, I clocked like 60 hours in one week, probably the best gaming week of my adult life. Now I have my own apartment, a girlfriend I live with and a puppy to take care of, otherwise Dark Souls 3 would have caught me. Somehow I have still managed to play like 50 hours of it which nowadays usually doesn't happen.

When my little Dog can last a bit longer without 100% attention and doesn't have to go pee once every two hours I will do this again, can't wait.
 
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