Are you an ultimate gamer?

[SetoKaiba]

I can say i am, i once played starcraft online from 10:pm to 5:am nonstop...ahahha

[Abaddon]

spose i am

[Oddball]

Yeah of course! Video games are good for ur eyes, and there fun!!:tup:

[Abaddon]

Dude, what arre u on, good for ur eyez. Sure j/k

seriously video games r cool.

[[N]eto]

I guess you could say that... But the only true ultimate gamers are the creators themselves.

;)

Prince

[Anubis]

well no duh i am i live off of games. lol if there was no such thing as the ps2 i`d practicly die!

i have mastered the art of gaming.

[Stryker82]

Games, WTF are games?

Us Golden Aged people never had games back i nthe day:tup:

Bah, i've played longer sessions of Age of Empire 2 when it was a big hit online...

Played for abotu 12 hours... 7PM till around 7AM.. maybe 6 AM idunno.. lol but i went to bed whjen i was done...

But playing a game for a long time mkaes you no ultimate gamer... a 2 Year old could pla ya game for that long... lol

Buyt uh.. Yea, im with Neto lol..

[Oddball]

Originally posted by -legend-
Dude, what arre u on, good for ur eyez. Sure j/k

seriously video games r cool.


heres an article that says soStudy surprise: Gaming can be good for you
Action-packed video games may offer more than just entertainment: They may make you sharper, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Rochester found that young adults who regularly played action-based video games showed better visual skills than those who didn't.

Also, they were better able to keep track of objects appearing simultaneously and processed fast-changing visual information more efficiently, said the study's co-author, Daphne Bavelier, an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences.

People who don't usually play video games but were trained to play fantasy games showed enhanced visual perception, suggesting that video games may be a useful tool to help visually impaired patients or train soldiers for combat, according to the study published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

Parenting groups and anti-violence advocates have blamed violent video games for influencing youths to commit murders, as in the case of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, when two teenage gunmen killed a teacher and a dozen students before killing themselves.

In 2001, the families of several slain victims sued the entertainment industry, saying the shooters were influenced by violent video games and movies. A judge later dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that companies had no way of knowing their products would lead to the school shooting.

The new study did not directly address how violence found in some video games affects a person's behavior. Instead, the experiments concentrated on a person's ability to recognize and interpret symbols and letters after playing video games.

"Some people think that video games are turning kids into supergeniuses or psychokillers," said Kurt Squire, an educational game designer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Games-To-Teach Project, who was not part of the study.

"The reality is probably close to this where people can process visual information much quicker and be able to discern between different types of information," Squire said.

Military experts say soldiers who grow up playing video games do better in processing information on a screen or operating long-range unmanned aerial vehicles that can film or photograph enemy activity on the ground.

"There are some very avid video gamers in the military. The people who have been playing video games all their lives seem a lot more comfortable in some of these kinds of environments," said Lt. Cmdr. Russell Shilling of the MOVES Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

In the Rochester study, 16 males between the ages of 18 and 23 took a series of tests that measured their ability to locate the position of a blinking object, count the number of simultaneous objects on a screen and pick out the color of an alphabet letter. Those who played video games for the past six months performed better in all those tests than those who didn't.

In a separate test, a group of 17 who never played video games were trained to play the military game "Medal of Honor" and the puzzle game "Tetris." After playing for 10 days, those who learned "Medal of Honor" scored better on the performance tests than those who didn't.

Some parenting advocates viewed the study's results as limited while others blamed violence in video games for fueling a variety of social problems including aggression among youths.

"It warrants more research on the habitual video game players regarding their attitudes and behavior after playing these games," said Pamela Eakes, president of the Seattle-based Mothers Against Violence in America.


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[JoshMan]

ive played games for whole days, so ya, i guess i am

[straven]

ok this is what my usual plan is i play the same game on xbox live for 20 hours straight maybe more

Day play:

9am: wakes up plays midtown madness 3 online

11am: gets something to drink while playing xbox live

12pm: eat cheese toast

1pm: gets something else to drink

rest is same til like 4am to 5am i love video games and i usually get first in it i love it

[Steller33]

heh! I remember playing Diablo 2 Exp for hours after hours getting better and better! But since then, I've quit most computer games and stuck to PS2

[Sister of Metal]

The only thing I've ever been hooked on was Neverwinter Nights ( for as long as it lasted, I've beaten it MUCH too soon:cry: ), Age of mythology ( the reason is the same as with NWN)....Now I'm only hooked on c/d lol ( and msn ofcource)

[Aqua]

Hell yeah, of course I am a real GAMER!!!!!! I'm never longer then an hour stuck on a game......

[sego]

hell yeah im a gammer ill sit there and play halo all weekend i cant wait till halo2 comes out ithink im going to quit my job and play it all the time :ganja: im an all time gamer but if theres was only nintendo i wouldnt play at all i hate nintendo :ganja:

[Popa§murf69]

imm not a ultimate gamer i go out and doo stuff sports friends watever but i love games longest ive played 6 hours warcraft 2 on christmas day lol

[sego]

screw that if i like the game im going to play it till i can thier been days where i go with out sleep cause i have to finish playing the game like halo it took me 24 hrs. to beat that game in legandary mode the only time i stop is whe i had to take bathroom brake thats it no food nodrink no phone nothing and even no women they make you weak haha!!!!!:rolleyes: :ganja:

[Nick Hyral]

Lol level 72 at the end of Disc one on FF7 nough said :cool:

[DayleJ]

i think that some may b giving themselves more credit than they should. playing for long periods of time isn't anything just that ur hooked on a particular game when u first get it, some games i can complete within a day if i play it hours on end. i think a true gamer is someone who can play any genre and complete and game they play, and be good enough to help others out with hard areas and bosses cuz your way to beat them is better than any other showing how good you really are.

@ Subzero, i like that article it seems logical doesn't it? lol

[Popa§murf69]

anybody can play all day and nite but i think the peeps who make the games r the REAL ultimate gamers

[Nick Hyral]

Well Dayle, now that you mention it under those terms. I would have to say I am an ultimate gamer. I came to C/D to help. Which I have been doing in the Zelda section as well as in the Final Fantasy section.

[BloodRunsCold]

hell yea i am

[B-MAN]

im a gamer

[Boomerang]

I live by the game

[GOHAN 007]

if your not a gamer what you doin here then lol


i am an ultimate gamer

[peepcil]

me too

[Unrealdimensions]

Im definately an ultimate gamer, back in the day when PS was good i play FF9 for 43 hours straight :D