We are not outraged by blood. We see blood all the time. Blood is pervasive in movies, television, and video games. Yet, we are outraged by the fact that one openly discusses bleeding from an area that we try to claim ownership over.
Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock-n-roll.
You can judge the fact that I like video games or wine or love basketball or like going fishing. You can judge all that. But there are certain things that you can’t, and I think people are figuring that out. Me, being from the old school, I figured that out early.
I would say my brother got lucky with me. Because we grew up with only boy neighbors, I developed a liking to shoot-’em-up and military video games. I could have come out a lot girlier.
It’s actually one of the only things that I do that I don’t get frustrated over. Everything else I do – racing, golf, video games – those things I want to win at. With photography, I think the camera wins every time.
I make funny videos of me playing video games, and I share those moments.
‘Modern Warfare,’ ‘Black Ops,’ these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can’t speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I’m actually in the game. It’s that intense.
It’s something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It’s the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it’d definitely be a dream come true.
The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn’t. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it’s time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason – to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
I’m an outdoorsy guy, but I also enjoy the average teenager stuff – video games, movies, hanging with friends. I’m just a normal guy!
Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you’re doing, and occasionally I’ve gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
I play a lot of video games, cook meals for my best friends and chosen family in Seattle, and find time to visit my family in Portland, Oregon.
In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games… so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.
When I was growing up, I was an ’80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body’s the controller.
Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it’s a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.
I think it would be impossible to make a movie about video games if there wasn’t some violence that we know from video games.
When people are surprised I can do things is always fun. Just because I have muscles doesn’t mean I don’t play video games.
You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I’ve decided to create stories through video games.
Video games and outdoor sports – that was my childhood.
In the mid 1980s, video games as an industry had lost its way a bit. Atari had collapsed. There was this widespread collective belief that it was because video games were a fad.
I wouldn’t claim to be a gamer. I have played video games in the past.
Kids don’t even read comic books anymore. They’ve got more important things to do – like video games.
With video games, imagine it’s not locked – it’s a TV show people can reach in and do this and do that, and you need to have dialog for all of that stuff.
Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
I believe that if we don’t make moves to get people who don’t play games to understand them, then the position of video games in society will never improve. Society’s image of games will remain largely negative, including that stuff about playing games all the time badly damaging you or rotting your brain or whatever.
There are very few video games where there are – like, completely pacifistic – and if there are, I tend to play them – ‘Dance Dance Revolution,’ there was a game called ‘Flower’ that I really enjoy.
I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I’ve always been a big gamer.
My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.
I like to be in ‘The Walking Dead,’ and I like to play video games and just hang out with my friends and try to be as normal as possible, so going to college would be another really cool, normal experience in my life.
Growing up, video games allowed me to feed this competitive drive while still hanging out with my friends and being a kid.
In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.
I like to play video games and read.
I love to write music, watch a Pixar film, or play video games with my family and friends.
I’m a competitor, I just love to compete, and playing video games is a way to compete and have fun with your friends.
What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience.
I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love ‘Star Wars.’ I wish Jedi was a true religion.
My dream is to make everyone love video games.
I’m pretty much an isolated person. I’d rather stay home and play video games.
To the best of my knowledge, a lot of people who play video games also play tabletop games and vice versa.
I really like baking, and I really like playing video games. I saw a few geeky baking blogs but I never saw a show on television or on the Internet like that. So I thought, ‘Why not be the first to try it out?’ And it went really well.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
I love to compete. No matter what we’re doing, it doesn’t matter. We could be playing video games or ping pong, and I’m going to get fired up, win, lose or draw.
I’m an only child and grew up in a bad neighborhood. My parents weren’t well-off, but they would save up to get me video games. Games were something I did because I couldn’t really go outside where bad things were going on.
People love video games because they do things they obviously can’t do in real life. That’s especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
People just don’t sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.
It wasn’t until I got my first son that I wasn’t really able to play video games because when you have a child at home, there are infinite other things you should be doing.
Playing video games, as funny as it might sound, it’s a very important part of our day. Our schedule is so hectic, chaotic, demanding that we need an outlet. We need ways to express ourselves and let our energy out.
I do a lot of video games – I have a YouTube channel where I record me playing video games with my friends and post it. That’s a hobby I have and a lot of what I do in my off time.
Because several ‘Titans’ characters have been used in video games, I’ve got royalty checks for six figures. And I had no knowledge of this until I opened the mailbox, because I don’t follow the video game world!
I don’t even like to lose when I’m playing video games with my brother, and when I do lose, I get really mad.
It’s very difficult for people who don’t play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it’s very difficult for people who aren’t close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.
I just think that rap takes way more slack than the video games and the movies. We don’t make guns. Smith and Wesson makes guns. Like, white people make guns and bullets, and all we’re doing is rhyming and putting words together.
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that’s why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.
