Any gamers?

jfk · 04-28-2008, 09:56 AM

this is a bit of an odd request but i kinda want to see what number of people here are gamers. so just fill out the little form below:

hours spent gaming a week:
hours spent studying a week:
favorite games:
major/gpa:

ninjastar209 · 04-28-2008, 10:05 AM

hours spent gaming a week: at one point 40+ played Counter-strike professionally, now roughly 10 1-2H per day. Dota, Halo 3, wc3.
hours spent studying a week: At one point zero while 40+ hours of games.
favorite games: Counter-strike (Retired Didn't make the transition from 1.6 to source) War craft 3, Diablo2, WoW, Q3, Star craft CoD 4, Halo 3, Smash.
major/gpa: Business Economics 3.67.

jfk · 04-28-2008, 10:08 AM

sweet. did you play in cal? cevo? i used to be absolutely hooked on 1.6 when i was playing cal.

have you chosen what school you're going to?

ninjastar209 · 04-28-2008, 10:12 AM

not transferring until 09' cal p/i quit before cevo really got started, played around the bay area when they had lan tourney's every weekend. which killed my high school grades, I just dropped out when I was 16 and took the Equiv exam(which I feel I should of done right when I got to high school lol ).

twitchyhamst3r · 04-28-2008, 11:01 AM

lol I just play casually but I've been playing since I could coordinate properly with my fingers. Love video games!

hours spent gaming a week: Around 5-7
hours spent studying a week: 10...ish. I'm including homework and reading into this too.
favorite games: Halo series, F.E.A.R, Super Mario, Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, Guild Wars, Legacy of Kain
major/gpa: 3.7 English

I like games with really in-depth stories, mostly. Any suggestions?

poppin3000 · 04-28-2008, 11:11 AM

+1 ^^

I'm a casual gamer as well, but I've grown up around hardcore gamers my whole life, lol. I started off with the original Gameboy & Nintendo. Then Sega, then N64, then xbox, and now xbox 360 (which pwns btw).

hours spent gaming a week:6ish
hours spent studying a week: This quarter I've been slacking so 10ish
favorite games:Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo 1. Ninja Gaiden, starcraft, assassin's creed is fun, I dont mind the repetition lol. Ummm..guitar hero? I'm picking up GTA4 tomorrow and COD4 after schools out.
major/gpa: Econ, 3.72 when i applied, probably a high 3.7 or low 3.8 after the winter quarter

simmonyang · 04-28-2008, 11:57 AM

hours spent gaming a week: 30+
hours spent studying a week:less than 10 i usually start to do/prepare my hw/test in the very last day. kinda lazy
favorite games: world of warcraft. starcraft ,counter-strike (hardcore gamer)
major/gpa: 3.95 statistics

people always told me: get a life!!

Thomas_ · 04-28-2008, 12:07 PM

Used to play hardcore, 60+ hours/week.

Favorite games: Played CS professionally (played ~6 years, stopped after CSS came out), Diablo1, Diablo 2, Ragnarok Online, WoW, DAoC, Final Fantasy (not XI ; )), Tekken, Nintendo games like Zelda, Mario, etc.

Now, hours gaming per week: 0 : ))
Hours Stuyding per week: 50+ and working 20h/week.
major/gpa: EECS / 3.95

jfk · 04-28-2008, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Now, hours gaming per week: 0 : ))
Hours Stuyding per week: 50+ and working 20h/week.

question: how do you stay sane?

Guyy · 04-28-2008, 12:14 PM

i used to play single player fps adventure games. e.g. far cry. then my mobo got fried and i didnt bother to reinstall it.

Thomas_ · 04-28-2008, 12:19 PM

Quote:

question: how do you stay sane?

Hm,
1. have a ****ty laptop so you can't install any games. I couldn't resist and tried to install WoW a while back, but well, I had like 10 frames per second, unplayable... Ahh, I really miss playing, I should try CS.
2. girlfriend

I didn't finish high school, didn't go to class because of gaming, so I basically never studied for my whole life until I went to my CC. That's why studying is fun for me now. Also, I'm working at my CC and I can sometimes do homework while I'm working so it's not too bad.

Lackofsense · 04-28-2008, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ninjastar209

hours spent gaming a week: at one point 40+ played Counter-strike professionally

Professionally? w..t...f?

PooperScooper · 04-28-2008, 02:35 PM

I was a Software QA Tech III for a couple of different video game companies, working between 12 and 36 hour shifts and averaging 90-100 hrs per week; however, I no longer have the desire to play.

luvtoolearn · 04-28-2008, 03:11 PM

Those of you who are gamers and are planning on coming to Cal, I highly recommend a new sociology class here (soc 167) call "soc of virtual communities" this is the first semester of it being taught at Berkeley kind if as an experiment, but it is going so well that they are expanding funding and will be offering it for the next two years so if you get a chance, check it out. Most of the students in this class are gamers so they have allot in common.

Lackofsense · 04-28-2008, 03:15 PM

luvtoolearn: Do you have to pay for the class since it's an experiment?