4 Relationship Hurting Games and 1 Savior

My Co-blogger has gone through his past of game playing and it plays out very much like my own. I am amazed to see the name Zork after all of these years. My God, did we really play an all text game!
I think Brian has tapped into a topic that is little covered in the news. How many of us have relationships that are strained just because we only want to get to the next level? I am up to the challenge to name such games.

Relationship and Games for better or worse: For Better:1 For Worse:4


#4
GIANTS
This is a fun arcade style game where you play some sort of outer space humanoid cat in a space suit with a British accent. It is creative with good game play and very funny. Actually I never got in much trouble over this one. It is timed out pretty well and the obsessive factor is only medium. But, Brian had five and even with this one I only have four so I had to fill out my list a little and it's a great game so pick it up. Plus I only got in trouble for playing it like once or twice, and that was really because of some other stupid thing I did.

#3
ANY FIRST PERSON SHOOTER
"No One Lives Forever", Return To Castle Wolfenstien", "Quake Arena","the new DOOM", Metal Of Honor", "Call Of Duty", "Red Faction". I could go on but then I start to have a real sense of self realization about the time I have wasted playing these things and I start to feel a little sick.
Be it space alien, Nazi scum, or shambling zombie, and SOMETIMES Shambling Nazi zombie scum, (someday they will finally have a Nazi space zombie, and the world will be complete) I love to shoot them all with a big gun. I have wasted more time feeling like I'm saving the world than actually doing anything at all . My wife may say "Craig it's a beautiful day why don't we go outside and read while we sit in the hammock." to which I respond "Honey, as we speak there are Nazis trying to bring the dead back to life, France has already fallen under their iron fist. It is my responsibility, neh my DUTY to kill Nazi scum today, Hammock be damned!" She shrugs, with a slight rolling of the eyes, and gos outside.
What she does not understand is that I am a man of variety when it comes to these games, a Renaissance man if you will. Sometime I come home and I need to kill aliens with the plasma canon, or maybe it's time to stay back from your enemy and go the way of the sniper, and every now and then but not often you just have to see how far you can get with that stupid knife they defaulted you with at the start of the game (not very far, in case you were wondering). One of the big problems with these games is not only am I not doing anything but I'm not learning anything either. Brian may have amassed a huge amount of useless statistics but he is also a wiz with computers in general. i.e. he got this blog going, he build a computer, or more to the point he put the covers of the games he played on his list next to their number. Just getting into this blog and making this post was a huge challenge for me, akin to a dog licking peanut butter off the roof of its mouth. Sure, the dog can do it, but it takes a LONG time, it's frustrating and it looks funny. Well, I made my titles red so there. Other than that I won WWII and saved the universe a bunch, but not really.

#2
BALDUR'S GATE
O.K. so I can be cheap. see, thrifty. I don't really keep up with the current games. It is my only real discipline, by now owning a game I will not play that game. But, if I can buy a game that has been out for years it's really cheap, but then of course I play it and that is where the problem is.
Baldur's Gate is a dungeon's and Dragons adventure game. Form a party kill monsters go on quests. I get caught up in checking out the game world. So many things to get your group, so many places to go and I'll just check out one more thing. Once the wife has told me she is going to bed I know I have about thirty minutes of good faith game play left. As in, if I am in bed half an hour, after she has told me she is going to bed everything is fine. If I push it to one hour, it's still O.K. but there is a distinct chill in the air. So, when I started playing Baldur's Gate and my wife told me she was hitting the sack. I said "I'll be down in a bit." Five hours later I learned that five hours is not "a bit". I can play first person shooters for a while now and then put them down. The same thing can not be said for Baldur's Gate. Damn you Baldur's Gate I shake my tiny fist of rage in your general direction.

#1
GRAND THEFT AUTO III
This time sucking, relationship hurting game was made by a pack of divorce lawyers and marriage counselors who needed to drum up some biz. How dare they make a game so cool. And the wife does not understand. I played this game so much at a friends house one night that when I drove home I started to think "I bet those light poles will snap right off if I hit them with the car, hmmmm". I spent a whole hour flipping my car off the top of a parking garage just to see how far I could get, then taking different cars, trucks, buses up and jumping them off the edge too. I have abandon the mission of the game altogether and spent hours just going on a kill crazy rampage. Yelling over to my wife "Hey, check this out I'm going to shoot this guys leg off", and they say there is no more romance left in the world. Yes, I have to say GTAIII is my number one. They are all great games so please, if you want to stop enjoying real relationships with real people and blow off the many wonders and mysteries of this amazing world we live in, go and buy any of these and start your path to eye strain bliss.



#1
TIGER WOODS GOLF
My brother-in-law has this game on his system. I'm not sure what sister it is. PlayStation or something. This is the best game in the world. I don't even care about golf, but is is pure fun squeezed into a game. It is fun to play alone, but here is why it is in the "for better" category, it is a blast to play with other people too. Four people can play at a time. My wife loves to play it, THAT is how fun it is. a game with four takes about an hour and half, so bring on the cheese dip, get that case of beer, lets play golf. This game is a god send to people who like to game but are tired of trying to get their equal opposites into their game. Game on.