How do you Manage?

[mechashiva77]

Since I plan to seriously step up my gaming after either Junior year or college all together, I want to know how you all manage your gaming? Do you even have a schedule? Do stick to one game until it's done? I'm trying to learn to balance my PC and limited console gaming (though that will increase once I can either share an Xbox with my boyfriend or get one of my own).

 

[Eisenfaust]

i'm in my 3rd year of university, and i manage my gaming by doing no study whatsoever up until 2 days before assessment tasks/exams, and just spending my normal amount of time playing whatever i feel like playing....

and bizarrely enough, i've been doing really well

 

[Floppertje]

they're games. they're for fun. you just give yourself a little 'me-time' and do whatever the hell you feel like.

 

[Johnny Impact]

It's a mistake to assume you'll have oodles more time after you graduate. Jobs, apartments, girlfriends, second jobs.... Where do you feel all the leftover time will come from?

I usually have 6-8 games in progress at any given time. I feel this is a bad habit and am trying to complete two games for every one I start.

 

[Simple Bluff]

I don't play console games much during school term, apart from the odd COD/FIFA splitscreen with my friends/roomates. I will have a handheld game always at the ready to keep me occupied, but only here and there throughout the week.

I catch up on Christmas and Summer - it's a really good deal. I get all the games I missed out on in late Summer/Autumn for free ala Santy Claus and I usually get discounts during the Summer.

I deem it the most awesome consumer loop in existance.

Catchpa: Francis onatiti; didn't need to know that catchpa, but nice to see 'ol Frank getting some action.

 

[Cogwheel]

For the most part, I don't game. Lack of time. I do play stuff now and then when I can find the time, though, which generally means an hour and a half per week or so.

 

[Roofstone]

I see game.
I play game.

Really, why schedule it? If I wanna entertain myself a bit, I play games. Simple as that. Most schedule I have is when I stop to do things I had planned during the day.

 

[Simple Bluff]

i'm in my 3rd year of university, and i manage my gaming by doing no study whatsoever up until 2 days before assessment tasks/exams, and just spending my normal amount of time playing whatever i feel like playing....

and bizarrely enough, i've been doing really well

Yup, sounds about right.
Students: Studying HARD 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 2 weeks a year

 

[krazykidd]

I see game.
I play game.

Really, why schedule it? If I wanna entertain myself a bit, I play games. Simple as that. Most schedule I have is when I stop to do things I had planned during the day.

This , either im at work or im playing games . I have a habit of buying too many games ( mostly long ass jrpgs ) , but i counter this by Playing one at a time , i use to buy alot of games start them all then never finished them , then my dad called me a casual so i stop and go through one by one start to finish