why do you play videogames?

[Major_Sam]

Because its the most exciting thing you can do in your pjs without leaving the house and talking to people about their boring lives.

Oh and its fun.

 

[King Yayap]

I play games for two reasons...
1. Entertainment.
2. Distraction.

 

[rockingnic]

To have fun when my friends start to suck... They are great but sometimes they're not around or busy when I'm not.

 

[neuromasser]

I need something to pass time...

 

[FightThePower]

Because it's fun? Obvious answer really.

 

[esplode]

I think a better question is, why am I not playing video games right now?

 

[daftalchemist]

First of all, they're fun! Second, sometimes I just need to get away from life for a while. Third, they are a lot of fun to play with friends. And fourth, and this may be kind of shallow of me, but I like how it makes me more awesome to be a girl who plays videogames other than The Sims. Hehe.

 

[Nazulu]

For fun, for a good challenge and to escape reality.

 

[Zero-Vash]

I enjoy being the guy who can do five back flips, slice up 1000s enemies, snipe someone from 3 miles out, get the girl, and look good doing it. It's an escape, but unlike movies or books YOU are part of it. I have always felt more immersed in games than any other media because I was doing something. Sure many games have linear stories, but I am the one that progresses through them.

Also it is a great way to stay in touch with friends. I have many friends that have gone to different collages. But thanks to online games I still have a way to keep in touch.

 

[sumanoskae]

Because games are an amazing art form capable of creating emersion and storey connection no other art form is capable of. Also they offer boundless amounts of fun and awesomeness, and sometimes escapism. Plus some of the best storeys I have ever seen are in games

 

[thephich]

I play games cause there [usualy] fun. There an escape from reality, reality isnt bad, just boreing sometimes

 

[thephich]

touche my fine sir, touche

 

[Valiance]

Because I've laughed, cried, and thought about more video games than movies.

Certain music and literature withstanding, games have created (overall) the greatest experiences I've ever had. The feeling of overcoming a difficult challenge, you know? The designers of Braid were quite brilliant, and Supaplex was a game that (even though I started young) took years to complete.

But now I have, and I have a great sense of achievement with it.

I could give a huge list of other shit I've done that made me feel awesome, but long story short, I play some games because I love working towards a goal, gaining skill and reflexes, some games because I want to experience a story, alter a world, be a hero, and some games...

Because I want to think.

And honestly Mirror's Edge changed the way I look at architecture forever, and encouraged me to actually go outside and run every other day like I used to...

And the soundtrack chosen for Braid was simply breathtakingly haunting and beautiful. It's not often that games make me think differently about the world around me, even if it's a way that I've considered and reconsidered over the years...

Still reminds me that things can always be different.

 

[scorptatious]

They are fun and provide challenges

 

[Scobie]

DELETED

 

[Xanadu84]

Because as an art form, Games have the potential to be more meaningful and revelatory of the human condition then books, music, movies, and art combined, and it has barely scratched the surface. And in this day and age, video games are the most obvious direction for games to take.

 

[shwnbob]

To escape this thing called life.

 

[Magical Hans]

It lets me be what i am not : ]
A god!

 

[yeah_so_no]

I started playing games because all of my friends were gamers, all of them. I got tired of being left out of the loop, and started playing.

 

[Neotericity]

When in real life can you nuke Megaton or take out a platoon of combine with a crossbow?