People who get right into these games and its like a matter of life and death,

It would be funny, if it was not so sad. It is just as annoying when the TV is that important to someone as well. It is rude and annoying and you cannot get people to even look you in the eye and the television is so loud that you cannot even stand to be in the same room.

I see that here in my internet cafe. They kids rent my ps and start yelling and going crazy with these games. Sometime I have to tell them to leave. Especially when 2-3 get at it. very sad. But I need the business.

i know men get so crazy with those. it used to be bad when i was first married i had to watch and not win to much in cards as my first young hubby would get so mad. once i couldnt help it, i just kept winning and he took the cards and threw them in the stove! said i was cheating. so after that i would not play anything with him unless i was his partner in mixed company. when the younger guys lived here, id hear them cussing at games all the time. its one thing i dont miss Ive never been a sore loser and i think most women are that way from training. lol. My oldest son here has played board games with me since he was 7yrs old and online with me later and always been a good player win or lose. because from a young age i taught him that no one wants to play if you dont except losing some times.

I am guiltily raising my hand to this.... I have since taken a back seat to one online game that was so involved with that had all kinds of alerts, bells and whistles going off to keep on top of attacks going on. If a person ticked me off, it was 2 full days of hitting them back. These games are addictive and sometimes a person gets overly involved. I can say have met some honest to goodness people through them. I'm planning a trip this summer to meet up with a person that I've played online with for 3 years.

While it's probably good to escape into a little alternative reality, it is all too easy for that to take on a life of it's own. Sadly, it's not just games. You only have to observe the number of reality programs on TV to see that we seem to have an obsessive nature. I work mostly with guys, and the conversation seems to revolve around football (probably one reason why footballers are paid so much more than the armed forces or emergency services)! That's enough from me; time to get to harvest or my citizens might starve- then I'll be facing riots.....

since games are the escapism from reality. Not only games, TV series, internet, manga, novels all can be the escapism from the reality. Since the reality is not perfect as we can hope to be. In the games, we ca be a leader, a hero, or something which in the reality we are probably just an ordinary person. That's is why people can be so obbsessed with games or any form of entertainment.

I can relate, as our new tenant who is renting a room from us is like this. They are so into their game playing that thy sleep when their friends are not online and that is strange hers. They do not work due to medical problems so many times they spend more time doing this than anything else. Many times my husband says I am online a lot, but many times he knows it is spent in here. But to be playing games all the time like this, I really don't get it.

My erstwhile husband got so incensed that I wouldn't sell him a property when we were playing Monopoly, that he tossed the board and walked out of our friend's apartment. The rest of us just stared at each other.

I know exactly what you mean. I used to like to play multi player online games for fun, like world of warcraft. I never took it so seriously, I just wanted to pass my free time and enjoy the game. But soooo many other players were so hard core like it was real life, and they just ruined it for me because to them it was all about "success" rather than enjoyment. Tried playing a different one a few months ago that my bf plays, and that ended badly as well, people found out that I'm a woman and started to harass me. I think if there was a mmo that only women played, it would be a lot different :P

i have one of these in my house.i hate the temper tantrums that follow if they lose. go ahead,break the game.don't expect to get another.

As an online gamer myself, I can rightly say that interactive games can very easily draw you in and keep you caught up in them. Research says that video games, and the wins or losses you experience on the games, creates the same exact effect in your brain as if you won or lost something in a real life event. Therefore - telling players that it's just a game - doesn't always work! LOL. It took a while for my youngest son (who is the most avid video gamer of the family) to learn that he doesn't need to get so upset at the games when he's struggling. We had to teach him to take a break from the game and do something else to calm down and then retry what he was stuck on. Adults who start gaming at a later age, may take that much longer to learn that lesson! (My hubby still curses at the people on the games we play) LOL!

I noticed alot of people get very absorbed in video game and seem to forget that they are just a game. I've had a few react quite angrily when reminding them it is just a game (and that its time to go to school) There are much more important things than games!

Hi Jugs, haha..your hubby sounds like my son he plays Point Blank everyday, all the spare time that he has, he just turn on the PC and start gaming and angry too if anyone disturb him

It is like real life to some people and I will say that they do take these games to seriously. I also feel that they tend to be on there all the time rather than spending time with friends chatting, or family.