I usually buy between 20 - 30 games a month on average. When you have a good income and know how to balance and maintain your finances it's not a problem really. I'm trying to cut back on buynig new console games on launch since most these days seem to drop in price fairly quickly. I'll be able to get everything this year I want.FlamesOfGrey

League of Legends probably. :\ Around 1500 games played, which at an average of about a half hour a game, is 750 hours. Followed by EVE Online, and WoW, then Sc2.

[QUOTE="Ek-Andy"]No I don't think you are somehow. You've presented an argument, put it up against mine, we debated, it was inconclusive as allways. You can qoute names all you want, but all you have done is attempted to prove me wrong, and all it achived was nothing, as I expected. I have done exactly the same. I still think I am correct, and you think you are correct. I think you are wrong, and you think I am wrong. It's the nature of opinions, and it's why I hate it when people bring blatant opinions that make the assumption that they are proven facts. It's what leads to a stale argument. The "You're wrong" ping pong.Vandalvideo

So then, you expect professional programmers and artists, many of whom went to school for years to learn their trade and probably spent quite a bit of money to do so, to just stop recieving any pay, and, I dunno, go bag groceries or something? Seeing as how it does take years of commitment to learn the stuff necessary to make modern games. Not only that, you're extending this to movies, books, etc.

What about the entire IT industry? You know, the people who designed the stuff that you're probably using right now? That's all just data too. What do you suppose all these people are gonna do for a living, now that they can no longer make one off of providing the products and services that allow much of modern society (as we know it in the past 20-30 years or so) to exist.

Yeah, great, let's just essnetially run the entire internet out of our homes 'in our leisure time.' Fun! Sure, you can point at Linux, but there are people that make a full time living off of programming that, knowing how it works, being able to set it up so that it can actually be used... according to your theories, none of these people deserve to be compensated for their work.

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WoW is no where near a masterpiece, in fact its one of the worst MMOs ever (btw dont get me the 11 million subscribers crap cause it also counts gold sellers and people who have more 1 account).The pvp system is a complete joke and blizzard has had 4 years to some what balance pvp yet they havent.Pve has also became a joke although I tip my hat off to blizzard for making Ulduar fun (BC raids where hella boring) and when blizzard released Naxx as one of the instances for Wotlk I lost every respect I had left for them,they seriously added a instance that was already in the game 2 years prior to wotlk??? are you freaking that lazy blizzard?.Oh also got to love how they constantly re use the same mobs and armor sets 60 times but just re color them and or give them different stats,again laziness in blizzards part.

/end rant

Eddie-Vedder

Diablo 2 was more fun by far, as a whole. And probably had as many different sets of armor and items to collect. And yeah, I've cleared Naxx on heroic, it was alright. My problem with raiding is, once you've done the raid once or twice, it simply becomes repetitive and dull and I get tired of it very very quickly, and it ceases to be at all fun. With games like D2, you can clear the game on Hell mode fairly quickly if you know what you're doing, and then go back and try another character or build for a while different experience. And you can do it solo or with a couple friends if you like.

I'm gonna have to say the Warcraft RTS games and WoW, probably. The amount of stuff in the larger universe and whatnot in those games is astounding, similar to Star Wars in terms of quantity/quality. Although maybe not so many books. I think that sorta dwarfs MGS.

If we're talking console games, I'd say Mass Effect was pretty epic.

Consoles and junk... Gaming PC below is Athlon X2 6000+, 2 gigs ddr2 800, evga 8800gt 512mb. 4x 500 gig hdd, 1x 250 gig.

I don't think they're dying. I'm not sure that's even possible, given people's apparently unending appetite for the genre despite the fact that the basics haven't changed in almost 30 years. Maybe you don't see quite as many this gen as last gen, but last gen was sorta screwy. There were a lot of good jRPGs on the PS1, and maybe late in the SNES lifespan, and for some reason their success seemed to have encouraged developers to put a crap-ton of really bland unoriginal ones out for the PS2. The way I see it, we're starting to get back to business as usual and honestly I think it's easier to sort the wheat from the chaff this gen, I prefer slightly fewer GOOD jrpgs than dozens of mediocre ones.

For example, after playing several on the PS2 and growing tired of the genre, despite being told that these were 'great' games, I said 'never buying another again.' Last Christmas, a friend bought me Lost Odyssey... and bam, for some reason, I feel the magic again.

I voted yes, would depend on the actual game. If I didn't like the art style and whatnot, I probably wouldn't bother. But I did enjoy Braid and I do like 2d games, like Cave Story.