I am most certainly a hockey fan! I don't just watch it, but I play it. I have been playing it since third grade, now going into eighth, and started off playing as goalie and my coach noticed I have good slapshot potential and assigned me to second line right wing sniper. Now, though, I play first line. I love the Blackhawks, Kings, and Avalanche.
And for everyone saying soccer is slow, I also played it, depending on how much time you get on the field if you get forward like I did you'll do a lot of running.

So I'm a new guy here, a friend recommended I check out this site, and I am not regretting it. I checked out the "show off your rig thread" and saw these guys sure know what they're doing, so maybe I could get some help please?

I just turned 13 June 4, and I have always wanted to be a PC gamer, something about the whole mouse n' keyboard thing always attracted me to it, and the community. So everything sounds good, right? Just get a gaming PC, right? Well, my mother is very uptight and is my only way of getting things I work part-time at a music store, but till I am 18, my mother is subject to the little money I do earn. I'm also curious, do I need to just buy a keyboard, mouse, monitor and case and the case comes with the basic parts I can later upgrade? Or is it going to be empty when I get it? Please help.

So as a strategy fan I find myself usually playing every strategy game reviewed by IGN that my friends recommend, and lately, I've been playing Civilization V, and am loving it.
Personally I like to expand early, and stick with what I have, so the Shoshone are great, I also like Babylon because of their science boosts, you can easily rush writing and then take off pretty much. I'm only now experimenting with tourism, but I like Brazil the most for that kind of victory. Lastly, I really enjoy Rome for domination, you get iron fast and get ballistas, and you'll be able to defend or attack effectively for the next era. So what about you guys?

For me it depends on the game. If it is a shooter like Call of Duty of Battlefield I find myself doing only two playthroughs: one on the easiest difficulty getting the collectibles and paying attention to the story, and then the second, and last, on the highest difficulty for achievements.
If it is a story driven game like Skyrim, or Final Fantasy X, I usually play it 5+ playthroughs. The first playthrough can easily be the best and worst. It being the best is because it is the first time you are playing the game, getting to learn the story and concepts. And sadly the worst because you can miss certain things, or do something else wrong and so on. Then the other times are usually playthroughs for when I revisit a game again.

Hey guys, so I have been pondering this question a bit lately, as my jealousy of The Elder Scrolls Online has been escalating, I have retreated to Skyrim, and when I get bored of Civilization V, I go to Age of Empires Online. Both these events have made me consider this would you rather;

Would you rather: return to your favorite MMO that has closed and be able to do everything with no subscription, but you cannot play with anyone since you are the only player there.... Or... Would you rather play your favorite singleplayer game but put up with players within the game with you while you progress through the story, with people being idiots in the game and killing the NPC's and making progress in the story hard.

I personally would do the single player choice; as someone who played the last two years of Star Wars Galaxies I cannot bear returning to a MMO, no matter how good, without my friends. Honestly, I could learn to tolerate all the players goofing off and making progressing through the story harder.