*sigh*

[gamergirl11]

hey guys! i'm sitting here at work extremely bored and thinking about all the games i want/have to play and it bothers me because there is not enough time in the day!! how do you guys go about this? i mean some of you have insanely high gamerscores! i just can't find the time to sit down and play for hours on end...i wish i could. it frustrates me because gaming is one of my favorite things in the world to do but i have other things going on in my life....like college, work, etc. :confused:

[darthnilus81]

i know having not enough time does suck...i sit at a job where i dont really do anything for a good potion of the time. i just wished i could get one of those small televisions like the people at game stop have so i could bring my 360 to work.

[Steelhead]

My GS isn't that high but I do spend allot of time playing. Having a full time job plus being a husband and father of three does tend to make it harder to find time. The only way I manage it is by sacrificing allot of sleep. I generally play from 9pm til 11:30-midnight every night...then get up at 5am for work.

[SegaSaturnSNK]

I haven't done nothing with my life for the past almost 3 years and it took me since launch to reach 50K. Could of gone over 100k but I didn't want to choose that lol. Just makes me look like more of a bum than I am now. I seriously need to look for a job though haha.

[gamergirl11]

My GS isn't that high but I do spend allot of time playing. Having a full time job plus being a husband and father of three does tend to make it harder to find time. The only way I manage it is by sacrificing allot of sleep. I generally play from 9pm til 11:30-midnight every night...then get up at 5am for work.

i'm thinking sleep sacrifice is the way i'm going to have to go...*tear*

[Slarak]

Hell I'm in the same boat as you. I'm at work now also and I'm always skimming this site on ways to increase my GS, but I try to stay away from the utterly easy ones like sports games or ones like Avatar. I would prefer to get a higher GS off of games I actually wanted to play. Guess I'm wierd like that, but I'm borderline thinking of bringing my 360 here and playing on my break or whenever my co workers and I have nothing to do.:drunk

[Steelhead]

i'm thinking sleep sacrifice is the way i'm going to have to go...*tear*
Just don't take it to extremes. College is much more important than gamerscore ;)

[gamergirl11]

Hell I'm in the same boat as you. I'm at work now also and I'm always skimming this site on ways to increase my GS, but I try to stay away from the utterly easy ones like sports games or ones like Avatar. I would prefer to get a higher GS off of games I actually wanted to play. Guess I'm wierd like that, but I'm borderline thinking of bring my 360 here and playing on my break or whenever my co workers and I have nothing to do.:drunk

definitely agreed. i'd rather spend time with games i enjoy...problem is those are usually ones that take forever to complete, atleast for me i guess. i like to take my time playing games :D

too bad there isn't like a mini portable 360!!! :p

[benbam87]

Lol everyone wishes they could play more

[Steelhead]

too bad there isn't like a mini portable 360!!! :p
Now that would be SWEET! http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h236/brettben1/Emoticons/yes.gif

I'd really like to upgrade my laptop to handle GOW PC or Halo2 Vista so I could snatch up some achievements during slow times at work.

[Slarak]

definitely agreed. i'd rather spend time with games i enjoy...problem is those are usually ones that take forever to complete, atleast for me i guess. i like to take my time playing games :D

too bad there isn't like a mini portable 360!!! :p

Well if your not already set up with it, you should try Gamefly out. I actually enjoyed some of the easy 1000 pointers like King Kong and TMNT. Wouldn't of tried them out if I wasn't set up on Gamefly. If it just wasn't so :rant: expensive to rent games nowadays.

[gamergirl11]

Just don't take it to extremes. College is much more important than gamerscore ;)

college?? whats that?!!? ;)

i know i know...trust me, with a double major and a plan to get my PhD in math...i know how important it is :S

still...gaming..or work..?? i mean really...

[kornfan2007]

I work 9-5:30 and then game all night with tea at some point. Game till about 3AM then sleep and repeat. Only get 3 nights for hardcore gaming since I spend then rest of the week with my girlfriend

[xRogue 5x]

The trick for me at least is to have adhd (attention deficit hyper-activity dissorder) sprinkled with mild to moderate ocd and top it off with an addictive personality. In other words I have a severe gaming addiction. Once you are fully addicted to your console the rest is easy. Secure a job that supplies you with just enough money to get by and allows you to buy all your gaming supplies. Step two ignore everyone around you that isn't central to your gaming success but don't ignore them completely as you'll want people around to occassionaly help you boost on one of your multiple 360s. Maybe even find a significant other who will put up you that way you have someone to do your laundry and bring you food.

Once those things are in place simply just game yourself silly. There is always time to game and frankly the only time that matters is the time spent gaming.

Thats how I do it at least and its worked out pretty well so far.

[Fighterspledge]

If anything, I take one day in the week to devote to myself and that usually involves gaming. Gamerscore is cool and all but my grades are like my real life gamerscore haha. Work gets in the way but I do take time to relax after work with an arcade game every now and then. Take your time and enjoy your games.

[sam49]

I only game if I find time. If I dont then I dont mind.

[Bullet2theface]

Well if you have extra money use it all on lottery tickets and hopefully you win a shit load and game till your heart can't game no more. :p

[Gun-Nut]

Well if you have extra money use it all on lottery tickets and hopefully you win a shit load and game till your heart can't game no more. :p

Lol, thought the problem was not having enough time to game? Only problem of staying up till the early hours in the morning gaming is that fact you may end up messing up your sleeping pattern and then end up missing college, I'm guilty of that :)

[StingX2]

I have too much free time especially since college is done till the end of january and i'm not working. >_>

[Outlaw]

The trick for me at least is to have adhd (attention deficit hyper-activity dissorder) sprinkled with mild to moderate ocd and top it off with an addictive personality. In other words I have a severe gaming addiction. Once you are fully addicted to your console the rest is easy. Secure a job that supplies you with just enough money to get by and allows you to buy all your gaming supplies. Step two ignore everyone around you that isn't central to your gaming success but don't ignore them completely as you'll want people around to occassionaly help you boost on one of your multiple 360s. Maybe even find a significant other who will put up you that way you have someone to do your laundry and bring you food.

Once those things are in place simply just game yourself silly. There is always time to game and frankly the only time that matters is the time spent gaming.

Thats how I do it at least and its worked out pretty well so far.

marry me? ;)

lol

same thing here adhd i dont tell people though cause they all are like wtf freak but its nothing bad but i have a friend whos big in gaming and so we do it a lot together halo double team partner my halo 2 double team partner we always get the co op shit on gh and stuff and it makes a lot easier

but what i did was get a job over the summer and instead of going full time i kept my hours from school so that i only worked 5:30-9 every day through summer had all the time in the world to game and i still made like 150 a week so it wasnt bad at all

[aussie_warrior117]

Lol I'm a 15 year old kid who has got a shipload of time on my hands but I choose to watch the cricket during these long hot summers here. :D

[Stinkyf1re]

too bad there isn't like a mini portable 360!!! :p

Actually, there kinda is....

http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lcd.jpg

I've seen them at Best Buy :)
heres a link
http://kotaku.com/gaming/hardware/portable-xbox-360-lcd-screen-252900.php

[I King Pin 0]

If you've seen them at Best Buy, are they not only coming out in Japan like the ad says? Do I even want to ask the price.... Yes I do, do you remember how much?

[sam49]

Lol I'm a 15 year old kid who has got a shipload of time on my hands but I choose to watch the cricket during these long hot summers here. :D
So you enjoying the cricket? Australia have given India 499 to win and day 4 is about to begin in 30 mins.

[badgerodoom]

Not having a job reallllly helps. :p

[xymon81]

sometimes it is really hard to find the time, work and family have to come first and if i play too much the wife gets on me, so i can relate. i just got like 21 games off of ebay and only have had the time to try two of them. now since cristmas all my game time is devoted to rockband.

[benbam87]

So you enjoying the cricket? Australia have given India 499 to win and day 4 is about to begin in 30 mins.

Lol and they are already 1/32 they got no chance :uzi:

[Deyankees1]

I never have time with job/college and its not easy I barely play anymore I gave up trying to get my gamer score high so yea. I play when I get time that's at 10 in the night. But haven't played 360 for about a week and a half.

[J O 12 D]

The trick for me at least is to have adhd (attention deficit hyper-activity dissorder) sprinkled with mild to moderate ocd and top it off with an addictive personality. In other words I have a severe gaming addiction. Once you are fully addicted to your console the rest is easy. Secure a job that supplies you with just enough money to get by and allows you to buy all your gaming supplies. Step two ignore everyone around you that isn't central to your gaming success but don't ignore them completely as you'll want people around to occassionaly help you boost on one of your multiple 360s. Maybe even find a significant other who will put up you that way you have someone to do your laundry and bring you food.

Once those things are in place simply just game yourself silly. There is always time to game and frankly the only time that matters is the time spent gaming.

Thats how I do it at least and its worked out pretty well so far.

We can only dream...:p

But on topic I think that school and jobs are important however it is important that you also enjoy life and if gaming is what you enjoy then you should do it.

[JesusBread]

Only thing we could do is hope we hit a jackpot in the casino or win the lottery... If I ever won one million or more, the first thing I would do is buy myself a car and then walk into GameStop and buy $5,000 or more worth of video games.

[xRogue 5x]

marry me? ;)

Well if my wife finally has enough of me i will keep you in mind.

[zdarko43]

sleep sacrifice sounds about right.

i know i just subscribed to gamefly (like literally 20 mins ago) lol.. and now i'm wondering even if i'm going to have any time for those games!! :-/

in any case, working full time and trying to do everything else on top of getting that gamerscore, life is hard! :-p

lol

:(

[aussie_warrior117]

So you enjoying the cricket? Australia have given India 499 to win and day 4 is about to begin in 30 mins.
If Australia's winning, I'm always enjoying it mate :D

[Goat_187]

I'm in the same boat. My only free time is from 6pm till whenever I want to go to sleep. Seeing as how I need to wake up at 5am, Its usually till around 12am ish.

With very little time a high gamescore its out the question, so I rather go for 100% on high quality games.

[Z3R0 S1X]

I too have a job... The only reason I bothered point whoring a little the past couple of months is because a friend of mine would mention everytime he went up another 1000 points. I figured, "Why not shut him up and just pass him?" So I played some easy stuff to catch and pass him, he's still around 13k where as I'm at 17k. Not a huge lead, but it was fun to catch him (I was at 8500 when I started to try for points). In a way, I'd really like to go for something insanely high, like 100k but it'd take to long and there are alot of good games to play vs. the crappy stuff I'd have to play to get my score that high. Enjoy it for what it is people, a hobby.

[NyteRayne]

Trying to balance real life and hobbies is always a fine line. Before I got married, I was into Lineage II in a big way (MMORPG). I was playing 50-60 hours per week on top of my 45+ hour a week job. When I got married, I cut back to about 20-30 hours a week, but it was still rough on my wife. LOL, she wouldn't call it Lineage...it was just 'That Damn Game.' As in, "Are you still playing That Damn Game?" or "When are you going to be off That Damn Game?" I wound up dropping Lineage, but I get bored easily. At one point, about three weeks ago, I had six (6) pay to play MMO accounts all active at the same time. I just unsubscribed to all of them when I got my XBox. Now I am spending more time with the family, taking online college courses, and sneaking in my XBox time when I can, but the college has to come first......................................usually .

[Mirksta]

Normally I have plenty of time, but unfortunately its coming up to the biggest exams of my life, and I got mesalf a lovely lady to be with, so its getting harder for me aswell.

[Kaner99999]

Now that would be SWEET! http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h236/brettben1/Emoticons/yes.gif

I'd really like to upgrade my laptop to handle GOW PC or Halo2 Vista so I could snatch up some achievements during slow times at work.

That is exactly what i did and gained over 750 GS!
Try it!

[EvilFrankfurt]

Sleep sacrifice isn't a bad idea really. The body sleeps in 4 hour cycles, so if you need to be up by 8AM, then you can play until about 3:30AM giving yourself 30 minutes to fall asleep. As long as you don't wake up in the middle of a 4 hour cycle, you won't feel tired the next day. I've been doing this since I was 13, and it's allowed me tons of extra gaming time. Being only 17 now, still in school, and with a job every day after school, I usually only have time from 6:30PM until 2:30AM to play, but that's plenty of time in my book.

[Steelhead]

Actually, there kinda is....

http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/lcd.jpg

I've seen them at Best Buy :)
heres a link
http://kotaku.com/gaming/hardware/portable-xbox-360-lcd-screen-252900.php
Woah!! Sweet! I gotta have that!

[gamergirl11]

Sleep sacrifice isn't a bad idea really. The body sleeps in 4 hour cycles, so if you need to be up by 8AM, then you can play until about 3:30AM giving yourself 30 minutes to fall asleep. As long as you don't wake up in the middle of a 4 hour cycle, you won't feel tired the next day. I've been doing this since I was 13, and it's allowed me tons of extra gaming time. Being only 17 now, still in school, and with a job every day after school, I usually only have time from 6:30PM until 2:30AM to play, but that's plenty of time in my book.

i've kind of been trying to do the same thing, but i've only got my cycle down to about 6 hours of sleep. if i sleep anything over 6.5 i'm extremely tired.
weird how that works...maybe i will work on lowering my cycle :D

[gravest_jimmy]

fly around the earth relly fast to reverse time, thus buying yourself a few days to play games

or

just do stuff when you want to, not when other people want you to

[ever31]

i have no social life so thats how i make time,

my score is still poo though

[EvilFrankfurt]

i've kind of been trying to do the same thing, but i've only got my cycle down to about 6 hours of sleep. if i sleep anything over 6.5 i'm extremely tired.
weird how that works...maybe i will work on lowering my cycle :D

Yeah it's a proven thing that the human body sleeps in 4 hour REM cycles, so if you cut one in half it makes you really tired.

[Ricochet]

I'm a music major at the university I attend, and I really only get to paly on the weekends and most weeknights. Being a musician and all can really take away the hours that you want to spend on gaming. Reason that is, is because musicians primarily practice about 5 hours a day. So it can be tough on me and I cannot afford to sacrifice sleep, sleep is very essential to the body. I find it hard anyways to function with a lack of sleep.

But there will always be times where we can enjoy gaming and I think that is what matters most.

[antnie]

i just go to school till 2:45 get home at 3 and play till 9 every day. but on weekends i play 10 + hours a day.

[skizmcniz]

I take online classes for school and don't have a job currently. I'm employed, I just don't work, so I have plenty of time on my hands which usually results in playing. Sometimes I'll start midday and play till 6 in the morning, wake up and start over again, but that's really rare. Usually I'll play from anywhere from 6pm-3am.