General Gaming Do you ever plan gaming days?

[gamer.tv]

I write this knowing this will not be an option for many, many years to come. But I do miss that feeling of arranging a free day on a Friday, getting a new game and just playing it relentlessly whilst making terrible food choices.

 

I don’t actually think I’ve indulged in that way since Halo Reach and Gears 3 came out.

[Pikachu]

I used to in college especially after exams just to destress. 

[Mr.Vic20]

When work and family obligations start stacking up, I most certainly need to just to ensure I can at all! 

[Biggie]

I play games everyday. So no. 

[stepee]

Not really, unless you count something new coming out and planning to get it and play all weekend and such.

[best3444]

No but I do only play 2 hours each gaming session. Unless it's a new release then it's a free for all. Off topic, I think the longest I've ever played a game was FFXI online with my bro. 8 hours straight with just bathroom breaks. 

[silentbob]

I admit I play a lot less being older. I remember being younger and having Halo nights with my buddies online or at a house. We also had game nights when I worked at the theatre. Sometimes 3 screens, 3 teams of 4 against each other at 12-3:30am. We had home projectors for pre-shows and were ok but not really that bright. Then we eventually updated all the screens to a digital movie projector and allowed us to connect with an HDMI cable to it with a much improved brighter picture. We occasionally play some Halo still via PC on the weekend, and I have played a bit more over the past few weeks. Let go from my job because of a permanent wrist injury. I’m looking for a job now but getting some gaming in on these “days off work” Control is one hell of a at time creepy game, and even creepier cause I’m pretty damn high when I’m playing

[SimpleG]

Friday’s and Saturday is my only gaming days. Those are my big entertainment days in general . 
Friday I am home by 4 or 5 , I normally lift big on Friday and then grab dinner . After dinner I clean up my office/game room and I toss on a few records. By 8 I sit down and start playing and that runs till 2 or 3. At that point I like to get stoned and sit down and watch a film and eat. 

[BloodyHell]

Not really, unless I have a day off where something I was looking forward to is coming out.

[GeneticBlueprint]

These days it feels like I have to plan weeks in advance just to get a couple of hours in.

[Paperclyp]

Once in a blue moon I'll do it. It's nice to have a large chunk of time you know is yours, which so rarely happens anymore. 

[Keyser_Soze]

Before the Pandemic every Friday I'd go have dinner with my friends and then we'd hang out and play video games.

Not so much these days.

[Phaseknox]

No, I’m retired, single and don’t have kids. I do what I want when I want for as long as I want. 

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

I don’t have enough reasons/excuses to use time off in a year to NOT just take a day off for a video game release. 
 

The last one was I took time off to play Cuberpunk, and before that Destiny 2’s Beyond Light expansion. 

[Fizzzzle]

For multiplayer games, I kind of have to. Since places have started reopening more, it's been really difficult. My DnD group, trying to find a day where we all have the night off is damn near impossible, we haven't played since January.

[EternallDarkness]

I can really only think of one day that I ever planned to game. That was the release of Halo 2. 

[TwinIon]

I did this to run the new Destiny 2 raid on day one. It was my first time doing anything like that in a long long time and it was great fun even though it was with a bunch of random guys and we didn't do particularly well.

 

 

I have a couple groups of friends that regularly do game nights, one of which I hosted pre-pandemic. Very occasionally we'll make it a longer evening and have pizza or something. There's only been once we set aside a whole day to play Diplomacy, which took something like 10 or 12 hours.

 

 

 

I think it's something I should do more often. It's freeing to set aside a whole day and declare that I won't be doing anything useful, won't be cooking, and will just be playing games. They're hard days to come by.