Q: Do you play video games? If so, which ones? -@

Not very often, to be honest. I just don't seem to have a lot of time.

In general I don't like MMOs very much, and that's what a lot of games are pushed as now. I much prefer playing single-player games, or LAN games with a small group of friends, than a large number of unknown people. But they don't make many LAN-type games anymore, at least ones that aren't FPS'ers which my friends and I don't deal with much. I truly suck at PvP, so I migrate towards PvE and co-operative PvE games when dealing with multiplayer.

However, I do play them on occasion. I played WOW for awhile, but got really bored with it and let my subscription lapse. I play Star Wars: The Old Republic with my wife whenever we get a chance. And I have a couple of characters on DC Online, but I haven't logged in for a bit.

I *really* liked City of Heroes, and am still sad that's gone. It's the only game I've been able to play some of my characters the way I envisioned them, and not how the game forced me to play them.

As for non-MMO games, I used to play a lot of real-time strategy games, but they absorb a lot of time which I don't have much of now.

There's a couple of consoles in the house, but they're rarely used as gaming machines. We tend to use them as video repeaters, since we don't subscribe to cable TV, everything we watch is over Hulu or Netflix. When we do break out a console game, it's often something like Sacred, Fable, or Kill all Humans. (I'm using 'we' here, because whenever the console is being used as a game machine it's usually both my wife and I trying to play something together. Even if it's just one of us playing and the other one yelling non-helpful advice and commentary...) We tried some of the Star Ocean games, but we kept getting bad disks where we'd get half-way through the game and then it would just cease working entirely. So we gave up on that one.