What is your definition of gaming?

I'm curious as to everyone's definition of gaming, as you can easily infer from the title.

Do you see gaming only as being able to crank the settings up to the max, anti-aliasing and anistrophic filtering to tha maximum allowed, sometimes going beyond if you can change it somewhere in the game's files. Not to mention frames that are so high that the human eye can't percieve the difference between them and ones of a much lower rate.

Or do you not mind the constipated looking faces and the only double digits of FPS with settings turned down or off.

Post your opinions here, personally, I don't care, to me, eye-candy is secondary to fun and enjoyment. I also prefer not to pay $2500+ on a laptop when I can get a sub-$1000 one that will play all the games I want fine.

 

depends on where i am gaming. my desktop at home, should be able to crank everything up to high settings, with no problem..in about 2-3 years, ill upgrade it again, so it will crank everything up to high settings (maxed) with no problems.

my laptop, is a decent gaming machine..it wont run the newest games at maxed settings, but i dont need it to. it runs modern games are med settings, and oblivion on low (for now). considering its portability, gaming on high settings doesnt mean as much to me as it does at home. while i still love AA on, it just isnt possible in some games.

pb,out.

 

My laptop is currently my only gaming machine. The eye candy is very important to me, and if I can't crank a game to max or near max settings, I usually avoid it.

 

Sometimes the constipated faces add some much needed comic-relief to some intense situations. e.e

 

if they are always like that, it gets boring quickly though..

pb,out.

 

To each their own, but I really don't mind them myself. Especially when playing FPSs... After you kill your enemy you look at their face, and think, just maybe, you scared them so bad you made them release their bowels before dying...

 

in an FPS, i dont mind..but in an RPG, where you try to get into character, it doesnt help that everyone has the same face lol

pb,out.

 

I pretty much only play RPGs, besides MMORPGs, on console so that doesn't really matter to me.

And the only MMORPG I play is FFXI which on even the older GPUs you can max out the settings and still get good frame rates.

 

I think it depends greatly on the context as determined by the rest of the sentence. For instance, "Do you game?" seems to use the word in a potentially different way from "I want a computer for gaming." Adverbs are key, I think.

 

what server? small chance we are on the same one... representing Valefor here.

-> HMLintz - i think he was asking ...if you game..what settings cream your twinky? i.e. do you care if it looks horrible, but playable, or do you need the eye candy.

pb,out.

 

i crank everything up, even on the games....with my m170, and is my only gaming machine

 

pbcustom98 - I'm on Titan myself, but I haven't played in about 6 months now, I hope to get back on soon, might end of having to start all over though...

I wouldn't mind it too much, I've had the game since December '03 and I never was really into leveling, I only ever got to 50, after months of trying to decide a job and messing around with friends instead of leveling, but, of course, that's what the game's supposed to be about, having fun, and that's what I did, and I will still have fun even if I have to start all over again, it'll definitely be on Titan though, too many friends to leave 'em all.

Also, yeah, that's what I meant, also, if you can pay less for your laptop would you mind getting a bit worse performance, but still playability to save some real-life cash.