Comic Books or Video Games: If You Could Only Have One Hobby

[Arach Knight]

I have hit that fun point in life where work, school and relationships are taking over more and more of my time. Though I am not entirely abandoning video games, I have certainly scaled back my involvement with the hobby. Conversely, I find that my comic book geekery pushes forward, full steam ahead. I have even managed to get my girlfriend into comic books. As I slowly part ways with video games, I started to wonder which hobby I would choose if I could only have one hobby.

For me, comic books win. I find myself more intrigued by a well told story and round characters than I am by a pretty game. I know that video games tell stories too, but I feel that story telling in games has really ruined the core mechanic of the medium, which is interactive diversion. Story telling may justify the game scenario, but ultimately I care more about playing a game than having cut scenes interrupt the flow of the game. Also, video game characters are usually so flat. Even fantastic characters like Solid Snake have never really changed. That is why I will forever love comic books. Fantastic stories like Y The Last Man, Strangers in Paradise, Scud the Disposable Assassin and even super hero fanfare, is filled with so much fantasy, drama and character development.

 

[Ipodman]

Comic books for me... it's a world where I enjoy to the fullest.

People say you can control the characters in a video game and "affect the story" but how much are you going to affect it anyway...

 

[The Squirrel]

Assuming the choice gives me the income to take advantage of it fully. I think I would choose Video Games.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

Video games for me.

 

[Duke]

I'm pretty torn, but I guess its videogames for me. I do like reading comics though too.

 

[SuperFerret]

Roleplayers represent.

 

[Mary Jane Watson]

Comic books for me.

 

[Figs]

Roleplayers represent.

Ok, that was pretty ****ing godawful.

 

[E-Man]

It depends on what reason I am am choosing only one for. If it is for some random torture of pure punishment, then I'll pick video games because I get more joy from playing them. They're the best form of entertainment to me because I literally am playing the character.

If it was for financial purposes then I would pick comics. Video games are pretty expensive. I could find great quantity with comics even with the used games I can find cheap. I can find a couple of cheap games for about $10 a piece, but with that $20 I could go to Half Priced Books and buy about 20 comics. Even more if I get them in those assorted packages they sell now.

It would be really hard to give up one. I love them both.

 

[SpideyVille]

I'm going to say video games only because I'm not really much of a comic book reader, and if I do get comic books, its mostly for the artwork.

 

[Anubis]

If I could only have one Hobby I'd amp up the *********ion.

 

[Figs]

If I could only have one Hobby I'd amp up the *********ion.

Now that is classic!

 

[twylight]

Oddly I found myself at this crossroads a year or so ago. Comics and another more 'girly' hobby. After I dunno.. 4-5ish years in comics the girly one won. Mostly because it was more of an interactive hobby that I could stretch my creativity in.
I am still a comics girl, but I don't really buy them anymore. I tap my friends for the newest information on them. It's fairly easy to follow what's happening with your favorite characters online now.

 

[Holiday]

At this point in time, I'd have to choose video games over comics. Now I don't consider myself a big video game person but it's the main thing me and my friends enjoy doing together so to give up games would be giving up time with them which so it's an easy decision.

I guess I've already chosen one over the other though really, because I haven't bought comics regularly in months now. I spend hardly any money on games though due to bumming friend's games so hopefully by the end of the year that can change.

 

[Paroxysm]

Video games for sure. I love my fps's

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

Comics!

 

[SuperFerret]

Ok, that was pretty ****ing godawful.

I thought it was pretty cool, but maybe you'd prefer this...

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[Franklin Richards]

Comics!

I lived most of my childhood without video games but NOT without comics. Trust me. There are other "games". There is nothing that can replace comics.

 

[SuperFerret]

I'm gonna be honest, and say that I've never seen video games as a hobby. To me, hobbies take up a lot of your personal time, and you let them because you enjoy them. Collecting and organizing and reading comics, preparing and playing D&D games, setting up and running model trains, painting and building and perfecting metal miniatures, etc. Those are hobbies. Video games you just pop in and play, like watching a movie.

 

[SpideyVille]

I'm gonna be honest, and say that I've never seen video games as a hobby. To me, hobbies take up a lot of your personal time, and you let them because you enjoy them. Collecting and organizing and reading comics, preparing and playing D&D games, setting up and running model trains, painting and building and perfecting metal miniatures, etc. Those are hobbies. Video games you just pop in and play, like watching a movie.

I agree with this to some extent. For me, video games have been more like an addiction or a habit. I could easily go a few months without playing, but then its like once I start playing one game, I can't stop playing at all until I've run out of games to play.

Comic books, however, are hard for me because I don't really like to read, so like I said earlier, its the artwork that pleases me more than anything.

 

[Paroxysm]

I'm gonna be honest, and say that I've never seen video games as a hobby. To me, hobbies take up a lot of your personal time, and you let them because you enjoy them. Collecting and organizing and reading comics, preparing and playing D&D games, setting up and running model trains, painting and building and perfecting metal miniatures, etc. Those are hobbies. Video games you just pop in and play, like watching a movie.

I spend hours making D&D characters, mostly NPC's for towns and stuff. I also created my own campaign setting so I'm always filling out stats for things.

 

[SuperFerret]

I spend hours making D&D characters, mostly NPC's for towns and stuff. I also created my own campaign setting so I'm always filling out stats for things.

Me too.

 

[Prison Mike]

If I could only have one Hobby I'd amp up the *********ion.

 

[Erzengel]

Comic books were costing me too much and taking up too much space. I still like reading them, but I'd rather play video games.

 

[KALEL114]

Video games for me as well.