I enjoy watching both EFL and NFL, as well as NHL.
Although on the whole they're just not that exciting really to watch most of the time, every so often there are really good games that rekindle that whole love for watching the sport; but most of the time they're quite boring and the breaks in NFL are beyond irritating when it's a boring game.
Find F1, MotoGP and AirRace really fun to watch though no matter what.
Still all sports are more enjoyable to play than watch.
Baseball and Cricket are certainly those games that only when playing are really enjoyable even slightly.
I probably know the rules to NFL far better than I do to EFL (especially given they keep changing them, especially the off-side rule).. and Cricket I honestly don't have clue the rules too. Too many retarded names for things puts me off wanting to.
Quote: "In fact, that's the ONLY time I watch sports is when free food/drinks are involved, or friends are."
Definately true.. watching something on your own is just boring and a little sad. A bit like drinking on your own, then you're just getting drunk to well drink. In-fact I prefer to do quite a few things as a group activity even if others aren't doing anything but keeping conversation.
Programming, and Artwork are about the only things I can just sit there on my own doing. Everything else, generally prefer doing with others about to talk to. That said I'm quite a social person on the whole, which is quite odd mind cause online RPGs I rarely talk to people in-game, usually just someone sitting next to me lol
Quote: "I think for some, game creation is really an advanced sandbox game, where you have absolute control over everything.
That's the way I see it at least, I mean even as a kid I'd rather mess around making games than play them - packages like SEUCK and 3D Construction Kit made it easy, I guess DBPro fills that gap once you know it well enough. The games I prefer these days are sandbox games, like Oblivion and GTA - most other games tend to bore me before very long. I'd spend hours designing levels for Farcry on the XBox, then only play them once or twice - for me the fun is in pushing the limited supply of objects to make something unusual. I stopped buying Tony Hawks games when they stopped including a level editor - I used to have so much fun with that, making crazy jumps, getting a good sequence of ramps, that sort of stuff is infinitely more appealing to me than being able to record your own video. Maybe I'm just a control freak, but there's something satisfying about knowing a level inside out because you made it, especially when you can play other people on your created level."
For me, game development is just as enjoyable as games because it never seems to get boring. There is
always something else to do, especially if you're developing with others about.. then again that's probably another point about testing what you've worked on. Usually in a development team you've got others around you to use as guinnie pigs, while you tweak.. and visa-versa. Sometimes they'll pip in while your testing out a section and such making suggestions.
Can't really imagine what the game development process would be like for solo developers, certainly doubt it is any where near as enjoyable.
