Once again, we gather the smartest minds in gaming to beat us to death with their wisdom!

Video games are a great hobby, but when you work in the industry, sometimes you need a pastime outside your profession. So what do game characters do when they're not busy shooting, jumping, and dismembering their way to a better tomorrow?

"I pay three or four hookers to cover themselves in vegetable oil and roll around in stacks of $100 bills while I watch. It's not as bad as it sounds...they get to keep whatever sticks." 

- Isaac Clarke, Dead Space 2 
 

"Crochet. But instead of yarn, I use YOUR FACE." 

- Kratos, God of War 3 
 

"I play-a the video games! The Splatterhouse and Manhunt 2 are-a my favorites...wah-HOO! Dead Space 2, she was-a too tame. No entrails, no-a buy!!" 

- Mario, Super Mario Galaxy 2 
 

"Nothing's quite as stimulating as math. Friday nights are my special quadratic equation time. Alyx keeps asking me to dinner, but let's face it, she doesn't know an exponential theorem from a quartic proof, if you know what I mean. Girls, huh? Am I right?" 

- Gordon Freeman , Half-Life 2 
 

"Are you effin' kiddin' me? I'm a giant effin' dragon and a space pirate! Other people want to be me as a hobby." 

- Ridley, Metriod
 

"I like to sneak up on Democrats." 

- Sam Fisher, Splinter Cell: Conviction 
 

"For every life I take, I plant a tree. To date, I have re-forested Australia and turned New York into a jungle hell." 

- Ryu Hayabusa, Ninja Gaiden

"I collect Templar flags. And feathers. And glyphs. And Romulus Lair keys. And various ores, gems, rabbit feet, Vlad the Impaler coins, Claddagh rings, jars of leeches (I don't know why), Buddhist prayer beads, and terracotta pots. And stamps.

- Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

"Oh, I like to travel, you know? This one time, I took a three-hour bus trip to Santa DeNowhere with a bunch of screaming kids kicking the back of my seat the whole way so I could visit the National Museum of Boring Crap. Come to think of it, I hate to travel.

- Manny Calavera, Grim Fandango

"I love to read. And I mean everything written by everyone, ever...right down to private emails and texts. Let's just say that Glenn Beck guy has a talent for really hot slash fiction."

- Cortana, Halo 3