O.k. I am a teacher, which means that on most days I am done with work at 3:40 and will be home sometime around 4:10 (depending on the bus).  I then have to walk the dog and will be home by 4:30.  I have two hours before my wife will usually come home from work.  That is when I get to play games the way that I remember (spending continuous hours being engulfed by a game).  

O.k. I am a teacher, which means that on most days I am done with work at 3:40 and will be home sometime around 4:10 (depending on the bus).  I then have to walk the dog and will be home by 4:30.  I have two hours before my wife will usually come home from work.  That is when I get to play games the way that I remember (spending continuous hours being engulfed by a game).  

I usually play games either during the day or late at night. Im replaying deadspace right now, so night time is for that.

It doesnt really affect the games i buy at all.

I sort of follow a schedule for my gaming. Every Friday night, I will play Rock Band 2, either with friends or alone. On Saturday, I play Animal Crossing: City Folk at around 8 (I have to see K.K. Slider...don't judge me). Those are the only games I follow strictly with a schedule.  

I guess the finer point isn't that I am upset with the games that I am playing, but when I was younger I would be able to play two RPGs in the span of a month, and now a single RPG takes me 3 months.  This ends up changing my buying habits.  I would have liked to buy both Fallout 3 and Fable 2, but I knew that it would take me months to finish either, so I ended up only buying one.  And while it is tempting to say "now I can go buy Fable," in the span of time that I have been playing Fallout other games have come up (or will be soon) that pre-empt Fable.  So in the end I buy less "hardcore" games than I used to, not because I necessarily play less games over all, but rather because I can spend less continuous time playing a game, so the style of games I buy has changed as a result.  I am excited about Killzone 2, but I know I am going to buy Street Fighter 4 because it can be parsed down to a shorter experience so I can fit it in better.

^ Good point.  It is a shame that two awesome RPG's had to release in such a short timespan, but it's the holidays, that's all.  However, if it is anymore reassuring, Fable 2 is not that long of a game. In fact,  if you just plow through it, it can be about 10 hours.  So, if you can muster the time between now and SFIV, it is worth the look.  Still, SFIV seems like the game that fits your schedule more because, you know, it is a fighting game.