Movin’ the updates to Tuesday + A delightful quiz
Tuesday works much better. In the intervening time between today and tomorrow (roughly 24 hours), you can answer this quiz. The article tomorrow will deal with each of the following in depth. So, please pick one or several…
Why do you game? (Game is a verb. It means “to play games”. Shakespeare isn’t the only one who can make stuff up.)
Challenge – I game to challenge myself. I enjoy achieving mastery over the game system or other players.
Social – I game to interact with / meet other people.
Experience – I enjoy games that take me on rides and create strong feelings.
Narrative – I game to watch a story unfold.
Roleplay – I game to play an internally-consistent, interesting character.
Growth – I enjoy watching my position (character, faction, country) grow in games.
Change – I enjoy creating change in the gameworld, or feeling as though I have.
Other – Please write what the Other is.
Tomorrow I’ll give an in-depth look into each of these styles. For the record, I see myself as a Narrative/Experience gamer with occasional bits of Roleplay (Fallout 3 really brought that out of me). If you’ve got some interesting “Others”, that would be awesome, as I’ll have more material for the post tomorrow.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Other – Truth be told, it’s not that I have no preference, but rather I become whatever the situation needs me to be. Yes, I know it’s a copout answer, but that’s just who I am. You have a game that’s roleplay intensive, I roleplay, you have a game that’s needs me to talk with people, as much as it is hard for me to do so, I’ll man up and do it. Copycat, mimic, follower, sheep, etc…, I am everything you need me to be yet I am nothing.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Wow…where to begin.. there’s many categories that my reason falls under…
A bunch are:
Social
Experience
Narrative
Growth
I find that for the most part, the dominating force behind my will to ‘game’ is the social aspect. I like to interac with other people who share similar experiences in a common platform. Depending on the games, the competitive nature is also an aspect.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Other- to grow as a person in real life
I started gaming back with total annihilation, starcraft, and AOE (1).
Back then i played the games for fun however through AOE 1 and 2 i learned 99% of every history course i have taken. From there on i realized i can learn from games with historical facts or war strategies and logical problem solving. hacking open battle net in diablo II. there is a very long list of games i have played and learned something from, have you every thought about beating sim city, like how to do it? well i didn’t beat it either but i did beat transport tycoon deluxe.
This doesn’t just extend to computer and video games. I’ve played chess with some of the best in the world. Backgammon, Poker, Chinese checkers, blackjack, they all have a place to teach you something. Magic the gathering and D&D, logic, planning, counting, understanding and imagination.
If there was one reason i am the person i am today it is because of gaming.
~Jegsar
December 15th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’d say I would be a weird mixture of Social/Experience/Narrative/Roleplay and some Change but that’s mostly for Sims 2 or similar games to it.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:37 am
I would have to go with Narrative/Roleplay/Growth
With a splash of Change