Why do you game? Are you bored? Do you enjoy the sense of accomplishment? What is it that drives?
What do enjoy most about gaming?
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I get to feel like a badass without actually doing anything.
Having fake skills.....that's the story of my life.
Having fake skills.....that's the story of my life.
You control stuff and make it interact with other stuff and your brain generates fun. So says Nahtzee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSEpOFG5cQE)
I just like playing them tbh. It's fun and form what i've learned the harder you try to think about and analyze what excactly makes something fun the harder it becomes to actually enjoy it untill you've sort of forgotten the whole thinking part again.
Same reason i hardly enjoyed reading books of my own choice in gymnasium, because we had to read so much crap and be all intelectual about it and try to analyze why the writer wrote that and that, instead of using the novels for what they were actually meant as: entertainment!
I just like playing them tbh. It's fun and form what i've learned the harder you try to think about and analyze what excactly makes something fun the harder it becomes to actually enjoy it untill you've sort of forgotten the whole thinking part again.
Same reason i hardly enjoyed reading books of my own choice in gymnasium, because we had to read so much crap and be all intelectual about it and try to analyze why the writer wrote that and that, instead of using the novels for what they were actually meant as: entertainment!
I play games because they're fun.
There are games for most outlets.
Creativity, Problem Solving, Strategy Overlay, Hand to eye Coordination, Reflexes, etc.
Plus, play a new-gen game with a computer that can really handle it... Incredibly satisfying to sit there and see something out-rageously gorgeous, running without a single frame skip.
Plus, it saves me the trouble of a crime-record, doing things like illegal street racing, massive homicide, etc, all with the safety of the walls of my home, plus the encouraging manner of my friends.
There are games for most outlets.
Creativity, Problem Solving, Strategy Overlay, Hand to eye Coordination, Reflexes, etc.
Plus, play a new-gen game with a computer that can really handle it... Incredibly satisfying to sit there and see something out-rageously gorgeous, running without a single frame skip.
Plus, it saves me the trouble of a crime-record, doing things like illegal street racing, massive homicide, etc, all with the safety of the walls of my home, plus the encouraging manner of my friends.
For me it's getting a game home, dissecting it, experimenting with it, and finally reaching a point where I can challenge myself to beat my previous best time, biggest empire, highest score, whatever. Since I'm a single-player-only gamer the thrill is in mastering the game to the point where I can get it to sit up, beg, and do tricks.
Edit: Nia-san, I read that article and I have to say that's exactly why games like HL2 and MGS4 have no appeal to me. I can see through the illusion and I don't like it one bit. I want a game where the world simply doesn't exist unless I'm the one who built it (the entire city-builder and tycoon genres, not to mention Sims 2) or at the very least the state of the world is merely free-flowing chaos until I show up to give it direction (the "plot", such as it is, of Mount&Blade, where no faction is strong enough to defeat any other without a heaping helping of assistance from me, the player.)
Edit: Nia-san, I read that article and I have to say that's exactly why games like HL2 and MGS4 have no appeal to me. I can see through the illusion and I don't like it one bit. I want a game where the world simply doesn't exist unless I'm the one who built it (the entire city-builder and tycoon genres, not to mention Sims 2) or at the very least the state of the world is merely free-flowing chaos until I show up to give it direction (the "plot", such as it is, of Mount&Blade, where no faction is strong enough to defeat any other without a heaping helping of assistance from me, the player.)
Playing the game with friends or discussing a game we're all playing. Gaming started out being a social thing for me and still remains so.
