What do enjoy most about gaming?

[vxicepickxv]

I play games to help me think and pick up some trivial knowledge. I enjoy tactical thinking, from small scale, like RPGs, to grand scale, like RTS games. Sometimes I just like to kill stuff too.

Trigmomorphogensis. Yes, I learned the word and what it does in a game.


Plus if I didn't play video games, I wouldn't have a functional liver right now.

 

[Ull_the_shaggy_one]

Videogames deliver the most innovative story telling.

 

[Woundingisfun]

To escape from normal life and vent my frustrations for a bit.

Haha, vent your frustrations you say? I think it's nothing else in the world that makes me as frustrated I am when I'm gaming. Anywho, I game if I'm bored, lonely or just because gaming is fun!

 

[Maileigh]

I play for the characters and the story. A smidgen of fantasy after a crappy day is always a plus.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

I look on many of the games I play as interactive art. Look at it this way- It has music, it has bizarre and sometimes beautiful realms and concepts that could never exist on Earth, characters and situations like you'd find in a favorite novel (reading is also a top pastime for me), all rolled into a single medium. Having played a number of well and poorly-designed games I can also appreciate an exceptionally well-executed design or control scheme.

While playing online or local multiplayer it can also be considered a sport.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

What is it that drives?

definately not achievements, i play games for fun not for a score. my idea of fun is either getting so immersed in a stealth game that your hearts pounding and your holding your breath whilst sneaking past an armed guard, or killing people in funny ways...

which includes throwing cars at people in crackdown or sticking a bomb to somebodys car, letting them drive off, and just when there about to go out of view and are at full speed *boom* they hit a building.

oh, and chainsaw kills and headshots in gears of war...and epic sci fi adventures such as halo 1 (cause the other 2 suck) the half life series, mass effect, and hopefully dark void when it comes out
and rainbow six vegas 1+2, especially terrorist hunt

 

[gustcq]

Peace of mind and relaxation from IRL stuff.

 

[The_Rev]

A few reasons:

Escape - I can leave all those RL issues for a bit and forget everything! A nice brain break.

Creative thinking - I can flex those creative muscles trying to tweak toons to get the most out of it for my money.

Social - Seems a bit counter-intuitive, but I've met some of the best people in-game, some life-long friends. I get to hang out with them a few times a week even though they live hours away. Doesn't stop me from seeing them in RL, but lets me keep in touch!

 

[ae86gamer]

Its fun and enjoyable.

 

[hannahdonno]

To get stressed out. And as my stress levels heighten, kill people more violently.

 

[tucci]

I do it to escape the fact I am a hopeless introverted nerd

 

[Slash Dementia]

It's a nice escape from life and it easily helps me vent out anger or anything really.
Thinking what the code might look like.
How the animations moves and go together.
What triggers the animations.
Story.
Killing.
In some games, the choice to just run big into a group of enemies.

 

[Son of Makuta]

I look on many of the games I play as interactive art. Look at it this way- It has music, it has bizarre and sometimes beautiful realms and concepts that could never exist on Earth, characters and situations like you'd find in a favorite novel (reading is also a top pastime for me), all rolled into a single medium. Having played a number of well and poorly-designed games I can also appreciate an exceptionally well-executed design or control scheme.

Oh, this, definitely. But also simply because the stuff in videogames is cool. For example, choosing from the games I currently have installed on my laptop, I can:
- Summon 'the Ultimate Legion' Thanatos and watch it destroy everything in sight (Chaos Legion)
- Create entire races of stupidly cute aliens (Spore)
- Use an advanced piece of technology to launch buzzsaw blades at zombies, thereby bisecting them (Half-Life 2)
- Walk into one wall and out of another (Portal)
- Kill demons with a gun that fires shurikens and lightning, or a chaingun with built-in rocket launcher (Painkiller)
- Explore an old Arabian palace, the Death Star, a tropical island, or post-apocalyptic London (Painkiller, Battlefront II, Far Cry, Hellgate: London)
- Peggle ('Nuff said)
- Fly a rocket-powered anti-gravity chariot at 900+ mph through a series of alien environments (SWEp1 Pod Racer)
- Settle, build and eventually conquer the entire world (Civilisation 2)
- Hack into corporate servers across the globe without risking actual consequences (Uplink)

And so on...

 

[Hexadecimal16]

It lets you forget yourself.

Ah, the King of all Cosmos.

I play games largely because real life gets boring after a while, it's fun, and I enjoy killing people with no moral repercussions. Also, I'm interested in coding so I like to think about what language the game was programmed in, stuff like that.

 

[Fightgarr]

I really enjoy immersing myself in another world. It expands my imagination to new possibilities just like a book does. Only instead of reading I'm seeing visuals and interacting with the world in a new way. Playing something like Mass Effect, with a fleshed out 3D, futuristic world is an incredible experience for me.

Then of course after all that bullshit I just said there's the underlying reason of I want to challenge myself and video games are a fucking fun way to do that.

 

[Sir_Montague]

It's more than enjoyable to be able to set aside the real world and live in another for awhile... Gives me an awkward sense of control that I sometimes have and sometimes do not in my own life. On top of that, it's my hobby. it's enjoyable to find other people who enjoy gaming as much as me, and feel a sense of community online...

 

[UpcountryGecko]

I do it to help me forget about the monotony that is call real life.

 

[ScorpionClaw]

I play for fun, relaxation and social chit-chat. Kinda like going to the pub but a lot cheaper!

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

to quote the god that is yahtzee, for me its all about "immersion" it feels good to put myself in someone elses shoes for a little while, maybe as a medievil swordsman (theif) or as an underdog working his way through the ranks of stardom ( skate, fable) or maybe as a cop bent on his revenge (stranglehold).
there is no feeling better than pretending to be someone else for a little while, thats my thought anyway,

 

[-Seraph-]

Television has forsaken me with 90% of it being pure crap, so I turn to video games for salvation. Games are fun, more involving, you get more out of it than you would watching the price is right or some crap. Online multiplayer can be a hit or miss depending on if you are playing with good people or douchebags. It is like a hobbie almost and is more satisfying completing a game than it is to just lie around and do nothing. Some games give you the option of trying new approaches, thus making the overall experience a little different every time. I also enjoy the technical aspect of games (ie: AI, game engines, artistic design, ect...)

But most of all they are FUN.