What's your gaming personality?
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I wanted to help you, I really did. I started the questionnaire but gave up, my God those questions are boring.
I got this.
Your Gaming Personality Profile:
Catharsis: 2
Achievement: 2
Escapism: 0
Immersion: 8
Motivation: 7
It means nothing to me.
Your Gaming Personality Profile:
Catharsis: 2
Achievement: 2
Escapism: 0
Immersion: 8
Motivation: 7
It means nothing to me.
I usually don't think much of these kinds of questions, but I enjoyed this one. It gave me a chance to reflect a bit.
Some questions needs to be formulated in a different way.
These stood out as you could answer both Never and Very Often and get the same meaning from it but several others suffers from the same tendency:
"At home does it seem as if you can never be by yourself?"
"At home does it seem as if you almost never have any peace and quiet?"
"Even when I get frustrated with a game, I don?t give up."
"I don?t have to think much about the controls when I?m playing."
I had to answer Sometimes to get past them and I think that would skew the end result.
I also noticed that you can answer a whole row of the same question without any of the other answers getting unchecked.
Which gets a prompt do redo/fix when you press Next. Nevermind.
My Gaming Personality:
Catharsis: 0
Achievement: 0
Escapism: 18
Immersion: 9
Motivation: 2
Though it did first show me a poster of being an Action Hero, which I would not count myself as.
I more enjoy being in control of leading and building a civilization a la 4X or Sim games (Dwarf Fortress).
Well, that and controlling a ship/character making their way through a game world.
Be it Diablo II/Terraria/Freelancer, etc.
These stood out as you could answer both Never and Very Often and get the same meaning from it but several others suffers from the same tendency:
"At home does it seem as if you can never be by yourself?"
"At home does it seem as if you almost never have any peace and quiet?"
"Even when I get frustrated with a game, I don?t give up."
"I don?t have to think much about the controls when I?m playing."
I had to answer Sometimes to get past them and I think that would skew the end result.
I also noticed that you can answer a whole row of the same question without any of the other answers getting unchecked.
Which gets a prompt do redo/fix when you press Next. Nevermind.
My Gaming Personality:
Catharsis: 0
Achievement: 0
Escapism: 18
Immersion: 9
Motivation: 2
Though it did first show me a poster of being an Action Hero, which I would not count myself as.
I more enjoy being in control of leading and building a civilization a la 4X or Sim games (Dwarf Fortress).
Well, that and controlling a ship/character making their way through a game world.
Be it Diablo II/Terraria/Freelancer, etc.
That's what it made me too, but with wildly different numbers. I think this study is very very flawed.hanselthecaretaker said:
Action Hero.
Catharsis: 11
Achievement: 14
Escapism: 14
Immersion: 15
Motivation: 10
A lot of my scores probably came from my days as a progression raider in WoW. I like to punch dragons, and I do like the odd shooter, but I spend most of my time playing RPGs...
Catharsis: 11
Achievement: 14
Escapism: 14
Immersion: 15
Motivation: 10
A lot of my scores probably came from my days as a progression raider in WoW. I like to punch dragons, and I do like the odd shooter, but I spend most of my time playing RPGs...
Well that was certainly an experience. I got a chance to answer questions that I generally don't like asking myself. Anyway, it seems I'm an Action Hero, which I wouldn't disagree with.
Catharsis: 2
Achievement: 5
Escapism: 18
Immersion: 18
Motivation: 8
Catharsis: 2
Achievement: 5
Escapism: 18
Immersion: 18
Motivation: 8
I'm not entirely sure how accurate this is... Though I'm sure you know that =P
Catharsis: 8
Achievement: 5
Escapism: 15
Immersion: 19
Motivation: 14
Apparently I'm an "Action Hero", who loves action, adventure, and adrenaline - despite answering questions that explicitly asked this as no, I don't ever play for the adrenaline rush, I'm not that big a fan of intense action, and in general I play to have a more peaceful escape from my rather chaotic at the moment real life.
I would also assume, given the descriptors of each category, that Action hero would be based on Catharsis more, which was my second lowest score. I actually spend about 3 times less time playing games compared to modding and creating with them, hence my high motivation.
Looking at others results, it seems action hero is just a default answer for anyone who has high escapism, and I feel that's wrong. I play games to escape, yes, but not escape into a more stressful and hectic action world than my real life. I play to escape to a more peaceful, less stressful world, to go through a story - usually the story of a civilisation rising from pre-history, to a scientific feat that takes them to the stars. I think there was an assumption made here that escaping this world to live in another one meant that you wanted to become an adventure Dovahkiin hero or something in that world, rather than a benevolent god/leader guiding others to a better tomorrow. That's a wrong assumption, and I reckon if you removed that bias a lot fewer people would end up as action heroes.
A lot of people play games for escapism. We don't all have the same escapist fantasy though, and that's why so many different games, genres and stories exist.
Catharsis: 8
Achievement: 5
Escapism: 15
Immersion: 19
Motivation: 14
Apparently I'm an "Action Hero", who loves action, adventure, and adrenaline - despite answering questions that explicitly asked this as no, I don't ever play for the adrenaline rush, I'm not that big a fan of intense action, and in general I play to have a more peaceful escape from my rather chaotic at the moment real life.
I would also assume, given the descriptors of each category, that Action hero would be based on Catharsis more, which was my second lowest score. I actually spend about 3 times less time playing games compared to modding and creating with them, hence my high motivation.
Looking at others results, it seems action hero is just a default answer for anyone who has high escapism, and I feel that's wrong. I play games to escape, yes, but not escape into a more stressful and hectic action world than my real life. I play to escape to a more peaceful, less stressful world, to go through a story - usually the story of a civilisation rising from pre-history, to a scientific feat that takes them to the stars. I think there was an assumption made here that escaping this world to live in another one meant that you wanted to become an adventure Dovahkiin hero or something in that world, rather than a benevolent god/leader guiding others to a better tomorrow. That's a wrong assumption, and I reckon if you removed that bias a lot fewer people would end up as action heroes.
A lot of people play games for escapism. We don't all have the same escapist fantasy though, and that's why so many different games, genres and stories exist.
I looked at the first set of questions, and none of them seemed to be remotely related to anything gaming centered. Maybe that's the point of this sort of thing...? I dunno. Based on the sound of the results, and the kinds of questions involved... I kinda didn't finish it. Seemed like it's a survey that wouldn't really prove much
That would probably be to investigate of certain lifestyle choices or situations correlate with certain gaming habits.Elvis Starburst said:
Are older people more likely into puzzles ? Are people living alone and being totally fine with it more likely to play multiplayer games to compensate or do they prefer single player mirroring their normal life ?
Action Hero
Catharsis: 11
Achievement: 4
Escapism: 12
Immersion: 8
Motivation: 4
Given my game preferences, the action hero nomer is probably somewhat accurate, though I'm not entirely sure what the point of that is. Seems to me like assigning archetypes is something to be done after thorough analysis of the survey results, not during.
Catharsis: 11
Achievement: 4
Escapism: 12
Immersion: 8
Motivation: 4
Given my game preferences, the action hero nomer is probably somewhat accurate, though I'm not entirely sure what the point of that is. Seems to me like assigning archetypes is something to be done after thorough analysis of the survey results, not during.
Action hero
Catharsis: 7
Achievement: 14
Escapism: 13
Immersion: 16
Motivation:12
That sounds about right. Interesting survey.
Catharsis: 7
Achievement: 14
Escapism: 13
Immersion: 16
Motivation:12
That sounds about right. Interesting survey.
Catharsis: 4
Achievement: 10
Escapism: 14
Immersion: 15
Motivation: 18
Eh, it seems so. I love to explore systems and pin them against eachother, creating contraptions and traps. My favourite games are Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress at the moment.
Achievement: 10
Escapism: 14
Immersion: 15
Motivation: 18
Eh, it seems so. I love to explore systems and pin them against eachother, creating contraptions and traps. My favourite games are Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress at the moment.
Count me in with the Action Heroes. Which is weird because these are my scores:
Your Gaming Personality Profile:
Catharsis: 6
Achievement: 5
Escapism: 7
Immersion: 13
Motivation: 8
Wondering if the quiz is a little bugged. Because despite the diverse profiles shown here, pretty much every one is an "Action Hero"
Out of curiosity, what are the other Profile Archetypes?
It might be an interesting experiment to see which of those we self-identify with...
Your Gaming Personality Profile:
Catharsis: 6
Achievement: 5
Escapism: 7
Immersion: 13
Motivation: 8
Wondering if the quiz is a little bugged. Because despite the diverse profiles shown here, pretty much every one is an "Action Hero"
Out of curiosity, what are the other Profile Archetypes?
It might be an interesting experiment to see which of those we self-identify with...
Action Hero
Catharsis: 8
Achievement: 9
Escapism: 8
Immersion: 11
Motivation: 7
"At home does it seem as if you almost never have any peace and quiet?"
Always = It always seems like you never get peace and quiet.
Never = It never seems like you never get peace and quiet.
Catharsis: 8
Achievement: 9
Escapism: 8
Immersion: 11
Motivation: 7
I don't see what's hard about saying never or always even remotely mean the same things when answering these questions.Vendor-Lazarus said:
"At home does it seem as if you almost never have any peace and quiet?"
Always = It always seems like you never get peace and quiet.
Never = It never seems like you never get peace and quiet.