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What kind of Gamer are you?
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What type of gamer are you?
RPG'er
36%
 36%  [ 9 ]
FPS'er
12%
 12%  [ 3 ]
Arcade'er
4%
 4%  [ 1 ]
Strategy'er
20%
 20%  [ 5 ]
RTS'er
4%
 4%  [ 1 ]
Other'er (please state below)
8%
 8%  [ 2 ]
None of the above'er. I don't like video games.
16%
 16%  [ 4 ]
Total Votes : 25

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cubanlord



Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:38 am    Post subject: What kind of Gamer are you? Reply with quote
I prefer good RPG's that aren't too complex in button configurations to play (i.e. FFX, Dragon Warrior, etc.). I do like turn based battle structures.

I recently purchased X-Men 2: Rise of Apocolypse; hopefully it'll be good.

I do like RTS games as well.
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nerd roll call.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:44 am    Post subject: Re: What kind of Gamer are you? Reply with quote
What? No crosswords?
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Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Old-school RPGs, strategy stuff, and a few fighters mixed in.

Does anyone actually find time to seriously game after the age of 25, though? I doubt anyone spends full days holed up in their room with 10 bags of Cheetos and a few 24-packs of Mountain Dew for sustenance while they play one of those 100-hour RPGs in real-time, do they?

edit: I take that back. My old college friend working in Japan does precisely that, except I think he opts for the instant ramen and Pepsi instead...

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stumptown



Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I recently bought a modded playstation 2 on an impulse purchase and I don't think that I've spent more than an hour a week playing it. I think the lack of certain herbal supplements make it a bit less fun, but overall I just don't have the patience to sit there and retry and retry a particularly tough level.
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Reason.



Joined: 13 May 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA - for now.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm a "fighter'er(?)" and "sports'er(?)"

Anyways, i'm a pretty hardcore Tekken player, and i'm actually excited about playing Tekken in Korea, as the Koreans have been the best Tekken players in the world for the past few years, and they usally wreck shop at all of the international tournaments.
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
flotsam wrote:
Nerd roll call.

Word!


Bulsajo, present! Embarassed

Best games ever were System Shock, System Shock 2, and especially the first Deus Ex.
Open ended, complex plots, multiple paths, hybrids between FPS and RPG. Deus Ex set such a high bar I nearly cried when I discovered Deus Ex 2 was not going to come close to living up to its predecessor... but then I remembered the words to that song- big nerds don't cry, or something like that...
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just picked up Star Wars - Empire at War and am enjoying it so far.

Otherwise, I'm pretty much into MMORPGs.
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TheFonz



Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: North Georgia
PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I love the strategy, sports, and first person shooter games.

My Favorites: Battlefield II, Halo, MVP Baseball 2004, NCAA Football 2005, Total War Series, Hearts of Iron II.

IMO first person shooters only meet their full potential when you play them online or with a group of friends.

Some RPGs are fun, but most have unimaginative, ridiculous storylines, or they don't fully allow you to control the fate of the charachter.

Online RPG games are fun and extremely addicting, but take entirely too much time to build charachters and such. I got addicted to one for about two months, but I noticed I was wasting too much time on it so I deleted it off the computer. Some people meet their wives and husbands on those games. Surprised

I try not to get too addictive to videogames. I usually veg out one or two days out of the month and play for 5 or 6 hours. If it is a social thing, ie playing halo with friends, I feel less guilty about wasting my time.

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