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| What type of gamer are you? |
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36% |
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12% |
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| Arcade'er |
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4% |
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| Strategy'er |
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20% |
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| RTS'er |
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4% |
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| Other'er (please state below) |
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8% |
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| None of the above'er. I don't like video games. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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 Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:38 am Post subject: What kind of Gamer are you? |
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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
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| Nerd roll call. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: Re: What kind of Gamer are you? |
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| What? No crosswords? |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| 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.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:03 am Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Nerd roll call. |
Word!
Bulsajo, present! 
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
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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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
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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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. 
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.
Hijack attempt
<Is it me or are videogames becoming less challenging? I just remember how hard some of those nintendo games were and today it seems like they are dumbed down. I tried playing some of those nintendo games a couple of years ago and they still seem impossible. Mike Tyson Punchout, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Metal Gear, and the list goes on.> |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| TheFonz wrote: |
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.
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.
Hijack attempt
<Is it me or are videogames becoming less challenging? I just remember how hard some of those nintendo games were and today it seems like they are dumbed down. I tried playing some of those nintendo games a couple of years ago and they still seem impossible. Mike Tyson Punchout, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Metal Gear, and the list goes on.> |
Dude...those games are impossible to beat:
PUnch-out - could never pass the second sodapopinski
TMNT - Could never pass the inside of the technodrome with those flying laser guys
Metal Gear - couldn't pass the dogs on the first stage
Man....you are right..i could go on and on. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| TheFonz wrote: |
| <Is it me or are videogames becoming less challenging? I just remember how hard some of those nintendo games were and today it seems like they are dumbed down. I tried playing some of those nintendo games a couple of years ago and they still seem impossible. Mike Tyson Punchout, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Metal Gear, and the list goes on.> |
Give Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox a shot, and tell me video games have become less challenging. I'm the only guy I know personally who has completed the game on all the difficulty levels. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
Dude...those games are impossible to beat:
PUnch-out - could never pass the second sodapopinski
TMNT - Could never pass the inside of the technodrome with those flying laser guys
Metal Gear - couldn't pass the dogs on the first stage
Man....you are right..i could go on and on. |
Agreed on the first two, although it kept you coming back for more. And the original Metal Gear was hard as hell as well. But c'mon man, you couldn't get past the dogs? The most challenging part of that game was the two stupid mazes where you had to know exactly which path to take...like 15 different times. With no clues at all. Now that was hard. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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From Wolfenstein 3D to Quake 4, I've been a FPS fan since the 3D genre was born.
It's more about time for me. I have never (well, rarely) been able to sit and game for 3 or 4 hours straight, and don't want to play a gmae that takes too long to unfold.
My time is tight, so I like to fire it up and jump right in to some fun. I did play Doom for a personal record time, as well as HL2...that was a hard game to stop. Counterstrike source was also a time killer...
I have to say that lately, the RPG genre is getting a lot of good titles coming out. I just can't bring myself to get into it though.
I still have a blast with Quake 3: Team Arena. |
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Njord
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Turn Based Strategy for me - Civilization, Alpha Centauri, Master of Orion, Master of Magic, etc. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| Give Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox a shot, and tell me video games have become less challenging. I'm the only guy I know personally who has completed the game on all the difficulty levels. |
Isn't Ninja Gaiden famous for being hard as hell, though? I find that nowadays, the only way they can make it hard is by giving you like 500 different moves in various combinations of the 15 or so buttons so you get confused and die a lot. Mario could do a lot with two buttons and a control pad. |
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