Fun and....

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1316040]

Comments

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

I've played all of these, some with regularity, in my past... but grad school means I don't have time for any of it. I couldn't bring myself to tick the "I don't play games" options though, just too sad.

[andrewducker]

Dammit! First question last answer should have been "I play everything"!

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Negatives and double negatives are confusing in polls - most books on the subject I've seen suggest not unavoiding them.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[andrewducker]

I wanted to see what games people specifically avoided playing.

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

Oh. I didn't read the question that way.

[andrewducker]

Not the end of the world :->

[matgb]

I prefer not to play roleplay games, but most games groups I've been involved in like to do so, if they want to play at being wizards one week, but will let me invade Kamchatka the next, then that's fine by me.

I prefer strategy or modern board games to pretty much everything else.

For computer games, I tend to mostly play RTS, although last month or so it's been almost exclusively Oolite, the open source Elite emulation/expansion.

I try to avoid online stuff simply because I know how addicted I can get to games, and I prefer to have a game I can pause/quite out/save at any time.

[cdave]

I don't play RPGs because of a rule. I don't play because I've never been asked to.

I did try and track down a group when I was living in west London, but moved out, and don't really have the free time these days.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Poll Fail.

Roguelikes.

In fact, I've been playing Roguelike Doom recently. Much fun. ;}P>

[andrewducker]

It's, um, an RPG. And text-based. Yeah, that's my excuse.

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

FPSes make me nauseated, rhythm games are boring, and MMORPGs don't interest me because people suck and the last thing I want to do is hang out with large groups of some of the worst of them on my time off. *g*

[snowking.livejournal.com]

I would happily play any and all if I just had the time and resources.

That's odd, the "I don't play computer games" answers from Q1 and 2 don't match. Also, surely a slot for solitaire/freecell and casual/puzzle games (Bejewelled etc)?

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

Interesting - I'd call games like Settlers and Power Grid (which I play a lot) "strategy games", and games like Axis & Allies "war games". I found it quite odd to tick a box saying "I don't play strategy games" when, in my terminology, I play several a week.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

These days I only play Civ IV, and then rarely, apart from Guitar Hero at Si's :). I don't feel any sort of attraction towards playing games, I enjoy Civ IV but not at any challenging level of difficulty, generally only the second or third level. I can't grasp how everyone I know plays games all the time - I think there is something wrong with me..

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH AND OF COURSE I often play Age of Empires II with Hannah, Si and Sven (or "WAR!!!!!!!!!!" as we call it). That's brilliant.

[andrewducker]

Why is something wrong with _you_ rather than _them_?

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Because I am in the minority amongst my peers, therefore not the normal, therefore something is wrong with me :>

[andrewducker]

Have you _seen_ your friends?

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that I don't play computer games, but I'd have been lying - sometimes, various forms of patience are the perfect displacement activity.

[andrewducker]

Oooh yes - Spider Patience was an addiction for a while.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Where does Peggle Nights fit into this schema?

[ishkhara.livejournal.com]

And I don't play FPS games because they make me vomit - motion sickness takes about five minutes to set in and four hours to get rid of. :(