Tell me how you play computer games

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1826802]

Today's poll suggestion is courtesy of bracknellexile who will no doubt be mining the data to see if his thesis is correct.

Edit: Please take a look at bracknellexile's comment further down, as he'd really appreciate your replies!

Comments

[kmusser]

I prefer strategy games (ala Civ or the Sim games), so they tend to not have characters, but I don't think of them as abstracts either. I also think you should've had games where my character is an @ symbol, though I suppose those would count as top-down :-) Regardless of type, they are played on a PC with mouse/keyboard. I do have a Wii, but it's mostly used for exercise.

[andrewducker]

I think of Civ as being top down/isometric. It's a bit abstract, I'll give you, but it's mostly considered to be a top-down view of the world that you're rampaging across.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

OK, that answers that one. Civ is the vast bulk of what I play these days, though I am non-trivially tempted by From Dust.

I would probably be much more drawn to first-person games as a style if I could play them with a nice chunky joystick, that being the interface modality of the Atari consoles of my misspent youth. I suppose it's possible that I could figure the hardware issues out there to get around that, but... not enough time in the day already.

(I'm very much a solo player. I'm an introvert and my People Stuff tolerance is saved for more important things.)