A. Yes, and I have a microphone
Q. What are the specs on your gaming rig? (Answer!)
A. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+, 1918MB RAM, 250 GB, NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430, BenQ T221WA 22" widescreen.</p><p >I really need to invest into a good GPU...
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
A. I play alot of games with their music on and have alot of soundtracks I listen to even when not playing, like Halo 1 & 2, Morrowing, Diablo II etc.
Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
A. Phone, currently Nokia N70
A. Why isn't there a multiclass option?
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
Q. What are your thoughts on player-made mods/addons for games? (Answer!)
A. I havent used many in the past, but games like WoW and Elders Scrolls series really come to life with them. They make the game better than it was originally.
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
A. Yes and no. While most relationships within games are maintained only ingame, there is potential for true friendship aswell. I know a couple who met in Diablo II and are now married even though they lived in differents states (US) originally. Also I have a good friend I met in America's Army that has visited me from Great Brittain in 3 summers now.
Q. Beside GamerDNA, what are your favorite websites? (Answer!)
A. www.slashdot.org - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters
www.pvp-onilne.com - Great online comic
www.pennyarcade.com - The Greatest online gaming comic. Beware the big words.
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
A. I enjoy Carcassonne, WoW TCG and pen and paper RPG's including D&D 3.5rd ed, Cyberpunk, Call of Cthulhu, Space Master and many more...
Q. When do you play, including timezone? (Answer!)
A. I'm at GMT +2 hours and play acording to my work schedule. Every other week 8:30-10:30 and 20:00-23:00. 17:00-23:00 in the weeks between. Raids with my new guild carry over to 01:00 so I try to take a nap on raid days to keep up the next day.
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
A. Sid Meier, no question about it.
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
A. No I havent been to any meet-ups, but I usually play with RL friends.
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. Females always sexy (who wants to stare at an ugly woman for hours?) and with males I got either for a dashing heroes look or something totally goofy.
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. I dont mind playing the opposite sex, but I'd like to know if the other person playing with me is really male or female.
A. For WoW I run Titan panel, Omen, XLoot, Violation, De-Cursive, Cartographer, Auctioneer, CTRaidAssist, X-Perl, Gatherer and Bongos 2. Propably forgot some from the list...
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. Video games: Space invaderes on some Atari system I think
PC games: propably something simple like AlleyCat, but the first game I really properly played for hours and hours was Civilization on my 286 Nokia PC with EGA display and Suondblaster 2, which was still very rare back then.
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
A. Nope, but then again I've been involved with someone most of my life and I dont mess around.
Q. If you could bring any book, movie or comic to life in a game, which would you choose? (Answer!)
A. All the ones I can think of are already made into games :)
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. I watch TV series from Season Boxes with my wife.
Q. What question would you add to the Attitudes system? (Answer!)
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. I think Sony has it right on EQ2 where they set up a market place for such sales where they handle the transfer of money and items and take a small fee for it. No one gets screwed over.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. I just make them up as I go unless I use my my default screen name "Micge".
Q. What are your most memorable achievements in a game? (Answer!)
A. Finishing Zelda on the NES comes to mind first. I had been at it for months and I think I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. I remember the let down when I found there was a second more difficult round to complete after that. Didnt play much of it after that.
Q. What is a feature you would like added to GamerDNA? (Answer!)
Q. What is the most overlooked or misunderstood game? (Answer!)
A. I'll have to get back to you on this one...
Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
A. StarWars Galaxies. I played it quite alot back before Jump to Lightspeed and some after the expansion. It had a very unique character development system and it really captured the feel of the setting. Unfortunately Sony Online Entertainment fucked it all up in their post-WoW panic all that made SWG stand out from the other MMO's was removed in favor of a WoW like system and that's when they lost what loyal playerbase they had. We deserve a new SW MMO, maybe Lucas could deliver?
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. Online Character builders, talent calculators and WoWwiki articles.
POS (Player Owned Starbase) calculator spreadsheet for EVE-Online
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
A. Not terribly much interest. I enjoy the final products and it's enough. If I had some database education I might be tempted to work for CCP Games (EVE-Online makers).
Q. What do you love or hate about PVP? (Answer!)
A. In FPS games I enjoy the hunt and kill and love to set up close range ambushes. In MMO's it's just a means to an end (free epix with honor).
Q. Do your quiz results on GamerDNA reflect your personality, and if not, what did it get wrong? (Answer!)
A. I think they came out pretty good.
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
A. A Sci-Fi setting MMO with Space-Nazis, beautiful enlightened aliens with psionic powers, evil world eating intergalactic bug swarms and an empire of benevolent, united humans whose noble navy would fight to make the universe a better place. I would have rich character development, 3rd person view missions, exploration, manufacturing and space travel. Combined with RTS style space encounters with ships and bug swarms and a team/objective based FPS on ground /space station/boarding combat. Now someone go make it happen and I want beta-keys and royalties.
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. I havent participated in any and when I see a thread go down that road I stop reading it. Arguing over the internet is not for me and I can go to bed without proving every idiot out there wrong first.
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. In MMO's there is generally very little roleplaying because majority of the players dont care for it and some ruin it for those who do. In SWG there was supricingly rich RP:ing though. Specially in the cantina's. When I play single player RPG's I always try to create a character much like in pen and papaer games. Full with a backround and purpose and then play the game acordingly. I do not make choices based on rewards but how the character would act acording to his believes.
Q. What are the proper uses of tank guns and bubblegum? (Answer!)
A. Tank guns should be aimed at the enemy and bubblegum chewed after every meal to protect your teeth.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)