Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. Read, watch movies, bother wife
Q. What are the specs on your gaming rig? (Answer!)
A. Cutting edge for about a year ago
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. It's good and adds to the games atmosphere and fun.
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
A. RPGs: Hero System is overall tops but also Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Warhammer 40,000 Dark Heresy.
Board: Arkham Horror easily #1, Runebound, Descent, most Fantasy Flight games in fact.
Minis: 40K, easy.
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. I don't like it. I think it ruins the point of it being a game.
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
A. Well yeah, my (I didn't know she was going to be but wanted her to be anyway) wife.
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
A. They can be. This also feeds back to the roleplaying question. Just make sure you all know it's RP or not.
A. None. I think they ruin the game. If you need mods, you obviously can't play the game well.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
A. I only join one guild in any game: the IRL friends guild we have in just about every game. Since our friends tend to be spread out all over the country, it helps that we can still play together.
Q. Beside GamerDNA, what are your favorite websites? (Answer!)
Q. When do you play, including timezone? (Answer!)
A. Pacific time, usually 7-10 M-Th, 7-2am F, Sat Sun depends on errands but can be all day/night.
Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
A. gold farmers/sellers, CounterStrike jumpers, people who can't type out full words (ie u ur etc).
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. playing something on an Atari 400 I think.
Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
A. WoW, because now the money people insist you have to make that game all over again to be successful which is a stupid idea.
Q. What are the proper uses of tank guns and bubblegum? (Answer!)
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. brain, it's usually enough
A. Why isn't there a multiclass option?
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
A. No, I feel voice chat detracts from the game
Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
A. iPhone...sucks, but true
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. No problem, don't mind.
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. Dwarfs tend to look old as in grey hair, wrinkled faces, etc. Long hair on all avatars. Pale skin. If the hair isn't grey, it's purple or black.
Q. What do you love or hate about PVP? (Answer!)
A. Really don't like it except in DAoC. That's been the only positive experience I've ever had with it.
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
A. Paul Barnett ... he's just too crazy, which is the proper amount of crazy
Q. Do your quiz results on GamerDNA reflect your personality, and if not, what did it get wrong? (Answer!)
A. They do, pretty darn close too.
Q. If you could bring any book, movie or comic to life in a game, which would you choose? (Answer!)
A. PnP RPG would be Traveller, Firefly/Serenity for TV/Movie since it's so close to Traveller. I want Traveller Online.
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
A. Tons, but I find developers rarely listen. It seems more for show. Though I did not get a chance to beta test DAoC or WAR yet and I've heard Mythic is really good with their tests.
Q. What are your thoughts on player-made mods/addons for games? (Answer!)
A. Don't like them. Suggest ideas to the devs and devs should use polls to collect ideas, but letting players mess with the game code? That is just insane.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. Imagination really. Mixing and matching syllables.
Q. What are your most memorable achievements in a game? (Answer!)
A. Most go back to EQ. For some reason, that game really hit me hard emotionally. It's left strong feelings deep in my memory. Best example of achievement was completing the bracer quest that took you all over the world (this is pre-kunark btw). That was awesome then, a joke now.
Q. What is the most overlooked or misunderstood game? (Answer!)
A. I was sad to see Auto Assault go. Thought that would have been great on the Xbox 360. Also, Earth & Beyond felt fun to play, so many mysteries still left to unlock in that. Too bad.
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
A. Yes, my wife before (and after) we were married.
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
A. Traveller Online. Got a design doc and everything.
Q. What is a feature you would like added to GamerDNA? (Answer!)
A. How about when I click "Skip to Next" it actually does that?
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. So many over the years. I tend to forget them since it's such a waste of time and energy.
Q. What question would you add to the Attitudes system? (Answer!)
A. Do you feel that MMOs are evolving or just re-inventing or something else?
Age of Conan (PC)
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