Q. When do you play, including timezone? (Answer!)
A. Around 7-12PM (GMT+1) on weekdays, more during the weekend.
Q. What are your thoughts on player-made mods/addons for games? (Answer!)
A. Great! Should definatly be one of the design focuses of game design. Especially UI modding ala WoW.
Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
A. Griefers/Gankers. I can live with being backstabbed by <randomguy> while happily doing my thing if I'm not careful, but constantly killing just because... Well, spawncamping, killing a person over and over and over and over again simply because you're 40 levels higher than me (etc), that's just plain annoying and would probably make me stop playing (for the evening atleast).
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
A. Alot. I've been beta'ing more mmo's than I can count and several offline games. I find it so fun helping out with the development of games that I'm currently working on my ISEB certificate and studying to become a real software tester.
Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
A. Probably my cellphone. Doubles as a music device.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
A. Absolutely, one of my lifetime goals.
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. Super Mario brothers, played it on a friends nintendo.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. I mostly make'em up depending on race/situation/class/etc. Got a few standard ones I'm happy with though. (Stormfeather, Khanos, Braxxis)
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. Tried it, never liked it.
Q. If you could bring any book, movie or comic to life in a game, which would you choose? (Answer!)
Q. Do your quiz results on GamerDNA reflect your personality, and if not, what did it get wrong? (Answer!)
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. Really depends on what I vision him/her to be, personality and such.
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. Don't! Never! Hate it!
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
A. Why isn't there a multiclass option?
Q. What are your most memorable achievements in a game? (Answer!)
A. Getting to Silithus at lvl 32 in WoW, thereby settling a bet.
And, actually reaching the lvlcap in an mmo, only happened once yet.
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. I love it. I think games should provide more social interactions to encourage roleplaying.
Q. What are the proper uses of tank guns and bubblegum? (Answer!)
A. You grab your average sized woodchuck, see? Then you chew the bubblegum and stick the woodchuck to your average, high-explosive tank grenade like so. The load the tank gun with 2 (or was it 3) bags of powder.
Fire away!
(http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/602/602035p1.html)
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
A. Either the music in the game, or, if that fails me, random mp3.
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
A. Drakar och Demoner 94, Mutant Chronicles, Warhammer 40k
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. I seldom do, and if I do, it's in my head mostly.
Q. What is the most overlooked or misunderstood game? (Answer!)
A. Auto Assault. T'was a sad day when it died. Don't think it could have been saved though.
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. Walks at the beach, read books, movies, programming.
Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
A. Any asian mmo as it stands at the moment.
Q. What are the specs on your gaming rig? (Answer!)
A. At the moment,
Amd 64 2ghz
2gb ram
Ati Radeon x1650
SB Audigy LS
Saving for an upgrade.
Q. What do you love or hate about PVP? (Answer!)
A. Love,
-the thrill
-the action
-if free pvp, the sense of persistent danger
Hate,
-the gankers
-the griefers
-unbalance
With unbalance, I mean, it's okay for not every class to be able to solo. In fact, I think each class should have one or several weaknesses that would make it almost impossible to solo more than 1 or 2 of the classes. Pvp, for me, is played in varied teams, where each class contributes.
A. Yes, but only when absolutely needed
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
A. Either a platform horror game or a scifi ship-to-ship battle game. Or resurrect the old mech battle genre.
Q. Beside GamerDNA, what are your favorite websites? (Answer!)
A. -gmail
-megagames
-fileplanet
-slashdot
Q. What question would you add to the Attitudes system? (Answer!)
A. Is it possible to build an mmo without 'the grind', or is it a necessary evil?
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. Can't remember any good (besides basic namecalling) at the moment.
Q. What is a feature you would like added to GamerDNA? (Answer!)
Age of Conan (PC)
Auto Assault (PC)
City of Heroes (PC)
