Over the last few months something has become very, very apparent to me.
I go to college in a little rural town in the middle of New Hampshire. Plymouth to be exact, maybe you've heard of it if you're interested in skiing and climbing, and hiking and other outdoor activities of the such, as the town has been listed and mentioned in a few magazines and websites, NatGeo to name one. Now, despite the atmosphere, i'm not an outdoorsy person, and infact i've always considered myself, and others have labeled me as a gamer.
Now I live with three other roommates in a nice school owned apartment (kinda like a condominium), and the four of us game, but the four of us have very, very different tastes in games, and different gaming habits.
I've always enjoyed a broad variety of games. FPS, RPG's the occasional JRPG, platformers and adventure games to name a few. However I've never enjoyed sports games, like Madden or NHL. One of my roommates enjoys any game that gives you a gun and to quote him "Lets me fuck someone's world up" The bigger the gun and explosions the better, which is why he enjoys games like halo, or farcry (one of the few people i know who enjoyed the mutants), or any game with a bow and arrow, like Turok. Another roommate enjoys any and all sports games, and is an avid Madden player, and football fan/name dropper. (though the Lions are his favorite team...go figure). The third and last roommate is a bit of a closet gamer, who enjoys story driven games, which are typically platformers or rpgs, and loves the half life series.
Needless to say arguments start, over games every now and then, and conflict ensues when I want to use MY XBox on the TV to finish Fable II, when another is deep into their seventh madden game. Or, when I'm in the middle of playing AC4A, I get some taunting from the other three about all the ridiculous customization there is, and how they'd rather just play COD4 or something instead of watching me.
So, to the point of this topic. I know that discussion threads about one's favorite game types have been done, but i'd like to see an in depth discussion about how your favorite game type is different or not different from your friends, and what conflicts have been sparked between you and your friends, or roommates, or family, or just people you know in general. Share, discuss, spark a conversation with fellow escapists if you must, I'm interest in seeing how your tastes affect others you know.
I go to college in a little rural town in the middle of New Hampshire. Plymouth to be exact, maybe you've heard of it if you're interested in skiing and climbing, and hiking and other outdoor activities of the such, as the town has been listed and mentioned in a few magazines and websites, NatGeo to name one. Now, despite the atmosphere, i'm not an outdoorsy person, and infact i've always considered myself, and others have labeled me as a gamer.
Now I live with three other roommates in a nice school owned apartment (kinda like a condominium), and the four of us game, but the four of us have very, very different tastes in games, and different gaming habits.
I've always enjoyed a broad variety of games. FPS, RPG's the occasional JRPG, platformers and adventure games to name a few. However I've never enjoyed sports games, like Madden or NHL. One of my roommates enjoys any game that gives you a gun and to quote him "Lets me fuck someone's world up" The bigger the gun and explosions the better, which is why he enjoys games like halo, or farcry (one of the few people i know who enjoyed the mutants), or any game with a bow and arrow, like Turok. Another roommate enjoys any and all sports games, and is an avid Madden player, and football fan/name dropper. (though the Lions are his favorite team...go figure). The third and last roommate is a bit of a closet gamer, who enjoys story driven games, which are typically platformers or rpgs, and loves the half life series.
Needless to say arguments start, over games every now and then, and conflict ensues when I want to use MY XBox on the TV to finish Fable II, when another is deep into their seventh madden game. Or, when I'm in the middle of playing AC4A, I get some taunting from the other three about all the ridiculous customization there is, and how they'd rather just play COD4 or something instead of watching me.
So, to the point of this topic. I know that discussion threads about one's favorite game types have been done, but i'd like to see an in depth discussion about how your favorite game type is different or not different from your friends, and what conflicts have been sparked between you and your friends, or roommates, or family, or just people you know in general. Share, discuss, spark a conversation with fellow escapists if you must, I'm interest in seeing how your tastes affect others you know.