Do your games reflect yourself?

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EisBaron

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Do your games reflect who you really are? Do you like racing games because of your real life interests in cars or is it because you can't get away with going down the freeway at 200 any other way? Do Harvest Moon and Viva Pinata fulfill a want to escape to a simpler lifestyle or just provide an excuse to beat the crap out of stuff with a shovel? Do large multi-player games resemble your need for others and to work in a group with teamwork or are you just don't have any friends?
 

hazabaza1

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Yes. I am a macho manly man who can shoot things very well, take bullets like I'm a slab of concrete, and can do impossible acts of athleticism.
 

azurawolf

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Well, I play co-op alot so maybe I want companionship. ;-;

Ahhh... I dunno. I just enjoy playing the game and shooting zombies with my friends. xD
 

Katherine Kerensky

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Multiplayer games reflect my need to be with other people?
funny, all I do is try to kill them all the time.
I think my games show the psychotic side of me. that I hide while not playing.
mostly.
 

Arkhangelsk

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I am a deep thinker who likes to search through the depth of human experience. With that said, yes, games do reflect, I like a deep and complex story.
 

Merteg

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Not really.

I'm partial to shooters, but in real life I don't like guns/hunting all that much.
 

Kpt._Rob

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Certainly my game library reflects at least my taste, though no more than my choice in home decor or the way I dress. That said, I wouldn't say any of these are quite the obvious reflections of myself that you might be implying. For instance, my playing of GTA4 and Saints Row 2 does not mean that I want to be involved in street violence. I have a natural aversion to violent conflict, and would never consider harming innocent civillians and police officers. But the games themselves are fun to play, and because within the context of the game the AI lacks genuine sentience my own moral pretensions can be forgotten as they apply only to sentient entities.

That said, admitedly there is a side of me that would love just to see and be involved in an Alone in the Dark or Silent Hill type scenario, just once and temporarily of course, though the honest truth is that while games still provide me the degree of seperation to easily overcome any fear these scenarios would invoke, in reality I would probably never have the guts to live these situations. And other games can probably be seen as a reflection of some of my desires as well, for instance, I work out a lot, and if someone offered to make me as muscular as Ryu from Streetfighter, I can't say I would try to stop them. And to live a big adventure like in Fallout 3 or Oblivion and be a sort of hero character I think is something that most of us at least secretely desire, even if we won't admit it. Other games as well, like I used to play a lot of Animal Crossing back on the Gamecube, and the honest truth is that I actually do enjoy manipulating the aesthetic features of my appartment, probably more than a guy ought to.
 

Wayne Insane

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Seeing as I actually am a post-nuclear,nazikilling ninja who can shoot bees out of his arm,I guess my Games reflect me pretty well.
 

Yudas

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Hardly. I like my games RTS'y or stealthy for the most part. If i try either of those things in real life people throw garbage at me.
 

Affero-Dolor

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I'm quite cpapable of riding a dinosaur and jumping over 7 times my own height. Plus I can fly if I have my special hat.

But seriously, I think games don't reflect on one as a person, it's who you want to be, just like a film or whatever.