Escapists: What is your definition of "Fun"?

[Starik20X6]

Anything emotionally satisfying. To define it more would take a while.

 

[disappointed]

Running with dogs.

 

[Trifixion]

With all due credit to Mr. Busey...Finally Understanding Nothing.

But seriously, if it's an activity I remember as being something I enjoyed and would like to do again at some point, I probably would consider that "fun."

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

"Fun" is anything I enjoy doing.

This. It's why I have a hard time taking people who make a distinction between games that are fun and games that are "engaging" seriously. All videogames should be fun, end of story. If you're enjoying it, you're having fun. If you're not, why on earth are you playing it? To look good with your snobby games as art friends?

 

[Racecarlock]

I don't want a dictionary definition of fun I want what you specifically consider fun. Mayhem, silly stuff, grinding, what?

 

[manic_depressive13]

"Fun" is anything I enjoy doing.

This. It's why I have a hard time taking people who make a distinction between games that are fun and games that are "engaging" seriously. All videogames should be fun, end of story. If you're enjoying it, you're having fun. If you're not, why on earth are you playing it? To look good with your snobby games as art friends?

If you watch a really sad movie and it makes you cry, are you having fun? Sure, you're enjoying the movie; that's why it's affecting you on such an emotional level. Yet most people would not use fun as a descriptive term for something tragic and heart-wrenching. When people use "fun" in that context they are referring to the difference between light-hearted messing about, blowing things up, etc. compared to a game with actual meaning and gravity.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

"Fun" is anything I enjoy doing.

This. It's why I have a hard time taking people who make a distinction between games that are fun and games that are "engaging" seriously. All videogames should be fun, end of story. If you're enjoying it, you're having fun. If you're not, why on earth are you playing it? To look good with your snobby games as art friends?

If you watch a really sad movie and it makes you cry, are you having fun? Sure, you're enjoying the movie; that's why it's affecting you on such an emotional level. Yet most people would not use fun as a descriptive term for something tragic and heart-wrenching. When people use "fun" in that context they are referring to the difference between light-hearted messing about, blowing things up, etc. compared to a game with actual meaning and gravity.

If a game has enough meaning and gravity not to be fun, it's a bad game. It might be a good interactive movie or whatever you want to call it, but games are games, not movies. If you want to stretch the definition of "game" to include stuff like that, microsoft office is a videogame.

Edit: And I'm not talking about the flight sim Easter egg in Excel '97, either.

 

[Aerosteam]

Something I enjoy doing and want to keep on doing.

Or you could have used a dictionary...

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Spoiler: Basically this

 

[BreakfastMan]

"Something that I wish to continue doing for its own sake."

This is a good as definition for my feelings as anything I was going to say. I second this.

 

[The Funslinger]

Oh, just as little "game" I fondly refer to as "Stalking the Elderly".

I can top that. Just let me throw on my hooded black cloak and foam skull mask and grab my scythe. I'm off to the local retirement home to tap on windows.

 

[Belaam]

Not so directly tied to adrenaline as the OP, as I consider things like reading a good book or cuddling up with my wife and watching a movie to be fun.

Fun is anything wherein I can think, "I'd rather be doing this than anything else that is reasonably feasible." i.e. I'd pretty much always be rather exploring another planet. But right now, there are about 50 things I'd rather be doing than working, so today has not thus far been "fun". However, reading the escapist is more fun than anything else I can think to be doing on this 15 min break.