What's your Gaming Philosophy?

[FPLOON]

"Never surrender..." Always remember that the goals that you set in a video game can be achieved in some way, shape, or form... The game has no real ending, you say? Then, you decide when it should end... You feel like you can't beat that extra boss at the level you're at now? Level-grind til the sun shines on another day... and then face that extra boss using everything you got at your disposal... "Never surrender..." The game just ended and you want to play it again with the tools you have now? If there's a "New Game+", then what's stopping you from playing that...

Remember, you don't end with the game... the game ends with you, despite what it tells you... "Never surrender..."

(Off-Topic Note: This song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtuoEtohPv4] was playing while I was typing all this...)

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I try to beat the game on it's own terms, I try to explore everything, I try to keep at least one of every item no matter how worthless, I customise as much as possible, I finish the game 100% in best cases or to my satisfaction in worse ones (e.g. I did not bother with the pidgeons in GTA IV but I certainly got all the achievements in Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction), I try not to look at guides during my first run through (which is why Skyrim annoyed me, you can't lift a finger without checking to see if it locks something for you), I try not to contribute to pervasive metas by using unique builds without regard to W/L (and I generally don't do well in that regard), I try to play the objective/my class, I try to give back to the community where applicable, whether through co-op, forums or walkthroughs, and I try to use my purchases to encourage good business practises on the part of the publisher/developer.

 

[Miss G.]

They're often times a way for me to experience new and fanciful things; things I personally am afraid to do (I hate heights and being on the water so airships, dragon-riding and boats etc are out of the question), and things I will probably never be able to do (like own enough money and rare things to buy a country or the ability to run more than 7 mph). Also playing a story.

You're telling me if a dragon landed in your back yard right now and asked you to ride it to the land of lollipops and rainbows, you'd say you were scared of heights?

Heights are my one fear I'm consciously aware of and even then there'd be no hesitation.

Yes.

I've been literally prone to going into trances whenever I fly since I was 2 weeks old and it hasn't gotten much better now that I'm 24. I also suffer from air-sickness, car-sickness (if I HAVE to read something like directions and I can't even bother with handheld games either) and sea-sickness so it's usually a trifecta of migraines and suckage if I don't have something that knocks me out when I travel. And if I'm even more than a few feet off the ground on something that's not a floor of a VERY stable building I freak out. Climbing onto step stools and classroom chairs are a challenge for me because vertigo. Knowing all this, I'd fall off while vomiting if I rode on a dragon while awake, so I'd probably have to be SECURELY strapped to it while unconscious thus taking the thrill out of it.

 

[Easton Dark]

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I don't have any of that. I'm just always crushingly aware of how gravity works. But the dragon'd be sure to catch ya. Of course that doesn't help with... every motion sickness.

And anyway, strapped to a dragon is still strapped to a dragon.

 

[A Weakgeek]

For perky tits an' tight arses. Yarr.

What? Atleast I'm honest. I'm a practical kind of guy.

 

[The Wykydtron]

In the words of every UMVC3 match ever:

NEVER GIVE UP!

It's my entire strat for League of Legends, much to my 5 man premade team's despair.

"DAN! WE ARE DONE! GET IT GO!"

"FUCK YOU MAN, WE GOT THIS! 0/20 AT 17 MINUTES! WE CAN COME BACK FROM THAT!"

In that i'm not kidding, you actually can. It does happen if you believe in the Heart of the Cards

I pretty much solidified that when in my series out of Bronze a guy on my team first picked jungle Karma pre-rework, outright said he's trolling, built 6 Doran's Blades, sold 3 then bought 3 Wriggle's Lanterns because "he wanted to see more"

Our Jarvan was 0/9 top, I was playing support so I can't carry that, their Shaco was Legendary in 15 minutes, jungle Karma was going as you would expect, their entire team was fed, everyone was flaming and the only thing going ok was our mid lane Mordekaiser and I wasn't feeding because Fish never dies.

We took their first mid tower and then took their inhib and both Nexus towers in one single push then gave Lee Sin a penta trying to kill the base. I have honest to god no idea how that happened.

We sent our Corki mid to distract them and give his life for the team, four of us flashed the base wall all ninja like, Fish stuns their entire team and we just kite around the base four man Xpeke style.

If you can come back from that travesty of a game you can come back from anything.

Also, with perhaps with the exception of League (though i'm out of Bronze so i'm happy enough) I've learned to give no fucks about any ranking system at all. I was super invested in getting high rank in UMVC3 in which I just had to win no matter what. I eventually realised that I was having zero fun with the game and I should just chill the fuck out man.

 

[Ajita Jago]

For the experience and the challenge only games can give.
I may not live to see a zombie apocalypse but that's what dead rising is for. Even if it only happens in a game the satisfaction of finally beating a boss that has kicked your ass 10 times over or ringing the bell for the first time in Dark Souls is very real.

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Don't be a dick.

This mantra rules every aspect of my gaming life, no matter the game or situation. In RPG's I am always the hero, here to save people and dispense justice to those that are dickish. Online I am always respectful and I refuse to use cheap weapons or tactics. In open world games, I never go on rampages and I always try to minimize causalities.

Games that essentially force me to break this philosophy and cause harm always get to me. I'm looking at you, Spec Ops: The Line!

 

[irok]

To get away, to think and face new challenges, I play a lot of pvp games and mostly those with strategy or things with extensive character creation on the stats side, I'm a min maxer with a billion character builds in everything I do because I enjoy the what if, I wonder what happens if I dump points into this , or can I make a build around x.

 

[SouthernStar]

To forget that my life sucks and i will undoubtedly amount to nothing.

Very much so and for fun mostly.

 

[Benni88]

I like to feel like I'm mastering something. I enjoy games which have a technical or strategic difficulty as I feel some accomplishment in completing them.

Not to say that I don't play games for narrative or just for fun, but I feel that learning the systems is generally my biggest enjoyment/attraction for games.

 

[Zeh Don]

I play, therefore I am. If I were to stop playing, I would blend back into the faceless husk of our species.

 

[the darknees abyss]

Enjoy it or don't play it.

 

[KeyMaster45]

Because I feel a kindred spirit in the character I am assigned or create to play. I don't mean in the sense that I hold the same ideas, notions, or personality as the characters but in the sense that we're both in this for the long haul; no matter how much contrived BS is put in our way. I don't so much play games to put myself in the roll of the character, but as that voice in the back of their head that groans loudly at a new set of doodads being assigned to collect, or cheering when they do something particularly badass

For example: I was playing Bioshock Infinite earlier tonight, searching every nook and cranny along the way like a starving raccoon, when I stepped into a men's bathroom where Elizabeth wasn't allowed to follow. As I proceeded to systematically ransack the place, while the attendant dozed quietly by the door, Elizabeth asked three separate times if Booker was done yet and each time he replied no. On the fourth inquiry, before Booker could respond, I shouted at my screen, "Quiet damn you, we're searching for doodads."

On another occasion back during Wrath of the Lich King on WoW, there's a chain of quests where you're helping out a captured troll prevent his people's most sacred relics from falling into the hands of the Scourge. The chain culminates in a dungeon where, at the end, you summon him inside where he performs a ritual to cleanse the dungeon of the Scourge's taint. Except it was all a ruse and you actually just wiped out the last bastion of Troll resistance in that particular part of Northrend. Now mind you the character I was playing was one of my own creation, but I'd been playing him long enough to have crafted something of a personality for him; he didn't like being used, I didn't like being used, nobody uses us, and thus a blood vendetta was born that lasted clear through to the two of us shoving our collective boot up Arthas' frosty ass.

Put simply, I play games because I like being the potato Glados stuck to the end of a character's portal gun.

 

[The Harkinator]

To hog all the loot is human. To distribute it, divine.

Oh wait...

For the fun, for the challenge but most of all to experience a great story that only an interactive medium can tell.

Oh yeah and to role play characters. My current Skyrim character is Vayon Septim (he knows know he's a Septim) rightful Emperor and Dragonborn. Currently living on the run after being discovered by the Penitus Ocalatus (which is why he gets sent for execution despite not being on the list). He's trying to lay the foundations for his own takeover by gaining prominence in the Empire, reunifying Skyrim and creating a power vacuum he can step into and take the throne.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I play for the challenge and to stand on the top of a leaderboard and look down on all the people who failed

 

[Saelune]

I play games to experience more interesting realities than our own. Escapism (guess where this site got its name). But also for entertainment.

As for what I play, I like variety, and will give anything a try, but I favor RPGs, especcially when they offer character creation. Having that creative control, if only on my own character, is something I love.

 

[Childe]

To simply have fun. If I will have fun by following the weakest possible build, so be it. If I will have fun by playing the weakest character, so be it. If I have to cheat to have fun (as long as it's not multiplayer), so be it.
That's the reason why I tend to avoid watching any competitive matches, like EVO or minor Dota2 Championships. I just don't like the idea of "Tiers" or some character being "Not competitive on higher levels" etc.

This pretty much for me. I play DOTA2 an Lol to win of course but I also play to have fun so I try things out sometimes even if people get really pissed at me

 

[Kyber]

Games are a part of my life, I usually pour myself into the characters I play. I take joy in adventuring taking on dangerous but rewarding journeys that would never be possible in the real world. For me, the most important aspect of the game is usually the story, and it's exploration. Games are something more than me, and that's why I play them.

 

[Tom_green_day]

If game is fun, me like game.
Pretty basic actually. I like CoD and Fallout and Mass Effect etc because they are fun to play. I do not like Battlefield and Batman games and Deus Ex HR etc because they are not fun to play.
'Fun' can sometimes be created by a good story or atmosphere or controls or gameplay etc, it isn't set in stone. I don't find things fun if they push too hard, such as when a game tries to have a good story, it sometimes feels forced.