Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
A. Star Wars: Galaxies. It's absolutely useless.
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
A. Unless the soundtrack to the game is bad, I'll just stick with the audio track that it presents me - better immersion factor there. Otherwise I'll just put my music archive on shuffle. I'm not picky.
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
A. I've beta-tested a number of games over the years. Blizzard seems to tag me a lot, must have made an impression on them with my feedback or something - I've beta-tested Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, and WoW. I've also beta-tested games for other developers - Neocron, Hellgate: London, and a few others that escape me right now.
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. Eh, if people are dumb enough to shell out real cash for virtual commodities, they get what they deserve.
Q. If you could bring any book, movie or comic to life in a game, which would you choose? (Answer!)
A. Most movie/book/comic adaptations are less than stellar. I prefer if developers take the time to create their own unique worlds - it takes out a layer of mystery from the game if I already know everything about the environment.
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
A. Very bad, I'm not a programmer. :P
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. Considering that half my characters ARE of the opposite sex, I'd say I'm ok with it.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
A. Because some games require team-based approaches, and PuGs are worthless. It's better to have some structure and discipline to weed out those that don't understand the more complex synergy of a well formed group.
Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
A. Only the immature ones. Everyone is a n00b at some point in their gaming career, as long as they are willing to take instruction from veteran players I can't fault someone for doing something stupid. It's the people that are stupid for stupid's sake that get me tweaked.
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. Flamewars are immature and a waste of my time.
A. Yes, and I have a microphone
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. You mean I can plan ahead? Interesting approach . . . I'll have to try it sometime.
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
A. DnD, old-school Battletech, most anything White Wolf has done.
Q. What are your most memorable achievements in a game? (Answer!)
A. Oh, I could go on for hours about this. Most recently it was when I was finishing up Guild Wars: Factions with my Assassin - was running through the last few missions with a PuG. Towards the end I got a lot of compliments from a handful of the party members stating that I was one of the best Assassins they've ever played with, considering the fact that I was contributing heavily to the fights and not dying. Ever. That made me feel really good.
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. "Oh look, there's Ed! *SPLAT*"
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
A. No, not really. Most of my gamer pals were friends first.
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
Q. Do your quiz results on GamerDNA reflect your personality, and if not, what did it get wrong? (Answer!)
A. Eh, generalized quizes always come close, but miss the mark. Personality is much too complicated to nail perfectly in 30 questions.
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
A. Perhaps. My passions lie in an area that would indirectly touch upon the game industry, so it's a possibility.
Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
A. My *other* pc. Or laptop. Or server. Or *other* server . . . see where I'm going with this?
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
A. John Carmack. Hardcore Gamer *and* Linux geek? Oh, the conversations we'd have . . .
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
Q. What are the specs on your gaming rig? (Answer!)
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. It should only be done if it's a roleplaying game. I think it's a little creepy to be adding personality to the Tetris blocks.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
Q. What is the most overlooked or misunderstood game? (Answer!)
A. Oooh, good question. I'd say pretty much any epic space-sim (Wing Commander, Starlancer/Freelancer, Privateer 1 & 2 [yes there's a 2, and it was awesome], Descent: Freespace, et al). Why the heck does no one make games like this anymore???
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. Uhm . . . they usually look like the kind of character I'm going to make?
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
A. Sure, they can be, if you're a part of a well-organized, friendly, supportive group. That kinship can be quite real in a virtual world.
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. Your mom! (badum-ching)
Q. When do you play, including timezone? (Answer!)
A. Between bouts of insomnia and forced labor.
Q. What are your thoughts on player-made mods/addons for games? (Answer!)
A. Sometimes they have their place, as long as they don't give someone an unfair advantage (such as farm-bots, etc).
Q. What are the proper uses of tank guns and bubblegum? (Answer!)
A. Don't get confused and stick the wrong one in your mouth.
Q. Beside GamerDNA, what are your favorite websites? (Answer!)
Q. What is a feature you would like added to GamerDNA? (Answer!)
Q. What do you love or hate about PVP? (Answer!)
A. Love ganking. Hate getting ganked. C'est la vie.
Q. What question would you add to the Attitudes system? (Answer!)
A. Are you a bad enough dude to save the President??!
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