What Type of Gamer Are You?
Feb. 4Honestly, this isn't directly related to Nintendo, but I found the concept pretty fascinating. Basically, CVG broke down most general playing habits into twelve general types, based on how you interact with a game. They are a little fuzzy but, I think, pretty accurate.
For instance, the Explorer description is exactly how I like to play my games, down to spending approximately four million years per title while trying to ferret out all the little secrets and see everything worth seeing. I'm not a completionist, though, and have no problems skipping goals I find stupid or just repetitive. I do experience crippling option blur in long games with lots of decision-making, though, but enjoy games that let me run through on different paths.
So I'm wondering two things right now: what type of gamer are you, reader? And what types of gamers are most likely to be drawn to Nintendo stuff? Right now I think there's a sharp bias on the Wii away from basically all of the competitive types and any sort of difficulty-fiending. The DS has all kinds of games for all kinds of people, though.
Comments
Interesting read and for me, it depends upon the game.
I don't think any one category defines me or my of play. None of the gamer types really address cooperative multiplayer, either... they seem to be focused on only the individual (whether in a single player environment or a multiplayer environment).
I can be competitive or I can be cooperative, I can be a completionist or I can brush right over something. It just depends, both on the type of game and the type of people I'm playing with.
Not a bad read, but all those categories were basically symptoms needing to be cured...
Yeah this does a little too much genre-based pigeonholing for my taste. It's more like "what's your gaming vice?" than "what kind of gamer are you?"
Maybe we could have "The Seven Deadly Sins of Gaming," but I bet that's already been done.
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