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Erik spends his night and weekends saving worlds, slaying beasts and organizing mismatch shapes into straight lines. While First-person shooters (FPS),
survival horror and platformers are some of his favorite, there are no genre of game he won't play. From PC to PSP, Xbox to Wii. Erik is just as passionate
with playing games as he is talking about them.
J.R. is the sorta-completionist gamer. He almost always completes the main story arc in all games he plays, but seldom plays the "gamer's game" to complete everything. He'll never get all 120 stars or fight Emerald Weapon, but he will save the day. His favorite genres are RPG, Action/Adventure, Platformer, and MMO. He doesn't like fighting games and is rather picky about FPSs.
Ted has been hooked on gaming since the birth of the Atari 2600, when high fantasy adventure consisted of maneuvering a colored square through a castle maze while dodging pesky dragons that looked like 2D seahorses with beaks and wacky bats that took great pleasure in stealing your keys. To this day, while he enjoys platformers, first-person shooters and puzzlers, he is most passionate about RPGs and any other games which weave great stories into the overall experience.
Amethyst, a gamer that giggles at calling herself a gamer because she fits none of the glamorous stereotypes of female gamers, has been gaming since her father brought home the sparkly new Nintendo Entertainment System back in '89. Up until then she had dabbled with the Atari at a cousin's, but it was Super Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt and pounding with her hands on the Power Pad in World Class Track Meet that sealed her fate. Despite a three year stint that she doesn't talk about, she has been playing video games and other nerdly activities with enthusiasm. She enjoys puzzlers, RPGs, MMORPGs, certain shooters/fighters, platformers, magic carpet rides and um, mechanical pencil sharpeners. She hates, despite a couple of exceptions, racing games and sports games. Amethyst is married to Erik and is friends with J.R. and Ted.
Worthy of Every Minute
jr.gameon
| 6/25/2008 7:41 am |
Game On
I'm still playing through "Persona 3: FES". I started the game shortly after it's release at the end of April. It's not unusual for me to spend months working my way through an RPG. Even when I'm really into a game, I still make plenty of time for friends, movies, and books, among other things. It took me three months to put my 70 hours into "Magna Carta", so it shouldn't be a shock that I'm still playing P3:FES after two months. The shock resides in how much I've played the game during those two months. After last night's play session, I checked my game time and it was sitting at 118 hours.
118 hours... I was hoping to break my personal record set by the rather awful "Magna Carta", but I didn't expect to shatter it. And while I'm nearing the end of P3:FES, I'm still not near the end of it. I probably have about 20 - 30 hours yet to go, which is a small percentage of P3:FES, but is still a lot of game time.
One of the most amazing things about this tally is how it doesn't feel like I've played the game for 118 hours. Usually around the 40 or 50 hour mark of an RPG, I'm ready to move on and have chosen to skip side quests in favor of finishing up the main story. While there is a small part of me that is ready to play a different game, that feeling is not being driven by P3:FES. When I'm playing P3:FES, there is no other game on my mind and I don't want to stop. The desire to play something else only enters my mind when I hear Erik and Ted talking about the games they are playing currently. Even when I pass my pile of un-played games and see titles that I'm really excited to play, the urge to rush through P3:FES never materializes.
The Game On crew was joking this past weekend about how I'll likely put 150 hours into P3:FES, surpassing the time spent by both Erik and Ted. I just want to go on record and say that is not my goal. I'm usually the guy that tries to finish a game the quickest so I can move onto the next one. However, I do have a goal with P3:FES. My goal is to give it all of the time it deserves. I'm not sure that goal will be accomplished even if I do spend 150 hours playing it.
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