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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.
An Old Friend May Hold The Answer
Spyderbyte
| 7/15/2008 9:48 am |
Game On
I recently confessed something to the Game On crew and like a good retailer (if confessions were discounts) I'm now passing the savings along to you.
I'm in Limbo-Land. No, I'm on on an island of inhabitants who line up behind one another and attempt one after another to tilt themselves beneath ever-lowering horizontal broomsticks. Rather, I'm stuck between games.
Actually, that's not entirely accurate, either. More true to my own form, amidst playing one game, I've become distracted and lack the desire to go back to it right now. When I get this way, my tendency is to dabble with multiple games for brief stints of time, never really getting anywhere in any of them, ever seeking that special game which will magically grasp my attention and beat it into submission.
I've been trying all sorts of games. Final Fantasy XII. Blue Dragon. Rogue Galaxy. Like a dirty roll of tape, nothing is sticking. Don't misread me - I want to play every one of these games and will eventually. My gut is simply telling me (when I can hear it over the rumble of a hungry stomach) that now is not the time for any of these titles.
I want to play a game, but what do I play? This question was getting to me as late as last night when the answer struck me upside my bald head. Why not delve back into Part Two of Persona 3:FES? (If one believes in fate, they might find it to be the obvious solution, given that Part Two of P3:FES is titled 'The Answer'. Insert answer-right-in-front-of-me quip here.)
I launched my PS3 and (re)loaded The Answer. (Yes, I 're'-loaded it, another tale for another time.) It was, dear Readers, a thing of beauty, like seeing an old friend after a long time. Familiar characters. Familiar voices. Familiar styles of speech. Familiar settings. Familiar battles. Familiar goals. But like an old friend one has not seen in awhile, there are also changes. A new mysterious character. A different story. A new mission. These additions only add to the whole, but beneath the new layers, I still see the game I love.
An hour and a half later, I realized I might have found my next game of choice. I've been sucked right back into this familiar yet modified world. By next week, I may well be telling you all of another distraction, but for the moment, I'm feeling compelled to return to this one to unlock the final answer and spend some time with characters that feel very much like old friends.
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