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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.
At One Time This Title Was an Edwin Starr Reference
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| 9/10/2008 8:11 am |
Game On
I want to write about Spore this morning, as it was released this week and it's big and popular and different and popular. Did I mention it's popular? The problem is I don't really know much of anything about it. For the most part, I'm a Spore Ignoramus.
Spore is the brainchild of Will Wright, the creator of The Sims. Many people are excited about Spore simply because it was created by Will Wright and I have no problem with that. I run to anything that is created by Joss Whedon, so I understand the compulsion. However, it's because of Will Wright that I'm not interested in Spore at all. I just didn't like any of his previous games. I didn't have a problem with them, I just didn't dig on them. I only goofed around in SimCity for a little while and I spent about 90 minutes fooling around with The Sims before I got bored and deleted it. Never once did I think that these games were bad, they just didn't hold my attention. They weren't for me. The man makes great games, but I don't want to play them.
As such, I paid almost no attention to Spore, even ignoring the free Creature Creator that dropped on the web a few months ago. It's free, so I should have given it a shot, but I didn't. I know my boundaries and currently Will Wright games are beyond them. That doesn't mean I won't change my mind someday. Up until 5 months ago I didn't play sandbox world games like GTA and now I'm hooked. I didn't get the draw of Japanese RPG games and didn't play my first one until 2000, but now they are by far my favorite genre. There may still be room for some Will Wright love in my heart, just not today.
So, do you have Spore? What do you think about it?
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