What is your gaming style?

lyndsyh

Playing a game today and was thinking about what makes me enjoy video games and how I get the most enjoyment out of them.

I think I'd say I'm a completionist. I play through the story first, but afterwards, I'm determined to collect and do everything I can in the game. I find that it makes me think it is money more well spent this way too.. rather than blast through the story and trade/sell.

What about you guys/girls?

Do you like to speed through games? Take your time? Collect everything? Destroy/shoot/kill everything in sight? Just play for the storyline? Is replay value important to you?

RazWaz

I'm a completionist too, I either get 2 hours into a game and throw it to one side because I'm bored, or play it until everything is finished and unlocked. No real middle ground.

I do tend to ignore multi-player parts of games though.

Steve-o

I'm an explorer, especially in MMORGs; I often wandered around solo so that I could explore at my own pace, and go for dangerous areas, rather than be in just another grind group with some idiot spamming "gogogogo".

ineed

I'm a completionist as well, I enjoy collecting every item in caves/dungeons/underground lair's and finding every part of codex/journal entries. I also like going after rare hard to find things, like the Zodiac Spear in Final Fantasy 12.

Tropez

I play games for the storyline and/or to have fun with the gameplay. I don't regard myself as a completionist and things like achievements and gamerscores have never interested me as I find a lot of them rather gimmicky and in some cases quite tedious to complete.

I buy most games during Steam sales with a few on my Xbox so I don't tend to sell or trade games.

I don't replay many games, even some that I have really enjoyed, because once I've completed them there isn't a lot to go back for unless the story was something special or the game is particularly accomplished in certain aspects - such as the Mass Effect games which have quite a silly storyline if we're honest, but benefit hugely from the characters, the interactions and the various options with regards to squad makeup, storyline options/choices etc. and consequently I've replayed the trilogy a few times.

Of course, this one applies to those games where the single-player is limited to a set narrative with a defined end. RTS games with skirmish modes, or games like Total War, SimCity (4) and sports games are obviously quite different in that regard.

Sparhawke

I am like Steve, I mostly play RPGs and the first week I was in Runescape I got members just because I wanted more map to explore. I haven't played it in a long time but I am still the same way, I have recently started playing Skyrim again and just love wandering into areas that apparently have not been explored yet, spotting a wide expanse of nothing on the map and setting off in a Southern direction just for the hell of it

I also like to talk to people in games, the trick is not getting me to talk, but getting me to shut up

And again I agree with Tropez, most "achievements" are very tacky, like in Diablo where you get an achievement for combining gems or making a lowest level armor. I much prefer going for the hard achievements, like being the best forum poster I can be and helping everyone I come across, where people decide that if I post I have done my homework and really want to help them; a full friendslist with lots of people to run around with is much more important to me than a full bank

(though being wealthy in games is nice; I may even share a tip or two lol)

The_One_Who

I play for the story and the gameplay. If it's a game I really enjoy then I'll maybe try to complete it, but I don't go out of my way.

crabyducky

I always try to complete the games I play but never do, after loosing my original GT 6 years ago I've only fully completed one retail game and 3 arcade games.

I prefer rpg and strategy though for the replayability that they offer as I usually play them for months at a time, before moving onto something else.

Paully232000

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a completionist. I play games until I get bored of them and then either trade them in or keep them if I think i may come back to them.

Always have to have two or three games on the go at once as boredom will set in with one of them and I have something else to keep going with.

I like to complete the single player game, but as for getting 100% achievements and play multi-player, then no I dont do that very often. In fact I think there are 2 or three games that I have 100% on in the years i have had an xbox.