Okay, here’s a humdinger — and it’s only slightly off topic — I want you to describe how you play video games in one single word.
(And if you feel like it you can totally explain in greater detail why you chose that one word afterwards!)
Me? I think the word I would use it…
Stubborn
I’m not always very good at things, but I’ll stick it out. I like to learn things so I’ll play really difficult video games until I learn them. This is why I like games like Trails HD or Dark Souls.
Now you go!
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67 responses to “Off Topic: Describe How You Play With One Word”
Persistence.
EDIT: Actually read the article. Pretty similar to yours, really. A lot of the same reasons apply. Except it also means that I may find myself pushing through the to end of a game that I’m not really enjoying, because it’s mindless enough and I started it, dammit.
Calculated.
Furiously.
Fast.
Explorer
Distracted
Pedantically.
Tip of the hat to you my friend, for understanding the difference between ‘how’ and ‘why’ 😉
Salty
Penis
GARGH!
Methodical
Casually.
Slowly
Badly 🙁
Sociopath
Erotically
Witcher 2, what.
When I play with one word it’s usually a case of misusing it for comic effect
Oh okay I’ll play along properly!
Exploratory
I’m the guy who’ll find that weird section where the level geometry doesn’t quite join up because I tend to want to look behind everything
Countering
thoroughly
Alone
I like to be engrossed in a story and world. I don’t like other people there influencing the way I play.
Awkwardly.
Poorly.
that was my one 🙁
Competitively
depends on the genre.
I try to be a single lifer and hate dying in games. So things like MGS, Tom Raider, GTA I might say “cautiously.” However, put me in a car where I can’t die eg. GT6 and I’ll happily bounce off everybody and everything so perhaps “psychopath.”
In turn based strategy or RTS I build bases and defend while researching tech so “defensively.” If it’s human multiplayer, I wouldn’t trust me, standing behind me, so “Machiavellian.”
Sporadically
Sporadically.
I wish there was a word that summed up only getting to play occasionally, but then playing for 8 hours straight instead of sleeping 🙂
*edit* I guess ‘bingeing’ would come close.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/binge
Weird… two sporadically in a row….what are the chances.
Posted at the exact same time no less.
Soul mates. Kiss now. Do it!
Obsessively
Completionist
Dissimilarly
ARGH I hate being on Page 2!
It’s alright the people on page one have no job! Like the really really good Call of Duty players
Quixotically
critically
Passionate.
Curious.
I’ll do stupid things in games, just to see if what I think happens actually happens.
Moist.
Rotationally
Poorly
Terribly
Even with some help from those wonderful University of Trials videos from @fatshadylive – though I’m slowly getting better whenever I do decide to give it another run.
Competitive
Erratically
Sometimes I even surprise myself 😛
Experientially
Fun
Troll
Absent-mindedly
Baked
Infrequently.
Depends.
On what? On the kind of game I’m playing, of course.
I’m not going to sneak around in TF2 looking for beans and a can opener, am I?
Guiltily
Oblivious.
Because I’m oblivious to my surroundings while playing games, existing purely in whatever world the devs have created for me. That’s probably the only constant thing about my playstyle.
Slow.
I’m a bit of a slow learner and tend to miss q lot of stuff so generally it takes me longer than average to complete a game.
If it were the one word I use while playing games, it would be f**k.
Poorly.
Mercurially.
THOROUGHLY
Edit: not sure why I felt the need to caps that. But I’ll leave it for future generations to mull over.
high
Comatosed.
Sleepily.
But, that’s not that different from anything else, really… *stifles yawn*
ERECT!
Technology.
badly
Depends …
Recreationally
I enjoy playing games but I tend to treat them as a fun distraction and something to put a smile on my face rather than taking them too seriously