User blog comment:StormWarriors2/Game Study/@comment-5112067-20150212065222

1. The game Im currently maining is Mount and Blade Napoleonic Wars, mostly because Im apart of a regiment (basically a clan) and so I feel the most attachment and have built up alot of camaraderie within it (my alias is pretty well known in the AU M&B community). It's also just generally one of my favourite games due to its scale, focus on gameplay/mechanics over graphics, skill based combat (I have yet to find a better and more realistic melee combat system) and variety in its gameplay (musket combat, line battles, bayonet and sword, cavalry, naval warfare, artillery, broken vodka bottles). As a game with a very niche audience, the community isn't too large (probably about 300 people) but very tightnit, especially in Australia. My name is pretty well known through the community, and I know pretty much everyone else of note, its somewhat comparable to this wiki in that theirs injokes, history and famous players who are considered legends within the community. I'd also highly suggest the main game Mount and Blade Warband and its other expansions Fire and Sword and Viking Conquest, while the multiplayer of them finally died off a few months ago their singleplayer campaigns speak for themselves. If your into gritty large scale medievil warfare, RPG's and strategy games, I'd highly suggest them. Theirs also a plethora of amazing mods, some small additions but also quite a few Total Conversions, such as Floris (general but huge improvements in all areas of the vanilla game), Clash of Kings (game of thrones conversion) and Gekokujo (Fuedal Japan mod) and Gangs of Glasgow (21st Century Scotland Simulator). Aswell as a few very solid and unique multiplayer RP mods such as Persistent World and Persistent Frontier. I currently have 595 hours in Mount and Blade, I would estimate about atleast 350 hours of that would be in Napoleon, I average about 10-30 hours a week in it depending on how many server events are held.

I also used to play alot of Planetside 2, but my activity in that has somewhat waned since I got Mount and Blade, also the fact that my PC can't run it very well. Civ V would be another one of my favourites, with 305 hours in that and several friends (including people from this wiki) that I play matches with.

Im very much in love with the Indie Scene of gaming, theirs alot more creativity, quirkyness and generally unique vidya here than you see in the majority of Triple A titles. My all time favourites would include Binding of Isaac Rebirth (50 hours and I've had about 3 succesful runs), Hotline Miami (extremely gratifying combat coupled with an psychadelic 80'sesque cyberpunk feeling soundtrack aswell, up there with Battlefield Vietnam for the award of my favourite game soundtrack), FTL (Captain Picard Simulator 2012), Battleblock Theater (best played with friends), and very recently Project Zomboid (hands down the most realistic survival game I've ever played, and a true gem of the zombie genre, a genre that has been absolutely plagued with shit).

Other games I enjoy(ed) are XCOM Enemy Unknown, Fallout, Eldar Scrolls, Just Cause 2 (multiplayer mod is a blast aswell), Gears of War, Doom, Wolfenstein (Im one of the few people who really liked Wolfy 2009) the earlier Battlefield titles (2142 and Vietnam muh favourites), STALKER (would still play it if it didn't constantly crash), GTA (San Andreas my favourite, yet to get V though it looks preee good), Saints Row 2, Metro 2034 and Last Light (one of the few triple A games that I genuienly thought had a good story), red Dead, Halo 1, 2 n 3, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis (the ARMA before ARMA was a thing), Conkers Bad Fur Day (now this is a platforming game!), Goldeneye and alot of strategy titles such as World in Conflict, Dawn of War 1, Total War, Company of Heroes, Command and Conquer, Dune etc etc. Theirs a shitload of other games I've played and enjoyed in my life, but thats all I can be bothered of thinking of right now.

2. I guess I pretty much answered this question in the previous question, but basically I play games for entertainment, the camraderie of being apart of a community and for compelling narrative (something thats getting harder to find in modern games, especially AAA games).

3. Fellowship, Narrative and Challenge. I woulden't say discovery since I tend to research the shit out of any game before I buy it, so I don't get burned. Immersion is cool to, but rare. Mechanics>Aesthetics.

4. This question seems like something you can figure out by reading the answers to the last 3.

5. Triggered

6. Most the multiplayer games I play generally have communities composed of more mature (late teens, adults, used to play a heap of Planetside with this 60 odd year old guy). I find kids on the whole to be irrefutable little cunts, and their voices generally annoy the shit out of me.

7. I play with a wide variety of people, IRL friends in my own age group (teenager), and people across the interwebz that also range from teenager to middle aged adult. Friendly communities are a big deal for me when it comes to multiplayer games, and I tend to stay away from games that are generally made up of fuckwits/<12YearOlds (Call of Duty, most MOBA's). I play with people from both genders, and generally the people I play with are from Australia (due to latency issues when connecting to servers hosted on other continents), but their is this one cunt called Imposter who lives in Scotland that I play Civ with sometimes.

8. Honestly the term "Gamer" annoys me, I think its only applicable really to someone who plays games in a proffesional sense. Do we call someone who watches movies a mover? People who play games come from all gender's, age groups and ethnicities, some more than others but theirs no single stereotype you can pin "gamers" down on.