User blog comment:StormWarriors2/Game Study/@comment-8464494-20150212022331

1. Halo, DOOM, Serious Sam, Duke Nukem, Red Dead Revolver, Red Dead Redemption, most of the Gamecube Era Call of Duty Games or any of the CoD games that take place in WWII it seems, Xcom: Enemy Unknown, the Baman Arkham Series, Overlord, Shadow of Mordor, SCP Containment Breach, Aliens Vs Predator 2010, Alien: Isolation, Spec Ops: The Line, Shogun 2: Total War, Quiet Time, and just recently This War of Mine and Hatred.

2. Generally I play for the experience, I like the power of most combat oriented games and the narrtive if its there. A story is great, a bloody saga of action even better, though I am partial to more "artsy" games they are often a one time experience for me.

3. Story is nice but if the mechanics are entertaining enough then fuck story. The gameplay is where it is at for me. However, from a story standpoint, I find it far more interesting to play the villan, and I mean hardcore play the badguy. None of this change of heart crap or the anti hero bit where the "Heros" of the setting are just deluided scumbags (*Cough* Imperium *Cough Cough*) I like my games bloody and action inteseive, though a slow boil is very much appreciated. Horror games are okay too but there needs to be a balance for me as something too damn scary like Five Nights at Freddy's where I am completely incapable of doing anything proactive is just too much on the nerves. Senderman as well. I like being able to retaliate in some fashion.

4. For me a game just has to be mechanically fun and violently cathartic. I played stuff like Manhunter and, while much of the game was mediocer, the actual voilence kept me playing because it was so greusome and varied. I want something captivating. Story and graphics are really nice but in the end if I can open some dudes veins with a cleaver I'll be satisfied.

5. Gender is a nonissue for me. Duke Nukem is horribly sexist and I love every minute of it. But games like Mirrors Edge is fun and has a female lead. Quite simply put, I don't care too much about the body my Character inhabits or what their goals are just so long as what I want (Gore, destruction, and general mayhem) is not outside of their perrogitive. I could be playing a gay popstar in a zombie apoclypes so long as he has some good lines and the zombie's heads explode when he cracks them outside of the head with a sledgehammer. Frankly I think the current debate of sexisem in games is more a result of this sickening Politically Correct culture creep thats turining everyone into Social Justice fuckheads who can't see something vaugely contraversial without losing their shit. Gaming is an artform that deserves to be freely expressed regardless, it should be as sexist or pro equality as it wants to be as a medium. So long as the game is fun, and dose not promote pedophila, I don't give a damn.

6. I suppose I fall into the teens or tween area generally.

7. My peers are mostly like-minded individuals. We revel in games that are fun but with a heavy trend to war games and other violent blood sport. Puzzle games are nice and so are more story driven games but generally we are meat heads who like it when shit goes boom and guts get plastered all over the screen.

8. Gamers are people. Sure some are neckbeareded weirdos with no social ability but you can get those without games. Most of them are everyday people with more money than sense in some places and a love for media that interacts with them as well as allows them to interact with it.