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bolsonThings I learned at PAX
Console. Currently this means Nintendo, Sony or XBox. I've never owned any of these. I did play through Final Fantasy 8 back in college when a roommate had ye olde Playstation.
PC. Close, but, Mac. There are a few small market games that work on Mac, but mostly I have Id, Blizzard and EVE available to me. I WoW-ed. I still EVE a little. I will Starcraft2. But there's a large breadth and whole genres of PC gaming I'll never do because they only run on microsoft-based game machines.
Tabletop. No console or PC required, just buy the ~$50 game and good to go. I do enjoy a good strategy board/card game now and then. There were apparently rooms full of people tabletop gaming at PAX, but I never went in them because I went to PAX for the events. I can throw my own game parties and play with people I like.
RPG/D&D. Can be played on the tops of tables, but I think it counts as a distinct subculture of gamer geeks - of which I am not a part. No interest in that style of game. MTG, Pokemon and Warhammer probably also deserve mention as subculture-games I'm not interested in.
There is a perfect real-time-strategy game that I can play on my Mac that exists in my head. Maybe I'll write it someday if no one beats me to it.
Console. Currently this means Nintendo, Sony or XBox. I've never owned any of these. I did play through Final Fantasy 8 back in college when a roommate had ye olde Playstation.
PC. Close, but, Mac. There are a few small market games that work on Mac, but mostly I have Id, Blizzard and EVE available to me. I WoW-ed. I still EVE a little. I will Starcraft2. But there's a large breadth and whole genres of PC gaming I'll never do because they only run on microsoft-based game machines.
Tabletop. No console or PC required, just buy the ~$50 game and good to go. I do enjoy a good strategy board/card game now and then. There were apparently rooms full of people tabletop gaming at PAX, but I never went in them because I went to PAX for the events. I can throw my own game parties and play with people I like.
RPG/D&D. Can be played on the tops of tables, but I think it counts as a distinct subculture of gamer geeks - of which I am not a part. No interest in that style of game. MTG, Pokemon and Warhammer probably also deserve mention as subculture-games I'm not interested in.
There is a perfect real-time-strategy game that I can play on my Mac that exists in my head. Maybe I'll write it someday if no one beats me to it.
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Date: 2010-03-31 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-31 05:42 pm (UTC)I don't want to run windows or windows games on my hardware. First, it's icky. Second, I don't want to encourage Windows or development for Windows.
I have occasionally booted my hardware into Linux. Linux gaming could interest me.
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Date: 2010-04-01 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-01 05:22 pm (UTC)