StaceyPowers

You had me at "meow."

How often do you clean your controller?

What do you think is responsible for most major design flaws in games? Do you think they are deliberate? Accidental? I suspect they are usually a result of miscommunications and oversights between large teams.

if you could have one sweeping change in the video game industry, what would it be, and why? For me, it would be an end to high-pressure crunch time.

I need to know more. I've spent time in Fairfax, and this is a total mismatch with what I experienced there.

Here is an article discussing a study on diversity in video game characters. https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-80-video-game-characters-are-male-according-new-diversity-study-1616389 “Nearly 80 percent of video game characters are male, according to a new survey by gaming website Diamond Lobby. Over 100 games from 2017 to 2021 were surveyed, including 10 of the highest selling games from each of the respective years.” I have to admit that is actually a larger percentage than I thought.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/568236-how-a-yale-doctor-is-using-a-video-game-to-fight-the A Yale doctor is using a video game as a tool to teach young people about choices and consequences to help prevent drug addiction.

With the big trend in retro gaming right now, do you think if it were not for the pandemic, we might see arcades coming back?

What makes you laugh uncontrollably when playing games? For me, it is usually accidental civilian deaths while I’m a newbie and just suck at the controls.

Did you ever discover a new favorite musical artist from a video game?

What are some game characters you think devs tried to write to be sympathetic or compelling, who had zero draw for you?

Growing up, did you play video games with siblings or parents?

If you could add a new mechanic to your favorite game, what would it be?

What are some video game ideas that were good in theory, but suffered in execution?

Check this out: https://www.eatthis.com/news-stakester-research-video-game-calories/ "As first reported by The Daily Mail, research conducted by the online gaming platform Stakester claims that gamers who are male can burn upwards of 420 calories over the course of a two-hour session, while gamers who are female are looking at a calorie burn of 472 calories."

@killamch89 and @Razor1911 mentioned in another thread moving around while playing fighting or driving games (i.e. leaning while driving) as an immersive thing. Made me curious. How many people here tend to do this versus sit completely still while gaming?

If this thread already exists, sorry—I couldn’t find it. Anyway, I thought I’d make a thread where we could help each other identify old games. I’m trying to find the name of an old PC game involving driving around in the dark in a landscape of geometric objects (i.e. pyramids and the like). I think they had eyes on them.

We live in some pretty crazy times. What video games do you feel are most relevant to our times?

What’s the worst instance of content you’ve missed because of save issues in a game? For me it happened the other night. Final mission, last conversation with Garrus in Mass Effect 3, missed it by clicking on a door. Game last saved like 40 minutes before. Had to look up the conversation on YT.

A lot of games feature a sort of “Chosen One” style protagonist. Do you prefer playing such a character, or something more ordinary, like a regular soldier?

The other day I had an insight that it is easier to really tune in and listen closely when an NPC is talking to me than a real person, and to find what they are saying engaging. I think this is because IRL, I am always so busy managing my end (What do they think of me? Am I making enough eye contact? Am I responding wrong?) that it pulls focus from what a real person is saying. I found this ironic and kind of amusing.

Does it irritate anyone else when games assume you missed critical information? Like, I was paying attention in Mass Effect 1 to all the Cerberus stuff, yet for the next two games, the only dialogue options often seem to ignore the possibility I was fully aware of what was going on. That drives me crazy.

Those who have played the original Mass Effect games and the Legendary Edition, what improvements did the Legendary Edition make that you like the most?

I just have to say that Mass Effect 3’s “Galactic Readiness” multiplayer thing impacting the single player campaign endings was a terrible idea. At least I hear they got rid of this in the Legendary Edition?

I have figured out one of the reasons gaming makes me happy is because it is the area of my life where I feel the least inhibited, and just am free to explore and indulge the spirit of adventure. Is it like this for others?