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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I do play games, but only games tha don't require mindless shooting. Of the First Person Shooters (FPS), my favourite is Deus Ex, followed closely by the Thief series. Both of these required you to think before going into action. In Thief, one of the high difficulty goals was actually steal stuff without even leaving a trace (instead of leaving a trail of corpses and unconsious guards  ).
I then moved on to Role Playing Games (RPG). And I still love those. A well-made RPG can be read like any good book, except you actually play a part in it. As a matter of fact, my first ever RPG was Betrayal at Krondor. Which was co-written by Raymond E. Feist. I then found out it was based on a book by him and I've loved his world ever since. |
Deus Ex is my favorite computer game. I love the intellectual challenge of both the gameplay and the story. I spent a good bit of time alone and on the PlanetDeusEx forum piecing together the various emails, notes, and conversations to try to figure out the background of the story. It also lead me to my favorite novel,
The Man Who Was Thursday.
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Betrayal at Krondor was my wife's first computer game. It's one of her all-time favorites. Of course, we now own almost all of Feist's books.
As for the original question, it's a bit hard to answer, DMB. There are a great variety of games now. It's like books or movies that way. Some genres or subjects I enjoy reading or watching, and others hold no attraction for me at all. I enjoy many computer games, but some kinds don't interest me. There are pastimes, tests of skill, challenging or charming stories, works of abstract art, and a number of other approaches to the possibilities of an interactive medium. And since the medium is both young historically and interactive, it is still changing rapidly as developers test what the medium can do and express.