why do you game?
i game to escape into my fantasy realms.
besides gaming i read fantasy sci fiction so gaming is like living my books.
What is it that you get from gaming?
see new places, experience new things we would never get to experience in our ordinary lifetimes or in our ordinary physical forms.
What drives you to spend time in these virtual environments.
it is like living multiple lives.
mental exercise, like the film Avatar - we are living in another physical body.
"Are you satisfied with the current state of games?" Do you feel that games should be more advanced by now? In what ways? What do you feel that they're missing?
Answer: No, 99% of present games are absolutely crap. Nice artwork, but clearly commercially driven rather than maximising the experience for the fantasy-seeker. I think most gamers today are very shallow minded and easily satisfied anyway, so i guess it doesn't matter. I m not sure what you mean by more "advanced"? I think the way games could be more "advanced" is to actually have complete ability to transplant the soul/mind into another body much like the matrix i guess, but much more happy and joyful than the matrix is.
Another way to be more advanced is to have a much more heightened mental exercise. Presently, most games have grinding which is a mind-killer because it is utterly boring. The way to increase mind excitement for me is for 24/7 pvp (no waiting in any lobby). For other people, it is more like a lego sandbox world - a lego sandbox world for me is boring because if I wanted that I would probably go play.. lego, or use Neverwinter Nights Toolset to build my own living breathing game world. Minecraft is very shallow because you cannot program your own NPCs or be GM. In neverwinter, you can be the God of the realm if you want. So in many ways, sandboxes/minecraft is far behind neverwinter for me because neverwinter is presently the ultimate sandbox.








.I am just being addicted to the games when my gf broke me up.

Especially on the whole IMMERSION thing, it's something that is just missing and nobody seems to be looking for it. </3