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General discussion (archive)Are you a "series" gamer or a "parallel" gamer?(73 posts)(73 posts)
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Posted December 19, 2013
I'm an ADD gamer.
Posted December 19, 2013
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tinyE: I'm an ADD gamer.
Don't you mean ADOS?
Posted December 19, 2013
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tinyE: I'm an ADD gamer.
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JMich: Don't you mean ADOS?
You lost me.
Posted December 19, 2013
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phaolo: Oh, for which games is ScummVM is used for?
I use it to play the Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentacle, and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. I also have Dreamweb and Drascula on there, but I haven't played those yet.

When the LucasArts games wind up here (*sigh*), I will pay for them. :)
Posted December 19, 2013
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JMich: Don't you mean ADOS?
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tinyE: You lost me.
Attention Deficit OOOOHH, Shiny!
Posted December 19, 2013
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tinyE: You lost me.
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JMich: Attention Deficit OOOOHH, Shiny!
tinyE = dense :P
Posted December 19, 2013
I'm a series gamer, I prefer to finish one game before I start another. I only have limited gaming time, so if I split it too much it will take forever to finish a game, and if I leave it too long I'll forget where I am!

Books, however, I usually do in parallel. I'll normally have one fiction book and one non-fiction book going simultaneously. Books I can finish faster than games, so having two going at once isn't a problem.
Posted December 19, 2013
I used to be more of a parallel gamer, but at a certain point I had the feeling I was really playing to much at once, and since then I tried to slow down a bit. There are still a lot of games installed, but I play only a few of them at once. Currently, there are two big games: Heroes of Might and Magic V and Saint's Row 3, and some smaller ones, like Audiosurf and Race the Sun. And there is off course the big, never-ending game, at this moment Crusader Kings II (which is my most played steam game) and a multiplayer game for when I want to shoot other people's heads off, Red Orchestra 2. So that makes a total of about 6 games.

But that's only for pc. On my ps3, wii and nds (which I both have neglected since I have the ps3) I only have one or 2 games really going. My main ps3 game atm is Uncharted, my main wii one is Twilight Princess, and my main nds one is The Phantom Hourglass.

For books, I'm a big 'series' reader. One book at a time. No more, no less: I always want to have a book to read.
Post edited December 19, 2013 by sibberke
Posted December 19, 2013
Just now my copy of C&C 3 showed up at the same time I was downloading Thief Gold. That makes five different games I'm playing just today (if you count spider solitaire). I take it back, I'm not an ADD gamer, I'm a "Multiple Personality Disorder Gamer".

Like the old rhyme goes:
'Roses red,
violets are blue,
I'm schizophrenic,
and so am I.'
Posted December 19, 2013
I try to be parallel, since we can't buy extra time to exclusively play games, but I found it quite unsatisfactory, extreme unpleasant. I wasn't able to enjoy any of those games since I lost the thread or what I was going to do or experiment in the other. Of course there are exceptions: I can play Diablo 2 (yeah!!! playing again!!!) with other heavy game such as Fallout, to give an example, but overlap Fallout with BG for example its impossible. With Diablo I can do it because I just leveling and gathering unique, set items to complete my collection, but if was my first time to play it, I'm pretty sure I'll dedicated all my time to know and taste the story.
Also I play some casual games with "heavy" ones, its like eat snacks between meals :D
Posted December 19, 2013
I'm a serial gamer at heart, but sometimes I get stuck and need a break from a game, or it's a game that needs a fair bit of time dedicated to it in order to progress in it, but I don't have the time available in a sufficient chunk to make the experience truly enjoyable... so then I resort to playing other games in parallel.
Posted December 20, 2013
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deryni: I've learned over the years that for the most part I do better if I play one game until I'm done with it instead of being in the middle of a number of different games.

If I stop playing for any real length of time I often find myself without the desire to go pick it back up again. It isn't that I didn't enjoy playing the game or that I don't think I will enjoy playing it again there is just enough resistance to my "starting again" so as to often keep me from picking it up again.

I can keep multiple games going if I'm rotating between them with sufficient frequency but that takes some planning and dedication that I often don't have.

At the moment I'm playing Trine and I have been fighting the inclination to get involved in some other single player game as well. Though I am also working on starting to play Frozen Synapse with some friends of mine but I believe that will not have the same issues due to its turn-based nature and the length of time it requires being paid attention to in one sitting.

But what about you all? How do you play? If you play more than one game at a time does genre matter? Are you better within the same genre or do you stick to one per genre at a time?

Bonus Question: If you read books does your reading style match your playing style or not? Mine does but for different reasons.
Back when I had a choice in the matter, I always used to prefer to focus on one game and finish that one, then move on to the next game, etc., especially if they were RPGs, which is my favorite genre.
Posted December 20, 2013
I tend to try to keep it to one plot driven game per system, if I can.

I have a game of Uncharted 3 which I've been playing off and on for a while, but I don't get so many opportunities to use the PS3 recently. On the PC I tend to keep it at one single player, story based game at a time. I still occasionally will jump into a game of TF2, or a roguelike, or even an ARPG/MMO, but I find I prefer to keep it to one story-based game running at a time (which right now is Darksiders.)
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