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What is your perfect gaming environment? Where do you like to play games? In the living room or the bedroom or your office? Do you like to drink during a gaming session? If so what? How we play games is something that could have an effect on how games are made. An example of that is in Goldeneye. How, you may, and probably are, be thinking.
Well I like to have a drink near to hand when I am playing games. And in Goldeneye in single player that is difficult. The pause menu takes a long time to come up with the wee watch animation. And during all that time there can be enemies shooting you.
Things like this might not really bother you but they bother and annoy me. If I am paying £40 or even £50 for a game I want it to be perfect. I will not be but some games are better than others because certain features have been implemented better.
How we play games does have an impact on how much we enjoy them. If I do not have a drink or do not have my red N64 controller when I am playing my (or someone elses) N64, then I am not fully comfortable and do not enjoy the game playing as much then as when I so have my controller and drink etc.
I just wondered what you lot thought and if I was just an overly demanding games player.
Thanks for reading
Biggles
Well I like to have a drink near to hand when I am playing games. And in Goldeneye in single player that is difficult. The pause menu takes a long time to come up with the wee watch animation. And during all that time there can be enemies shooting you.
Things like this might not really bother you but they bother and annoy me. If I am paying £40 or even £50 for a game I want it to be perfect. I will not be but some games are better than others because certain features have been implemented better.
How we play games does have an impact on how much we enjoy them. If I do not have a drink or do not have my red N64 controller when I am playing my (or someone elses) N64, then I am not fully comfortable and do not enjoy the game playing as much then as when I so have my controller and drink etc.
I just wondered what you lot thought and if I was just an overly demanding games player.
Thanks for reading
Biggles
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Same as Grix and FM, except in the lounge, resting comfortably on my bean bag.
Oh yeah, with Spicy Chicken Pizza with added topping of donner meat instead.
Oh yeah, with Spicy Chicken Pizza with added topping of donner meat instead.
In the bedroom, lights off curtains closed around 7 pm till about 3 am!!
I've often played Skies of Arcadia well into the night... it's an experience to start playing at 8:00PM, and then look at the clock, and it's 5:00AM.
So, basically everything FM said, swap Diet Coke for normal Coke, and Beef and Pepperoni for Ham and Pineapple, added to the equation, the wonderful feeling of playing and watching the sunset in the window, and then later watching the sunrise in the window.
Beautiful.
So, basically everything FM said, swap Diet Coke for normal Coke, and Beef and Pepperoni for Ham and Pineapple, added to the equation, the wonderful feeling of playing and watching the sunset in the window, and then later watching the sunrise in the window.
Beautiful.
My gaming 'nirvana'.
1) Phone off the hook
2) Hermetically sealed into my bedroom
3) Laid out on the bed with joypad cable stretching from one end of the room to the TV at the other
4) Pizza (Beef and Pepperoni)
5) Copious amounts of Diet Coke (about 4 litres)
6) Pen and notepad nearby in case I need to jot down a code or sketch a quick map
7) No interruptions, preferably rest of the household is away on holiday for a fortnight
8) No committments, so I can play for as long as I wish and not worry about having to get up the next day
9) A nice collection of AAA titles near to hand, so if I get bored with one, I can quickly grab another
10) More pizza.
1) Phone off the hook
2) Hermetically sealed into my bedroom
3) Laid out on the bed with joypad cable stretching from one end of the room to the TV at the other
4) Pizza (Beef and Pepperoni)
5) Copious amounts of Diet Coke (about 4 litres)
6) Pen and notepad nearby in case I need to jot down a code or sketch a quick map
7) No interruptions, preferably rest of the household is away on holiday for a fortnight
8) No committments, so I can play for as long as I wish and not worry about having to get up the next day
9) A nice collection of AAA titles near to hand, so if I get bored with one, I can quickly grab another
10) More pizza.
My "perect" gaming environment involves the following:
An adjustable height blue chair with arm rests (when the tension is mounting, I usually highten the chair for the added suspense);
headphones (the noise is more concentrated for more added effect and realism);
a widescreen TV positioned 1m away(to watch the action as it happens with no bit of wall inthe way)
Squishy surface for chucking my control pad on in times of frustation.
Of course, this "setup" is suitable for games likePerfect Dark - but for those like Banjo-Tooie, I tend to go for a more subtle approach.
An adjustable height blue chair with arm rests (when the tension is mounting, I usually highten the chair for the added suspense);
headphones (the noise is more concentrated for more added effect and realism);
a widescreen TV positioned 1m away(to watch the action as it happens with no bit of wall inthe way)
Squishy surface for chucking my control pad on in times of frustation.
Of course, this "setup" is suitable for games likePerfect Dark - but for those like Banjo-Tooie, I tend to go for a more subtle approach.
What is your perfect gaming environment? Where do you like to play games? In the living room or the bedroom or your office? Do you like to drink during a gaming session? If so what? How we play games is something that could have an effect on how games are made. An example of that is in Goldeneye. How, you may, and probably are, be thinking.
Well I like to have a drink near to hand when I am playing games. And in Goldeneye in single player that is difficult. The pause menu takes a long time to come up with the wee watch animation. And during all that time there can be enemies shooting you.
Things like this might not really bother you but they bother and annoy me. If I am paying £40 or even £50 for a game I want it to be perfect. I will not be but some games are better than others because certain features have been implemented better.
How we play games does have an impact on how much we enjoy them. If I do not have a drink or do not have my red N64 controller when I am playing my (or someone elses) N64, then I am not fully comfortable and do not enjoy the game playing as much then as when I so have my controller and drink etc.
I just wondered what you lot thought and if I was just an overly demanding games player.
Thanks for reading
Biggles
Well I like to have a drink near to hand when I am playing games. And in Goldeneye in single player that is difficult. The pause menu takes a long time to come up with the wee watch animation. And during all that time there can be enemies shooting you.
Things like this might not really bother you but they bother and annoy me. If I am paying £40 or even £50 for a game I want it to be perfect. I will not be but some games are better than others because certain features have been implemented better.
How we play games does have an impact on how much we enjoy them. If I do not have a drink or do not have my red N64 controller when I am playing my (or someone elses) N64, then I am not fully comfortable and do not enjoy the game playing as much then as when I so have my controller and drink etc.
I just wondered what you lot thought and if I was just an overly demanding games player.
Thanks for reading
Biggles
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