What do you play?
It probably shouldn't surprise me when someone asks about the sorts of games I like to play, but the question stalls me. Not because I'm the least bit uncomfortable about my game-habits, but because it's a surprisingly complicated question.
I can talk about genre labels, but they tend to be both broad and fuzzy. And honestly, I do play a lot of different games. I'm tempted to use the word eclectic, but I'm pretty sure there's only one hentai game in my back catalogue so surely I can't be all that eclectic. Something to work on, maybe.
If you've asked me about the games I play you probably would have been happy with a simple answer. "Mainly wRPG and action-adventure", perhaps. Maybe I could list some favourites. Accurate, as far as it goes, but I often prefer to discuss the genre overlaps and difficult-to-classify oddities.
I'm tempted to bend the truth in some cases. I love survival horror, but I'm a soft touch (with games anyway, horror movies are fine) so they take me a long time. Sometimes I watch someone else play instead. Survival horror's a genre I love, but telling people I play survival horror is a bit of a stretch. I'm working on it.
What I'm really trying to get to here is why do I play the games I play? I don't always know, and it varies a lot for each game. I don't always play games because I like them, either. It's also a matter of whether they are important or interesting enough, although of course I can't play everything.
I think I've just reached my answer. I play games that make me feel something and/or have something to teach me. To understand what that means you probably need to know me better.
That would sound like a terrible pick up line if I used it in a pub.
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