3XThursday : Press Any Key to Play

A day late, but here it is, compliments of 8bitjoystick

1. What is your favorite PC game? Do you have a rarely known game that you love or do you like the blockbuster popular ones.
   I really love RTS games like War/Starcraft or Command and Conquer. I also enjoy turn based games like CivIII. I used to be big into FPS games like quake, but I stopped playing after I felt there was little inovation in the games. Also, like Jake, I love me a little Scorched Earth (it was the first game I ever played on a PC, I owned a Mac until high school).
2. If you were put in charge of a team to design the ultimate PC game for you and your market group what would you have it be like? Who is your market group?
   I would definitely strive for an immersive environment and story line. My biggest problem with a lot of PC games today is they focus so much on multi-player environments they neglect a good single-player story. My market group is obviously like me, tired of the same old massively multiplayer environment filled with 14 year olds with nothing better to do.
3. Do you like to play PC games by using a keyboards, mouse, joystick, gamepad or whatever? What do you think is lacking in the control of PC games?
   I usually lean towards a combo of mouse and keyboard, it allows me to be flexible. Typically when I'm first learning a game, I will use the mouse to select from menus, etc. but as I become more comfortable I'll start using keyboard shortcuts or creating macros and the like. The only thing that is missing from control in PC games is standardization; there's every kind of control you could possibly imagine, but some only work for a very small subset of games.

Bonus: So our relationship with our computers is a bit like our relationships with our cars. If you had to pick one car and one similar PC what ones would they be?
I feel my relationship with computers is actually very different than with cars. I like to have the feeling of building my own computer, and take pride in doing routine maintenance and upgrades. My car on the other hand, I have no interest dealing with other than driving; if it stops working, I take it to someone who can fix it. Luckily, my 2002 Saturn has not had any problems as of yet ::knocks on wood::.

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