So look here.
*whimper of frustration*
I’ll answer their questions though:
– What games are you currently playing?
World of Warcraft and Eve-Online. Sometimes CS:Source. Offline Hearts of Iron 2.
– What are some of your favorite games of all time?
Many games on the Commodore 64 with which I grew up. Impossible Mission, Forbidden Forest (Nightmares!!), Neuromancer, The Bard’s Tale serie, Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins (maybe an ancestor of WoW), Wasteland, Shamus Case II, Bruce Lee, Zaxxon and even Little Computer People, the “ancestor” of The Sims. Nearly all the games on the C64 are sticked in my head and left a trace inside me. So for me they all remain the best games, even if I know that playing them now wouldn’t give the same sensations. My young mind was able to add much more beauty and depth to those games that now seem so limited in the scope and I’m also sure that a part of them can be considered as brilliant, simple and effective game design even today. If I have to pick the more recent products I was caught in the love for Doom 2 (my first) and I liked a lot the first System Shock, Elite (First Encounter), the Ultima Underworld serie, Ultima 7 (all parts). I was also a japanese RPG whore for some time and I played everything translated in an understandable language on the Snes and PSX. So I loved Final Fantasy 3(6) and 9, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, the Lunar serie and more. I’m also starting to like a lot Hearts of Iron 2 and I believe it would teach various things useful in mmorpgs. I would put here even what Derek Smart does if it didn’t suck badly on too many key elements (I love sandbox games).
– What are the first computer games you played?
Double Dragon and Dragon’s Lair as coin-ops. A text adventure game named “Atzech” (in english) and many, many others you don’t know in italian then Shamus Case II (best sound in a game ever, I still have nightmares about it) Attack of the Mutant Camels (Jeff Minter, Whohoo!), Zaxxon (Oh my god, I’m going to cry right now), Frogger and Hell Mazer. Oh, Ghostbuster was between my first games on the C64 too. Then I think I played 95% of all the existing games on it also thanks to an unstoppable piracy that was masked at that time (compilation of games were commercially sold in shops like bread in Italy. Each cassette or disk had like 10+ commercial games an noone was conscious of it like an act of piracy).
Which MMORPGs have you played and what levels did you characters reach?
I started with Ultima Online if I don’t consider MUD experiences. I mostly played one character that acquired its first GM skill one year and half after its creation (I should answer sincerely or you want me to show false catass power? Maybe I should go on Ebay to buy that.. Hmm..). After it I moved to DAoC and spent nine month to ding 50 with my infiltrator. Then I had to reroll because I hated to be marginalized in groups and I levelled to the max a cleric and a wizard. None of these ever reached Realm Rank 5 on PvP. I endured EQ only till level 15. I also played many other mmorpgs for “observing and studying” reasons but without dedicating a lot of time to them, so without achieving outstanding results. My current character in WoW is a warrior at level 49.
Impressive, huh? I’m a pure catass. Like Furor and Tigole. Hire me, KTNKS.