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How Open Minded Are Gamers?

Started by Greentongue, March 25, 2015, 03:02:36 PM

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Nexus

#75
April 02, 2015, 06:54:20 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;823408I suppose not if you're really not going to get any enjoyment out of it at all... because it's not precisely the game and style of play you like.
 
If I limited myself that way I'd hardly ever play. I'd still run games... but the chances of finding groups playing exactly the games I want, the way I want to play them... is pretty much nil.

I've played in games that aren't exactly what I want many times. But there are some things I don't like at all playing and pitches that haven't sounded fun. so why waste my time?

It's not a binary "My way or the highway" situation, but there are things I'm not going to do. I don't see there anything wrong with that.

QuoteIt's not that I won't quit a group if I'm not having fun... but my sense of fun has a lot more to do with the other people at the table rather than what game we happen to be playing.
Getting to play my favorite system won't mean crap if the guys at the table are duds to be around... and if they're a fun group I get along with them then just about any game is going to be entertaining. At least that's been my experience.

I'm not going to game with a bunch of assholes regardless of the game and a nice group can make the social aspect of gaming enjoyable regardless of the game but for me, at the end of the day, getting together to game is mostly about the game. I've been around some fun groups but games I didn't enjoy but that didn't really make up from the poor experience with the game.
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Simlasa

#76
April 02, 2015, 07:48:24 AM
Quote from: Nexus;823409I don't see there anything wrong with that.
Nothing 'wrong', no. Just different priorities than me, I guess... I put the 'socializing with friends' part far above the 'game' part.

QuoteI've been around some fun groups but games I didn't enjoy but that didn't really make up from the poor experience with the game.
Yeah, see... I've never had that experience. It's always been the people that have been the make/break element.

Kiero

#77
April 02, 2015, 08:37:44 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;823413Nothing 'wrong', no. Just different priorities than me, I guess... I put the 'socializing with friends' part far above the 'game' part.

Whereas I don't put them that way around. I can socialise any old time, game night is for gaming. Any socialising is incidental, not the purpose of the activity. Again, same if I get together with a bunch of people for a kick-about, the football is the priority, not the chatting.
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#78
April 02, 2015, 08:41:31 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;823413Nothing 'wrong', no. Just different priorities than me, I guess... I put the 'socializing with friends' part far above the 'game' part.

Yeah, see... I've never had that experience. It's always been the people that have been the make/break element.

As you said, different priorities. When I'm playing the focus in on the game for me. Socialization is a part of it but that's based on the game. If they're cool people, I can hang out with them in different ways and do something I find fun. Or just hang out.
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Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."
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