Coalition of Healthy Geeks and Gamers Thread

Just about all of the above at one time or another.

Ooo ooo experience for me too! I'm mostly on the PS2, PS3, DS, and a little Wii. Definitely RPGs. I'm not really into MMOs, tried WoW but I guess I'm not willing to eternally pay for a game... Right now I'm playing Dragon Age: Awakening on PS3, Grandia II on PS2, and DQXIV on DS. I'm trying to use gaming as a reward for being good. If I get all of my workouts in this week, I get some multiplayer Borderlands with the hubby. Once I hit the 5 pound mini-goal, some DLC will be in order.

I'm probably the biggest geek I know, so I'm glad there are more of us on here!

So, I've found one other gamer on these boards and I'm wondering if there are any others out there. The same goes for total geeks. I'm looking for freaks like me.

Table RPGs
Text-based
PC
PS
X-Box *bleh*
RPG
FPS
MMO
Wii *cringes slightly*

You name your favorite escape hatch. Non-gamers are welcome too! And the just plain geeky and weird!

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Yay! What a great topic! I especially love seeing so many ladies here- so rare to find them in-game!

For me, well, I have a few. PC (love the Sims and basic strategy games like Risk II), Xbox (particularly COD MW 1 & 2, Fable (1 & 2), Alan Wake, GTA), PS3 (Assassin's Creed, Heavy Rain (which is probably my favorite game of all time)), and the Wii (basically, the Wii Fit!! LOL). I also play online games- a cat breeding game (which is sort of my guilty pleasure, lol), and other strategy games (Diplomacy, Risk).

I think it is hilarious when I play GTA and have my character set up as a girl. Eeeeeeeeeverybody picks me up! It cracks me up!

My husband is actually much more of a gamer than I am, but he really got me into it. Imagine his surprise when he came home from work one day a few years ago and I was sitting there intensely playing COD MW! I don't think he's ever loved me more than that moment, LOL

For those of you that have multiple consoles (and the Wii Fit)- you know how on the Wii you can set up the basic step and do it while doing something else (like watching tv)? Well, I set that up once and did it while playing multi-player (domination, my fave) COD MW2. It was pretty interesting, to say the least!!

I mainly just play Perfect World, my mom got me into it she's a big gamer, I used to play D&D till school started but stopped because all the ppl i played with were out of school and we played at 7 in the morning so sadly thats gone

I definitely am not a gamer mostly because I am ridiculously uncoordinated and someone usually snipes me before I can even aim...nonetheless...I fall into the geek realm. Has anyone tried the Serenity RPG? It is simply awesome.

Yay! What a great topic! I especially love seeing so many ladies here- so rare to find them in-game!

Oh, it seems like I run into a lot of other "women" in online games-- I just never trust that they're actually other women and not men who decided to run around as a female character in skimpy armor. =p

LOLOLOLOL ... too funny! Most of my games you don't have the choice to be a woman (like COD) and some of the ones you do I generally don't play online (like Fable), but I've definitely have come across that question in GTA when there is another "woman" in the game. If they talk, you know, but if they don't, it is pretty questionable! When I'm on the other games like COD, I never hear women talking (only pre-pubescent boys that sound like girls!), but then again, I don't really talk much either so I can't really say too much about that.

So this morning I stated I'm not a gamer, and I am still not, however I spent part of the evening at a game shack playing Modern Warfare and I can tell you the only other ladies in the joint were with me. I thought the whole concept of a game shack was super cool though...wish they had them when I was a teenager.

So this morning I stated I'm not a gamer, and I am still not, however I spent part of the evening at a game shack playing Modern Warfare and I can tell you the only other ladies in the joint were with me. I thought the whole concept of a game shack was super cool though...wish they had them when I was a teenager.

By game shack, I assume you don't mean an arcade... We have something in town called a tech lounge, where basically they have a bunch of Wiis, PS3s, XBoxes, etc and you just hang out and play with people. Is that what you mean? I've never actually been there, but it sounds like it could be a lot of fun.

Hi another gamer here [and programmer]!

My PS3 is my pride and joy at the moment. I'm more of an RPG person but I'll try playing anything. The last game I successfully completed was GOW3. I Have a looooong list of games I want but I haven't been playing so much lately as I've been trying to learn how to program them. I'm the only girl game programmer in my computer science club

BTW I still love my original Xbox. Maybe one day I'll go for the 360 but for now all my money goes towards the PS3

Oh, I'm totally a gamer grrl and a geek, to boot!

My first addiction was PacMan, followed by Ms. PacMan. (Yes, I do mean the stand up machines in arcades and roller rinks.) I enjoy PnP games like AD&D, Gurps, and Vampire: the Masquerade, but I'm really a PC gamer at heart. From the first time I played Zork and then Leather Goddesses of Phobos, I was hooked. Then there was Mist, Diablo, StarCraft, Dungeon Keeper 2, Caesar IV, Indigo Prophecy, and EverQuest to name some faves. Currently I'm playing StarCraft 2, Sims 3, and some Dragon Age too. No console games, and no FPS- the first person perspective in those gives me motion sickness. =(

I *love* the games that keep me too busy to snack! It's so great that there are so many of us here.

Oh, I'm totally a gamer grrl and a geek, to boot!

My first addiction was PacMan, followed by Ms. PacMan. (Yes, I do mean the stand up machines in arcades and roller rinks.) I enjoy PnP games like AD&D, Gurps, and Vampire: the Masquerade, but I'm really a PC gamer at heart. From the first time I played Zork and then Leather Goddesses of Phobos, I was hooked. Then there was Mist, Diablo, StarCraft, Dungeon Keeper 2, Caesar IV, Indigo Prophecy, and EverQuest to name some faves. Currently I'm playing StarCraft 2, Sims 3, and some Dragon Age too. No console games, and no FPS- the first person perspective in those gives me motion sickness. =(

I *love* the games that keep me too busy to snack! It's so great that there are so many of us here.

DK2 was awesome, so sad that they aren't putting out another one. Maybe someday someone will buy the franchise rights and make another one. Loved that game.

I've been debating if I want to give the latest Metroid a try. I played the last one and enjoyed it, but it will probably be one of those where I wait for the price drop. Never pictured Samus as the sensitive type though... Whenever they decide to make a someone sensitive it usually ruins the entire character for me because it's so over the top. *See Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World ... Really??*

DK2 was awesome, so sad that they aren't putting out another one. Maybe someday someone will buy the franchise rights and make another one. Loved that game.

That was truly one of the most fun games I've ever played. I was very sad when they canceled DK3. I tried Overlord, and it was fun, but not as much fun... I wonder if anything will ever come of the rumours of a DK MMO. I might even get sucked back into an MMO if that were true.