Me and games
My name is Henrik Tuulensuu and as you might already quess I play video games. And I play them a lot. There are few different genres I like, few of them being strategy, massive multiplayer online role-playing games, multiplayer online battle arena and first-person shooters.
Usually I use over 10 hours on the computer in a day, and about 8 of them I play video games, other 2 hours go by while surfing the internet and watching cute kittens.
Games I play are League of Legends, for short LoL, Battlefield 4, Guild Wars 2 and Mount and Blade: Warband.
About MOBA games (Multiplayer online battle arena). The main goal in MOBA games is to destroy the enemy base with your team of at least 5 players. Usually the base is protected by turrets and the main mechanics are the same. You kill minions to get money, extra money from player kills and turret kills. MOBAs are conquering the industry and new games are coming almost daily. Mosty of the new games get little attention and in the end get abandoned. Mainly because the 4 leading games have very big lead. LoL, Dota2, Heroes of Newerth and Heroes of the storm. Heroes of the storm IS the newest and is from Blizard, the makers of World of Warcraft. League of Legends is currently the leading franchise in MOBA gaming industry.
First-person shooter (FPS) are wargames, as the name shooter implies, few years back 80% of the games took place in the times of Second World War. Nowadays they are based upon 21 century warfare and some have futuristic combat and military equipment, such as unmanned airplanes and cloaking devices. In first-person shooter your main goal usually is to kill as much as possible. Depending on the game mode you either have to just kill or capture the flag. In some games you have to capture control points in order to give advantages to your team and deny the enemy team from controlling the map. Even the first-person shooter have few selected games leading the whole franchise. Biggest of them being Battlefield, Call of Duty, Arma and Counter-Strike, two biggest being Battlefield and Call of Duty.
Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) are games where you can make your own character in the fictional world depending on the game. You choose your own class and alter it with your own choices from the skill tree and traits. Battling monsters and completing quests are the main things everyone know about MMORPG’s, after “leveling” to the max you usually complete raids and dungeons with our party and try get the best loot possible. Enough said the MMORPG genre is the biggest genre at the moment and the thrill must come from the possibility of being the hero you have always wanted. Everyone wants to live their own fantasies, that’s what makes MMORPG’s the best. Currently the leading games are World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Rift, Runescape and Elder Scrolls Online. Biggest with a big lead World of Warcraft.
I like all the game types and styles. I even play games that I am bad in and enjoy it. In the end gaming is all about expressing yourself the way you want even if it would be completely useless. The only few advantages from gaming are eye-hand coordination skills and decision making, which develop the most during games. There are few researches stating these but enough of those. In the end everybody like games are they video games or not. They are here to entertain us. Some like them some don’t.
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