Hello I wanted to ask what kind of games are you in to when it comes to Fiction and non fiction.
Example :
I like Halo 1, 2 and 3 Because it was about Aliens and space.
Example 2: Some people like Call of Duty.
Because some times Call of Duty Games are based on real times in war…
So as I ask again do you like games that
are based on true events or is based on the
creators imagination?
You can choose… 
Also let me know in the game you choose you liked about it.
Like example 1.
Hmmm… I think the games I usually play are not based on real life occurances at all. I enjoy FPS like quake or serious sam, but more realistic shooters like COD, not really my thing.
Heck, I get squeamish watching a video of people run over in GTA.
So, in reply to your question, I’d think I’d probably prefer games based on a creator’s imagination.
Fictional games can bring me to places I can never visit in real life (e.g. worlds of zelda, mario, ultima), do things I will never do in real life (trackmania :P), take over the galaxy (moo), be a person plugged into a mothership (homeworld, eve).
Generally speaking, fictional settings are my thing hands down. I play CoD because it has just enough of a ‘WTF’ factor that it makes it fun for me; I play Battlefield on SUPER rare occasion if I feel like trying to zen out by sniping realistically and thinking hard. But for me, games like Halo, Skyrim, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Age (to name a few) always sit at the top of my list of favorite games to play. A much more immersive and wowing escape from reality.
Call of Duty is about as far from realism that a 7 year old can go, the games are crap, its almost as if michael bay stepped in to help them…
I like “real feeling.” It doesn’t have to be remotely real, it just needs to feel real when I’m playing.
Control time (Prince Of Persia)
I like both as long as it is an FPS and has a good storyline
Fictional. Mostly Sci-Fi, I am pretty board with all things fantasy (dragon/medieval). And real (COD) games have no interest to me.
I also really like surreal or unique games.
Fictional, as far from reality as you can get without being too ridiculous and unrealistic. I despise games based on real life places. Take no imagination to copy something that already exists (except I do enjoy NBA2K and WWE games). I find myself picking up realistic games to try them out (ala, GTA, COD), but I can’t usually play for more then 20-30 minutes without being bored to tears. Not to say it’s wrong to enjoy them, to each there own. Just not my thing. Ni No Kuni (just got my hands on it) is my new cup of tea, and does this exceptionally well.
This is a shamefully limited viewpoint.
I play them, I don’t enjoy them. Not like I won’t ever pick them up and give it a try (I always do). They just haven’t been fun to me. Whats so limiting about that? They just tend to lack imagination like other types of games I enjoy. I find that neither shameful nor limited. If someone can create a game in the real world that actually is unique and fun. I’d definitely play it, but I have yet to play one game like that, that gets me going. I do think The Division looks pretty awesome though. I prefer worlds that are crafted by someones mind, not by existing things (inspired is a totally different thing). I’m definitely not on anyone for liking them. Whatever anyone wants to enjoy is up to them. This doesn’t come to how players interact, as far as movement and controls, I’m talking purely visual and story mechanics.
I like “non real” games. Fantasy games allow for imagination. I like games set in the future because devs can experiment with concepts and types of gameplay. Something you can’t do with a realistic simulator game and it’s realistic. Yes, you can take WWII and add aliens, but then it wouldn’t be close to historial fiction, it’d be all out fantasy. (I’m thinking of Wolfenstein and killing Robo-Hitler! HAHAHA!!!)
I like to have more fun playing games. I play COD because I have fun. I play BF3 because I have fun with it too. I played Red Orchestra 2, liked it, but I thought it would take entirely too long to get good with it and I have a life, so meh to that.
Eh I don’t think I have a preference. At least from audio visual point of view. But I guess there’s something I really enjoy about realism in gameplay even if it’s higly abstracted and/or contextualized in a really wild nutty nonsense fiction (dissonance of elements sometimes makes things more interesting so mix them up!).
Anyway, I’m just glad we have games from both end of spectrum. Plenty of great things you can do by going into deep end of either. I would be pretty boring to just have one style of games.
immersion, suspension of disbelief, etc. are all nice but no game has to be (or is) “realistic”
why, because you disagree? get over yourself.
“It takes no imagination” when it comes from drawing inspiration from real locations is fucking insulting to every artist who has ever worked in any medium.
Is that what you were on about. fair enough then. lol
Maybe you are misreading me. I’m talking about games that try to replicate real life as is. I’m an artist of 16 years. I definitely understand what taking inspiration means, and that it is necessary to understand the structure of things. If you want to feel insulted though, so be it, but I didn’t do that to you. It’s your own choice how you react. I’m simply here answering a question from the original poster. He asked how we felt and thought about it. I answered.
I CHOOSE to enjoy art that is less life like. I feel inspired by that stuff. I never said you had to. If we were all the same, life would certainly suck.
Where do
we draw
the line?
Lol there is no line. Life and thought is infinite. I’m not trying to get you to believe and think my way. Why are trying so hard to get me to enjoy what you do, and think how you do? We don’t think alike. End of story.