Hullo. I just killed Kieron. He was typing quietly in IM trying to avoid my attention, but John Walker did something in capitals, so I heard it. I have now killed him. He’s lying on the floor, and I’m having the occasional nibble. Nothing quite like New New Games Journalists to chew on. He appears to have left a half-done post here, so I’m going to do it, before pressing on and hunting down Walker. I can smell his spoor, so he can’t escape me. Apparently, PC Gamer twittered this quiz which categorizes what sort of gamer you are. Apparently you’ll find it fun. And here’s a list of what assorted gaming luminaries have got…
Wait – these are all journalists. That doesn’t sound very luminescent to me.
Ex-PC Zone editor Will Porter is a Survivor-Seeker!
Ex-PC Format Dan Griddleoctopus is a Seeker-Socialiser!
Un-Ex-RPSer John Walker is a Seeker-Mastermind!
Un-Ex-Anything Lewis Denby is a Survivor-Daredevil!
Ex-PC Format Un-Ex OXM Mike Channel is a Daredevil-Mastermind, which he describes as a “Pretentious Thicky”.
Un-Ex-Microsoft-Lackey-in-chief Jon Hicks is a Seeker-Daredevil!
Un-Ex-Whatever-He’s-up-to-now-is-it-still-PC-plus?er Richard Cobbett is a Mastermind Seeker.
Ironically, Ex-living Kieron was a Survivor-Seeker. “You like pulse-pounding risks and escaping from hideous and scary threats as well as finding strange and wonderful things or finding familiar things”, apparently. Sadly, he failed to escape and the strange and wonderful thing found him.
You’re next, Walker.
Seeker-Daredevil. I suppose it’s accurate- I loved poking about in Fallout 3, seeing what kind of weird stuff I could find- and I always did like blasting down the roads in GTA:SA at ridiculous speeds. Still, it doesn’t seem like the choice for people who like hard-and-heavy tactical and stealth shooters like myself. OH WELL
Cor!
Says here I’m a Conqueror-Seeker, with a profile exception being that I have an irrational hatred of puzzles. And that I like to punch the air. I guess it’s accurate enough.
The profile descriptions seem to be trying to tell me I’m akin to some horrific melange of shark and cat.
Socializer – Daredevil! I’m pretty awesome.
I am a Conqueror-Achiever/Seeker (since the points are the same) just like Conan the Barbarian and I like shark cats.
Mastermind Survivor, I like the sound of that
Mastermind: 20
Seeker: 14
Daredevil: 8
Conqueror: 6
Achiever: 5
Survivor: 2
Socialiser: -4
Socialiser-Daredevil.
Too goddamn right.
Your BrainHex Class is Seeker.
Your BrainHex Class Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Seeker-Mastermind.
You like finding strange and wonderful things or finding familiar things as well as solving puzzles and devising strategies.
Seeker: 20
Mastermind: 16
Conqueror: 16
Survivor: 12
Achiever: 10
Daredevil: 6
Socialiser: 3
Sounds like me – thank ghod for solo mode in DDO…
Seeker-Mastermind
Will RPS be compiling a profile of its readership?
Seeker: 15
Socialiser: 12
Achiever: 11
Conqueror: 10
Mastermind: 6
Daredevil: 3
Survivor: 0
My hate for driving and horror games is showing. As is my enjoyment of RPG and online games.
Seeker Survivor. Socialiser 3!?
Well, I DO enjoy Stalker and Thief that much I guess… :P
Mastermind Conqueror
Seeker-Survivor
Seeker: 20
Survivor: 17
Mastermind: 13
Conqueror: 10
Daredevil: 6
Socialiser: 5
Achiever: -4
Mastermind? Um. No, not really.
Seeker-Mastermind.
Seeker: 19
Mastermind: 18
Socialiser: 12
Conqueror: 10
Achiever: 8
Daredevil: 6
Survivor: 2
Interesting to see that Morrowind scores highly in the seeker group-i’d listed that as one of my three games (along with TF2, which also scores highly across the board) before even seeing that part of the stats…
Mastermind Socialiser….. great. Now its official: I’m a carebear. Also, this:
“Your pleasure centre has double lines to indicate that it is highly stimulated by your play style…Your chemical messenger is dopamine, which is chemically similar to cocaine, and is involved in habit formation.”
I loves me a lil’ cocaine in mah games.
Apparently I’m a Socialiser-Seeker which not only sounds like a luckless date, but it amuses me because I avoid MMOGs like the plague :D
Socialiser: 19
Seeker: 18
Survivor: 16
Daredevil: 14
Mastermind: 6
Achiever: 4
Conqueror: 4
Your BrainHex Class is Seeker.
Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Seeker-Daredevil.
You like finding strange and wonderful things or finding familiar things as well as rushing around at heights or high speed while you are still in control.
Each BrainHex Class also has an Exception, which describes what you dislike about playing games. Your Exceptions are:
» No Commitment: You dislike being asked to complete everything, preferring to pick and choose which tasks you will attempt, or simply messing around with a game.
Seeker: 19
Daredevil: 15
Mastermind: 15
Survivor: 8
Conqueror: 7
Socialiser: 5
Achiever: -4
That seems about right to me…
Seeker-Mastermind. Sounds about right, really.
Seeker: 20
Mastermind: 17
Survivor: 11
Daredevil: 2
Achiever: 2
Conqueror: -2
Socialiser: -6
Is there a disproportionate amount of Seekers and Masterminds on RPS? I guess that says something about the readership that the site attracts.
Seeker: 18
Mastermind: 17
Daredevil: 6
Survivor: 4
Achiever: 4
Socialiser: 0
Conqueror: 0
Incidentally, my favourite games of all time are Deus Ex, Thief, and Betrayal at Krondor.
Mastermind-Conqueror..
Apparently if I were an animal, I would be some sort of OctoShark… Seems appealing for some reason :)
Mastermind: 16
Conqueror: 16
Survivor: 13
Seeker: 11
Socialiser: 10
Daredevil: 6
Achiever: 2
I’m rare, it said so:
Daredevil: 18
Socialiser: 18
Conqueror: 14
Mastermind: 13
Survivor: 11
Seeker: 7
Achiever: 4
Conqueror-Mastermind.
Conqueror: 19
Mastermind: 15
Daredevil: 14
Socialiser: 10
Seeker: 9
Survivor: 6
Achiever: -2
whats this post about? twittering about something that twittered about some twitter test on twitter for twitterers?
Your BrainHex Class is Socialiser.
Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Socialiser-Conqueror.
You like hanging around with people you trust and helping people as well as defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players.
According to your results, there are few play experiences that you strongly dislike.
Learn more about your classes and exceptions at BrainHex.com.
Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:
Socialiser: 18
Conqueror: 17
Mastermind: 16
Seeker: 12
Daredevil: 10
Survivor: 7
Achiever: 2
Seeker-Mastermind.
Interesting that Seeker regularly ranks so high in video game players. At least, the industry folks and the sort of commentors that hang out on RPS.
I got Mastermind… not surprised.
Mastermind-Seeker here; won’t find me PVPing for keeps or without a safety net, or running with guns.
Mastermind: 19
Seeker: 14
Conqueror: 11
Socialiser: 10
Survivor: 8
Achiever: 8
Daredevil: 1
“Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Socialiser-Conqueror.
You like hanging around with people you trust and helping people as well as defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players.
Each BrainHex Class also has an Exception, which describes what you dislike about playing games. Your Exceptions are:
» No Commitment: You dislike being asked to complete everything, preferring to pick and choose which tasks you will attempt, or simply messing around with a game.”
Sounds a lot like me.
All you non-conquerors are sissy little girls and will be defeated-slash-eaten by us superior conqueror types!
Conqueror: 19
Daredevil: 16
Mastermind: 14
Survivor: 10
Socialiser: 8
Seeker: 2
Achiever: -10
(My favourite game of 2008 was Burnout Paradise and I still don’t own all cars–specifically I’m lacking the ones you get for completing X sets of online activities or setting time/crash records on all streets of Big Surf. Booo-ring. Maybe it’ll happen automatically at some point, but in 90+h of just messing around it hasn’t.)
Your BrainHex Class is Socialiser.
Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Socialiser-Mastermind.
You like hanging around with people you trust and helping people as well as solving puzzles and devising strategies.
Each BrainHex Class also has an Exception, which describes what you dislike about playing games. Your Exceptions are:
» No Fear: You do not enjoy feeling afraid, preferring to feel safe or in control.
Learn more about your classes and exceptions at BrainHex.com.
Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:
Socialiser: 16
Mastermind: 16
Conqueror: 13
Seeker: 9
Daredevil: 7
Achiever: 4
Survivor: 0
In the three times I’ve taken this quiz, I’ve varied my answers as much as possible while telling the truth…
I get the same thing, every time. Even the order of points.
Good quiz.
Also: Being an Octo-dolphin is awesome.
Hell, octo-anything is awesome, with few exceptions…
Damn….
Now they have to have a mega man game with Octo-man.
Assuming they haven’t already :P
I got Mastermind – Socialiser. Not to be confused with Mastermind Socialist which was what I almost wrote =P
Hmm, some kind of Seeker/Mastermind seems pretty common among RPS.
“Achiever-Mastermind
You like collecting anything you can collect or doing everything you possibly can as well as solving puzzles and devising strategies.”
I guess this explains why I don’t hate achievements, but won’t strive for them.
“Your Exceptions are:
» No Mercy: You rarely if ever care about hurting other players’ feelings – mercy is for the weak!
Achiever: 16
Mastermind: 16
Conqueror: 14
Daredevil: 10
Survivor: 7
Seeker: 7
Socialiser: 0″
Seeker-Daredevil.
You like finding strange and wonderful things as well as rushing around at heights or high speed while you are still in control.
Seeker: 16
Daredevil: 15
Mastermind: 13
Conqueror: 7
Socialiser: 6
Survivor: 4
Achiever: -6
That sounds about right for me. Interestingly one of the games listed for both Seeker and Daredevil is Shadow of the Colossus; which is an utterly fantastic game and one of my favourites of all time.
Conqueror-Daredevil.
You like defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players as well as rushing around at heights or high speed while you are still in control.
So basically im just HARDCORE EXTREME YEAAAH
Your BrainHex Class is Mastermind.
Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Mastermind-Conqueror.
You like solving puzzles and devising strategies as well as defeating impossibly difficult foes, struggling until you eventually achieve victory, and beating other players.
Each BrainHex Class also has an Exception, which describes what you dislike about playing games. Your Exceptions are:
» No Mercy: You rarely if ever care about hurting other players’ feelings – mercy is for the weak!
Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:
Mastermind: 16
Conqueror: 16
Survivor: 9
Seeker: 7
Daredevil: 5
Achiever: 2
Socialiser: 0
By the way, Octoshark? That’s Cthulhu: all tentacles and teeth.
Achiever-seeker here. Seems to be less common than I expected tbh. Also the Fear aversion probably explains why I can’t commit to finishing Stalker (even though I’ve done the labs now) or starting Dead Space (which is sat on my game shelf gathering dust atm)…
Yes You’re right, I’m deliciously evil
Masterimind-Seeker for me
Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Socialiser-Mastermind.
You like hanging around with people you trust and helping people as well as solving puzzles and devising strategies.
I’m also a Seeker-Mastermind.
A well constructed survey it seems. I hope they do something useful with my data, or else …
Daredevil: 18
Mastermind: 15
Conqueror: 13
Socialiser: 11
Achiever: 7
Seeker: 6
Survivor: 4
FAST PUZZLES :D
I would apparently be a Shark-Octopus. Terrifying indeed.
Socialiser: 18
Mastermind: 11
Conqueror: 10
Achiever: 8
Daredevil: 7
Seeker: 5
Survivor: 0
I was lucky to happen to have my Briggs-Myers type written down somewhere