Gaming Questionnaire/ Motivations

Gaming Motivation

I sort of agree with this chart, i agree with most of it except the social and immersion, I would personally say i am more social because i play games like Destiny with friends a lot and i love immersion because i play games such as Elder Scrolls and Dark Souls a lot which are meant to be as immersive as possible.

I think proper gamers as a whole are motivated by the desire for entertainment and to escape from the everyday world and immerse yourself in a game in order to enjoy yourself.  

Personally my preferred genre of video games are RPG games because i enjoy the freedom of an open world and making your own character, but i also enjoy online games such as Destiny and Overwatch because they are fun to play with friends.

Different people will obviously score differently on the chart because they have other preferred play styles and game preferences, and the chart cannot be totally accurate as there are other factors that it does not consider such as the variety of games you play or how often you play them. 

I think i compare abit differently to other people who play games such as Jack because he goes more for 100% completion on certain games and plays less socially then i do as he prefers playing alone most of the time. 

In most basic terms the thing that drives gamers is the desire to have fun, though there are also more specific things gamers enjoy. People enjoy action games for the fast paced, destructive, chaotic nature of them. these generally include fps shooters like Battlefield. Immersive games are mostly enjoyed by gamers that like to sit and play alone for long periods of time such as me, they enjoy the escapism an immersive game can give you, games such as this mostly include RPGs such as Skyrim or Dark Souls. Immersive games usually tie in very well with creative games because of character creation aspects, so people who play immersive games generally like creative games as well.

Achievement players mostly like playing games to unlock every secret and get all the achievements in a game in order to show off or for self fulfilment. 

Mastery gamers are the type that like to play a game until they become extremely good at the game, it can make players feel good that they are better than other players or can beat very difficult games with relative ease. Such as Dark Souls.

Finally the social players enjoy to play online games such as Overwatch or Destiny because they get enjoyment out of playing with friends or random people. Most gamers generally enjoy abit of social play every so often.