video game thingy
1. What was the first video game you have ever played?: Who the hell knows...probably Super Mario, Duck Hunt, or Tetris on a NES.
2. What was your first console?: Playstation
3. Have you ever visited a video game arcade?: Loads of times in my youth
4. What was your first handheld?: Never had one
5. What was the first game you've beaten/cleared completely? (Got to the last level/got 100%/beat high score, etc.): Bloody hell, either X-men vs Streetfighter (in a VG arcade), or Streetfighter 2 on Jane's SNES
6. Games based off of real sports: Yay or Nay?: Nay. They look boring
7. Online games: Yay or nay?: Nay. Looks fun, but there's too much (money/life) investment involved
8. Do you play any Massively Multiplayer Online RPG games? (MMORPGs?): No, but I got a free WoW trial game which I plan to try out for shits and giggles
9. Do you play any virtual pet games? (Neopets, Teripets, Aftermathzone, etc.): I have a couple of times
10. Puzzle games and Strategy games: Yay or Nay?: Hell yes.
11. Do you play any RPGs?: Yep, Final Fantasy
12. Do you play any Platformer games?: ...I don't know what this means.
13. What was the first game/console/handheld of yours that stopped working?: I left my tamagotchi in my pocket once, and it drowned in the wash T_T
Characters/Plot
14. Do you actually care if a game has a plot or do you just play games for the gameplay?: Gameplay's important, but plot makes it extra fun
15. Name a few video game characters that are your favorites.: Celes, Edgar, Kefka, Setzer (Final Fantasy VI), Cloud, Cid Highwind, Aeris (FFVII), Kain Highwind (FFIV). Chun Li in my childhood. And the chick with the long painful hair in Mortal Kombat. Also Irvine from FFVIII because he was a cowboy. Have I mentioned any FF characters yet?
16. Name a few series that are your favorites: Final Fantasy, fighting games (especially X-men vs Streetfighter, because I used to read comics as a kid)., MarioKart.
17. Has a video game ever made you cry?: ....Nope. The FF games had their moments, but I've never been moved to tears.
18. Has a video game character annoyed you so much that you wanted him removed from the game? Sephifuck. Oh wait, I did remove him from the game. Teehee.
19. Do you "pair" or "ship" characters up with one another? (make/create/write romance involving them): Not really. I was more partial to Cloud/Aeris than Cloud/Tifa though.
20. Do you write video game fanfiction?: No
21. Do you draw video game fanart?: ...No
22. Do you come up with theories on how a character came to be/what he or she would do in a situation/why he or she is moody/etc.: Squall is a closet homosexual. Actually no, he openly dresses like a rentboy, and paid no attention to hot blonde with a whip Quistis when she was macking onto him, and hung around with some other *cough* special guys (Zell, Irvine and Seifer).
23. Are you a "fanboy" or "fangirl" of any character?: Not really,
Boss Battles/Villains
24. Hardest Boss Battle: Those two fucking optional Weapons in FFVII. And the Ultima Weapon in FFVIII
25. Most Frustrating Boss Battle: THE GIANT ROBOT CRAB FROM FFVIII I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL NEVER PLAY THAT SEGMENT AGAIN IT WREAKS HAVOC ON MY POOR NERVES. It was especially bad the first time I played it, because FFVIII was my first FF, I didn't have a memory card, and I suck at games generally. XD
26. Most Rewarding Boss Battle: The final ones
27. Funnest Boss Battle: I guess the Turks ones in FFVII.
28. Most Boring Boss Battle: Ultimecia (FF8). I walked around those two islands for countless hours for nothing! I beat Ultimecia in five minutes!
29. Boss Battle that dragged out for a long, long time: Tons from FF. I suppose any from FFVIII where I'm trying to use Draw at the same time.
30. Boss Battle with the coolest music: Sephiroth, and Ultimecia/Griever (Maybe I'm a Lion)
31. Most Surprising Boss Battle: Does a Tonberry count as a boss? Because when I first encountered one, I was very fucking surprised.
32. What's your all time favorite villain?: Kefka from FFVI. He was so funny, and he had an evil laugh sound effect. Plus he was crazy, evil, backstabbing, and had a cool theme music. Which is why I have an icon of him too. Also, he's better than Sephifuck because he became a god and Sephi didn't.
33. What's your all time least favorite villain?: Depends. I hate Sephiroth the character, but I like beating him. Then there are others I don't really care for, and just beat anyway. So who knows.
34. Do you ever feel sorry for the villains?: No.
35. Are there any villains that seem like they should be playing for the good guys, but aren't?: Turks, I guess
36. Most malicious villain: Kefka
37. Most surprising villain: erm...Kain? Maybe?
Favorites
39. What's your favorite 3D game? (PS1/N64/Saturn generation): Final Fantasy VII
40. What's your favorite arcade game?: X-men vs Streetfighter
41. What's your favorite next-gen game? (Gamecube/PS2/Dreamcast/X-Box): Haven't got a next-gen console T_T
42. Sequels/long series: Yay or nay?: Meh, depends.
43. What's your favorite Online Game?: Puzzle games
44. What's your favorite console?: *shrugs*
45. What's your favorite handheld?: Non applicable
46. Have you ever got yourself involved in a "console war"?: No, but I think people who buy X-boxes because they're loyal to Microsoft are the saddest bunch of losers I've ever heard of.
47. Have you ever defended a character/game/console you liked in an argument? Which one?: I seem to recall me defending Cloud in an FFVII discussion, but I never got into a flamewar.
48. Name a game that you like but everyone else seems to hate.: FFVIII was flawed, but fun.
49. Name a character that you like but everyone else seems to hate.: Squall was alright. It was actually fun being a dick to the people around him.
50. Name a game that you hate but everyone else seems to like.: Halo.
51. Name a character that you hate but everyone else seems to love.: Sephiroth.
Miscellaneous
52. Have you ever stopped before you finished a game because it was too frustrating to go on?: Plenty of times
53. Will you stop at NOTHING to get 100% in a video game?: I'm anal about this sort of stuff by nature, so yes. Although if it's impossible (i.e. optional bosses I can't beat), then I'll give up
54. Have you ever injured yourself at a video game? (Space Invader wrist and Mario Party 1 blister victims may answer yes): No
55. Has a horror/survival genre video game scared you to the point that you refused to finish the game? Did you get nightmares from said game?: Silent Hill looks like a great game, but I'm a big pussy when it comes to the horror genre.
56. Have you ever thrown a controller/disc/cartridge in a fit of frustration?: No, because I know what "stupid" is.
57. Do you need to blow/clean certain games to get them to play?: Yeah
58. Have you ever played a game for so long that you missed sleep over it?: Only the first time I played FFVIII because I didn't have a memory card
59. Were you ever involved in the Pokemon craze?: I played the gameboy game on a ROM emulator, and that was fun for awhile.
60. Last but not least: Do you picture yourself playing video games 10, 20, or 30 years from now?: Probably. I want to get a PS3 (eventually), and I think I want to end up like that gaming grandma when I'm old and retired.