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    In your opinion,

    Are there certain types more inclined or attracted to RPGs, and which ones specifically?

    Which types are least interested?

    Which type/s would turn down an opportunity to go the bar with friends to spend Friday and/or Saturday night/s playing an RPG?

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    I'm EIE and I like RPGs. Only certain ones though. I don't fuck around with new ones, I just replay the ones from my childhood: FFVII/VIII/IX, Chrono Cross/Trigger, and Legend of Dragoon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
    I'm EIE and I like RPGs. Only certain ones though. I don't fuck around with new ones, I just replay the ones from my childhood: FFVII/VIII/IX, Chrono Cross/Trigger, and Legend of Dragoon.
    Those games kick ass...Ahh the sweet memories

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    Quote Originally Posted by cinq View Post
    In your opinion,

    Are there certain types more inclined or attracted to RPGs, and which ones specifically?

    Which types are least interested?
    Most interested: LII IEI SLE EII
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    Which type/s would turn down an opportunity to go the bar with friends to spend Friday and/or Saturday night/s playing an RPG?
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    My favorite part about RPGs is the characterization. I love having a wide variety of options and a system that makes it easy for others to see who and what my character is (unless they're the enemy, in which case it should be secret).

    I also like having small groups of specialized characters with fully developes characterization. To me, a RPG is more of a RP than a G.

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    Intriverted Intuitives, I'd think.



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    Have to say my SLI sure does love his games and his RPGs. I believe LokiV is the same. He'll come out and socialize, but if he really isn't feeling social, he'll definitely turn the night out down for a night in with his games.
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    By "RPG" do you mean the original pen-and-paper kind, or the video game kind? The former I'd say are almost all intuitives and primarily NTs, the latter are pretty much anyone, although I'd expect introverts to have more patience for them.
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    Different types like RPGs for different reasons...

    I've always seen it like NT's focus on the strategy of building their character to have great gear, good abilities, and so forth, experiment around with different combos

    NF's focus on the immersion, story line, characters, the world

    ST's focus on the tactics and gameplay

    SF's focus on the sensory aspects... spell effects, movements, the world

    Of course there is a mish-mash of all the elements in each individual, but I've noticed one is more highly prioritized.

    Like now I've been playing Dragon Age Origins off and on... at first I got really immersed in it, liked the dialogue, the story, the characters.... now after playing it so long I'm like.... fuck I just want to get to the combat, I'm tired of all this bullshit dialogue. I tend to have trouble with being a pro at using tactics, but I like to build my party and characters to work well as a unit, like a well oiled machine... experiment around with different gear/abilities/and so forth. Try different tactics.

    On youtube you can find people doing walkthroughs of games, and you can see there gameplay style... sometimes I'm surprised at how different people do stuff.

    Personally I've always preferred the RPGs which gravitate towards medieval fantasy over the more animish japanese ones. I enjoy playing rogues and healers... really rogues because of the stealth tactics, healers because of the party support. I do this usually in all team games... in TF2 I play spies and medics. The first RPG I played was Mario RPG in 5th grade. I played some final fantasy in late middle school. Did two mmorpg in high school and secretly I had a phase where I would go play dnd occasionally on one of the nights on the weekend with a gaming group, and now I just prefer the occasional single player rpg... the other stuff is just a time sink I find, that's hows its been for me since I got into college... haven't touched MMOs or DnD and frankly I don't wish too because it's such a stigma and waste of time, I'll be honest though, occasionally I'll have cravings to play them lol... but they go away after a day and I'm glad I didn't end up feeding them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HaveLucidDreamz View Post
    SF's focus on the sensory aspects... spell effects, movements, the world
    THE MUSIC


    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-CGCaxC7fo]YouTube - FF Crystal Chronicles Music - Magi is Everything[/ame]

    Best game ever, purely because the soundtrack is serial eargasms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HaveLucidDreamz View Post
    Different types like RPGs for different reasons...

    I've always seen it like NT's focus on the strategy of building their character to have great gear, good abilities, and so forth, experiment around with different combos

    NF's focus on the immersion, story line, characters, the world

    ST's focus on the tactics and gameplay

    SF's focus on the sensory aspects... spell effects, movements, the world
    Not always. There are a lot of Ti valuing NFs who value the first thing way more, and a lot of Fi valuing NTs who value the second thing a whole lot more, or at least as much as the first. So it depends really (but its definitely not a bad association to make). I think any type can like RPGs, though especially I'd have to say intuitives: because RPGs are very story and fantasy focused in general, which seems like a big picture kind of N thing to wrap your mind around.

    I tend to "appreciate" RPGs a whole lot more than just liking them for play value, sort of in the Spielberg creative way.

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