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- Apr 22, 2022
I was browsing for game recommendations and I found this quiz from a company called Quantic Foundry. I took it and thought it was neat, and so figure I would share it with you all so that we can compare our results with each other, and see whether the recommendations are accurate to our preferred play styles.
It asks some basic demographic questions like sex, and age and that’s about it. I set my sex to “Gamer”.
Then the quiz starts by asking about what recent games you’ve played that you’ve enjoyed. “Recent” doesn’t apply to me very much, so I just put some of the games that I most enjoy playing.
Then it asks a series of ranked questions about how important or enjoyable an aspect of gaming mechanics is to you, in categories like story, difficulty, and achievements/unlocks.
It will ask you for your email address but you can skip this part.
Afterwards it will show you your results. Here’s what I got:
Here’s The Gamer Types page in case you don’t feel like taking this quiz but want to know what your gamer type might be anyways. There are some general game associations for each type on that page.
Further down the gamer profile page, it breaks down the categories of gamer motivations (basically likes and dislikes) that the research company has identified, how much you match each one, and associated games for each category.
For me, I scored highest in Achievement components, with both Completion and Power subcategories, with my next highest category being Creativity, specifically Design. This is borne out irl since a lot of the games mentioned are ones that I enjoy like JRPG’s, but whether that’s correlation or causation remains to be seen.
If you don’t give a shit about any of this, you can skip it and go to your personalized game recommendation page. It will have a list of games that they think you will enjoy with a choice of two methodologies, and the ability to remove games you have already played and liked or disliked, as well as sort by popular, balanced, and niche games. It’s a bit clunky since they use IGBD titles- so some titles might appear multiple times based on different editions. But so far I’ve found it accurate to titles I’ve already had on my radar, and the niche page and different methodologies seems neat. Here are my recommendations;
Method 1 (based on other people with similar profiles):
Method 2 (based on games you played, good if you play a variety of genres. This one takes into account that I like Silent Hill):
Anyways I think it would be funsies to take the quiz together and share our results and I’m excited to see everyone’s and how different (or similar!) they will be. All that being said, which gamer type do you think is the Gemini of gamers?
It asks some basic demographic questions like sex, and age and that’s about it. I set my sex to “Gamer”.
Then the quiz starts by asking about what recent games you’ve played that you’ve enjoyed. “Recent” doesn’t apply to me very much, so I just put some of the games that I most enjoy playing.
Then it asks a series of ranked questions about how important or enjoyable an aspect of gaming mechanics is to you, in categories like story, difficulty, and achievements/unlocks.
It will ask you for your email address but you can skip this part.
If, for some reason, you want to save your profile, I recommend using an email forwarding service. This is a marketing consultancy so you are the product, and although the only PII collected is your age and gender (because you don’t re-use your email address, right?), it’s still best practice to exercise prudence.
Afterwards it will show you your results. Here’s what I got:
Here’s The Gamer Types page in case you don’t feel like taking this quiz but want to know what your gamer type might be anyways. There are some general game associations for each type on that page.
Further down the gamer profile page, it breaks down the categories of gamer motivations (basically likes and dislikes) that the research company has identified, how much you match each one, and associated games for each category.
For me, I scored highest in Achievement components, with both Completion and Power subcategories, with my next highest category being Creativity, specifically Design. This is borne out irl since a lot of the games mentioned are ones that I enjoy like JRPG’s, but whether that’s correlation or causation remains to be seen.
If you don’t give a shit about any of this, you can skip it and go to your personalized game recommendation page. It will have a list of games that they think you will enjoy with a choice of two methodologies, and the ability to remove games you have already played and liked or disliked, as well as sort by popular, balanced, and niche games. It’s a bit clunky since they use IGBD titles- so some titles might appear multiple times based on different editions. But so far I’ve found it accurate to titles I’ve already had on my radar, and the niche page and different methodologies seems neat. Here are my recommendations;
Method 1 (based on other people with similar profiles):
Method 2 (based on games you played, good if you play a variety of genres. This one takes into account that I like Silent Hill):
Anyways I think it would be funsies to take the quiz together and share our results and I’m excited to see everyone’s and how different (or similar!) they will be. All that being said, which gamer type do you think is the Gemini of gamers?
I was expecting some ancient slavjank like Post Mortem or Syberia, or some schizo games like Drowned God, not literally one of the most highly acclaimed games of all time to be considered "niche" so I wouldn't put much stock into any of this.
