E = 87%
A = 60%
K = 40%
S = 13%

“Explorer Achievers have been there, done that and have the t-shirt…in fact they have a plethora of t-shirts, badges, trophies and other rewards. EAs are the completionists of the gamer world. They like to find new places, quests, easter eggs, unlocks, maps etc. and check them off as have, visited or beaten. Like real world travelers, EAs enjoy collecting memorabilia that helps them relive their experiences later.”

Frankly, I’m surprised my ’social’ is higher than zero; the phrasing of the questions seems to be part of the issue. I don’t look for the game to be social and generally don’t care much about others. The multiplayer dimenson of a game is something that does not attract me, but the extent and detail of the world that I want to explore does.

I’m also surprised that my ‘achievement’ is as low as it is — the most pleasure I take in an RPG is in leveling up.

Part of it is that you get 30 of 200 possible questions, randomized (to prevent people brute-forcing it easily). Take the test 3+ times if you want to have a “more representative” view. In my case, all 3 came out pretty close to each other.

As for the rest, you’re what is sometimes referred to as a “solo player.” You’d be (just like me, really) very happy running around an almost-deserted world just exploring what’s there. In some respects I was actually happier with Final Fantasy 12 (which took FFXI’s underpinnings but was a single player, wide world) than Final Fantasy XI (which was an MMORPG).

A quote, from which source I cannot remember, goes “The problem with MMORPG’s is the fact that you have to play with other people.”

E = 87
S = 60
A = 27
K = 27

It sort of explains why one of my favorite things to do on solo video games is to become invincible so that I can just walk around and explore the terrain with my immunity. Those pesky villains get in the way.

I had precisely the same approach for The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. And I behaved very similarly, though not precisely the same, in Fallout 3.

I partly didn’t like the first expansion (Operation Anchorage) because it had much less exploration and felt more like a “one path and that’s it” area.

Always interesting to see what you can find in a game, provided the designers were working well on it. I had tremendous fun pushing the limits of Jurassic Park: Trespasser back in the dorms if you remember, for the same reason.

get yourself to 110% Chameleon and you can wander the Oblivion world with 100% impunity. That was actually very entertaining. Seeing the critters and how they were programmed to behave when they didn’t know you were there, in particular.

Based on past performance, Elder Scrolls follows the “less is more” standard. They don’t oversaturate their market, instead they wait till the market is good and ready for a sequel (look at the time between Morrowind and Oblivion for example).

In the meantime the first two Elder Scrolls games have been released for free. And you can probably find Morrowind for free as well, if not for $5 as “game of the year edition” in a bargain bin somewhere.