Reserved vs. Reckless
I have recently been playing Dawn of War, thanks in most part to Dave's urging (and his new post in video game design which afforded me a copy of the game), and I've come to realize a very strange duality in myself.
In most video games I have very little patience or caution. I'm the one who goes running out into the middle of the action in 1st-Person shooters, invariably getting himself killed in about ten seconds. I'm not one to hide and wait. I prefer the fast-paced action of UT or the likes. In basketball games I play the most up-tempo game that they could shorten the shot clock to about 10 seconds and I'd be ok. In Tiger Woods I constantly spray my drives left or right as I try to cut it over trees and water with maximum power. I am just not very reserved in my gaming actions.
However, Dawn of War is a completely different story. I don't know exactly what it is (maybe the massive amounts of multitasking) but I've never been a big fan of RTS's. It's almost been too stressful for me. DoW is slightly easier in that aspect, but I still am extremely overly cautious. I establish my base and slowly expand as I build up a massive force that I'm sure will wipe out any enemy post that I attack. I take it so slow at times that it can take me an hour to finish a mission that could probably be done in 15 minutes. And when I don't have a good place to set up my base and branch out from...oh man, don't even get me started there.
I'm not sure why I can be so impatient and reckless in almost every style of game other than RTS style games, where I am perhaps the most cautious and reserved player ever. But what I do know is that if anyone is interested in playing some DoW online sometime I'd be down for that. I would probably be a pretty easy target too.