What inspires you to take screenshots?

[Morreion]

The Daily Grind: What inspires you to take screenshots? (Massively)

Let's talk about screenshots again, one of my favorite things!

A Master Level 8 trial in Atlantis, DAoC. The sword-wielding statue parried our attacks at an amazing rate!

I enjoy taking large amounts of screenshots because because I like to have a memorable record of in-game adventures. I have over 15,000 screenshots from DAoC, and I can remember many things from perusing them on occasion. This obsession started early; my first online game was Delta Force, an FPS I played back in 1998, and I remember running into enemy fire to get a good screenshot many a time- suicidal cameraman! I think some people thought I was crazy!

What could be better than dying photogenically in an FPS?

[dotty]

I don't take many screenshots. I DO have logs of almost everything since I started playing games in '96. Thankfully text files do not take up much room, but I've 3 gig so far.

[Regolyth]

Dang, three gigs of text files is a lot Dotty.

I take screenshots of things I find interesting. Sometimes I run across weird glitches and take a shot. Sometimes I take a shot of something that just looks cool, something that's just normal in the game. Still other times I take a shot of cool sunsets or something to that effect. It depends on what the backdrop for it is, and sometimes I make my character do a pose in front of it. It makes for nice avatars and game shots.

[Loendal]

Backgrounds, scenery and locations are the primary drives for screenies with me. It HAS to be beautiful or what's the point? Occasionally a certain moment or individual may inspire a screenie, but it's more often then not the background.

I try to look for movie-like angles and stuff like that