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I enjoy First Person Shooters, Adventure Games, and RPGs mostly.
My favorite games include:
Chrono Trigger
EarthBound
Kings Quest VI
Final Fantast VII
ToeJam and Earl
Quest for Glory IV
Games I am Currently Playing:
Condemned 2 (Completed on Hard)
Devil May Cry 4
Lost: Via Domus (Completed)
Lost Odyssey (Lvl 32/Disc 3)
Call of Duty 4 (Completed)(Rented and Returned)
Bioshock (Completed)
MOH Airborne (Completed)
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Gamertag: Kisersize
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In a recent article on Yahoo! Games, they mention a study that found that competitive arenas like sports and video games that split teams by color, like Halo 3, have an interesting effect. "Published in the Cyberpsychology & Behavior journal, the study tracked nearly 1500 matches in the popular first-person game, Unreal Tournament 2004. Like most online first-person shooters -- including industry-leader Halo 3 -- the game splits players into two opposing teams, one red, one blue. There are no functional differences between the two other than hue, leading most to assume that neither team would have any sort of unfair advantage over the other. Not so fast. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark found that the red team won 55% of the matches. Rather than chalking that up to dumb luck, the scientists behind the study believe it has more to do with the inherent qualities of red as a psychological distractor and a natural signal of male dominance, a thought echoed in a 2005 study linking the color to enhanced performance in real-life sports." Yahoo! Games. What do you think? Do you think that being red gives you an advantage? Granted the curve is only 5%, but its interesting none the least. What about World of Warcraft... For the Horde? 
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
Let's use college sports to see if that statement holds any truth. Three of the best teams in college sports are Duke, UNC, and Kansas. The school colors for all three schools are BLUE !!!
NC State sucks at college sports. The school's colors are red.
If they did, I call lucky bullshit.