When I was in college, I had some friends who were not very familiar with Final Fantasy. One played everquest, and he told me at one point "you'd never catch me playing one of those" ad the other was a huge fan of GTA: San Andreas, and said it looked good but not so great.

No one I knew there really played it except a couple people down the hall, but no one called me a geek.

To go off on a tangent...

One time, Gary, the San Andreas fan, decided to pick up FFX in my room for a while 'just for fun'. In the next two days he played nearly 17 hours! Even my roommate got interested in it, and started playing it.

I found it funny because he said earlier that he 'didn't understand how I could play a game like that'. Undoubtably it has influenced them. I've converted a couple people over to the dark side.