My gaming confession is that I think you are clearly insane for not enjoying NSMB Wii.

However this comes from someone who hated Oblivion. I suppose that's not much of a confession, so here's a hopefully better one.

I can't stand most "art" games. I guess I should turn in my Progressive Gaming Ideologue badge but I find most of them either pointless or pointlessly frustrating. Give me something entertaining, and if you manage to cram an emotionally affecting or educational moment in, then fantastic. But I think games that set out from the get-go to be poignant fail more often than not.

Having zero interest in most of the biggest titles due out the first half of this year. ME2 has piqued my interested, but other than Bayonetta and the Dragon Age expansion, I absolutely couldn't care less about FF13, God Of War 3, BioShock2, Heavy Rain, MAG, or any other big title that I've heard of.

Agree with you completely. My son wants to play this so bad and we just can't get through the boards together without one of us bumping the other to their death. It was fun at first playing with the Mrs. but we would basically just grind our way through one level after another. Was sort of a joyless experience once you got past the pretty graphics, SMB3 nostalgia and novelty gameplay.

I don't like BioWare games. I stalled halfway through Mass Effect on account of its linear missions, shallow cliche story, unimaginative world and aliens, unsatisfying combat, and terrible UI. Jade Empire was a decent ARPG, but its world was small and constrained, and the story predictable. I couldn't get into KOTOR at all, but maybe that was just the Star Wars angle.

I just don't get the appeal. Dialogue trees and all that are nice, but every one of these games seems to want to reinvent the morality system—Light and Dark, Open Palm and Closed Fist, Paragon and Renegade—but each is just a fiction-specific spin on Saint and Asshole, every damn game.

Now everybody's wetting themselves over Dragon Age and the upcoming Mass Effect 2, and I feel bad for not giving a sh*t, which makes me feel stupid for thinking I should care. Maybe it's because I missed the Baldur's Gate/Neverwinter Nights games on the PC, but nothing from BioWare in the past six years has struck me as particularly revolutionary or even a satisfying timesink RPG like Bethesda's worlds.

+1

My gaming confession is that I've never played Deus Ex or Final Fantasy 7, and I don't care.

Hey, at least you've been able to play the multiplayer more than twice. I tried it once with my girlfriend and another friend, but my girlfriend is retarded and doesn't like Mario games (she can't grasp the concept of running and jumping in 2D), so after the third level she dropped out. This sort of sucked the fun out of the room and my friend and I didn't want to play any more. We came back to it the next day and finished up the first world, but that was the end of it, and frankly it wasn't much fun most of the time. We're both quite good at the game, so we didn't get in each others' (other's?) way all that much. Occasionally, one of us would have to stop to wait for the other one, which was annoying. It basically felt like playing the single-player, but with this other guy there who you usually didn't have to worry to much about but sometimes had to stop and wait for. I'd rather just play single-player.

Sometimes, though, some crazy random thing would happen that was totally awesome completely by accident.

I was having a blast three-player before my girlfriend sucked all the fun out of it, and I have yet to play four-player. It seems like one of those games that needs just the right mix of people who are all in just the right kind of mood for it to work. It also seems more fun when you don't care about doing good and care more about doing crazy things as you plow forward. Disregarding the well-being of anyone but yourself helps.

Or you could try to recreate some of those Super Skills videos. That might be fun.

Haven't tried the competitive stuff.

My only real complaint about New Super Mario Bros. Wii is that sometimes Mario does whatever he likes with no regards for what I want him to do. I know you feel like spin-jumping, Mario, but there's a fireball directly above you and I didn't shake the controller. Hell, I didn't even move the controller. Why can't I just plug in the classic controller and have that action mapped to a button instead?

Oh, also, I wish player 1 could play as someone other than Mario, even if only in multiplayer.

My gaming confession is I still impulse-buy the occasional full-priced game on day one or shortly thereafter if just one person/reviewer likes it. The most recent example is Armada 2526, which is an ok game, but the two reviews for it loved it and promised it's like Moo2 (it's not). Sooo, $40 gone (not wasted, but definitely underused).

Also, I'm one of those guys who has the MMORPG subscription and little game time attached to it. Hi LOTRO!

Those are painful.
Some others:
I have never played a Mario or Zelda game, I don't hate them but I don't care about them.
I have a copy of Dead or Alive Volleyball somewhere, but strictly for the hardcore volleyball action. Yeah.
I turned down sex for Wing Commander 2 back in college. To be fair, she was remarkably average-looking.
Achievements mean absolutely nothing to me. Nothing.
I have a level 80 rogue in WoW and I still don't know how to play her well enough not to die in 3 seconds in any PvP.
I liked Spore, but hated the space section. Apparently, this is the complete inverse of everyone elses opinion.

I hated Aeris and felt nothing when she died.

I would counter that if you haven't been playing RPGs as spreadsheets, you've been doing it wrong all along.

Years ago, I played Freespace: Privateer for 10 minutes, absolutely hated it, and never played again.

Wow, really? Did you play CoD: World at War? Because that experience was painful. Does that count as a confession?

I thought World at War was okay for what it was - an average shooter that won't set the world on fire. Which automatically makes it better than that monstrosity Infinity Ward calls a "game".

I actually cried tears...

I played Fallout 3 for the first time last night for about 2 hours, I hated it. I do not see what all the appeal is. Seems like it has no direction... I hate open world stuff.

I have never played a Zelda game.