Gaming Confessions & Blasphemy

Oooh, I can play this game.

1. I don't get the Mass Effect appeal - The story is bland, characters fit into stereotypical roles, and gameplay is boring and repetitive. Not just talking about the first Mass Effect either. The first one had pretty bad combat, and the 2nd was a glorified Gears of War mod. I'll stick to games that are fun, challenging, and interesting.

2. Final Fantasy 4 and 6 are more complete games than their descendants - I never really understood the appeal of 7 and 8 was a decent movie to play through. FF 4 and 6 had much more interesting characters and gameplay that makes them fun to replay years after the fact. Plus that whole Aeris thing. Now Palom & Porom, those were characters that I cared about.

3. I can't play Baldur's Gate or anything with a similar combat system - This include Dragon's Age, KOTOR, and the like. Pause. Give characters commands that they might get around to after a few seconds. Unpause. Bad guy starts doing something unexpected. Pause. Change whole battle strategy to compensate. Unpause. Somebody in the team got hit. Pause. Attempt to heal party member. Repeat. This is fun?

Nintendo Fanboys have turned me off to the the company far more than company itself.
Maybe I just look at the internets too much. Perhaps my interest in Nintendo IPs have been waning since the glory days of SNES. Either way, the defensive and petty justification of every misstep the Big N has made in the modern era of gaming from the NDF cult has completely soured me to the whole scene...Thanks, NeoGaf.

I bitterly hold out hope that adult gaming will see its day in the sun.
I fell in love with Pong in the early 70's and cemented my life-long passion for gaming with Atari Night Driver in '76. I'm 43 now and have long since abandoned teen power fantasies that dominate the pop-culture video game landscape.

We're inching there with titles like Heavy Rain, etc. But my personal fantasy is to see the rise of intelligent high-budget gaming adventures that have zero violence. Stories featuring average Joes living average yet interesting lives.

Whoa, this thread has grown quickly.

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What the hell!? I don't even know you people anymore!!!

*cries in the shower as he rethinks his life*

It only counts if you're rocking back and forth in the tub/shower fully clothed.

My young self would hate my current self. I can't play any zelda games anymore, they are just to boring for me. Most nintendo games are. This goes triple for all jrpgs I just can't stand them anymore, and I used to love them. Never finished chrono trigger. Fun game but not sure why everyone loves it so much.

Hated ff7 loved ff8. Fallout 1 and 2 was boring and I can't see the appeal. I loved the Balder's gate series but I never have been able to beat them without cheats. I got a third through bioshock before being bored.

I'm very bad with bold text

Mass Effect 3 is an OK game, but I hate it. I have no coherent explanation why I hate Mass Effect 3, and why it has made me retroactively hate the series. I feel like a petulant child when I talk about ME3 because my argument ultimately devolves into a series of curses against EA and Bioware for f*cking up my favorite game of all time why the f*ck sh*t balls tits!

(/breathes)

ME3 is the only game in the world that has generated such a reaction in me, months after its release. I'm still mad. This must be what fanboyism feels like. At least I know my rage is meaningless and impotent. That's the first stop on the road to recovery.

Other confessions:

I've never played a JRPG for more than an hour without being extremely bored.

I don't care if EA is making Dead Space a more action-oriented experience.

Skyrim's combat and enemies aren't all that interesting. Neither were the stories or missions. It's a cool environment though.

I'm a graphics whore; if the graphics look dated, then I have trouble getting into the game. This is particularly true of space sims (of which I am so fond).

There are too many 2D platformers out today. I generally won't give a platformer a second look unless it's mentioned two weeks in a row on the Bombcast (i.e. Rayman: Origins).

I don't care about HL3. There are too many other games coming out in the near future that I know will be good. No sense in worrying about something that may or may not be good.

I still play Fuel occasionally.

kuddles wrote:

The original Deus Ex is a terrible game. I thought it was bad then, and I think it's bad now. Would you like to shoot your way through, in a game where the shooting is unfun and the level design and A.I. don't support it well? Maybe you would rather be sneaky, where the mechanics feel poor and the A.I. doesn't support a stealth game very well either? Maybe you would rather be involved in the incredibly tedious hacking? It will help flesh out the competely asinine storytelling! Don't forget to put points into various skills and pretend that it seems to be doing anything of value. Deux Ex - Where you have so many options, none of which are remotely fun!

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But anyway. Somebody mentioned Oblivion being the low point of the Elder Scrolls series. If we're not counting Redguard and Battlespire, yeah I have to agree. There were 2 things that killed Oblivion for me: enemies that scaled to your level, and the nonsensical leveling system. No matter where you went in Cyrodiil, if you were a lowbie you could count on fighting rats and wolves. There was no sense of danger. To gain a level, you had to gain 10 points in any of your primary skills. Gaining points in non-primary skills didn't count, so if you focused only on the primary skills you'd find yourself high level with very few secondary skills to speak of. It was a horrible system. The Skyrim method is so much better and simpler.

Hrm, let's see what I can come up with.

I'm either apathetic or completely pissed off at Blizzard, depending.

I'm neither very good at most strategy games or just have no interest. If I do have an interest in strategy games, it's not of the Real Time variety. That said, I also have no interest in point-and-click fests. Therefore I could really care less for Blizzard's existence. Sure, they have some humorous interactions with their fans, but they don't make anything I care about.

They almost did with Starcraft: Ghost, especially after swallowing Swingin' Ape Studios. Swingin' Ape made a game called Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, a third-person platformer shooter that had some real personality. It was a bit too long and didn't do much with its story, but it made me laugh and I had fun. Blizzard originally got these guys to finish Swingin' Ape, then swallowed them up to be a part of Blizzard. Then Starcraft: Ghost was canceled. They claimed they'd focus on "next-gen console" efforts. An entire console generation and all there is to show for it is Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft expansions. So yeah, when I'm not apathetic towards them, I'm basically giving Blizzard the middle finger for taking away a developer with talent and personality.

I hate the keyboard for video gaming

It's so uncomfortable. I don't know how you guys can do it. I get the whole precision thing, but it's just so user-unfriendly to stick your wrists on the desk and have your fingers spread over a mass of keys. I find the controller to be much more comfortable, and have no problems with shooters on console (and when I can, I turn off auto-aim, aim-assist and other such things that actually make it harder for me).

Even in College, when I had more time for gaming, I preferred my games around the 8 to 12 hour mark

I know people around here are probably more on board with the notion of shorter games, but I remember being the only person that thought Twilight Princess being a 70 hour game was a bad thing before it came out (and turned out to be bullsh*t marketing talk). The shorter a game is the more likely I am to pick it up a second time, or third, or fifth.

I haven't played Deus Ex or Silent Hill 2 and I don't really care

After playing two hours of Silent Hill 2 on Xbox I have the feeling that I missed the chance for me to really go in and enjoy these games. In fact, I should probably introduce myself to Let's Play videos with these two, or at the very least Silent Hill 2. In terms of Deus Ex, I have a feeling that the good-for-the-time graphics will make my eyes bleed now and give me trouble. In terms of Silent Hill 2, I just don't feel like playing a sh*tty game for a good story.

I'm willing to accept that these are both great, ground breaking games. But I just don't care to go back and play them.

I never beat the original Half-Life

This is more because I've spent most of my life not having a good computer, so the only time I could play the original was the sh*tty ass PS2 port.

Alyx is a sh*tty female character.

This guy basically speaks my mind for me.

Oh, almost forgot one.

I am not fascinated by most indie games as they remind me of arthouse films that pretend to have meaning when their creator just has his head up his own ass.

I have no interest in playing Braid. Just looking at screenshots or video makes me think "Wow, this game was made by a really pretentious asshole".

To me, games like Bastion are better because while it still has that artsy fartsy nature to it (and I don't just mean the pretty pictures, but the overall aesthetic built from the look, the sound, the story, etc.), the execution is still built upon solid gameplay. I'd much rather play games like Bastion, Castle Crashers, Mark of the Ninja, Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and Scott Pilgrim the Game as they are about fun, and if you have no budget you usually can't afford to make a game on anything else.

Datyedyeguy wrote:

1. I don't get the Mass Effect appeal - The story is bland, characters fit into stereotypical roles, and gameplay is boring and repetitive.

We would now be mortal enemies, only...

Datyedyeguy wrote:

2. Final Fantasy 4 and 6 are more complete games than their descendants

...you won me back.

ccesarano wrote:

...I remember being the only person that thought Twilight Princess being a 70 hour game was a bad thing before it came out (and turned out to be bullsh*t marketing talk).

I dropped 100 hours on Twilight Princess without even counting times I died and reloaded. :/

1. I like grinding in JRPG's - It's not like I have any inclination to progress most of the stories told in JRPG's (I haven't really liked a story in any JRPG beyond some of the stuff done in the persona series) and yet I have played at least one a year. I'm pretty sure the reason why is that I'm fascinated with the combat systems that JRPG's use and as long as they're unique and not recycled from previous games or series I'll play a large majority of just about any JRPG. And it's not like I even go after harder side bosses or dungeons, nope, I'm in some gigantic grassy field slaughtering normal enemies just to get my team up to the next level.

2. I believe Brutal Legend was, by far, the best game this generation and everyone should be ashamed for not liking it - While I thought the single player was a fun little romp with all the wit and charm synonymous with a Tim Shafer game the best part is the multi-player. With a great combination of small squad RTS, pikimin style troop control, and a fun and balanced combat system I really don't get why this game didn't catch on. Double fine cracked the code of creating a fun RTS on consoles wrapped in a loving blanket made out of Heavy Metal and it still fell flat is mind boggling to me. I'm righ and the rest of you are crazy people!

3. I own most of the creepy anime shooters that people make fun of at these days - Trust me I don't feel good about this one but it's the only way to play shmups these days. My theory is that these tiny little companies put all the super creepy anime art to sell more copies knowing that people who don't usually buy shooters will buy it for the loli porn-esque art style. That being said, I really enjoy shmups and beyond paying $80 to $100 dollars to import them I also put up with the embarrassment that my character is no longer a plane, robot, or other weird Japanese character and now are all 11 to 14 year old female nurses/maid/robots with a bust size three times as big as their age.

Whew that felt good. I might just start airing all my neuroses and peccadillos, not just those that pertain to gaming.

Indie Game: The Movie made me really glad I didn't buy Braid, Fez, or Super Meat Boy.
They look like fun games, but good god, the whineyness of the people responsible as presented in that film was tough to stomach. Yes, they worked very hard and did some neat stuff, but their fear of failure etc. seemed overly precious - it's not unique, it's part and parcel of deciding to do anything. Maybe it's a little more frustrating when you're doing creative work, but for crying out loud, things are often difficult when you...uh, do things! That's work, that's life. I will cop to feeling like a jerk for saying that, but damn it, it's also true.

I have purchased a great number of titles based on GWJ recommendations, including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Company of Heroes, Dungeons of Dredmor, Europa Universalis III, Legend of Grimrock, Magicka, Metro 2033, Mount and Blade: Warband, Orcs Must Die, Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl, and The Witcher, and don't think I've put more than an hour into any of them. I actually think I might have put a few hours into EUIII, which pretty much means I read half the menus. Lightly browsed them, maybe.

However, I played Faerie Solitaire through to completion. I got it in some indie pack. It's just a solitaire game with horrible voice acting, but I spent far more time on it than any of the above games.

1. When motivated, Japanese developers will beat the pants off the rest of the world's designers, in any genre. As it seems with the rest of the creative side of life, the West is great at coming up with ideas, and the East is great at perfecting them. It's all about discipline, focus, and teamwork.

2. An unfortunate number of PC gamers here have gotten obnoxious in their zealotry. We all have our reasons for preferring one thing or the other, and with most people here the choice isn't made from a position of ignorance. Platform is important with regards to pricing and multiplayer communities and little else. This swings the other way too, of course, but I see fewer mean-spirited jabs toward the PC platform. MilkmanDanimal notwithstanding.

3. I don't know if this makes me a fanboy*, but barring disaster I will buy every piece of Nintendo hardware sight-unseen. I've never been unhappy or underwhelmed with a Nintendo platform, and I've owned every one except the Virtual Boy. I'm very aware the company isn't perfect, but when they're on their (development) game nobody can touch them.

4. Echoing an earlier confession, I don't see the appeal in the Halflife games. Or any Valve games except Portal and its sequel. I've definitely given the rest a fair shake, too.

5. I rarely go back and play old games, and I really don't care to try. Often enough people get shamed for not having played genre foundations or high points. As the medium continues to mature, there's simply no way that people will have time or interest enough to get to everything.

6. I spent my younger days saying "ko-ca-bo" and now that I know it's supposed to be "cho-ca-bo" I have lost a significant amount of interest in Final Fantasy. That timing can't be coincidental! There's linguistic precedence for my pronunciation!

7. Voice acting and sound effects have diminished the impact and import of video game soundtracks. Mass Effect games have had some amazing soundtracks, as have Assassin's Creed games. I wouldn't know, because people are constantly yapping, lasers are being fired, and explosions are 'sploding. I hate bringing up Dark Souls as an example because it's so played, but the game's final battle is a grand lesson in how to use sound smartly.

*it totally does

Edit: they keep coming!

8. Singularity is the best Bioshock game. Not a lot else to say here.

9. The Witcher 2 was probably the most disappointing game I've played in the past ten years. Never heard a bad word spoken of it, and it had so, so many flaws.

I like many facebook games I bet I average at least an hour a day playing them and none of it happens at work. None of the farmville type grind games, but a lot of others.

I think the Uncharted games are average at best Never understood the love for these games. Couldn't get more that a few hours into Uncharted 2.

Burnout Paradise is one of the most disappointing games of this generation Again a game I don't understand the love for. They took a great series and ruined it.

I've never played any Half Life to completion, and no Half Lives past 2. I just can't be bothered; the story is too thin, the characters barely there to make up for the fact that I generally suck at, and don't enjoy FPS games.

I've begun to find a limit to how far back I can enjoy games, regardless of nostalgia levels. Games that I replayed within the last decade, like Betrayal at Krondor or the KotoRs are just not fun anymore. Older games without nostalgia are generally right out.

1. FPSes should die the most terrible death imagined by mankind.

I get motion sickness from playing any games from the first person perspective.

First tried it out on Castle Wolfenstein and the effects was bad.

Later games despite better graphics made the effects worse.

I want to play all those good games but I can't due to my wonky brain. So it should just die.

Criterion's Need For Speed games are absolutely terrible.
Seriously terrible. Like, wow, are they bad.

CannibalCrowley wrote:
McIrishJihad wrote:

I can't stand achievements that are tied to multiplayer

Agreed times a bazillion, especially since I have no way to get said achievements any time on the foreseeable future. Especially you Saints Row 3, I'm a shared something or other away from 100% achievement completion.

I think that's a create and link your account to the THQ site, take an in game pic, and hit "upload" - voila!

But otherwise, multiplayer cheevos are evil

Blind_Evil wrote:

1. When motivated, Japanese developers will beat the pants off the rest of the world's designers, in any genre. As it seems with the rest of the creative side of life, the West is great at coming up with ideas, and the East is great at perfecting them. It's all about discipline, focus, and teamwork.

2. An unfortunate number of PC gamers here have gotten obnoxious in their zealotry. We all have our reasons for preferring one thing or the other, and with most people here the choice isn't made from a position of ignorance. Platform is important with regards to pricing and multiplayer communities and little else. This swings the other way too, of course, but I see fewer mean-spirited jabs toward the PC platform. MilkmanDanimal notwithstanding.

3. I don't know if this makes me a fanboy*, but barring disaster I will buy every piece of Nintendo hardware sight-unseen. I've never been unhappy or underwhelmed with a Nintendo platform, and I've owned every one except the Virtual Boy. I'm very aware the company isn't perfect, but when they're on their (development) game nobody can touch them.

4. Echoing an earlier confession, I don't see the appeal in the Halflife games. Or any Valve games except Portal and its sequel. I've definitely given the rest a fair shake, too.

5. I rarely go back and play old games, and I really don't care to try. Often enough people get shamed for not having played genre foundations or high points. As the medium continues to mature, there's simply no way that people will have time or interest enough to get to everything.

6. I spent my younger days saying "ko-ca-bo" and now that I know it's supposed to be "cho-ca-bo" I have lost a significant amount of interest in Final Fantasy. That timing can't be coincidental! There's linguistic precedence for my pronunciation!

7. Voice acting and sound effects have diminished the impact and import of video game soundtracks. Mass Effect games have had some amazing soundtracks, as have Assassin's Creed games. I wouldn't know, because people are constantly yapping, lasers are being fired, and explosions are 'sploding. I hate bringing up Dark Souls as an example because it's so played, but the game's final battle is a grand lesson in how to use sound smartly.

*it totally does

Edit: they keep coming!

8. Singularity is the best Bioshock game. Not a lot else to say here.

9. The Witcher 2 was probably the most disappointing game I've played in the past ten years. Never heard a bad word spoken of it, and it had so, so many flaws.

You just confirmed something that I've suspected for a while now. We are polar opposites when it comes to gaming. And that's OK. (Yeah, looking at some of those points, wow, I disagree with you on points 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9. Vigorously even!)

To your point about sound design, I largely agree, and would add Rockstar games to the list of games that do soundtracks right--MP3 and RDR used songs with vocals at quiet parts of the game. The MP3 shootout in the airport was particularly striking. I wish more devs had the balls (or licensing budget) to include songs with lyrics in the main soundtrack.

I feel like sometimes I'm narrow minded about the games I like.

JRPGs/Japanese games are still fun in their design of what they are and try to accomplish even though sometimes they do pander too much.

I still love portable systems even though they seem to be on a decline.

Other than that I still want to have more games; regardless of where they came from/who designed them.

Grubber788 wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:

3. I don't know if this makes me a fanboy*, but barring disaster I will buy every piece of Nintendo hardware sight-unseen. I've never been unhappy or underwhelmed with a Nintendo platform, and I've owned every one except the Virtual Boy. I'm very aware the company isn't perfect, but when they're on their (development) game nobody can touch them.

You just confirmed something that I've suspected for a while now. We are polar opposites when it comes to gaming. And that's OK. (Yeah, looking at some of those points, wow, I disagree with you on points 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9. Vigorously even!)

I'd bet we like a lot of the same games, ironically. Because I like a lot of games.

And I'm really curious how you can disagree with #3, since it's not really an opinion, just a personal purchasing decision.

My Zelda confessions.

I think A Link to the Past is the best Zelda Game.
I thought it had the best gameplay, the most fun puzzles, and a great sense of discovery. The secret tunnels may play a huge part in my love for LTTP.

I think Skyward Sword is the worst Zelda Game.
The user interface is awful. The control scheme is unchangeable and everything felt so counter-intuitive. Every time I reboot, I get the same terrible cut-aways that let me know that I'm collecting a rhinoceros beetle even though I have 75 of them in my inventory. I thought that most of the weapons/tools found in dungeons were awkward to use and was sorely disappointed at how little they brought to combat. 5 pieces of heart per heart slot is blasphemous. I did not enjoy flying on the bird. The plot was particularly bad, even for a Zelda game. I thought the world map was too small and too reused.

I liked Majora's Mask better than Ocarina of Time.
I thought it was fun to shape-shift with the masks and enjoyed the challenge of being stuck as a deku-thing. I thought that the groundhog's day 3-day cycle was fun; I liked how most npc's had a story and schedule to them. I thought Ocarina of Time was too easy, I wasn't challenged by the Water Temple. I didn't enjoy anything about Epona.
(I will admit that Ocarina of Time was probably a better game, but I still liked Majora's Mask better).

The only thing I've got is that I just don't like Baldur's Gate. I want to like it, and I've tried several times to play through but get frustrated or bored after a few hours. The constant die, save, reload thing is just not fun for me. I'm ok with losing games, but the difficulty level with this series is just too much when what I really want to be doing is exploring the world and going through the story. Grinding through punishing semi-tactical combat with a huge random element just isn't fun. I've beaten and adored KoTOR and Mass Effect 1, and also played and enjoyed a bit of Dragon Age 1, so it's not just the combat system like with Datyedyeguy. I should just commit to a big stint in an Elder Scrolls game and forget about trying to love this series.

S0LIDARITY wrote:

My Zelda confessions.

I think A Link to the Past is the best Zelda Game.
I thought it had the best gameplay, the most fun puzzles, and a great sense of discovery. The secret tunnels may play a huge part in my love for LTTP.

I think Skyward Sword is the worst Zelda Game.
The user interface is awful. The control scheme is unchangeable and everything felt so counter-intuitive. Every time I reboot, I get the same terrible cut-aways that let me know that I'm collecting a rhinoceros beetle even though I have 75 of them in my inventory. I thought that most of the weapons/tools found in dungeons were awkward to use and was sorely disappointed at how little they brought to combat. 5 pieces of heart per heart slot is blasphemous. I did not enjoy flying on the bird. The plot was particularly bad, even for a Zelda game. I thought the world map was too small and too reused.

I liked Majora's Mask better than Ocarina of Time.
I thought it was fun to shape-shift with the masks and enjoyed the challenge of being stuck as a deku-thing. I thought that the groundhog's day 3-day cycle was fun; I liked how most npc's had a story and schedule to them. I thought Ocarina of Time was too easy, I wasn't challenged by the Water Temple. I didn't enjoy anything about Epona.
(I will admit that Ocarina of Time was probably a better game, but I still liked Majora's Mask better).

I don't think these are controversial opinions at all. Maaaaaybe the last one but I know a number of people that agree.

SixteenBlue wrote:

I don't think these are controversial opinions at all. Maaaaaybe the last one but I know a number of people that agree.

I think that characterizes a lot of this thread so far...

Related to that, I don't buy the "I didn't finish game X" as blasphemy by any means. Most people don't finish most of the games they play, even the canonical ones.

SixteenBlue wrote:

I don't think these are controversial opinions at all. Maaaaaybe the last one but I know a number of people that agree.

My friends from college vehemently disagree with me on all of these. I should be fair to Phantom Hourglass and admit that it is probably just as bad as Skyward Sword.

I like almost everything.

And thus I think most of you people are weird.

There is one glaring exception:

I hate the God of War games because Kratos is such a monumental dick that he's not even fun to play as a joke.

Blind_Evil wrote:
Grubber788 wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:

3. I don't know if this makes me a fanboy*, but barring disaster I will buy every piece of Nintendo hardware sight-unseen. I've never been unhappy or underwhelmed with a Nintendo platform, and I've owned every one except the Virtual Boy. I'm very aware the company isn't perfect, but when they're on their (development) game nobody can touch them.

You just confirmed something that I've suspected for a while now. We are polar opposites when it comes to gaming. And that's OK. (Yeah, looking at some of those points, wow, I disagree with you on points 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9. Vigorously even!)

I'd bet we like a lot of the same games, ironically. Because I like a lot of games.

And I'm really curious how you can disagree with #3, since it's not really an opinion, just a personal purchasing decision.

Oh, I just have a pretty striking distaste for anything Nintendo in recent years. It almost doesn't matter what they put out in the next couple of years; I probably won't buy it. So it's less disagreement and more a function of the fact that we have opposed buying patterns in that case.

I buy cheap, crappy games based on their 'ease of Cheevs' and play them ahead of better, more fulfilling games.
Cheevs have made some Devs lazy, allowing games to be 'completed by a meta-process, rather than actually drawing titles to a,conclusion, or satisfying close.

I have played through three of the five difficulty settings in both Blood Witch and Onechanbara Bikini Samurai Squad. I liked them both, and enjoyed playing them repeatedly.
They are not terrible, but they are not great. I would feel embarrassed if my wife walked past and saw them on screen, and they live in a closed cupboard when not in play, along with DoA Beach Volleyball for the XBox.

Steam Sales - Talk about a love-hate relationship. Sure, I'll pull the trigger on 50% off games twice daily for days on end and LIKE IT. Hey great, I'm getting all these cheap games that my friends have already played and NO ONE is playing any more....boo! Once I finally start playing them, I feel i've missed out on the raw, sterile-ness of a brand new game and the hype train it brought along.

Borderlands 2 is a perfect example. I'm kicking myself for not grabbing this at release and enjoying it with the presence of friends. Rather, I decided to pick it up when it goes on sale in the summer.

My approach for purchasing games in 2013 will be different: Limit sale game purchases while buying more into the day of- week of- new release title purchases.

brouhaha wrote:

Steam Sales - Talk about a love-hate relationship. Sure, I'll pull the trigger on 50% off games twice daily for days on end and LIKE IT. Hey great, I'm getting all these cheap games that my friends have already played and NO ONE is playing any more....boo! Once I finally start playing them, I feel i've missed out on the raw, sterile-ness of a brand new game and the hype train it brought along.

Borderlands 2 is a perfect example. I'm kicking myself for not grabbing this at release and enjoying it with the presence of friends. Rather, I decided to pick it up when it goes on sale in the summer.

My approach for purchasing games in 2013 will be different: Limit sale game purchases while buying more into the day of- week of- new release title purchases.

Certain games are worth going with the hype. It can just make the game more enjoyable. There's nothing like chatting with and exploring something really cool with everyone else at the same time. The real problem is that by being on the internet your going to be inundated when any big game comes out. I don't plan to play borderlands 2 and I know more about it then some games I own (damn pile). Information overload really.