Gaming Confessions & Blasphemy

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Aaron D. wrote:

I've always thought that Achievements added extra value to a game, urging me too look at it and play it in creative new ways.

I think achievements can do that, but I don't think they do it automatically. I don't mind having achievements in games when they've been thoughtfully added and implemented; I dislike when achievements are added to games because of a system-level requirement that they be there.

I have a [del] [strike] love [/strike] [/del] hate relationship with achievements.

I hate the ones that are a lazy developer's fetch quest.

I sometimes like that just knowing that an achievement exists can lead you to a part of the game that you wouldn't otherwise have known about.... wait...

Nope, that's lazy game design too. Surely if there's something about a game worth putting in, then it's worth really making it part of the game.

PS what's the code for strikethrough here?

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Rubb Ed wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
Rubb Ed wrote:

4x games suck balls
Yeah, I said it. Dwarf Fortress? Sucks. Hard.

IMAGE(http://rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/emot-raise.gif) I've never ever heard anyone call Dwarf Fortress a 4X game.

4x-ish? I thought it was. Regardless, Dwarf Fortress and its ilk... blech.

It's reserved for strat games like Civilization, Crusader Kings, even Sins of a Solar Empire.

You forgot the most important game in the entire 4x genre, Space Empires IV (V was ok but not as good as IV).

ccesarano wrote:

Honestly, free FFTactics: War of the Lions on Vita PSN+ is one of the reasons I'm considering getting a Vita now, so slow-down be damned I want to play that game everywhere.

But, cannot afford it right now.

To be fair, you can also play it on a PSP

Tanglebones wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

Honestly, free FFTactics: War of the Lions on Vita PSN+ is one of the reasons I'm considering getting a Vita now, so slow-down be damned I want to play that game everywhere.

But, cannot afford it right now.

To be fair, you can also play it on a PSP

I'm actually contemplating buying it for the iPad.

EDIT:

My primary gaming platform is the iPad
Yep. Don't have time for consoles, making my PC run better/faster for games. My 2 year old keeps me on my toes, and my iPad is also my laptop for work in most cases. So, I'm pretty picky about iPad games, but really, it's all I game on. I'm glad developers are starting to take the mobile platforms seriously, I just wish the grindy, freemium "pay for no grind" games would go die. Apparently, this means I am not a gamer.

I liked Zelda 2, and I do not understand the hate on for it
I hated OoT, and haven't played a Zelda game since
I destroyed the first and second Zelda games. OoT was a drag. It killed my interest in the Zelda games.

I loved Metroid Prime, Prime 2 and Prime 3
Before my son was born, I got to play through all of them. I loved them. I never got a chance to play Other M.

I prefer consoles, and find them so easy I don't see any reason for me to want to game on PC at all. I don't care about mods; if I'm sick of a game, I'll just buy a new one. I don't mind day one DLC. $60 for a year of Xbox Live is an absolute bargain. I'm perfectly OK with the 360's cluttered dashboard. I like achievements. I think a sequel to a good franchise is probably going to be better than some kind of new IP. Achievements are fun. Given a choice, I'd buy a used game before a new one, to save money. I think Gamestop is great, I saw "not interested" to their pitch, and then I buy stuff. I do this hobby for fun, and the idea of "challenging" myself seems pointless; I'd rather just have a good time. I switch to a walkthrough or guide the moment I start getting frustrated, rather than figuring it out. I've never once said, "Wow, these graphics are clunky, I can't believe how bad this looks; outside of some load time issues, I'd be fine with the current generation lasting a couple more years. I've been an avid gamer since playing Space Invaders for the first time in 1978, and the last few years have been the best era by far in gaming.

HAHAHA! I AM EVERYTHING YOU HATE ABOUT THE GAMING WORLD THESE DAYS.

Here we go:

CONSOLES:
The only console I have ever owned was an NES. My sister and I spent all our savings on it in maybe 86 or 87.

As such, the only Zelda game I ever played was the OG on NES, and at 6-7yrs old, I did not even come close to finishing it.

The only Mario game I ever finished was 2.

MMOs:
I played WoW for a full year after I decided that it wasn't a very fun game.

I have more fun thinking about playing GW2 than I do actually playing it.

BETHESDA OPEN WORLD GAMES:
Oblivion bores me and I cannot seem to get into it despite having over 240 hours into Skyrim.

I have never finished a fallout game, the V.A.T.S combat takes me out of the world too much, to often.

Morrowind is great but it has not aged as well as many people seem to think it has.

OTHER GAMES:
Dishonored was a little too long, and I though the writing/ending was pretty good.

Civ III was the high-point of the franchise.

I played a lot Doom2 deathmatch in my college dorm... in 1999

I one-shot the train mission in San Andreas

1. Never finished WarCraft III
Could not get past the been there, done that aspect of the game.

2. Started but never finished StarCarft II

3. Only played through Diablo III once.
Never played the expansions on Diablo and Diablo II.

caterin6 wrote:

I one-shot the train mission in San Andreas

Lies! No one can complete that mission on the first try! You're a witch! [/sarcasm]

NSMike wrote:

This thread is a recipe for community toxicity...

95% of the people here seem to be taking this in a fair manner, not getting into provocative cheerleading or malicious criticism. While no one is openly being a jerk about it, there are a few people who hide their specific criticisms against people here behind generalities, e.g. "generally I find that people who are against [position] are mentally defective, impotent, and ugly."

Let me try to dig something up I haven't yet mentioned to keep in the spirit of the thread... yes, okay: Pit bulls are the best breed of dog. No wait, completely true but not gaming related, uh... here we go:

The best way to improve the state of gaming is to reform the industry. As it stands now, it is often a brutal work environment that churns through people because of burn-out. Some broad based reforms, starting with unionization like other entertainment industries, would improve things immensely. It would create a stable foundation for gaming to move forward as an industry.

I thought Dark Souls was just okay. It was a fun game with some interesting ideas, but it just didn't grab me the way some games do. I stopped playing somewhere around the Hydra and have no interest in picking it up again.

It bugs me when people use the word 'toon' to describe their video game character, and I have no idea why. 'Avatar', 'character', 'char', 'guy'... none of these bother me. Yet every time someone talks about their 'toon' I cringe. It's weird.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I've been an avid gamer since playing Space Invaders for the first time in 1978, and the last few years have been the best era by far in gaming.

I feel largely the same.

Nostalgia can be a potent drug, but looking back, I think every successive generation from Atari 2600 (Pong if you want to get technical) on up has been better than the last.

I still have my personal Hall of Fame titles from the past that I lovingly look back on (AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin, Link to the Past, Night Driver, etc.), but it doesn't blind me to the fact that gaming as a hobby continues to trump itself as time marches on.

muttonchop wrote:

It bugs me when people use the word 'toon' to describe their video game character, and I have no idea why. 'Avatar', 'character', 'char', 'guy'... none of these bother me. Yet every time someone talks about their 'toon' I cringe. It's weird.

Character is awkward to type on the keyboard frequently, 'char' annoys me as it's not fluid speech, 'guy' isn't very gamey (like that's a fluid word, eh?), and 'avatar' just makes me think of pocahontas. Is there something else we can use?

Aaron D. wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I've been an avid gamer since playing Space Invaders for the first time in 1978, and the last few years have been the best era by far in gaming.

I feel largely the same.

Except for this year right? 2012 has been a terrible year for gaming as well as life in general.

ibdoomed wrote:
Aaron D. wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I've been an avid gamer since playing Space Invaders for the first time in 1978, and the last few years have been the best era by far in gaming.

I feel largely the same.

Except for this year right? 2012 has been a terrible year for gaming as well as life in general.

Mass Effect 3 and Borderlands 2 have both been great, and I just haven't found time for XCom or Dishonored yet. Lots of stuff I liked this year.

CEJ wrote:

1. Never finished WarCraft III
Could not get past the been there, done that aspect of the game.

Cheat. I have absolutely no problem with cheating to see my way through to the end of a singleplayer game if I just want to be done with it. You can break the last mission in ROC if you cheat too much though.

Farscry wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:
NSMike wrote:

This thread is a recipe for community toxicity...

Yeah.

I disagree, but only because with a few rare exceptions, there's been no arguing going on in the thread. People posting opinions and/or thoughts, often in direct contradiction to others, but it's not devolving into people arguing as a result. This has been a highly enjoyable thread to read, and even post a couple times!

...even if I still think you're all weird because I like damn near everything. ;)

Yeah, so far this is just a fun read. The "I hate this thing that is highly praised" type of thread usually only fails when people start making condescending assumptions as to why critics/audiences loved something they hated so much.

ibdoomed wrote:
Aaron D. wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I've been an avid gamer since playing Space Invaders for the first time in 1978, and the last few years have been the best era by far in gaming.

I feel largely the same.

Except for this year right? 2012 has been a terrible year for gaming as well as life in general.

Well I'm sure the industry has seen up and down years on the micro scale, but by and large I feel we continue witness an upward spiral of sophistication and overall quality as time marches on.

There are bumps in the road of course (Virtual Boy, CD-i, etc.).

Tanglebones wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

Honestly, free FFTactics: War of the Lions on Vita PSN+ is one of the reasons I'm considering getting a Vita now, so slow-down be damned I want to play that game everywhere.

But, cannot afford it right now.

To be fair, you can also play it on a PSP

True, but I didn't really have any other games I wanted to play on PSP except for the port of Guitaroo Man, because Guitaroo Man.

muttonchop wrote:

It bugs me when people use the word 'toon' to describe their video game character, and I have no idea why. 'Avatar', 'character', 'char', 'guy'... none of these bother me. Yet every time someone talks about their 'toon' I cringe. It's weird.

I concur.

Demyx wrote:
ccesarano wrote:

To anyone that has played the game, all I have to say is "Wiegraf" and I'm sure they know what I'm talking about.

The real issue with Wiegraf is if you save over your only save state just before that battle, you can get stuck there with literally no way to proceed. A gamer should know better, but I was pretty young and green when this happened to me!

Alchemist > Auto-Potion > Sell all potions except X-Potions > Profit! That was the only way I could ever beat that battle. Supposedly Hamedo worked too if you could close the distance. But I never tried it as the Auto-Potion X Potion's only weakness was a hit so strong that it killed you in one, which was pretty impossible.

Amusingly, the first time I played this battle was what prompted me to purchase a GameShark, because I did exactly what Demyx said and just saved into one file over and over after each battle due to the memory cards for the original playstation being such junk. :X

CptGlanton wrote:
muttonchop wrote:

It bugs me when people use the word 'toon' to describe their video game character, and I have no idea why. 'Avatar', 'character', 'char', 'guy'... none of these bother me. Yet every time someone talks about their 'toon' I cringe. It's weird.

I concur.

Main and alts, never toon.

Demosthenes wrote:

Alchemist > Auto-Potion > Sell all potions except X-Potions > Profit! That was the only way I could ever beat that battle. Supposedly Hamedo worked too if you could close the distance. But I never tried it as the Auto-Potion X Potion's only weakness was a hit so strong that it killed you in one, which was pretty impossible.

These days I beat him by making Ramza a ninja with math skill as secondary. :p

The problem with Wiegraf isn't that I don't know how to beat him. The problem is that the game prompts you to save right before that battle, and if you save there (and save over your only save state) you can't exit out to the map from there. So no leveling, no selling, no buying of new equipment. And that can make the game pretty much literally unwinnable if you go in with a poor setup.

Demyx wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Alchemist > Auto-Potion > Sell all potions except X-Potions > Profit! That was the only way I could ever beat that battle. Supposedly Hamedo worked too if you could close the distance. But I never tried it as the Auto-Potion X Potion's only weakness was a hit so strong that it killed you in one, which was pretty impossible.

These days I beat him by making Ramza a ninja with math skill as secondary. :p

The problem with Wiegraf isn't that I don't know how to beat him. The problem is that the game prompts you to save right before that battle, and if you save there (and save over your only save state) you can't exit out to the map from there. So no leveling, no selling, no buying of new equipment. And that can make the game pretty much literally unwinnable if you go in with a poor setup.

I don't know how I managed it as I always insisted on making Ramza a Lancer 'cuz f*ck yeah dragoons.

Actually, no, now I remember. Basically there was a pattern you could get into. Have Ramza use Jump, Wiegraf will move on his turn, and then you land and get to use Jump again. The only catch was, I forget how I had the build done, but every so often Ramza's speed would overtake Wiegraf's and you'd Jump, land on him, and then get to Jump again. This made the fight pretty long, but possible.

Then part two of the battle began...

ccesarano wrote:

I don't know how I managed it as I always insisted on making Ramza a Lancer 'cuz f*ck yeah dragoons.

Actually, no, now I remember. Basically there was a pattern you could get into. Have Ramza use Jump, Wiegraf will move on his turn, and then you land and get to use Jump again. The only catch was, I forget how I had the build done, but every so often Ramza's speed would overtake Wiegraf's and you'd Jump, land on him, and then get to Jump again. This made the fight pretty long, but possible.

Then part two of the battle began...

Something like this was my usual plan. I used to have it down to a science, but I lost the alchemy some time in the past decade.

I got more play out of my GBA games using the Gameboy Player for Gamecube than my actual GBA
Turns out I really don't like mobile gaming. In those situations and in that posture, I'd rather just read. And the games are rather thin and not too my liking. They make me feel like I just wasted an afternoon flipping through channels on cable. And when there's a meaty mobile game, I'd rather play it on my TV from my couch.

For that matter, I don't like arcade games either.
Same issue. No meat on those games. In the context of an arcade cabinet with friends, I can still have fun. But firing up something on my own via an emulator or XBLA isn't my cup of tea.

The play station controller is a serious handicap for game development on the PS3. Especially if the game in question involves aiming.

Higgledy wrote:

The play station controller is a serious handicap for game development on the PS3. Especially if the game in question involves aiming.

One of the reasons I bought an original Xbox instead of PS2 was I really didn't like the way the Playstation controller felt; the Xbox's S controller wasn't great, but it was way better. Then there's the 360 controller, which I confess I love deeply.

ccesarano wrote:
Demyx wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Alchemist > Auto-Potion > Sell all potions except X-Potions > Profit! That was the only way I could ever beat that battle. Supposedly Hamedo worked too if you could close the distance. But I never tried it as the Auto-Potion X Potion's only weakness was a hit so strong that it killed you in one, which was pretty impossible.

These days I beat him by making Ramza a ninja with math skill as secondary. :p

The problem with Wiegraf isn't that I don't know how to beat him. The problem is that the game prompts you to save right before that battle, and if you save there (and save over your only save state) you can't exit out to the map from there. So no leveling, no selling, no buying of new equipment. And that can make the game pretty much literally unwinnable if you go in with a poor setup.

I don't know how I managed it as I always insisted on making Ramza a Lancer 'cuz f*ck yeah dragoons.

Actually, no, now I remember. Basically there was a pattern you could get into. Have Ramza use Jump, Wiegraf will move on his turn, and then you land and get to use Jump again. The only catch was, I forget how I had the build done, but every so often Ramza's speed would overtake Wiegraf's and you'd Jump, land on him, and then get to Jump again. This made the fight pretty long, but possible.

Then part two of the battle began...

ccesarano wrote:
Demyx wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

Alchemist > Auto-Potion > Sell all potions except X-Potions > Profit! That was the only way I could ever beat that battle. Supposedly Hamedo worked too if you could close the distance. But I never tried it as the Auto-Potion X Potion's only weakness was a hit so strong that it killed you in one, which was pretty impossible.

These days I beat him by making Ramza a ninja with math skill as secondary. :p

The problem with Wiegraf isn't that I don't know how to beat him. The problem is that the game prompts you to save right before that battle, and if you save there (and save over your only save state) you can't exit out to the map from there. So no leveling, no selling, no buying of new equipment. And that can make the game pretty much literally unwinnable if you go in with a poor setup.

I don't know how I managed it as I always insisted on making Ramza a Lancer 'cuz f*ck yeah dragoons.

Actually, no, now I remember. Basically there was a pattern you could get into. Have Ramza use Jump, Wiegraf will move on his turn, and then you land and get to use Jump again. The only catch was, I forget how I had the build done, but every so often Ramza's speed would overtake Wiegraf's and you'd Jump, land on him, and then get to Jump again. This made the fight pretty long, but possible.

Then part two of the battle began...

There is thread for FFT, I'm all for discussing the game but I'd rather not take over this one. thread

To get back on topic:

I love Firefly, but I hate how Adam Baldwin has to be in like every space/sci-fi game ever now.
It was a great show, I love it to death and greatly enjoyed the reunion special on the Science channel... but please, there are other voice actors out there too. Plus I'm scared Adam is using all his money for right-wing super PACs, where as I know John Dimaggio is just going to enjoy more food and drinks and fun.

I read reviews to games I've already purchased and am in the process of enjoying, just to pass time.
Can't explain or justify it, but I read like 20 reviews of Skyrim during slow times at home or on breaks/lunches because I wanted to be home playing it and that was as close as I could get without spoiling things.

I also have a strong addition to the Koei Warriors games. I don't buy every game (Dynasty, Samurai, Empires, Orochi, Gundam, One Piece....) but I buy them often enough to get my fix. Especially back in the PS2 days I remember buying every release from Warriors 3 through to 5 which also included DW4:Empires and the first Samurai Warriors. I recently tried branching out into Capcom's Sengoku Basara but it just wasn't the same...