Gaming Confessions & Blasphemy

Rykin wrote:
iaintgotnopants wrote:
Thurgrim wrote:

LA Noire is the only game Rockstar ever made that is a total piece of crap.

FTFY

That game was terrible.

Guess you never played State of Emergency. They should be ashamed of that game.

[Size=7]I liked it.[/size]
Also, Rockstar didn't make it, they just published it. I don't think the company that made it exists anymore. Go figure.

I've never played a Valve game. I didn't even own one until a friend gifted me L4D last night.

omnipherous wrote:

I've never played a Valve game. I didn't even own one until a friend gifted me L4D last night.

Gasp!

Now, I could totally understand never liking a Valve game. But never even playing one? You gotta get out more! Or stay in more, I guess...

kexx wrote:

Never played Halo's, COD's, Battlefields, MOH's, WOW's, MMO's, Skyrim, Diablos, Star Wars, and never plan to.

I was going to ask you to marry me... then you said this. I shall see you in hell, sir

Probably not. To kexx will go the Kingdom of Heaven, for he is obviously poor in spirit.

Unknown Soldier wrote:

3. I will play an old "comfort" game rather than spend the time trying to figure out the new, cool game.

This is the exact reason why I've purchased Doom/Doom II on, let's see...8 different platforms.

Far and away my choice for gaming comfort food.

This is like saying "I never had a favorite stuffed animal as a child."

Thin_J wrote:
Lex Cayman wrote:
gore wrote:

Oh, I have a supplementary one:

a) I used to connect to the Dreamcast Q3 servers with the PC version of Q3 and kill everybody on them repeatedly

It was a relatively little known fact that the Quake 3 Dreamcast port was actually fully compatible with the PC version of Quake 3, and that the DC Q3 servers were actually just public Q3 servers running special maps. Some intrepid young hero extracted those maps and made them available to PC players, and the slaughter commenced.

So, on particularly frustrating days, I'd log into a DC Q3 server and just go to town.

Now, I was an OK Quake 3 player in my day, but I had a mouse and those poor suckers had a stupid gamepad, which made me like some kind of super-god stepping on ants. I didn't do this a whole lot, because I eventually felt kind of bad for them.

That sounds amazing.

I did this too.

Ah, the glory days.

Both of you just took a huge respect dive in my eyes.

Aaron D. wrote:
Unknown Soldier wrote:

3. I will play an old "comfort" game rather than spend the time trying to figure out the new, cool game.

This is the exact reason why I've purchased Doom/Doom II on, let's see...8 different platforms.

Far and away my choice for gaming comfort food.

For me those games are Sins of a Solar Empire and Skyrim, newer games than your examples but games I have mostly mastered and don't feel any real threat in but games where I still have fun playing. In Skyrim that usually means just completing a random quest I haven't done yet of which there are still many.

Unknown Soldier wrote:

3. I will play an old "comfort" game rather than spend the time trying to figure out the new, cool game.

Hi, my name is Keith and I'm a L4D (1&2) versus player. Years ago some friends and I were a highly ranked team on gamebattles. Now I buy a game now and then but when I'm not listening to podcasts or checking the GWJ forums, my game time is 50% spent trying iOS games for 10 minutes and forgetting them, or 50% jumping into pubstomps with other friends on L4D2. We try to find meaningful opponents, teams of four who know one another, know the game, and how to communicate, but most often it's random skill-less newbs and we have to handicap ourselves by not taking weapons, not using merits, etc. to keep the game close. When we lose it's because there was less than four of us and we had Joe Newbody slowing us down and getting instakilled.

Now what's step #2?

Dakuna wrote:
Thin_J wrote:
Lex Cayman wrote:
gore wrote:

Oh, I have a supplementary one:

a) I used to connect to the Dreamcast Q3 servers with the PC version of Q3 and kill everybody on them repeatedly

It was a relatively little known fact that the Quake 3 Dreamcast port was actually fully compatible with the PC version of Quake 3, and that the DC Q3 servers were actually just public Q3 servers running special maps. Some intrepid young hero extracted those maps and made them available to PC players, and the slaughter commenced.

So, on particularly frustrating days, I'd log into a DC Q3 server and just go to town.

Now, I was an OK Quake 3 player in my day, but I had a mouse and those poor suckers had a stupid gamepad, which made me like some kind of super-god stepping on ants. I didn't do this a whole lot, because I eventually felt kind of bad for them.

That sounds amazing.

I did this too.

Ah, the glory days.

Both of you just took a huge respect dive in my eyes.

Dude, this is a confessional, we're supposed to be absolved after we confess! What kind of church is this, anyway?

gore wrote:

Dude, this is a confessional, we're supposed to be absolved after we confess! What kind of church is this, anyway?

I'm a lousy priest? Don't worry, I won't send the inquisition to your house

This might lose me some respect around these parts, but oh well...

I grew up a Macintosh gamer. I know, you probably didn't even think we existed right? So when all of you reference some old classic PC game, I pretty much have no idea what you are talking about. And frankly, I don't care.

Even back then, I always felt PC gaming was overrated, and I still feel so today. If any of you played Escape Velocity or Marathon back in their glory days, you probably know exactly what I mean when I say I don't feel like I missed anything.

jamos5 wrote:

This might lose me some respect around these parts, but oh well...

I grew up a Macintosh gamer. I know, you probably didn't even think we existed right? So when all of you reference some old classic PC game, I pretty much have no idea what you are talking about. And frankly, I don't care.

Even back then, I always felt PC gaming was overrated, and I still feel so today. If any of you played Escape Velocity or Marathon back in their glory days, you probably know exactly what I mean when I say I don't feel like I missed anything.

What is your physical address? For, uh, kidnapping and no-ransom purposes? Wait, that was the secret reason.

jamos5 wrote:

This might lose me some respect around these parts, but oh well...

I grew up a Macintosh gamer. I know, you probably didn't even think we existed right? So when all of you reference some old classic PC game, I pretty much have no idea what you are talking about. And frankly, I don't care.

Even back then, I always felt PC gaming was overrated, and I still feel so today. If any of you played Escape Velocity or Marathon back in their glory days, you probably know exactly what I mean when I say I don't feel like I missed anything.

Word. ResEdit, represent.

jamos5 wrote:

This might lose me some respect around these parts, but oh well...

I grew up a Macintosh gamer. I know, you probably didn't even think we existed right? So when all of you reference some old classic PC game, I pretty much have no idea what you are talking about. And frankly, I don't care.

Even back then, I always felt PC gaming was overrated, and I still feel so today. If any of you played Escape Velocity or Marathon back in their glory days, you probably know exactly what I mean when I say I don't feel like I missed anything.

Escape Velocity was the bees knees. Loved that game.

Playing it again has brought be back around to this: Final Fantasy XIII is a brilliant game, the best in the series, and all of you hating it is the reason we gamers can't have nice things.

There, I said it.

The battle system: brilliant, understated and elegant, with loads of strategy. The plot: focusing on interwoven character development of six people instead of some incomprehensible war-of-the-worlds scheme is a masterstroke, and leads to some really great moments. The cinematography: Square's best to-date, with some truly affecting scenes like Snow and Hope's confrontation and Sazh's pathos moments. The music: bar none the best that's ever been put in a game, and I will defend that to the death.

What it lacks: most of the JRPG tropes that make a lot of people hate the genre. Close friends who suddenly betray your party for no good reason? Gone. Idiotic worldwide fetch quests to assemble twelve pieces of a powerful weapon before the final boss, where most people abandon the game? Gone. Poor pacing, where you are sent on some crazy objective and have to fight your way through the field, then the forest, then the dungeon to get to the next plot point? Gone. Obnoxiously cloying white-magic-using princess deposed from the throne by an evil uncle/father/stepmother? Gone. Drawn-out trash mob battles? Gone. Every ounce of the game's energy emphasizes speed in battles; it's the only thing that goes toward your grade.

And yet you complain. It's not "open world" enough. (I haven't gotten lost once! What's up with that?) The plot is too linear. I don't have enough choice in battle (I honestly don't even know how people can make this complaint in good faith).

You people make me sick.

Who let Min out of his cage?

Veloxi wrote:
jamos5 wrote:

This might lose me some respect around these parts, but oh well...

I grew up a Macintosh gamer. I know, you probably didn't even think we existed right? So when all of you reference some old classic PC game, I pretty much have no idea what you are talking about. And frankly, I don't care.

Even back then, I always felt PC gaming was overrated, and I still feel so today. If any of you played Escape Velocity or Marathon back in their glory days, you probably know exactly what I mean when I say I don't feel like I missed anything.

Escape Velocity was the bees knees. Loved that game.

Ambrosia put out some great games.

Minarchist wrote:

Playing it again has brought be back around to this: Final Fantasy XIII is a brilliant game, the best in the series, and all of you hating it is the reason we gamers can't have nice things.

There, I said it.

The battle system: brilliant, understated and elegant, with loads of strategy. The plot: focusing on interwoven character development of six people instead of some incomprehensible war-of-the-worlds scheme is a masterstroke, and leads to some really great moments. The cinematography: Square's best to-date, with some truly affecting scenes like Snow and Hope's confrontation and Sazh's pathos moments. The music: bar none the best that's ever been put in a game, and I will defend that to the death.

What it lacks: most of the JRPG tropes that make a lot of people hate the genre. Close friends who suddenly betray your party for no good reason? Gone. Idiotic worldwide fetch quests to assemble twelve pieces of a powerful weapon before the final boss, where most people abandon the game? Gone. Poor pacing, where you are sent on some crazy objective and have to fight your way through the field, then the forest, then the dungeon to get to the next plot point? Gone. Obnoxiously cloying white-magic-using princess deposed from the throne by an evil uncle/father/stepmother? Gone. Drawn-out trash mob battles? Gone. Every ounce of the game's energy emphasizes speed in battles; it's the only thing that goes toward your grade.

And yet you complain. It's not "open world" enough. (I haven't gotten lost once! What's up with that?) The plot is too linear. I don't have enough choice in battle (I honestly don't even know how people can make this complaint in good faith).

You people make me sick.

Heehee... I picked it up recently and am about 10-15 hours in IIRC. I've enjoyed everything about it so far. I got to a point (boss) where I'm going to have to get better at chaining. The battles have an excellent rhythm to them. They are very satisfying if you do things right.

lostlobster wrote:
Veloxi wrote:
jamos5 wrote:

This might lose me some respect around these parts, but oh well...

I grew up a Macintosh gamer. I know, you probably didn't even think we existed right? So when all of you reference some old classic PC game, I pretty much have no idea what you are talking about. And frankly, I don't care.

Even back then, I always felt PC gaming was overrated, and I still feel so today. If any of you played Escape Velocity or Marathon back in their glory days, you probably know exactly what I mean when I say I don't feel like I missed anything.

Escape Velocity was the bees knees. Loved that game.

Ambrosia put out some great games.

Yeah, it's sad that they're still charghing $30 for Escape Velocity Nova. No one is gonna buy a nearly decade-old game for that price. :/

Minarchist wrote:

You people make me sick.

That's funny, I played that game for about an hour with some friends (friends who played other FF games with me notably 7, 8 and 12) and then, we turned off the machine and took turns throwing up in each others faces for the same amount of time. If I had to choose, I would take the second part of that evening over the first every single time.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Heehee... I picked it up recently and am about 10-15 hours in IIRC. I've enjoyed everything about it so far. I got to a point (boss) where I'm going to have to get better at chaining. The battles have an excellent rhythm to them. They are very satisfying if you do things right.

Pro tip: you've noticed that if you can expend two entire ATB bars that when you switch to a different paradigm you automatically have a full ATB gauge, maybe? If you don't need six separate paradigms, keep two of your main battle paradigm (probably COM/RAV or COM/RAV/RAV) in the same deck, and switch back and forth between the two every 15 seconds or so. It can really help speed battles up and keep those chain gauges from dying.

gore wrote:

Word. ResEdit, represent.

Hahaha loved that sh*t man. My first Mac/computer was a Performa 600CD running System 7.6.1. A friend gave it to me after he upgraded. I managed to completely bork the system about 2 days later doing some ResEdit hacking.

lostlobster wrote:

Ambrosia put out some great games.

Oh hells yes. Played so much Maelstrom back in the day. Turning the speed limiter off on my friends PowerMac 8600/300 was a hoot

Now I want to pull my old PowerMac G3 out of the closet and get a working harddrive and find my old backup discs for Mac OS 9.

I can objectively look at FFXIII and say that it is a well-done game. I actually did enjoy the battle system a lot, but to be honest, the game, as a whole, just didn't grab my attention.

The nature of the story makes the way the game plays make sense, but I just felt like I was in a constant dungeon. You know that feeling you get at the end of a long ass dungeon and you just want to get to the boss or a save point or anything so that it's done and you don't have to fight any more? That feeling of "just let me get to a damn town"? I felt that for the 25 hours I played. It was constant. No reprieve. Now, like I said, the story kind of makes this make sense. It didn't make it any more fun for me. I don't even know if any of the above makes any sense, but it's how I felt playing.

I, for one, enjoy towns in RPG's. I like the eb and flow of the gameplay and talking to npc's to fill in the lore.

Also, Tetsuya Nomura needs to go away. XIII was damn pretty, but I'm getting a little tired of his character design... which seems to have become the Squenix house look.

Who knew you could play games on a MAC? Does it require going to art school first, or some kind of same-sex marital agreement?

Dakuna wrote:

Who knew you could play games on a MAC? Does it require going to art school first, or some kind of same-sex marital agreement?

Nope, just requires you lower your expectations on which games you'll get to play... Or buy a copy of windows and partition your machine.

Minarchist wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Heehee... I picked it up recently and am about 10-15 hours in IIRC. I've enjoyed everything about it so far. I got to a point (boss) where I'm going to have to get better at chaining. The battles have an excellent rhythm to them. They are very satisfying if you do things right.

Pro tip: you've noticed that if you can expend two entire ATB bars that when you switch to a different paradigm you automatically have a full ATB gauge, maybe? If you don't need six separate paradigms, keep two of your main battle paradigm (probably COM/RAV or COM/RAV/RAV) in the same deck, and switch back and forth between the two every 15 seconds or so. It can really help speed battles up and keep those chain gauges from dying.

After I got stuck, I did a little research and figured out about that. I still need to play with it, though, to get a feel for how that works exactly. I did notice the blurb about it in game, but I couldn't figure it out. So, say you have 3 ATB bars for your character. Starting out, you let them all get full, then, just after the 2 bars have been expended, you do a paradigm shift, correct? Your bars should be full again and you just rinse and repeat, likely alternating between 2 setups. That's what I figured you would do. The one thing I wasn't sure about was when to do the paradigm shift, exactly. You're supposed to do it right after that 2nd bar is expended, correct?

Rykin wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

Ambrosia put out some great games.

Oh hells yes. Played so much Maelstrom back in the day. Turning the speed limiter off on my friends PowerMac 8600/300 was a hoot

Now I want to pull my old PowerMac G3 out of the closet and get a working harddrive and find my old backup discs for Mac OS 9.

Just went to their site. I'm shocked at how these guys have pretty much missed the iOS boat. They have a few things out, but there's a lot of their back catalog that I'd buy for $1 to $3 if it was available on my iPad.

Rykin wrote:
gore wrote:

Word. ResEdit, represent.

Hahaha loved that sh*t man. My first Mac/computer was a Performa 600CD running System 7.6.1. A friend gave it to me after he upgraded. I managed to completely bork the system about 2 days later doing some ResEdit hacking.

lostlobster wrote:

Ambrosia put out some great games.

Oh hells yes. Played so much Maelstrom back in the day. Turning the speed limiter off on my friends PowerMac 8600/300 was a hoot

Now I want to pull my old PowerMac G3 out of the closet and get a working harddrive and find my old backup discs for Mac OS 9.

I loved my Apple II games and my parents got me a Mac when they became the hotness, but once I discovered my college LAN I broke down and got me some Pentiums due to all the peer pressure.

It didn't help that Quake had just come out. Hard to resist that.

Escape Velocity came out in the last year before I ditched my old Mac, but it still ranks very highly in my gaming memories. Those systems were tight.