Gaming Confession

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Have you all tried Darksiders? It's like a Zelda game but for grown-ups.

*hurk—!*

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Gravey wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Have you all tried Darksiders? It's like a Zelda game but for grown-ups.

*hurk—!*

I had more fun watching that .gif than I did playing Darksiders. =P

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Have you all tried Darksiders? It's like a Zelda game but for grown-ups.

It's like Zelda with better combat, worse level design and Trapper Keeper art.

I have Ocarina of Time on my 3DS, never played it or a Zelda game before it. I confess I found the puzzles to be stale and the combat equally so, got stuck into Ghost Recon instead and enjoyed it a lot more.

I've become such a cheapskate when it comes to games that ME3 was the first game I bought on release and paid more than 20 dollars (equivalent) for since, er... since I picked up gaming again back in 2008.

I confess that I'm a quick-save spammer. Not because I fear failure, or want an 'optimal' path, but because I find it really tedious to repeat content. Unfortunately, a side-effect of my save-spamming is that it essentially eliminates any real sense of risk when playing. This was brought home to me over the last couple of days by my playing of Torchlight. Having never beaten the game, I resolved to do so over the next couple of days. To add to the fun, I'm doing it on Hard difficulty, on Hardcore. There is no saving, and there is no way back from dying.

I'm having an unbelievably good time with Torchlight all of a sudden, simply by virtue of having to really think things though, progress cautiously, and make every effort to use gear and positioning to increase my survivability. There's really something to be said for rogue-like permadeath gameplay!

I own hundreds of games. I have 1,000s hours logged on Steam. I eat, breathe, and crap gaming. And yet somehow, I have never played a Blizzard game for more than an hour. Not Warcraft, not Starcraft, not Diablo. Nuthin'.

I really don't understand how this occurred, but I am downloading Diablo 2 now to fix the situation.

Bottle wrote:

I own hundreds of games. I have 1,000s hours logged on Steam. I eat, breathe, and crap gaming. And yet somehow, I have never played a Blizzard game for more than an hour. Not Warcraft, not Starcraft, not Diablo. Nuthin'.

I really don't understand how this occurred, but I am downloading Diablo 2 now to fix the situation.

I also think of myself as a gamer who tries a lot of games, but I've never played a Blizzard game at all. I suspect I would like Starcraft II, but I keep psyching myself out of buying it, based on how competitive the multiplayer experience is.

Here's one that'll make everyone angry:

I don't get the love for Bastion. I mean it's an ok game, but why does everyone think that the narrator is somehow amazing? A gravelly-voiced guy describes what is happening on screen is somehow this fantastic thing?

I compare it to Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, another gravelly-voiced narrator where nobody makes a point of gushing about how great the narration is, and Bastion falls completely flat for me.

Valmorian wrote:

Here's one that'll make everyone angry:

I don't get the love for Bastion. I mean it's an ok game, but why does everyone think that the narrator is somehow amazing? A gravelly-voiced guy describes what is happening on screen is somehow this fantastic thing?

I compare it to Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, another gravelly-voiced narrator where nobody makes a point of gushing about how great the narration is, and Bastion falls completely flat for me.

Bastion didn't do much for me either. The gameplay was a chore most of the time. The story was interesting, and the art beautiful, but actually playing it left me constantly aggravated.

Gamers, or I suppose gamers who post on internet forums, have a tendency to overhype anything that's remotely novel as the best thing ever, leading to unduly high expectations for anyone who gets to play it later (possibly based on hearing the hype).

I gave up on Bastion because I hated the Narrator. I'd be happy with the option to mute him.

Oooooorrrrr, and this might sound cray-cray, maybe individual gamers think the narrator is a genuinely important and praiseworthy element of the game.

Unless by "overhype" you mean "say they like a thing I don't like". I just want to be clear so I know going forward where the line is between praising something and "overhyping" it.

Gravey wrote:

Oooooorrrrr, and this might sound cray-cray, maybe individual gamers think the narrator is a genuinely important and praiseworthy element of the game.

Unless by "overhype" you mean "say they like a thing I don't like". I just want to be clear so I know going forward where the line is between praising something and "overhyping" it.

Silly Gravey. Don't you know that you're part of some kind of collective culture called "gamers"? It's a hell of a lot easier to talk down to you that way.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Silly Gravey. Don't you know that you're part of some kind of collective culture called "gamers"?

Every goddamned day.

Gravey wrote:

Oooooorrrrr, and this might sound cray-cray, maybe individual gamers think the narrator is a genuinely important and praiseworthy element of the game.

Unless by "overhype" you mean "say they like a thing I don't like". I just want to be clear so I know going forward where the line is between praising something and "overhyping" it.

No - It was a good aspect to the game, but it definitely got overhyped. I seem to remember people thinking along the lines "OH WOW, what if I had someone narrating my life. That would be so cool! 'The kid presses some buttons on his keyboard.' Tee hee hee."

That gets old real quick, and is basically people vampiring all the joy out of a game. And because everyone and their dog are doing it, you can't just ignore it.

Gravey wrote:

Oooooorrrrr, and this might sound cray-cray, maybe individual gamers think the narrator is a genuinely important and praiseworthy element of the game.

Unless by "overhype" you mean "say they like a thing I don't like". I just want to be clear so I know going forward where the line is between praising something and "overhyping" it.

Did you miss the big congress where we all decided to overhype it? I haven't even played Bastion, but I at least got the invite.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe Bastion WITHOUT gushing about the voiceover. Personally, I made it through the first world before I went "Meh" and abandoned it.

Scratched wrote:

Gamers, or I suppose gamers who post on internet forums, have a tendency to overhype anything that's remotely novel as the best thing ever

This x ∞

Unless they're talking about Saints Row The Third, of course.

I really liked Bastion. The narrator was a great way to deliver details to me while I was playing the game instead of elongating cut scenes between levels, and seemed to give them room to add details that might have otherwise been cut.

I also like the weapon upgrade system, the buildings as functionality, the challenge shrine, the drinks as perks, and various other mechanical aspects of the game. I think the big difference is that the Narrator talking is something you experience on a minute-to-minute basis, and everything else is just for a couple minutes between levels. The Narrator feels like a bigger part of the game because of the constant exposure, but it's really just white noise over everything else that actually makes up the gameplay.

Like anything else, it's not for everyone. I thought it was super good though.

Confession: In spite of all its problems, I like SimCity 5. Not with the fervent love I had for SimCity 2000, but it's a fun game somehow even with all the screw-ups that happened to it.

Just goes with my "I like all the games, ALL OF THEM" confession.

MeatMan wrote:
Scratched wrote:

Gamers, or I suppose gamers who post on internet forums, have a tendency to overhype anything that's remotely novel as the best thing ever

This x ∞

Unless they're talking about Saints Row The Third, of course. :mrgreen:

I AGREE.

Is it gaming blasphemy to want Zimos from SRIII to be the narrator for Bastion?

concentric wrote:
MeatMan wrote:
Scratched wrote:

Gamers, or I suppose gamers who post on internet forums, have a tendency to overhype anything that's remotely novel as the best thing ever

This x ∞

Unless they're talking about Saints Row The Third, of course. :mrgreen:

I AGREE.

Is it gaming blasphemy to want Zimos from SRIII to be the narrator for Bastion?

Yes. You should want him to be the narrator for everything.

I think the entire notion of "overhyping" something is complete and utter bullsh*t. Nobody is the arbiter of personal enjoyment. You don't get to decide when someone else likes a thing too much. Stop trying to make people feel guilty about their enthusiasm.

That's one of those things that sounds good, but I don't think really hold up.

Advertising works by making people believe they need something, preview/reviews (and scores) do affect what people expect, spoilers do spoil stories, and people do read and absorb other people's opinions about a game.

If you wait for a few days/weeks/months/years to get something rather than buying everything totally sight unseen the moment it comes out, it will have an impact.

So if a person doesn't make a purchasing decision in a total vacuum, completely absent any information beyond that the product exists (it can't even be advertised), then they're the victim of hype.

If I breathe a positive word about a product within virtual earshot of someone who doesn't also own it, then I'm guilty of overhyping.

I'm not clear how that's a reply to what muttonchop said, but it doesn't make any sense on its own anyway.

I was more trying to say something along the lines of 'people are influenced by what they read'. If a load of people are going "SQUEEEEEEE BESTTHINGEVER" then they might take that as read. As much as it sucks to be outright lied to by official sources (which has happened) it also sucks when you've got to pass everything you read through a great big funsuck filter to get some reasonable expectations.

Companion cube was just a normal cube with a special paint job.

You guys have been sniffing around the ETS2 thread, I see.

If I personally think something is the best thing ever why can't I say it though?

I like being enthusiastic.