Help your fellow man! Be a Gaming Disabler!

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I love this board, but you know what the problem with it (and, really, all video game communities) is? Filthy, filthy enabling. Threads like the Video Game Deals thread and gushing blog posts and catch-all threads that seem designed to convince me to spend money I don't have on games I don't have time to play.

So I thought, what if we had just one thread that does the opposite? One thread where people can come, and post the name of that one game that they really really REALLY want, but know they must NOT buy, and everyone else will help convince them not to buy it by badmouthing it and nitpicking every little flaw in it, significant or not. And by pointing out how much cheaper it will be in six months or a year anyway. And then, six months later, pointing out that it'll be practically free in ANOTHER six months. And pointing out all the other cheaper, more productive things they could be doing with their time. One safe place, where instead of being enablers, we can be disablers.

So: no defending any beloved game that is badmouthed here. No gushing over how great anything is. This is not a place for positivity. This is a place for negativity, for only by being negative can we disable. We do it because we love.

I'll start. I want Civ 5. I want it bad. I know that I should not buy it, because I know myself, and I know exactly how little I will get done for a month or two after buying it, and I know just how much I have to get done over the next couple months. Help me. Convince me not to buy it. Be my guardian angels. Be my disablers.

It's just basically Civ with some fancy new bullet points. So far, nothing I've done in Civ V has made me say, "Oh My God, this is sooo much better than Civ IV."

I'm here to help.

Why would play CiV when you could be playing StarCraft2? Or King's Bounty (esp. with Crossworlds just out)? Or TF2, now with acquirable hattes?

(Am I doing this right?)

Elysium wrote:

It's just basically Civ with some fancy new bullet points. So far, nothing I've done in Civ V has made me say, "Oh My God, this is sooo much better than Civ IV."

I'm here to help.

I agree with Elysium. It seems to me like Civ IV with a few improvements. On the upside it is Civ IV with a few improvements which means I've already sank quite a few hours into it.

You shouldn't buy CiV because Minecraft is 1/4 as expensive.

It'll be cheaper next year. (Does delaying count as disabling?)

It'll be cheaper in the Steam sale.

Scratched wrote:

It'll be cheaper next year. (Does delaying count as disabling?)

I think so, and I support this reason. If you've got other things to play, play those and get Civ 5 later when the inevitable GotY pack comes out which includes all the expansions and patches.

Wait for a sale! Get it in your mind that if you can buy it for less than MSRP than you get extra gamer points:)

Think about it this way - if you buy games for half price you can buy twice as many!

(I think I am kinda still enabling, but in a disabled way?)

You will read some forum posts, watch some gameplay tutorials, spend $50.00. You will lose a few games, will win most of the others, and you will have spent 64 hours fighting an AI that you set so that it isn't quite smart enough to beat you consistently and ruin your fun. At the end of the day you will have consumed 64 hours of entertainment media when you probably only needed the focused narrative of maybe 8 and several relaxing walks around the neighborhood after dinner.

You will have pushed pixels around a computer screen and clicked your mouse for 56 hours more than anyone needs to, for a game that is similar to ones you've played already, and will be replaced by forum conversations about something shinier two weeks later.

Montalban wrote:

You will read some forum posts, watch some gameplay tutorials, spend $50.00. You will lose a few games, will win most of the others, and you will have spent 64 hours fighting an AI that you set so that it isn't quite smart enough to beat you consistently and ruin your fun. At the end of the day you will have consumed 64 hours of entertainment media when you probably only needed the focused narrative of maybe 8 and several relaxing walks around the neighborhood after dinner.

You will have pushed pixels around a computer screen and clicked your mouse for 56 hours more than anyone needs to, for a game that is similar to ones you've played already, and will be replaced by forum conversations about something shinier two weeks later.

Wow. I suddenly don't want to play 3/4 of the games I own.

I want Darksiders.

For anyone choosing to take the thread title in a different manner, I am willing to smack you in the knee with an NES console.

IjonTichy wrote:

You shouldn't buy CiV because Minecraft is 1/4 as expensive.

I took the minecraft option... so basically I've just bought crystal meth instead of heroin.

Actually, the problem with Civ 5 is that there's a number of things kinda broken in it. AI behavior and unit upkeep costs just to name 2.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I want Darksiders.

Play Ocarina of Time instead. It's cheaper and better and much, much less emo angsty.

Time spent on games could be time spent on oogaba.

Jonman wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I want Darksiders.

Play Ocarina of Time instead. It's cheaper and better.

I've played it maybe a dozen times already.

Also, the unexpected GameFly pop-up window isn't helping my self-control.

ahrezmendi wrote:

Wow. I suddenly don't want to play 3/4 of the games I own.

If this is the one thread that is supposed to counteract the entire rest of the forums, then you gotta be harsh.

You should play Civ 1 / 2 instead because they are the best =) love the graphics
Plus, massing units is more fun than just having a few!

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Jonman wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I want Darksiders.

Play Ocarina of Time instead. It's cheaper and better.

I've played it maybe a dozen times already.

Also, the unexpected GameFly pop-up window isn't helping my self-control.

Then you've already played Darksiders maybe a dozen times already. It's barely more than a reskinning of Zelda.

You've got enough games that you do or would love playing.

The first rule of aggressive driving is not to look at what you don't want to hit. This applies to games and the bar scene, too.

Montalban wrote:

You will read some forum posts, watch some gameplay tutorials, spend $50.00. You will lose a few games, will win most of the others, and you will have spent 64 hours fighting an AI that you set so that it isn't quite smart enough to beat you consistently and ruin your fun. At the end of the day you will have consumed 64 hours of entertainment media when you probably only needed the focused narrative of maybe 8 and several relaxing walks around the neighborhood after dinner.

You will have pushed pixels around a computer screen and clicked your mouse for 56 hours more than anyone needs to, for a game that is similar to ones you've played already, and will be replaced by forum conversations about something shinier two weeks later.

Yeah. Whereas you could do something meaningful and rewarding, like MINECRAFT.

wordsmythe wrote:
Montalban wrote:

You will read some forum posts, watch some gameplay tutorials, spend $50.00. You will lose a few games, will win most of the others, and you will have spent 64 hours fighting an AI that you set so that it isn't quite smart enough to beat you consistently and ruin your fun. At the end of the day you will have consumed 64 hours of entertainment media when you probably only needed the focused narrative of maybe 8 and several relaxing walks around the neighborhood after dinner.

You will have pushed pixels around a computer screen and clicked your mouse for 56 hours more than anyone needs to, for a game that is similar to ones you've played already, and will be replaced by forum conversations about something shinier two weeks later.

Yeah. Whereas you could do something meaningful and rewarding, like WARCRAFT.

FTFY.

And no, I'm not really helping.

In all seriousness, Civ 5 is just Civ 4 with most of the complexity taken out. The enemy players are stupid. It's easy to just go on the warpath and annihilate everything -- they increased the detail of the actual combat a great deal, but didn't make the computer player any damn good at it. It's basically wargaming for the brain dead.

Go outside and get some fresh air, eh?

Go start a healthy crack habit. It's far less addictive than a Civ fix.

Montalban wrote:

You will read some forum posts, watch some gameplay tutorials, spend $50.00. You will lose a few games, will win most of the others, and you will have spent 64 hours fighting an AI that you set so that it isn't quite smart enough to beat you consistently and ruin your fun. At the end of the day you will have consumed 64 hours of entertainment media when you probably only needed the focused narrative of maybe 8 and several relaxing walks around the neighborhood after dinner.

You will have pushed pixels around a computer screen and clicked your mouse for 56 hours more than anyone needs to, for a game that is similar to ones you've played already, and will be replaced by forum conversations about something shinier two weeks later.

...sigh. Where were you three days ago, Montalban? If ever there was a Dim Mak for gaming purchase rationalization, that was it right there.

My answer to everyone is:

Wait for Black Friday. That's when some of the best deals go up (though usually for games released September or earlier).

"Fun" is waaaayyyyy over-rated

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Jonman wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

I want Darksiders.

Play Ocarina of Time instead. It's cheaper and better.

I've played it maybe a dozen times already.

Also, the unexpected GameFly pop-up window isn't helping my self-control.

I don't know, but that Gamefly deal is pretty good. I mean, do you really expect the console version to go below $13, like, ever? Ocarina isn't all that much cheaper anyway.

Wait. I think I'm doing this wrong.

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