Help your fellow man! Be a Gaming Disabler!

Scratched wrote:

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

ahrezmendi wrote:

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.

ExitPursuedByBear wrote:

It'll be cheaper in the Steam sale.

After my role as filthy enabler for Grubber788 recently,* I feel obligated to reaffirm that the quotes above sum up my normal approach to buying games. If you wait, you'll get a better version of the game for less money.

Playing the game ASAP after it comes out lets you participate in the enthusiastic early discussions, but that's about all you get for the extra $$$.

* And I rationalize that by noting that the game I helped talk him into buying probably only cost him $20.

I want a 3D Castlevania game associated with Kojima. Help me please.

Dyni wrote:

I want a 3D Castlevania game associated with Kojima. Help me please.

It's a 3D Castlevania game associated with Kojima. Considering the track records it seems to me to do a good enough job at disabling you right there.

ccesarano wrote:
Dyni wrote:

I want a 3D Castlevania game associated with Kojima. Help me please.

It's a 3D Castlevania game associated with Kojima. Considering the track records it seems to me to do a good enough job at disabling you right there.

Nope, not enough. Do want.

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.

On Civ, I'm glad I held off, I will either pick it up cheap, or even down the line when there's a Complete version. I also held off on K&L 2 and Mafia 2 despite the interest around them.

Since the GTA4* incident I've become much better at resisting games at release. I got 'enabled' with Mass Effect 2 and Starcraft 2, but in both cases they were games I knew I would enjoy, so the enablement was partly my doing.

* The incident being that I bought it, despite knowing I would hate it.

wordsmythe wrote:

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

Very true. That and Dwarf Fortress are exempt, because "games I am hopelessly addicted to" don't count.

garion333 wrote:

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.

Stop it! You fail this thread!

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You do it like this:

For less than $13, you could put the copies of Ocarina of Time and God of War 1 that you already own in a blender and then run them through a sieve to remove OoT's charm and GoW's combat depth and sense of scale, and then you'd have basically the same thing. Mark Hamill's awesome, but if you need to hear him that bad, go watch some old Batman cartoons.

Hey, now that I think about it, I haven't watched Mask of the Phantasm in forever. See! It worked! ...Oh, wait, it wasn't me I was trying to convince. Nuts. (-:

Or you could just wait on Beyond Good and Evil HD if you want a Zelda clone.

Malor wrote:

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.

Combat. Combat makes sense now. And is fun instead of being ultra boring drag.

Most wrote:
Malor wrote:

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.

Combat. Combat makes sense now. And is fun instead of being ultra boring drag.

You're doing it wrong!

Combat is fun, however the inability of the AI to properly do it sorta cripples the whole feature.

Yonder wrote:
Most wrote:
Malor wrote:

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.

Combat. Combat makes sense now. And is fun instead of being ultra boring drag.

You're doing it wrong!

Combat is fun, however the inability of the AI to properly do it sorta cripples the whole feature.

And the borked MP means that you can't use the improved combat against other humans.

Buying an iteration of Civ in the first year is idiotic. They have a history of releasing "must-have" expansions shortly after, and in a year or two you can get them all bundled together for a lower price. Always stay one Civ behind the curve.

Now tell me not to order Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

beeporama wrote:

Now tell me not to order Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

You'll be funding Floomi's (insert harmful substance here) habit

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I... I can't participate in this thread.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I want Darksiders.

Don't go to GameFly since it's on sale for $12.99 right now. They'll probably send you a scratched disc anyway.

beeporama wrote:

Now tell me not to order Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

Oh dear. I am torn between loyalty to my company; terrible, terrible disloyalty; and keeping my goddamn mouth shut.

To anyone here asking to be disabled (this sounds so black humor wrong): do you have any games left unfinished? Any? Go finish those first before moving on.

garion333 wrote:

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.

You are doing it wrong.

I thought this whole situation was resolved by realizing that I have no spending money for the month of October. And then I realized that I have enough Amazon store credit to get Darksiders for $0.00, shipped.

Jonman wrote:

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

hbi2k wrote:

For less than $13, you could put the copies of Ocarina of Time and God of War 1 that you already own in a blender and then run them through a sieve to remove OoT's charm and GoW's combat depth and sense of scale, and then you'd have basically the same thing. Mark Hamill's awesome, but if you need to hear him that bad, go watch some old Batman cartoons.

You guys are a lot better at this than garion. My main concern with Darksiders is that it's a Zelda clone without the brilliant designers at Nintendo to back it up. If it's just a paint-by-numbers Zelda game with more gore and Beautiful HD Graphics™ then I can pass.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

You guys are a lot better at this than garion. My main concern with Darksiders is that it's a Zelda clone without the brilliant designers at Nintendo to back it up. If it's just a paint-by-numbers Zelda game with more gore and Beautiful HD Graphics™ then I can pass.

I can lie and say yes, it has more gore and is prettier. It's also really boring.

mateo wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

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

FTFY.

And no, I'm not really helping. :(

That's silly. You're silly.

As long as we're talking about Civ 5, it's a great game with a lot of great changes, except I do feel like they "dumbed down" parts of it. Enough that I'm leaving Civ 4 on my hard drive because it does some key things better.

Montalban wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

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

Very true. That and Dwarf Fortress are exempt, because "games I am hopelessly addicted to" don't count.

Correct. You get a gold star!

The Darksiders demo took me two play sessions to complete because I dosed off halfway through the first.

Darksiders is just like Zelda, minus any personality.

Darksiders is just a paint-by-numbers Zelda game with more gore and Beautiful HD Graphics™.

Darksiders is a Zelda clone without the brilliant designers at Nintendo to back it up.

Darksiders is to Zelda as Other M is to Metroid.

Dyni wrote:

Darksiders is to Zelda as Other M is to Metroid.

You had me until this. I really liked Other M.

It would have worked better if you had said, "Darksiders is to Zelda as Shadow Complex is to Metroid." Pretty graphics, more gore, bland gameplay.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I want Darksiders.

The camera is terrible, the controls are mushy and unresponsive, the combat is boring and the last 1/4 of the game makes you traipse back to every area and do incredibly long, obtuse, flow-breaking puzzles just to get to the end. I'm not kidding, I really didn't end up liking that game.

Guys, can you talk me out of buying Portal?

Yonder wrote:

Guys, can you talk me out of buying Portal?

Yeah, it was free not too long ago. Paying for Portal is kinda dumb now.

Yonder wrote:

Guys, can you talk me out of buying Portal?

By now you've already heard all the good jokes. The puzzles are clever but nothing to write home about; at least one of them is just straight-up annoying. The companion cube won't actually warm your heart. Chances are, you'll kill it off without a second thought and be confused as to why people claimed to be so attached to it. Also, it ends with a pretty standard boss fight that does nothing to enhance your enjoyment of the game but at least has a time limit so even if you've figured out how to defeat the boss you might have to do it a couple times because you didn't wrap things up promptly enough.

Just wait for the sequel to come out so that you, too, can repeat the same jokes as everyone else for the next few years.

I'd place a small bet that Portal 1 will be included with Portal 2. Does enabling another purchase cancel out the disabling?

RoughneckGeek wrote:
Irongut wrote:

Time spent on games could be time spent on oogaba.

Yeah.. cause we all know chasing oogaba is a far less expensive proposition than a $60 game every now and then.

And gaming lasts a lot longer too than being with a girl! Wait...

Yonder wrote:

Guys, can you talk me out of buying Portal?

Legally, my lawyer says I can't. I'd be committing treason by saying the game is bad.