Gaming Confession

Chumpy_McChump wrote:
adam.greenbrier wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:

$1 here, $1 there, a $3 monkey. Sorry! :(

Sigged.

Now, the really entertaining bit is that, with adam's comment, this becomes a sort of freeform haiku.

I'll be damned, he's right. How did you see that?

Clemenstation wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

When I play the sims, sooner or later, they all end up highly successful, decadent gay sluts.

That is pretty funny. My characters usually end up as poverty-stricken lesbians who throw regular neighbourhood parties that nobody attends.

My characters usually end up crazy or dead.

MechaSlinky wrote:
Clemenstation wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

When I play the sims, sooner or later, they all end up highly successful, decadent gay sluts.

That is pretty funny. My characters usually end up as poverty-stricken lesbians who throw regular neighbourhood parties that nobody attends.

My characters usually end up crazy or dead.

or?

Gravey wrote:
Chumpy_McChump wrote:
adam.greenbrier wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:

$1 here, $1 there, a $3 monkey. Sorry! :(

Sigged.

Now, the really entertaining bit is that, with adam's comment, this becomes a sort of freeform haiku.

I'll be damned, he's right. How did you see that?

trueheart's comment has a really nice rhythm; I had to check.

infinitelyloopy wrote:

-As a kid, I somehow convinced myself that Pacman for the Atari 2600 was fun (because I had been focused on it like it was the holy grail for so long before it came out). It was truly horrible.

Atari 2600 Pac-Man will go down as my biggest disappointment in gaming history. I didn't even try to convince myself that it was fun because I knew two minutes after firing it up that it was utter garbage.

People tend to think that Nintendo's NES console "brought gaming to the masses", but I say that these people were too young to participate in the Atari 2600 console cycle. Pac-Man Fever was at its peak when the 2600 port landed and I remember that it had so much hype surrounding it that a splash article took up the whole front page of the Washington Post's Style section the week of launch.

When I got home with my copy, I was practically trembling with anticipation. I was totally crestfallen when I realized what an abomination the port was. I mean Christ, Pac didn't even have an up/down animation! I'll never forget how utterly devastated my 13-year-old self was.

...........

- I miss the days when I got to know a game so well that I could speed run through it almost blindfolded. I don't know if release schedules were more spread out, if I had more time on my hands, or I was just too poor to buy a lot of games, (likely all three) but I would get to know a favorite game top to bottom and inside out.

I remember being able to tear through Doom, Half-Life, No One Lives Forever and Super Metroid like an unflinching machine. Having every level of a game memorized and hot-wired to my muscle memory. Knowing ahead of time where every enemy was, simply flying through levels without the slightest hesitation or pause, dodging and firing "one-hit" kills & surprise attacks in a beautiful ballet of destruction.

I'd love to see some replays from those days. I'm sure it would be a sight to behold.

...Now if I can even get past the 50% mark (one time through) in a particular game I consider it a victory...

...........

- Even though years later evidence has proven otherwise, I still have an irrational fear that Nintendo's success with Wii is going kill "hard-core" gaming. Though we now have more AAA core releases on PC/HD consoles than ever, I fear that publishers and developers will wake up one day and say, "Hey, why are we dumping all these exorbitant production dollars into hard-core games? Let's just crap out a few Petz and WiiSports clones and call it a day?".

It's irrational, but Nintendo's success with the blue-ocean audience frustrates me to no end.

TonyBone wrote:
  • I found the language in GTA IV offensive. Not in the story dialogue, but rather the "ambient" objections of pedestrians. Their pottymouths just seemed so over the top flithy that it was distracting. I mean who shouts "Cheesey (female body parts)?" when they almost get run over. Is that really necessary?
  • Obviously you've never talked to a crazy person. Although it does stop being funny after the 15th time in just as many hours.

    Yonder wrote:
    MechaSlinky wrote:
    Clemenstation wrote:
    Amoebic wrote:

    When I play the sims, sooner or later, they all end up highly successful, decadent gay sluts.

    That is pretty funny. My characters usually end up as poverty-stricken lesbians who throw regular neighbourhood parties that nobody attends.

    My characters usually end up crazy or dead.

    or?

    They all go into the Box. They don't all come back out.

    I played through Jurassic Park: Trespasser completely. Twice.

    Just discovered this thread >_<

    Confession 1. It took me six tries to get that smiley right. I'm not sure it was worth it.

    Clemenstation wrote:

    I don't much care for loot for the sake of loot. I just don't get the same rush out of finding a sword that is slightly better than the sword I already have. In fact, I get annoyed by a constant influx of equipment that requires me to visit the inventory screen every 2 minutes to stay competitive.

    I feel the same. I couldn't care less about loot and it never works for me as a motivating factor to continue playing a game. I like combat with a light seasoning of character building rather than character building with a light seasoning of combat.

    kuddles wrote:

    I play the single-player portion of nearly every FPS that comes out. Thus, I've played titles like Haze, Jericho, Turning Point and Darkest of Days. I've never played a campaign that I hated more than COD4:MW. Not an exaggeration.

    I haven't played COD4:MW or MW 2. I detested the scripted nature of the combat in their previous games. I want freeform fights that go down differently depending on where you move, who you kill first, etc. Also, I enjoy the campaigns in good FPSs but the multiplayer always leaves me cold.

    I enjoyed Jade Empire.

    Confessions:

    -I consider myself a PC gamer true and true. I only had an Xbox after winning one in a contest and bought a PS2 slim just for Guitar Hero 1 & 2, Final Fantasy 12 (which I hated) and Persona 4 (which I like but still haven't completed)

    -i totally suck at RTS games.

    -i never finished Baldur's gate 1 or 2, nor KOTOR even though I liked them. I disliked Dragon Age and never finished Mass Effect. I finished Jade Empire but didn't really like it. In fact it seems like I have an issue with Bioware games but I keep buying them. An example is that I'm waiting for Mass Effect 2 to unlock on my Steam.

    -I love Steam and totally think digital distribution is the future of PC gaming. I'm also ok with limited activation DRM as long as it doesn't mess up my computer. That being said, I hate Games For Windows but have it because of a few select games.

    -I love MMOs and have tried almost all the western ones and a few european ones. However my friend's list are almost always empty. I think it's mainly because of the time zone differences and the fact that I don't like playing with my local average "gamer".

    -On that note, I have "played" Second Life and liked it. I've also played Puzzle Pirates and like it. It's all about the concepts that are different and can actually lead to something greater and better given the chance.

    Krylez wrote:

    I played through Jurassic Park: Trespasser completely. Twice.

    There's an awesome Let's Play video series on JP:T.

    http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Trespa...

    The host is amazing. His voice is so friendly, calm and soothing. I swear it's just like watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

    Here goes a few of mine:

  • I think that the story in the Legacy of Kain series is outstanding enough to overlook its somewhat mediocre game play.
  • I hate Resident Evil 4 for its controls. I could never get past the fact that he was a top government agent assigned to protect the MVP's daughter and yet couldn't walk and aim and shoot at the same time. Hate it so much that I've pretty much sworn off even trying RE5.
  • I think Rumble Roses was a fun game deserving of a sequel.
  • I just could not get into SW:KotOR or KotOR 2. I found the game play and controls awkward and distracting from the action (what little there was). I just found them lacking fluidity.
  • I've gladly let X-Com UFO Defense take away from running PuGs in WoW. I never beat Terror from the Deep, so I think that theat will be next. Thank you Steam.
  • I found the language in GTA IV offensive. Not in the story dialogue, but rather the "ambient" objections of pedestrians. Their pottymouths just seemed so over the top flithy that it was distracting. I mean who shouts "Cheesey (female body parts)?" when they almost get run over. Is that really necessary?
  • I didn't complete the original Super Mario Bros. until October 2008, despite owning it for over 20 years. Even then, it was with save states at the beginning of every world. This is despite finishing SMB 2 (US), as well as the first two gameboy Super Mario Lands.
  • Related to that, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the only Zelda game I have ever completed (although I came close on Zelda II...before it was stolen). I've never gotten into a 3d iteration. On the other hand, I've finished most 2d Metroid games (original and Metroid II being exceptions), although the 3d versions have yet to "click" for me.
  • I completed the atrocity known as Hydlide (NES). I decided to test myself to see if I could actually slog through a terrible game all the way to the end. The Angry Video Game Nerd's take on the game is tame compared to my feelings on it. Bless the poor soul who actually made a walkthrough for it - it would have been nearly impossible to figure out otherwise.
  • I have over 1600 games, but only completed about 300 of them.
  • I prefer physical media to digitally distributed despite acknowledging DD's advantages (cheaper, usually easier to play anywhere once it's downloaded and installed). There's just something nice about perusing your shelves of titles and picking out a game suited to your mood as if it's a bottle of wine in the cellar.
    TonyBone wrote:
  • I think Rumble Roses was a fun game deserving of a sequel.
  • Rumble Roses WAS a good game. It also got a sequel (Rumble Roses XX), which apparently removed the solid wrestling portion of the original game and replaced it with 3x more cheap sexiness, turning it into a not-so-fun screen saver.

  • Aaron D. said:
    "There's an awesome Let's Play video series on JP:T.

    http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Trespa...

    The host is amazing. His voice is so friendly, calm and soothing. I swear it's just like watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom."

    -----

    Thanks, now I'm effectively playing through it a third time. I have so much baseless affection for this game!

    I don't finish games.

    I remember finishing Portal.
    And...
    Uh...
    Hmm...

    Yep.

    Higgledy wrote:
    That's a great play through.

    "Ok. We're going to go up here and watch what happens when you don't code friction into you physics engine."

    It's uncanny how much certain aspects echo Half Life 2.

    -------------------------

    I remember having flashbacks when I first started playing Half Life 2. It was like the vision for Trespasser was finally realized.

    Trespasser is like a pretty girl with great personality. The only problem is that she farts constantly and the smell is so horrible that you leave the room gagging. After a few minutes, you remember something really funny or insightful she said. You peer through the doorway and her smile draws you toward her. While walking back to sit down next to her, you think "maybe she's not going to do it this time..."

    Aaron D. wrote:
    Krylez wrote:

    I played through Jurassic Park: Trespasser completely. Twice.

    There's an awesome Let's Play video series on JP:T.

    http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Trespa...

    The host is amazing. His voice is so friendly, calm and soothing. I swear it's just like watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

    That's a great play through.

    "Ok. We're going to go up here and watch what happens when you don't code friction into you physics engine."

    It's uncanny how much certain aspects echo Half Life 2

    After applying community sliders posted on Operation Sports, I think NHL 2K10 (yes, 2K Sports... not the latest EA release) is possibly the best hockey video game I have played in the last 10+ years.

    Rented Dragon Age last night and put four hours into it. Not doing much to change my history with BioWare games so far, but I'll play as much of it as I can in the time I have. I'll post my thoughts when I have more than a reaction. I took one look at the 100+ page DA thread, and am not going to dive into that! I'll make a Dragon Age catch-flak-all, if you will, and suffer the slings and ice arrows there.

    Gravey wrote:

    Rented Dragon Age last night and put four hours into it. Not doing much to change my history with BioWare games so far, but I'll play as much of it as I can in the time I have. I'll post my thoughts when I have more than a reaction. I took one look at the 100+ page DA thread, and am not going to dive into that! I'll make a Dragon Age catch-flak-all, if you will, and suffer the slings and ice arrows there.

    If you'd like some tips, PM me - I've got a small txt file I've been saving pointers in and I'd be glad to share them.

    Forgive me gaming gods for I have sinned. This is my first confession, so grab some popcorn:

    I have never finished Half-Life 2 or its episodes

    I have quite a few games where I started maybe one mission/level and haven't complete or at least gone half way through. This would include but not limited to Heavenly Sword, Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant, Devil May Cry 4. And it's not that I don't enjoy them, I was having fun when I quit. I just have no clue as to why I stopped.

    I enjoy loot, but I love when there's that "ultimate" weapon, complete with a quest to obtain it.

    I have a gaming chair, but I only use it when I'm home alone so I can put it front and center to the tv without bothering anyone.

    I could never get into GTA.

    I love the Tekken series, even if i have to fight ridiculous characters.

    I avoid drinking because I end up buying random stuff on XBL or PSN. The last thing I bought was Marvel vs Capcom 2.

    I don't like CoD: MW1 & 2 b/c I'm a noob.

    I enjoy the Halo 3 multiplayer. Not because it's awesome or anything but because it's something I can play with my girlfriend, close friends and family without caring about winning or losing.

    My first pc that I built on my own was a frankenpc. The best parts from old/unused pc's that my parents had.

    I generally hate it when girls are playing Halo. Whenever I play and a girl is on, it's the attention-whore type that's on. RARELY is there a girl who's on that just wants to play Halo.

    I don't like sports games and people who only play sports games. There's the occasional "i play only sports AND racing" but I find people who are exclusive to the sports and racing genres uneducated. No other genre aficionado makes me think that. I think JRPG-exclusive folks are just stuck up, if they try to justify that nothing is better than JRPG's.

    I find it depressing that even though I work with computers, no one in my section is a decent gamer/geek/nerd. Hell even across my whole division (~165ppl) there are maybe 2-3 gamers/geeks/nerds besides me.

    I never finished fable II.

    I can't stand when people in multiplayer can't play as a team or out right refuse to do so. I understand you kick ass with your 20+ kills in a game but that means nothing if you died 35 times because you wanted to be Rambo.

    I hate when the only tactics people have in halo is shoot while running up to someone then beat down.

    I could never get into Bioshock or Gears of War.

    I find it horrifyingly difficult to be "evil" or make negative choices in a game. Every game I've played that has a morality system, I've always been a good person the first time through, and every choice is always a good-alignment type choice with the exception of inFamous. In the beginning where people are trying to leave the city but can't. That first choice was an "evil" choice, but then the rest of the game I was super good. But even on my next run-thru I have to stop and think "is this an evil action?"

    I like achievements as long as they are difficult but not impossible.

    I've never found Left 4 Dead all that fun or alluring.

    I hate having incomplete achievements for a game.

    I've never played most of the critically acclaimed games, until long after the game has come out.

    If I've completed a game, I always start on easy and eventually replay it enough to get to the hardest difficulty. It's always because I want to know the story and mechanics. I can't stand how my cousins will jump right into the hard or hardest difficulty of any game.

    I still need to finish No More Heroes.

    There are times when I don't consider a person a gamer because they play a mainstream game. This is especially true for WoW. I just got tired of all these lists of hot gamer girls and all they've played is WoW or in the case of the frag dolls because it's their job to play games.

    Every single time someone makes a comment about games being for children, I want to punch them in the face.

    I also want to punch 12 yr olds in the face whenever they're online playing an M-rated game. I want to put a foot up where the sun don't shine when they freak out about us "old people" who play video games...too bad we don't have the technology to send a punch or a kick across the interwebz
    edited for spelling

    bilbodiaz wrote:

    I have never finished Half-Life 2 or its episodes

    People like you make me sick.

    kuddles wrote:
    bilbodiaz wrote:

    I have never finished Half-Life 2 or its episodes

    People like you make me sick.

    I don't know why I never finished it because it wasn't a bad game. Maybe I should revisit it during the summer when I don't have to study.

    bilbodiaz wrote:
    kuddles wrote:
    bilbodiaz wrote:

    I have never finished Half-Life 2 or its episodes

    People like you make me sick.

    I don't know why I never finished it because it wasn't a bad game. Maybe I should revisit it during the summer when I don't have to study.

    I've owned HL2 3 different times (2 on PC, and the Orange Box on 360) and I've yet to beat it or the episodes. *shrugs*

    trueheart78 wrote:

    I've owned HL2 3 different times (2 on PC, and the Orange Box on 360) and I've yet to beat it or the episodes. *shrugs*

    Stop making kuddles sick with your indifference!

    bilbodiaz wrote:

    A pretty hefty list

    How do you manage to reconcile hating incomplete achievements with all these great games you started but never finished?

    bilbodiaz wrote:

    I have quite a few games where I started maybe one mission/level and haven't complete or at least gone half way through. This would include but not limited to Heavenly Sword, Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant, Devil May Cry 4. And it's not that I don't enjoy them, I was having fun when I quit. I just have no clue as to why I stopped.

    Most recently, I quit about 75% through Batman: Arkham Asylum, Assassin's Creed 2, Borderlands, Dead Space and DiRT 2...ironically, my favorite games of 2009. I just don't get it, 'cause I love them all and would heartily recommend them to anyone asking.

    What's worse is I get caught in an endless cycle of re-starting games in my collection. For example, I purchased Mass Effect at launch, played through about 50% and then put it down 'cause I got distracted by something shinier.

    Six months later I get the itch to dive back into the game. However, it's been so long that I figure I won't do the game justice by starting my old save-file back up. Besides, I've completely forgotten the story line and gameplay controls.

    So I start a brand new file and proceed to play through...wait for it...the first half of the game before getting distracted by something shinier and putting it back down again! The worst part is that I've done this song and dance multiple times with a single title.

    Maybe it's time to start taking Ritalin.

    I have decided after 4 hours that I don't like S.T.A.L.K.E.R

    Just too unpolished, even with the Complete mod. I can see why some would like it but for me its an exercise in frustration. 2 hours in, thought I would like it - due to the atmosphere mainly, but another 2 hours has confirmed its not for me.

    Luckily only cost me 2$

    Clemenstation wrote:

    How do you manage to reconcile hating incomplete achievements with all these great games you started but never finished?

    Some achievements are just crazy impossible to the point where stars need to align and what not so I don't worry about those. The ones that are like "completed the game on friggin' insane difficulty" eat at me every day. Most of the time I'm so disorganized that I don't care but then when I play a game and I unknowingly unlock an achievement I start getting all OCD about it. The only games that I have near perfect completion are inFamous(find every single damn shard), Fallout 3(being a neutral guy), and Oblivion (Shivering Isles quests).

    I also start a game and then stop so that I can spend time with my girlfriend and then I don't go back to it for a while because if I do play a game, it'll most likely be a multiplayer game that we both can enjoy until I get some alone time again.

    Of the scores of open world/sandbox games that have been released that I've played I have only finished a tiny fraction. If I've played 20 of those games I bet I only finished five. Really, they only have to have the smallest element of that open world style gameplay in them and it's possible it will completely derail any interest I have in continuing the game. In fact, I'm going to work up a list.

    *hits google*

    Finished:
    Assassin's Creed
    Crackdown
    Mercenaries 2
    Prototype
    Batman: Arkham Asylum

    Owned, started, but never finished:
    Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City, 4 (GTA4 was a rental. I did finally learn my lesson.)
    Mercenaries
    Red Faction: Guerrilla
    Far Cry 2
    Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
    Freelancer
    Borderlands
    Deus Ex
    Fallout 2
    Midnight Club 3
    Outcast
    Sacred 2
    The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
    Ultima Underworld
    Dead Rising

    I'm sure there's more that I'm just blanking on right now, but I can't think of any.

    Thin_J wrote:

    Deus Ex

    I just don't know who you are anymore! *sobs*

    trueheart78 wrote:
    bilbodiaz wrote:
    kuddles wrote:
    bilbodiaz wrote:

    I have never finished Half-Life 2 or its episodes

    People like you make me sick.

    I don't know why I never finished it because it wasn't a bad game. Maybe I should revisit it during the summer when I don't have to study.

    I've owned HL2 3 different times (2 on PC, and the Orange Box on 360) and I've yet to beat it or the episodes. *shrugs*

    You know, people like you are free to be that way. But if you're going to make those kind of lifestyle choices, I think the rest of us would feel more comfortable if you lived your lives in a segregated community so we can live peacefully.