Confess your nerd sins

[Rahkshi500]

Here goes mine.

I found the first Transformers movie by Michael Bay to be pretty decent.

I don't think Amnesia: The Dark Descent is anywhere near as scary as people make it out to be. I get more scared by jump scares than long, dull moments of nothing.

Likewise, I don't think a lack of combat makes a horror game scarier.

I find Miyazaki and his movies to be overrated.

I can't stand Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Shadow of The Colossus.

I actually like School Days, both the visual novel and anime.

Aside from Pokemon, I don't care all that much for the popular franchises of Nintendo.

I only play a fighting game when it's connected to a series that I like.

 

[Mahorfeus]

The Phantom Menace is my favorite Star Wars movie of the prequel trilogy. For me, its two otherwise fun sequels were marred by their terrible romantic subplots. And overall, the prequels were alright.

On that note, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was better than Temple of Doom. Full stop.

I have absolutely no interest in Doctor Who whatsoever. Honestly, the entire series is a huge clusterfuck to me.

I believe that the Lord of the Rings films are superior to their novel counterparts. They takes the ideas and run away with them. I've always felt that Tolkien's writing is extraneous and at times downright boring.

I can't wrap my head around Planescape: Torment. I just can't. Word of mouth has often said that it is the best RPG videogame ever made, but I just can't get into it.

In terms of gameplay, visuals, and narrative, I actually think that Final Fantasy XIII is superior to several of its predecessors. I cannot say the same for its sequels though; honestly, it would have been better off without them.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I feel like this complete pop culture saturation is going to cheapen everything for everybody.

I feel like there's more overbearing nostalgia going around than ever. I also think that's going to cheapen everything for everyone.

I haven't sinned, because I'm not a nerd or geek or dorkus malorkus.

Also, Amnesia is a huge step down from Penumbra.

Also I was never annoyed at Navi, or the Water Temple.

Also, Doctor Who ended with Paul McGann. You probably can't get into Doctor Who because the true Doctor Who was low budget and deliriously, gloriously British. Also, no one who watched it before David Tennant called themselves a 'Whovian'.

Know your place, young people.

Also, it did evolve from a children's programme, you know. Maybe it's more of a family saturday night show now, but anyone acting like it's hard sci fi is being very, very silly.

 

[rprospero]

I thought being a nerd just meant I was smart...

We'll need to reminisce later about the old days when being a nerd meant someone who was smart and not someone who liked the things that smart people tend to be into.

As for my nerd sins, I'll just start with my great gaming heresies.

- I liked Bioshock 2 better than Bioshock. I thought that the characters in Bioshock 2 were more interesting. It didn't help that playing System Shock 2 gave away some of the twist in Bioshock. I never trusted Atlas, but I wanted Ryan dead for my own reasons.

- I never got into Half-Life. I got bored and quit half way through both games.

- I rather liked Castlevania 64. Not the best game ever, but far from the worst.

 

[rprospero]

I thought being a nerd just meant I was smart...

We'll need to reminisce later about the old days when being a nerd meant someone who was smart and not someone who liked the things that smart people tend to be into.

As for my nerd sins, I'll just start with my great gaming heresies.

- I liked Bioshock 2 better than Bioshock. I thought that the characters in Bioshock 2 were more interesting. It didn't help that playing System Shock 2 gave away some of the twist in Bioshock. I never trusted Atlas, but I wanted Ryan dead for my own reasons.

- I never got into Half-Life. I got bored and quit half way through both games.

- I rather liked Castlevania 64. Not the best game ever, but far from the worst.

[HEADING=3][HEADING=3]MY HUSBAND EVERYONE!!!![/HEADING][/HEADING]

And, of course, you tell everyone this in the thread where I admit to preferring Bioshock 2.

I love you.

 

[the December King]

I despise most superhero and 'edgy' action movies.

The new Doctor Who had me enjoying Eccleston, and a fair ammount of Tennant, and then steadily trailing off.

A friend said once that the new Sherlock is a man playing at being a god, while Doctor Who is a god playing at being a man. I thought that was quite clever. I also only mildly liked the new Sherlock stuff.

 

[thedailylunatic]

I don't like most JRPG's and anime. I feel the genres are havens for bad writing and wish fulfillment.
I don't mean to offend anyone! Just my mea culpa!

 

[TheInsaneAristocrat]

I loath all legend of zelda games. i have yet to see an anime that i have enjoyed. i found both portal games to be Ok at best. kill me now.

 

[GodofDisaster]

My sins hmm ok.

I've never watched a single Star Trek, Stargate or an episode of star anything in my life.

I adored the Revenge of the Sith, in fact me and my brother went to see it 4 times. That's how great we thought it was. (I still think it's pretty good.)

I'm a huge fan of Assassins Creed, despite it being just the same game over. I find them very enjoyable.

I rather liked the Sam Rami Spider-man films, including 3.

I've never played a single Zelda game in my life, and will probably never.

I enjoy Shoenen anime, Bleach Naruto and One Piece, I loved them all.

I've tried watching Evangelion and Cowboy Bepop on several occasions but just can't get into them.

I'm sure there's more, but that's all the sins I can currently think off, at the moment.

 

[Kathinka]

When we learned programming in highschool, my code usually worked but it was a MESS. Like, I'd look at it the next day and think "What kind of retard wrote this horrible hack?! What is this even supposed to do..oh wait..that's mine".

One time I couldn't get the "Quit" button in the UI to work properly. So I put a function to it that would just crash the program and a little script that would simulate a spacebar input really fast, so that the error message would disappear. The teacher actually went pale and had to sit down when he saw the code.

The moment I had to officially hand in my nerd card was when we had to make a program for an exam, and me, having forgotten the syntax for sub routines, wrote the whole thing with a godless amount of GOTOs. It was a fucking atrocious mess of spaghetti code like was never seen before. I'm pretty sure the teacher was almost crying.

But fuck me, the program worked.

 

[Fat Hippo]

I think super heroes as a concept are absolutely retarded.

That should probably suffice to land me in some sort of nerd hell.

 

[Uriel_Hayabusa]

Oh, I got one more:

I thinkDungeouns & Dragons and tabletop RPGs in general are incredibly stupid and you'd either have to pay me or threaten to kill me before I'd participate in it.

 

[Twinrehz]

Marvel and DC Comics interest me right up where the sun never shines, and as such I don't know what characters belong in Marvel, and what characters belongs to DC. Give me Don Rosa's Donald Duck any day (or Barks, for that matter), that's all the comics I need.

I'd rather watch documentaries on astrophysics and CERN, and I do, regularly!

Could you send me a link to such shows on PM? And possibly other recommendations as well?

 

[Smooth Operator]

Holy shit this thread, I'm starting to wonder if The Escapist isn't in actuality an online sports bar... which would explain a great deal of the shouting matches.

I guess the only thing relevant I could throw onto your massive bonfire is comics, the price/value point is just insane on those. Granted they are very pricey in my region, nonetheless when you only get about 5 minutes of reading/ogling content they make a terrible deal even at one buck each.

 

[Halla Burrica]

Hmmm, nerd sins... That can be pretty much anything, but it won't hurt to add something, so here we go:

-I genuinely enjoy and appreciate Fallout 3 without using any mods (I looked at the page for the mods, and I don't really care for any of them. But the rest are like, "oh now that part of the game is slightly more detailed, this is a complete gamechanger" or "wow, there is playable fanfiction now, isn't this amazing!?". Also I don't think Fallout 3 is terribly written and is even better in certain aspects compared to Fallout 2 (NOTE: This comes from the 10 hours I've played recently of FO2, and I haven't even touched FO1 because I tend to hate forced time limits). Come at me bro.

-I really love Skyward Sword and think the controls are great.

-I don't know anything about Star Trek, haven't watched a single episode.

-I've watched one Dr. Who episode. That's all.

-I think Five Night's at Freddy's looks mediocre, just jumpscares and static images of 3d models.

-I think Star Wars is ok, very much enjoyable and I understand why it became so popular at the time and captured so many hearts, but I also really don't think it has much of a place in todays culture.

EDIT: Also I have a lot of nostalgia for The Batman instead of the Batman the Animated Series, and I still enjoy it today, even though I've come to the conclusion that BtAS is generally better. I also like their version of the Joker, he was different, but still a lot of fun and Kevin Michael Richardson was perfect for the role (seriously, why can't there be more black guys as the Joker?) It was uneven in terms of tone and several times quality, and struggled to find an identity from season to season, but when it was good, it was really good. I even think it was better than BtAS in certain places. The Clayface in The Batman was way more interesting than the one in BtAS, the Batman's character arc for Clayface was even better done than how Two-Face was done in BtAS, also Robin's arc from orphan to sidekick was way better handled in The Batman than BtAS. Manbat, who is usually a pretty boring villain in my opinion, got interesting TB by changing his story. Instead of being some scientist who got in over his head with experiments and accidentally turned into a humanoid bat, they changed it to him willingly changing himself into the bat-monster so he could be like Batman, adding some interesting subtext to the question if Batman creates his own enemies. Also Riddler was great in this one, even if his design was a bit weird. I also think Bane was better handled in The Batman than in BtAS.

 

[chaser5000]

Let me see

I've never played any Legend of Zelda games, and have no plans to.

I've never watched any Star Trek stuff, and have no plans to.

I've never watched or read any Lord of the Rings, and have no plans to, but Shadows of Mordor looks really fun but I don't know if I want to just dive in there.

FFVIII is my favorite FF

I'm starting to hate Batman, just way to much plot armor for me to enjoy.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Most of this is coming in the form of things I have't seen or played.
Haven't seen
- Firefly
- Doctor Who
- Lord Of The Rings
- Star Trek (extra kick for only seeing the Abrams movies)

Haven't played
- Any Final Fantasy
- Psychonauts
- Any Batman Arkham game
- Mass Effect (though I might be getting around to this soon)

And I'm not going to start on how many sci-fi or fantasy nocels I haven't read because I'm not huge on reading real novels. You know that set amount of pages you can read before you simply stop comprehending what you're reading? Mine's ten pages at the most. I read a good chunk of comic reading though although
- not a single comic I read is Marvel or DC
Probably more hipster than geek cred but still.