Escapists, what are your deep dark gaming secrets?

[lacktheknack]

I have never played Mario, Zelda, more than two hours of Pokemon, Halo or even Half Life.

I was always more of a Tomb Raider kid.

Also, I never had a console, so...

 

[xWestie]

- What I played of Half life, I found to be boring.
- I never played any Mass Effect Games untill 3 came out. I played them all in one go & I didn't see a problem with the ending.
- I actually like Navi.
- I don't particularly like Aerith.
- I'd never played a Zelda game untill I was 17. Nor a Final Fantasy game for that matter.
- I haven't yet played Bioshock.
- I don't like Mario.
- Never played Portal.
- I love Halo; this being the main game I grew up with.
- I liked MGS 2 Raiden more than ninja Raiden.
- I enjoy Battlefield 3 far more than CoD

 

[Scott Rothman]

Bingo! Also Cloud is a lot more complex of a character than people give him credit. He finds out his entire life is pretty much a lie and that he's essentially involuntarily stolen the memories of a dead man and has to work to come to terms with that while still staying motivated to carry out their mission.

I went off a little bit in a thread last week about how peoples memories of FF7(how fitting) have been muddied by A) Advent Children and B)the internet telling itself(incorrectly imo) how 'angsty' Cloud in particular and that game in general was. Despite how much cool and ballsy shit he gets down to in game...

It's gotta be cause of the movie. I can't think of any other reason why the details of that game above all others have gotten muddy over the years whereas stuff like Deus Ex, Thief, Half Life, OOT and allsorts are remembered pretty much as they are(nostalgia non-withstanding).

I mean, I'd be angsty as hell if I found out everything I had done for the past ten years was a lie and that I had never really done anything of merit.

 

[windlenot]

I kind of have a hatred for these kinda of threads because so many of these posts bother me so much.

In a very hypocritical manner:

I don't really like Zelda games.
I don't really like Goldeneye 64.

I feel that I missed the importance of a lot of games having not played them when I was young or they were new.

 

[TheYellowManalishi]

Let's See...

- I think Oblivion is better than Skyrim, also, I think Skyrim is extremely overrated.

- I think GTA IV is a great game.

- Try as I might, I've never been able to understand the appeal of Minecraft.

- I've never played, nor do I have any desire to play many of the "classics" that people go on about, e.g. Half Life, Deus Ex etc.

- Some decent humour aside, I think the Borderlands games are very dull.

- I've never been able to finish any of the Bioshock games. I always get burnt out and stop about a third of the way through.

- Despite me having nothing but contempt for the Call of Duty series, I bought the season pass for MW3, I'm a mug, I know.

... I think that covers it.

 

[wetfart]

-I never finished Ocarina of Time.

-The only GTA I really enjoyed was Vice City.

-I never finished GTA4 and found it extremely bad.

-I greatly enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever.

-I dislike competitive multiplayer.

-I generally play games on easy or normal.

I'm sure there's more but either I've suppressed them or they've been repeated a bunch of times already in this thread and they don't need to be reiterated.

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

I can't bring myself to play any more of Persona 4 Golden. I got up to the second dungeon, put it down and haven't felt like picking it up again. I love the Persona series (and SMT in general), but there is something about P4G that makes me think "eh". Its not that its a remake of a game I've already played, because I've played Persona 3 FES and P3 Portable back to back and really enjoyed both.

 

[Keymik]

-I actually enjoyed the Kane & Lynch games
-I also enjoyed the Army of Two games
-Thought the Mass Effect 3 ending was fine

... Please don't hate me

 

[Evonisia]

*Gears of War 3 has one of the best multiplayer experiences of this gen, if not of all time.
*I think Gears of War: Judgment is an ok game.
*I liked the hacking minigame in BioShock.
**Additionally, I think that BioShock: Infinite's ending is MUCH worse than BioShock's.
*I prefer Oblivion to Morrowind, even though I played Morrowind first for a few years before Oblivion came out.
*Call of Duty: WaW, Black Ops and Black Ops II are shining diamonds in the singleplayer department (at least by Modern Military Standards, please don't hurt me).
*Halo: Reach is the worst installment pre 343 Industries to the Halo series, and Halo Wars is actually pretty good and gets far too much hate for very minor canon issues.

 

[Full]

I owned Click on PSP.

Phew, that felt good to get out. Still hated the movie though. Don't really know why I bought it, especially for fucking PSP.

 

[Nonomori]

Dragon Age 2 is less boring than the first and Mass Effect 3 is a good game.

I'm such a rebel.

-I raged HARD trying to beat the first boss of Skyward Sword, that guy who catches your sword with his fingertips and occasionally steals it and throws junk at you. It was IMPOSSIBLE. I was literally screaming for twenty minutes and throwing the controller around. After that I gave up, fuck Skyward Sword and the Wii Motion Plus gimmick.

If I remember correctly, the game explicitly tells you to be unpredictable. Why? Because Ghirahim can't move his hand fast enough. Line up your sword like you are going to attack from one angle, then move your hand, and attack from another direction. You can also use shield bash for distraction, or skyward strike for a few cheap shots. Here, pay attention to the first seconds:


It's pretty easy when you're not slashing blindly. I'm not saying that to annoy you, trust me, it really is. I was confused at first, but then I get it.

Have a solution for the stupid under water notes? Even with wii motion plus, I still can't get the ones that are 16 in a row. Every once in a while I pop it in and try for an hour or so. I figure I'll finish in maybe a year.

- I bought the original Dues ex after beating Human Revolution, but still haven't made it all the way through. I can't tell what I'm looking at most of the time and the voices sound like people gargling gravel.
- I didn't like FFXIII, but I adored Hope. I think because he really wanted to kill Snow, and really who doesn't?
- This is a really odd one. I like buying video games and I like replaying video games, but I'm normally not a fan of playing them the first time through. It's because every game still in the shrink wrap has the potential to be so amazing and every game I replay, I really liked. But putting a new game in is so terrifying because it's most likely going to be meh or even worse: bad.

Well, of course, Wii Motion Plus is required for this game.

And I don't know if it was a rhetorical question, but that part is very straightforward, just swim and then do a spin attack (shaking the nunchuk) for catching them all. Try watching a walkthrough or something like that. I'm sorry, I had no problems with that.

In fact, although rolling bombs is a bit of a pain (to the wrist), I think the controls are near flawless and the best in a Zelda game. There, I said it. Maybe that was my deep dark gaming secret.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Also, internet, there seems to be a surprisingly common 'secret' here that "I thought Fallout 3 was better than NV"... I thought that was largely considered to be the consensus opinion? No?

I've not spoken to anybody that thinks NV is anything better than the biggest expansion pack ever, but not really comparing to 3 because it's like the same game, but worse because you can't be a cyborg. Is it seriously a thing to be "ashamed" of to think that F3>NV?

Around these parts it's fairly common to prefer NV to Fallout 3. Personally I didn't even like Fallout 3, but loved New Vegas. Despite the virtually identical mechanics and visuals, the way the games are designed was fairly different; I found the way that my actions influenced the events of the plot in New Vegas much more rewarding than doing sidequests in a huge, open wasteland in Fallout 3. New Vegas is a lot more linear, but gives you more choices that influence the plot (including letting you kill any named character at any time they appear).

 

[Hieronymusgoa]

Popular Games: Never played any CoD or MW. I think I want to see this atomic explosion you get roasted in I've heard so much about but actually the more "realistic" a game gets, the more I'm bored. That's why i never ever play anything sports related as a game unless they are "unrealistic" like Mario Kart, Looney Tunes Basketball (an all time favorite), Nintendo World Cup and such stuff.

Not-Finished-Game: Countless ones...I seem to get sidetracked close to the end all the time. It happened with Witcher 1, Dead Space, FF6,...andsoon. Mostly an hour or so before it's over. And i mean I own Shadow of the Colossus but went to the second Colossus and stopped playing. Just didn't like it that much but the atmosphere was great. Puzzle games I always do like and still stop playing them before the end, too, like: Portal 2, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, etcpp...

Hated/"It's complicated": I seem to be the only one who likes Janeway from Star Trek Voyager. Regarding games? I don't know...I liked both endings of Mass Effect 3, the one before the DLC and the one after though I changed my choice of ending during the DLC. I didn't play Half Life either and have no desire to play one of them (or a third). I thoroughly enjoy playing League of Legends and I do like the fluffy colors and the "childishness" of the lore and the characters and everything and have no intention to even try DOTA2 (mostly bc I don't have time for another and my friends don't play it either and I simply, like I said, like LoL).

 

[TheFunPolice]

-I absolutely goddamn loved Wind Waker. ESPECIALLY because of the sailing

- I've never played past the first 10 minutes of The Ocarina of Time

- I've never played a Mass Effect game, but I watched the endings online and I got sad....

- Never played a Duke Nukem game, nor the original Deus Ex...And I've never played any Zelda games except the two mentioned above.

- I grow emotional attachments to characters far too easily. XCOM is an emotional trainwreck for me. *I'm never going to watch Game Of Thrones for this reason*

 

[harryhenry]

Well, i have a few, like:

I never play games on any higher mode than easy mode.

I like call of duty.

I cried at mass effect 3's (SPOILERS)synthesis(SPOILERS) ending. (the extended cut ending!)

And... that's about it.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

I did not like Bioshock 1, it was well made but failed to wow me.

I didn't think Deus Ex: HR had good gameplay, but it's story was so good that I was willing to forgive it.

I hated the gameplay aspects of Portal 2, and as a result I rarely buy games for full price.

I love Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, but I think Journey is pretentious and boring (kudos to the developers for their work though).

I like League of Legends mostly cause of the character artwork.

I don't think the lore for Starcraft II is that bad, it's poorly written in some areas (Diablo III lore is straight up bad though)

I predicted that Mass Effect 3 would have a lackluster ending (when the trilogy was first announced), but I never said anything because I wanted to be wrong.

I hate the culture surrounding competitive gaming and MMOs but I enjoy the mechanics and technical aspects of them.

I play games on both PC and console.

COME AT ME, BRETHREN.

OH SHIT MAN. (me too)

But he actually only killed very few people. Nibelheim got destroyed because when super-soldiers with magic powers have psychotic breaks shit gets real, but he only actually killed the towns people that attacked him/got in his way. He could've outright hunted down and slain that entire undefended little town but didn't.

Is this another retcon or something? Because in the original game Sephiroth started the fire and murdered those villagers and personally killed Tifa's father.

ah fuck the compilation, it added nothing to FFVII.

 

[The White Hunter]

[li]Final Fantasy XII is my favorite Final Fantasy game and I think that VII is average at best[/li]

Final Fantasy VII is my least favorite title. Final Fantasy X and XII are my two favorites.

Gentleman I am here to stand with you in defence of the majesty of FF 12 as one of the best titles in that franchise. It was almost definately a far better direction for the series than the one it now finds itself on.

I keep meaning to give 12 another go. It could be said that among the people I talk to about games this is a secret, but 12 is the only FF game I've started but couldn't finish. I just didn't care and I honestly couldn't name a character outside of Balthier and... Vance?

BUT, your point about 'now finds itself on'... It's a funny phenomenon that each new FF makes all the old ones seem better. I thought 10 was a load of crap, but went back after being gutted by 13 and rinsed it. Might give 12 another run next time I reach a dry spell.

What are your thoughts about FF now basically playing like KH?

I can remember all of them but Balthier and Captain Basch fon Ronsenburg of Dalmasca stand out. The appeal to me is the sprawling lore behind the game and the vast complex world it has, it's full of secrets and hundreds of hours of side-quests. The bestiary alone is one of the best I've ever read, far better than the crap you get in 13 or whatever BioWare vomits up.

I also enjoyed the relatively grown up story and it's big meta-politcal stuff. Even if it was basically steampunk star wars with magic.

12 felt like the right way to make a more western FF to me and it did so much cool stuff, most of the disdain it gets is for not being like old FF games.

I enjoy 10 a lot but it was my first, I enjoy it's story and it's damn fine battle and levelling systems.

My thoughts on that are that it looks like it plays specifically like KH2 and thats a bad thing, because it means the game will boil down to: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ... T XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX T, -cure shortcut-. I am extremely disasppointed by that direction as I was hoping for them to take the hint and go back to a more complex battle system. But no, japan laps up garbage and Squeenix gives no fuck about anyone else evidently.

 

[GamerAddict7796]

I disliked SR:TT but i'm looking forward to SR4.
One of my favourite games is the Barnyard movie tie-in.
I got bored with HL2 after 2 hours.
I had to put DA:O on casual difficulty.

 

[Aeonknight]

Let's see...

-Never played Shadow of the Colossus, but can appreciate it.

-CoD stopped being good after MW2.

-I stopped caring about Half Life 3 years ago. TF2 is one of the worst shooters I've ever seen (Team Fortress Classic was better!)

-Dead Space 3 was my favorite of the series. Specifically for the coop.

-Twilight Princess was better than OoT.

-Cloud didn't come across as emo to me in FF7. Yea he had issues later on, but you would too in his situation. Hell at the start of the game he was kind of an asshole, remember when he practically threatened to beat small children in that tutorial area outside of the bar in sector 7? Yea, no one else does apparently...

-PC gamers are not better by default when it comes to FPS's. Yea you have better precision than a controller at extreme distances... but when you're within a certain range your precision means next to nothing compared to how important your reaction time is. I don't need to aim at the enemies' eye brows when he takes up 60% of my screen, I just need to press the button before you do (and hope the lag gods are on my side.)

-Speaking of lag... I used to play online RTS's on a 56k connection. Although the phone lines in my house are so old that it actually could only handle 50% of 56k. That's right, I lagged players to the point where they quit out and I got the win.

 

[stroopwafel]

I didn't enjoy the original Deus Ex. I loved Human Revolution though so I downloaded the original off PSN when I saw it on there. Just couldn't get into it. The gameplay aged so poorly with its clunky controls and tedious inventory management. I did like the premise of the game but just couldn't get into it all.