Escapists, what are your deep dark gaming secrets?

[Thomiroth]

I spent an entire summer vacation playing (and mastering) Megaman X4, then the next summer vacation playing through Azure Dreams, followed by the next summer vacation where I played through Breath of Fire 3.

I believe those have been, to date, some of the happiest times in my life, because all three of those games were so delightfully engrossing.

 

[Skoosh]

I hate all the Elder Scrolls games because they feel virtually unplayable. I've played games in beta that were less glitchy than those. I want to enjoy them so much too, but they just feel unfinished. Too many copy-paste quests/dungeons/people, too many bugs, and often meh combat. Played Morrowind to Skyrim before learning my lesson, haha. Oh well, better late than never.

I also have a lot of guilty pleasures, like Dynasty Warriors and Final Fantasy XIII. And I'm sure that last one sounds so much worse right after dissing Skyrim and Morrowind, but I stand by it.

 

[AT God]

I really liked Duke Forever, it has its flaws but it is a really, REALLY, good game.

I despise the fact that consoles, the newest form of video gaming, are extremely closed off, however I really want to play some PS3 exclusives.

I think Team Fortress 2 is probably one of the biggest disappointments in video game history. Making the game Free to play and adding thousands of weapons has completely ruined the entire game, release a Team Fortress F2P standalone, don't ruin the balancing of the original, I purchased TF2, not TF3.

I don't see how any single person could enjoy the melee combat in Skyrim, I am probably wrong but to me saying it is good is like saying that racism is acceptable (not comparing the two, one is worse but I see both as being blatantly wrong)

I think the Walking Dead game needed better warnings on content. Some choices were extremely shocking and I would have preferred to know the game was going to make me witness some awful things before purchase.

I personally believe that anyone who uses an automatic shotgun in Battlefield or an AWP in Counter-Strike should have to pay the people they kill real money for that privilege. Kill me with your 1 hit weapon all you want, if its fun for you fine, but I should get compensated since you lack either the skill or moral character to use the less cheap version of those weapons.

I also really liked Bioshock 2, no where near as good as Bioshock 1 but I enjoyed the second one.

 

[MaAlGon3]

- I think Mass Effect as a series is incredibly drawn out.

- Assassin's Creed gets more boring with each title.

- I enjoyed playing Bioshock 2.

- I think Final Fantasy as a whole is simply okay (mostly because of the novelty of the earlier ones)

- Wind Waker is the only Zelda game that didn't quickly get boring for me.

- I think Mario games haven't been anything special since Galaxy.

 

[Collegeboy21]

I never completed Bioshock, any Half Life game, or any Zelda game. Played them, never finished. I still own them, so someday I might finish, but that day is not today. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.

 

[zxvcasdfqwerzxcv]

- I haven't not enjoyed a Bioware game tremendously, and I've played most of them through several times (except Shattered Steel, which I never played. Played all the rest though.) Furthermore, I think there was nothing wrong with ME3.
- I've only ever finished a few JRPGs - generally I find them too boring, with poorly thought out universes with no depth, annoying characters with the same personalities over and over, and usually awfully boring gameplay. In particular, I've snored halfway through most FF games... I never finished Lost Odyssey, even though I really wanted to...
- I absolutely LOVED Prince of Persia (2008) and am so sad that it didn't become a new trilogy.
- Dark Souls was almost interesting, but really I think it just sucked.
- The only Metal Gear game I enjoyed was the Gameboy Colour one.
- I haven't enjoyed a Pokemon game since Gold/Silver.
- I can still play and enjoy Morrowind
- I think I hate culture around gaming, it seems there are a lot of angry gamers out there. In particular I hate the hating and bad press about games before they are released - the negativity because of context: the developer, the lead designer, the publisher, the whatever... wait until the bloody game is out the judge it! I think many gamers force themselves to hate game they might have otherwise liked because they hype themselves up with negativity.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

-The faces in Oblivion repel me so much I couldn't play the game.
-I never saw Yoshi myself in Super Mario 64.
-I loved Super Mario Sunshine, because it had some of the best and smoothest mechanics in all of 3D platforming.
-I wasn't that impressed by Half-Life 2.
-Even if it's a slower paced retread of OoT, I like Twilight Princess more.
-I never beat Shadow of the Colossus, because I couldn't catch the flying one with my horse.
-The Mass Effect 3 extended cut was the perfect cap to the game.
-I hated the gameplay in Bayonetta.
-It's hard to play the original Fallout after playing FO3 and New Vegas. The humor and story and characters are fine, but it's really hard to go back from the 3D ones for me.

 

[Frokane]

this is sounding to me like an unpopular opinions thread,

my deep dark secret is that every time an attractive female character appears on screen, I have to furiously mastrubate.

 

[rbstewart7263]

I've completed Final Fantasy XIII 3 times and is my 3rd favourite Final fantasy after VIII & X. I also like the JRPG genre in general.

I play games on easy because I want the story more then the challenge.

I thought Mass Effect 3's ending was fine and a damn sight better then Bioware normally manage.

I hate First Person Shooters.

I have no problem with EA & Origin or Ubisoft and Uplay.

I love Nintendo games and think they should continue with what they're doing.

See I still want to like XIII but the combat was just too boring for me what with the system for setting things up.

and gods at the grinding! any advice? I remember that plant dragon you fight where the rabbit people live I believe? I had to grind for 10 hours to beat that damn thing.

 

[mru1993]

This is a controversial one but ...
Has anyone actually played Kane and Lynch dead men (the first one) its actually pretty good the levels design is creative, varied and destructible. The squad commands are as simple and streamlined as Ive ever seen in any squad based game. I defy anyone not to enjoy the renomoto tower level in which you start off on top of a skyscraper dressed as window cleaners abseil down the side plant a bomb on the conference room window and fight your way down through to the elevator at the bottom.

mass effect 3 the game is perfectly good better with DLC
Alpha protocol is one of the best Action RPGs out there
steam is much better than valve's own games
and I couldn't get into bioshock infinite

 

[Nuvo]

I don't think Bioshock Infinite deserves all the praise it gets... Bioshock had a better atmosphere, it was less linear and I couldn't really give a crap about Elisabeth.
I own, but haven't played Deus Ex because it has, like 99.9% of 3D titles aged horribly (Mirrors Edge has aged well due to it's graphic style).
I don't really care for Civ V and think Civ 4 was better, if only because it had Spock in it :/
I use a controller to play PC games.
I don't like Zelda games.
Final Fantasy XII was a good game.
Monster Hunter is boring (seriously, why do people bother when Capcom can only seem to either change the number in their game titles (Street Fighter or MH) or make utter crap (Resident Evil 5)).
I've never played Warcraft or Starcraft.
I installed APB Reloaded just to spend an hour messing with the character creation system, which is half as long as I've played Skyrim on PC.
I have more play time racked up in Reccetear than Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider (2013), GTAVI, Dishonored, The Witcher 2, Saints Row 3, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout or Psychonauts.
I like Call of Duty, but mainly for the multiplayer... Especially Black Ops 1 & 2 because I like having bots as friends are over rated.
The only MGS titles I've played are a demo of MGS1, MGS2 and the demo of Metal Gear Rising: Revengance.
None of them interested me much and I couldn't take that stupid sub title of Rising seriously enough to borrow the full game from my brother in law (Siphon Filter appealed to me more, mainly for the whole Taser burning thing... And that's just terrible).
The Playstation controller is and always has been utter garbage in my eyes (too small for my mighty hands and my PS3 controllers felt incredibly cheap when compared to my 360 controllers).
The last Nintendo console that I was truly happy with was the Gameboy Advance SP (I liked the Advance more in terms of design, but didn't want the hassle of fitting an afterburner backlight).
Psychic Force (PSOne) wasn't that terrible.

 

[DerangedHobo]

I think LoL is for filthy casuals.
The WoW trial was more fun than the full game.
Fallout is far far better than TES.
The Legion were actually interesting and could of been done a lot better in FNV.
I fail horrifically at Kerbal Space Program.
I fail horrifically at Terraria.
Minecraft is really boring and if you like the LPs of it you should shoot yourself.
Skyrim was over rated.
GTA IV wasn't that bad.
Saints Row 3 sucked massive dick.

 

[Denamic]

I enjoyed Final Fantasy X-2. DON'T HATE ME!
But seriously, it's a good game. Just... obnoxious. The dress sphere system is actually interesting and fairly flexible. It's a job system in clown clothes. There's no excuse for the girly bullshit, though. Other than that, it's pretty good.

 

[lechat]

- I never completed Bastion.
- I found Bioshock Infinite to be extremely boring.
- I despise Tina Tina.
- I liked the 2009 "reboot" of Bionic Commando.
- The Mass Effect 3 ending was fine the way it was (before the Extended Cut DLC).
- I liked what I played of Duke Nukem Forever.

I am prepared for the consequences of my words.

you are evil and i hope you die in a fire.

i was bored shitless by starcraft and will prolly never play another RTS again.

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

I talk about Valve way more than I should.
I only played the ME3 demo, and I found it average.
I played the Duke Nukem Forever demo, and it was fun, and entertaining.
Skyward sword is boring, frustrating, and not fun.
Same for Twilight Princess.
Deus Ex aged liked milk.
LoL, and DOTA2 are not fun, frustrating, hard to get into, and the playerbase is some of the least friendly people I've ever come in contact with.

 

[Ihrgoth]

I am actually enjoying Final Fantasy XIII. And Mass Effect 3 has my favorite multiplayer mode of all time. Also I enjoy SWTOR and LOTRO.

 

[generals3]

My dark secrets?
I never liked Half Life. I played the 1 a bit but got bored.
I never managed to finish GTA IV because something didn't feel "right".
I actually loved Civ III (one that is often considered the lesser Civ)
I really don't like LoL, it felt way too repetitive.

 

[blackdwarf]

Mirror's edge is a piece of shit.
AC1 I highly superior to the shitty sequel and Brotherhood.
Never played HL2 and only a hour or two of Half Life.
I think the Portal franchise is extremely overrated, but it's still good.
I think that Persona 4 is a much darker game than Persona 3.
After a hour of playing "The World ends with you", I hated the it.
I find Ashley of Resident Evil 4 an example of good escort quest.
I liked the Turok game from 2008.
I think that the Borderlands games, beside presentation, are bad games.
I think the 8-bit art style is severly overdone.

 

[Alex Mac]

I enjoy Dragon Age 2 infinitely more than Origins.

 

[Leemaster777]

This one's probably gonna get me tied to the mast and lashed: I've never finished Psychonauts.

I got up to the underwater fight in the lake with the giant fish, but I didn't beat it, and I just completely lost interest after that.

It's funny, because I played a demo of Psychonauts before I bought it, and I thought the demo was freaking fantastic. But after I finally got around to buying it... I just ran out of steam I guess.

I still own my PS2 copy of the game, and I even re-bought it on PC (in an indie bundle). But I just couldn't be assed to try and beat it again. I think the only reason I've still got those is because of how much the internet seems to love Psychonauts, and I keep them handy on the off-chance I'll work up the drive to try and attempt it again.