Escapists, what are your deep dark gaming secrets?

[Xman490]

I think Bioshock is too hard, on Easy mode, at least against Big Daddies.
I only like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for half of its dungeons, alternating starting from liking Inside the Deku Tree.
I don't think Wind Waker is great.
I don't like MOBA games.
I like almost all of Duke Nukem Forever, with The Hive and its ball-rolling, octo-brain-spawning, dark tedium as the exception.
I like every main series Super Mario game (Bros. 1-3, World, 64, Sunshine, Galaxies), except for the New series.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I think Gears of War 3 is the greatest multiplayer game ever made.

I thought The Last of Us was shit.

 

[Strazdas]

I havent played Half-Life 2 after finding Half-Life "just another boring shooter". Half-Life is one of maybe 5 games total i couldnt finish because it got so boring. and i finished Far Cry 2 for comparison.

What is this? im still alive?
ok.
I have really never found Valve products interesting to begin with and i dont use Steam.

I think Far Cry 2 Horrible and people who made it should be never let at designing a game again.

I actually liked the ending of ME3 and you should stop yapping your silly mouths about it.

I think Nintendo hasnt made a single game worth playing in 10 years. the whole award wining Skyward sword crap makes me furiuos.

I have more games in a "play when have time" list than "games i played" (148 vs 87)

whenever i play minecraft i get bored of constructing stuff. then quite for another 3 months. till my friend drags me back in.

I DONT like the whole indie fandom currently in. Sure independant developers are all good, but what we get currently with Nyan Cat game and stuff makes me sad panda.

I didnt play Journey because a video of a guy praising it made me think the game is boring.

I can never understand why Monkey Island is not forgotten yet. But could be that i just dont like point and click adverntures. never did.

I liked morrowind, but it was so big half of it i spent "rushing though", that is, if you can call a strategy of "must visit all gazzilion locations and do all quests" rushing. i think for a 2003 game AI is terrible.

And yes i am a miserable human being and loved it.

Dude.

They have a game?

I have got to find it.

I was going to mention "japanese tentacle games" but this is better.
if you find it tell me where.

I liked Sonic '06.

ok, i give up! you are obviously more evil.

 

[Trinab]

Despite being an RPG elitist snob, I have never beaten, or even gotten more then an hour into Planescape: Torment.

I enjoyed Kingdoms of Amalaur, Reckoning.

I hated Final Fantasy VII the minute I played it back in the 90s.

I only somewhat liked Mass Effect. I found Mass Effect 2 boring about 5 hours in, and stopped playing.

I adore the heck out of the Sims 3.

I cannot stand the Icewind Dale series, despite my love of Baldur's Gate.

I initially disliked the original Call of Duty, where I considered it a cheap cash grab for the market of the superior game, Battlefield: 1942. I ended up loving it.

 

[Mausthemighty]

I bought C&C 4 and Spore at full price.
And I hated them both.
Other than that I committed no sins.

 

[Austin Howe]

I have never played Earthbound beyond the first fifteen minutes (though I intend to fairly soon)

I WILL NOT finish System Shock 2 because WOW fuck that game

My favorite game of all time is Final Fantasy VIII

I cannot count the games I hate that others love, but the big one for sure is Final Fantasy VI, especially when it is said to be better than Final Fantasy VII because lol nope not even close.

 

[piinyouri]

The first two Fallouts have awful AWFUL controls to the point that I can't really dig into them.

I really did not like Bastion. (Gameplay wise. Great music and Rucks was fun)

I played Tales of Symphonia and really didn't enjoy it. Somehow, someway the game feels "washed out" to me. Eternia had vibrant colors, and bold colors too. Symphonia just looks like dish soap to me. Related, I find Tales of Destiny 1 to be awful awful awful.

I love Spore. I'm actually playing it again and decided to try some mods out and the game feels new again. And there's a mod in the works that when finished will put all the Darkspore parts in Spore. Can't wait.

I love FarCry 2. Faults and all. Just can;'t quite get that survivalist feeling in too many other games I've played.

I vastly prefer Megaman X over original Megaman.

I played Evergrace and quite enjoyed it.

I've got around 500 hours on Final Fantasy X-2. Best iteration (well until I saw Versus/14) of the combat system I've played. It's just too much fun to load up a team of berserkers or other melee class and just hammer the X button as fast as I can.

Ratchet Deadlocked remains my favorite R&C game to date.

Star Ocean:Till The End of Time BLEW MY GODDAMN MIND.

And I found Journey to be a tad boring. Surprised me too.

 

[Raioken18]

I love dating sims... if there were some free Ios sims I'd get em in a heartbeat.

 

[cjspyres]

Oh ho ho, this is going to be a good one. Let's see....

I think the Half-Life games are dreadfully boring
I can't stand the Diablo games, and they are horribly repetitive
I think Goldeneye was a pretty bad game
I can't seem to understand why Final Fantasy VII is a "great" game
I feel that Morrowinds combat system makes the game near unplayable (And it's not because I don't understand or dislike Dice roll mechanics, I just hate the way it was used)
I believe Demons/Dark Souls are horrible games

That's all I can think of for now....

Edit: I never finished New Vegas because it felt extremely boring, empty, and like there was nothing to do. I find Fallout 3 to be vastly superior.

Edit 2: I find both Borderlands games to be really boring.

Edit 3: Kingdom Hearts are not the games for me.

 

[ComandaKool]

-I didn't enjoy Mass Effect. (I just couldn't get into it.)
-I think Minecraft isn't as good as people claim it is.
-I think Left For Dead is better then Left For Dead 2.
-The Call Of Duty series is below average at best.
-I dislike Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning

I never played anything from the Legend Of Zelda series, or the Metal Gear Solid series.

 

[rbstewart7263]

I never played a Half Life game.
I think Metroid Prime has awful controls that make me not able to enjoy it.
I like Modern Military Shooters.
I think any Sonic game that isn't Adventure 1 or 2 is awful.
Mass Effect 2 was my least favorite in the series.
I think Fallout 3 was better without Broken Steel, and I have trouble deciding between if I liked the story of 3 or New Vegas more.
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City was an alright game.
I can't beat any 2D Mario game by myself.

Dude I tried my damndest to get past those controls and I STILL cant get into it.

 

[Proto325]

I've haven't played any of the Mega Drive Sonic games past the first 2 or 3 levels.
In fact, I've played more of Sonic Heroes than those games combined (still didn't finish it).
I think Final Fantasy X-2 was pretty good.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

-I can't stand 3D Mario games: I've never beaten Super Mario 64, I got bored by Sunshine and, Galaxy makes me outright dizzy and annoyed. I do like 3D Land and, World but those don't seem to be the same kind of 3D...

-I didn't finish Banjo-Kazooie and don't really want to go back to it right now or in the foreseeable future.

-I've never played Silent Hill 2 to completion. I do own it though; on the Xbox Classic. I did however beat Silent Hill Downpour...3 times.

-I don't like Xenoblade Chronicles...
-...or Last Story...
-...and have yet to play Pandora's Tower

-I really liked Sonic the Hedgehog 2006...I beat it and have likely played it more than the 3D Mario games listed above

-I love Final Fantasy VIII

-Skyward Sword is the worst Legend of Zelda I have ever tried to play (swing sword, re-calibrate controller...swing sword, re-calibrate controller...etc) Wind Waker being my favorite.

-I liked Duke Nukem Forever...but I would have been a bit disappointed if I payed full price for it (got mine for $15. I would have been happy spending $30)

-I'm still waiting for and, genuinely pissed off by the supposed cancellation of, Rock Band: Japan (listen to this and tell me you wouldn't want to play it in rock band!...There's even an English Language version!)

-Beavis and Butt-Head: Virtual Stupidity is my second favorite PnC adventure game (Beneath a Steel Sky is my favorite and the only other one I've beaten)

-The Punisher on PS2/Xbox is my all-time favorite comic-based video game. Arkham is fun but Punisher is my favorite.

-I like Doom more than Doom 2...
-...but Duke Nukem 3D more than either of those two...
-...and Duke Nukem 64 is my favorite version of that game.

-The Gameboy Advance (preferably SP) is possibly the best video game console of all time.

 

[cjspyres]

Sepharoth is not a 'deep' villain, he only pretends to be, he's also one of the least effective in the series.

Yeah, of all the things people rave about FFVII, I think this is the most delusional. Sephiroth is not a deep or good villain. Really, he's a stupid villain. He's perfectly fine and normal until.... he finds out he has been made from JENOVA. Really? So....he murders tons of people because he's the last of his kind? Or is it because his "parents" lied to him about what he really was? Oh, or was it because he feels entitled to the world because his people were there first?

Yeah.....he's stupid.

 

[FoolKiller]

I want to love The Last of Us... but I can't. I find it extremely weak as a stealth or action game.

 

[K12]

I have only ever bought 2 games on release: Portal 2 and FF12 and I have never finished FF12.

Apart from the above I have never bought a console game that wasn't used.

I game on my PC now but it is too rubbish to play games that are 5 years old! Thank Christ for indie games on steam.

 

[Scott Rothman]

I didn't beat Ocarina of Time until it came out on the 3DS. I never owned an N64, we were a Sony house. I tried to play through it a couple of times on an emulator, but got too frustrated with the Water Temple.

 

[Scott Rothman]

Yeah, of all the things people rave about FFVII, I think this is the most delusional. Sephiroth is not a deep or good villain. Really, he's a stupid villain. He's perfectly fine and normal until.... he finds out he has been made from JENOVA. Really? So....he murders tons of people because he's the last of his kind? Or is it because his "parents" lied to him about what he really was? Oh, or was it because he feels entitled to the world because his people were there first?

Yeah.....he's stupid.

Just to be that guy, he's also the most misunderstood because the fact is, lots of people that played 7 discovered during the course of 7 that this whole 'JRPG' thing wasn't for them.

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.

The 'Sephiroth' you chase throughout the game, and therefore the REAL villain of the majority of that game, is actually Jenova(it's a shapeshifting alien that feeds off lifestream remember). That's why whenever you run into Sephiroth himself, you have a Jenova fight.

I'll go back to my hole now, it's just that FF7 is unique among games in that most people will happily talk detailed specifics or plot points without having played the game in like, a decade, and just about all other games in it's league are discussed in very broad terms... That and I have a copy in my PS3 right now and still love it =p

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.

 

[bbchain]

I've been playing Final Fantasy VII on and off for the past year and my opinion of it hasn't changed: I think it's the most boring, clunky, and uninspiring game of the series with a character death that wasn't executed well at all. I get bored of it quickly and instead of continuing, I pop in my favorite of the series: Final Fantasy XIII which has imo the best story and battle system of the whole series.

 

[Shocksplicer]

I like Dragon Age 2 more than Origins.
I haven't enjoyed anything Rockstar has done since San Andreas.
LA Noir (NO I WILL NOT SPELL IT NOIRE, THATS JUST FUCKING WRONG.) is a terrible game.
The Half Life series is overrated.
Spec Ops The Line is a pretentious load of crap that tries to be moraly superior but just winds up bein idiotic.