This is a good thread. A few of my many gaming sins is liking Spore and thinking GTA IV is better than the other GTAs. I also didn't care for Dragon Age that much, despite me being a huge RPG fan.
Gaming Blasphemy!!!
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It's all right. Not all of us can accept the healing power of gaming into our lives. Perhaps one day saint Gordon Freeman will free your soul of the binding chains that prevents you from identifying the light of Half-Life as your savior.
[sarcasm] You'd better run now. [/sarcasm]Americow said:
I hate Sonic The Hedgehog, old and new.
Really can't stand any of his games.
I believe the worst gaming sin is "lack of originality".
Not only from the developpers but also from gamers.
Of course, tastes are like a$$holes: everybody has one, but everybody is convinced his doesn't stink. But at some point I had to call a dog a dog and a cat a cat and call some gamers sinners of the most brain-retarding sin: lack of originality.
Perhaps even curiosity.
Do you have a friend who owns Call of Duty 1 2 3 AND 4? All Halo games? Or hockey games for every year since 1995 through 2010? Or more than one racing game? Yes you do. We all do. You want to have a gaming party this weekend and ask them to bring their games over and you realize he actually owns 15 times the SAME EXACT GAME.
Racing games are, and always will be, about just the ass of a car and a scenery coming at you. Sports rules have hardly changed these last 100 years, and
Now ask these friends of yours why they bought the same game/genre over and over again. They will invariably tell you: "The graphics are prettier." My answer to that is akin to Yahtzee's opinion of J-RPGs: "Buuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh!" followed with a facepalm.
Can anyone out there help me overcome this prejudice of mine: Gamers who play only sports and racing games are the very same persons who proudly proclaim: "Pfft! I have never read a book in my life."
I am very sad to make this observation, but I am the only gamer in my region of the world I know who enjoys every genre (except obviously racing and sport), and I have all the misery in the world to get my friends to enjoy anything with text or creativity.
Not only from the developpers but also from gamers.
Of course, tastes are like a$$holes: everybody has one, but everybody is convinced his doesn't stink. But at some point I had to call a dog a dog and a cat a cat and call some gamers sinners of the most brain-retarding sin: lack of originality.
Perhaps even curiosity.
Do you have a friend who owns Call of Duty 1 2 3 AND 4? All Halo games? Or hockey games for every year since 1995 through 2010? Or more than one racing game? Yes you do. We all do. You want to have a gaming party this weekend and ask them to bring their games over and you realize he actually owns 15 times the SAME EXACT GAME.
Racing games are, and always will be, about just the ass of a car and a scenery coming at you. Sports rules have hardly changed these last 100 years, and
Now ask these friends of yours why they bought the same game/genre over and over again. They will invariably tell you: "The graphics are prettier." My answer to that is akin to Yahtzee's opinion of J-RPGs: "Buuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh!" followed with a facepalm.
Can anyone out there help me overcome this prejudice of mine: Gamers who play only sports and racing games are the very same persons who proudly proclaim: "Pfft! I have never read a book in my life."
I am very sad to make this observation, but I am the only gamer in my region of the world I know who enjoys every genre (except obviously racing and sport), and I have all the misery in the world to get my friends to enjoy anything with text or creativity.
Some of my blasphemies made flesh...
I can't stand the Final Fantasy games or indeed most JRPGs. Indeed, I dislike most games that try to tell some deep and complex story: they invariably fail.
Also, I could live without any more Metal Gear games or playing any of the existing ones again.
I actually don't hate any publishers or developers at all (yes, that includes Activision). If people don't like them, don't buy their games.
And Halo...the most overrated game series ever.
And enough with the FPSs. There are enough already.
I can't stand the Final Fantasy games or indeed most JRPGs. Indeed, I dislike most games that try to tell some deep and complex story: they invariably fail.
Also, I could live without any more Metal Gear games or playing any of the existing ones again.
I actually don't hate any publishers or developers at all (yes, that includes Activision). If people don't like them, don't buy their games.
And Halo...the most overrated game series ever.
And enough with the FPSs. There are enough already.
I should have been clearer there; I very much disliked the feel of the starting areas of FF7. I could cope with Narshe, as it wasnt that bad and still felt more like fantasy than it did as steampunk. By the time I got to the point in FF6 where it became a large part of the scenery, I really didnt mind anymore; they had my attention already by that point. I am more of a fantasy kind of guy I guess. FF7 on the other hand had the better part of the first 3 hours or so (cannot remember how long I had to spend there) took place in the dark midgar, mostly in slumlike areas. It was that why I was turned off by it; it took me 3 times to get past it and finally play the game in its entirety.sidereal_day said:
I didnt really love Modern Warefare one or two, there great games and all that. Im just not into war games.
The King Kong game was pretty good, quite an original game as well, not your average shooter. The ending was rather weak though.Zeromaeus said:
Anyway, I guess my gaming 'sin', if you will, is that I never liked Final Fantasy. Not for the turn-based combat, heck Advanced Wars is one of my favourite gaming series, but for the fence lined with tigers (yes yes I know, sue me) that's erected between gameplay and story. I don't want to wheelbarrow a character to one dialogue to another, I want to be the character.
And I never played Metal Gear Solid, though I must say that I'm quite curious. I just never had access to a PS or PS2, sorry.
Playing videogames only for the story or graphics.. whoever does that Mr. Burns should unleash the hounds at him.
Oh gawd, Glover...I completely forgot about that until you mentioned it. I remember that game, probably one of the only platformers I ever liked.Composer said:never played half life...liked portal though.n'awwwwwwwwKiju said:
anyway i never played half life,castlvania, duke nukem. or pretty much any of the "fanboy games"
i preffered glover to mario.kudos to whoever remembers glovers
I STILL don't see why everyone thinks Uncharted 2 is the singe greatest achievement of the year. I just can't get into it. With the exception of it's amazing graphics, Uncharted 2 is just another generic shooter with annoying climbing mechanics.
THERE..! I said it!
THERE..! I said it!
Same as you with the half life thing. I've yet to have someone give me an actual reason that it's good other than the gimmicky now generic gravity gun which was pretty much useless in combat, though I have strait up asked and in response was just accused of being a troll and got posts similar to the one you did.
Other games I disliked that seemed to be blasphemies include Earthbound, KOTOR, WoW, Bioshock (though outside of this forum most people consider that to be "meh" anyways.) And I didn't dislike mario 64 but it's generally reguarded as the "best" and I still prefer Mario in 2D much more.
Also, a bit off topic, but I think the gaming community would generally object to this anyways, but I think Katanas are fucking lame. They're just so plain. Every katana looks pretty much exactly the same, and the original design is just plain boring. There's no way to make a katana look badass. A war axe is badass. A scythe is badass. A claymore is badass. A flail is badass. Roman swords where badass. Not only did they look much cooler, but if someone gets killed with one of those, that's fucking brutal. A katana lacks that savage awesomeness that a real man's weapon has. It's light, one sided, and relies on quick single direction motions, making it a lame, one dimensional weapon even in fiction. Sure, that's probably more practical, but you know what else is practical? A gun. And we have those now, so any practicality associated with a blade is thrown out the window.
Other games I disliked that seemed to be blasphemies include Earthbound, KOTOR, WoW, Bioshock (though outside of this forum most people consider that to be "meh" anyways.) And I didn't dislike mario 64 but it's generally reguarded as the "best" and I still prefer Mario in 2D much more.
Also, a bit off topic, but I think the gaming community would generally object to this anyways, but I think Katanas are fucking lame. They're just so plain. Every katana looks pretty much exactly the same, and the original design is just plain boring. There's no way to make a katana look badass. A war axe is badass. A scythe is badass. A claymore is badass. A flail is badass. Roman swords where badass. Not only did they look much cooler, but if someone gets killed with one of those, that's fucking brutal. A katana lacks that savage awesomeness that a real man's weapon has. It's light, one sided, and relies on quick single direction motions, making it a lame, one dimensional weapon even in fiction. Sure, that's probably more practical, but you know what else is practical? A gun. And we have those now, so any practicality associated with a blade is thrown out the window.