Silly reasons for not playing a game

[badgersprite]

"It's a tie in to a movie/TV series."

Never opened that King Kong game, never will.

That's a shame. King Kong is actually one of the good ones.

Hence the "silly" reasoning.

 

[Seaf The Troll]

Did not want to Play Agarest at first cause it seemed to take a good chunk of my life away.. two months later I Started it, and yep good bye 204 Hours of my life lol (but was worth it)

 

[AnthonTheSkabot]

If it has motion controls (Kinect, Move, Wii without classic controller).

 

[jackpipsam]

I hate people who don't play games cuz of graphics

 

[Ashcrexl]

Lately I've been feeling like playing Zelda: Majora's Mask, but I can't bring myself to do that without playing Ocarina of Time first. Why? Because MM is a direct sequel, so it feels like I'm starting a game halfway through the overall story. I know it's stupid, just because you're the same character doesn't mean the stories themselves are all that connected. Does anyone have this 'sequel conundrum' as I'm calling it?

And what other dumb reasons do you have or have heard for not wanting to play a game?

that is EXACTLY my problem, except taken to THE EXTREME! i wouldnt play silent hill 3 and i'd played 2. i wouldnt play tony hawk 4 until i played 2 and 3. i wouldnt play san andreas until i played III and vice city. i wouldnt play soul calibur iv without playing ii and iii. so many examples.

right now, i'm trying to play through liberty city stories on ps2 before i allow myself to play vice city stories on psp.

this sometimes is a good idea because the sequels do everything so much better and its hard to go back. majora's mask is not an example of this by the way.

 

[moretimethansense]

The worst I've heard
"it's old!"
or
"it has bad graphics!"
or how about
"it's unrealistic!"
I've even heard (paraphrased)
"It's from Japan!"

My sillyest reason
I won't play any Call of Duty because I hate the kind of people that do, plus £50 for a 4 hour game!? shame on you.

 

[moretimethansense]

Lately I've been feeling like playing Zelda: Majora's Mask, but I can't bring myself to do that without playing Ocarina of Time first. Why? Because MM is a direct sequel, so it feels like I'm starting a game halfway through the overall story. I know it's stupid, just because you're the same character doesn't mean the stories themselves are all that connected. Does anyone have this 'sequel conundrum' as I'm calling it?

And what other dumb reasons do you have or have heard for not wanting to play a game?

that is EXACTLY my problem, except taken to THE EXTREME! i wouldnt play silent hill 3 and i'd played 2. i wouldnt play tony hawk 4 until i played 2 and 3. i wouldnt play san andreas until i played III and vice city. i wouldnt play soul calibur iv without playing ii and iii. so many examples.

right now, i'm trying to play through liberty city stories on ps2 before i allow myself to play vice city stories on psp.

this sometimes is a good idea because the sequels do everything so much better and its hard to go back. majora's mask is not an example of this by the way.

I notice you not needing to play the actual origional of something,
Oversight, or actual quirk?

also LCS ties into GTA3 but not VCS which ties into Vice City, also they're both prequals.

 

[Ashcrexl]

Lately I've been feeling like playing Zelda: Majora's Mask, but I can't bring myself to do that without playing Ocarina of Time first. Why? Because MM is a direct sequel, so it feels like I'm starting a game halfway through the overall story. I know it's stupid, just because you're the same character doesn't mean the stories themselves are all that connected. Does anyone have this 'sequel conundrum' as I'm calling it?

And what other dumb reasons do you have or have heard for not wanting to play a game?

that is EXACTLY my problem, except taken to THE EXTREME! i wouldnt play silent hill 3 and i'd played 2. i wouldnt play tony hawk 4 until i played 2 and 3. i wouldnt play san andreas until i played III and vice city. i wouldnt play soul calibur iv without playing ii and iii. so many examples.

right now, i'm trying to play through liberty city stories on ps2 before i allow myself to play vice city stories on psp.

this sometimes is a good idea because the sequels do everything so much better and its hard to go back. majora's mask is not an example of this by the way.

I notice you not needing to play the actual origional of something,
Oversight, or actual quirk?

also LCS ties into GTA3 but not VCS which ties into Vice City, also they're both prequals.

i decided that i didnt want to play the original tony hawk or the original silent hill period.

 

[moretimethansense]

Lately I've been feeling like playing Zelda: Majora's Mask, but I can't bring myself to do that without playing Ocarina of Time first. Why? Because MM is a direct sequel, so it feels like I'm starting a game halfway through the overall story. I know it's stupid, just because you're the same character doesn't mean the stories themselves are all that connected. Does anyone have this 'sequel conundrum' as I'm calling it?

And what other dumb reasons do you have or have heard for not wanting to play a game?

that is EXACTLY my problem, except taken to THE EXTREME! i wouldnt play silent hill 3 and i'd played 2. i wouldnt play tony hawk 4 until i played 2 and 3. i wouldnt play san andreas until i played III and vice city. i wouldnt play soul calibur iv without playing ii and iii. so many examples.

right now, i'm trying to play through liberty city stories on ps2 before i allow myself to play vice city stories on psp.

this sometimes is a good idea because the sequels do everything so much better and its hard to go back. majora's mask is not an example of this by the way.

I notice you not needing to play the actual origional of something,
Oversight, or actual quirk?

also LCS ties into GTA3 but not VCS which ties into Vice City, also they're both prequals.

i decided that i didnt want to play the original tony hawk or the original silent hill period.

May I ask why or should I assume it's because of the "it's old" argument that I so despise?

 

[DanielBrown]

My PS3 and Xbox360 has made me spoiled, so bad graphics usually makes me turn my back on a game. I have bought some PS2-remakes to my PS3 though(PoP and GoW), and I've had fun with them, but graphics is still an issue.
Can't even look at my old PS1-games anymore!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

That doesn't sound like a silly reason to me. Music, and sound in general, is a big factor in setting the tone of a game and helps create the atmosphere. Halo for example, if you ask me, was changed from being a smooth but otherwise not very special Doom-ish (yes, I said it, it's a lot closer to that than the rain of CoD-like games) shooter to an epic battle against superior forces mostly thanks to it's outstanding music.

And a game could be brought down for the same reason.

Yeah. Totally agree abut Halo, amazing soundtrack.

Bayonetta on the other hand.... just rapes my ears.

 

[ringwraiths48]

i bought mass effect 2 before i beat the 1st one. I still haven't played it because i want to beat the 1st one 1st

 

[MiracleOfSound]

RDR because they made a zombie DLC, I dispise anything that tosses away its main premise for zombies.

I couldn't agree more. I'm getting fed up with zombies being tacked onto everything now. I was really looking forward to some RDR DLC but this just has no appeal to me whatsoever.

RDR because they made a zombie DLC, I dispise anything that tosses away its main premise for zombies.

The DLC has NOTHING to do with the story of the original, It's a brand new story that isn't cannon.

That's why I didn't bother with it.

To me the 'every other game is doing zombies so let's join the party' thing undermines everything I loved about the main game.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

A severe lack of ponies, rainbows, unicorns, or pink.


yup

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

I don't want to play Bayonetta because I don't like the music.

Understandable, I did the same thing, just with the actual gameplay execution.
Gun-shoes are a nice idea though.

When people refuse to play games that are popular or mainstream for only that reason...

GAH! Thank you for bringing this up!
My brother, when he bought the Orange Box a coupla years ago, people told him not to because, I quote "Half's Life too mainstream, and the rest suck." Well, 2 years later,we have it, I plat Portal occasionally and am going through HL2 EP1 in terms of progress.

My PERSONAL one is when a game is over-hyped to the point where it hits the NEWS programs.
OK, I get the game's being hyped, and a little bit is fine, but when it's to the point that, if compared to a pool, it would have overflowed an HOUR AGO and flooded your house, that's taking it too far.

 

[Cowabungaa]

That doesn't sound like a silly reason to me. Music, and sound in general, is a big factor in setting the tone of a game and helps create the atmosphere. Halo for example, if you ask me, was changed from being a smooth but otherwise not very special Doom-ish (yes, I said it, it's a lot closer to that than the rain of CoD-like games) shooter to an epic battle against superior forces mostly thanks to it's outstanding music.

And a game could be brought down for the same reason.

Yeah. Totally agree abut Halo, amazing soundtrack.

Bayonetta on the other hand.... just rapes my ears.

Wow...that is...intense. At first I thought "Now that's funky!" but bloody hell it just keeps on going and going and going. Well lets do a quick youtube search whether I like some other songs better.

*finds this song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jq9wkcZ6B4]*

...

OH MY GODS THEY RAPED SINATRA!!! That's it, fuck that game.

Well honestly I wouldn't get it for it's amazingly unattractive main character, screw hyper-sexualisation, and the fact that I suck monkeyballs at combo-based games like that. I learned my lesson with Ninja Gaiden 2.

Oh and I also agree about the zombie DLC for RDR. I loved that game, but when I saw read about that DLC I just sighed very deeply. Really guys, just, really?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Well honestly I wouldn't get it for it's amazingly unattractive main character, screw hyper-sexualisation, and the fact that I suck monkeyballs at combo-based games like that. I learned my lesson with Ninja Gaiden 2.

Those were turnoffs for me too to be honest. I mean, I have no problem if people find her attractive (personally I think she looks like a deformed giraffe) but the game keeps shoving her sexuality in your face so hard that it made me want to punch her, and the developers who insult my intelligence with such percieved titillation.

What made it worse is that they took the 'empowered female' angle on it. If they just said 'look a hot chick with boobs!' then it would have been less annoying to me.

Oh and I also agree about the zombie DLC for RDR. I loved that game, but when I saw read about that DLC I just sighed very deeply. Really guys, just, really?

Yep. Even my non-gaming girlfriend went 'what the fuck?' when she saw the trailer, because she knew how much I'd loved the very human and mature feel of the main game and could see how this undermined it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The whole Zombie expansion still has a lot of what made RDR so great. The Challenges, Breaking the horses of Apocalypse, lots of fun and interesting side quests, and it's fucking brilliant. It's not just another zombie game.

It's more the tone that doesn't appeal to me, as opposed to the gameplay.

I loved the way RDR looked at themes of human nature, dealing with guilt and the idea of trying to escape your actions in the past. It made you think without being pseudo-intellectual and it felt fresh and exciting for that very reason. It was unique.

The zombies DLC, in my opinion, undermines all of that to tack on a theme which is in fashion at the moment and it's not something I have any interest in, because if I want to kill zombies there are 5000 other games I can do it in.

 

[Psychoid]

I had a housemate back when I was at uni that really enjoyed RPGs (Morrowind, Oblivion, Fable, Mass Effect, etc.) who refused to try KoTOR "because it's Star Wars".

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I won't play MGS4 because I'm not willing to play MGS2 and 3, because they are on the PS2.

But haven't I read that you enjoy the Persona games. They're on the PS2.

OT: I give all games a chance. There has never been an incident where I didn't want to play a game for something petty.

RPGs age gracefully. Action games don't.