Silly reasons for not playing a game

[warm slurm]

I love the music in Bayonetta, to be honest. Not all music needs to be dark and dreary when you're fighting the bad guys. I, for one, think a game that had bubblegum pop-type music playing while someone gets killed in a crazy ass way (à la SAW) would be amazing.

Deadly Premonition is the closest a game has gotten to that.

 

[Zedayen]

The blurb on the back of a case may see me putting it back. Or the "It was great, two thumbs up" - Douchebag McGee [sub]TERRIBAD COMPANY[/sub] that maybe found on some games and all movies.

Also, the cover itself.

 

[Angry Robot]

Mass Effect

I TRY! i really do! but the game starts and Shepard Drones on....
Im not great on coping with RPGs but i could play FFVII and enjoy it and i love Sci-fi! but no... Mass effect just doesnt get more than 10 minutes in my xbox

I wouldnt play the king kong game cause i hate Peter Jackson XD but my love of fantasy would allow me to play LotR games

 

[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.

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

yeah, that's exactly right. i wouldnt even have played tony hawk 2 except for the fact that it has such a cult following.

its not that i hate old games, its just i have limited amount of time and limited amount of money and i can only play so many games before i die while new games are being released constantly. so i do my best.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I tend to avoid anything that anime/manga fans might like, regardless of how enjoyable I may think it is.

 

[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?

yeah, that's exactly right. i wouldnt even have played tony hawk 2 except for the fact that it has such a cult following.

its not that i hate old games, its just i have limited amount of time and limited amount of money and i can only play so many games before i die while new games are being released constantly. so i do my best.

Well at least it's not that you arbitrarily hate games past a certain age, which is more than I can say for most, though I would recomend giving Silent hill one a try if you can find it on the cheap if only so you can say you did.

Skip Tony Hawk though your not missing too much, good game just TH2 is pretty much the same but better.

I tend to avoid anything that anime/manga fans might like, regardless of how enjoyable I may think it is.

Then I am about to ruin all media everywhere ever for you.

I am a huge Anime and Manga fan and I like pretty much everything ever, hah-ha! What will you do now? XD

 

[Snake Plissken]

I tend to avoid anything that anime/manga fans might like, regardless of how enjoyable I may think it is.

Then I am about to ruin all media everywhere ever for you.

I am a huge Anime and Manga fan and I like pretty much everything ever, hah-ha! What will you do now? XD

Is Snake Plissken gonna have to choke a *****?

 

[babinro]

I've always found it silly to hear how people want to buy or play something but refuse to based on only one aspect of the game. Two examples I've found particularly funny are:

"I wont buy/play game x because it requires steam"

or

"I wont buy/play game y because it doesn't offer a LAN play".

 

[moretimethansense]

I tend to avoid anything that anime/manga fans might like, regardless of how enjoyable I may think it is.

Then I am about to ruin all media everywhere ever for you.

I am a huge Anime and Manga fan and I like pretty much everything ever, hah-ha! What will you do now? XD

Is Snake Plissken gonna have to choke a *****?

I like the Escape From movies too, I'm not kidding by the way I can find somthing to like in just about anything, by your logic the only things you're allowed to like are

CSI
The Call of Duty fanbase
and anything in the highlander series besides the first film,
And I'm sure there are anime/manga fans besides myself that like these as well,
Exept of course for Highlander the source, there is no redeming that... thing.

I've always found it silly to hear how people want to buy or play something but refuse to based on only one aspect of the game. Two examples I've found particularly funny are:

"I wont buy/play game x because it requires steam"

or

"I wont buy/play game y because it doesn't offer a LAN play".

I won't buy a boxed game that requires steam because I abhor the practice, what if I had no internet conection?
What if I just don't want a steam account?
What if I get one and somehow piss valve off enough that they suspend my account leaving my game collection usless and me dow a couple of grand (potentialy I spend a fortune on games)?

As for Lan I'll be dissapointed but it's not a deal breaker.

 

[SoulIsTheGoal]

I refuse to play the RDR DLC because it has zombies in it. RDR= Super-normal John Marston fighting his former gang members for his family back as a way of atoning for his former sins. RDR:UN= The character people liked in a situation that's popular with a story comprising of "Here be zombies: shoot they ass"./rant

I also won't buy games which feature tits as the front cover. I need more than tits to sell me things (admittedly not very much)

 

[Jelly ^.^]

I don't play games by the Activision-Blizzard Empire because I don't like the idea of Bobby Kotick drawing a salary.

 

[KefkaCultist]

Well theres people that wont play a game because a character has a different sexuallatiy (note: I am not of that group)

I can't really think of silly reasons for not playing a game since I'll try any game once then tell you how I like it, hell I tried NHL 10 even though I abhor sports games and actually liked it

Different sexuality? Are there even any games with an openly homosexual protagonist? I can't think of a single one.

I know I already answered this with Persona 4, but I just thought of another one too: Zevrahn from Dragon Age: Origins. He's a possible character and you can hook up with him as either a male or female character

 

[Safaia]

I'm such a slut for great writing and storytelling yet I can't play the Silent Hill series (the good ones) because I'm such a wuss. I know it's a game and whatever but I can't get my head around it.

 

[Verrenxnon]

I've been avoiding any and all of the modern warfare-esque games in fear that they might diminish my appreciation for the horrors of war.

 

[JasonBurnout16]

Because my parents play it.

This because now I can't play guitar hero now without my mum and her boyfriend running in and saying "Can we play too?!"

Also World of Warcraft, I'm scared if I begin playing it I'm going to like it and won't stop playing it. I am an addictive person ^^

 

[teh_Canape]

I won't play Parasite Eve, PE 2 and Ninja Blade because of the infected transformation scenes there

they are just a fucking big ass turn off

which is also kind of ironic because I was just past the middle of Ninja Blade when I, for some stupid reason, decided to watch the game intro

I still fucking regret it

 

[babinro]

I've always found it silly to hear how people want to buy or play something but refuse to based on only one aspect of the game. Two examples I've found particularly funny are:

"I wont buy/play game x because it requires steam"

or

"I wont buy/play game y because it doesn't offer a LAN play".

I won't buy a boxed game that requires steam because I abhor the practice, what if I had no internet conection?
What if I just don't want a steam account?
What if I get one and somehow piss valve off enough that they suspend my account leaving my game collection usless and me dow a couple of grand (potentialy I spend a fortune on games)?

As for Lan I'll be dissapointed but it's not a deal breaker.

Lack of internet connection would effect your ability to play or buy tons of console/PC games these days. I don't see that as a major point against steam in and of itself.

If you piss valve off enough that suspend your account, then you probably deserve the punishment they hold you to. It is really easy to play a game and not be inconsiderate/hateful/racist or whatever else may lead to some sort of ban.

I agree completely with your Lan statement, but I fail to see why it is a deal breaker to some when other options to play online exist. To me this statement screams illegal gaming practices.

You may not want a steam account..but there's nothing stopping you from removing it after you are done with the game in question. This effectively makes it much like uninstalling any other game you are done with. This is what I did when I bought a boxed copy of Half-Life 2 several years back. Eventually, I started using steam for game downloads and just keep the program on my computer, albeit with minimal settings so I don't get pop-ups and the like.

As for opposing the business practice...you have every right to avoid a game for this reason, I hope you stick to your guns and don't make exceptions.

 

[Allison Chainz]

The only kinda silly thing I have is that I won't play games in which you create the main character, if said character cannot be female.

For a time I refused to buy anything made my EA, but they started publishing games so good that I just gave up fighting.

 

[Chibz]

"It's an unholy combination of Disney & Square Enix."

Wait. That's a perfect reason not to play the game.

 

[blankedboy]

"It's just LEGO!"