What's your "pet" game?
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I second the opinion on LOZ:Wind Waker, it was one of the first console games I ever played (Super Mario Sunshine being the other as well as another "pet" game of mine).
However, rather strangely, my friend introduced me to an old PS2 game just a few months ago that I've developed quite a love for. It was the rather buggy, rather confusing, Primal.
She was rather nostalgic about it (she and her dad used to play it when she was younger) and even she could admit it had flaws but I loved it regardless. In fact, it used to be the game we'd play whenever I chilled at her's after school.
However, rather strangely, my friend introduced me to an old PS2 game just a few months ago that I've developed quite a love for. It was the rather buggy, rather confusing, Primal.
She was rather nostalgic about it (she and her dad used to play it when she was younger) and even she could admit it had flaws but I loved it regardless. In fact, it used to be the game we'd play whenever I chilled at her's after school.
I don't hate the game. The "deep enough to get by" combat hardly explained away the fact I played through the game twice. I suspect that the reason for this is found in my delight in removing loot from corpses - a fondness I've had since Diablo 2. Still, midway through my third playthrough I lost interest. And when I say I lost interest I mean exactly that. It was quite sudden, in the middle of the battle I just got bored. At that moment I knew I never needed to play the game again having already wrung all the delight the game could offer long before.OptimisticPessimist said:
I personally do not have a game that exactly fits the criteria, but I do have examples that are close enough.
Icewind Dale. Yes, I'm well aware that Baldur's gate is seen as the better of the two franchises but I played Icewind Dale first.
Neverwinter Nights 2. People often say that the game was worse than the predecessor or that the ending was terrible but I simply cannot relate. The story and characters were so much more engaging in 2. As for the ending, well I was taking my stalwart band to face down a being of pure evil energy that had already toppled empires who surely could muster as much fighting power as 9 level 20 characters. When a suicide mission ends with everyone getting away without so much as a scratch, it kinda makes on question just what makes it suicidal. Sometimes the hero needs to die in the end.
Alpha Protocol. I love Deus Ex and Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines. As such I was prepared to excuse most of the problems other people had with the game.
Mechwarrior 4. I raged for a time at the changes to the mech design system but in the end I came to realize that the change was for the better. It made each chassis unique for reasons beyond appearance. I spent hundreds of hours tweaking and testing mechs that generally defied the conventional wisdom of the moment. From my Cauldron Born armed with light autocannons, LRMS and lasers (I used it on the hotter maps. People decried the seemingly woeful firepower at it's disposal and generally ignored the fact that the UAC/2 might only deliver 1/4 the damage of an ER large laser (the weapon most favored for the job) it fired 5 times as fast. Combine that with the fact that the shots would constantly disrupt their aim and you have a mech that won far more shootouts than people would figure was possible), to my "undergunned" Highlander (63% of the alpha strike damage of the most popular equivalent mech but I could start the fight at 4x the range of them and did 100% of my damage at a range where they could only deliver a fraction of theirs all while having equal armor and vastly superior mobility), I loved building the mechs as much as piloting them.
Like a woman who collects cats, I have more than 1 pet game; American McGee's Alice, Serious Sam 2, Baldur's Gate, Dungeon Siege, Morrowind, 1503 AD, Heroes of Might & Magic 4, & Neverwinter Nights.
YES, but unfortunately I don't have it anymore, so Oblivion will have to do. Which is just fine by meDuctTapeJedi said:
Gears of War series, Over 30 days playtime on the second, a shitload on the first I've put a lot of time into that franchise. I love it.
The Fable series, though possibly the second more than the first (I haven't gotten to play the third). Fable is what got me into videogames in general and RPGs in particular. I just love the setting, the lore and the snarky British humour. Plus, for all its' flaws, when the series does something right, it does it well. Perfect World from Fable 2 is one of my favourite videogame sequences ever. Though that may be because I've analysed it so much that I've written an essay on it. XD
Command and Conquer Generals
Psychonaughts
Evil Genius
SW: Republic Commando
Black and White
Arma 2
Psychonaughts
Evil Genius
SW: Republic Commando
Black and White
Arma 2
Yep. Yet somehow after 85 hours on New Vegas I feel like I've seen all it has to offer. Strange.Moonpooman said:
before windows xp it was z after its got to be fallout nv on 360 and s.t.a.l.k.e.r. cop on my laptop
Morrowind. Over the years I have sunk so many months of my time into that game. And I still haven't completed any of the three vampire clans' quest-lines. So much to see and explore (and properly explore as well, the curse of the quest-marker hadn't been invented then) ...
I'm a big fan of pokemon too. I agree with you about the starter use thing. Never had one to level 100, myself. Too boring.Gxas said:
yeah, have you noticed that there are HUGE sections of the map cut off by cliffs and ''invisible forcefields''? I mean in fallout or oblivion i was always able to jump up/around/over an obstacle if i wanted to. but this game seems to constantly funnel you in where it wants you to go. And have you also noticed that EVERYTHING is marked on the map? that may seem all well and good but sometimes theres gotta be that thing you find by luck instead of following that little triangle on the radar that finds you some awesome weapon of mass destruction or something.MiracleOfSound said:
I'm a big, BIG fan of Wet. Why? It's the grindhouse feel, I can't get enough of it.
Fallout 3 bites me in the ass every so often though and I just can't stop.
Fallout 3 bites me in the ass every so often though and I just can't stop.
Finally, someone else who loves that gameEclectic Dreck said:
My choice would be Dreamfall - The Longest Journey. Love the original game but preferred this, the sequel. The game was left open for further games which were announced as Dreamfall Chapters but no date given as to when they'd be released or even have work started on. Because Funcom has since been fucking around with MMOs like the failure that was Age of Conan and (the probable failure) The Secret World.