worst ways to introduce gaming

[Jedoro]

Throw every World of Warcraft disk at their head until they feel introduced.

I was wondering why throwing the game itself at them came up so late. I mean, to me that'd be a pretty bad introduction to gaming.

 

[eclipsed_chemistry]

My brother tried to get me to stop liking games by making me grind levels for him so I would A) get me off his back while he was trying to do stuff by himself and B) so he could just play through the story without having to grind levels. Well, it had the opposite effect and I actually love games and do enjoy the grind, although not nearly as much as I used to. I'd like to think it's helped me, particularly when I have a lot of homework to do or something, I just get down and do it, a little at a time, with the same mentality that helps me get through grindy bits in games. So yeah, not that.

 

[Royta]

Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. Nuff said;p

PFF!!!
Catwoman!!

or better, force them to play nothing but movie tie-ins

Oh my....movie-tie-ins. Batman Begins comes to mind for me. But there's worse.
Maybe Doctor Jekyl and Mister Hyde for the NES.

 

[Tharwen]

Throw every World of Warcraft disk at their head until they feel introduced.

I was wondering why throwing the game itself at them came up so late. I mean, to me that'd be a pretty bad introduction to gaming.

Imagination is dead. All we have left is Hard Difficulty and Terrible Games.

 

[Jedoro]

Throw every World of Warcraft disk at their head until they feel introduced.

I was wondering why throwing the game itself at them came up so late. I mean, to me that'd be a pretty bad introduction to gaming.

Imagination is dead. All we have left is Hard Difficulty and Terrible Games.

No argument there. The majority of my imaginative capacity is "how could I hurt someone with this?"

Improvised weapons FTW. More games need to include them.

 

[MercurySteam]

Deus Ex Human revolution on "Give Me Deus Ex" difficulty.

Good luck.

It wasn't that hard. Of course if you don't sneak around and just run and gun then yeah, it would be a friggin' nightmare.

OT: Make them play Duke Nukem Forever.

Worst. Gaming. Experience. Ever.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Any text based adventure would do, but Cho Aniki would make a very traumatic experience...

 

[Spectrre]

, give them something very challenging with a stupidly complex interface and/or control scheme, that has no tutorials and offers little help to the players, and gives them no context of the story so that you have no idea why you're actually playing.

So basically.. give them The Witcher?

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

, give them something very challenging with a stupidly complex interface and/or control scheme, that has no tutorials and offers little help to the players, and gives them no context of the story so that you have no idea why you're actually playing.

So basically.. give them The Witcher?

Totally. I'd forgotten about The Witcher actually, probably because i gave up on it before i got past the first area because of the reasons i mentioned above.