Your Gaming Capital Sins

[Kiju]

I don't like the Half Life series.

I've even played some of it...and it's always a bad sign when I get bored. Maybe it's because I've played more entertaining games? Better games? Like...Metro2033, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Bioshock 1 and 2, Turok...

The list goes on. Oh, and I found out something funny: when I was playing Half Life 2, ya know what it reminded me of? 007 Goldeneye. Not that that's a bad thing, but...eh, I'd rather play Goldeneye. More fun.

Hell, I'd rather play the first Perfect Dark. That game blows the Half Life series out of the water by itself. It's just an awful, boring, predictable game...ugh.

 

[I_Sinanju _I]

I have played X-Blades...

Why don't you just kill me already?

 

[v3n0mat3]

Funny you should mention... I liked Too Human. An underrated game, I think. Sure, I didn't like certain things (that godawfully long death screen, the menus kinda sucked, and there was no mention of what certain special stats do, like "carnage", for example) but it was kinda cool, the combat did get challenging, and its presentation is pretty cool. It had style, but it really lacked esubstance to keep it afloat... too bad, it wont get a sequel...

 

[Wintermoot]

I thought DNF is entertaining and MC is only fun in the MP (at least until the 1.9 update is complete)
also I never finished a Final Fantasy game.

Does loving CoD, Battlefield, Halo, Half-Life and Crysis count?

I,m pretty sure a good 80% of the site likes Half-Life

with the exception of various Pokemon games and hack GU Rebirth I never finished a RPG without cheats.
PS
COD IS OVERATED.
I only played 1,2,4,7 1 and 2 were fun 4 felt was fun (until the Pripyat mission where I gave up) and 7 was WAY to short (I came to the final chapter in one afternoon) and it felt very short.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I'm a huge persona fangirl. I loved the series from even the very first one. My gaming sin is that I have never finished one. Towards the end of the game, I start mixing persona together to make new ones and fill out the discovered persona list. I start to get really bored after my save file nears 70 hours and then set the game down only to not really go back. I love the social interactions, the modern day setting, the story, and battles where you talk with demons.... but I get burned out. Only multiplayer games do I have the patience to invest that amount of time in.

 

[Vigormortis]

Let's see. I'm a sci-fi loving, astro-physics following, film/music/literature/art admiring nerd who loves heady science fiction, sci-fi horror, imaginative fantasy, decent narratives, and well executed drama while also enjoying over-the-top action, zany antics, and zingy one liners. I love games like Half-Life, Zelda, Portal, Metroid, MechWarrior, Prince of Persia, Starcraft, Prototype, Halo: CE, Diablo, Deus Ex, Doom, Quake, Thief, Splinter Cell, TF2, L4D, COD4, Garry's Mod, GTA2, Halo Wars, and so on. So it shocks some people when I say that I can't stand:

Mass Effect
The Elder Scrolls
Call of Duty 1-3 and 5-(likely)8
Command and Conquer
Halo 2 and 3
Minecraft
Resident Evil~
Final Fantasy
GTA 3~
Bioshock
Assassin's Creed
God of War
Warcraft
KoToR
To name a few.

For me... well, this is hard to admit, so here it goes... I don´t like Minecraft. I try really hard to like it, but I just don´t see the sparkle that other people see to praise the game like that.

I'm the same way. I just can not get into it.

I guess it just stems from the fact that the game literally offers me nothing I haven't seen before or, in a way, things I haven't already been playing for years. Beyond the tedious work (yeah work...in a game...ugh) of having to mine all the source materials one block at a time, everything else within is just bits taken from games I've been playing most of my life.

The biggest example is Garry's Mod. I've sunk a ridiculous amount of time into that game since it's release as a free mod. I've constructed massive machines, Rube Goldberg devices, set up mock scenes and scenarios, map modded, etc, etc. So hopping into Minecraft and being given the ability to stack what is effectively Lego blocks to construct "pixel art" structures just feels too limiting and stale to me. (and yes, I was a big Lego fan for years. I've built a shameful amount of insanely detailed structures.)

So, it's not that it's a bad game by any stretch of the imagination. It's just that it offers me nothing new and feels too limiting to what I'm used to. I've been effectively burned out on open-world, sandbox games.

Besides (queue hipster moment) I was into pixel art before it was cool.

No Russian was fun. And so was Halo ODST.

Man, I loved ODST. I found it to be far superior in terms of narrative than 2, 3, or Reach. It was the only modern-day Halo that felt as epic and awe-inspiring as the first game did when I played it years ago. There were still parts that felt awkward. Like the audio-file side quest, but overall it was a much better campaign experience than the others after CE.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I look down on PC gamers as the lowest form of gaming life

This one has piqued my curiosity. May I ask why?

MMOs and Elitist attitudes...There are far too many reasons for me to detail them all but those 2 are high up on the list. I love being talked down to by people who will pay for a game and then pay to play it aswell...

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

I think Final Fantasy games are appallingly repetitive and boring, with largely overwrought characterisations and designs aimed at 14 year olds. I don't mind people liking the game at all, but if they're fanatical fans, I respect their intellect less.

I'm a fanatic for Megaman, does that make me less of a human being to you?

OT: I think Megaman Zero had the best storyline of any megaman game yet. I hate PC elitests because their obsession on what is better, not what is good. Also, I FUCKING. LOVE. MMBN AND MMSF. I said it!

 

[funguy2121]

I did one, you did one, every gamer did one. What am I talking you ask? Well, a Gaming Capital Sin is a opinion you may have that is so contraditory to the general opinion that it could be considered a sin, like liking what it´s generally considered a reeeeeeally crappy game (Too Human, Duke Nukem Forever) or the oposite. It can be hating a fan favorite character (Ezio, I think), it can even be hating a certain mechanic, or gameplay.

For me... well, this is hard to admit, so here it goes... I don´t like Minecraft. I try really hard to like it, but I just don´t see the sparkle that other people see to praise the game like that.

Now that I have come clean, it´s your time. What are your Gaming Capital Sins?

Aw, I thought this was going to be about cheats or ignoring the campaign in a sandbox game or sequence breaking in Metroid.

(According to your definition) my "Gaming Capitol Sin" is that I find both positive things and negative things about Call of Duty, have no patience for fanboyism from PC gamers, Wii, PS3 or X-Box owners, and have no respect for people who speak of nostalgia goggles because they don't understand things that existed before they started playing video games, and that I think the Halo games started out fairly mediocre and are still fairly mediocre, but are still pretty enjoyable, especially in multiplayer. I suppose an "Escapist Capitol Sin" would be that, as much as I enjoy Yahtzee and MovieBob and the recently, erm, tranferred Extra Credits, while I may point out something they have said as relevant to a conversation, I won't use the simple fact that one of these sources claimed something as evidence of the irrefutable gospel of it. I also don't source Wikipedia or insult others' intelligence while using shitty, misspelled, broken English.

 

[Michael Hirst]

From what everyone tells me not having played Morrowind is a crime without measure. I just never got around to it. I played Oblivion and thought it was alright but not fantastic, everyone said Morrowind was better but it just never happened.

 

[Wintermoot]

OT: I think Megaman Zero had the best storyline of any megaman game yet. I hate PC elitests because their obsession on what is better, not what is good. Also, I FUCKING. LOVE. MMBN AND MMSF. I said it!

MMBN got me into megaman it is a fun game series and I really liked the gameplay.
I think zero has the deepest story line (MM1-10) had a bit of excuse story line (with 9 and 10 having it as a tribute)

 

[Neotericity]

Well I'm taking your sinning a different way and saying I couldn't beat the strider battle in half life 2: episode 2 so I looked up the ending on youtube, I am ashamed of this to this day... It wasn't until 3.5 years later that I beat it on my own and it was actually a weight off my shoulders, I'm serious when I say that, I actually felt better about myself! That's probably my worst...
I've also bought a few games and never gave them a shot, one that springs to mind would be supreme commander...

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I thought that Majora's Mask was better than Ocarina of Time.

thats not a sin, its TRUE

I hate the balls off of Ezio and actually find Altair to be a much more pleasant character. Altair is a douche who learns better and challenges his long-held ideals. Ezio is a douche who gains power and wealth and learns NOTHING except to do whatever he is told.

lets see... I really, REALLY liked FFX-2. The game is fantastic, and the story, while stupid and unnecessary, is not nearly as bad as anyone says. Hell, at times it even makes sense.

oh, I refuse to pretend Gears of War is anything but a mindless mess of unintelligible drivel pretending to be a plot in order to justify the insane amounts of gory violence. I also just dislike the game itself.

I really liked Final Fantasy XII, particularly its battle system.

the only bad thing about XII was the time it took to do anything.

I don't think Arkham Asylum was all that great. The combat is nothing special, the environment more than a little ridiculous, the joker and batman just look silly, the bosses were either boring or BULLSHIT (fuck poison ivy IN THE FACE with a shotgun), and I'M A GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD BATMAN! *detonates explosive gel, killing two henchman and knocking another over a railing, where he falls on his neck and dies instantly*

hmm, I firmly believe the Metal Gear series is fantastic, and only confusing if you are stupid or purposely not paying attention. MGS3 is still the best of the series, of course, but MGS4 was still DAMN GOOD. I also don't understand how it takes people a long time to beat these games, except on pacifist/no detection runs.

hmm, theres got to be more, but i cant think of any right now

 

[Lewg999]

I own a copy of COD black ops that i haven't played in months and only keep as i know if i got rid of it my idiot friends would ridicule me

 

[PonceyMcTosserFaic]

I don't see why everyone thinks HL2 is the renaissance of video games. the only thing like in the game is the gravity gun.

 

[Sinbeans]

I hate almost all platformers including super mario bros. Metroid-vanias are the exception.

I love survival horror games but never finish most of them because they get too scary. For this reason I never even bothered to play Amnesia. (No weapons? Srsly?!)

Not sure about the popular opinion of Max Payne 3, but I for one am looking forward to beer belly psycho hobo Max.

I loved the original Kill Zone.

The Shadow Hearts series is waay better than most FF games.

FFIX and FFXII are easily the best in the series.

 

[JamesStone]

Zelda ocarina of time is the best zelda game . Anyone that says its due to nostalgia is an idiot because ive played all the zelda games before it and the all the zeldas after it and majoras mask didn't come out too long after OOT so why wouldn't majoras mask suffer from nostalgia goggles?

Also
final fantasy christal chronicals series suck .
Jrpgs are rpgs
Zelda is a rpg

Majora's Mask is a billion times better than Ocarina of Time. It doesn't need nostalgia goggles to stay an amazing game.

I love JRPGs, I love Final Fantasy, I loved Mirror's Edge, I hated Heavy Rain, I don't see the hype in Gears of War 1, 2, or 3, I like Hunted: The Demon's Forge, and I hate FPS games.

Please, try not to start a flame war, I just want people to share their opinions, there´s no need to discuss it because it´s pointless, you won´t change people´s opinions talking from a forum.

...I wasn't trying to start a flame war OR change someone's opinion. o,0 "I just want people to share their opinions." I gave my opinion. Which just so happens to be a reply to another's opinion. My apologies, sir. I'll keep in mind next time that it's forbidden to share your opinion in such a manner.

Let´s not fight over this, I just would like to avoid a discussion, we never know what are the reactions to what we say.

 

[nothtr]

I beat Dynasty Warriors 2, 3, 4, 5 and Samurai Warriors. I finally just decided to read Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Also, being of the crowd who's played CS for 10 years, I rather like CoD and Battlefield.

I also can't stand any of the Elder Scroll or Fallout games.
(otherwise, I'm normal, I swear :O)

 

[SpaceBat]

hmm, I firmly believe the Metal Gear series is fantastic, and only confusing if you are stupid or purposely not paying attention. MGS3 is still the best of the series, of course, but MGS4 was still DAMN GOOD. I also don't understand how it takes people a long time to beat these games, except on pacifist/no detection runs.

Nah, MGS1 is better than MGS3 IMO. The only thing MGS1 lacked was great gameplay. Of course, MGS3 was incredible as well, but most of their bosses can't compare to what we got to see in MGS1 (Pain, Fear and Rage were fucking horrible bosses and far below the average MGS quality, although The Boss is easily one of the best characters of all time).

I always take the pacifist/no detection road, as I do with any game that allows me to. It still doesn't take me a lot of time. And yeah, MGS4 was good, because I don't mind cutscenes. Yes, the game has a lot of it, but it had to finish a great story that had been developed over at least 6 games (Including PO and the 2 MG games) and it did it well, even if it needed some less melodrama and some more actual emotion in certain areas.

And yeah, the series isn't difficult to follow at all, except maybe, just maybe a certain part of MGS2 (but that's still stretching it. Apparently, a lot of people lose track of the plot during the ending)

Zelda ocarina of time is the best zelda game . Anyone that says its due to nostalgia is an idiot because ive played all the zelda games before it and the all the zeldas after it and majoras mask didn't come out too long after OOT so why wouldn't majoras mask suffer from nostalgia goggles?

Majora's Mask is a billion times better than Ocarina of Time. It doesn't need nostalgia goggles to stay an amazing game.

No, OoT is much better than MM. A dark story doesn't instantly make a game better when it's inferior in terms of nearly everything else, which is actually funny because OoT has a dark story as well if you pay attention to details. There is a reason why the majority still prefers OoT and I recommend you accept the fact that it probably isn't all due to nostalgia, but valid, respectable opinions.

Because OoT is a brilliant game and doesn't need nostalgia goggles to be an amazing game. Same with MM, although it lacks in certain area's.

 

[Richardplex]

I really don't like CSS, Half life, Bioshock, or Morrowind. And I greatly enjoyed FF13, but that's because I treated it as an anime with interactive fight scenes.