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First of all, This thread is AWESOME!
I, too, strongly believe that Zelda Majora's Mask is a far superior game then Ocarina of Time.
I played an hour of Oblivion, got lost on the map, then gave up. It's still in my drawer, and I'm still saying to myself : I'll load it up again, one day.
Deep inside, I know I never will.
I think The Witcher is a really bad RPG. I know a lot of people claim the maturity of the decision making but... I hate Geralt. I hate his VA. I hate his stupid white hair. I hate Thrish. I hate the gameplay.
And I really, really TRIED to like the game. Even forced myself to Act 3 of the first one! When I gave up, it was like... Well, being freed from hell.
I, too, strongly believe that Zelda Majora's Mask is a far superior game then Ocarina of Time.
I played an hour of Oblivion, got lost on the map, then gave up. It's still in my drawer, and I'm still saying to myself : I'll load it up again, one day.
Deep inside, I know I never will.
I think The Witcher is a really bad RPG. I know a lot of people claim the maturity of the decision making but... I hate Geralt. I hate his VA. I hate his stupid white hair. I hate Thrish. I hate the gameplay.
And I really, really TRIED to like the game. Even forced myself to Act 3 of the first one! When I gave up, it was like... Well, being freed from hell.
I liked Kingdom Hearts 2 and Mass Effect 2 more than the games that came before them. (You'd be amazed at how many people hate these sequels outside the Escapist.)
I think Minecraft is meh.
I think Portal is fun to watch, but not fun to play. Same goes for any one of the God of War games.
I loved every one of the Kingdom Hearts side games. Birth By Sleep, Re:Coded, AND 358/2 Days.
I have enjoyed a few licensed movie games. (I remember having fun times with the PC version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as Goblet of Fire.)
Using console commands and God modes in games are perfectly acceptable if given the choice. (But only as a last resort.)
I always play on the easiest difficulty setting first.
I don't really get into 2D games. Even 2.5D games can't hold my interest for very long.
Shall I continue?
I think Minecraft is meh.
I think Portal is fun to watch, but not fun to play. Same goes for any one of the God of War games.
I loved every one of the Kingdom Hearts side games. Birth By Sleep, Re:Coded, AND 358/2 Days.
I have enjoyed a few licensed movie games. (I remember having fun times with the PC version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, as well as Goblet of Fire.)
Using console commands and God modes in games are perfectly acceptable if given the choice. (But only as a last resort.)
I always play on the easiest difficulty setting first.
I don't really get into 2D games. Even 2.5D games can't hold my interest for very long.
Shall I continue?
Gaming sins... hmm. Not sure I really have very many.
Well, for starters, I hate Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 as RE titles. As games I have nothing particularly wrong with them, they're actually pretty fun to play. I just hate them as part of a series that started out so completely different, both in terms of gameplay and in terms of atmosphere. The Fallout series took a pretty big change to gameplay, but at least the atmosphere and style haven't changed. The new Fallout titles at least feel like they're part of the same series. Resident Evil on the other hand has turned from campy survival/horror to incredibly over-the-top cheesy action complete with one-liners that would make Arnie facepalm. It makes me sad.
And hey... speaking of Fallout... I don't like Fallout 3 all that much. I consider it the second-worst game in the series, only better than Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for X-Box/PS2. Granted, I consider Fallout 3 to be many, many leaps and bounds better than that atrocity... but still. Yes, that means that I even liked Fallout: Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel better. I just really couldn't get very immersed in Fallout 3. I felt no real attachment to any of the characters, I felt no urgency whatsoever in the main questline, I found the continuity errors raised by the Capital Wasteland branch of the Brotherhood of Steel to be significantly worse than the ones brought up by the mid-western branch in Fallout: Tactics, I found the game to be lacking quite a bit of the dark humor and pop-culture Americana-based humor of the rest of the series... I dunno. It wasn't a bad game or anything, I just found it to be a pretty weak Fallout game. Liberty Prime was hilarious, though.
And last but not least... Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Not only do I love it and still play it, but I play it in ways that the vast majority of players would seem to refer to as sinning. Do I camp? Absolutely. Especially on Domination maps once my team has taken a second point. It's more important to secure and hold the points that we have than it is to take the third point. Especially since taking the third point is just going to scatter enemy respawn locations and make it that much harder to hold what we have. Do I use the M203 grenade launcher, dual-wield extended magazine Glock-18's, suppressed UMP-45, the ACR, extended magazine AA-12, and thermal sighted sniper rifles/LMGs? You bet. Why? Because they're effective at the roles they fill. I'm not a particularly good player to begin with, I'm fully willing to admit that, so why intentionally handicap myself further - for my enemy's sake? With the goal of each match being to win, I'd want my teammates to use whatever weapons work best against the opposing team, regardless of what those weapons are. If the opposing players don't like it, what do I care? My job is to shoot them in the face, and I'm going to use whatever gun happens to be the most useful for face-shooting.
Well, for starters, I hate Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 as RE titles. As games I have nothing particularly wrong with them, they're actually pretty fun to play. I just hate them as part of a series that started out so completely different, both in terms of gameplay and in terms of atmosphere. The Fallout series took a pretty big change to gameplay, but at least the atmosphere and style haven't changed. The new Fallout titles at least feel like they're part of the same series. Resident Evil on the other hand has turned from campy survival/horror to incredibly over-the-top cheesy action complete with one-liners that would make Arnie facepalm. It makes me sad.
And hey... speaking of Fallout... I don't like Fallout 3 all that much. I consider it the second-worst game in the series, only better than Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for X-Box/PS2. Granted, I consider Fallout 3 to be many, many leaps and bounds better than that atrocity... but still. Yes, that means that I even liked Fallout: Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel better. I just really couldn't get very immersed in Fallout 3. I felt no real attachment to any of the characters, I felt no urgency whatsoever in the main questline, I found the continuity errors raised by the Capital Wasteland branch of the Brotherhood of Steel to be significantly worse than the ones brought up by the mid-western branch in Fallout: Tactics, I found the game to be lacking quite a bit of the dark humor and pop-culture Americana-based humor of the rest of the series... I dunno. It wasn't a bad game or anything, I just found it to be a pretty weak Fallout game. Liberty Prime was hilarious, though.
And last but not least... Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Not only do I love it and still play it, but I play it in ways that the vast majority of players would seem to refer to as sinning. Do I camp? Absolutely. Especially on Domination maps once my team has taken a second point. It's more important to secure and hold the points that we have than it is to take the third point. Especially since taking the third point is just going to scatter enemy respawn locations and make it that much harder to hold what we have. Do I use the M203 grenade launcher, dual-wield extended magazine Glock-18's, suppressed UMP-45, the ACR, extended magazine AA-12, and thermal sighted sniper rifles/LMGs? You bet. Why? Because they're effective at the roles they fill. I'm not a particularly good player to begin with, I'm fully willing to admit that, so why intentionally handicap myself further - for my enemy's sake? With the goal of each match being to win, I'd want my teammates to use whatever weapons work best against the opposing team, regardless of what those weapons are. If the opposing players don't like it, what do I care? My job is to shoot them in the face, and I'm going to use whatever gun happens to be the most useful for face-shooting.
I'm a "try hard". Apparently, to some people that play games, knowing how to play a competitive multiplayer and learning to become a better player is a terrible thing to do. I "ruin the game" when I learn how the game works and use strategies that best fit my play style and work effectively with the mechanics. How dare I learn how a game I'm having fun with and enjoy works and use the knowledge to my advantage.
I'd rather be a "try hard" then the corpse getting tea-bagged or the retard that got bodied and exposed for the scrub he is anyday.
I'd rather be a "try hard" then the corpse getting tea-bagged or the retard that got bodied and exposed for the scrub he is anyday.
I enjoyed MW2s multiplayer D:
Mind you, I only enjoyed it on the barebones playlists, and still get pissed at noob-tubers, but still.
I also think MW3 will be a good game. Because of Spec-Ops and Survival (which is IMO Cod's version of Halo's Firefight. Which is a good thing because that gametype is my favorite part of that series) and to at least some extent the campaign.
Mind you, I only enjoyed it on the barebones playlists, and still get pissed at noob-tubers, but still.
I also think MW3 will be a good game. Because of Spec-Ops and Survival (which is IMO Cod's version of Halo's Firefight. Which is a good thing because that gametype is my favorite part of that series) and to at least some extent the campaign.
quite a few actually:
I don't think valve has made anything good besides portal
I think resident evil 4 is the best RE game
I can't stand world of Warcraft at all and fail to understand how anyone could
I play RTS games for the single player
I like the campaigns in shooters
I thought DA2 was better than DA:O
and that's just off the top of my head
I don't think valve has made anything good besides portal
I think resident evil 4 is the best RE game
I can't stand world of Warcraft at all and fail to understand how anyone could
I play RTS games for the single player
I like the campaigns in shooters
I thought DA2 was better than DA:O
and that's just off the top of my head
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'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.
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...
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.
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.
also I never finished a Final Fantasy game.
I,m pretty sure a good 80% of the site likes Half-Lifehalofreak123 said:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm the same way. I just can not get into it.JamesStone said:
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.
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.Lonely Packager said:
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...SpaceBat said:
I'm a fanatic for Megaman, does that make me less of a human being to you?Locque said:
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!