Your gaming weakness...

[michael_ab]

I have a tendency to buy anything in a bargain bin. No matter how bad and pointless the game might be. Well, okay, at least I didn't buy this: http://www.astragon.de/productsimages/Bagger-Simulator 2008 Packshot 3D_final.jpg

Yeh cheap games are so tempting, but finding a good one is like finding a needle in a haystack, unless you do a bit of reasearch beforehand.

and heres something to help you out: anything oddworld, they have gone out of buisness so it will be hard to find and when you do its GOING to be in a bargin bin

dark sector for the360 is good
chrome hounds
tribes (its actually free online)
tron 2.0 might be in a bargin bin
XIII
eat lead
sudeki
jade empire might be bargin bin

 

[michael_ab]

rpgs are my weakness, its not that i MUST buy them, its when i do i wont stop
i have about 600 hours in oblivion over multiple files, years in diablo (I, II, and LoD), about 200 hours in fable 2

 

[michael_ab]

Any city-builder or historical trade sim, no matter how mediocre, I always buy them and always end up going back to Patrician 3 and Tropico/SimCity 4 because they're better examples of the genre.

ever try settlers of catan or carcassonne? their board games that have been adapted on the xbox live arcade, you might want to try them out

 

[jmd102993]

unfortunately for me now, i have to get all the sonic games that come out, i loved them so much on the good old consoles, genesis basically made up a good 2/3 of my childhood lol

 

[EvilMaggot]

if i see a game i think is good or i know is good ( maybe a old classic) and i just see it.. i buy it with an instant... impulsive purchasing... can be anoying sometimes tho i also like to do a research on games before hand sometimes (waiting on Red Faction Gurrilla to be released on Steam .. preorded)

 

[Daedalus1942]

I was doing some random shopping with my girlfriend today when I noticed the new Harry Potter game was out.

At first I thought to myself, "I bet it will be the same old HP game - linear gameplay with clunky and unresponsive controls. I don't need to buy it"

So we moved on from the store and continued our shopping...

1 hour later, with Harry Potter fever reaching its pitch in my head, I rushed back to the store and purchased the game.

I KNEW it was going to be EXACTLY the same as all the other ones I have sitting on my shelf... Just as I knew it when I bought the last HP game. I get home and start playing, only to find that, if anything, it's actually worse. It seems I will never learn.



To the topic at hand, it made me wonder if I could be the only one with such a weakness. I reasoned I probably am the only one for HP games, but what about others?

Whats your gaming weakness?

Sonic, I've loved that little hedgehog since day one, and while as impossibly hard as the game is, I'm enjoying Sonic Unleashed. I also liked 06, apart from it being a glitchy clusterfuck.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Anything that says "Bethesda" on the box, or that starts with "The Legend of Zelda".

Except Wet.

 

[Instant K4rma]

Anything that says "Bethesda" on the box, or that starts with "The Legend of Zelda".

Except Wet.

Im excited for Wet. Loved the demo, deffinately gonna give it a rent.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

If anything has the words "Bethesda", "Atlus", or "Mech" on the box, I want it.

 

[ChaosTheory3133]

Anime Inspired RPGs. More times than not I'm pleasantly surprised, however sometimes.... Ugh...

Yes I am a JRPG fan. Have fun Flamers

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I was doing some random shopping with my girlfriend today when I noticed the new Harry Potter game was out.

At first I thought to myself, "I bet it will be the same old HP game - linear gameplay with clunky and unresponsive controls. I don't need to buy it"

So we moved on from the store and continued our shopping...

1 hour later, with Harry Potter fever reaching its pitch in my head, I rushed back to the store and purchased the game.

I KNEW it was going to be EXACTLY the same as all the other ones I have sitting on my shelf... Just as I knew it when I bought the last HP game. I get home and start playing, only to find that, if anything, it's actually worse. It seems I will never learn.



To the topic at hand, it made me wonder if I could be the only one with such a weakness. I reasoned I probably am the only one for HP games, but what about others?

Whats your gaming weakness?

RPGs and those multiplayer FPSs in the style of the Battlefield games. I downloaded the demo for that Section 8 game earlier on XBL, ironically after thinking just yesterday I needed another game like that. Suffice to say, it's sunk its claws in and I'll probably be buying.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Quirky games in a series--If I like the first installments, then I'll check out the next parts no matter how they're rated.

 

[katsa5]

Final Fantasy 7. I bought a PSP just to play Crisis Core!

 

[Darkblaven]

Any horror game that screws with my mind, I once found myself avoiding homeless people after condemned, also I stop wanting to go into outer space after my Doom 3 adventure. But I have a weakness to horror games, or anything with a level editor.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Anything that says "Bethesda" on the box, or that starts with "The Legend of Zelda".

Except Wet.

Im excited for Wet. Loved the demo, deffinately gonna give it a rent.

If it's like the demo the whole way through, which it will be... enjoy. I won't be even hiring this one.
But, hey I don't like Dissidia: Final Fantasy either, so apparently I have no soul.

 

[Nicolefranklin]

Silent Hill. Actually, "horror" games in general. The only problem is the last great, and actually scary horror game that I know of, is Silent Hill 2, and yet I still continue to waste money on games claiming to be scary. It really is the worst with SH though, that series died out with the third game, but I still own everything related to the series. Except the movie, of course, that would really be hitting rock-bottom..

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Fluid animation. If I see a trailer and the game moves well, I tend to get my hopes up.

 

[SimuLord]

Any city-builder or historical trade sim, no matter how mediocre, I always buy them and always end up going back to Patrician 3 and Tropico/SimCity 4 because they're better examples of the genre.

ever try settlers of catan or carcassonne? their board games that have been adapted on the xbox live arcade, you might want to try them out

I've played Settlers of Catan (the board game) with friends, but I no longer play because the friends in question had a couple of babies and are now, as all parents, reduced to intellectual mush and usually covered in drool and baby puke. Cryin' shame, and a hell of an argument in favor of a vasectomy.

Never played Carcassonne, but that probably has more to do with me not owning an XBox (PC-only here) than with disinterest in the game itself.

I love the simulation genre (not for nothing did I choose my username), I just wish there were more good titles in it.

 

[MetalMantheRevenge]

Any game that has a good trailer. Then I buy and feel swindled. Unless it is actually decent. (Which is rare.)

 

[T3h Merc]

Mine is that I sell games prematurely :C