Your gaming weakness...

[Therumancer]

I'm not good with people, despite being a fairly successful MMORPG end game raider, I generally think my weakness is any game where I generally have to work with others. I'm surprised at times how I managed to find a group of people I more or less sync with in WoW.

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[Nemorov]

I have this retarded weakness for platformers. No matter how bad I know the game is going to be I insist on playing it. I own tons of them.

 

[Randomnaru]

If I get a choice to be good or evil, like in lets say... Fallout 3, I can never, NEVER be evil.
I just cant.
... And in Bioshock, I have to save the Little Sisters.
Becuse Im nice.
Sorta.
... In Fallout its mostly becuse the people in Tenpenny tower irritates the shit out of me, and I prefer to live in Megaton where I get overwhelmed by everyones kindness and free stuff.

OMG Me too! I can't stand it! I always want to play the evil side of a game but can't stand doing bad things to anyone. (I did blow up Megaton once though.....XD)

 

[NotAPie]

Sanbox games and Mortal Kombat games.
I can never get enough of them.
Oh yes and on online games I'm very nice to my team and enemies...
Same thing with games that have moral choice.

 

[Syndarr]

Tangible upgrades. This is mainly the reason why I enjoy games with RPG elements, as I love watching my character/s going from wearing rags to golden Space Marine armour.

The writing. If a review says that the story and characters are good but the gameplay is not, I will go for it and play it through, probably more than once.

These.

I'm also a sucker for games with lots of playable characters; hunting them all down and adding them to my increasingly-bloated party is a big attraction for me. That's one reason I liked Chrono Cross, and why I will eventually get back to Radiata Stories even though it ended up boring the crap out of me the first time I tried playing it (plus, it has the "tangible upgrades" thing going for it, too).

 

[Amethyst Wind]

JRPGs. I always seem to think that they'll be the new Final Fantasy, then I go into the options screen and find out there's no Japanese language option, and 6 hours into the game I realise it's gonna suck.

Case in point, I'm sorely tempted by Star Ocean and Tales of Vesperia, even though Star Ocean doesn't have Japanese and apparently the dubbing blows, and it doesn't seem as though Tales has sold a single copy yet in my town, though that could be the completely unexplainable extra £5 they've tacked onto the accepted price of a new game.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

Hovering a promising RPG in front of me is a good way to reel me in. I'm a sucker for them. Fable 2? Reeled right in. Lost Oddyssey? Got me interested. Final Fantasy 13? Hooked like a fish. (not out yet but I'm planning...) Mass Effect? Massively effective. Fallout 3?... you get the point.

On a gaming front, I have real trouble being evil. I can force myself sometimes if the incentive is really really REALLY game-breakingly good, but it doesn't feel natural.

 

[lostclause]

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.

Not entirely true. I got morrowind and a good rts called Battle realms from bargain bins without researching them beforehand. Generally they're quite good deals.
OT: Any game with magic, or plasmids or whatever they want to call it. I'll always play as a mage and start lobbing fireballs.

 

[Chiddy]

stopping mid game with an online multiplayer game to post on a forum or talk on msn, just to return to the game being sweared (yes bad spelling) and abused at and by my team mates shortly after dieing

 

[resultsmayvary]

My issue is exploration. I spend forever playing games because I check every little nook and cranny. Even when I'm back tracking through an already explored area.

The only time can break this habit is during the end of a Resident Evil or Metroid game. Since they always seem to end with everything blowing up and me sprinting for my life.

 

[Sigel]

Anything weird-Katamari damacy, Psychonauts, Okami, Viva Pinata, Peggle, etc...

 

[MontyGommo]

I'm a Sonic The Hedgehog fan.

Oh, i feel so bad for you

 

[MassiveGeek]

If I get a choice to be good or evil, like in lets say... Fallout 3, I can never, NEVER be evil.
I just cant.
... And in Bioshock, I have to save the Little Sisters.
Becuse Im nice.
Sorta.
... In Fallout its mostly becuse the people in Tenpenny tower irritates the shit out of me, and I prefer to live in Megaton where I get overwhelmed by everyones kindness and free stuff.

OMG Me too! I can't stand it! I always want to play the evil side of a game but can't stand doing bad things to anyone. (I did blow up Megaton once though.....XD)

Good thing Im not the only one, I feel like such a wuss not being able to be mean in a world that cant punish me for it cus its not real. XD And I have aswell, but I deleted that saving soon after and make a new one where I was nice... :O

 

[Simmo8591]

A nice shiny JRPG, with an impressive colorful box always get me. although the Final Fantasy's tactic of understated white background will always be by Achilles heel

 

[Slash Dementia]

Mortal Kombat is my weakness...

 

[HaruHearts]

I just jump onto a game if it looks cool get bored then jump to another it really annoys me why can't there be a game that will keep me interested for more than 225 hours?

 

[Zombie_Fish]

The Need For Speed series. I'm not a big fan of racing and the games are getting worse as they go along, but I just love them so much they're hard to resist.

 

[OniSuika]

Sex. Well, okay, not that badly, but to the extent that I did buy X-Blades.

That and any game with RPG elements, or some form of character building. Even if it results in mindless grinding. This has lead me to be somewhat disappointed that the next Castlevania (On XBox 360) seems to be lacking the RPG elements.

 

[WaffleTron]

I'd have to say that I'm a sucker for attractive character designs. I'm totally shallow when it comes to the overall look of a game. If I'm forced to choose between style and substance, style always wins out.

I'm definitely going to have to agree with this. :S There have been a lot of times where I will by a game based on its artistic design, games like Knights in the Nightmare or Prince of Persia on 360 are the most recent examples, and I'm glad that both games are far from disappointing.

 

[Mirroga]

I have a weakness for any kind of games which I would like to call "creative solutions" in which there's more than one way to finish an objective or finish a guy off. Examples of these range from Half Life 2's differently varying weaponry, Dead Space's "tools", Prototype's shapeshifting weaponry, up to my most favorite Bioshock's unlimited potentials of plasmids and tonic combinations.