Videogame Confession thread

[PlusThirtyOne]

Confession : i don't see the appeal in TF2.
i understand the character and story fandom but i am completely burned out on first person shooters. NOT first person prospective, mind you, but actual shooting games. i LOVE exploring game worlds in the first person more than any other, but it's been so long since i played anything fun or with any interactivity beyond shooting. Give me an FPS with melee as good as F.E.A.R. and i'll consider it, but until then, i'm not interested. i want more Portals, more Gone Homes and Fallouts.

 

[ElZorroValdez]

I've never played a single Pokemon game... *puts a brown paper bag with a sad face drawn on it on his head*

EDIT: Except for Snap and Stadium... so still doesn't count. :<

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

I play Skyrim in 3rd person.

 

[KyryK]

Confession : i don't see the appeal in TF2.
i understand the character and story fandom but i am completely burned out on first person shooters. NOT first person prospective, mind you, but actual shooting games. i LOVE exploring game worlds in the first person more than any other, but it's been so long since i played anything fun or with any interactivity beyond shooting. Give me an FPS with melee as good as F.E.A.R. and i'll consider it, but until then, i'm not interested. i want more Portals, more Gone Homes and Fallouts.

I just found a game on Steam called Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. It's a first person multiplayer swordfighting game get in generic medieval times, if a first person game with good melee combat is what you're looking for you might want to check it out.

I play Skyrim in 3rd person.

What is this madness!?

 

[Shadow Jaeger]

What is this madness!?

I only use 1st person for using my bow or sneaking. What's the point of having awesome armor if you can't even see it

 

[KyryK]

I only use 1st person for using my bow or sneaking. What's the point of having awesome armor if you can't even see it

Well yeah panning around your character in town to check out their armour is the 1 good reason to use 3rd person but for anything else it just gets in the way and shows off the clunkiness of the animations, i honestly can't understand why someone would want to use 3rd person for more than 5 minutes.

 

[Shadow Jaeger]

clunkiness of the animations.

That seems to be a problem with your PC or whatever you are playing skyrim on. Not for me, the animation runs smoothly for me. The 3rd person camera is rather useful in exploration, you can see a little bit over you giving you a slight edge of sight compared to 1st person. Another thing is, i means no one sneaks up on you and gives you a little fright.

 

[Alexxx-Returns]

Well yeah panning around your character in town to check out their armour is the 1 good reason to use 3rd person but for anything else it just gets in the way and shows off the clunkiness of the animations, i honestly can't understand why someone would want to use 3rd person for more than 5 minutes.

Conversely, I don't see why anyone would use 1st person for anything except when it glitches into 1st person on using Kagrenac's Instant Fortress =P

I like to be able to see what direction attackers are coming from, so I can figure out where best to move. In 3rd person I feel that I've got a better sight of my surroundings so I can navigate them better (the fight against Zakhriisos (sp) which took me a good hour and excessive use of Atronachs, would've been impossible for me in 3rd person).

I never thought the animation was clunky, either, but I don't really care about that too much in games.

 

[Ayattar]

There were no good (satisfying) RPG games since Morrowind. Last RPG that actually required you to read the books and dialogues and talk with random NPC (ie. how do i get there)
Right now? Map > marker > leading by the hand > poup-ups = shit
I miss Torment...

I compulsively modify my games to the point of near expressiveness. My time spent modding, and installing mods for skyrim, is larger then the time I spend playing it.

My mods for Skyrim alone weighted 25 GB. And only after that it was playable. Seriously, vanilla Skyrim is an overrated shit, so simple and easy that it fits apes, but not humans. Same goes for New Vegas.

Example? Enchanting, 3x 36% reduction of the destruction spells casting costs = gaining mana when casting them = infinite master level destruction spells with only 100 mana onboard. Yes, vanilla skyrim ftw!

Or it can be simply me, a person who enjoys Silent Hunter series and shitton of lists, schedules and parameters in Paradox Interactive productions played on the hardest difficulty possible.

Also, another confession to be made, back from the days when I was still playing WoT. I miss those times sometimes, but I regret wasted time far more. Well, gaining money from playing in proleague wasn't bad but it was nowhere near to having a well-payed real (uhh, ok, semi-real, it's art after all) job

 

[Kleric]

Killing Khajiit in Skyrim saddens me.

I enjoy playing Dark Souls. :0

 

[deeryme]

I feel horrible whenever I kill Skaarj in UT04 or characters I like. I especially feel so guilty when I have to kill a nice character because the quest requires it

I get really bad gamer guilt and so all my characters in games such as Oblivion/Mass Effect/Fallout are good characters. Even accidentally stealing something I feel awful! Except for Sims. My Sims are fuuucked up and I enjoy finding ways to kill them, and bring them back to life, only to kill them again.

I really enjoy playing Viva Pinata, and have picked it back up again.

 

[Twylyght]

Way back when I had an snes, I used to bite my controller out of frustration so much that I left teeth marks.

I've played Oblivion and Skyrmm but never beat them because I lost interest and stopped playing.

I have spent hours adjusting my character's look and skill set in games where they gave me way too much to choose from!

 

[Hikaru Okami]

I have never beaten Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega genesis!
Pshhh that game's hard.

 

[Shadow Jaeger]

I have never beaten Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega genesis!
Pshhh that game's hard.

I almost beat sonic and tails, but i couldn't even get near eggman in the last level.

 

[Distorted]

It took an embarrassing amount of years for me to realize that you have to press up and down on the barrels in Sonic 3's Night Carnival Zone. You don't jump on them, oh no. You just press UP and DOWN!

 

[WolfNightV4X1]

Im a sorry excuse of a pokemon and sonic fan.

Yes, I have played the pokemon games. No, my battle skills are just not good.

Im only in it for the aesthetic appeal of pokemon ;-;

 

[jtrekkie]

in TF2 I installed the fox skin for Scout, and I only took it off because I didn't like the facial expressions.

 

[Sweetheartz22]

I loathe getting dropped into a matchmaking game already in session during its last few minutes. If I have the lowest score on the team, I feel embarrassed even if it were impossible to score at least a few points due to timing. Sure there was no way of me NOT coming in last in the leaderboard, but the rest of my team doesn't know that.

 

[Shadow Jaeger]

I hate team fortress...especially the fan animations

 

[Sweetheartz22]

I hate team fortress...especially the fan animations

Usually I do too, but I found this gem a few years back and fell in love with it

[video=youtube;9nDtI51ub0I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nDtI51ub0I[/video]

 

[Sarcastic Coffeecup]

MOBA games have zero appeal to me

 

[Imperial Impact]

It took an embarrassing amount of years for me to realize that you have to press up and down on the barrels in Sonic 3's Night Carnival Zone. You don't jump on them, oh no. You just press UP and DOWN!

Never mind the fact that stage has water in a electrical based stage.

 

[GarthTheWereWolf]

I use minimize in Pokemon battles and feel no shame doing so.

 

[KyryK]

That seems to be a problem with your PC or whatever you are playing skyrim on. Not for me, the animation runs smoothly for me. The 3rd person camera is rather useful in exploration, you can see a little bit over you giving you a slight edge of sight compared to 1st person. Another thing is, i means no one sneaks up on you and gives you a little fright.

Conversely, I don't see why anyone would use 1st person for anything except when it glitches into 1st person on using Kagrenac's Instant Fortress =P

I like to be able to see what direction attackers are coming from, so I can figure out where best to move. In 3rd person I feel that I've got a better sight of my surroundings so I can navigate them better (the fight against Zakhriisos (sp) which took me a good hour and excessive use of Atronachs, would've been impossible for me in 3rd person).

I never thought the animation was clunky, either, but I don't really care about that too much in games.

Clunky was a poor choice of words, the animations were smooth but i always thought that they were a bit...well...shit. That plus the combat felt a lot less involved if the camera was behind the character and i could never enjoy 3rd person because of that, i have the same issue with Bethesda's Fallout games. I can understand wanting the larger field of vision but personally i think the game loses something if you don't play in 1st person.

 

[PlusThirtyOne]

Before i confess this, it's important to know something about me: i spend about 100 dollars A YEAR on gaming. i take my time and milk every game i buy for everything it's worth and i ONLY buy games i KNOW are ones i'll enjoy. i don't take any risks on game purchases and i consider myself a bit of a tight ass when it comes to spending money on entertainment.

So here we go. *inhales*

i wasn't upset in the slightest for paying for MGS:Ground Zeroes!!

i don't care if it turned out to be a $35 demo. i don't care if it took me 3 hours to beat. i don't mind that it didn't reveal anything new or relevant story or plot. i don't care if some people think it was a selfish cash grab by Konami. i would have GLADLY paid $40+ for Ground Zeroes. Since the game launched, i haven't ejected the disc from my PS3 because i still play it. i'm not even a completionist! My average score on any given mission is a B!! i don't think i've had so much fun in a MGS game just fuckin' around with guards and screwing with game mechanics.

i can't wait for Phantom Pain. if tomorrow Kojima announced MGSV was coming out episodically in 10 separate $80 blu-rays, i would happily pay for the privilege of knowing what happens next to Big Boss.