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I hate most of the modern school of fps. I grew up with games like Doom and Goldeneye, but they are different from the fps that everyone plays today. I didnt necessarily hate Counterstrike. I can't say I loved it, but I didn't mind it. Every fps since is just a ripoff of that game, which I've played already. If I'm going to invest in a new game, I want a new game, not one that is repackaged and resold with new box art. I enjoy the occasional game like Bioshock that at least has creative effort put into it, but games like that are few and far in between.
I don't watch sports, and I don't play sports very often, so I don't do sports games. The majority of sports games, if not all, don't rest on their own merits. They pretty much require some interest in the sport, and the mainstream stuff based on sports seasons, such as Madden and NHL, require one to have an interest in watching that sport. Party sports games are pretty much just for killing time when people come over. The majority of my gaming is done alone, and when people do come over, I'd rather play something with more substance than wii sports, thank you. I don't mind Inazuma Eleven so much, but that's an anomaly.
Music and rhythm games don't do it for me. I listen to music on the radio, in my car, but that's the only time I purposely listen to it. I've come to appreciate the soundtracks of games, and anime, but I don't really listen to those much outside of enjoying the work in question, unless it somehow comes to mind. I'm also quite terrible at music/rhythm games, and much like sports games, there's really not much to them other than music, and pressing buttons in specific timing. The mainstream stuff doesn't rest on its merits either, since it pretty much treads on fondness of the music genre and/or artist/band. I don't mind Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F though. I'm not sure why, though. Maybe it's because it has other things going on. Maybe I just like j-pop. Maybe the idea of a program synthesizing music, instead of a real person, intrigues me. I don't know.
I absolutely loathe motion control 99.99% of the time. It doesn't make me feel any more immersed in a game, it only works for certain genres, it is tiring, not relaxing, and severely limits how long I can play a game for, it's very unpleasant, and almost discriminatory against the dexterity impaired, it makes all acquired gaming skills worthless, by effectively levelling the playing field, and there's no reason for it to exist, because controllers, and a mouse and keyboard, have always worked just fine. Am I missing something?
All of the above genres/peripherals appeal to the mass market, especially those who don't know anything about gaming. If you ask what I'm playing, I'll probably list two or three games from as many different genres, and if you ask me the same question again later on, I'll probably be playing something else entirely. I enjoy a good action game as much as anyone, but I also enjoy platformers, jrpgs, visual novels, dating sims, point and clicks, survival horror(the real stuff, not the mindless zombie themed action games), adventure/puzzle games(like Zelda), the occasional role-playing beat-em-up, an rts once in a blue moon, and the occasional sim, among other things. I can't really talk about videogames with most people, because they usually bring up one of the things I mentioned above, and effectively sound like cave people to me. A friend of mine even asked what an rpg is.
16 Mar 2014, 7:21 pm
I don't watch sports, and I don't play sports very often, so I don't do sports games. The majority of sports games, if not all, don't rest on their own merits. They pretty much require some interest in the sport, and the mainstream stuff based on sports seasons, such as Madden and NHL, require one to have an interest in watching that sport. Party sports games are pretty much just for killing time when people come over. The majority of my gaming is done alone, and when people do come over, I'd rather play something with more substance than wii sports, thank you. I don't mind Inazuma Eleven so much, but that's an anomaly.
Music and rhythm games don't do it for me. I listen to music on the radio, in my car, but that's the only time I purposely listen to it. I've come to appreciate the soundtracks of games, and anime, but I don't really listen to those much outside of enjoying the work in question, unless it somehow comes to mind. I'm also quite terrible at music/rhythm games, and much like sports games, there's really not much to them other than music, and pressing buttons in specific timing. The mainstream stuff doesn't rest on its merits either, since it pretty much treads on fondness of the music genre and/or artist/band. I don't mind Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F though. I'm not sure why, though. Maybe it's because it has other things going on. Maybe I just like j-pop. Maybe the idea of a program synthesizing music, instead of a real person, intrigues me. I don't know.
I absolutely loathe motion control 99.99% of the time. It doesn't make me feel any more immersed in a game, it only works for certain genres, it is tiring, not relaxing, and severely limits how long I can play a game for, it's very unpleasant, and almost discriminatory against the dexterity impaired, it makes all acquired gaming skills worthless, by effectively levelling the playing field, and there's no reason for it to exist, because controllers, and a mouse and keyboard, have always worked just fine. Am I missing something?
All of the above genres/peripherals appeal to the mass market, especially those who don't know anything about gaming. If you ask what I'm playing, I'll probably list two or three games from as many different genres, and if you ask me the same question again later on, I'll probably be playing something else entirely. I enjoy a good action game as much as anyone, but I also enjoy platformers, jrpgs, visual novels, dating sims, point and clicks, survival horror(the real stuff, not the mindless zombie themed action games), adventure/puzzle games(like Zelda), the occasional role-playing beat-em-up, an rts once in a blue moon, and the occasional sim, among other things. I can't really talk about videogames with most people, because they usually bring up one of the things I mentioned above, and effectively sound like cave people to me. A friend of mine even asked what an rpg is.
Ah, yeah, I can agree with pretty much all of this.
I had the same reasons for the FPS types. Things like Doom or Duke 3D or Hexen or whatever, you actually, you know, MOVED and stuff instead of hiding behind "cover" and/or sniping all the time, which absolutely bores me to death. There were baddies everywhere, lotsa stuff to shoot, lotsa stuff to dodge, and the levels were big and fun. Wheras alot of modern FPS games.... yeah. The hiding and the cover and the "realism ZOMG" in some of them. Pacing tends to be very slow. The new Titanfall though.... THAT one, I like. I got that recently, lacks all of the problems that made me hate the genre for..... the past large number of years. All the running around and fast-paced shooting, no emphasis on hiding/sniping, all the bouncing offa the walls and climbing and double-jumps, and hey, giant freaking robots that can punch things. If more FPS games come out that play like THAT one, that'd be super. Though it'll be hard for anything to beat Doom, far as I'm concerned. Still, fast-paced and action packed, that's all I ever really wanted out of this.... Amazing though, how long it took to get another FPS that actually has those aspects and lacks the problems. Oh, Hawken is a good one for that too, come to think of it.
As for the motion controls, no, you're not missing something. Motion controls got big because @)%($-ing Nintendo got lucky and struck a nerve with the casual (and super-casual) crowd. ....and that's it, that's like their entire benefit and contribution. Cant stand the damn things myself. Utterly worthless.
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17 Mar 2014, 11:55 pm
League of Legends. I've never played it, but from seeing what it does to people, I don't want to have anything to do with it. From what I've seen, it's horribly addictive, insanely competitive, rage-inducing, and it's designed to drain people's wallets. Sure, it's "free to play", but in order to try certain characters or keep using a certain character after their week-long free period is up, you have to buy them, and the price per character is absurdly high. It wouldn't be so bad if characters were like $0.25 a pop or something, but they charge $10, on sale. I don't even know how much they cost when they're not on sale, but I have a friend who has reportedly bought at least 100 characters. That's over $1000 invested in one stupid game! I would never pay that much!
Also, I've personally witnessed how World of Warcraft can ruin relationships, from how it was one of the contributing factors in my parents' divorce. Essentially, my mother was addicted to it, and she started ignoring my father and I in favor of the game and the friends she met on there. Now, it's nice that she made friends on there, but it started getting out of hand when it started straining her relationships with my dad and her boss. Needless to say, WoW is another game I don't want to have anything to do with.
On a lighter note, there's Minecraft. Everyone and their dog seems to be obsessed with this game, except for me. Personally, I think it's poorly programmed, the community sucks, and the actual gameplay (if you can call it that) is boring. I mean, people have done some neat things with it, and I could see myself enjoying it if I were more of a creative type, or if it was programmed better, but as it is, it just isn't my thing.
Another franchise I can't really get into, Call of Duty. I will admit, I loved the original Black Ops, and I vaguely remember enjoying Modern Warfare 2 the couple of times that I played it, but every other CoD game I've tried has been rather dull. This is besides the fact that it has one of THE worst communities in all of gaming, and that the singleplayer campaigns are essentially overly-scripted, jingoistic shooting galleries (I only played Black Ops for the multiplayer, zombies, and Dead Ops Arcade modes 
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Halo is a franchise that has been rather hit-or-miss for me. The multiplayer is kind of fun, but the singleplayer is dull and overly-scripted, and again, the community is rather poor. Call of Duty essentially took most of the good (and all of the bad) parts of Halo and amplified them.
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