I have no regrets. Sometimes I look at the total number of hours played and I cringe a little (100+ hours on FFX), but that's about it.
Biggest regret, as a gamer?
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I think it just has the perfect difficulty curve to foster addiction. You start off being pretty poor at it (it's much more difficult a game to start off playing than say, Call of Duty), so if you stick it out to the point where you are a decent player on public servers you have already invested a good bit of time into it. Then you start playing competitively and you realize how bad you are still. So you start playing some ED ladder games and improving and once again you think you're good. Then you start playing ESL and EAS and realize you're still bad. After the EAS comes the EPS and EMS if you can play to a good level.reecedempsey said:
I think that's the main reason I got hooked. There's always people who are better than you and you just try and try to get to the level they're at. Then when you get there you find there's still far better players and a higher level of competiton, and the whole process begins again.
The way the game is designed fosters competitive play as well. There are no stats or achievements, there's no character to develop or loot to get (although stats and achievements are being brought in once the update comes out of beta). The only justification you have for saying you are a good player is your ability to beat other players and teams. So the fun of the game becomes less the game itself, and more the satisfaction of beating others. That's probably part of the reason there's a huge number of dickheads in the source scene, the other part of course being that it's played online.
That's my view on it anyway. Others might disagree or have something to add but that's just how I see it.
I don't have a Wii. And in all seriousness, I'd take playing a current generation console with a Gamecube controller over all the darkly lit, brown, grey, gizzled hero types any day of the fucking week.
seriously, which of these sounds more fun to you,
Going to war, or leaping, into fucking space? Why do you survive? You don't need science when you're fucking awesome!
seriously, which of these sounds more fun to you,
Going to war, or leaping, into fucking space? Why do you survive? You don't need science when you're fucking awesome!
Whats wrong with buying it for the 360?DividedUnity said:
Anyway, not buying the collectors edition for Fallout 3, WotLK, Warhammer Online and Age of Conan.
Buying Sonic unleashed AND Sonic and the Dark Night, or whatever that was called. Honestly, do I ever learn?
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*runs off to get sonic colors*
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*runs off to get sonic colors*
Not buying Systemshock 2 when it came out, selling my old NES and swapping the original Metroid for F15 strike eagle. I didn't really like Metroid to be honest, but Metroid at least has allot of "historical value" while F15 was at best a pretty mediocre game IMHO.
If you are just talking about video games and not, say, roleplaying games or magic the gathering, then my biggest is probably trade a bunch of PS2 and Gamecube games into Gamestop for about 300 dollars. Had I known how to use ebay back then I probably could have gotten twice that, if not three times.