Bless Me Internet for I Have Sinned (Nerd/Pop Culture Confessional)

[Toriver]

I have only played a few Final Fantasy games, and have not actually finished any of them. The closest I came was MAYBE getting halfway through FFVII.

I also have never played WoW

The only Star Wars prequel I hated was Attack of the Clones (though the originals are still better).

The Digimon show was better than Pokemon (but Pokemon is better with everything else).

I cannot stand any FPS games. They are one of the few things I hate with a passion.

I don't do online multiplayer.

I don't get the whole zombie thing either. What's up with that?

 

[Edorf]

Have we not had enough of these "I dont have the same opinion as you guys!" threads?

 

[Magnalian]

I liked Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

Wait, most people don't?

I don't think I've heard of anyone outright hating the game, but it's not topping a lot of lists.

 

[Marter]

Don't worry, you can watch them all in fifteen minutes and then write all of the reviews in five.
[/jealousy]

If only I could watch movies in that amount of time, let alone entire series! I'd be able to spam the User Review section even more!

MWAHAHA!

 

[tahrey]

Spirited Away is one of, if not my overall least favourite Miyazaki film, and I just don't "get" Naruto, Bleach, One Piece (or most other Toriyama stuff), regardless of interwebs otaku going absolutely stir crazy for both. I'm generally lost on what's going on with most other anime in fact, other than what pervades through the webs, because although interested, I don't get the opportunity or finance to pursue it.

Scott Pilgrim struck me as rather empty and pointless. It had awesome effects, and some kind of story, but felt very rushed and shallow.

Horror and cringe-comedy films are a right turnoff, to the point that I make excuses to not go to them if there's a group movie night on the cards.

I have a Lady Gaga CD and have actually played it. Twice, so far. Her music seems disgustingly catchy, though the sudden switch from cynical and contrived techno-heavy autotuned club chart botherers to somewhat more human avril-lavigne-meets-gwen-stefani-and-leanne-rimes stuff in the middle threw me for a curve.

I avoid beat-em-up, bullet hell and team sports type games as much as humanly possible. Not that I don't see the attraction, but I'm totally shit at them. Final Fantasy is a passing interest, but FF8 in particular annoyed the hell out of me and I nearly quit.

Mumorpuggers or stuff like second life I've only touched because it was something we needed to test out where I work because some tutor was using it as part of a ICT teaching course, no interest in pursuing either any further - in fact, any great amount of online gaming, even though I tried it with counterstrike and found it enjoyable. Partly because I haven't joined the "3ii" generation yet as the previous one is still providing enough fresh challenges with nice graphics, and when buying my last new PC and, of course, only having money for one, I had to settle for the ultraportable laptop as that was going to be more useful for the majority of the time... so anything more than CS is right out, and it sucks with a touchpad. Halo I only know of because of Red vs Blue. (So why am I on a gaming forum? Because I still try to keep myself up to date at least, on the offchance my employer may come into a sudden fortune and hire a third guy for a three-person job currently being covered by one and a half, therefore giving me time.)

Though I could get a DS and buy Minecraft and enjoy both greatly, I've had to force myself not to because I haven't any free time to invest in them, and it is, in the end, unconstructive - nothing more than entertainment, and I didn't even get a proper vacation this year, let alone have excess hours on top of that.

The iPhone doesn't grab me so much, but neither am I dead-set against it. It's just another mobile in my eyes, with a feature set that makes it very attractive to some people, but not the best fit for what I want from a PDA-cellphone convergence device. Android may be better, but I'd really have preferred a fully-functional version of the Nokia N79 in my pocket ... i.e. with tactile keys rather than things that may as well be touchscreen except they have no display capability, and with a magic alternate-universe copy of Symbian that isn't horrendously shit, slow and prone to regular and catastrophic crashes, hangs, spontaneous reboots, refusal to make/receive calls/lookup contacts/display messages or photos/respond to rotation sensor properly/exit camera mode, and general epic failure. Yeah. I'd have the phone with a small display, no touch or accelerometer capability, and actual buttons...

I went on 4chan/7chan and tried to civilise them.

Though FB is useful to me, farmville, myspace, twitter and most other similar services can suck my ass. Though I got my first SMS capable mobile in '99, it still seems like a halfway point between inexplicable black magic, and an entirely adequate communication solution for twitter-like things. I'm just a regular person. The world as a whole does not need to know my thoughts 24/7.

Really can't be bothered setting avatars or signatures any more, though I used to be hot for both. My words speak for who I am, and my login name is little more than a unique identifier to go with my password (though it is something I've carried a long time).

Is that enough to make me a interwebs popculture heretic? Can my lost soul be saved by praying to the laser printed effigies of Longcat and Ceiling Cat on our workplace noticeboard and ceiling?


EDIT: Oh eh, plus I was a 16-bit Atari boy (Commie Amoeba? *spit*) and I really dislike the NES. It's not fit to lick Sega's 8-bit boots.

 

[Spookimitsu]

Its been weeks since my last confession...

hmmm...

I hate stereotypes in reality even though I find them amusing in conversation.

Not a big fan of modern radio songs. Unless it's classic rock.
I abhor most modern and emerging rappers (stateside, save for a few acts that I still like), but i like hip-hop in general. I grew up on it, and would fight for it till my last breath, but usually the stuff I hear on the radio is a letdown.

I am shocked and saddened by fellow americans who don't know what jungle/drum & bass is. Most probably think all electronic music is the same.

I like jazz and classical music. Not just European classical either, I like eastern classicals as well.
I like classic rock ALOT, and it fuels my passion for the guitar. I've never really listened to metal, but I would give it a chance. But I don't really care for the Beatles. Among many of the artist who I wish were still with us are Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix.

I love Roots reggae, and some good old rocksteady. I could probably talk about music for the rest of this post.

I play my Wii as much as my PS3 & my 360. I wish I had a PC worth talking about.

My Wii library laughs at those who call the console "kiddy"

I hate Fireball trapping shoto's in SF2 (even though I used to be one). To reform for my evil ways I only choose random when playing online. If that is all you bought that arcade style 'stick for, tsk tsk

I thought Lost Planet 2 was WAAAAAAAYYYYYYY better than the press for it, and the revenue it cost Capcom.

I liked RE5 alot, and I didnt see what was so racist about it (I'm black)

I couldn't care less about CoD, really. Battlefield has consistently proven to have a more engrossing multiplayer experience.

(I still play CoD though ._. on occasion; but in defiance of it, I'll only use pistols. it makes it more fun anyways. Darn my friends that wont switch over.)
-I thought the Javelin glitch in MW2 actually made the game more immersive (suicide bombers) although I never figured out how to do it.
-I thought the glitchy 18 player FFA with unlimited ammo and unlimited grenade launchers, rockets etc should have been implemented as a separate feature, it was fun as hell.

I really think FFVII is/was overrated, aside from the soundtrack. I've seen more dynamic character stories in fighting games.

I quit FFXI over a year ago in anticipation for FFXIV. I can't wait until March when I can begin, despite the press and Current reviews.

I loved Diablo 1 & 2, played the hell out of Guild Wars, and waited years in anticipation to try WoW. When I finally DID try (pre-cataclyms) WoW, it did NOTHING for me.

I was sad I couldnt get into WoW. But I thought Dungeon Fighter Online was praiseworthy.

I thought the horse Agro was THE best part about Shadow of the Colossus, a very very smart companion who was animated perfectly. I measure all other ingame horses to her, and none come close. Loved that game, and I miss that horse. After her, the horses in RDR aren't bad, but not nearly as smart.

I've hated All of the Fable titles so far, but I believe Peter Moly has good concepts about gaming. I just don't like how they are implemented.

Lara croft IS a joke of a character. The punchline however is the shitty camera that only looks at her bum.

I feel many 3rd person games lose out on camera controls, I also feel that Super Mario 64 had near PERFECT 3rd person camera controls and I fail to see why other developers dont model them similarly.

One of the only reasons I was looking forward to Gran Tourismo 5 = SPLIT SCREEN REPLAYS. I hope this gets patched soon.

I would love to see a Assassin's Creed set in Japan, as I feel Ubisoft's team would do stealthy Japanese gameplay much better than anything in the Tenchu family of titles.

I thought God of War 3 SUCKED (the fanservice part was cool), and I thought Castlevania Lord of Shadows was AWESOME (but the fanservice in it sucked.)

Is there hope for me?

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I don't care for Family Guy.
I don't care about Twilight one way or another. At 26 I don't ever have to deal with the people who obsess over it. I do however grow weary of the people who bash it.
I thought Halo: Reach was the best game of the series
I liked Icewind Dale more than Baldur's Gate
I liked Fallout Tactics more than any other entry in the series
I thought Battlestar Galactaca jumped the shark and kept on going.
I eventually came to the opinion that Mechwarrior 4 was the best multiplayer iteration of the franchise.
I never liked 24, Heroes or Lost
I actually though the last Matrix movie was perfectly fine

 

[Elemental]

I HATE MW2.
I've never watched anime.
FF (the series as a whole) can go fuck itself.
I loved all of the Matrix movies
I have'nt finished Mass Effect 2, I WANT to I'm just lazy.
Splatterhouse is a good game.
Never got into WoW.
I don't like multiplayer games.
Stupid movies are good at certain times and the current mood i'm into.
I don't know what the fuck Firefly is or why should I care.
I think Black Ops is actually very good.

On a side note: I've never really understood the people who say Inception was a horrible complicated piece of shit.
I don't remember a single movie in my memory that I liked more than Inception.

 

[ChaoticKraus]

I thought Half-Life 2 was kind of boring.

Tried Mass Effect but got bored after a few hours.

I do enjoy quite a bit of pop songs.

I listen to rap aswell.

I use hair gel every day.

Star Trek bores me immensly.

I tried cheetos, didn't like it.

I enjoy the COD games immensely.

That should do for one day.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Not much to confess because I don't really feel any guilt, but...

I have played DnD one time, and thought it was so incredibly dorky I had to feign extreme drunkeness.

I once lied to a girl I was dating so I could duck out on an evening together to play videogames. I just bought Fallout 3 is my defense.

I'm a secret Star Wars nut, I own every movie and love them, own damn near every videogame that has been released since the original PS, and have read every single published book.

I honestly despise the whole "elitist smarter then everyone nerd" type of people more then anything.... except for those Jersey Shore douches.

I have a friend named Tony who looks like one of those Jersey Shore douches... and he's fucking rad.

Amongst my geekfriends I am the least "geeky" out of all of them... their words not mine.

And I never really understood how people got raging hard ons for the ending of the first Bioshock. The whole "would you kindly" deception thing going on wasn't that amazing... seriously, the developers just got a little clever and overtly gave credit to a character by claiming he tricked you into doing all these things, but in doing these things you just happend to be PLAYING THE FUCKING GAME... which is why you loaded it up in the first place. It's like a restraunt bragging about how they got you to eat with a broken fork, but it was the only damn utensil on the table.

That's really all I can think of....

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I'll be brief and say something new rather than constantly complaining about the same stuff I complained about a long time ago.

- Terry Pratchett bores me to death

 

[Bek359]

I have nothing to confess as that would imply my opinions are a secret, but as long as I'm here

Oblivion and Fallout 3 are horrible games on a horrible engine. New vegas vanilla beats both combined with all their mods, and it's not even that good of a game.
Bioshock is garbage compared to system shock 2
Mass effect 1/2 aren't that good
I have valve
steam should be thrown into a volcano.

Just one thing - New Vegas uses the exact same engine (Gamebryo) as Oblivion /Fallout 3. I will concede, however, that New Vegas' story is much better than Fallout 3's.

Out of curiosity, how many mods have you actually checked out for Oblivion/Fallout 3? Because for Oblivion at least, that rabbit hole be deep.

Yeah new vegas uses the same engine and the same broken game play BS, but the story moral choice and characters and humor are good enough to excuse 5-10% of that (it is a pretty bad engine) and the combat feels marginally better than F3.

several gigs of Oblivion mods. Non of them got past the horrible combat and magic (Morrowind had everything but ranged combat better and even ranged wasn't that bad) except the total overhaul mods and those just broke the game several ways to Sunday when they would work, and made it just broken when they wouldn't (looking at you midas)

Ever tried Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul or Less Annoying Magic Experience? In my experience, neither of those have fucked the game up any more in terms of bugs than it already was. Oscuro's balances a whole lot of things out, (for example, making power attacks much more useful, and skyrocketing the magicka cost/time ratio from Invisibility), as well as being a good overhaul mod in general. LAME adds a lot of new spells and an incredible number of new spell effects, such as the ability to basically Force Push/Pull your opponents, scan pretty much every single thing about thing, from health and magicka to level and responsibility (likelihood to call the guards if a crime is witnessed). Both are very well balanced, in my opinion.

I did try the Martigen's Monster Mod overhaul for a while, and the creatures that he adds in are really interesting, but the game gets bugged to shit from it, from enemies seemingly completely ignoring the first few hits you land on them to random, much-more-frequent-than-usual crashes, so I know at least some of your pain when it comes to not-great mods. Still love the damn game, though.

 

[Macabre9037]

I do not find the Hangover funny, nor any movies of similar comedic style.
I don't like online multiplayer.
I'm sick of zombies.
I have read all four Twilight books. They were...just okay. (In my defense they've been around a little longer then everyone thinks they have and I started reading them when they first came out and had to finish the series.)
I think Fable stumps any of the Bioware games.
I'm just now seeing the Harry Potter movies, (its too late for me to read the books.)
I am a reformed metalhead. Which means I grew up.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

I never played WoW. I think Revenge of the Sith is awesome. I like Ewoks.

 

[Bek359]

I enjoyed Star Wars 1, 2 and 3 more than 4, 5 and 6

I hate COD WITH A PASSION

I don't plan on watching Avatar anytime soon because I find it seems long and uninteresting

I PREFER dubbed anime over subbed any day

I think Digimon as a show is better than Pokemon

These are my "sins" and I accept them as truth's
So yea...get off my tits about it.

1: Not gonna say anything.

2: I don't think you're going to get much disagreement on this site on this point.

3: See, you only THINK that because you haven't watched it.
If you had, you would KNOW that it is long and uninteresting. Pretty visuals, but stupid, cliche plot, and I found the love-interest Na'vi girl to be completely unlikeable, among other things.

4: Oh, same here. I pretty much refuse to watch subs. I don't want to have to READ in order to figure out what I'm WATCHING. If I'm reading the subtitles, I'm not watching what's going on above them. If the only dubs for a show are terribly acted, I just won't watch the fucking show.

5: Never saw either, so can't comment. Only played the Pokemon games myself.

 

[Nieroshai]

I'm completely the opposite of pretty much anyone one hears on the internet.

...in that I am actually a rational human being.

Joke aside, everything about me I have seen somehow vilified by the popular opinion of internet users. Call me a hipster if you want, buut I'm nothing like any of you and I can't strike a conversation without those differences getting shoved in my face.

There's my confession: my refusal to submit to the internet! I use YOU! I will not be-[BANG]

i hate bieber and twilight final fantasy sucks all hail yahtzee

 

[AngryBritishAce]

I thought Fable II had the best story and ending to a video game ever.
I can't play mass effect for more than 30 mins also
I think CoD is boring (except zombies)