Just to point out, there have been console ports of Doom, SNES for one. And Half-Life had Half-Life Decay on the ... PS2 I think it was? Something like that.AverageJoe said:
Critically Acclaimed stuff you don't 'get'
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Lesse...I have a list! Here's my top ten. I understand some of these aren't 'critically acclaimed' stuff, but...yeah.
1) Drama TV shows. I just...don't understand why people like this stuff.
2) Porn. Yes, I went there. Why do people find it sexy to watch horrible, ugly actors do it?
3) Halo. I just...don't get what's so amazing. It's competent, but it didn't blast my socks off.
4) Half Life. Same as Halo. I was disappointed with this game/series when I tried it. It sucked.
5) Detective Shows. You know, you like...CSI and crap. They're terrible, and completely fake.
6) Horror Flicks. I actually don't get why people like being scared. It confuses me...
7) Mega Man. All the games of his I've played were snorefests. Even MegaMan 2.
8) Mystery novels. What's so fun about a book you can only read once?
9) Romance novels. It's fake and gives you a completely backwards outlook on true romance.
10) And finally, I don't quite understand why Rap is bashed on so much. It's just (Badly written) poetry "sung" to a pretty entertaining beat. Remove the words, and it's awesome in my book.
1) Drama TV shows. I just...don't understand why people like this stuff.
2) Porn. Yes, I went there. Why do people find it sexy to watch horrible, ugly actors do it?
3) Halo. I just...don't get what's so amazing. It's competent, but it didn't blast my socks off.
4) Half Life. Same as Halo. I was disappointed with this game/series when I tried it. It sucked.
5) Detective Shows. You know, you like...CSI and crap. They're terrible, and completely fake.
6) Horror Flicks. I actually don't get why people like being scared. It confuses me...
7) Mega Man. All the games of his I've played were snorefests. Even MegaMan 2.
8) Mystery novels. What's so fun about a book you can only read once?
9) Romance novels. It's fake and gives you a completely backwards outlook on true romance.
10) And finally, I don't quite understand why Rap is bashed on so much. It's just (Badly written) poetry "sung" to a pretty entertaining beat. Remove the words, and it's awesome in my book.
Twilight, Titanic, Harry Potter.
I don't get the appeal, but apparently they've all made obscene amounts of money, so their creators must be on to something.
I don't get the appeal, but apparently they've all made obscene amounts of money, so their creators must be on to something.
Exactly, also for those who are blind by statistic, high grossing does NOT = a good movie, hype does that for yeah. I can make the shittiest movie ever and hype it up enough to make me tons of money.Dexiro said:
Radiohead. I respect them for being "artists" and I recognize the uniqueness of their music, but it's so completely unenjoyable that I don't even see the point. There's nothing wrong with serious music, but Radiohead just refuses to let anyone have any fun at all.
Star Wars was and has been pretty boring to me I do like Darth Vader I just think he's cool for some reason. I don't get Naruto or Full Metal Alchemist. Maybe because I've watched the english dubs perhaps? Lastly Halo seems like a pretty generic FPS to me. Also Lil Wayne he's ok to me right along with Jay-Z he's ok the only reason he made it so far is because he played it safe. Radiohead. I've only listened to two albums(kid a and in rainbows) but so far they're alright. Another is the whoel Indie Rock music in general. All these kids praise its creativity when a shit load of bands sound the same. Its like pop music they just make less lol. The iPad its a huge iPod Touch the end. Mac computers. I actually want one really bad but wtf justifies the price tag, seriously. I think that is all that comes to my brain now
Why do people like horror flicks when they are barely scary and in general suck and have the same kind of plot. Especially the teen ones where the chick somehow overcomes all this crap while her 200 plus pound six five football player boyfriend gets killed in an instant along with the rest of the football teamKiju said:
thank you in my opinion Bioshock is the best shooter of the current console generation because it's not a dumbed down over hyped multiplayer space marine mess with muddy graphics. it felt more like a game that was thought up around the Deus Ex System Shock time of intelligent shooters before the genre simply preyed on every ones instinct to kill. so yeah I think most current shooter aren't even worth looking at other than the occasional exception like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or the Half-Life series... though Metro 2033 sparked my interest I have yet to try it...Aylaine said:
let's see here:
Heavy Rain
One Piece
Twilight(books and movies)
Lady Gaga
Ninja Gaiden(I liked the original one on the Nes but once team Ninja started it just went bad)
and finally peeps
Bob Dylan. Also Hendrix, and Joplin. Also the Rolling Stones.
And the magazine Rolling Stone.
Sorry. I'll just go back to my cave in Afghanistan now.
And the magazine Rolling Stone.
Sorry. I'll just go back to my cave in Afghanistan now.
Obvious answers for me would be anything Twilight, Beiber, Jonass, or Cyrus/Montana related.
I didn't get Precious. Well, no, I got it. But I didn't understand why everyone was saying it was such an amazing and incredible movie and they all cried rivers while watching it. I watched it, and didn't cry a single manly tear and was bored during the entire thing. Same thing with The Lovely Bones though, I found it boring (both the book and the movie) and everyone loved it.
Bands like The Stereos, Ke$ha or whatever... actually these are all things my friends love. To paraphrase Paul Rudd, "I need some new fuckin' friends."
I didn't get Precious. Well, no, I got it. But I didn't understand why everyone was saying it was such an amazing and incredible movie and they all cried rivers while watching it. I watched it, and didn't cry a single manly tear and was bored during the entire thing. Same thing with The Lovely Bones though, I found it boring (both the book and the movie) and everyone loved it.
Bands like The Stereos, Ke$ha or whatever... actually these are all things my friends love. To paraphrase Paul Rudd, "I need some new fuckin' friends."
Hmm, this is actually a difficult one for me.
I find I'm generally easy to please, so when someone says a film/book/game had no depth or was uninteresting or whatever I tend to say something like "I didn't see anything wrong with it". Which of course doesn't mean I love everything, it just means that there seem to be very few things I actively dislike.
It makes me wonder why I bother to get other people's opinion on things, especially things I like. Sometimes I even start to wonder if I remember things correctly.
As to something that people rave about and I don't like, the only thing that springs immediately to mind (after a quick sweep of my games collection) is Resistance: Fall of Man. I got it very cheap second hand so it's no big loss, but I found it painful to play. No wonder the PS3 bombed at first if this was the best they could offer. Maybe it's becuase it felt so different to games like COD but I just couldn't enjoy it.
In response to everyone saying Bioshock, I'll say that at first, I didn't get the fuss either. It felt like a pretty average FPS with clunky controls and a "scary" setting. I recently replayed it on Survivor mode (I'm a trophy whore okay), and my opinion totally changed. I just felt so sucked into the whole experience it was amazing. (Insert standard gushing review here) I will admit that since my previous playthrough I had upgraded to an HDTV, so that helped a bit I'm sure.
I guess you are somewhat a fan of Batman, and so I assume you just didn't get the same feeling I did of being right in Batman's shoes (boots?).
I'm not trying to discount your opinion, but as you may have gathered by my first few paragraphs I'm usually quite an apathetic person, but Batman actually made me feel excited to play it so I thought I'd share
I find I'm generally easy to please, so when someone says a film/book/game had no depth or was uninteresting or whatever I tend to say something like "I didn't see anything wrong with it". Which of course doesn't mean I love everything, it just means that there seem to be very few things I actively dislike.
It makes me wonder why I bother to get other people's opinion on things, especially things I like. Sometimes I even start to wonder if I remember things correctly.
As to something that people rave about and I don't like, the only thing that springs immediately to mind (after a quick sweep of my games collection) is Resistance: Fall of Man. I got it very cheap second hand so it's no big loss, but I found it painful to play. No wonder the PS3 bombed at first if this was the best they could offer. Maybe it's becuase it felt so different to games like COD but I just couldn't enjoy it.
In response to everyone saying Bioshock, I'll say that at first, I didn't get the fuss either. It felt like a pretty average FPS with clunky controls and a "scary" setting. I recently replayed it on Survivor mode (I'm a trophy whore okay), and my opinion totally changed. I just felt so sucked into the whole experience it was amazing. (Insert standard gushing review here) I will admit that since my previous playthrough I had upgraded to an HDTV, so that helped a bit I'm sure.
Usually I would not pick up on it when someone says they don't like something (to each his own etc), but to me AA just felt so right. It wasn't without flaw, but most of the individual elements worked great and it was tied together so well by the fact that it was, in my mind, the best possible experience of actually being Batman I could imagine.Danzaivar said:
I guess you are somewhat a fan of Batman, and so I assume you just didn't get the same feeling I did of being right in Batman's shoes (boots?).
I'm not trying to discount your opinion, but as you may have gathered by my first few paragraphs I'm usually quite an apathetic person, but Batman actually made me feel excited to play it so I thought I'd share
I dont get why people adore Xbox so much...its quite literally nothing new in terms of console ability. It simply has a better graphics card and better network access to it, mostly due to it being made by MS so its basically just an older, outdated, less useful PC.
EDIT: Also E-Sports? Seriously, gaming...not exactly a sport as requires zero real physical skill outside of your fingers. It's mostly mental ability, thus not a sport. Sports are a demonstration of PHYSICAL ability. Just goes to show how physically inept south korea must be if they are resorting to having videogames as a sport. Honestly...starcraft as a sport? The Unreal Tournament series, Halo series or some other FPS series would be far better suited if the world were to sink to the low of declaring gaming as a sport.
No offense to my fellow gamers, but anyone who thinks gaming is a sport REALLY needs to put their time to better use. Whats next? Pokemon as a sport? Mario? WoW? Sports arn't a test of mostly mental skill. They are about physical endurance and whole body control, in that aspect, Wii games are far closer to E-sports than starcraft.
EDIT: Also E-Sports? Seriously, gaming...not exactly a sport as requires zero real physical skill outside of your fingers. It's mostly mental ability, thus not a sport. Sports are a demonstration of PHYSICAL ability. Just goes to show how physically inept south korea must be if they are resorting to having videogames as a sport. Honestly...starcraft as a sport? The Unreal Tournament series, Halo series or some other FPS series would be far better suited if the world were to sink to the low of declaring gaming as a sport.
No offense to my fellow gamers, but anyone who thinks gaming is a sport REALLY needs to put their time to better use. Whats next? Pokemon as a sport? Mario? WoW? Sports arn't a test of mostly mental skill. They are about physical endurance and whole body control, in that aspect, Wii games are far closer to E-sports than starcraft.
It's supposed to be mildly cheesey, thats what made the series so good. Cowboy lifestyle...in space. It's cheesy incarnate...but it works, but to be honest, it's a pretty good reflection of how we'd end up doing it.maninahat said:
Yeah English dubs will do that to anything. Fansubs are much better as they preserve the voices and have ACCURATE translations.shemoanscazrex3 said:
Because they took decent british comedy and spliced retarded american slapstick into it. While said slapstick can be good at time, when you try and fuse it with british comedy it just makes a retarded show. Especially when you use actors whos only acting abilities involve playing idiotic people you'd gladly throw down a flight of stairs.Alpha1089 said:
To kill a mockingbird. One of the most boring books I have EVER read. Took forever to go anywhere, had little point (unless you count "racism is bad" but I think we figured that out in the 80s) and the characters were about as well developed as a stack of cardboard.