Escapists, what are your deep dark gaming secrets?

[K12]

I have only ever bought 2 games on release: Portal 2 and FF12 and I have never finished FF12.

Apart from the above I have never bought a console game that wasn't used.

I game on my PC now but it is too rubbish to play games that are 5 years old! Thank Christ for indie games on steam.

 

[Scott Rothman]

I didn't beat Ocarina of Time until it came out on the 3DS. I never owned an N64, we were a Sony house. I tried to play through it a couple of times on an emulator, but got too frustrated with the Water Temple.

 

[Scott Rothman]

Yeah, of all the things people rave about FFVII, I think this is the most delusional. Sephiroth is not a deep or good villain. Really, he's a stupid villain. He's perfectly fine and normal until.... he finds out he has been made from JENOVA. Really? So....he murders tons of people because he's the last of his kind? Or is it because his "parents" lied to him about what he really was? Oh, or was it because he feels entitled to the world because his people were there first?

Yeah.....he's stupid.

Just to be that guy, he's also the most misunderstood because the fact is, lots of people that played 7 discovered during the course of 7 that this whole 'JRPG' thing wasn't for them.

But he actually only killed very few people. Nibelheim got destroyed because when super-soldiers with magic powers have psychotic breaks shit gets real, but he only actually killed the towns people that attacked him/got in his way. He could've outright hunted down and slain that entire undefended little town but didn't.

The 'Sephiroth' you chase throughout the game, and therefore the REAL villain of the majority of that game, is actually Jenova(it's a shapeshifting alien that feeds off lifestream remember). That's why whenever you run into Sephiroth himself, you have a Jenova fight.

I'll go back to my hole now, it's just that FF7 is unique among games in that most people will happily talk detailed specifics or plot points without having played the game in like, a decade, and just about all other games in it's league are discussed in very broad terms... That and I have a copy in my PS3 right now and still love it =p

Bingo! Also Cloud is a lot more complex of a character than people give him credit. He finds out his entire life is pretty much a lie and that he's essentially involuntarily stolen the memories of a dead man and has to work to come to terms with that while still staying motivated to carry out their mission.

 

[bbchain]

I've been playing Final Fantasy VII on and off for the past year and my opinion of it hasn't changed: I think it's the most boring, clunky, and uninspiring game of the series with a character death that wasn't executed well at all. I get bored of it quickly and instead of continuing, I pop in my favorite of the series: Final Fantasy XIII which has imo the best story and battle system of the whole series.

 

[Shocksplicer]

I like Dragon Age 2 more than Origins.
I haven't enjoyed anything Rockstar has done since San Andreas.
LA Noir (NO I WILL NOT SPELL IT NOIRE, THATS JUST FUCKING WRONG.) is a terrible game.
The Half Life series is overrated.
Spec Ops The Line is a pretentious load of crap that tries to be moraly superior but just winds up bein idiotic.

 

[lacktheknack]

I have never played Mario, Zelda, more than two hours of Pokemon, Halo or even Half Life.

I was always more of a Tomb Raider kid.

Also, I never had a console, so...

 

[xWestie]

- What I played of Half life, I found to be boring.
- I never played any Mass Effect Games untill 3 came out. I played them all in one go & I didn't see a problem with the ending.
- I actually like Navi.
- I don't particularly like Aerith.
- I'd never played a Zelda game untill I was 17. Nor a Final Fantasy game for that matter.
- I haven't yet played Bioshock.
- I don't like Mario.
- Never played Portal.
- I love Halo; this being the main game I grew up with.
- I liked MGS 2 Raiden more than ninja Raiden.
- I enjoy Battlefield 3 far more than CoD

 

[Scott Rothman]

Bingo! Also Cloud is a lot more complex of a character than people give him credit. He finds out his entire life is pretty much a lie and that he's essentially involuntarily stolen the memories of a dead man and has to work to come to terms with that while still staying motivated to carry out their mission.

I went off a little bit in a thread last week about how peoples memories of FF7(how fitting) have been muddied by A) Advent Children and B)the internet telling itself(incorrectly imo) how 'angsty' Cloud in particular and that game in general was. Despite how much cool and ballsy shit he gets down to in game...

It's gotta be cause of the movie. I can't think of any other reason why the details of that game above all others have gotten muddy over the years whereas stuff like Deus Ex, Thief, Half Life, OOT and allsorts are remembered pretty much as they are(nostalgia non-withstanding).

I mean, I'd be angsty as hell if I found out everything I had done for the past ten years was a lie and that I had never really done anything of merit.

 

[windlenot]

I kind of have a hatred for these kinda of threads because so many of these posts bother me so much.

In a very hypocritical manner:

I don't really like Zelda games.
I don't really like Goldeneye 64.

I feel that I missed the importance of a lot of games having not played them when I was young or they were new.

 

[TheYellowManalishi]

Let's See...

- I think Oblivion is better than Skyrim, also, I think Skyrim is extremely overrated.

- I think GTA IV is a great game.

- Try as I might, I've never been able to understand the appeal of Minecraft.

- I've never played, nor do I have any desire to play many of the "classics" that people go on about, e.g. Half Life, Deus Ex etc.

- Some decent humour aside, I think the Borderlands games are very dull.

- I've never been able to finish any of the Bioshock games. I always get burnt out and stop about a third of the way through.

- Despite me having nothing but contempt for the Call of Duty series, I bought the season pass for MW3, I'm a mug, I know.

... I think that covers it.

 

[wetfart]

-I never finished Ocarina of Time.

-The only GTA I really enjoyed was Vice City.

-I never finished GTA4 and found it extremely bad.

-I greatly enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever.

-I dislike competitive multiplayer.

-I generally play games on easy or normal.

I'm sure there's more but either I've suppressed them or they've been repeated a bunch of times already in this thread and they don't need to be reiterated.

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

I can't bring myself to play any more of Persona 4 Golden. I got up to the second dungeon, put it down and haven't felt like picking it up again. I love the Persona series (and SMT in general), but there is something about P4G that makes me think "eh". Its not that its a remake of a game I've already played, because I've played Persona 3 FES and P3 Portable back to back and really enjoyed both.

 

[Keymik]

-I actually enjoyed the Kane & Lynch games
-I also enjoyed the Army of Two games
-Thought the Mass Effect 3 ending was fine

... Please don't hate me

 

[Evonisia]

*Gears of War 3 has one of the best multiplayer experiences of this gen, if not of all time.
*I think Gears of War: Judgment is an ok game.
*I liked the hacking minigame in BioShock.
**Additionally, I think that BioShock: Infinite's ending is MUCH worse than BioShock's.
*I prefer Oblivion to Morrowind, even though I played Morrowind first for a few years before Oblivion came out.
*Call of Duty: WaW, Black Ops and Black Ops II are shining diamonds in the singleplayer department (at least by Modern Military Standards, please don't hurt me).
*Halo: Reach is the worst installment pre 343 Industries to the Halo series, and Halo Wars is actually pretty good and gets far too much hate for very minor canon issues.

 

[Full]

I owned Click on PSP.

Phew, that felt good to get out. Still hated the movie though. Don't really know why I bought it, especially for fucking PSP.

 

[Nonomori]

Dragon Age 2 is less boring than the first and Mass Effect 3 is a good game.

I'm such a rebel.

-I raged HARD trying to beat the first boss of Skyward Sword, that guy who catches your sword with his fingertips and occasionally steals it and throws junk at you. It was IMPOSSIBLE. I was literally screaming for twenty minutes and throwing the controller around. After that I gave up, fuck Skyward Sword and the Wii Motion Plus gimmick.

If I remember correctly, the game explicitly tells you to be unpredictable. Why? Because Ghirahim can't move his hand fast enough. Line up your sword like you are going to attack from one angle, then move your hand, and attack from another direction. You can also use shield bash for distraction, or skyward strike for a few cheap shots. Here, pay attention to the first seconds:


It's pretty easy when you're not slashing blindly. I'm not saying that to annoy you, trust me, it really is. I was confused at first, but then I get it.

Have a solution for the stupid under water notes? Even with wii motion plus, I still can't get the ones that are 16 in a row. Every once in a while I pop it in and try for an hour or so. I figure I'll finish in maybe a year.

- I bought the original Dues ex after beating Human Revolution, but still haven't made it all the way through. I can't tell what I'm looking at most of the time and the voices sound like people gargling gravel.
- I didn't like FFXIII, but I adored Hope. I think because he really wanted to kill Snow, and really who doesn't?
- This is a really odd one. I like buying video games and I like replaying video games, but I'm normally not a fan of playing them the first time through. It's because every game still in the shrink wrap has the potential to be so amazing and every game I replay, I really liked. But putting a new game in is so terrifying because it's most likely going to be meh or even worse: bad.

Well, of course, Wii Motion Plus is required for this game.

And I don't know if it was a rhetorical question, but that part is very straightforward, just swim and then do a spin attack (shaking the nunchuk) for catching them all. Try watching a walkthrough or something like that. I'm sorry, I had no problems with that.

In fact, although rolling bombs is a bit of a pain (to the wrist), I think the controls are near flawless and the best in a Zelda game. There, I said it. Maybe that was my deep dark gaming secret.