Games your friends failed to talk you into
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I remember quite liking Civilization (don't know which), I'm thinking of something like Tropico or Hearts of Iron.L. Declis said:
Most MMOS would fall into this category, otherwise I'm pretty easy going.
Trying to scratch my head thinking of which game you mean. I initially thought it might be a Hearts of Iron or a Universalis game but problem is neither of them are turn based. Tropico ain't turn based either and you manage an island rather then a country, tropico has a distinct enough flavor that it's pretty easy to eliminate as one of the possibilities. Turn based country managing game.. This should be up my alley so am stumped that I can't seem to tell which game you speak of.Johnny Novgorod said:
League of Legends is a big one. I hate complicated item management and competitive strategy. They try to tell me that the item sets aren't that complicated, but I don't feel like memorizing multiple different items that lead into different items that I may or may not need depending on who i'm fighting and what type of character i'm playing... etc.
It took me forever to figure out how I should build my Shaman in World of Warcraft and I still can't figure out what I need to change after major patches.
Also Killing floor. I was a bit of a scaredy cat when my friends tried to make me buy this game many years ago. It's too late now with Killing Floor 2 on the horizon. At least the second game seems to have more lights in it.
It took me forever to figure out how I should build my Shaman in World of Warcraft and I still can't figure out what I need to change after major patches.
Also Killing floor. I was a bit of a scaredy cat when my friends tried to make me buy this game many years ago. It's too late now with Killing Floor 2 on the horizon. At least the second game seems to have more lights in it.
Half Life 2. Largely because the arguments are the same:
-(after playing the game for 5 hours) Well you have to play on until you get the gravity gun, THEN it gets good!" Umm no thanks.
-"Well you have to play the first one to understand anything" And this is a high point HOW?
-"Gordon Freeman is the best character EVAR!!" I have seen more generic characters, but it's a VERY short list and interestingly enough, all in the same genre.
-"But you get to use a crowbar!" Oh so I get to be a street thug in power armor. Nope, still not sold.
-"It's using an awesome physics engine!" -that is used for basic puzzles and ragdoll animations. ZZZzzz...
The fact is, outside of a few basic physics puzzles it is a generic first person shooter in a sea of them. And outside of stress relief I don't even play the genre. It's the same reason why I don't get into Spec Ops: The Line. A game designed to show how awful of a person you are for enjoying FPS games when I don't enjoy them is a wasted effort in my case.
-(after playing the game for 5 hours) Well you have to play on until you get the gravity gun, THEN it gets good!" Umm no thanks.
-"Well you have to play the first one to understand anything" And this is a high point HOW?
-"Gordon Freeman is the best character EVAR!!" I have seen more generic characters, but it's a VERY short list and interestingly enough, all in the same genre.
-"But you get to use a crowbar!" Oh so I get to be a street thug in power armor. Nope, still not sold.
-"It's using an awesome physics engine!" -that is used for basic puzzles and ragdoll animations. ZZZzzz...
The fact is, outside of a few basic physics puzzles it is a generic first person shooter in a sea of them. And outside of stress relief I don't even play the genre. It's the same reason why I don't get into Spec Ops: The Line. A game designed to show how awful of a person you are for enjoying FPS games when I don't enjoy them is a wasted effort in my case.
League of Legends.
The problem is that I don't like playing online against/with randoms. Even less so after I've heared about it's community.
Same goes for Smite.
The problem is that I don't like playing online against/with randoms. Even less so after I've heared about it's community.
Same goes for Smite.
League of Legends is one a friend of mine kept trying to get me to play. He is extremely annoying when he wants you to do something and you pretty much have to yell at him to get him to shut up. Finally after he hounded me for like a year to play it I finally gave in and played it and after 30 minutes quit. Haven't played it since and he knows not to bother me with it otherwise I will just walk away.
League of Legends, Dota2, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and since I mentioned Hearthstone, Yu Gi Oh.
I'm just not into mobas and card games with broken as hell metas. Grinding is only fun in certain game genres I enjoy, and WoW is definitely not one of them. The moment they suddenly change genres and turn into character action games, than you can pester me to join.
I'm just not into mobas and card games with broken as hell metas. Grinding is only fun in certain game genres I enjoy, and WoW is definitely not one of them. The moment they suddenly change genres and turn into character action games, than you can pester me to join.
Reaper of souls. yeah i heard it was better the vanilla Diablo 3. Still after playing 60 euro for the horrible D3, I wasn't excited enough to pay 40 euro for a expansion.
MMORPG's. Almost all of my friends played them. A couple of my friends even worked on them. They just looked so... Boring.
When Payday 2 came out, one of my friends got really into it, and kept bugging me to get it too. Like, every time I spoke to her it'd be "You should get Payday 2, it's sooo good." I resisted for the following reasons;
1. I'd played the beta and while it did demonstrate the potential to be a fun game, it also showed me that it would be a nightmare to play with AI.
2. I live in a different country to my friend and all her friends who played the game, and as such our schedules didn't really allow for much gaming together opportunity.
3. They'd all been playing it religiously since it came out, so by the time I joined in they'd be way ahead of me in terms of levels/equipment/knowledge of the missions and strategy, leaving me struggling to catch up.
4. I know from experience among my friends that the novelty eventually wears off and it gets to point that nobody really plays that game anymore. And because of point 3, this would probably happen just as I'm finally getting into it.
5. If I can't play with people I know, I don't bother, because playing team-based multiplayer games with strangers is a recipe for annoyance.
6. At the time I was unemployed, and didn't have the money to spend on games I wasn't going to get much enjoyment out of.
Despite pointing these things out to her, she still kept telling me I should get the game, and I just kept digging my heels in and refusing. It got to the point where I just started avoiding conversations with her until her excitement about the game wore off, because I was fed up with having the same argument every time.
1. I'd played the beta and while it did demonstrate the potential to be a fun game, it also showed me that it would be a nightmare to play with AI.
2. I live in a different country to my friend and all her friends who played the game, and as such our schedules didn't really allow for much gaming together opportunity.
3. They'd all been playing it religiously since it came out, so by the time I joined in they'd be way ahead of me in terms of levels/equipment/knowledge of the missions and strategy, leaving me struggling to catch up.
4. I know from experience among my friends that the novelty eventually wears off and it gets to point that nobody really plays that game anymore. And because of point 3, this would probably happen just as I'm finally getting into it.
5. If I can't play with people I know, I don't bother, because playing team-based multiplayer games with strangers is a recipe for annoyance.
6. At the time I was unemployed, and didn't have the money to spend on games I wasn't going to get much enjoyment out of.
Despite pointing these things out to her, she still kept telling me I should get the game, and I just kept digging my heels in and refusing. It got to the point where I just started avoiding conversations with her until her excitement about the game wore off, because I was fed up with having the same argument every time.
Trying to think of a game a friend has tried talking me into and cant. We rarely play together tbh we just have such different tastes in games although mine is probably the most diverse. We tend to be able to tell whether the other person will like it regardless of how we feel about a game.
Think we have played about 4 games online together in the past 7 years. Singleplayer games we have played more the same and occasionally just borrow them off each other.
Think we have played about 4 games online together in the past 7 years. Singleplayer games we have played more the same and occasionally just borrow them off each other.
People keep sending requests for me to play their damn facebook games. To which I look down with a disconcerted frown and crush them with my iron boot into the ground. Pitiful creatures of habit. Flimsy toys. They know so little of the wonders that lie beyond.
Oh and Borderlands. Lately the pre sequel. I keep getting told how good it and its predecessors are. The game seems to have all this fun sounding and looking stuff, but the action is so brainless and number swamped that my mind wanders into distracted, dark areas of thought. You're supposed to steer me away from those condemned corners, miss Game!
Oh and Borderlands. Lately the pre sequel. I keep getting told how good it and its predecessors are. The game seems to have all this fun sounding and looking stuff, but the action is so brainless and number swamped that my mind wanders into distracted, dark areas of thought. You're supposed to steer me away from those condemned corners, miss Game!
"y u no play Mario is childhood classic u skrub"
And then they don't even have the decency to stop fussing about it after they refuse to buy me a Wii that I cannot afford. Plebs.
And then they don't even have the decency to stop fussing about it after they refuse to buy me a Wii that I cannot afford. Plebs.
A friend of mine was all "Alpha Protocol is awesome, man!", so I rented the game and gave it a shot.
Couldn't find the shooting mechanics' hooks, couldn't hack for shit, was turned off by the ridiculous "sneaking" animation. Friend kept going "But it's so good! Play it until you get to meet SIE and Steven Hock, you'll never want to put it down after that!"
Kept playing. Felt absolutely zero connection. Gave up. The more said friend brings it up as being one of his personal gaming tentpoles, the less I care.
Watched a Let's Play so I'd at least have a sense of that oft-mentioned SIE. Got immensely bored.
An Energy meter? Progress gated by McGuffins you need to collect in stupid Hidden Object games? Fuck that, son, I'm outta here!
Couldn't find the shooting mechanics' hooks, couldn't hack for shit, was turned off by the ridiculous "sneaking" animation. Friend kept going "But it's so good! Play it until you get to meet SIE and Steven Hock, you'll never want to put it down after that!"
Kept playing. Felt absolutely zero connection. Gave up. The more said friend brings it up as being one of his personal gaming tentpoles, the less I care.
Watched a Let's Play so I'd at least have a sense of that oft-mentioned SIE. Got immensely bored.
Too true. My own mother's hooked on Criminal Case. I tried it out, assuming the police procedural aspects would be engaging.Xsjadoblayde said:
An Energy meter? Progress gated by McGuffins you need to collect in stupid Hidden Object games? Fuck that, son, I'm outta here!
Ok tenchically I already played it so it's more like getting me back into playing it.
I got Supreme Commander for Christmas a few years back and enjoyed it and the same with the expansion. My mate is pretty much a hardcore fan that he played it competitively on a regular basis.
Anyway this was the product version so it used that Gaspower network thingy to played with other so I didn't bother with it and kept to solo played.
Some time later he bought it again on Steam and pretty much want me to do the same but I can't be arse buying it again even if it was cheap since I am NOT a super computer when it come fighting against a Coumputer on normal mode let alone a real person!!
Even then I wouldn't buy it out of spiteful reason to my mate since I bought Diablo 3 on launch so that I can co op with him when he buy it aswell (claim to be a huge Diablo fan but he was only going to buy it when it's cheap). I got somewhat far into it but eventually gave up on it and by the time he finally bought it, this was when the expansion came out! Screw up, I struggle on my own, he will fair the same fate well playing it online but unlikely as he probably got others to played with.
I got Supreme Commander for Christmas a few years back and enjoyed it and the same with the expansion. My mate is pretty much a hardcore fan that he played it competitively on a regular basis.
Anyway this was the product version so it used that Gaspower network thingy to played with other so I didn't bother with it and kept to solo played.
Some time later he bought it again on Steam and pretty much want me to do the same but I can't be arse buying it again even if it was cheap since I am NOT a super computer when it come fighting against a Coumputer on normal mode let alone a real person!!
Even then I wouldn't buy it out of spiteful reason to my mate since I bought Diablo 3 on launch so that I can co op with him when he buy it aswell (claim to be a huge Diablo fan but he was only going to buy it when it's cheap). I got somewhat far into it but eventually gave up on it and by the time he finally bought it, this was when the expansion came out! Screw up, I struggle on my own, he will fair the same fate well playing it online but unlikely as he probably got others to played with.