Gaming Blasphemy!!!

[TotallyFake]

I've criticised Steam, by daring to mention in a thread around here once that it didn't allow you to play games offline (which, at one time, was true) but about a hundred people jumped on me at once to point out Offline Mode and tell me that I was stupid not to know about it.

It was really hypocritical, because it is the DEFINITION of stupidity to expect others to have all the same knowledge as what you do of a system. Polite corrections, meanwhile, would have been welcome - had there been any.

I also seriously dislike the Assassin's Creed series, despite owning the first game. The glitches that made my PS3 crash constantly, the pointless flag system that failed to lengthen the already very short game, the far too easy fighting system which was solved just by pressing two buttons over and over again... and the horrible repetitiveness of every mission, and that's to say nothing of sub-missions.

And before anyone says anything, yes, I hear that the sequel has fixed almost all of those things, but that doesn't make me want to buy it. The fact that Ubisoft robbed me of my good funds with that absolutely average, overrated piece of crap that was the first game, has totally turned me off to giving them any money for any game in the future, no matter how critically acclaimed.

Wait, lemme double check these.
You criticise a system for not having a specific feature that it actually has. Then you complain when people rip into you for your inaccurate criticism? Yeah, I'll agree that they should be polite and shouldn't automatically assume you know the same things that they do, but in this situation you really SHOULD have known that.

Second: You criticise a game series on it's flawed first game. You refuse to play the second one because you believe it will still have those exact flaws, despite every gaming critic praising it for REMOVING said flaws? So you won't play the good second game because you wasted money on the first. Pro-tip: That money is still wasted, whether you buy the second game or not.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

I have never played bioshock if that can count... And i don't like the original marios that much, for nostalgia yeah, but not for anything else.

 

[ejb626]

Well, it seems tha major sin on this forum is not being a PC gamer and not liking Valve, don't get me wrong I like L4D, TF2 looks pretty fun and I've never tried HL2 or seen gameplay footage. But I don't worship them and I don't own a gaming PC seriously from day one I noticed that people love PC gaming and absoulutly adore Valve on this forum.

 

[Kushan101]

I do believe his reply was sarcastic.

My sin would be I refuse to play Modern Warfare 2. Not because it is so popular, but because I believe games need strong single player before being carried by multiplayer. So I won't even give it the time of day to test it since I hear it has a five hour campaign then you grind online play forever.

This goes for all multiplayer requirement games.

So I judge games before I play them if I hear they have no single player or a extremely short one.

You beautiful man, I couldn't have said it any better.

My gaming sin is one that has been repeated fairly often: I didn't really like half-life 2. I thought the original was far better: there was a cause for what was going on, the weapons were varied, different factions fighting for different things, it was a decently sized game.

Whereas, I found HL2 to be too short, provided no background to the combine or the invasion of earth (and I don't want to hear about how its "hinted" at, a story is there to be told by the narrator, not made up by the listener), the weapons were exceedingly bland (where was the alien weaponry?), I didn't care for any character within it (bar "dog", he was awesome), and the puzzles were simply examples of how good the physics engine was. Not to mention the rather drawn out driving sections.

 

[Darth Pope]

I rented Ocarina of Time for one weekend a long time ago and, while I thought it was okay, didn't think it was the greatest game ever, as so many other people seem to.

Just had to be there I guess.

OT:Woe unto me, for I hath sinned.

I like Final Fantasy, the second generation Pokemon Games, and the first two Halo games. (Bungie really fucked the story in Halo 3.)

I don't use any online gaming components in any form whatsoever as I find actually sitting in a room with other people much more enjoyable.Thus, I am a devout advocate of strong single player experiences.

3D Sonic was A-OK in my book up until Heroes.(I still thought Heroes was somewhat serviceable, buy the series just kept getting worse.)

I hate Guitar Hero.

Never played Bioshock.

As a gamer who's formative years were during the fourth console generation, I still refuse to admit that the SNES is any way superior to the Genesis/Megadrive.

I loved Luigi's Mansion.

I believe that the Dreamcast was the greatest console ever.

I hate the Wii simply because I'm a very traditional gamer and despise the Wiimote. If motion control is the wave of the future then I'm screwed.

*prepares for trolls to rain from on high like the wrath of God.*

 

[Manji187]

So I'd like to know, what gaming "sin" (as the above person calls it) have you committed?

Or, what are some that you know others have done?

Be it a gaming rule, a certain famous franchise you don't like or whatever, what is it?

I shun any kind of online multiplayer (what can I say..I'm from "the 5th generation": PSX/ N64...or "those ancient times when story mattered").

Don't give a damn about the God of War franchise, the Call of Duty franchise, the Guitar Hero hype, the Left 4 Dead franchise, the Soul Calibur franchise and especially the god-awful Halo franchise.

Oh and I didn't cry when Aeris died...good riddance..didn't use the "holy virgin" anyway.

 

[Soren91]

Movie-based games are never good.

What about Spiderman 2? I thought it was okay at least. Swinging around the city was entertaining.

 

[Wintermoot]

seeing a movie-based game as part of my childhood and liking MK the movie (only the first one)

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I don't like either the Metal Gear Solid series nor any of the recent Final Fantasy games.

Yes, call me a heretic, I don't mind. I could like a dozen reasons easily off the top of my head why I find myself disliking both series, but that would be flame-baiting so I'll resist. Either way I just don't like em and sometimes wonder how anyone could, I just don't get it!

Of all the posts here, this is the one that got my fanboy teeth a-gnashing. Good job. Now hold still while I snipe you with a tranq pistol.

I think it's a gaming sin that noone has made game where you play as pedobear, running from police and little girls with assault rifles.

 

[Skeleton Jelly]

I'm a blasphemer because I just plain hate Left 4 Dead 1&2, and all of the Half Lifes. To me their gameplay was bland and story lacking. Well Half Lifes was decent, but not really good. Just didn't interest me. Oh and I hate Guitar Hero and kinda hate Halo 3 matchmaking. Or really everything in Halo 3 other than a good custom made map, made for a good game of infection. I loooove that about Halo. Oh and Mario and Zelda games just bore me now. Maybe if they remade Ocarina of Time....

 

[Geekmaster K]

I know a guy who thinks it's blasphemy that I can't really get into Oblivion. I told him that I didn't think it was a bad game, but that it just didn't appeal to me, and he still called me a blasphemer for not thinking that Oblivion is the best dark fantasy RPG ever made.

As a side note, I got into an argument with this guy because I was excited about BioShock 2. He said that he didn't want a sequel and that it doesn't make sense for there to be a sequel, because Rapture shouldn't still be standing by the end of the first game. He also said that BioShock was a game that should be able to stand on its own, because the sequel would inevitably suck and drag the first game down with it.

Well, as it turns out, the game is getting good reviews, and from what I've heard, it sounds like they provide a reasonable explanation for why Rapture is still standing. So if you play the game, the sequel does, in fact, make sense. I even talked to a guy who hasn't been playing it for that long, and is already liking it more than the original. I have yet to read any review that said the game sucked or was just mediocre. Of course, Yahtzee hasn't reviewed it yet, so you never know. I haven't played BioShock 2 yet, but it sounds like it's going to be awesome.

To get back on topic, I just want to say that sometimes I have problems with elitism, even among my peers. They accuse me of being a fanboy for liking one insanely popular game, and then call me a blasphemer for not liking another game that also happens to be insanely popular. The problem here is not that I'm not a "real gamer," but that we have different tastes in games. None of my friends have ever said that I'm not a "real gamer" for liking different games than they do, but sometimes I wonder if they're thinking it. Oh well, at least they don't think any less of me as a person because of it.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

I personally think that Final Fantasy VII ruined the series from then on into being this retarded, over-the-top barrage of shitty anime.

Also, the only other "sin" I can think of is actually liking a game rather than hating it like every other fanboy, i.e. the new Silent Hill games (especially Shattered Memories). Hey, at least they aren't as bad as the comics.

 

[Silva]

I've criticised Steam, by daring to mention in a thread around here once that it didn't allow you to play games offline (which, at one time, was true) but about a hundred people jumped on me at once to point out Offline Mode and tell me that I was stupid not to know about it.

It was really hypocritical, because it is the DEFINITION of stupidity to expect others to have all the same knowledge as what you do of a system. Polite corrections, meanwhile, would have been welcome - had there been any.

I also seriously dislike the Assassin's Creed series, despite owning the first game. The glitches that made my PS3 crash constantly, the pointless flag system that failed to lengthen the already very short game, the far too easy fighting system which was solved just by pressing two buttons over and over again... and the horrible repetitiveness of every mission, and that's to say nothing of sub-missions.

And before anyone says anything, yes, I hear that the sequel has fixed almost all of those things, but that doesn't make me want to buy it. The fact that Ubisoft robbed me of my good funds with that absolutely average, overrated piece of crap that was the first game, has totally turned me off to giving them any money for any game in the future, no matter how critically acclaimed.

Wait, lemme double check these.
You criticise a system for not having a specific feature that it actually has. Then you complain when people rip into you for your inaccurate criticism? Yeah, I'll agree that they should be polite and shouldn't automatically assume you know the same things that they do, but in this situation you really SHOULD have known that.

Second: You criticise a game series on it's flawed first game. You refuse to play the second one because you believe it will still have those exact flaws, despite every gaming critic praising it for REMOVING said flaws? So you won't play the good second game because you wasted money on the first. Pro-tip: That money is still wasted, whether you buy the second game or not.

Whether or not I "should've" known something is not for you to decide, oh Holy Judge of All That Must Be Judged.

That money ISN'T still wasted because there are other things that are perfectly good that I'm open to. Try real logic instead of pretending taking down one good option takes them all down. The point is that I'm trying to make a point to Ubisoft by not giving them one hundred good dollars for something after they gave me something that was poorly done, which they'd managed to sell through good PR.

I'm not missing out because I can spend that money on good games from more consistent series, or else on other things that are entirely my business and not yours.

 

[The Cake Is Annoying]

Mario is faster than Sonic.

Koopa Troopa is the slowest character in Super Mario Kart.

Jill isn't the master of unlocking.

 

[acklumos]

Well, I think Half-Life 2 is a generic piece of crap(don't hurt me! the original half-life was good!) and I (for the most part) utterly despise multiplayer games (notable exceptions being MAG, TF2, BF:BC, Bioshock 2, and cooperative multiplayer games).

 

[Rishtaka]

Considering most of the first pages posts... I love Final Fantasy games *gasp* =P

Realistically I think there should just be the top few games of each genre which should at least be rent worthy for someone to try before saying they don't like a genre. It's up to everyone to choose what they like and do or don't play.

 

[thewerebuffalo]

I don't have any must haves, I just feel sorry for gamers who cheat themselves out of good non-mainstream games. like no more heroes, bayonetta, and zack and wiki.

 

[A.A.K]

well i was disgusted in the Final Fantasy series. and halo. and modern warfare is alright......if those are sins then ill be havin sex with the gaming devil.

 

[TotallyFake]

I've criticised Steam, by daring to mention in a thread around here once that it didn't allow you to play games offline (which, at one time, was true) but about a hundred people jumped on me at once to point out Offline Mode and tell me that I was stupid not to know about it.

It was really hypocritical, because it is the DEFINITION of stupidity to expect others to have all the same knowledge as what you do of a system. Polite corrections, meanwhile, would have been welcome - had there been any.

I also seriously dislike the Assassin's Creed series, despite owning the first game. The glitches that made my PS3 crash constantly, the pointless flag system that failed to lengthen the already very short game, the far too easy fighting system which was solved just by pressing two buttons over and over again... and the horrible repetitiveness of every mission, and that's to say nothing of sub-missions.

And before anyone says anything, yes, I hear that the sequel has fixed almost all of those things, but that doesn't make me want to buy it. The fact that Ubisoft robbed me of my good funds with that absolutely average, overrated piece of crap that was the first game, has totally turned me off to giving them any money for any game in the future, no matter how critically acclaimed.

Wait, lemme double check these.
You criticise a system for not having a specific feature that it actually has. Then you complain when people rip into you for your inaccurate criticism? Yeah, I'll agree that they should be polite and shouldn't automatically assume you know the same things that they do, but in this situation you really SHOULD have known that.

Second: You criticise a game series on it's flawed first game. You refuse to play the second one because you believe it will still have those exact flaws, despite every gaming critic praising it for REMOVING said flaws? So you won't play the good second game because you wasted money on the first. Pro-tip: That money is still wasted, whether you buy the second game or not.

Whether or not I "should've" known something is not for you to decide, oh Holy Judge of All That Must Be Judged.

That money ISN'T still wasted because there are other things that are perfectly good that I'm open to. Try real logic instead of pretending taking down one good option takes them all down. The point is that I'm trying to make a point to Ubisoft by not giving them one hundred good dollars for something after they gave me something that was poorly done, which they'd managed to sell through good PR.

I'm not missing out because I can spend that money on good games from more consistent series, or else on other things that are entirely my business and not yours.

Hey, chill.
If your criticising something it's appropriate to know all the facts. Can you seriously disagree with that?

And the money IS still wasted. Let's look at the situations.
You don't buy any game with the new money: One game's worth of money gone, no games worth of enjoyment.
You buy a different, better game: Two game's worth of money gone, one game's enjoyment.
You buy AC2: Two game's worth of money gone, one game's enjoyment.
AC1 being shit has no bearing on AC2 being good. And I doubt Ubisoft will really care. They have so many customers I don't really see how you refusing to buy a game (after they actually listen to reviews, and fix the goddamn problems) is sending a message.