My girlfriend and her crappy video games

[The Wooster]

This has been bugging me for a while.

I own quite a few current gen games, about 80 at the last count, lots of these games are good. In fact I'd say with a few exceptions which I'll put down to personal taste they're all good. It's a nice mix of Triple A 9/10 Mainstream blockbusters and cult hits. Shadow of the Collosus is there, GTA4 is there, Valkyria Chronicles, Psychonauts, Ratchet and Clank etc etc.

I have a wonderful selection of games that I'd just love to share with my girlfriend. But I can't. Why? Because my girlfriend loves shitty games. I don't just mean she likes one game that I think is shitty. I mean she likes games that are shitty. No matter how shoddy a game is, no matter how derivative, no matter how much the voice acting makes me want to die she will play it, she will unlock every secret and she will add it to her fucking compendium of shitty games.

At first I thought it was a genre thing you know? Like she really likes JRPG's and she's willing to play anything in the genre. But the thing is her response when asked how good a game is will always be the same no matter which fucking game she's playing. Oh so you're playing Ephemeral Fantasia [http://ps2.ign.com/articles/163/163594p1.html] are you? How is it? Oh it's good is it? Is it really! No it fucking isn't! You are a monster wrapped in human skin!

Erin's addiction to pure shit has been eating away at me for years but today... today it's reached the boiling point. She brought home a copy of Chaos Wars. Chaos fucking Wars. I don't even think they 'made' this game per-se. I think they actually just pasted in code from every other turn based strategy JRPG. The game is, naturally, fucking atrocious but it did have one thing going for it, one tiny little golden nugget in a giant pile of shit. The voice acting. The voice acting in Chaos Wars is so bad it actually transcends shitty, like a planet reaching one end of the universe only to appear at the other.


The greatest voice track ever committed to record (emphasis on committed) [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jyNjSAv_OuY&feature=related]

I was overjoyed. Sure the music sounds like something you'd hear in an elevator in Hell but the voices... the voices could keep me going. It'd be something to laugh at. But no. Because she wants to "Appreciate the story" (ugh) she's playing the game in fucking Japanese. I spend every day sitting on a pile of awesome games any game fan would murder for and she's playing through a generic pile of shit... in Japanese. Now I'm going to kill myself.

 

[sheic99]

The only thing I can say is "to each their own." Has she attempted playing you games and don't like them or does she only play bad JRPGs?

 

[Smiles]

haha, I have a friend just like that, and when I suggest good games for her to play she says, "that doesnt interest me" shes hilarious, she also reads really crappy romance novels and manga. I enjoy laughing at her behind her back sorry...

 

[Abedeus]

Bash her head few times with the pad.


Works on my stupid friend that likes to play Tibia.

 

[Jadak]

Best rant ever?

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

Girlfriend Fail?

 

[Dommyboy]

Beat her with some quality games, maybe that will make sense to her. Or you could beat her with terrible games and tell her that it's how you feel when she plays them.

 

[matrix3509]

I think your missing the point of it. Some people actually enjoy playing terrible games. Its the same way with movies, because I can point out to you more than a couple of people who genuinely enjoy Uwe Boll movies (these people by the way won't even admit that those films are horrible, they actually think there is quality where there is none to be had).

It doesn't matter if these people are provably wrong, because if you take it upon yourself to prove it you will just end up driving them away and they will hate you for it.

Word of advice: don't bash what someone close to you loves. Its a lose-lose situation.

As I see it you have two options (assuming you care about this person):
1.) Acknowledge it and move on and pay her games no more attention.
2.) Buy her an extra console, put it in the basement (if you don't have a basement, then I suggest you dig one, with your bare hands and maybe a single spade), put all of her games in a safe that only she knows the combination to, then get back to your own games, never to worry yourself again.

Problem solved.

 

[Raven28256]

Aw man, if she played it in English you could at least laugh yourself into a fucking coma...But in Japanese? That is just cruel.

I don't have this issue with my girlfriend, she has pretty good taste in games. Her current Post-Christmas gift obsessions are Valkyria Chronicles and Left 4 Dead, who she plays with me and another gamer couple we are good friends with. BUT! I do know people who play utter shit. I have several friends who buy EVERY SINGLE FUCKING Dynasty/Samurai/Other Generic Warriors Mod Warriors game the second Gamestop opens on the day the game comes out. WHY?!?! It is the SAME FUCKING GAME every six months!! They own EVERY game by Koei, and it boggles my mind. I would LOVE to have so much money that I can't do anything with it except buy a slightly modified version of a game I own sixty versions of. I would use it to buy the AAA titles I haven't had a chance to buy from last year, or save up for the great titles coming this year.

I have some gamer friends that are also obsessed with anime and they buy all the games for their favorite anime, despite all of them being piss-poor attempts to milk a popular franchise with a mediocre game tie-in. To give you an idea, they own that Gundam game that came out at launch for the PS3. You know, the very game that was universally ass raped by critics outside of Japan, critics hungry for a fucking rock bottom terrible game to rabidly bash into the wee hours of the morning. The sort of game so terrible that people like Yathzee ejaculate all over the place for. And they LIKE it!

 

[SimuLord]

I think your missing the point of it. Some people actually enjoy playing terrible games. Its the same way with movies, because I can point out to you more than a couple of people who genuinely enjoy Uwe Boll movies (these people by the way won't even admit that those films are horrible, they actually think there is quality where there is none to be had).

It doesn't matter if these people are provably wrong, because if you take it upon yourself to prove it you will just end up driving them away and they will hate you for it.

Word of advice: don't bash what someone close to you loves. Its a lose-lose situation.

As I see it you have two options (assuming you care about this person):
1.) Acknowledge it and move on and pay her games no more attention.
2.) Buy her an extra console, put it in the basement (if you don't have a basement, then I suggest you dig one, with your bare hands and maybe a single spade), put all of her games in a safe that only she knows the combination to, then get back to your own games, never to worry yourself again.

Problem solved.

Or put her IN the safe works too

Going to all the effort to dig a basement without then turning around and encasing the girl in it Cask of Amontillado-style seems a horrible waste, really.

 

[Fanboy]

I wish I had lower standards; Life would be a lot more enjoyable. Though it sounds like she has a completely different set of standards altogether. I wouldn't call it a bad taste in games, but definitely an unusual one...

No. On a second thought, I would call it a bad taste in games. In fact, it is a terrible, terrible taste in games; Her games are bad and she should feel bad.

 

[BGinsanity]

Heh, no offense but I think your overreacting dude. So what if she likes crappy games? It doesnt seem like a big deal to me but everyone has different pet peeves so I cant hate too much =D

Just remember fun is a subjective thing. Something you may find to be retarded my be really fun to her. You cant force your ideals of a good game onto her either. My only advice is to maybe play a few of your game on co-op with her and maybe she'll like them.

 

[matrix3509]

I think your missing the point of it. Some people actually enjoy playing terrible games. Its the same way with movies, because I can point out to you more than a couple of people who genuinely enjoy Uwe Boll movies (these people by the way won't even admit that those films are horrible, they actually think there is quality where there is none to be had).

It doesn't matter if these people are provably wrong, because if you take it upon yourself to prove it you will just end up driving them away and they will hate you for it.

Word of advice: don't bash what someone close to you loves. Its a lose-lose situation.

As I see it you have two options (assuming you care about this person):
1.) Acknowledge it and move on and pay her games no more attention.
2.) Buy her an extra console, put it in the basement (if you don't have a basement, then I suggest you dig one, with your bare hands and maybe a single spade), put all of her games in a safe that only she knows the combination to, then get back to your own games, never to worry yourself again.

Problem solved.

Or put her IN the safe works too

Going to all the effort to dig a basement without then turning around and encasing the girl in it Cask of Amontillado-style seems a horrible waste, really.

That wasn't really what I was going for in my post. something makes me think that would not be very good for their relationship.

But, meh. I guess I'm just the non-confrontational type of person.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Decoy, I thought better of you.

Grow a pair.

 

[ElTigreNegro]

Woah, she seriously like to play the most generic and insipid RPGs out there. Bring her a copy of Persona 3 or 4, or maybe Valkyria Chronicles.