Unforgivable Gaming Sins

[Gunner 51]

1.) I've nuked Megaton. I felt so awful about what I did I re-loaded my save and tried to make good the damage I'd done.

2.) I didn't like Portal and TF2.

3.) I don't like "Rhythm Action" games - they're just QTE's to me.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

For me a gaming sin Is the deletion of game saves, which I had done unto me, and I repeated against the same friend who did It. We cleansed the sin with pizza and getting back to where we each were.

 

[MCGT]

I liked MGS4, even the cutscenes.

I didn't like Half Life, but then I brought it on the PC and am slowly coming around to it - still overhyped though.

I also like sports games and own about 5 Fifas. Including two from consecutive years.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

I have never finished a GTA or Saints Row. I hate GTA IV with a passion and just lost interest in the rest.

 

[Vrach]

Have you ever felt that you had done something that separated you from the gaming community? Or done something in gaming which felt wrong to do? Maybe you loved a game which everybody hated, or you hated a game which was considered amazing. I thought of this because my friend has recently started to think that I'm mad, as I don't think that GTA IV is all that good.

You're not crazy, it's a huge step down in a lot of gameplay, atmosphere and storyline that made previous GTA games GTA games. I normally played GTA for months after completing all of the storyline, just screwing around in the city, GTA IV on the other hand just didn't give me a lot of, or any real satisfaction in that respect. I'd also like to just slap the hell out of whoever cast Niko for the terrible accent and no knowledge of the Serbian language, he sounds like a Serb born in America who learned Serbian through some course rather than a primary language >.>

OT: Played ME2, loved it, couldn't go back and play ME1 though. Still pacing myself to give it a try but finding it really hard to get into the idea :\

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Thinking that Psychonauts is not quite as transcendent as most people think. Oh, it's quite good but those nigh-impossible-to-finish collection quest bollocks dimmed it a bit in my eyes. Psychonauts, not in my top five.

Oh, and before I forget:

/flameshield on

*sigh* One can never be too careful when expressing one's thoughts these days.

This, also I really don't care for The Half-Life games, and Bioshock bores me to tears.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

- I like Final Fantasy VII. This may not seem like a sin, but it practically qualifies as such on these forums, where almost every Final Fantasy-related topic is filled with "FF7 was an overrated POS".

While on the subject of Final Fantasy, I also don't think Kefka is a great villain. There are so many people that praise him to be one of the greatest videogame villains of all time. Personally, however, I was unimpressed and thought he would have fit better in a cartoon.

- I don't like Counter-Strike. While I recognise the fact that it requires a great deal of skill and is probably the best e-Sports title in the FPS genre, the fact that I like a degree of realism in my FPS games makes it impossible for me to like a shooter where "bunnyhopping" is standard practice.

- I enjoyed Oblivion/Fallout 3. Again, may not seem like a sin, but there are more than enough people on these boards who claim that they are terrible and that Morrowind/Fallout 1&2 were much better.

- I liked playing World of WarCraft. There are plenty of people who don't consider this a sin, but it qualifies as one among "hardcore" gamers. If you have played WoW and don't "repent" for doing so, you are considered a "casual noob" who is a plague to everything gaming stands for.

- I do not dislike the platforms that I don't play on. Plenty of people almost religiously defend their platform of choice and insult others while doing so, but I am not one of them.

- As much as I love Valve, I do not consider Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead to be anything special.

Em...that is about as much as I can think of. Personally, I am fortunate in the fact that I actually do end up enjoying most of the titles that come highly recommended and that I manage to play.

EDIT:

I'd also like to just slap the hell out of whoever cast Niko for the terrible accent and no knowledge of the Serbian language, he sounds like a Serb born in America who learned Serbian through some course rather than a primary language >.>

Yeah, the Serbian in GTA IV was dreadful...which isn't really that suprising, considering that it was an American voice actor trying to pull off a fake Russian-like accent.

Having said that, the sheer fact that they knew of the word "burazeru" (albeit mispronounced in a way that is guaruanteed to make you cringe; for those that don't know, "burazeru" stands for "brother", although it isn't necessarilly used to refer to someone of your own kin) was a pleasant suprise. Plus, having a Serb character potrayed as something other than a dictatorial Gestapo-like figure (see the movie Behind Enemy Lines as an example of that) was a refreshing change of space, even though Niko still qualifies as a psychotic killer.

 

[Nifty]

Mine's not so much gaming as it is cardinal.

I'm a 24 year old man, I have a beard. I enjoy steak and a lovely Islay scotch. I also drive a German car and two of my favourite TV shows are The Wire and Top Gear.

I also own a Pokewalker.

 

[RadiusXd]

It almost seems as if it's a sin to dislike the Half Life series.

If that's the case, then let the power of Christ compel me. I hated the Half Life series.....

That's probably because you were, according to your profile, six when the first Half-Life game came out. It brought a level of immersion never seen before in an FPS. The scripted sequences in it had never been done on the level that Half-Life performed them, and the AI of the Hgrunts was amazing at the time. Enemies in an FPS that actually used a waypoint system to maneuver around objects, and could choose between assaulting, retreating, defending, throwing grenades, flanking, it hadn't been done. It was released when I was 13, and I still regard it as being a great game for what it did. What's more amazing to me is that I still haven't seen enemies that behave as believably as the grunts from the original Half-Life. Even in Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Crysis, Stalker, game of the day, they all just seem to charge and never take cover. So the coding is still impressive to me.
However I understand if you don't get the Gordon Freeman love, I've never really liked him either. It was what the game did that was important, and Half-Life 2 never expanded on it at all, it just made Freeman a gift from God. Yes it gave you a gravity gun, and then sent you on a car/hoverboat chase for 1/3 of the game. Adrian Shepherd from Opposing Force was always my favorite character, a bit more believable to me that a Marine can handle an army of alien forces than an MIT scientist with a crowbar.
So don't judge the Half-Life series based on Half-Life 2, because honestly it seems that Valve has turned it into a convoluted story along the lines of the X-Files, but I would say the first game deserves massive respect because it transformed FPS games with the advanced interactivity.

wow, talk about proving someone elses' point.

 

[Polyg0n]

I loved R6V but thought that R6V2 was pretty crappy. Also even though I am a PC gamer (only gaming platform I own) I haven`t played Half Life 1 and while Half Life 2 was a decent shooter it had a lot of boring moments and I can`t understand why is it supposed to be one of the best games ever.

 

[Drexlor]

I don't care too much for Bioshock so I hope you're right about Bioshock 2 having a better story. I liked MW2.

 

[siddif]

My biggest sin is being a "hardcore gamer" and only owning a Wii out of this generation of consoles but to me hardcore isnt M rated games, its the amount of time you put into each game (especially when it goes into several hundred hours)

Other sins include hating most FPS's, being a PC gamer on a Mac (easier now with Steam), and playing Pokémon at 22.

Also does liking the Bob Hoskins Mario film count?

EDIT: I also prefer the top down GTAs like 1,2 and London over the 3D ones though i did like GTA 3 i haven't liked any since

 

[ZephrC]

I was never particularly impressed by any of the Half-Life games, I think the entire Elder Scrolls series are some of the worst RPGs ever made, and I thought Ocarina of Time was absolutely, positively the worst Zelda game out of the entire series, portables included, excepting that Majora's Mask is even worse.

Also, I kinda like the Wii.

 

[siddif]

Mine's not so much gaming as it is cardinal.

I'm a 24 year old man, I have a beard. I enjoy steak and a lovely Islay scotch. I also drive a German car and two of my favourite TV shows are The Wire and Top Gear.

I also own a Pokewalker.

Im 22 with a beard and im wearing Pokewalker while in Yellow Forest so im not too far behind you haha

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I dislike "retro" games. I find them boring as there's nothing to drive them forward. No I am not disillusioned by modern games, I played Mario and Metroid etc on my Gameboy a kid along with Super Mario Bros. for the N64 and Super Mario 64 for the DS. I just find I need something more to a game, like, y'know a plot. (I can't stand Zelda)

Valve aren't that great. There, I said it. Yeah, I enjoyed Half Life 2, Portal was great and Left 4 Dead 2 was pretty damn fun with a couple friends, but they're all over-hyped. (Except for Portal)

 

[Doclector]

i think bioshock 2 is better than the first. story wise.

I thought bioshock 2 was better gameplay-wise, but whilst I liked the fact they used the second to explore the dark side of a total communist society (as apposed to the first one's capitalist nightmare), I thought the second game wasn't anywhere as good for story.

And as far as unforgivable gaming sins go, I think doom 3 wasn't all that bad (though I prefer to refer to it as "demon funhouse" rather than grace it with the doom name), I've become a little addicted to "deadliest warrior: the game", and yesterday, I left a twelve year old kid to get eaten alive whilst I safely got airlifted away from mercy hospital, but come on, we had done that finale four times already, and I was only on 19 health.

 

[Michael Dagastino]

Hmm ... Well Apparently in my circle of friends it is bad for me to like Mirror's edge. (though mostly for the gameplay, story wise i thought the writers had too much access to white-out) I also don't like World of Warcraft. Played for 3 days, didn't care for it. I was told that it was fun once you get to level 80. Aside from all of the insults i spewed (mostly based on his logic) after that sentence, why would you pay for soo long only to have fun that late in the game? I mean if you genuinely like the game, go ahead and play it, but if it takes you that long to start enjoying something, shouldn't you be trying to find some new source of entertainment? (though I do like the RTS version a lot)

 

[XzarTheMad]

Never played or cared for Metal Gear Solid, Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy or any other "classic" console games. I find them lame, formulaic, trite and predictable. Also, I never gave two singing shits about any of the "realistic" shooters like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Battlefield etc. Only ever played Day of Defeat, and that's just because it's a VALVe game.

Also, prototype is shit. Actually, scratch that. 95% of all console games are and/or were shit.

HURR DURR PC FANBOI OLOLO.

It should be noted, I don't dislike people who play those games, nor the fanatic fans of them. I just don't want to waste time on them myself. To each their own, right?

 

[siddif]

Hmm ... Well Apparently in my circle of friends it is bad for me to like Mirror's edge. (though mostly for the gameplay, story wise i thought the writers had too much access to white-out) I also don't like World of Warcraft. Played for 3 days, didn't care for it. I was told that it was fun once you get to level 80. Aside from all of the insults i spewed (mostly based on his logic) after that sentence, why would you pay for soo long only to have fun that late in the game? I mean if you genuinely like the game, go ahead and play it, but if it takes you that long to start enjoying something, shouldn't you be trying to find some new source of entertainment? (though I do like the RTS version a lot)

I actually found it got worse after reaching 80 myself i enjoyed the questing and leveling, i hate the other people on it who talk trash because you dont do raids, have low gear or surprisingly are trying to enjoy a game the way you want because you are paying £8.99 a month for it.

but thats my own rant.