What games have your friends insulted, without even playing them?

[AbstractStream]

Mostly Kingdom Hearts and the Ace Attorney series. The typical "looks childish" argument. Yet I have yet to face someone who played these two series and hasn't been hooked after initially trash talking them. I just give a smug face afterwards.

 

[uzo]

I had a mate who refused to play Mount & Blade until it got something like a Crysis 2 engine.

We are no longer on speaking terms.

 

[Mosesj]

I bought Mario Galaxy 2. Here is an actual, damn near word-for-word exchange I had with a friend.

Friend: You wasted your money on Mario Galaxy 2?
Me: I like it, and I know it's going to be fun.
Friend: Well all it is is that it's adding some new power-ups, Yoshi, some new levels and tweaking a little stuff from the old one. Why not get something that isn't such a rip-off, like Left 4 Dead 2?


...I'm curious as to just how many people on this site will actually understand what the problem was.

isn't left 4 dead 2 just the exact same game but with new stuff and levels? well, I guess the guy's oblivious or something

 

[pixiejedi]

A friend of mine, who usually listens to my recommendations, just doesn't want to give Red Dead Redemption a chance. He says he doesn't think he will enjoy the game after the novelty of playing as a cowboy wears off.

I myself only got around to paying RDR in February so I was also a long-time skeptic myself, but after playing it I thought the game was incredible. I told my friend that I was once in his position and that at worst, the gunplay is a bit easy/repetitive and the game starts off slow, but you'll be willing to overlook that given how well written the story and characters are.

I think I'm slowly starting to change his mind, since I've recently gotten points for recommending him games like Saints Row 2 and Arkham Asylum.

I have a couple of friends who still don't want to give RDR a chance. My husband and I argued over who would get to play it next and our friend was just like "meh, whatever".

Back in the day I got crap for playing Final Fantasy. Now I mock it too, then come home and hide in a corner and play some more. Its a guilty pleasure, I know!

 

[Alphakirby]

My friend Matt said Super Meat Boy would be easy,then he played the demo and hated it for being too hard! A sure example of "Shut the fuck up and play the damn thing!"

 

[teebeeohh]

i know a few girls who think that video games are toys for immature man-children. except farmville, that is serious business. other than that most of my gaming friends are annoying xbox fanboys and everything not released on the 360 is shit

 

[Sondow]

Telling my friend about Team Fortress 2 and how we should play it now that its free = "Dude all PC shooters fucking suck, if its not on a console then its not worth playing."

Is this a direct quote?

Your "friend" needs to be publicly executed. Particularly since a large part of these "fucking sucky" PC shooters are also ON console... like, you know, TEAM FORTRESS 2...

Granted the console version of TF2 doesn't actually exist. It's a corporate lie. I have established that in my headcanon.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

It's like my friend with Batman Arkham Asylum, "Oh it's Batman so it must be shit"

Your friend is a communist.

OT: I hate when people say Pokemon is for kids. Pokemon isn't for kids dammit!

 

[InfectedStar]

Gears of War the series

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Half-Life 2 and .hack


WAI U HAET ON LEGENDS :C:C:CCCCC

Basically they said they were baby games. Apparently games that don't have profanity every 4 seconds are for children.

'DEY ARE GAMES FOR LITTLE BABBIES.
...Your friends are weird, considering they said an M-rated game is for babies.

Anyway, I have a tendency to just magically disconnect from people if they do that. ESPECIALLY if they're ditching it because of graphics. >.>

 

[Vornek]

My friends despise two (or well three really) of my games. These games are Mass effect (1 and 2) and The Sims - Medieval.

Why do you despise them I ask?
Because it's just bad (ME games)
Because the Sims is for girls.

I just...avoid playing them while my friends are in the same room. Or start playing them just to annoy them. Ah friendship, when punching each-other is like giving a hug.

-V

 

[dark_mist34]

Minecraft

and on a weirder note world of warcraft cataclysm me and my friend used to play but when the shattering happened he didn't even try it just quit said the saw pictures of it online and it looked like crap so instead of trying just quit and then the other person we used to play with quit. I tried to keep going some of the new areas were fun but i started playing and continued playing because of them. I managed to play for 2 more months then quit just got bored playing with people I only knew online

 

[Ghostydash]

One of my friends said all the Half Life games were standard fps's and hasn't played a single one of them.

*sigh*

I think your friend should be dragged out to the curve and be pistol whipped for being so stupid. make him play them, then see what reaction you get out of him.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

Pretty much every game I buy that isn't an FPS I get shit from my friends for. Even if it is an FPS if it doesn't feature the "run in guns blazing and take no damage from enemy bullets and you spray the room with your own gun" style of gameplay, my friends still hate it.

 

[theSHAH]

World of Warcraft, I had one friend tell me that it's simply just clicking buttons and takes no coordination. First of all, every game is clicking buttons, second of all he's just staring at the screen, he doesn't realize all the things I'm doing in a boss fight and how an entire raid has to be on the same page.

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

I gots me a huge list.(being someplace between hardcore and core) I naturally have an expansive libaray of amazing games. But when i say i play ffVII, Minecraft, Gears 1 and 2, anything from the wiis gloy month, ect. They flip out saying they were shitty games. Now get off your fat ass and play some MW2/halo/borderlands.(Same friends with FF dvds)