Your Biggest Secret/Regret as a Gamer
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I haven't gotten around to playing the first Half-Life (I have played Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but still).
My biggest gaming regret is not keeping better track of my games (really most of them were for my sisters and I but I played them the most), every time I've moved before I moved where I am now I've lost almost all of them and only found some of them.
As for the remake, I would've preferred if they'd waited something more like 12-14 years after the original or like 5 years after Halo 3 or Reach, and done the whole trilogy-- which I guess now would be the original trilogy-- at once or right in a row, but I guess 10 years is enough for there to be people who never played it or barely remember it.
Yes, it's a sophisticated dress-up simulator that you can also shoot people in, and you're not alone (it's not the only reason I play, but it's one of the larger ones).JoesshittyOs said:
It's not too late to replay it, unless you mean how the story played out will stay with you.SirBryghtside said:
As for the remake, I would've preferred if they'd waited something more like 12-14 years after the original or like 5 years after Halo 3 or Reach, and done the whole trilogy-- which I guess now would be the original trilogy-- at once or right in a row, but I guess 10 years is enough for there to be people who never played it or barely remember it.
I also never finished the first Halo game, only got to the last level with that timed area. Main reason behind not finishing was the Flood enemies, I just found them boring and annoying to fight.
Over the top cheating when I was younger (damn you my younger self, damn you!) rather than having a good story and game-play experience. Mostly due to my (back then) lack of patience and unwillingness to improve rather than take a shortcut.
Over the top cheating when I was younger (damn you my younger self, damn you!) rather than having a good story and game-play experience. Mostly due to my (back then) lack of patience and unwillingness to improve rather than take a shortcut.
Oh, God. I have a few of those...
1. I bought Spore and went so far as to use mods to improve the boring gameplay;
2. I'm a bit of a Sims addict. Thankfully, I manage to wait for bundles or for the end-of-series compilations instead of burning my wallet to ashes by buying each expansion individually;
3. I bought Enter the Matrix and Path of Neo, not learning from the first one that the second was inevitably going to be an awful piece of dreck. Which it was;
4. One of my friends considers Alpha Protocol to be a *great* game. Wrap your head around that for a sec. Nothing works except the dialog system and the overall plot, and it's a *great* game?! Getting him to see how slipshod AP is is like trying to get a lifelong blind person to describe the color red;
5. I cannot appreciate The Witcher for the life of me. I've tried both games, but they both feel too alien to me. They do too many things through too many menus and frankly ask too much of my measly self. I'm a coddled gamer made out of cookie dough who prefers to have his hand guided through Mass Effect 1 or 2. I've had more fun playing the Fable series, for God's sake.
Yes, I've said it, I like the Fable series, even though I'll join the masses by saying that The Journey looks like a terrible, terrible idea.
How's that for shameful?
1. I bought Spore and went so far as to use mods to improve the boring gameplay;
2. I'm a bit of a Sims addict. Thankfully, I manage to wait for bundles or for the end-of-series compilations instead of burning my wallet to ashes by buying each expansion individually;
3. I bought Enter the Matrix and Path of Neo, not learning from the first one that the second was inevitably going to be an awful piece of dreck. Which it was;
4. One of my friends considers Alpha Protocol to be a *great* game. Wrap your head around that for a sec. Nothing works except the dialog system and the overall plot, and it's a *great* game?! Getting him to see how slipshod AP is is like trying to get a lifelong blind person to describe the color red;
5. I cannot appreciate The Witcher for the life of me. I've tried both games, but they both feel too alien to me. They do too many things through too many menus and frankly ask too much of my measly self. I'm a coddled gamer made out of cookie dough who prefers to have his hand guided through Mass Effect 1 or 2. I've had more fun playing the Fable series, for God's sake.
Yes, I've said it, I like the Fable series, even though I'll join the masses by saying that The Journey looks like a terrible, terrible idea.
How's that for shameful?
I am sensei of regrets. Here are just some on the uper crust of my shame and traumas.
1) Playing a flawless "Hellgate: London" without dying, just to stop to read a quest that was shoved in my path (you know the kind: The game stops all you are doing and centers your attention to the quest when it opens automatically and fills the screen) that said I had to get out of the way of an oncoming train before it squashed me (that in about 1,000 words), and die standing just a few quests away from the end of the game, defuncted by what was basically (although not technically) a quicktime event.
2) Not playing "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." the day I got it. After that, almost the next day, a horrid and neverending series of unfortunate events took hold of my life and attention during those days and by the time I shook of its grasp the desire was long lost. Like a 50 years long marriage but without even the honeymoon.
3) Using "Walkthroughs" for a couple of games that I could've solved by myself. Shame is to big to mention the games' names.
4) Using "cheats" to finish bloody "Far Cry" for I discovered that my reflexes where of a different generation of the ones needed to finish the last 2 goddamned stages.
5) Playing non-stop and in a row (from start to finish without rest almost) "Half-Life", "Far Cry" and "Rogue Trooper" for almost a whole week, because that was the week I f***ed up my eye-sight.
Maaaaany more await disclosure, but there is no need to reveal all.
1) Playing a flawless "Hellgate: London" without dying, just to stop to read a quest that was shoved in my path (you know the kind: The game stops all you are doing and centers your attention to the quest when it opens automatically and fills the screen) that said I had to get out of the way of an oncoming train before it squashed me (that in about 1,000 words), and die standing just a few quests away from the end of the game, defuncted by what was basically (although not technically) a quicktime event.
2) Not playing "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." the day I got it. After that, almost the next day, a horrid and neverending series of unfortunate events took hold of my life and attention during those days and by the time I shook of its grasp the desire was long lost. Like a 50 years long marriage but without even the honeymoon.
3) Using "Walkthroughs" for a couple of games that I could've solved by myself. Shame is to big to mention the games' names.
4) Using "cheats" to finish bloody "Far Cry" for I discovered that my reflexes where of a different generation of the ones needed to finish the last 2 goddamned stages.
5) Playing non-stop and in a row (from start to finish without rest almost) "Half-Life", "Far Cry" and "Rogue Trooper" for almost a whole week, because that was the week I f***ed up my eye-sight.
Maaaaany more await disclosure, but there is no need to reveal all.
My ever-increasing backlog.
Dark Void, Red Faction: Armageddon, Hot Pursuit, Dark Sector, Bionic Commando, Conan...
Eh, come to think of it, I think I'll stick to Crysis 2 for now. Hot Pursuit and Conan are the only ones I see finishing, 'cause HP was awesome.
Dark Void, Red Faction: Armageddon, Hot Pursuit, Dark Sector, Bionic Commando, Conan...
Eh, come to think of it, I think I'll stick to Crysis 2 for now. Hot Pursuit and Conan are the only ones I see finishing, 'cause HP was awesome.
I regret getting into gaming at all. The amount of time i've wasted over the years is ridiculous...
All the money that I've spent on games could have been put towards more important things or saved for later...
I...
I like Final Fantasy VII. A lot. It's in my top 5.
And I've never played FFVI or VIII either. Gonna get around to them though.
My rankings of the top 5 games, for reference:
IX
V
IV
VII
III
I like Final Fantasy VII. A lot. It's in my top 5.
And I've never played FFVI or VIII either. Gonna get around to them though.
My rankings of the top 5 games, for reference:
IX
V
IV
VII
III
I actually spend some money on the TF2 shop for a useless hat. I regret giving Valve those 5 bucks.
Never actually playing Ocarina of Time all the way through. I had an N64 growing up and always wanted to get it, but never got around to it. It drifted into the background when I started to move away from gaming a bit. Playing Twilight Princess got me interested in it again, but in comparison it was blocky and frankly just not as good.
I Bought Xmen: Wolverines revenge full price for the Gamecube back in the day, Sad times.
Also selling Batman: AA. Damn Combo Challenges!
Picking LittleBigPlanet as one of my free PSN games.
Also selling Batman: AA. Damn Combo Challenges!
Picking LittleBigPlanet as one of my free PSN games.
Buying The Force Unleashed II for $60.
Insert joke about thinking it was a wonderful expansion pack, then flipping out when it is discovered it was intended as a full game.
Insert joke about thinking it was a wonderful expansion pack, then flipping out when it is discovered it was intended as a full game.
