Your Love/Hate relationships with gaming?

[Hat of Controversy]

Eh, you know how it is - a game comes along that irritates you in tons of ways and beats you into the ground CONSTANTLY and yet you, like the good little masochistic consumer you are, keep coming back for more.

Probably my best example is Team Fortress 2.

I love having 4 snipers and 3 engies on a team of 9 when a cart needs pushing/point needs defending. I adore how I can shoot someone in the face several times with a REVOLVER and they can hit me once with an off shot from 30 feet away with a shotgun and kill me instantly. I'm smitten on Valve making their beloved black scottish demolitionist focus on waving his massively over sized and over reaching and obnoxious sword or axe around rather than actually using his BOMBS. I cherish the idea of giving Pyro players that don't particularly focus on using their compression blast (%99.9998 of all of them) a straight upgrade for his primary weapon called the Backburner. I totally dig how I, a minigun wielding Heavy, can go head to head and lose against a Natascha wielding Heavy. Etc, etc, etc, rage, rage, baaaaaaaaawwwww...

And then I backstab like 10 dudes in a row and then I'm happy again!

Your turn!

 

[Tav73]

I'm overjoyed in Bad Company 2 when a medic snipes me from 500m with an M60 and I love it when every building on my side of the map in Rush is bombarded with rockets over and over until we can't move for fear of death.

And then I backstab like 10 dudes in a row and then I'm happy again!
Ahem..

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I love Counter-Strike: Source, even though I can have games where my KDR is around 1-15 because I know that the next day I can go on the same server and have a KDR of 20-1. I have good days and I have bad days.

 

[Goldeneye1989]

pokemon, i love it, but trying to kill red lvl 60-80 ginding ARGH!

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

MW2 for me, sometimes I can play a perfect game and on other days it's filled with hackers using the EBR.

 

[juliett_lima]

hehe, Natural Selection. absolutely LOVE getting Lerk spammed then raped by Fades again and again. then they all Onos rush, which is shiny.

but then I get an awesome commander and all is well ^^

 

[Yagharek]

I love how I can be sniped from miles away in cod4 by someone who isn't even aiming, and that the sniper is easy to use and deadly at close quarters, and how they can shoot next to you and still register a hit.

And then I see the end of game scores and it perks me up a little, when I realise that regardless of how poerful that gun is 1v1, most of these quickscopers seem rarely to manage to go above 1:1(don't know why they still pick it. They must be real crap with everything else. Or they just love it, such as the type of people who seem to think it makes them look pro when they no scope you...).

And then I occaisionally have a killstreak that isn't ruined by some random no-scope, and am happy again.

It's funny how everyone so far has been FPS players.

Edit: Or they were when I posted.

 

[AllLagNoFrag]

I love how in TF2 people would rather go classes they just feel like than classes to help the team win, I just absolutely love it when people go snipers when they cant even aim properly (on attack or defense). I love it how I just get rockets in the face jst about to deploy uber. And gawd I love it when pyros dont use backblaston ubers when the engis call for it. Then, I just call my steam friends to join me in a ranked server and we dominate, then Im just all happy again

Oh and Im so happy that I got 109 achievements in 4 days XD (results in friends going wtf)

 

[LaughingAtlas]

Fable 2 has a lot of unskippable bits, obnoxious enemies, (*waves fist at the sky* TROOOOOOLLLLLLSS!!) that FUCKING tower part, and a stupid protagonist that, no matter what you'd like to do, obeys the old ***** that's been manipulating him from day 1. In spite of that, I still play the game, so I guess it's fun.

Then there's Oblivion with it's "leveled" bullshit, seldom allowing me equipment everyone else isn't already carrying in bulk, cheap merchants that never have the money to really pay for higher leveled stuff you sell ("Oh, that's worth 14000 g, is 600 g ok?") and would rip you off even if they did, stupid protagonist that doesn't seem to object to paying more and getting less for no legitimate reason, (I know shamus explained the logical problem with a fair trade system in RPGs, but still, I wish for a godfather 2 style extortion option) the mages guild's infuriating monopoly on magic and having to be fucking archmage to get the best spells, merchants just knowing when something you want to sell is stolen, and finally the fucking psychic guards. (*fist waving* GUUUUAAAAAARRRRRDS!!) "It doesn't matter that it's the dead of night, you're wearing a Black Hand robe, and your stealth skill is 96, I still know you picked my pocket, killed that man out in the woods, 4.3 miles away from any witnesses, then stashed the body very close to an oblivion gate to imply he was killed by daedra (who would no doubt eat the remains) and vindicate yourself (worth a shot?) and that your favorite color is grey!" Hilariously, the rat bastards go blind, deaf, and dumb when an NPC commits a crime in a quest. Also, there are 2 quests about corrupt guards, yet in neither town can I bribe the pricks to let me walk away after a felony or two. Selectively corrupt, more like.

Once more, I do play the game anyway.

 

[Kajt]

Modern Warfare 2 is probably one of the worst online shooters I've played due to the balancing issues, crappy spawn system, poor maps, and so on...

But damn! That game is fun!

 

[Priddo]

Probably Rock Band/Guitar Hero, because I whenever I try to better my scores (or Full Combo a song) I always get pissed at mistakes, and often end up blaming the game (which with GH, half the time is actually the case tbf)

Also Fifa. Even though I rarely buy a copy, it's still always the exact same game, and I'll play it plenty, but I'm secretly hating it and myself for buying what is basically still the game I got 3-5 years previously.

 

[Vrex360]

I have a very great love/hate relatioship with Mass Effect 2.

First of all the things I love are the combat, the characters, the universe and setting, the music and just the general 'good bits' of the series that were still solid.

The bits I liked less however included some of my favourite squad members (Ashley and Wrex) being pushed to the side, the fact that (in my own opinion) none of the 'new' romances were anywhere near as fleshed out or well done as before (though admittedly this is based on youtube clips I saw), too many missions ended up just being endless gunplay which wouldn't be a problem save for that I had entered into the mindset of exploring the depth of the universe in question and not just to shoot stuff.
Plus, this is petty but still, removing the music that played on the old Normandy made the new one feel kind of... lifeless, like it lacked as much atmosphere as before.

So in a way, the really big bits like ambiance, character, universe, gameplay and (arguably) story were all well and good and I was able to happily keep playing the game for those. But those little small complaints kept on resurfacing over and over again so even though I was having crazy fun throughout every time I found myself wishing I still had Ashley to flirt with or Wrex to chill with (Still, at least I had Garrus and Tali to talk to) or wished that the elevator conversations were still present or that the little alterations that weren't needed hadn't been added, at the end of the day I still played it through twice and I can't wait for the third.

 

[Marter]

Mirror's Edge. The free running is so much fun, but the collision detection issues as well as the combat end up being quite frustrating.

 

[WaNNaBJusTLiKeU]

hehe, Natural Selection. absolutely LOVE getting Lerk spammed then raped by Fades again and again. then they all Onos rush, which is shiny.

but then I get an awesome commander and all is well ^^

Omg I loved Natural Selection.

WoW was a pretty big one for me in arena PvP, used to dominate most days, but the days you lost just annoyed the hell out of me.

 

[Ultress]

Right now it's Prinny Can I really be the Hero?, I thought I'd do my initial run on Hell's Finest, I did about as well as Stephan Hawking in a fist fight but I kept coming back for more till got to the bosses at the Watchtower level and said fuck it. then switched to normal difficulty mode.

 

[Vrach]

WoW is probably one of the main winners amongst those who play it I'm guessing, between all the "wipe-due-to-morons", "no drop today (day 74)" and of course, any kind of PvP, especially Arena... Personally however, WoW doesn't frustrate me that often whereas some single player games really do.

You know that feeling you get when you start a game on Hard mode thinking "hey, let's get a few more hours of gameplay and some extra challenge from it" and then get pissed off to shits and regret that when you're put against something you find nearly-impossible?

Recently, Sniper: Ghost Warrior and Alpha Protocol did it for me. In S:GW, like previously in MW/MW2, just those moments when you get killed for the 17th time having no clue what killed you or when they give you a king-of-the-hill moment with you solo and several enemy regiments below ya thirsty for blood. S:GW had the extra awesomeness of the feeling when you do a quick-save a moment before a bullet says hello to your temple then die 5 more times while you try and dodge the bullet Matrix-style.

In Alpha Protocol, on the first playthrough, I put most of my points and practiced most of my skill to play as a ghost, sneaking up and doing stealth takedowns for most of the game. Problem with that came in a mission where I was charged with protecting a radio array or sth (although I would hug and kiss whoever made the mission and wasn't enough of an arse to make it destructible unlike Modern Warfare) and had to fend off waves of enemies without even being able to set up a half-decent choke point. There was this voice in the back of my head jumping up and down screaming telepathically at the developers for it

I still found both games thoroughly enjoyable though, in AP's case, even that mission (especially on the second playthrough when you get more skill points and know what to go for *sinister payback-time-laughter from the voice in the back of my head* ) just cause of my self-made argument of "hey, if the gameplay was constantly and completely fine-tuned to how you leveled, it'd be boring and easy, there's bound to be something you'd be better at if you focused on the other stuff".