Video game confessional

I think games, like all media, have a powerful cumulative effect on people and their way of thinking. This includes military shooters glamorizing and making people more tolerant of real life guns and war (movies do this, too, which is why the US Army lends help and expertise to movies that makes it look good). This might not be a "sin", but it certainly isn't a popular opinion in gaming circles including Era.

I've never played a Silent Hill game to completion, or many of the more recent acclaimed horror games like Amnesia or Soma: games where the main character is mostly helpless and must avoid enemies frustrate and bore me (same reason I dislike most stealth games besides Mark of the Ninja and Invisible Inc).

Some roguelites make it hard for me to resist savescumming (e.g. rage-resetting when dying, before the game can save your death). For this reason I prefer ones that only let you "save and quit", and delete your save on reload, even if it means losing the entire run if the game crashes or whatever.

I guess I'm getting weirdly specific, but I can't think of many such "confessions", hahah.

Nier Automata is one of the worst games thematic wise, story wise, dialogue, voice acting, music, and combat ive ever played

Ive never played a silent hill, still waiting on that.

FXV and 13 are the only FF games ive played, except for 10 minutes of FF 10.

I don't mind games having only "the illusion of choice". If the game can successfully make me feel like my decisions have an impact on the story at the point of making them, then I don't care at all if the other options result in the same outcome.

The only Silent Hill game I have played is Shattered Memories on the Wii. I thought it was great!

I bought Dragon Age 2 twice because I thought I had to be wrong about how bad a game it was (DA:O remains one of my favorite games). I bought it again on PC in some kind of desperate attempt to convince myself it was just an issue with playing on the 360.

It was not. It's a terrible game and I gave them money for it twice.

As much as I love jrpgs, I have never beaten a FF game.

I'm still bitter about Sony entering the game industry. Had Sega not had to deal with Sony's marketing muscle combined with their own ineptness, I think Sega could have limped along a few more years with their hardware had Sony never come about . Hey, at least I got over blaming, as a general whole all the "stupid" 13 year old males being brainwashed by Sony. So to this day, I buy Playstation hardware and first party games used as retaliation.

Also, the full game of Sonic Unleashed is one of my favorite Sonic games, I enjoy the Werehog sections.

I play a lot of singleplayer games using trainers. No shame, i miss in-game cheats...

I'm a huge dark souls fan but I've ever only finished the dlc to first game.

I've played FF 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 15 and the only one I finished was 15.

I never beat MGS4 and eventually just watched a playthrough. Loved the series up to that point but 4's gameplay was awful. 5 ruled.

Mass Effect 1 was fantastic, but Mass Effect 2's gameplay changes made me lose interest immediately. It feels too much like a generic shooter.

Mainline Mario games are kind of unremarkable. World is the best 2D one but I get bored after a couple of worlds and stop. Galaxy is average and Odyssey was pretty good. My favourite is 64 but I don't even want to play that anymore. Maybe I just don't like platformers.

I absolutely hated Nier: Automata. The gameplay was generic hack and slash garbage and the story felt like some psuedo-intellectual attempt and being deep and philosophical when the story just boils down to "what is a human"

Never owned an Xbox console.

Own more games on my Switch than I have played (That Steam [PC] effect)

Tried Splatoon 2, really wanted to like it but just couldnt get into it.

While I like Castlevania Rondo of Blood, I think that the game is cheap with its difficultly and that Ritcher back flip is useless. I can't finish the game.

- I beat Dark Souls/Dark Souls 3/Bloodborne using guide and NPC/other players summon.

- I only ever played in Normal difficulty, even if the hardest difficulty (like KH Critical Mode) is the way the game intended to be played. Hard/Very Hard is too hard for me.

- In Destiny/Destiny 2 I bailed on match to preserve my K/D rate.

It's 3am and I'm playing Princess Maker 2. Help

I've only played Ocarina of Time once. I got midway through the final dungeon and got fed up with it. I've never finished it.

Super Mario Odyssey is the only Mario (not counting Kart) game I have ever completed from start to finish (not all the moons though) and Breath of the Wild is the only Zelda game I have ever played (not counting first 10 mins of Link to the Past on a SNES emulator). I grew up on Sega and Sony consoles so never really got into Nintendo stuff, so have not played any Kirby, Donkey Kong or Metroid games either, except for a few mins or so on emulators. I do plan to remedy this eventually.

I really love Resident Evil games but have always been too much of a scaredy cat to play them myself. When I was younger I had a friend who would play them and I'd just sit and watch. Did that for the first 3 games and Code Veronica. I'm less of a wuss now (I think) so I plan to start Remake eventually.

I LOVE the Souls games and Bloodborne is not only one of my fav games of all time but one of the only games I have ever beaten from start to finish more than twice. Having said that, I'm not very patient and my skill seems to vary drastically depending on the boss, so I have resorted to summoning help and used cheese tactics quite often. Most of the bosses I manage on my own though, so I'm happy with that.

I have THE worst sense of direction, both in game and in real life. It's so bad that I still constantly pull up the map in World of Warcraft cities where I have roamed around in for over a decade. Because of this "handicap" I often find myself googling/youtubing to figure out where to go next. I think this has gotten a bit better but it's still quite embarrassing overall.

The only MGS game I've played is the first one and that was on the PS3 and in 2016 or 2017. I liked it enough to buy MGS Collection and will start 2 soon.

I haven't played a single Castlevania or Mega Man game in my life.

Silent Hill 2 and 3 bored me to tears.

I've never played Symphony of the Night and never plan to either.

My worst gaming secret? I read this post and actually considered doing it! :)

antitrop said:

I rented Hannah Montana from GameFly, got 1000 achievement points, and didn't hate it. It wasn't difficult and I just spent 3 hours listening to the Giant Bombcast while doing it. I've had worse gaming experiences.

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CormoranStrike said:

I don't think any NES game that holds up.

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Eh have to disagree very hard as especially the late NES titles hold up really well actually (Gimmick, Battletoads, Metal Storm, Batman - Return of the Joker, Journey to Silius, Little Samson or Moon Crystal just to name a few). Capcom even decided to make Mega Man 9 and 10 in the same artstyle as the NES Mega Man games because that's how well they hold up.

I own a Switch and all the major games for it yet only really played Mario Odyssey.
Nope, not even Zelda.

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I dropped both TLoU and RDR2 because I felt the gameplay was mediocre.
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i thought i was the only one who did that)

1. I play games slowly, wander about while taking very many screenshots and try and do a very reasonable number of side quests (if the game allows it). All of that adds to the significant play time.

Knowing this and the ever growing backlog of games, I have adopted the attitude of "Fuck it, I'm a collector now".

2. I can not bring myself to finish Bloodborne because I'm too spooked.

3. I am loving the telltale Batman series more than the Arkham asylum (which I don't feel like playing past the first Bane encounter).

4. Last year, in April, away from home in a different province (where I thus remained) I was deeply mired in the world of Pillars of Eternity when I was made aware of my father's extramarital affair. Between my education and the new found source of stress, I dropped the game. Even now when I think about going back to the game, I'm always reminded of that terrible day.

Breath of the Wild was my first Zelda.

I tried Metroid Prime and I don't really like it.

I didn't finish SMB on the NES till this year.

I've not played a single Pokémon game.

I've never played and have zero interest in The Elder Scrolls series.

I hated Prey(2017)

Never played a Zelda game until few months ago, when i started with Ocarina of Time.

The only Nintendo games I ever played are Mario Kart and Wii Sports.

guys this is not the controversial opinion topic.

good example
i always use cheat code in game or i never played a super mario bros game in my life.

bad example
i think botw and tlou are both utter shit.


see the difference?

sorry for my english.

i dislike Final Fantasy VI.
V rocks tho.

I bought an XB360 for the JRPGs

I only buy Nintendo systems for Zelda titles. Occasionally I get lucky and there are quite a few decent games that also come out for the system (definitely for the handhelds) but if an original Zelda title isn't released, I won't contemplate picking one up (so no Wii U for me). Switch has been one of the best consoles ever for me in terms of it releasing with an amazing Zelda title and supported by excellent games I enjoy playing.

I really enjoyed FF XIII

Never played a Final Fantasy or Zelda game.

I had a lot of fun playing Battleborn

1. I've played and enjoyed every David Cage game.

2. The only Silent Hill game I've played is Homecoming and I really liked it.

3. I've never played a Kirby game.

4. The only Mega Man games I've finished are in the Battle Network series.

5. I played Metroid Other M for 16.5 hours straight to 100% completion, I thought the game was fun then was shocked when I went online the next day.

6. I summoned for every boss in Dark Souls 1/2/3

FFXIII was my first FF game

It's one of my favorite games of all time, but I never actualy beat Xenoblade Chronicles

After I finished Nier Automata I had to read the wiki to understand what the fuck was going on in that game

I've never played the original DOOM without cheatcodes

I always used a cheat for C&C that got rid of buildtimes and gave you infinite money, I never realised those rules applied to the AI as well lol

In Dragon's Dogma I always throw my pawns in the fountain in front of the inn, that amuses me for some reason

I reported a friend's account because he sold it after the entire guild worked for him to get the thunderfury on his rogue. He made thousands and we all got his acc banned. We became friends with the new account holder, he somehow got his money back, made a new account and we took him to raids after. Played together until the guild disbanded 4 years later.

No regrets, would report again.

Never played a Zelda game

I haven't beaten SMB 2 or 3. Ever.

I loved the video game adaption of WANTED ... loved the gameplay with the curved bullet shooting mechanics

Enjoyed the heck out of Hyperdimension Neptunia.

After playing, and beating, as many Mario games in the past. I have yet to play any Mario RPG's (outside the Square-Enix developed one). That includes any Paper Mario's, Mario and Luigi's etc.

I've never played a MGS or Final Fantasy game. Never had any interest in either.

I still not finished chrono trigger

gotta find time and mood to resume it though

I think NiER Automata is a really, really bad game.
I also think The Elder Scrolls Online is the third best Elder Scrolls game (behind Morrowind and Oblivion.)

Maybe I just have shit taste.

The last single player game I finished was FF7

I never finished The Witcher 3, Deus Ex, or Bloodborne because I'm terrified of insectoid monster designs, especially spiders. The Deus Ex ones hurt the most, because they're fucking robots, and I still chucked my mouse when they started crawling in my direction.

In fact, there's a ton of games I haven't played or stopped playing even when I was enjoying them, because every developer seems to be playing Who Makes The Creepier Crawly. Literally screamed when I encountered one in Shadow Warrior 2, especially after SW1 didn't have any.

I also haven't finished an RPG since 2008 besides Dark Souls 3(where a friend and I were passing the controller between us).

I avoid games with cut scenes as much as possible. I also skip basically all cut scenes. The game prevents me from skipping cut scenes? Then it's phone break.

I've beaten every mission and most of the quests in Final Fantasy XI and I still don't understand skill chains or really any of the deeper strategy.
I just solo what I can and get carried elsewhere.

I've never played Goldeneye 007.

CormoranStrike said:

I don't think any NES game that holds up.
Link to the past isn't that great, it's just better than the NES games.
All those Sega games people seem to think are amazing and exprimental just suck.

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And yet you love the Atari Jaguar. Very strange.

The first time I fought Ornstein and Smough, I ended up killing Super Ornstein with poison arrows.
I killed the DS1 giant blacksmith for his hammer in my SL1 playthrough. I still feel bad about it.
I had a lot of fun playing that Star Wars fighting game as a kid.
I thought Tetrisphere for the N64 was really cool.
I used tons of cheats through Starcraft 1 campaign mode.
I've never played a Metal Gear game besides MGS1.
I've never played a Gears of War or Assassin's Creed game.
I've never played System Shock 2.
I like clicker games.
I wish the Zelda series expanded some ideas from Zelda 2 instead of torching it and ignoring the fact that it existed.
I save scum like a motherfucker in Fire Emblem games.
Metroid Fusion was my first Metroid game, and I fucking loved it.
Doom 3 scared the shit out of me.

PhillyCheeseHorse said:

I never finished The Witcher 3, Deus Ex, or Bloodborne because I'm terrified of insectoid monster designs, especially spiders. The Deus Ex ones hurt the most, because they're fucking robots, and I still chucked my mouse when they started crawling in my direction.

In fact, there's a ton of games I haven't played or stopped playing even when I was enjoying them, because every developer seems to be playing Who Makes The Creepier Crawly. Literally screamed when I encountered one in Shadow Warrior 2, especially after SW1 didn't have any.

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If it makes you feel better, small shit that crawls/jumps along the ground is my FPS pet peeve. I fucking hate that enemy type, and will burn stupid amounts of valuable ammo to make sure they die as fast as possible whenever I see them.

I'm also pretty sure that when playing through Half-Life 1, I turned on cheats and grenade launchered the shit out of the entire room and my feet whenever I saw a head crab.