Gaming Confessions

[johnhughthom]

I've had all the Half Life games on my Steam account for about 4 years and haven't installed any.
I prefer FF8 to 7.
I found the hotel level of VTM:B pretty boring.
I've never actively pirated a game, though have received a few pirate copies of games and played them. I did buy them all afterwards though.
I gave in and played ME3 a few weeks back.
I use the lame corner camp against the computer in Total War games.

[Andres]

I no longer play fifa soccer games since fifa 2007, because I always yell and hit my keyboard out of sheer frustration when I lose.
I also use the lame corner camp tactic agains the AI in TW games.
I have plenty of games I didn't play at all or only played for less than 15 minutes. Among them are The Witcher II, LA Noire, Bioshock and Assassins' creed II.
I loved R:TW vanilla and it's probably the game I've spent the most hours on, which is considered blasphemy around here.
At uni, we played a soccer manager game and each controlled a team. When our teams had to play against each other, we sat in front of a tiny PC screen, with pizza and beer, yelling at the screen. The graphics were awful and you could hardly see what was going on. We once played well into the night and everybody else in the building hated us the day after which I didn't care about, since I was dying from the mother of all hangovers.
I had to use cheatcodes to beat the final level of Warcraft III.
I didn't like Dragon Age : Origins and quit playing after an hour or so.

[spankythehippo]

I play League of Legends more than occasionally.

The only Total War game I played properly is Shogun 2.

I played 45 minutes of Bioshock, and dislike it heavily.

I hate the COD series as well. I only play COD4 on multiplayer with friends over LAN.

I practiced (and still practice) Age of Empires II.

I like GTA IV more than San Andreas.

I used to pirate games as well way before games started going online. Now, I just buy everything.

I cheated in my first hour of Skyrim. I played legit (somewhat) after that.

I pirated Sleeping Dogs since I heard there were compatibility issues. I had the intention of buying it, if it worked. Sadly, it didn't.

I biggest joy I find in gaming is to troll/annoy NPC's.

[Monk]

-I felt the dialogue of the Witcher series is some of the most melodramatic and terribly voiced efforts i've seen in modern RPGs. Following up on that, I felt the first Witcher game was the most immature attempt at being "adult oriented" I've ever seen from a major game studio. The Witcher II was better, but not by much.

-I was totally okay with Mass Effect 3's original ending, and this is from someone who played the original ME to completion 16 times. I only rolled my eyes and began to anticipate/desire the Extended Cut DLC when it became clear the writers had no idea what they really wanted to say with their ending. 'Artistic Vision' These days it's probably just best to get a headcanon.

-Metro 2033 is the best single-player FPS I've ever played and completely blows anything else in the genre away. I hated it at first, but it grew on me and is now in my top 10 fav of all time. Very few modern games build a world and an atmospheric experience like Metro did. If THQ goes under and we don't get "Last Light" I will be very sad.

-I save-scum when it suits my needs. I try really hard not to these days, though.

-I think Obsidian is a terrible development studio who doesn't know the first thing about project management.

-Guild Wars 2 is a terrible game because reasons.

-I think Minecraft is a great game, but its creator is a pie in the sky dreamer who gets easily side-tracked over silly things, only serving to hurt his projects. His departure from the game's dedicated dev team has only been a good thing for that game.

I didn't play Fallout 1 until after Fallout 2, and then I didn't like it, thought it was boring, and never finished it. I think Fallout: New Vegas is the best game in the series. I also loved Fallout: Tactics.

This is a confession? I thought it was common knowledge that Fallout 2 was simply the better game, in any number of ways, over FO1. The soundtrack is to this day one of the few things (gaming related) that i keep on my ipod. As for New Vegas it's actually a really good game and turned out way better than Fallout 3 after they patched it into oblivion... no pun intended.

I never finished Thief 1, and never played any of the sequels. I also never played Deus Ex (the first one), System Shock (either), Counter-Strike, or any of the original X-Com games.

You missed out, i'm sad to say. Deus Ex in particular hasn't aged very well. As someone who played it retroactively as opposed to when it came out, it just doesn't pop out to me as amazing in very many ways. Not saying it's bad or undeserving of it's place in history mind you, most of what is in that game was revolutionary back when it came out. Just saying that was twelve years ago. Playing it now likely won't have the same impact on your gaming senses, least it didn't for me.

I prefer FF8 to 7.

I don't even know where to start with you.

I didn't like Dragon Age : Origins and quit playing after an hour or so.

Nor you!

[TinCow]

-I think Obsidian is a terrible development studio

DIE

who doesn't know the first thing about project management.

Ok, this bit's fair.

[Visor]

I love Pro Evolution Soccer 2, over some of the newer soccer games, and I don't know why. I do enjoy FIFA multiplayer with friends (yelling and screaming everywhere), though I would never but the game, even though I enjoy it.

I have pirated a few games in my time, but I generally buy a copy of it anyway. I've bought two copies of Age of Empires 1 and 2 and pirated them. (Bought then pirated, then bought again). I consider age of empires better then starcraft. I still love AoE 2 and play it often.

I couldn't get into Kotor/Swtor, thought they were boring and not fun at all.
Never played FF7, I didn't really enjoy Fallout 2 (it was 10 bucks, so why not pick it up though.)

I used to cheat heavily as a single digit kid, but I soon realised it was much more fun to play normally. I used to save all the time (save-scum?), fixed that though. I hate elves in games, and have no problems killing them. I prefer to play as humans. I often enjoy games that reviewers and others say are terrible games.

(I thought the human campaign in the recent AVP game was quite good, the others sucked. The one multiplayer game I played on it really enjoyed. I like Dynasty Warriors, and I don't care that it is often a re-release. I also love RTW vanilla, and M2TW vanilla, and Shogun 2 Vanilla. I like mods too, but I do like the vanilla game. I like console gaming.

I love Doom 1/2 and Quake 1. Will happily play them over a recent FPS.

[HopAlongBunny]

My into to TW was a "cracked" version of MTW; played it all Sunday, Monday I went and bought the game.

Never played STW :(

I play a lot of old games; any version of Railroad Tycoon, Civ (haven't bought or played anything passed Civ3), I wish I had a working version of Red Baron :p

STW2 and XCOM are the only games I have bought in years

Despite realizing all on-line games were clones of Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time I was an avid player for years (over a decade)