I'm not being contrary, it's just that..

[Wavelflack]

..there are certain "universal truths" in gaming that I've never felt I could agree with, or get on the bandwagon.
This is more than "what unpopular game do YOU like?" or "games you can't get into?". It's more of an issue of "Do you feel like you are out of kilter with the world from time to time?"

Examples:

1. I never really cared for Pac Man. I still don't. I have the machine (because I got it for $35 at a garage sale--bad vsync connectionto the monitor--anyway--), and I'll play it from time to time, but I never got "the fever".

2. I actually liked ET. Not to the point of wanting an ET tattoo, but enough so that I would play it somewhat regularly, about as much as I would play something like Joust.
Every once in awhile I get fed up with the default public view (which I think is more rote learning/ parroting than personal experience) that ET is the "worst game ever", and I pipe up.

3. I also couldn't figure out why everyone loved Yar's Revenge. I know I probably just tripped a flag in DP's Echelon program by saying that, but I have to put it out in the open. I keep trying it from time to time. So far, no change.

4. Fast-forwarding many years, I played the demo of Army Men Sarge's Heroes (DC), and I liked it. I bought the full game. The playstyle really felt to me like a 3D "Frontline" (one of my all-time favorites). This series is apparently held in pretty low regard, but I certainly had fun with the game I played.

5. (This is where I put on the kevlar) I, eh, don't really care for SNK fighters. Samurai Shodown 1&2, okay. Everything else? Just doesn't feel right. Doesn't have that "connected" feel that SF does.

I could go on and on. I'm not just being contrary or "anti". I went fucking nuts over SMB, and it's sequels. I liked Halo, and play Halo 2. I have many common tastes, and many eclectic tastes. It just seems that I happen to NOT like more than a few games that have "universal appeal", and I DO like a number of games that are "universally reviled".

Anyone else have a similar situation?

[ClubNinja]

..I liked Halo, and play Halo 2...

Anyone else have a similar situation?

Sure. For example, I think the Halo games are junk. And the GTA series. And anything with the words "Final" and "Fantasy" attached. Boy, could I go on. But I love the SNK fighters.

[Wavelflack]

Yes, but with those few examples, you could simply be described as "anti-mainstream". Not saying you are, but that those three names are about the biggest games around right now.

My tastes don't seem to line up in any particular camp.

[XxMe2NiKxX]

I hate Half-life and Half-life 2 with a passion. I think they're bad games.

[Aussie2B]

I'm not too crazy for Pac-Man either. I was briefly mildly obsessed with playing the Neo Geo Pocket Color port, but that's about it.

As for Army Men, I've played Army Men: World War Team Assault on PlayStation, and really, it's not too terrible. I've played numerous MUCH worse games on PlayStation. Heck, my 11-year-old sister-in-law even kinda likes it, hehe.

In general, my tastes are kind of odd. The funniest thing is how I dislike both Phantasy Star 2 and Final Fantasy 7, and when I wrote reviews on them, I got Phantasy Star 2 fanboys accusing me of not liking it just because it's old and Final Fantasy 7 fanboys accusing me of not liking it because it's a modern RPG. Apparently, I like neither old RPGs OR new RPGs. :P And then people get even more confused when I stand up for commonly reviled RPGs and adventure games like Deadly Towers, Drakkhen, King's Field, Shadow Tower, Granstream Saga, etc.

Oh, and on the subject of RPGs, another problem I have is that people just cannot fathom how I can be so big on RPGs yet not care for the stories much at all. Instead, I play them for the gameplay. Harder yet for them to grasp is that I can fully enjoy an RPG in Japanese, even though I barely know any Japanese. I don't even want to think of how many times I've been called "stupid" for playing games, especially RPGs, in Japanese... :/

[demen999]

You want to know the laughs I got for liking animal crossing!?!?! lol FF, I get tired of like in 30 min. All the tony hawk games grow mold in my collection if i have some (actually I have one).

[Daria]

.. I didn't like Final Fantasy 6 but enjoyed Mystic Quest. :P

[kirin jensen]

I have never liked Pac-man.

But get this:

I totally dig KC Munchkin

Go figure.

[RetroYoungen]

I couldn't STAND FF VII, and I didn't care for (ducking down low now) Chrono Trigger. I just couldn't get into either, not even saying they're bad games (well, FF VII was bad IMO, not so much CT). And when I bring up the Lunar series to my friends they usually laugh in my face about it.

"How can you LIKE that game? It's not even HARD! It's as easy as the Pokemon games!" (which I also play, to be honest)

Just because something gets popular doesn't mean everybody has to like it. But it IS fun to make a fanboy squirm when you tell them your honest and blunt opinion about their favorite game. :D

[esquire]

3. I also couldn't figure out why everyone loved Yar's Revenge. I know I probably just tripped a flag in DP's Echelon program by saying that, but I have to put it out in the open. I keep trying it from time to time. So far, no change.

Anyone else have a similar situation?

Yes, and I'm probably about to trigger DP's Double Secret Probation Alert System, but I can't stand Katamari Damacy! I don't get what the big deal is with this game. I can't stand it. I've had more fun at an insurance seminar. I mean, your better off buying a can of Play-Doh, opening it up and rolling the stuff around your house.

And I'll also add this, I can't stand rhythm games, and it has nothing to do with me being uncoordinated. Everytime I see people playing games like DDR I just have to laugh.

[esquire]

DOUBLE POST

(First time this has ever happened to me, argh!)

[Ed Oscuro]

I've never liked Pac-Man. I don't much care for Space Invaders (well, there's a few variations I like, especially Space Invaders DX, I guess it is).

Gradius. I've never been crazy about Gradius/R-Type/EDF/whatever. 'Tis great games in all their forms, but something about it nags at me. As a rule, I like person-based flying scrollers (Forgotten Worlds, Gynoug to some extent, and Battle Mania 2: TS Vintage even more than that!), though. Don't really care for Legendary Wings, though. This is a personal preference, but I like the extra control in Forgotten Worlds/BM2.

Never really cared for Raiden or most vertical shooters. Give me Nichibutsu's Ninja Emakai any day.

Capcom's stuff versus SNK fighters...well, Capcom indisputably had the edge on hardware with the CPS2. Their artwork has been better than SNK's; funny enough newer titles like The Last Blade and AoF 3 emulate the newer Capcom style. Street Fighter vs. Fatal Fury/KoF is probably the best match to make, since both franchises eventually devolved into the yearly revving contest (as I see it - not too bad as far as results go, though). I'd still give the edge to SNK here, though - I've always been more interested in the unique SNK titles. King of the Monsters 1/2, Sengoku 2, even Burning Fight - not technically as polished as Knights of the Round or Capcom's great licensed BEUs, but what the hell, I like the ambience more.

Recently I came to realize that I'd been hyping CV: Harmony of Dissonance far more than it deserves. It's got some brilliant points, but the overall experience is brought way down by a number of failures.

I don't really care for Halo 2. I realized that if I'm going to be bothered to play a console FPS, I'd rather have better aim than a jump - part of the reason I always liked Goldeneye, but am merely tepid about Halo (and even less enthusaistic about Halo 2). Heh.

[SkiDragon]

I was going to say that I like Tiberian Sun much more than Starcraft, which most people would agree with, but I realized everyone I know who has actually played both games likes Tiberian Sun better.

[Gamereviewgod]

I'm defintiely jumping on the "I hate GTA" bandwagon. I firmly believe we'll look back in a few years and see just how shallow it is (once the violence isn't as "extreme") as a third-person title much like we can see what a crappy fighter the first Mortal Kombat is now.

I hate the Phantasy Stars, or just about any RPG's like it. Turn based drives me nuts.

Strider is one I've never, ever understood, especially on the Genesis. It has to have some of the worst flicker ever.

Certain shooters never really did it for me, like Gradius as mentoned above. For the final time people, if I die on the last boss, don't send me back in there without a SINGLE FREAKIN' POWER-UP. :angry:

I liked Army Men Air Attack and Sarges Heroes was eh.

System Shock 2 is a disaster (ducks). It's great that I can level up and all, but there's absolutely nothing else I liked about it. I can understand how someone can praise it, but it did nothing for me.

[jp]

1. I think Spawn: In the Demon's Hand on DC is a fun multiplayer game.

2. I think the Final Fantasy series ceased being worth the time it takes to play one after FF6.

3. I highly dislike GTA... I even disliked it when it was the hip game to play in the school computer lab.

4. I think Blast Wind and Metal Black are two of the best shmups on the Saturn.

5. I don't really like Pac-Man either... or any interation thereof.

[Push Upstairs]

I never liked Street Fighter 2 or any of its variations.

I like Vice City. The open endedness and its humor/satire of the 1980's is great.

I don't like turn based RPG's....so you can have all the "Final" and "Fantasy" to yourself.

I also hate playing any type of FPS game on a console. Keyboard + Mouse forever!

[Promophile]

I hate Halo... with an extreme passion.

[nate1749]

I also randomly stumpled onto army men for DC as well and it is my favorite game for the system and the first time I ever played any Army Men title.

The series is held in bad regard (to my understanding) because it just kept doing the same thing over and over and over again. Everytime it does it well, people just expect more the 2nd, 3rd, or 7th time around.

For instance, the strike series (which I love all) didn't get high reviews near the end (nuclear strike) because it was too much like prevoius one. Although if a game changes too much, then the critic will complain about that and why they fixed something that wasn't broken.

To each their own =)
I'm not a huge RPG person anyways, but yeah say Final Fantasy to me and I'm hitting the snooze button.

Nate

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm defintiely jumping on the "I hate GTA" bandwagon. I firmly believe we'll look back in a few years and see just how shallow it is (once the violence isn't as "extreme") as a third-person title much like we can see what a crappy fighter the first Mortal Kombat is now.

I hate the Phantasy Stars, or just about any RPG's like it. Turn based drives me nuts.

[quote]Strider is one I've never, ever understood, especially on the Genesis. It has to have some of the worst flicker ever.
Strider isn't one of my favorites on any system, either, arcade perfect or otherwise.

As for the Genesis ports I've rated it like this:
The more popular early Capcom Genesis/MD ports: Strider, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, and I think one other I can't remember at the moment - really not that good. GnG is more detailed on the SuperGrafx, and the sound? Yuck.

Now the lesser known Capcom to Genesis ports Forgotten Worlds and Mercs are awesome. Funny how that works.


System Shock 2 is a disaster (ducks). It's great that I can level up and all, but there's absolutely nothing else I liked about it. I can understand how someone can praise it, but it did nothing for me.
I recently completed a multiplayer play-through. The fun's in finding out new things to do, new ways to play, and yelling at each other in Teamspeak...along with a whole host of other things. I liked the atmopshere in single player, too. There are a whole host of problems with it - the ESP system is incredibly clunky, might as well have made it a command line interface, and the physics are dodgy (shoot a piece of exploded maintenance robot on the ground for a good example, DOOM III reminds me of this at times), but it doesn't do the whole spooky shooting thing too bad. The voice work here is priceless. SS2's biggest failures are in the graphical department, but I've learned to live with these.

Of course, if you don't like it, no number of words will change your mind :P How far did you get, anyhow?

[Emily]

Mortal kombat 2 was my first game....and I loath it.
I hate the entire Mortal kombat franchise. I tried the arcade machine at GCE, but still couldnt enjoy it.

I find Halo to be boring, and Halo 2 could have been a better sequel IMO.

I dont like Donkey Kong.I love Donkey Kong on Gameboy because of the new content, but I was always bummed that the original didnt have more screens.

[-hellvin-]

I agree, fuck pacman.

Never got into it at all.

Oh, but Ms. Pacman....sweet love. If I had a machine, I'd probably sit down and play a few rounds every day first thing.

[neuropolitique]

Count me in for hating Halo. Played it until the first vehicle mission. The physics were so bad as to be laughable. It was like you were floating. maybe because i came from a PC FPS background, but Halo just plain blows.

Also hate Final Fantasy VII. Played it a decent way through, but got terribly bored after a while.

Add Golden Sun to my list. can't stand that game. can't understand why people go on and on about it. What is so great about it? I just don't get it.

Hate the Oddyssey 2. Hate all it's games. It's in the attic somewhere.

Pretty much, I'm full of hate.

[Bluteg]

I agree on the Pac-man fuckening...

I don't care for Halo either... played Halo 2 on live and I realized how much map/weapon placement memorization > skill...

[Ed Oscuro]

I tried the arcade machine at GCE, but still couldnt enjoy it.
They managed to fit that beast onto a Vectrex?....nice, that'll definitely sell a few more systems!

[Kroogah]

Don't care much for Castlevania games. Or any Resident Evil besides DC. Or Zelda OoT. Or Mario 64. Or Goldeneye (love Timesplitters 2 though)
Haven't liked an RPG since FF7. Tried Golden Sun, tried Suikoden III, tried FF8, tried FF10, tried Chrono Cross, meh.
Never got into Dig Dug or Burgertime. However, Dig Dug II is the shit.
I love sports games, and bought NBA 2k5 on release day for the updated roster. SHOCK.
I'm actually INDIFFERENT about Halo (there's something you don't hear)
I love GTAIII, don't like GTA VC, really love GTA SA. I can't figure out why. That's just how I feel.

That's off the top of my head.

[CitizenWhite]

I'm fine with pac-man, but I don't, and probably won't ever, like Tetris.

Didn't like FF6, but did like 7 ( I know)


...and, contrary to every other person on this board, I do not collect games. I enjoy them, but if I'm not going to play a game, it goes goodbye. I'd say I have... 7 or 8 games, at the very most.

Don't hurt me.

[-hellvin-]

Hate the Oddyssey 2. Hate all it's games. It's in the attic somewhere.

Pretty much, I'm full of hate.

The power of your hate for the odyssey 2 is insignificant next to the power of my hate for the channel f.

[ClubNinja]

Yes, but with those few examples, you could simply be described as "anti-mainstream". Not saying you are, but that those three names are about the biggest games around right now.


I also buy up every damn Sonic and Mega Man game that gets crapped out - how's that for mainstream?

[Ackman]

Since diablo 2 and FF7 I hate RPG way to time consuming the gameplay is like 1/45 of the game? It's like the black hole of gaming, I will only be happy once it's completely destroyed, so I can have the satisfaction of peeing on it's grave....and some of the militant fans. :angry:

Otherwise I don't really have complaints with much of the other genres :D everything is just peachy....

[Darth Sensei]

I suspect that your love or hate of pac man has to do with your age.

I grew up on it. Pac-man, Donkey Kong, and Asteroids are some of my favorite games.

I love Vice City, but can't stand San Andreas.

I'm still addicted to Halo 2, but I don't know why.

Oh, and Yars Revenge is one of the best games for the 2600 bar none. When you get good at it, you enter a sort of frenzied zen like state that I've rarely felt in any other game.

[scooterb23]

Oh boy...

I don't like Resident Evil, Metal Gear, Metroid, Zelda, GTA (and its clones) and any Mario platformer after the SNES. I don't play any traditional RPG games either.

Pac-Man is kind of meh to me anymore, I prefer Ms. Pac-Man as well.

But I could play Skate Rock (a virtually unknown C64 budget title) all day long.

[Aussie2B]

Pac-Man was likely the very first game I played, so I don't think its my age that's the problem for me. :P

Speaking of Pac-Man and Tetris and such...

I don't like much of any puzzles games very much... or rhythm games... and I'm a girl. How's that for odd? :P While I admit I have a weakness for RPGs, like many chicks do, my heart will always belong to challenging action games. Give me a good platformer, and I'll be pleased as pie. However, I don't care for these modern Sly Pooper and Jacket & Clankster 54 platformers that girls seem to like these days. I'll play a good 3D platformer by Nintendo or Rare, but for the most part, gimme an old-school 2D platformer like Castlevania, and NOT the easy-peasy ones with RPGs elements being cranked out since SotN. SotN was great, but Castlevania 1-4 has it beat.

[fergojisan]

I never understood the pull of the Vectrex over just about every other collector I have met. Is it because it's a self contained vector thingy, or is it because it's so rare? I guess it's cool and all, but I don't like it myself.

One game I love for the 2600 is Human Cannonball. It was one of the first games we got for the system, so I suppose it's mainly sentimentality. But I was playing it at a NAVA meeting once, and someone asked disdainfully, "Why are you playing THAT?"

:P

[aaron7]

I as well get bored with Pac Man quite fast. Yar's Revenge never made sence to me. Give me Bomb Squad though... I'll be there for hours (the code the code we've got to figure out the code!) LOL

I seem to like most mainstream games; at least until SNES. Then I stopped playing consoles. I mean, I have a PS2 with GTA and Frequency, but those are the only games that I really play.

PC games, I still love Diablo II, I play Doom3 (though it was kinda annoying), and I love HL2... just pissed there isn't more to it!

I never liked Sonic. I hate Mario Party. And I have never played Halo.

We're all wierd!

[bargora]

1. I never really cared for Pac Man. I still don't. I have the machine (because I got it for $35 at a garage sale--bad vsync connectionto the monitor--anyway--), and I'll play it from time to time, but I never got "the fever".
With Pac-Man, I think you have to get good enough to consistently clear about four boards and then enter "the trance" before it can really get its hooks into you.


3. I also couldn't figure out why everyone loved Yar's Revenge. I know I probably just tripped a flag in DP's Echelon program by saying that, but I have to put it out in the open. I keep trying it from time to time. So far, no change.
Just curious. Did you play Yars' at the time of its release or only later, as a retro title?


4. Fast-forwarding many years, I played the demo of Army Men Sarge's Heroes (DC), and I liked it. I bought the full game. The playstyle really felt to me like a 3D "Frontline" (one of my all-time favorites). This series is apparently held in pretty low regard, but I certainly had fun with the game I played.
Man, you have just convinced me to buy this game. Frontline forever!


DOUBLE POST

(First time this has ever happened to me, argh!)
This is usually a coordination issue.


4. I think Blast Wind and Metal Black are two of the best shmups on the Saturn.
Blast Wind! w00t! :rocker:


Count me in for hating Halo. Played it until the first vehicle mission. The physics were so bad as to be laughable. It was like you were floating. maybe because i came from a PC FPS background, but Halo just plain blows.
Ya know that Halo was originally to be a PC release until M$ applied $$$ persuasion, right? So do you think that they bollixed the physics before or after they discovered that it was to release exclusively for Xbox (for a while, at least)?

Note that I am firmly lukewarm on Halo. But my theory is that everybody loves the first half-dozen FPS games they play and then loudly proclaim them to be the greatest games ever created. Much like Doom II RULES SUPER HARD so sit down and shut up you whippersnapper Halo fanboys.

And then then FPS burnout sets in.

[Captain Wrong]

How much guts does it take to say I hate Halo or GTA on this board? Just curious.

Now, in the spirit of your original post, here's a few of mine:

I don't think Shigeru Miyamoto is a genius. Zelda bores me. The whole dang series. I've tried them all up to and including Ocarna of Time. Dullsville. I never really got into any Super Mario Bros. past the first as I kind of lost interest in the series. In fact, I don't care for many Nintendo games that didn't first appear in the arcade. I will give him props for Donkey Kong but even then there are other games I like playing more.

I think Treasure is waaay over rated. Their Genesis games (even the McDonalds one) are fantastic, but after that they are very hit or miss and, as far as I'm concerned, they never topped Gunstar Heros. That includes Radiant Silvergun and Ikargua. I'm not opening that can of worms again though.

I also prefer NBA Jam (or whatever they call it these days) to "realistic" sports games, but if someone actually released another serious, non-cutesy budget bowling title, I'd be first in line to get it.

[Promophile]

What have we learned today class?

[XYXZYZ]

I always loved Pac-Man stuff. Pac-man arcade cabinets, lunchboxes and stuff like that reminds me of how much fun it was as a little kid at that time. But as far as actually playing Pac-Man, I never liked it enough to figure out the paterns and stuff like that. I certainly don't hate it, it's just not my thing, you know.

Meanwhile, I too give less than half a damn about GTA, Halo, etc. I think the "badass" motif so many video games have now is so corny, you know what I mean?

[Ed Oscuro]

How much guts does it take to say I hate Halo or GTA on this board? Just curious.
Not much. That's just the way it is. I'd say it takes some guts to say that on the Bungie.net forums, but anywhere else...eh. I'm tepid about it myself.

[suckerpunch5]

Yeah, it's the Pac-Man "trance" that gets me too. I really do love that game.

I was just thinking last night, how much I really like the Army Men series, even though everyone else seems to hate them. The idea of them is just really funny and cool to me.

Another game I think is awesome, that I don't hear a lot about is DK Jungle Beat. That is one of the best platformers in a long time, me thinks.

[Wavelflack]

I suspect that your love or hate of pac man has to do with your age.

I grew up on it. Pac-man, Donkey Kong, and Asteroids are some of my favorite games.




Well, I'm 31, so I don't think it has anything to do with "growing up with it", unless you somehow mean that growing up with the game is grounds for not liking it.

[Wavelflack]

1. I never really cared for Pac Man. I still don't. I have the machine (because I got it for $35 at a garage sale--bad vsync connectionto the monitor--anyway--), and I'll play it from time to time, but I never got "the fever".
With Pac-Man, I think you have to get good enough to consistently clear about four boards and then enter "the trance" before it can really get its hooks into you.


3. I also couldn't figure out why everyone loved Yar's Revenge. I know I probably just tripped a flag in DP's Echelon program by saying that, but I have to put it out in the open. I keep trying it from time to time. So far, no change.
Just curious. Did you play Yars' at the time of its release or only later, as a retro title?


4. Fast-forwarding many years, I played the demo of Army Men Sarge's Heroes (DC), and I liked it. I bought the full game. The playstyle really felt to me like a 3D "Frontline" (one of my all-time favorites). This series is apparently held in pretty low regard, but I certainly had fun with the game I played.
Man, you have just convinced me to buy this game. Frontline forever!
.


1. "With Pac-Man, I think you have to get good enough to consistently clear about four boards"

That's not really a problem for me. 5-6 is my median number when I play the game. The hooks must have just bounced off me.

2. "Just curious. Did you play Yars' at the time of its release or only later, as a retro title?"

I played it in 1982, when we got our 2600 for Xmas. It was one of the six games that we got with the system, courtesy "Santa".
I've played it many times, but mainly trying to find "the magic". Much like Pac Man, I'm not bad at it. I just don't get anything out of it.

[bargora]

1. I never really cared for Pac Man. I still don't. I have the machine (because I got it for $35 at a garage sale--bad vsync connectionto the monitor--anyway--), and I'll play it from time to time, but I never got "the fever".
With Pac-Man, I think you have to get good enough to consistently clear about four boards and then enter "the trance" before it can really get its hooks into you.
That's not really a problem for me. 5-6 is my median number when I play the game. The hooks must have just bounced off me.
Well, not every game is for everybody. I don't see what all the fuss about Super Mario Brothers is all about.

Do you enter "the zone" or "the trance" when playing other games?




3. I also couldn't figure out why everyone loved Yar's Revenge. I know I probably just tripped a flag in DP's Echelon program by saying that, but I have to put it out in the open. I keep trying it from time to time. So far, no change.
Just curious. Did you play Yars' at the time of its release or only later, as a retro title?
I played it in 1982, when we got our 2600 for Xmas. It was one of the six games that we got with the system, courtesy "Santa".
I've played it many times, but mainly trying to find "the magic". Much like Pac Man, I'm not bad at it. I just don't get anything out of it.
Well, that shoots my theory of later-found games in your case. Because I doubt that many modern gamers having their first exposure now would get much out of Yars' Revenge. And even when I revisited it sometime within the last year I found myself losing interest after one play just to prove to myself that I still could thrash it.

When I first played Yars' back around 1982, though, I had a neighbor that I'd play against in two-player, so maybe the competition helped spice things up a bit. And at the time it had a fairly complex set of gameplay mechanics for a 2600 game. Me, I've always been impressed more by intricate gameplay mechanics than by flashy graphics (not that they hurt things).

But hey. Maybe you don't like to shoot things or clear mazes. I get no particular thrill out of jumping on things, so Miyamoto's oeuvre has largely remained a closed book to me.

[suppafly]

You sound a lot like me

I dont like:

a) Final fantasy games
b) metal gear games
c) samuraishodown or other SNk fighters
d) most of the kiddy games released by nintendo nowadays: mario party, mariop tennis, etc
e) Resident evil games

SO whats left? LOL

I really like action games, racing games and PC games....

You arent alone in your gaming tastes :D

[Cmosfm]

Taken Back: I have been "Pad Converted".

[kirin jensen]

Count me in for hating Halo. Played it until the first vehicle mission. The physics were so bad as to be laughable. It was like you were floating. maybe because i came from a PC FPS background, but Halo just plain blows.

Also hate Final Fantasy VII. Played it a decent way through, but got terribly bored after a while.

Add Golden Sun to my list. can't stand that game. can't understand why people go on and on about it. What is so great about it? I just don't get it.

Hate the Oddyssey 2. Hate all it's games. It's in the attic somewhere.

Pretty much, I'm full of hate.

Got Killer Bees? I'm lookin' for a copy.

[neuropolitique]

Count me in for hating Halo. Played it until the first vehicle mission. The physics were so bad as to be laughable. It was like you were floating. maybe because i came from a PC FPS background, but Halo just plain blows.
Ya know that Halo was originally to be a PC release until M$ applied $$$ persuasion, right? So do you think that they bollixed the physics before or after they discovered that it was to release exclusively for Xbox (for a while, at least)?

Note that I am firmly lukewarm on Halo. But my theory is that everybody loves the first half-dozen FPS games they play and then loudly proclaim them to be the greatest games ever created. Much like Doom II RULES SUPER HARD so sit down and shut up you whippersnapper Halo fanboys.

And then then FPS burnout sets in.

Actually it was a Mac game. And it was not complete when MS bought them. My theory is that MS rushed it and the physics weren't quite polished. Of course Oni blew too, so maybe Bungie just didn't have the abilities anymore.

I don't think I have suffered an FPS burnout. I just refuse to buy a machine capable of playing any new games. My love for FPSs goes from Wolfenstien 3D to Call of Duty. Of course UT is the greatest FPS ever created, but I like FPSs before and since.

And no, no Killer Bees. That I know of.

[Ed Oscuro]

Actually it was a Mac game. And it was not complete when MS bought them. My theory is that MS rushed it and the physics weren't quite polished. Of course Oni blew too, so maybe Bungie just didn't have the abilities anymore.
Well, I'll have to take your word on Oni (I hear mixed things about it). Yes, Microsoft rushed Halo, but the Mac version that Steve Jobs "commissioned" (in a sense; he wanted games for the iMac) probably was pretty darn close to complete. The only problem was that they had to scrap most everything and redesign. The schedule was very aggressive - I don't know the exact schedule but I think it was around 2 years, maybe less.


I just refuse to buy a machine capable of playing any new games. My love for FPSs goes from Wolfenstien 3D to Call of Duty. Of course UT is the greatest FPS ever created, but I like FPSs before and since.
A 2 GHz machine loaded up with some RAM and a GeForce 4 4400 still works pretty darn well, including the new batch (HL2, DOOM III and UT2K4 from months earlier). Shouldn't be too expensive...but I'll admit it's not an investment I'd make right now. I'd wait for a longer period, since I'm doing just fine with what I've got right now...

[JamesAmbrose]

I despise Super Metroid, yet I am a big fan of Castlevania SOTN.

[cowmando6]

Halo 1 and 2 bores the hell out of me, as does any of the GTA games. I also don't care for Everquest. The ways of movement on that game are awkward for me. I was bored with FFVII, but I enjoy almost all of the other final fantasy games.

[Darth Sensei]

I suspect that your love or hate of pac man has to do with your age.

I grew up on it. Pac-man, Donkey Kong, and Asteroids are some of my favorite games.




Well, I'm 31, so I don't think it has anything to do with "growing up with it", unless you somehow mean that growing up with the game is grounds for not liking it.

I wasn't clear, I wasn't directing that at you. I suspected you were in your 30's but I think a lot of the younger members of this board woudln't appreciate pac-man due to their age.

[Simply Dave]

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One game I love for the 2600 is Human Cannonball. It was one of the first games we got for the system, so I suppose it's mainly sentimentality. But I was playing it at a NAVA meeting once, and someone asked disdainfully, "Why are you playing THAT?"

:P

I'm with you on this one! I played Human Cannonball all the time when I was a kid, and I still play and enjoy it now with my own kids. It's simple yet fun which is what all games should be.

I could never get into Zelda Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker bored me. I could also never get into the Resident Evil series, though 4 looks very interesting and may be the game to change my mind.

[Stark]

I never could get into any FPS games on the consoles. They just are not the same as on the PC. It's probably more of a controller to keyboard issue that I have but they just don't feel right to me. Counterstrike, TFC, Rainbow Six are all far superior to Halo2 but that's just my opinion which is probably far from the mainstream thought.

[o2william]

Do you feel like you are out of kilter with the world from time to time?"
Well, I'm an Odyssey2 guy, so yeah... pretty much all the time.

Beyond that, I also like E.T. (most unfairly trashed game ever IMO), Journey Escape, and Deadly Towers. Super Mario Bros. 2 is my favorite in the SMB series (although I love the others as well).

Also, I've never cared for fighting games. I liked Mortal Kombat OK, but by and large fighters just put me to sleep. Never understood all the fascination with them.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I agree with most of the things you are saying.
I could never get into Pacman or Yars Revenge, but I think it all depends on how much you were exposed to it.
I LOVE all the origional Super Mario Bros'., but thats because I grew up playing them and not Atari games.

I also used to hate (with a passion) RPG's. I eventually forced myself to start playing them, and now I love them. I know you said you tried getting into them, you must be a hard adapter.

[Captain Wrong]

Why would you force yourself to play RPGs if you didn't like them? That doesn't make sence to me.

[kirin jensen]

Do you feel like you are out of kilter with the world from time to time?"
Well, I'm an Odyssey2 guy, so yeah... pretty much all the time.

Beyond that, I also like E.T. (most unfairly trashed game ever IMO), Journey Escape, and Deadly Towers. Super Mario Bros. 2 is my favorite in the SMB series (although I love the others as well).

Also, I've never cared for fighting games. I liked Mortal Kombat OK, but by and large fighters just put me to sleep. Never understood all the fascination with them.

I kno2w what yo2u mean...

I like the Atari 2600.

But I looove the 02. Especially my O2.