Your gaming "guilty pleasures"
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I was asked this in an interview once.
What games do you avoid sharing as your favorites? What games are so great in your mind, you can't believe no one else is playing them? What games would you not want your family, friends, or significant others walking in on you playing?
Pokemon Snap. I was in high school when my younger brothers rented this. I thought their obsession with Pokemon was stupid...but that was a fun game. It's the only Pokemon game I have ever, and will ever, play. I'm all for more photography games that attempt more fun than realism.
A more recent one for me is Sid Meier's Railroads!. Received this for my birthday as a gift on Steam, and it's great. It's not a boring train simulator...it's a model trainset game with nice graphics. I could play it (watch it) for hours. It has many noticeable bugs, but can be easily worked around. I assume the lack of bug fixes is due to the lack of people playing it. But it satisfies the kid in me.
De Blob. Very fun and original Wii Game, but I think a lot of people have played this. It's the only one of two Wii games I currently find very entertaining despite being an adult male.
What games do you avoid sharing as your favorites? What games are so great in your mind, you can't believe no one else is playing them? What games would you not want your family, friends, or significant others walking in on you playing?
Pokemon Snap. I was in high school when my younger brothers rented this. I thought their obsession with Pokemon was stupid...but that was a fun game. It's the only Pokemon game I have ever, and will ever, play. I'm all for more photography games that attempt more fun than realism.
A more recent one for me is Sid Meier's Railroads!. Received this for my birthday as a gift on Steam, and it's great. It's not a boring train simulator...it's a model trainset game with nice graphics. I could play it (watch it) for hours. It has many noticeable bugs, but can be easily worked around. I assume the lack of bug fixes is due to the lack of people playing it. But it satisfies the kid in me.
De Blob. Very fun and original Wii Game, but I think a lot of people have played this. It's the only one of two Wii games I currently find very entertaining despite being an adult male.
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I picked up Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon Sapphire for GBA not too long ago, to see what it's all about. I'd never played any of the Pokemon games before. They're pretty cool and I played them for what I'd consider a long while (enough to catch like 10 or 15 Pokemon) but I had no interest in catching 'em all. I evolved my Mudkip into a Marshtomp and got him up to around level 30, but that was enough for me.
Gemcraft. That game is so addictive.
Dark Colony is still my fav RTS...
Elephantoid Ass Tanks @ every choke point.
Good stuff.
The Sims3. Again...kinda a boring game, but impressive in its breadth.
No I'm not kidding.
http://ds.ign.com/dor/objects/943726/hannah-montana-music-jam/videos/hannah_montana_e3demo.html
Little side story on that note, I thought Dragon Age fell into that category and suddenly my shooter friend was all like "Have you played this crazy game Dragon Age!!!?!?!" and all his other shooter friends were like "Fuck yeah, Dragon Age is awesome". I was really confused.
Whatever happened to RPG's being inherently nerdy? You're messing with my social structure, Bioware! It's kind of great but it was a lot easier to figure out back when every game (but GTA) was considered lame. Now I don't know how to talk to these people
Only thing I could think of as a guilty pleasure for me would be grinding games. Torchlight, cheap free Korean MMO's, JRPG's, etc. Stuff that takes no skill and is not very rewarding. Sometimes I need to just turn my brain off and grind for a while. Happens once or twice a year.
Also Dwarf Fortress shouldn't be a guilty pleasure. It's a bad-ass game, and the new version has me more excited than any major commercial releases coming up.
I have a soft spot for flight sims not anything recent (you grow up with pilots and plane nuts you have to).
- B-17 flying fortress.
I dare anyone to taxi, take off, fly a full mission without skipping, not have anyone die, hit your target, and land it without crashing and say they had fun.
- F-15 Strike Eagle III.
- European air war.
- Wing Commander III.
It's a good thing there aren't achievements or steam notifications when I'm playing this stuff...
I cannot count how many times ive taken off, flown for 2 hours, only to get a fatal hit from some of the first scattered flak. Still loved every second of it.
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It seems to be impossible to find a video of DotA that's not totally over produced.
Otherwise, robot unicorn attack
You win.
The thing is, I watched the video and am thinking of picking it up now.
I'm in a top guild, spend several hours two days a week raiding. I'm not the average "must play all the time" type of player, but I still feel guilty enjoying it as much as I do.
I've never been one to start discussions on theory crafting, dps rotations, or boss encounters. I see countless people doing that in "the real world", and I never wanted to be lumped into that category of WoW players. Alas....it is still my guilty pleasure. :x
Mine is...............MMMmmmmmmmm...Hidden object games like Dreams chronicle trilogy
Bioforge was/is/always will be fucking epicness !!!
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Also Peggle. Massive amounts of Peggle, and anything PopCap makes.
Oh, damn. I started looking at that and thought, well, that seems familiar... Has that guy done more DS game presentations? I recognize this... As soon as I saw the first shot of the screen, I knew that I had seen it before. Probably five times. And after each of those times, I wanted it to try it, too...
I can't think of any guilty pleasures of mine! It's a shame, I think I've got plenty... if I could just remember any...
Here's a way to change that: just re-create your work mates as sims, preferably the most annoying ones, stuff them in a big noisy stuffy dark (or too bright) environment with too few toilets (something that kinda resembles your average game studio) and see what happens...
Oh and by the way, there is NOTHING but really NOTHING wrong with Peggle! Because it's just AWESOME! I just wish they would port peggle nights and all the addons to the iPhone too.
I also wasted hours playing bejewelled on my iPhone while having a fully decked out gaming PC next to me.
I haven't played either in a long, long time, but I was hooked on both for months at a time. I spend so much time playing "hardcore" games that these silly little multi-taskers are a nice change of pace.
Those and Robot Unicorn Attack:http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html
But I'm not embarrassed about that one. :P
When it came out, I was addicted to Pokemon SNAP too. I think I was around 12 or 13 at the time???
I haven't played the re-release but I'm so tempted looking at that screenshot... The weird thing is I have it, but never installed it.
In the old it was easy to get ahead and below of the squadron making yourself an easy target. To get around this I would fly above and behind a few planes, technically out of formation. Climbing bleeds off speed so I would do it slowly on the first leg of the mission. It also saved me from being under the others when they took fatal hits or dove to put out engine fires.
There where times, I would shot out an engine or two on other bombers, to slow them down and make them easy fighter fodder... HEY they had parachutes, a service revolver and a compass...
They probably punished you in some way in the new version if you used the pack to protect yourself, or worse the squadron doesn't fly in a straight line at a constant speed making it harder to navigate around the mess of bombers.
For those who never tried it, it was ostensibly a FPS where you had a full (if extremely unwieldy) control of the characters right arm which allowed you to pick up items, swing and throw them and fire guns. It also had the buggiest physics engine I've ever come across. These two things coupled together made for some mighty interesting gameplay mechanics.
One of the most obvious was the fact that the character could not carry an item up a slope. Walking up an incline would result in the weapon being dropped on the ground. The way around this was to throw the item as far up the hill as you could reach, running up to it before it slid all the way back down, trying to grab it with the unweildy prehensile arm and repeating until you go to the top of the hill.
Then there was the potential energy glitch. If you jammed an object (typically a length of rebar) between to immovable objects, the game would try to force it out by vibrating it, generating enormous amounts of potential energy. If you then held on to this item, when it eventually worked it's way loose you'd be catapulted huge distances into the air.
http://ikariam.com/ It's a very crappy an addictive game. You do nothing but wait around forever... I loved the graphics. Gameforge has finally made this game totally suck even more with every new upgrade, I think they have been hanging out with adobe and and autodesk too much! OH snap I said it.
The took everything I found fun about this game out! But talking to the people on my alliance is fun so I still play. I might quit after I go to boot camp.
Don't get me wrong; BG2 is a fantastic game - despite its age it's my favourite RPG up to date.
Why is it a guilty pleasure?
I haven't played this game for five years and I am having so much fun at the moment, that I haven't done any proper work in days. It feels like I'm fucking twelve again; I keep talking about this game like a raving lunatic and my friends are starting to give me weird looks. I have to finish it before it takes over my life.
http://www.gravitysensation.com/sumotori/
I played Ikarium for a while. It's not so bad. I posted a thread here about it years ago. I stopped when all my friends got bored with it.
For the same reason, I try to avoid any Facebook games like the plague.
And I'm surprised only one person has mentioned WoW. Stop hiding!!!
AKA "Drunk Fights". Showed this to some guys at work...never seen a game cause so much laughter.
get the %$&* out.....
no, seriously....
leave.....
I also recently bought Space Giraffe for the third time, while it was for sale on Steam...
I just started playing a Facebook game last night. Social City, a Sim City knockoff. I want to see what the big deal is...and why my friends keep sending annoying invitations. It would be a lot of fun if I wasn't constantly being urged to send invites, publish each and every small achievement, and buy upgrades with real cash. Lame.
Ribbit King! The only golfing game with a homosexual alien umpire. What a weird game...but it was addictive
well it's interesting that Mudbox is incorporating vector displacement maps, something that's been in SL for about a year now. It's a little rough because the primitives are only a few thousand polygons at their highest level but combine it with a lighting/material bake and you get some good results.
It's a shame that it's turned into a virtual sex zone, when I was in beta everyone was making RPG's, FPS games and other weird sports like Sumo Ball and Jetpack Basketball.
so does mine! between those, and her other casual games, she played more games than i did for a while. but, ive been slightly addicted to everquest 2 lately, she probably doesnt anymore.
Not sure why peggle is a guilty pleasure. that game is awsome!
for me. probably the sims... from time to time i get an urge to play it. play it for a couple days, then stop. lol
Oh you totally should install the second one. Just thinking about it makes me want to dig it out again..
Rofl, used to do that as well. Mostly because, at the time, it was one of the very best damage models, and it looked so damn neat.
Never tried the first one, though.
I hadn't played them since I went to College but I went home for reading week in February and played them again... so old but so much fun.