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Gaming => General Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Barry the Nomad on March 04, 2013, 02:23:03 pm
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I've never completed Vanquish.
Despite loving the Shenmue series, I've only played through each title once. I always held off on a second playthrough, thinking that I'd do that when the third game released. Since about 2005 I gave up ever seeing the third game, and was too sad about it to get around to playing through the first two games. I have revisted old save files and walked about the maps, but thats about it.
I've only ever beaten Sonic 3 & Knuckles by using Game Genie.
I didn't own a Saturn until it was dead in the US.
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What are your video game confessions?
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I've never finished Shenmue. I hate cliffhangers.
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I've gotten near to the end (something like 7 times), but never cleared Phantasy Star 4 (don't ruin it for me).
Despite my great respect towards Platinum, I (so far) have near zero interest in anything they do outside of Sega IPs.
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No Reason Boner during specific cutscenes with my custom character from Saint's Row 2.
Never got all the Chaos Emerlads in Sonic 2.
Never finished Dead Fear on the Saturn.
Only played the original Resident Evil on Saturn once.
Never played Resident Evil 2.
Never made it through the first level of Space Channel 5!
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I find it hard to consider the Dreamcast the best console of all because it doesn't have a decent football game.
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I honestly think Final Fantasy XII is better than most of the RPGs this generation and all of the Dreamcast ones.
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Hate to say it, but I think NiGHTS was and still is a terrible franchise. I love its presentation, love its representation in sonic racing transformed. But the game itself is kind of meh.
Another confession is that my most jaw dropping experiences lately, have been older games. It has kind of convinced me that non inovative triple A titles that push graphics are never going to be my thing. I have always been a fun>graphics person. I can still enjoy 32 bit era games just as if not more than a great looking triple A title that gets close to 10's everywhere. For some reason I think graphics wont matter in the future anymore. At some point it will be a certain art direction that will set the tone more than an overly detailed looking game. This is kind of why I like the 3DS so much. I feel right at home there with the tone thats set for the devs.
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man this is going to be toomuch of a list. but nt about finishing games
some dude borrowed mortal kombat of the game gear. i bought the game brand new. when i wanted it back he said he wouldnt return it cause i broke his tree hut(just one wooden plank)
i actually beat him up so much that parents had to consult about us.
i never got my mortal kombat tho he borrowed it to someone else and that one borrowed it also to someone else
the master system joypad alwys broke on me. even tho it is a very ergonomic nd better then nes. but that d pad would fall of cause it wasnt attached properly in fabrication(who agrees)
- i love the model 1 megadrive pads better (the one with the white collored start button) i threw away the red ones and bought the white cause the de pad feels almost like an analog. best comparison it felt like the de pad of neogeo color.
i used to play pulseman for a year and swearing not to use emulation cheats and fast save. i only finished it this year cause this time i said i have to .
i hated chu chu rocket didnt understand the hype.
to honor the topic. i finished evolution 1 and evolution 2 i got to the ending boss. and then when i put the dc off. i never ever really tried to defeat the ending boss again. i was like ill look at the ending on utube.
i got stuck in prince of persia at the end because of a glitch. so i save at a checkpoin where the glitch was and couldnt enter the portal to fight daikatana or whatever the name of that black dude with strings was. i love the game but i was so frustrated cause i always overwrite my saves. and that was the time that i regretted it. never finished the games. ending movie also on utube
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Hate to say it, but I think NiGHTS was and still is a terrible franchise. I love its presentation, love its representation in sonic racing transformed. But the game itself is kind of meh.
As this is the confessionals topic, I'll ask that our dirty little shameful secrets don't spark big arguments. Though peaceful asides are welcome. So having said that, I agree and I don't agree: NiGHTS on Saturn is a fantastic game, great art, gameplay, music, etc. "Kind of meh" it is not. However I agree that as a franchise it is very weak and is much better as a one-off title. The Wii NiGHTS was just so... no awful but just such a step back from the first, despite trying so hard to evolve the franchise. It's like The Matrix or Pirates of the Caribbean. Leave it be as a standalone entity! Sequels just degrade the franchise and make the flaws all the more apparent! :P
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As this is the confessionals topic, I'll ask that our dirty little shameful secrets don't spark big arguments. Though peaceful asides are welcome. So having said that, I agree and I don't agree: NiGHTS on Saturn is a fantastic game, great art, gameplay, music, etc. "Kind of meh" it is not. However I agree that as a franchise it is very weak and is much better as a one-off title. The Wii NiGHTS was just so... no awful but just such a step back from the first, despite trying so hard to evolve the franchise. It's like The Matrix or Pirates of the Caribbean. Leave it be as a standalone entity! Sequels just degrade the franchise and make the flaws all the more apparent! :P
Yeah, perhaps the words I used were a little too harsh and was destined to cause some arguments evntually within a sega forum. But yeah I agree with everything you said. I actually own all the NiGHTs games despite not understanding their apeal. I gave them a chance at least. The Wii game wasn't that bad really. I think gameplay wise it does a few things better like having a better view of whats coming ahead and the overall feel of flying. But its story is cringe inducing from start to end, so i think its understandable fans wrote it off immadiatly.
But as a gameplay concept I dont like it. I guess you could say it's just not my thing. A lot of people tell me it's a score attack game and that i'm playing it the wrong way.
man this is going to be toomuch of a list. but nt about finishing games
some dude borrowed mortal kombat of the game gear. i bought the game brand new. when i wanted it back he said he wouldnt return it cause i broke his tree hut(just one wooden plank)
i actually beat him up so much that parents had to consult about us.
i never got my mortal kombat tho he borrowed it to someone else and that one borrowed it also to someone else
lol
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I don't like what Pokemon has become, and I am a big fan of the franchise.
I only can ever beat Streets of Rage 2 on Hardest with Axel.
I once beat Heart of Darkness without dying and sped run through the game...to understand how hard that game is, look it up on youtube.
Despite being a SEGA fan, my favourite colour is Red. (useless confession I know)
I have been known (at least to myself) to crossover pokemon and SEGA characters in my graphic design (Vulpix x Orta, Eevee x Reala, Pikachu x Alis and JigglyPuff x Ulala...if I was good enough to do Bayonetta I would happily do an Umbreon x Bayo crossover)
I suck at games, I can only beat most games on Easy Mode. :(
And wha? The colour of the Start Button determines which Mega Drive controller is better?
That does remind me of another confession...I somehow have 7!!!! Yes, 7 Mega Drive controllers....and I don't know how as I only have 1 Mega Drive.
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Red start button = best start button.
I used to have 8 MegaDrive controllers and 3 consoles.
When I was a kid all my Dreamcast games were pirated except Metropolis Street Racer.
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Red start button = best start button.
I used to have 8 MegaDrive controllers and 3 consoles.
When I was a kid all my Dreamcast games were pirated except Metropolis Street Racer.
man u dont even know the difference between the red start and whit startbutton
it is not about the colors of the start buttons.
those 2 controllers are not the same at all only in housing
white start button is
very nice d pad so flexibel it almost gives the feeling of an analog shaped d pad such as the one on neoo geo pocket color.
the a b c button of the white start button version is very flexibel as well making it easy to tap for bonus games such as in mortalkombat 1
red start button is really crap
(but i guess its just a matter of taste)
the red start button d pad is stiff waaaaaaaay more stiff. almost gives the feeling of the stifness of the snes shit controller that will probably give a reuma desease.
the abc buttons are not everlasting. playing games back to back makes the A button hard to use. combine it with sticky coca cola( yes i know im exagerating on this one) will make the a button useless cause it is to close to the rubber between the actual a button and the printplate.
any old school dude over here who is at least 30 years old ok 29 is also in that range. and actively played sega genesis would easily admit this
but ofcourse its a matter of taste. maybe you like the stifness and the stickiness of the a button
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but ofcourse its a matter of taste. maybe you like the stifness and the stickiness of the a button
I actually do. Might be because it was the controller I used the most and got used to it, I dunno.
And as I said, I have had a multitude of controllers, I know the differences pretty well.
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The Wii NiGHTS was just so... no awful but just such a step back from the first,
No, it's awful.
Anyway, Shining Force 3 trilogy are some of my favourite games of all time (I'm talking short-list here, top 3 or something), but I've only finished the whole story once. Dicking around with translation patches and emulators to play it was hard.
Despite this, I only played SF1 recently and it was pretty good, but not keen to run through it again. Shining Force 2 I gave up half way I think. Can't remember exactly what it was, but it just didn't hold me.
Shining in the Darkness was horrible.
I don't understand how anyone ever enjoyed Golden Axe.
I've never played a Phantasy Star game (apart from a brief stint on PSO on DC, playing offline) and have no intention to play one.
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I actually do. Might be because it was the controller I used the most and got used to it, I dunno.
And as I said, I have had a multitude of controllers, I know the differences pretty well.
i guess its a matter of taste then hey.
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My confessions?
I stupidly sold Seaman w/mic
I've never played a Master System...
I jumped at the chance to purchase a fully working, dedicated Sonic Championship (Sonic the Fighters) arcade for...an undisclosed amount because I thought SEGA would never re-release it and then 6 months later heard they were releasing it on XBL and PSN for just $5, and it's an updated/upgraded version.... >:(
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Here's another list of small confessions:
-Growing up playin' the Genesis, I never got the impression that Golden Axe was such a praised property;
-I actually called Robotnick, Mr. Walrus in Sonic 1, because I had no idea that the character was called Robotnick until the early AoSTH and I actually though that those suspenders where teeth.
-I never played any Phantasy Star game, except for 2 on an Genesis emulator, I only played The End of The Millenium game on PC via the SEGA Genesis Gold Collection;
-Despite feeling that Shining Force II was a better game overall, the story in Shining Force I was far more precise and focused;
-I bought and rebought a copy of Fable 2 at least three times before I actually played it;
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When I first saw Robotnik as a kid, I thought he was a walrus also. Didn't stick long, but first time I saw him with the wrecking ball I thought he was a walrus.
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Okay, here's some confessions....
1. I dislike most role-playing games. The very idea of turn-based combat is ridiculous to me. On top of that, I find random encounters intensely frustrating and ruin the sense of immersion. Further more, not a fan of elves, dwarves and fairies, since they seem to permeate throughout the genre....however, I do enjoy the original Phantasy Star and Panzer Dragoon Saga.
2. The Dreamcast is my least favorite SEGA console. Doesn't have as many games that I enjoy playing and the hardware's too problematic for my liking. Don't like the D-pad at all. It just pisses me off. The Genesis and Saturn (JP/3D) D-pad's were fantastic; then they just fucked it all up.
3. Don't like Halo. At all.
4. I once wrote a piece of slash fiction where Sonic and Knuckles beat the shit out of Bowzer, pay a visit to Princess Peach and "Eiffel Tower" her while Tails stands in a corner with his back facing the action. Sonic berates Tails mid-coitous, telling him that he'll never be worthy of the Chaos Emerald's greatness and that the best part of him ran down his mother's thigh. Tails then snaps like a dry twig and spins his tails so fast that he amputates Knuckles hands, then attacks Sonic. It's an epic battle reminiscent of Neo and Agent Smith in The Matrix Revolutions. In the end, Tails rips Sonic's head off, holds it high in the air and screams, "There can be only one!"
Needless to say, I never put it out there. *shrugs*
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I'm starting to see the "appeal" to Fire Emblem, but I still think Valkyria Chronicles (the first one) does the perma death MUCH better....you have three turns to retrieve them or you hope the enemy doesn't run over your KO'd character.
I think Advance Wars is better of the two games but the franchise overall is repetitive (it's good for "one" game I believe, but not a series). So Fire Emblem is probably better in terms of being relevant.
Whilst I am on this confession, I ended up LIKING Radiant Dawn despite being one of the hardest FE games (apparently the SNES games are harder if only for certain weapons being required in certain missions) I have ever played!
I actually don't like some of Nintendo's ideas of the 3DS...some ideas work but things like Streetpass are not futureproof, nor does it work for people who live in a country with hardly anyone who brings their 3DS with them.
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Another big confession:
I never really cared for any of the Ecco The Dolphin games and I am terrified of the sharks in Defender of The Future.
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I don't care for Ecco either, Max. Don't feel so lonesome.
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I never understood the point of playing a fish that isn't even a fish.
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I never understood the point of playing a fish that isn't even a fish.
thats because u cant orientate in water like the dc version. it is to hard for u bro that game is too advanced for u.
im sorry man truth is hard
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Another big confession:
I never really cared for any of the Ecco The Dolphin games and I am terrified of the sharks in Defender of The Future.
glad u started about that
well u need to orientate there big time plus the enemies arent that easy always. u need to find out which fish is poisoned and which not. this game is an advanced game which is requiring the intelect of the brain in a way that is not described in the book.
u may be a grammar gangsta
well that wont help u
u may be a mathematical geek
that wont help u orientate
this game is underwater im talking only about the dc version
and u need to adapt the whole idea of being a dolphin underwater and u are forced to learn ur way trough and not getting lost. yes the sharks are scary and they will always be.
but dude when u come really far ull understand.
there is always that pressure that u need air once in a while
i wont take u for crackdandy which is basically an asslicker of barry the nomad sorry to say im not good in hiding my feelings. barry never asked for an asslicker that tries to lick the anus so hard that he basically wants to be a moderator like barry
but crackdude would mostlikely fit more in the title moderetard
this game is hard. but when u beat it. then beat me ;)
its a good game for sure and u should reconsider playing it
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thats because u cant orientate in water like the dc version. it is to hard for u bro that game is too advanced for u.
im sorry man truth is hard
Too DEEP.
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Semmie, there's this thing called 'sense' and I need you to start making it very, very soon.
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I think buried inside all that nonsense you are insulting Crackdude. He's pretty easy going, but if that were me I would be angry.
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'Kay, here's another confession:
I understand why Halo is such a popular franchise, specially the very first one on Xbox. But truth be told, my first experience with the original title was just terrible and that is why I don't like the game!
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I think buried inside all that nonsense you are insulting Crackdude. He's pretty easy going, but if that were me I would be angry.
Crackdude is too busy laughing to be mad.
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I think buried inside all that nonsense you are insulting Crackdude. He's pretty easy going, but if that were me I would be angry.
dont make a big deal of it. im cool with crackdude.
that was just alpha talk. i dont let things in my heart. im not good at that.
and if i feel a certain way about him i say it.
but apart from the suspisious asslicking.(if it is truth) but still he is a sega hill billy. so im cool with him.
u cant force me to always be polite. that is just to hard for me
so to move it up a little bit
i bought epic mickey of the 3ds and damn its nice. but i bought to many games lately so instead of buying i should be finishing
shinobi 3ds
dead or alive 3ds
epicmickey
i should start finishing games for real
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Ecco genesis suck ballz, but the DC game is amazing. that is all
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Crackdude is too busy laughing to be mad.
Too busy asslicking too, do not forget.
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Only recently bought a Dreamcast this year. I have only played 6 games on it.
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I 100%'d Sonic 06.
I've beaten Sonic Chronicles 3 times over.
I've never even seen a SEGA Saturn in person.
I have too many Dreamcasts and not enough Dreamcast games.
I've played NiGHTS once, and I was terrible at it.
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Too busy asslicking too, do not forget.
Isn't it called something else by the Germans? o_0
That random remark of Crackdude is brown nosing AND would make a Moderetard is pretty offensive and uncalled for. Even if you still like the dude, I think you should at least apologise Semmie since he did nothing to be provoke that response.
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It's also called a Rim-Job, I believe.
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It's also called a Rim-Job, I believe.
I didn't say it in case I got warned, lol. *Although I kind of offended Germans saying it was referred as something else by the Germans.
That reminds me, I don't think I like games that promote killing Germans, Iraqis or any other race because despite there being extremists, it kind of portrays all Germans as Nazis and Iraqi's as terrorists...the same goes for portraying an American as an International Hero.
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Well, if you're making a war game that takes place during World War II, your enemies are going to be Nazis and the Japanese. When you take the subject matter into consideration, there's really no way around it. I don't feel they portray ALL Germans as genocidal sociopaths, or ALL Japanese as blood thirsty bastards. However, I don't think the protagonist should always be a yank though.
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I didn't say it in case I got warned, lol.
We may be SEGA themed forums but we ain't the SEGA Forums. We don't care about corrupting the youth! :P
disclaimer: We don't endorse the corrupting of youth either. That's why no one young posts here, we're too boring for them :P
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We may be SEGA themed forums but we ain't the SEGA Forums. We don't care about corrupting the youth! :P
disclaimer: We don't endorse the corrupting of youth either. That's why no one young posts here, we're too boring for them :P
They may call it corruption; I call it enlightenment. ;)
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It's also called a Rim-Job, I believe.
in dutch it is
kontenlikker
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in dutch it is
kontenlikker
You would know that, of course.
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No, it's awful.
Anyway, Shining Force 3 trilogy are some of my favourite games of all time (I'm talking short-list here, top 3 or something), but I've only finished the whole story once. Dicking around with translation patches and emulators to play it was hard.
Despite this, I only played SF1 recently and it was pretty good, but not keen to run through it again. Shining Force 2 I gave up half way I think. Can't remember exactly what it was, but it just didn't hold me.
Shining in the Darkness was horrible.
I don't understand how anyone ever enjoyed Golden Axe.
I've never played a Phantasy Star game (apart from a brief stint on PSO on DC, playing offline) and have no intention to play one.
Shining Force 3 is such and underrated gem. Easily one of the best games of the 32 - bit era, too bad it was released near the death of the SS. Finished the three scenarios twice, and I'm counting on doing a third time.
Also, I must confess, I have the same problem as you. I love Shining Force 3, but I don't know why, Shining Force 2 never captivated me enough. Nor Shining Force 1. Except the remake. That one is really solid, the card stuff there is a lot of fun. Shining in the Darkness is awful, indeed, but you should really try Shining The Holy Ark. Amazing game!
On to other confessions:
- Sometimes, I open Saturn and play Sega Rally just for the sake of beating my old records.
- Is this a problem of my own? Sometimes, I don't like to finish games. The fact of finishing it just makes me mad, because I will be ending a great experience. For example, I never ended LOZ: Phantom Hourglass, and that was a great gaming experience. To end Skies of Arcadia for the first time, I waited something like, 4 months, or so. Never finished Chrono Trigger for the DS (but finished it for the SNES when I was 13 years old, though, great game!). Can't remember some now, but there are 2/3 more games.
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Yeah, I never finished a Final Fantasy game. Although I played most of them up until at least halfway into them.
Same thing with MGS, and some other games.
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Yeah, I never finished a Final Fantasy game. Although I played most of them up until at least halfway into them.
Same thing with MGS, and some other games.
Lucky escape with Final Fantasy IV personally...absolutely loved the first half, but the second half was awfully paced out...and could be prematurely beaten if you decide to face Kefka with only 3 characters.
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I've never played a Zelda game.
The only Final Fantasy games I played were FFI and Tactics Advance.
I bought a PS3 only to get Gran Turismo 5(though I've gotten other games for, and Valkyria Chronicles yesterday).
I've never played Shenmue.
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I never played Valkyria Chronicles (I want to finish the fifth Sakura Wars game before I buy it)
I use to be afraid of The House of the Dead when I was young until I actually played the third game.
I lost badly in Injustice Gamestop tournament (Twice :c)
I am still currently ranked #1 in Fighting Vipers on XBLA Worldwide (Gamertag is KoriSX15)
I have only finished 2 Mario games in my life ever.
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>finishing a Mario game
yep. Never done it.
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Fapping then realising you're still sitting in the lobby on PSO.
;)
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Fapping then realising you're still sitting in the lobby on PSO.
;)
Should be Katawa Shoujo's "Good" endings (but don't let anyone hear you say that. ;) )
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-Gasp- The first Halo game did not leave a very good impression on me.
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-Gasp- The first Halo game did not leave a very good impression on me.
I hate Halo, so it's not that shocking to me, lol.
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I fell asleep during Halo 2. Literally asleep while in co-op.
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I think Metal Gear Solid as a series is one big joke (I mean an actual joke! Not a bad game!)
The whole "Hollywood style" motif is just bad....the story is so complex and exaggerated that it's considered to me as a hilarious attempt at being western whilst showing it's Japanese underbelly, to strange but hilarious results.
I mean...seriously? The La Le Lu Le Lo? Who thinks of this to talk about the rulers of the world?
And some of the things you do in the games...it's like it's designed to poke fun at itself but trying to show a serious side and failing.
I don't hate MGS, I am a huge fan of the first game, but it's so cheesy and stupid that it makes the B Movies, A Class Comedian Documentaries.
And I do think it's something probably Semmie would make when he's bored. XD
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I'm not a big fan of Game Grumps.
I mean, I've watched and enjoyed some of their videos, but I think the entusiasm for new episodes - "holy shit guys a new game grumps is here!!!" - is a bit much. It's a decent play through channel at best. The memes, fan art and fan animations are just stupid.
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I think Metal Gear Solid as a series is one big joke (I mean an actual joke! Not a bad game!)
The whole "Hollywood style" motif is just bad....the story is so complex and exaggerated that it's considered to me as a hilarious attempt at being western whilst showing it's Japanese underbelly, to strange but hilarious results.
I mean...seriously? The La Le Lu Le Lo? Who thinks of this to talk about the rulers of the world?
And some of the things you do in the games...it's like it's designed to poke fun at itself but trying to show a serious side and failing.
I don't hate MGS, I am a huge fan of the first game, but it's so cheesy and stupid that it makes the B Movies, A Class Comedian Documentaries.
And I do think it's something probably Semmie would make when he's bored. XD
It isn't, but okay. LOL! The game may poke fun at itself from time to time and some of the humor, as well as the philosophy, can be a bit meta. Still, that's the point.
By first game, are you actually referring to the first game (Metal Gear), or Metal Gear Solid?
Being a huge fan of the franchise and of Hideo Kojima, the very thought of semmie having anything to do with this franchise damn near stopped my heart. I haven't felt that since I once heard Uwe Boll was fighting for the director's chair.
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It isn't, but okay. LOL! The game may poke fun at itself from time to time and some of the humor, as well as the philosophy, can be a bit meta. Still, that's the point.
By first game, are you actually referring to the first game (Metal Gear), or Metal Gear Solid?
Being a huge fan of the franchise and of Hideo Kojima, the very thought of semmie having anything to do with this franchise damn near stopped my heart. I haven't felt that since I once heard Uwe Boll was fighting for the director's chair.
I dunno dude, I get what it's trying to do with the whole poking fun at itself and the philosophy, but it comes off like it's trying to cater to American Humour and seriousness at once but given it's Japanese Undertones, it doesn't mix well with me. (I can't talk given our country likes sexual innuendos and toilet humour <_<)
Ah sorry, I mean the Solid Series, Metal Gear was more serious in story, and likely better for it.
The bosses are really imaginative that I do think it's a great game for bosses, but otherwise I can't get into them like I used to.
LOL. I can understand dude, but given that MGS seems to have Semmie ideas of plot twists and such (especially MGS 2's AI breaking "ending", just to troll fans), you would think that someone such as Semmie would have thought of those ideas first.