Games you refuse to play.

c-no said:
John Titor said:
Braid and Fez. I've been turned off by the behavior of their creators and I'd rather not give them a dime.
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I know of how the creator of Fez acted. I assume the creator of Braid is similar then, correct?
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Not quite. Braid guy is not as rude, I'll give him that. But he gives me this snobbish and pretentious vibe.
 
Any MMORPG is on my blacklist. There's no such thing as a free meal in videogaming these days and more and more it's not pay to enhance/prolong gameplay, it's pay to win. Anything past level 10 is a constant boring grind designed to piss players off into paying to advance in the game. Even cutesy games meant for tweens like Spiral Knights by SEGA employ this strategy, everything seems to allude to begging your mom for her credit card so you can buy pixels with stats attached to them and I just think it's wrong. That's not what gaming used to be about and I don't want to be a part of it.

Pretty much anything EA/Activision is also on my list, like a few others in this thread I think their business practices are pretty awful and they're a cancer on the industry taking advantage of the lowest common denominator of gamers and putting profit above everything.
 
geewizz said:
Any MMORPG is on my blacklist.
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I'm inclined to agree with geewizz for different reasons.

When Star Wars Galaxies went down and hackers reverse engineered the original version to run on custom servers. I tried it out and I have to say, it's by far the best mmorpg I've ever played and I don't enjoy playing it. The turn based combat lags behind a few seconds, the combat itself is very contrived and confusing, it is turn based but it comes off as real time (and they switched it entirely to real time when they made the "new game enhancement") and the elements that I liked about it I wished I saw in singleplayer rpgs.

Like the role I enjoyed the most in the game was as an Ithorian Musician who roamed around different planets playing music to travelers. As much as I liked doing that, no other players cared about that and only stayed inside Cantinas to grind. To top it all off there was a huge world to explore on each planet but apart from wanting a house and engaging in raids there's extremely few reasons to just explore the overworld.
 
Not all MMO's are pay to win though. A Realm Reborn is pay to play with no cash shop. If you go for freemium games you get stuck with shit because the developers have to make a profit. I used to play ARR quite a bit and there is absolutely no instance of a cash shop and the closest is vanity items for people who are consistently subscribed to the service.

It's a case of wanting something for nothing a lot of the time and you pay for it in skewed gameplay, shitty servers, few developments that aren't purely out for your money, and a crappy playerbase.
 
I mostly never liked MMOs. The one exception is when I played Dungeons & Dragons Online for a while. But in that case, I think it's because I had a bunch of my online friends with me, we all decided to start playing together and always had a full party. MMOs are just boring and banal if you don't have a dedicated crew of friends to play with, I think.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
I mostly never liked MMOs. The one exception is when I played Dungeons & Dragons Online for a while. But in that case, I think it's because I had a bunch of my online friends with me, we all decided to start playing together and always had a full party. MMOs are just boring and banal if you don't have a dedicated crew of friends to play with, I think.
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I think I can agree with you. As much as how I had fun playing Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE and Wizardry Online by myself, it was much more fun when you did it with a party.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
I mostly never liked MMOs. The one exception is when I played Dungeons & Dragons Online for a while. But in that case, I think it's because I had a bunch of my online friends with me, we all decided to start playing together and always had a full party. MMOs are just boring and banal if you don't have a dedicated crew of friends to play with, I think.
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MMOs were hard for me to get into. The only ones I recall playing were APB: Reloaded and DC Universe Online, and I ended up losing interest in them after a while.
 
I played Spore, which was touted as a "massively singleplayer online" game.

Turned out EA turned it into a minigame pack that can be completed in 3 hours instead.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
I played Spore, which was touted as a "massively singleplayer online" game.

Turned out EA turned it into a minigame pack that can be completed in 3 hours instead.
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I suggest playing Spore: Galactic Adventures instead.
 
random_pickle said:
I suggest playing Spore: Galactic Adventures instead.
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I'm going to pass on any dlc or spin-off to a game whose makers were arrogant enough to claim it was the game that would never need dlc or spin-offs.
 
Video games based around card games. I was into them at one point, but now... eh... They bore me and it seems silly now.

Also, please tell me there isn't something like a Beyblade game.
 
c-no said:
caffeinated_wench said:
Also, please tell me there isn't something like a Beyblade game.
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Well....
http://beyblade.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_ ... ideo_Games
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caffeinated_wench said:
Video games based around card games. I was into them at one point, but now... eh... They bore me and it seems silly now.

Also, please tell me there isn't something like a Beyblade game.
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One thing that's always confused me about video games based around card games is how when they have storylines, the villains that wanna destroy the world always play by the official rules. It's the same thing with anime revolving around card games and stuff.

I did play a great deal of the Yu Gi Oh GBA stuff though for some reason when I was younger, major portable time sink.
caffeinated_wench said:
Also, please tell me there isn't something like a Beyblade game.
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Believe it or not the first Beyblade game predates the anime.

It's very similar to Medabots in that regard, since Metabots was a video game series in Japan and wasn't made into an anime til years later. Digimon World also came out before it's anime too.
 
Cuddlebug said:
caffeinated_wench said:
Video games based around card games. I was into them at one point, but now... eh... They bore me and it seems silly now.

Also, please tell me there isn't something like a Beyblade game.
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One thing that's always confused me about video games based around card games is how when they have storylines, the villains that wanna destroy the world always play by the official rules. It's the same thing with anime revolving around card games and stuff.

I did play a great deal of the Yu Gi Oh GBA stuff though for some reason when I was younger, major portable time sink.
caffeinated_wench said:
Also, please tell me there isn't something like a Beyblade game.
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Believe it or not the first Beyblade game predates the anime.

It's very similar to Medabots in that regard, since Metabots was a video game series in Japan and wasn't made into an anime til years later.
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I think I still have my YGO GBA game somewhere.

That confuses me too, though. They wanna destroy the world, but they don't cheat at card games...? ....and why play card games, anyway? Why not just shoot 'em?


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caffeinated_wench said:
I think I still have my YGO GBA game somewhere.

That confuses me too, though. They wanna destroy the world, but they don't cheat at card games...? ....and why play card games, anyway? Why not just shoot 'em?


I learned something new today!
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I guess because when they play the card game, it might allow them to like steal the soul of their enemy or banish them to the Shadow Realm where it might be much worse than just getting shot.
 
c-no said:
caffeinated_wench said:
I think I still have my YGO GBA game somewhere.

That confuses me too, though. They wanna destroy the world, but they don't cheat at card games...? ....and why play card games, anyway? Why not just shoot 'em?


I learned something new today!
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I guess because when they play the card game, it might allow them to like steal the soul of their enemy or banish them to the Shadow Realm where it might be much worse than just getting shot.
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It seems silly, because if they lose PLOT FOILED.
 
Anything for Xbox One.

Chris was right, Kick Da HexBawx for thinking that forcing us to keep the Kinect on 24/7 was a good idea!
 
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