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What Guilty Gaming Pleasures Do You Enjoy?
Thanks to GamerDad for its editorial discussing some of the guilty pleasures involved in playing video games. The author, in trying to define why he enjoys games so much, rhapsodizes: "When 3D games run at a high framerate and wow me with effects, I'm drooling like any other graphics loving moron. I don't need them, but I do respect and admire them." He continues along this train of thought: "Another guilty pleasure is the need to blow things up. Why is it that's so damn liberating? I just love to see things go boom. Zombies, space ships, tanks, cars, buildings, robots, aliens, demons - but not often people, since I'm kinda squeamish with that." What's your guiltiest videogaming-related pleasure?
Yes Animal Crossing. It is like crack wrapped in a cute package.
I'd sit for minutes in Duke Nukem 3d, bribing the horribly pixelated exotic dancers to flash their boobs at me. Yeah, I'm a sad, sad, person.
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"What Guilty Gaming Pleasures Do You Enjoy?
Playing with the camera angles in Tomb Raider?
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I like making him jump off the platform or get stomped by that snake so he swears at me in his strange language.
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If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Yep, there's no guiltier pleasure than seeing Sephiroth in a hot tub with the muscular Mukki, or asking the Honeybee Inn honeys to put some pretty makeup on his face ^_^
Ahhh yes! A truly guilty pleasure, but not really in the way that is most apparent. After playing some of the JAST and Peach Princess games, I realized that these are really just often cheesy, interactive romance novels for men! At least that's what I told my wife...
Seriously, once I realized that I essentially enjoying the male equivalent of Harlequin romance novels with Fabio on the cover, my true guilt became apparent. Oh the shame!
To the making of books there is no end, so let's get started
Having sex with a hooker in the back of my van and then killing her.
Making high kicks with the female characters ;)
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
I had a friend who had an import of DOA1, when I would start winning against him he would put the option "bouncing breasts" on and I could never win again...and I liked it ;- )
You can't take the sky from me...
One guilty pleasure is taking a character, whether it be Diablo II or NexusTK, and just leveling as high as I can get. My other is doing stupid little things in the game just to make more money. I would kill those dang squirrels for hours in Nexus. *sigh* But I also love mayhem. Every so often I'll pop in GTA:VC, head on over to the stadium, (or to the golf course) and just run back and forth across the highest level, killing people again and again and again. You'd think that they'd hear a report somewhere like "500 people have been shot, blown up, chopped to bits, or beated bloody at the entrance to Bloodbanger's Stadium!" and they'd stop coming around, but since they're so stupid, they deserve to die. *bwahahahaha* And hey, you only get minimal cops up there. They're easy enough to take out in such small numbers (one or two every few minutes)
*slight crashing sound*
God mode, get all the weapons. Then run through the game like a mad man. w00!
Pretty Pictures!
...from owning all those I couldn't get as a kid.
And yes, I do feel SOME guilt over it.
But then again, they are all *MINE*
(Best part is that it's an old picture, I have more now, muahahaha)
=)
"GNU's not Unix....it's Linux" / Kami "kokamomi" Petersen
For example, going through Deus Ex and stealing all the plants from all the offices in the Unatco building and putting them in my own office (looks like a greenhouse!). Or opening all the taps in the washing room. Or playing with the basket ball.
Or alternatively, playing with the Warthog in Halo. The idea being that you find an inaccessible spot and then try to get your Warthog into it. I swear, they could make an entire game out of that alone: just gives us difficult jumps, small ledges, narrow gaps, and obstacles, and let nature do the rest...
...Is the fact that I know the following:
(1) In Final Fantasy VIII when you use scan on Selphie (is that her name? All I really remember is that the game sucked) it won't allow you to rotate the camera to see up her dress. You can with every other character, just not her.
(2) However, you can see up Garnet's dress in the ending of Final Fantasy IX. Was looking for a desktop background when I found this, going through frame by frame for that perfect shot. When she runs down and jumps in Zidane's arms he swings her around and for one frame you can see up her dress. No underwear, lotsa bush. Almost made up for having to play through that slow assed game.
No, I don't have a girlfriend. How can you tell?
And doing things that might be illegal in your state (like going on a killing spree)
I don't think I want to visit a state where it might not be illegal to go on a killing spree.
When old DOS games started losing their novelty I used to wreak havoc on the WAV files. My squealy prepubescent tenor made for a pretty foulmouthed baseball announcer.
I'm just waiting for someone to come out of the closet and admitting to liking Daikatana...
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!