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?

Comments

Re:Q*Bert

[ten000hzlegend]

True story, around 1993 when Streetfighter II came out for the Amiga, some minor nerd wrote in to CU Amiga magazine not only stating but complaining he couldn't understand the obviously foreign and low-quality speech samples, notably the swearing he passionately remembered *even though he couldn't understand a word?*

So in response, CU Amiga announced quite funnily, the Capcom Translation MIDI Kit, plug in to the serial port of any Amiga computer and hear Ryu in his new found English!

This was 1993 remember

So in their dozens, people then wrote in asking prices, availability, specifications etc... CU Amiga were nearly sued for false advertisement

The moral of the story kids?

One pixallated characters swear word is anothers sweet whisper

Q*Bert was fantastic for it's alien swearing though, I'm sure he said Fcuk, must sample and slow it

Re:Animal Crossing.

[Bagels]

If you found Animal Crossing addictive, then take my advice: don't play the new Harvest Moon game for the 'Cube when it comes out. Imagine Animal Crossing's crack, plus several varieties of heroin involving everything from... erm, milking cows to getting married.

My guilty game pleasure.....

[narftrek]

downloading the games from P2P.

$60 a game? Whatever.