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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?
Of course, the guilty pleasures of videogaming would have to include playing those adult games all day.
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Guilty pleasure #1: Playing UT2003 with everything cranked. Same for Unreal 2's XMP Demo (Don't have U2 yet)
#2: Boomsticks! Shotgun's seem to be my big weapon. Be it the one in Half-life, GTA3, DOOM, etc. Boomsticks are sweet.
#3: Summon spells in the Final Fantasy series (and maybe any other Squaresoft game)... Nothing more fun than calling out a nice spell that targets all enemies, and isn't affected by the Reflect/Wall spell. Best abuse ever: Final Fantasy VII - Grab Bahamut-Zero attatch a Magic x4 support materia, then equip a W Summon materia and Knights of the Round. Summon Bahamut 1st (for 4 times!) then Knights, go make some popcorn or grab a soda and come back and see everything go goodbye!
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In the original Command & Conquer game (the one before Red Alert), when the soldiers were killed, they yelled this brutal scream.. uuuaahhHHHHHHHHHH!!! So, I'd use some game cheat and modify all weapons to be lasers, and I'd just listen to the lasers killing all the men (it was quite entertaining).
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That's what I missed about Red Alert.. they toned down the sounds of the guys getting aced. I was talking to a friend about making a mod of RA with some of the original sounds, but he thought I was insane
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Sounds like someone has yet to throw off their puritan shackles. Continue the pleasure, and drop the guilt.
As far as guilty pleasures...I was excited and played Majestic right when it was released. And what went from "really cool idea" ended up being "talk to AiM bots and watch a RealVideo clip".
/FF 4 rocks
And I still play the original X-COM. Often.
But personally the biggest form of guilt pleasure I get is reading stuff online where people harp on FF7. Just because so many people started playing the Final Fantasy games at 7, they think it's the best. Silly fools.
--Reverend Raven
Desperate days demand dire deeds.
...because, in the end, a game only needs to be fun. If you're having fun, there's nothing to feel guilty about.
The beauty is that there are many different kids of fun to be had -- visceral/reflexy fun; intellectual/puzzley fun; compulsive collection fun; competitive fun; violent ass-kicking fun... etc. Not one of these should inspire guilt. Fun is fun.
Come to think of it, the only true guilty pleasure would be playing a game not because it was fun, but because you were trying to prove a point to someone else.
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