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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?
the few gigs of MAME rom's I've got floating around my universe.
... all that investment, and finally, i get something out of it: free access to all the arcade games i could possibly ever want to play.
i haven't put a quarter (or 50 cents) into a videogame machine in years. MAME was like the 'nirvana'-point of arcade gaming for me
the new stuff doesn't interest me.
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I admit, my friends organised a night in watching movies, drinking, usual banter
He had a Playstation 2 set-up with Vice City which had just been released, now, being a complete beginner to the gaming world *OS X geek you see* I was pretty well drawn into the sheer brutality of pulling some young broad out a moving car, then proceeding to smash up line after line of innocent civilians
Months later, I still play just to get my police record "topped up", sod the missions!
And yes, I thought it was rather cruel to smack an old lady in the chops with a steel bar, but... but... oh nevermind
Yes Animal Crossing. It is like crack wrapped in a cute package.
Anybody who's finished a boss in Ikaruga will know what I'm talking about when I say there is nothing like cruising effortlessly through dense showers of bullets and unleashing finely-timed, perfectly-executed explosive death on your enemies, and then watching them explode, and then doing it again, over and over again, for the entire level. In chains of three of the same colour enemy.
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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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Finding every single person on a level of Carmageddon and running them down. It was nothing to do with getting enough time to finish the level, just about pure-grade destruction.
Carmageddon was great for that. Didn't look very good, but was enormous evil fun.
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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.
Freedom Force, the squad-based superhero tactical RPG, got me in the tutorial when the narrator says, "Why don't you try picking up this light post and using it as a club?" It's fun using everything (except buildings, unfortunately) as a weapon. Cars, light posts, benches, phone booths, hot dog carts... it's a fun game.
Of course, the guilty pleasures of videogaming would have to include playing those adult games all day.
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A few guilty pleasures over the years include:
Chun Li from Street Fighter (hey, I was really young - no, I didn't play with one hand)
Narc - first game I ever played that was extremely violent and very graphic
Mortal Kombat [1 and 2] - I loved the first two MK games, the gameplay was great for the time, but the guilty pleasure was obviously the finish moves
King of Fighters - bounce bounce :) More hilarious than anything else
GTA - I never bothered with the missions until the third game, but running over people, running from the cops, etc., was friggin great. Once in GTA 1, I killed every single cop in the city(there were a limited number in the first game!). Then I blew up every single car except the Jeep Wrangler. The best fun, though, was setting up a huge ring of blown up vehicles surrounding my guy, and then proceeding to lob explosives into crowds of people and mowing down cops as they struggle to make their way through the wall of rubble.
Quake 1-3 - high-framerate gib flying fun!
Max Payne - silly story and game elements "ripped off" of the Matrix
And so much more...
Cheers!
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Dead or Alive. The whole series is based and the concept of 'guilty pleasure'. I mean, has anyone played this game just for the fighting?
I first saw this game (DOA1) in an arcade in France and just coudn't take my eyes off it... well, I coudnt take my eyes off the bouncing.
Physics based videogames just became a reality to me.
In the same vein, the only reason to play the Jurassic Park based Trespasser game was to look down.
Got to love em'.
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 ^_^
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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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.
There was something oddly captivating about letting the room fill with monsters (they infinitely respawned untill you ended the level) and then just blasting away on fully automatic. It was also oddly enjoyable to run around shooting at them just enough to cause massive brawls. I kinda liked watching a flock of Demons systematically assert their authority through sheer numbers.
Depending on how much mayhem you could handle, you'd get completion rates in the thousands of percentages. Mmmm... dead pixilated monsters.
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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 ;- )
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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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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)
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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".
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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.
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Desperate days demand dire deeds.
God mode, get all the weapons. Then run through the game like a mad man. w00!
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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII you can visit other officers and lieges, and when your bond with that officer is exactly 42, you randomly get chances to assassinate them. If you save at the right time, you can just retry until you get it. So my friend and I made our own Kingdom, and we tried to take over China through assassinations. Apparently if you assassinate all the officers and liege of a kingdom, the kingdom goes away.
In Enemy Territory, I'll forego helping out teammates or trying to win our team the match to practice trick-jumping to cool places.
I don't know how Morrowind is supposed to be played, but my friend has it, and whenever we play, we work on conquering towns by killing all the villagers in it.
Usually I restrict myself to exploiting bugs and loop-holes of the in-game world (as in not blatant cheating), but I used to play this free MMO called Graal (it was based on Zelda, and was originally just Zelda Online until they changed the graphics), and I loved to use trainers in that game.
One of my favorite things to do was help n00bs get their items so that they wouldn't get beat up (PKing was rampant), so when someone would ask me where to get an item, I would tell them to follow me, I would hit the button on my trainer, lift up a bush, and out would fall a lvl3 sword. Unfortunately, the company began to take drastic anti-cheating measures, and the poor n00bs who got my hacked items ended up with their characters in jail! The guilty part of this is that it really made me laugh, and I would have done it to my friends if I could get out of the jail.
Graal was a game with low death penalties and you could hit another player almost anywhere in the game, so one of the best pasttimes was to hunt people down. Me and a friend changed our names and appearance and hunted our newbie friend down once or twice, and I remember one time on a small server when I was a little bored, someone named Lycia was bothering me or something, so I yelled out "Lycia hunt!" and about 6 or 7 of us chased her down and killed her.
...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.
...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)
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Running 3D games at the lowest resolution possible. 640x480 is getting harder to do, but 800x600 satisfies -- it has a "feel" to it. And it plays faster. :)
So, I confess, I enjoy the occasional game of Gunbound There is the one item that switches your current position with that of a teammate. Jump off a cliff, on the way down Team Teleport, and enjoy the confused cries of the masses wondering how I am still alive. No penalty for it either, yet. Most of the time team killing costs you a few rank points, but they hadnt thought of this yet.
SAILING MISHAP
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?
downloading the games from P2P.
$60 a game? Whatever.
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.
Having a Windows install just for gaming. I swear, if it wasn't for Neocron and other games not working properly in WineX, I'd never touch my Win2K install with a bargepole!
I'm just waiting for someone to come out of the closet and admitting to liking Daikatana...
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