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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.
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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If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
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
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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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 ^_^
Making high kicks with the female characters ;)
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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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God mode, get all the weapons. Then run through the game like a mad man. w00!
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...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.
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
...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.
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