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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
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.
simonoker asks:
"What Guilty Gaming Pleasures Do You Enjoy?
Playing with the camera angles in Tomb Raider?
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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
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'.
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
Making high kicks with the female characters ;)
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