Buying Games and Barely playing them

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:49 pm

How many of you guys do this? I've been starting to lately and I don't know why but every time I have free time I don't feel like doing the work to start a new game. I bought Street Fighter 4 and its okay but now RE5 is coming out tomorrow and I liked RE4 a lot, help me dac. I haven't even opened Gears of War 2 that I got for Xmas and I barely touched Far Cry 2 and Deadspace. I don't really see myself starting them anytime soon, maybe during the summer?

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:19 pm

Start drinking while playing, the appeal will increase immensely, and best of all, depending on how much you drink you'll forget how the game was. Basicly keeping all games new and fresh.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:39 pm

Pretty much sums up the last 5 years for me.

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:08 am

I think you're starting to realize that videogames are fucking stupid. If you don't stop spending a shitload of money on that crap sometime in the near future I would advise you to see a doctor, as purchasing japanese games is not healthy for you.

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:10 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:How many of you guys do this? I've been starting to lately and I don't know why but every time I have free time I don't feel like doing the work to start a new game. I bought Street Fighter 4 and its okay but now RE5 is coming out tomorrow and I liked RE4 a lot, help me dac. I haven't even opened Gears of War 2 that I got for Xmas and I barely touched Far Cry 2 and Deadspace. I don't really see myself starting them anytime soon, maybe during the summer?

Resident Evil 5 is going to suck. Co-op was the most irritating thing about RE4 (Ashley) so what did Capcom do? They based a fucking game around it. I'm glad that "survival horror" now interprets to "Teamwork!". I always thought it was about individual struggle. Lame.

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:54 am

valid point,, Aonoran, but I for one am glad at least that a human of my choosing (usually GalaxySilver on ol' XBLA) will be able to accompany me, instead of some goon that randomly shoots at the fuckin' ceiling.

entertainer · Post by **entertainer** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:01 am

Same for me, most new games seem to be terribly boring to play, good thing i don't buy them

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:19 am

I hear the game is nigh unbearable UNLESS you have a human playing as the Racist Fears Appeasement Character. Her AI is apperently horrible as she'll take up all the items she can, and apperently never heal herself. So you end up having to heal her with YOUR heal items. If you also want to give her some ammo, you have to give her ALL the ammo you have in a certain slot.

They also drop any pretenses of survival horror half way in.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:12 am

I only feel this way about new games. I'll still pick up old games and play them through, and even some of the recent ones.

But there are a few games that I can't bother to replay or even finish. DOWII I finished in coop, then started to grind for stuff right before the end mission(lol wow. No really, all the interesting items drop there =/).
And that has me bored quicker than any other game I've played lately... all the missions are the same.

I got a hold of Saints Row 2, which is really fun. Kinda like what GTA should've become with silly senseless violence with major gratification. Only thing is, that the physics kinda suck, even compared to GTAIII, so your cars do some strange things once in a while. This is a game I will spend a lot of time on, and have already.

I've had this "am I getting too old for games?" discussion with a few others, and inevitably we come to the same conclusion each time, it's not us, it's the games that are aimed at the younger generations.
It's true that nostalgia carries a few games, but like I said, there are even a few recent ones that I still enjoy replaying because they're fun, not because I'm sentimental.

I hope that was useful for you in some way.
(I wasn't kidding about getting drunk though, it really works.)

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:27 am

I used to do this when I worked full time. I'd buy any game that looked somewhat interesting, but rarely played them for more then a day or two if that. Stopped doing that shit ages ago, but my mate still does it.

Smiley · Post by **Smiley** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:40 pm

So what do you do differently? You just buy what you more or less know you want?

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:26 pm

well the reason why I play games is different really. I don't expect quality narrative/single player products like Fallout 1/2 or Freespace anymore, so gaming is more about socialising.

If a game has nice multiplayer where I can come home and play it with mates, then I'll grab it. So the last games I really bought were DoW2 and L4D. WC3 still sees alot of playtime too.

The Witcher and World in Conflict are exceptions really, and I see myself picking up the new WiC expansion if its anything as nice as the original WiC campaign.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:51 pm

I play exactly the same type of games as I've always played; single-player strategy, RPGs, flight sims... hence the past 5 years have been miserable to me.

Occasionally I try some new RPG or an FPS but lose interest rather quickly.

And yeah, as dogmeatlives said, videogames are fucking stupid.

niejadek5 · Post by **niejadek5** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:22 pm

entertainer wrote:Same for me, most new games seem to be terribly boring to play, good thing i don't buy them

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:57 pm

I've experience that the last couple of years - I think for one i've played way too many games in my 20 years of gaming experience, so a lot of games just seem like Fallout 3 - y'know, another game with new wallpaper, to paraphrase Yahtzee.

Sometimes I'll find something that is really rocking single player, but mostly I agree with Stainless - the only *real* reason I am super enjoying RE5 is because I am playing with my best friend. If you play single player, your "partner" just Rambo's in and wastes all her ammo, then says "I'm out! I'm out!" until you either let her die, in which you lose, or give her your ammo, in which case it makes it much easier for *you* to lose. Shitters...

Some of the great games I've played recently are ones I missed as a kid, like Beneath a Steel Sky, or aw shit...a NES game, haunted house grr...I think it was something super generic like Dead House or something, but it was pretty good.

Fable 2 I lost interest in after the main quest, just because what was the point of getting all the bullshit in the game? Fallout 3 is obvious and my views have been given over and over, there is no other game I was looking forward to besides RE5,

So I hope the story is decent. *********MINOR SPOILER ALERT*******

Some of the garbage is in the cutscenes, where you corner a major character, only for them to be rescued by a mysterious masked man who hits you with tear gas, letting them escape without a trace.

Otherwise, pretty damn decent.

Post by **Manoil** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:38 am

SNES... how I remember the days of playing Mariokart, Alien3, Yoshi's Island, and Super Metroid. And I could have spent that time learning about Tax Liens.

:Unambitious:

popscythe · Post by **popscythe** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:37 am

You need to play more street fighter 4. Don't get discouraged because it's hard, the thrill of screwing people out of their BP is endless.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:32 pm

Smiley wrote:So what do you do differently? You just buy what you more or less know you want?

Mostly. Or if I don't like it I beat it out of sheer spite to the game developers that obviously did not intend for anyone to play beyond the first five minutes, four minutes and fifty seconds of which are no doubt cinematics.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:02 pm

I've actually been doing pretty good lately, I played SF4 enough to consider I got my money's worth and I played through RE5 but I don't have any IRL who like it so they won't get it.

Also, I've been too lazy to go to the bank so I have a pretty low amount in my checking account that discourages me from buying new stuff.

aries100 · Post by **aries100** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:13 pm

I do the same. And have done so nearly all the years, I have been gaming. Unfortunately, I also end up getting games I know I never will be playing or be playing very little, not the games I know I will be playing. I recently bought GRAW 1 and 2, and Im sure they arevery good games, but I know that I probably won't be playing them much. I'll rather be playing adventure games like Dracula: Origins or the Sherlock Holmes games.

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