... around this forum to bash other companies and their games. I'm not saying the comments are wrong, per se, and I have, myself, taken part, but the change in tone is a little distressing. We here in the PC Gaming forum seem to have adopted an attitude of cynicism and denigration. Worse, some of us are trading discussion and discourse for closed-minded fanboyism. It tends to have a polarizing effect on communities and, if we're being honest, it also gets really boring to read.
So instead, how about a little more on what we like about PC Gaming? What are your simple pleasures--or guilty pleasures--in gaming?
Because we don't want this to end up as another 4chan or EVE-O.
My pleasures in gaming?
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their non-warrior gender.
fly around in a spaceship from freespace 2 or X3-TC and turn other ships into pretty explosions
My guilty pleasure is in Red Faction Guerilla.
The best part is, if you drive it to a safe house, the alert level goes back to green, and you can then use the tank to complete missions. There's on mission in the last area where you have to kill a bunch of snipers in buildings. Horrible on foot. Really easy with a tank. Just fire at the building until the snipers are dead or the building collapses and crushes them.
I also like blowing the supports on bridges as the soldiers (or anyone really ) go over them
Overdoing analysis in an absurd manner. Not micromanagement mind you, but rather analyzing entire game systems!
Politically correct Conan. . .frightening.
Mucking about. Sandboxes.
Now this is more like it! I suppose I should post a guilty pleasure since I have asked for yours.
One of my guiltiest pleasures is in corny dialogue, such as in strangely translated JRPGs, and characters who regularly make stupid decisions, (happens a lot in survival/horror games).
I take pleasure in owning noobs.
It's not a lasting thing, it's not something I go hunting for. But if I stumble upon a noob, he gets a good thrashing, I feel good about it. I have no regrets about destroying people that are just bad at games.
(newbies are another matter)
I like normal Conan. "To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women".
35PL0Z10NZ!!!
My favorite parts are 5&6.
One more guilty pleasure. In Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, there was a scenario that gave you unlimted money, and your park staying open didn't depend on guest happiness. I would make a successful park, then, when I had a lot of people, I would build a giant sidewalk/staircase as tall as I could, above water. Then I would funnel every guest to that staircase and trap them at the top with the "no entry" signs. Once I had a bunch, I would delete the top of the staircase and watch them all fall into the water, where they would drown. I would time how long it would take them to fall, and see if I could beat my record.
I like to watch things die!
Well, no, it is simply a realization that sometimes women fight. As much as I would have liked to use the original quote, I have to take into account things like the asari from Mass Effect (who are all women, and so the lamentations I hear would be their partners) and the Sisters of Battle from Warhammer 40k (who are again, women, so any lamentations I hear would be from the male priests they are guarding).
Grinding points of corpse
Ummm... You know in Conan there is several famous warrior females right? (The most famous being a pirate or something).
Clearly the quote just means that all fighting females are in fact lesbians.... ....
DEATH TO THE FOUL WARRIORS OF CHAOS!!1!
Lulzy. Battle Sisters guarding wussy Ministorum priests. Classic.
Or, they are bisexual. Which is of course FAR better than them being lesbians. Because then you can bang them.
"I don't grin like a moron, I grin like a sociopath." | Heavy risk, but the prrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzzzze.
I love running people over in Far Cry 2. I approach a checkpoint and 3-4 guys start firing at me. Occasionally they're clustered, and I go full speed and paste them, including the fools who thought they could jump away at the last second hahaha.
I don't agree. We have lot of "positive" threads as well with regard to other games/gaming in general.
I like the Persona Games because I get to fight Polytheistic gods with other Polytheistic gods. Angels and Devils too.
The OPs opening paragraph is very true and has been a big reason I am a way less frequent visitor here.
A lot of people accuse people round here of fanboyism for coming to the defence of Stardock but the real fanboyism is the constant bashing of everyone who isn't Stardock. Recently it's suddenly not cool to like Steam for example when I remember a time (pre Impulse) when Stardock employees would say good things about Steam and Valve and these days it's a slight negative comment about a game going Steam exclusive or some such and suddenly it's cool for everyone to hate Steam.
It's not just Steam, it's any other games company that is considered evil/greedy because they are private companies and don't have such a vocal face to their customers.
Since everyone's listing what they like to do in games, I'll list some of mine.
In Dawn of War II, one of the characters you get, Davian Thule (he's a Dreadnought walker), has this ability called "Emperor's Fist". Basically it makes him smash the ground. It's way better than that makes it sound though.
What I like to do is get Thule stuck into a big mass of small Tyranids/Orks and then use Emperor's Fist. Thule then gibs a bunch of Nids/Orks.
I also enjoy using the Remote Detonation charges that Cyrus has because they have a large AoE, so I can set them up pretty close to a bunch of enemies but not close enough that he'll be revealed by being too close (ALWAYS infiltrate Cyrus when doing this kind of thing, unless you KNOW that the enemy's line-of-sight is blocked), and then run him away a little bit so that he doesn't get caught in the blast, and then laugh at the gibs that you just made.
Works wonderfully for clearing out an objective of enemies.
Yeah, I have seen a lot more Steam-hating (and I actually like Steam pretty well).
Though I can justify SOME of the other-company-bashing. After all, have you seen Activision's new Indie Games Competition? Pretty much it's a way for Activision to milk completely unknown indie devs for ideas and games that they (Activision) can make tons of money off of very quickly/for a very long time.
Wouldn't you say that's greedy?
Fine. Ill talk about what I like in games.
People. I love talking to good characters in games. All to often however they suck and suck hard.
Bioware (and obsidian) make good characters.
Mostly though I love funny characters. Most tend to be drunk/psychopath males (Like Steven Heck omg lol). Very few female characters are funny. Exceptions include Morrigan (Dragon Age) and that teifling from Planescape (i.e. the one with the tail and scottish accent). I can't think of any more...
(Read this next bit in a estern european accent for added comedy imo)
Also a question, does it make me gay (Im male) if I romance a male as a female character? My friend seems to think so...
Personally i love making premades in League of Legends and buying their skins, hell i know the games meant to be free, but they look so pretty usually when i buy a new skin i go on a roll of playing that charachter.
I like trying to bring over the Scrin's mother ship to take out a base. Among other weird strategies to winning in Kane's Wrath. A daily dose of killing monsters in Titan Quest keeps the doctor away as well.
Thats because when Steam came out it promised so much(Which made me want to like it), but after a while I have come to realize that it doesn't follow through on a lot of those things. Also better systems of game management and purchase have come out. As for bashing game companies it usually has to do with them doing something to hurt the consumer.. Of course some people are just being fanboys on the issue.
Lol
Everything makes you gay, just like everything gives you cancer. Only being gay is kind of like being a Nazi sympathizer. Even if you absolutely hate Nazis, if you happen to be kill a Jew it makes you a Nazi sympathizer. Same concept.
Ah, the Persona games! I never get too far into them, but I keep buying new ones. There was just something to Persona 3's "shoot yourself in the head to summon guardian" mechanic I loved.
Also, along the lines of my love for cheesy/campy dialogue and JRPGS, Disgaea is one of my favorite series. It just combines so many elements I appreciate. In addition to the above cheese factor, it's a tactical RPG, it's essentially endless, skills get better as you use them, and it's very, very open. The storyline missions offer only the tiniest fraction, and you can start doing your own thing straight from the get-go.
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