My friends were recently, in joking, making fun of me for not having played Demon's Souls until now. I thought it might be fun to list things that make us feel like we should hand in our Gamer Card. Here are some of mine, I share with trembling fingers.
I bought Bayonetta for the PlayStation 3. I've never been to Akihabara or E3. Clash Royale is one of my favorite competitive games. I could never beat Out Run in the arcade. Or get first on the Expert course in Daytona USA. The only Sega console I've owned is the Dreamcast. My PlayStation 4 doesn't have P.T. installed on it.
I don't like Souls games I HATE roguelikes I almost always play on the easiest difficulty; I game for a power trip, not a challenge I detest gaming on a PC, and it's my absolute platform of last resort Kingdom Sharts is obscenely overrated and mid-tier at BEST
I think I just turned this from Gamer Confessions into Gamer Hot Takes, but whatever.
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o.pwuaioc wrote:Eh, game what you want. I guess I'm not a gamer because I don't even own anything newer than a PS2 (anymore, although I never got past the 2006 era).
The big surprise is the lack of Sega, though. You're really missing out on the Genesis, and if you like shooters, the Saturn, too.
I always had friends with a Genesis, and since most of its library were short games, I never felt like I needed the console at my own house. My best friend had a Saturn, and it was a similar experience. But indeed, I eventually got into shooters and have caught up using emulators. <3
ElkinFencer10 wrote:I don't like Souls games I HATE roguelikes I almost always play on the easiest difficulty; I game for a power trip, not a challenge I detest gaming on a PC, and it's my absolute platform of last resort Kingdom Sharts is obscenely overrated and mid-tier at BEST
I think I just turned this from Gamer Confessions into Gamer Hot Takes, but whatever.
Yeah, most games might as well be played on easy: I find that games are a medium for expression. And if the difficulty is too high, the game dictates how the player -must- express themselves. That's bad design. However, the Souls games offer many ways to tackle challenges, and then it does become a creative and expressive endeavor. Lol, I hardly play on consoles anymore. By the time the system has loaded and the TV is on, I'm already itching to do something else : P
Yeah, Kingdom Hearts is overrated. Bumping into Disney characters doesn't do much for me, and the story is whack. But what do I know, I'm not a real gamer, apparently
ElkinFencer10 wrote:Kingdom Sharts is obscenely overrated and mid-tier at BEST
My confession is that I spent several minutes thinking Kingdom Sharts was a real title and trying to remember what kind of game it was.
I got the connection right away, but I wasn't sure if some well-received parody game came out that all gamers were supposed to play.
FWIW, I never liked KH either. But to keep this from being a kvetch-fest, the thing I'm embarrassed by is just how many of the games I love I've not actually beat. I love a variety, and so staying with one game long enough to master them is difficult these days. When I was a kid, it was a different story, and the games I've been playing for decades I can quickly get to the end and beat fairly easily. But a lot of the stuff I only started playing in the last 10 years I've enjoyed to an extent, and then grow bored and want to move on after a while. Game fatigue? Growing old? Better hobbies? Depression? Not sure, but the list is still embarrassing.
I have been into video games for over thirty years and have seventeen or so systems, but I'm pretty sure I have logged less than one hour total playtime on an original Playstation. I have never played any original Playstation game for more than ten minutes. I own a Playstation, but I'm not sure I ever even powered it on. I own one or two games, but have never even booted them up.
And I don't really care to.
I bought a Playstation Classic when they were super cheap, but again, I just used it to play about ten minutes of Mr. Driller.
I have a Playstation 2 and have enjoyed several games on it, but I have no real interest in the original Playstation at all.
While admittedly not a gamer, I spent many thousands on a gaming computer that I'm already thinking of upgrading, and my Steam library is over 500 games, but I've played less than 20 of them on this computer. I bring my nephew over to show me how awesome these games are, and he keeps complaining that I won't let him play Garry's Mod on it. The two games I most want to enjoy - Hollow Knight and Rain World which I've purchased several times for different consoles both remain unplayed.
"I bought a Playstation Classic when they were super cheap, but again, I just used it to play about ten minutes of Mr. Driller."
In all fairness, the mainstream PS1 games are subpar experiences. There is, however, the likes of Vib-Ribbon, Silhouette Mirage, Super Puzzle Fighter, Darkstalkers 3, R-Type Delta, Einhander, King's Field III, Devil Dice, and maybe Policenauts... but these hardly get any attention.
