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?

Framerate.

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

I've gotten better about it, but framerate used to be my biggest guilty pleasure. Everyone knows it doesn't matter if your game runs at 60fps or 600fps, but watching that number jump above 100 is fun.

Re:Most guilty gaming pleasure?

[orthancstone]

Ah, so you were one of the bigger smacktards in that game :p

Only time I've enjoyed TKing is when someone is doing it to me...I'll spend the rest of the game harassing that person.

easy:

[torpor]

the few gigs of MAME rom's I've got floating around my universe.

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 ... 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.

the new stuff doesn't interest me.

Re:easy:

[ten000hzlegend]

I agree, sitting in college using the obviously FAST connection to download the likes of Galaxian and Marble Madness was the literal sheer gorging of 80's pop culture, I never did feel guilty though... funny that

Re:easy:

[torpor]

i guess i did sorta feel guilty, but covered it with the realization that i'd probably spent 1000's of dollar$ on videogames in my teens, and wasted countless hours of sunshine, so was still getting my moneys' worth by reaping a mame-site or two every now and then ...

Re:easy:

[Gothic_Walrus]

Well...at least you're honest.

I'm fully aware that roms are illegal, and tend to blast people who emulate newer games. I have no problems with MAME whatsoever, mainly because there are no arcades in my area. The best I can do is the occasional Ms. Pac Man machine in a restaurant.

If arcades were more readily available, I'd emulate less. Since I don't have the option, I just download. Works for me...

I'm Danie And I'm A GTA-holic

[ten000hzlegend]

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

Re:I'm Danie And I'm A GTA-holic

[MrHanky]

I just have to say that I agree with you. The joy of GTA is the childish pleasure of doing something naughty (running over a cop, steal his gun and use it to shoot an old lady before taking off in his car with a bunch of police cars tailing me) and getting away with it. It's the "getting away with"-part that makes the game fun.

And doing things that might be illegal in your state (like going on a killing spree) just happens to be the best actions to get away with.

Re:I'm Danie And I'm A GTA-holic

[Cosmik]

And doing things that might be illegal in your state (like going on a killing spree)

I don't think I want to visit a state where it might not be illegal to go on a killing spree.

Re:I'm Danie And I'm A GTA-holic

[AllUsernamesAreGone]

I don't know. Could be useful sometimes..

1. Locate a state/country where killing sprees are legal
2. Schedule a meeting of all the people you hate there
3. Guess!
4. Ask for pay rise :)

Might even make meetings something to be enjoyed...

Okay, that's probably pushing the boundaries of probability.

Re:I'm Danie And I'm A GTA-holic

[TheLink]

"2. Schedule a meeting of all the people you hate there"

Prob is you could get outgunned even before you reached the entrance.

Animal Crossing.

[jabberjaw]

Yes Animal Crossing [animal-crossing.com]. It is like crack wrapped in a cute package.

Re:Animal Crossing.

[Bagels]

If you found Animal Crossing addictive, then take my advice: don't play the new Harvest Moon game [natsume.com] for the 'Cube when it comes out. Imagine Animal Crossing's crack, plus several varieties of heroin involving everything from... erm, milking cows to getting married.

Re:Animal Crossing.

[May Kasahara]

And it's only out for GameCube! (sobs)

Also, Harvest Crack has been around far longer than Animal Crack... even the original SNES game is still addictive (as I discovered not too long ago).

Re:Animal Crossing.

[RevAaron]

And it's only out for GameCube! (sobs)

Meeeh, big deal. Go buy one. You could probably go pick up a used in good condition or a refurb for $50, as much as a lot of GC/PS2/Xbox games. You know you want to!

Halo of destruction

[SamSim]

Anybody who's finished a boss in Ikaruga will know what I'm talking about when I say there is nothing like cruising effortlessly through dense showers of bullets and unleashing finely-timed, perfectly-executed explosive death on your enemies, and then watching them explode, and then doing it again, over and over again, for the entire level. In chains of three of the same colour enemy.

Re:Halo of destruction

[Leffe]

I totally love shoot'em ups where the BPM(bullets per minute) is extremely high, a lot of them were made back in the day, less now, but there still are some produced. I guess the production costs are higher nowadays.

DoDonPachi(arcade, a.k.a. download MAME rom, also avaible for the saturn and ps) is my favorite :) I can't get enough of the trance-like effect you experience when you become one with the multiple simultaneous waves of bullets.

I also love the combo system used in DoDonPachi, especially on leve

Re:Halo of destruction

[Firehawke]

Funny you should mention the trance. When I first discovered it a very long time ago, I found myself spending a lot of time just trying to figure out what I'd just done to myself. Of course, at the time there weren't a whole lot of shooters around that were on that kind of level, so my first taste of Gradius 3's Arcade difficulty was really something new.

In the end I ended up calling it shooter Zen, simply because that's what it is-- a requirement you become one with the ship you're flying. If you can't fi

Re:Halo of destruction

[Leffe]

That's a mighty impressive demo, but I somehow get the impression that he used slow motion at times.

All the small movements and the fast switches between laser and bullet spam modes.

Apart from that, I do now know that I am indeed using the best ship :) Nothing can beat the blue ship! Except for the baby-wasp-boss...

Well.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Well.

[Millbuddah]

Heh, I used to get a kick outta listening to Duke belting out some "Bornnnn to be wwwiiiillld" on that karaoke mike across the room from the stripper. I know, sad.

Pantylines

[limekiller4]

simonoker asks:
"What Guilty Gaming Pleasures Do You Enjoy?

Playing with the camera angles in Tomb Raider?

Re:Pantylines

[Anonymous Coward]

Playing with the camera angles

if the cam angle is all you're playing with... where's your other hand?

Re:Pantylines

[bigman2003]

In Top Spin- there is a scene where the female players start walking up to the camera while it is on the ground- and I just can't help but get excited...thinking THIS TIME I'll be able to see up Anna's skirt.

Hasn't happened yet- but no way in hell am I going to hit 'A' to cancel that scene.

Running people over

[singleantler]

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.

Re:Running people over

[Carrion Creeper]

Carmageddon II

all those mods where the pedestrians were fat / huge / suicidal / extra bloody / extra chunky / bobble-head / whatever plus the powerup where the car had springs that sprung out and killed all the nearby pedestrians

It was a big step up that they were actually polygons and not sprites like Carma I, and they rendered awesome on my Voodoo Banshee! Anyone who comes out with a Carma II mod for GTA:VC feel free to ask me for donations...

Q*Bert

[Anonymous Coward]

I like making him jump off the platform or get stomped by that snake so he swears at me in his strange language.

Re:Q*Bert

[ten000hzlegend]

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

Re:Q*Bert

[Bob of Dole]

According to the developers, Q*Bert just sent random data to the voice chip.
So if he swore, it wasn't their fault.

Re:Q*Bert

[zero_offset]

It isn't random at all. A friend of mine has a Q*Bert board (and a load of additional hardware, as Q*Bert had some ridiculously complicated electronics behind its sound system) rigged as his doorbell. The swearing is the same every time.

Maybe whatever they originally sampled (or however it was accomplished) was random, though.

God

[Perdo]

give all

noclip

notarget

My shame

[phorm]

You mean:

iddqd

idkfa

idspispopd

The sad thing... I tricked zdoom awhile back and remembered all those. Sad that I played doom/doom2 so much for them to become ingrained in my memory (or maybe it's more sad that I obviously was a frequent cheater).

wow...

[newsdee]

I had forgotten about Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Pieces of Putrid Debris. Was some kind of mod ever mad from that FAQ?

Freedom Force

[TravelSizedMonkey]

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.

Postal 2

[Fizzl]

'iamsolame' in Postal 2.
Head to parade practise.
Sow napalm and grenades all over the place.

Hentai games!

[chendo]

Of course, the guilty pleasures of videogaming would have to include playing those adult games all day.

Re:Hentai games!

[blueZhift]

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!

there' just too many

[Ender Ryan]

I've been playing videogames since I was a little kid, and at 25 I still can't get enough of 'em.

A few guilty pleasures over the years include:

Chun Li from Street Fighter (hey, I was really young - no, I didn't play with one hand)

Narc - first game I ever played that was extremely violent and very graphic

Mortal Kombat [1 and 2] - I loved the first two MK games, the gameplay was great for the time, but the guilty pleasure was obviously the finish moves

King of Fighters - bounce bounce :) More hilarious than anything else

GTA - I never bothered with the missions until the third game, but running over people, running from the cops, etc., was friggin great. Once in GTA 1, I killed every single cop in the city(there were a limited number in the first game!). Then I blew up every single car except the Jeep Wrangler. The best fun, though, was setting up a huge ring of blown up vehicles surrounding my guy, and then proceeding to lob explosives into crowds of people and mowing down cops as they struggle to make their way through the wall of rubble.

Quake 1-3 - high-framerate gib flying fun!

Max Payne - silly story and game elements "ripped off" of the Matrix

And so much more...

Cheers!

Dead or Alive

[Anonymous Coward]

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'.

Re:Dead or Alive

[Craig Maloney]

Actually, wrapped inside those guilty pleasures is a pretty innovative fighting game. The ability to grab your opponents attack and use it against them gives an added depth to the game that a simple block button didn't afford.

Re:Dead or Alive

[Dr. Trevorkian]

...wrapped inside those guilty pleasures is a pretty innovative fighting game.

Truth. I was lent two games to tide me over when I bought a non-bundle Xbox. One was Spider-Man (neat game, but I'd already had it on PC for awhile) and the other was Dead or Alive 3. I'd always sneered when people mentioned the game, but it really is an impressive fighter. The variance of fighting styles and unique combat mechanics make it an engaging game quite apart from the eye-catching animations.

Bouncing boobs ON

[Scrameustache]

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 ;- )

Re:Dead or Alive

[Allison Geode]

I agree, I was going to say that. I mean, I'm a girl myself, but I enjoy it, but I can't help but feel a little silly when kasumi "kicks high." I've always loved the series though, the fighting system is enjoyable (I enjoy the ability to counter by grabbing my opponent's kick, and flippin' them over) and the graphics are always cutting edge... I went and bought the beach volleyball game, and.. well, I bought it as a joke, but I ended up really enjoying it, mostly for the relationship and "collectible cra

Guilty Pleasure: Miss Cloud... and Miss Sephiroth

[May Kasahara]

I must admit, the Wall Market scene in Final Fantasy VII is one of my favorite parts of that game. Especially if I get the Honeybee Inn members card. And most especially if I'm using the Sephiroth patch [ff7-universe.com].

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 ^_^

Obsessive levelling up

[xyrw]

I love RPGs because I can become godlike, and kill random monsters with a single blow... and once I can do that I can get into mroe random battles and resolve them more easily, gain exp more easily, kill monsters more easily... ad infinitum.

Final. Fantasy. Tactics. Advance.

[Ayanami Rei]

I've gotten some kind of weird suntan from the GBA SP.

Disgaea

[lactose_incarnate]

Not only can you level up characters in Disgaea, but items as well (by entering into them and fighting, and moving living bonuses around). I have almost 50hrs on that game off of two rentals.

I don't usually like leveling up that much, but I loved breeding strong monsters on Dragon Warrior Monsters, and would go to great leveling up lengths to breed a strong monster (the child's stats were roughly equal to the parents' sum divided by four, iirc). I broke the clock in that game (it stops recording time aft

Re:Disgaea

[Qzukk]

I have almost 50hrs on that game off of two rentals.

I broke 200 a while ago, Laharl is now powerful enough to take on anyone but Prinny-Baal by himself. level 100 ultimate equipment loaded with specialists. Around then the game got kinda boring though. I'll put it back in some day and try for more endings, but right now I've got a couple of months worth of games I haven't been playing...

boomsticks, etc

[shoptroll]

Guilty pleasure #1: Playing UT2003 with everything cranked. Same for Unreal 2's XMP Demo (Don't have U2 yet)

#2: Boomsticks! Shotgun's seem to be my big weapon. Be it the one in Half-life, GTA3, DOOM, etc. Boomsticks are sweet.

#3: Summon spells in the Final Fantasy series (and maybe any other Squaresoft game)... Nothing more fun than calling out a nice spell that targets all enemies, and isn't affected by the Reflect/Wall spell. Best abuse ever: Final Fantasy VII - Grab Bahamut-Zero attatch a Magi

Pikmin

[Craig Maloney]

I have spent lots of hours recently playing this game. I always find it fun to play games that are hard to explain to other people. :)

Re:Pikmin

[Leroy_Brown242]

Something about having little slaves ther to do your bidding. :)

Re:Pikmin

[rev063]

And if you're having a bad day, you can entertain yourself by throwing the little buggers into fire, drowning them, getting them eaten or squished ... the possibilities are endless. After a hard day at work it's very cathartic.

Has anyone ever made a list of all the different ways a Pikmin can die? I want to make sure I haven't missed one :)

Same thing I Enjoy in real life

[Anonymous Coward]

Having sex with a hooker in the back of my van and then killing her.

DOA3

[Isbiten]

Making high kicks with the female characters ;)

I'm probably the only one...

[MarkusQ]

Reading, when I know I should be playing a videogame?

-- MarkusQ

Level 30 of Doom II

[TubeSteak]

God mode + the plasma rifle
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.

Re:Level 30 of Doom II

[MMaestro]

Not exactly. You didn't need God mode in order to play around with that kind of havoc. All you needed was the noclip cheat.
Assuming you got to level 30 without the level skip cheat (if you did you'd arrive there with nothing but a pistol and 50 rounds), you could leave the free weapons and ammo (you were given every weapon in the game, including a backpack and nearly enough ammo to get through any one level in the game). Why would you do this? Simple. Leave the ammo and weapons for when you need to restock

Re:Level 30 of Doom II

[TubeSteak]

I'll concede everything you've said, but if I wanted to shoot ducks in a barrel, I'd get some ducks, wrap them in duct tape, and put them in a barrel. Despite my pixelated bloodlust and the urge to get up close and personal, there were two games that never really jived with me. Serious Sam and Serios Sam SE. Those two games changed my definition of excessive. For some reason, I disliked the huge open maps with monsters shooting/rushing at you from every direction. If I could have, I would have gone your rou

Re:Level 30 of Doom II

[phorm]

I remember using a doom modding program to play with the BFG. If I remember correctly, the images were chain and tied to the effects. There was an effect for "BFG blast" which afterwards triggered "BFG aferaffect" (the direct hit Vs the area damage).

If you changed the "aferaffect" to the full blast, they'd keep spawning little flashes until everything nearby was quite dead. Quite an amusing modification.

Burnout2

[Jim Hall]

I'd say Burnout2 is my guilty pleasure. This game has zero plot, almost no point to it. You drive a car a short distance, and try to cause an accident. Your "score" for each round is the $$ racked up in insurance settlements.

Something about that just kind of makes you feel .... good. I've played it all evening after a bad day, and it just makes me feel better. Nothing more satisfying than when you can roll a bus (huge $$ settlement.)

Re:Burnout2

[dissy]

I have to agree with you.
Im not much of hardcore gamer, and dont paeticularly even like FPS games at all.

At my friends Burnout2 is one of two games I actually enjoy playing on xbox.
(Other being SoulCalaber2)

Good memorys of sitting around playing in 4 player mode for hours on end.

We found reching busses (or multple busses) racked up the most insurance money, so we spent tons of time figuring out the perfect way to cause multiple busses and trucks to flip and take out a few cars here and there.

Almost make

Original c&c sounds

[calebtucker]

In the original Command & Conquer game (the one before Red Alert), when the soldiers were killed, they yelled this brutal scream.. uuuaahhHHHHHHHHHH!!! So, I'd use some game cheat and modify all weapons to be lasers, and I'd just listen to the lasers killing all the men (it was quite entertaining).

That's what I missed about Red Alert.. they toned down the sounds of the guys getting aced. I was talking to a friend about making a mod of RA with some of the original sounds, but he thought I was insane :)

Leveling, Money, and Mayhem

[SixArmedJesus]

One guilty pleasure is taking a character, whether it be Diablo II or NexusTK, and just leveling as high as I can get. My other is doing stupid little things in the game just to make more money. I would kill those dang squirrels for hours in Nexus. *sigh* But I also love mayhem. Every so often I'll pop in GTA:VC, head on over to the stadium, (or to the golf course) and just run back and forth across the highest level, killing people again and again and again. You'd think that they'd hear a report some

Huh? Guilt?

[Thedalek]

The slashdot leftist majority still feels guilt? I thought it went out of style.

Why feel guilty over pleasurable activities?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like someone has yet to throw off their puritan shackles. Continue the pleasure, and drop the guilt.

Hmmm...

[Reverend Raven]

As far as guilty pleasures...I was excited and played Majestic right when it was released. And what went from "really cool idea" ended up being "talk to AiM bots and watch a RealVideo clip".

And I still play the original X-COM. Often.

But personally the biggest form of guilt pleasure I get is reading stuff online where people harp on FF7. Just because so many people started playing the Final Fantasy games at 7, they think it's the best. Silly fools. /FF 4 rocks

Half Life

[Leroy_Brown242]

God mode, get all the weapons. Then run through the game like a mad man. w00!

Sniping and Kids Games

[peel]

I always like pulling off some sneaky move, especially picking people off with a sniper rifle from extremely long distances, and not getting caught. One of my favorties was shooting peoples' hats off in Goldeneye for N64.

I also really enjoy playing dumbed down kids games. Mario party is a perfect example but there are others as well. I've played just about all of the Putt Putt [amazon.com] and Pajama Sam games for no apparent reason.

-peel

-----
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in

I'm a sucker for

[_Sexy_Pants_]

Gimmick games. Among my collection are Harvest Moon, Seaman, Samba De Amigo w/ Maracas, Typing of the Dead w/keyboard, DDR w/ pad, Steel Battalion, hell I even bought a Jaguar off of eBay because I was amused by how many buttons it has. And you know I'd go nuts for my own Donkey Conga.

I'm not usually one to fall for consumer deathtraps but if they're trying something stupidly different, I'll go for it

Killing, Jumping, and a little bit of cheating

[lactose_incarnate]

In Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII you can visit other officers and lieges, and when your bond with that officer is exactly 42, you randomly get chances to assassinate them. If you save at the right time, you can just retry until you get it. So my friend and I made our own Kingdom, and we tried to take over China through assassinations. Apparently if you assassinate all the officers and liege of a kingdom, the kingdom goes away.
In Enemy Territory, I'll forego helping out teammates or trying to win our te

There really are no guilty pleasures in games...

[robson]

...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.

Donkey Kong...

[sammaffei]

Loved it in 1981. Still love it via MAME today.

Some other favorites:

Star Trek: Strategic Command Simulator
Mr. Do
Super Pac-Man
Time Pilot
Commando

They'll never get old to me.

I'm surprised

[Lithium_Golem]

Where are all the male MMORPG players that spend their entire online life as a female? Or do you wish not to admit it? :)

Listen to the screams...

[DerekLyons]

Playing Jumpman back on my C64 and getting him killed just to hear the scream... Did this in Lemmings too.

Re:Listen to the screams...

[mahdi13]

I would get two blocker Lemmings and trap all the others in real close, and then nuke 'em...most fun on distructive ground as they blast big hole and fall into the water

Puzzle Games

[sofakingl]

If you've ever owned or had access to a copy of Tetris, you know the feeling. Bored, left with nothing to do, you feel compelled to pick up the game and play it. You know that all you are doing is sorting a bunch of shapes into lines, and that there will be no reward in the end, but you keep on going anyways. And, as it speeds up, you become frustrated with the game, but can't stop playing. And when you finally lose, you feel releaved that you don't need to bother with it for a while.
And then you realize y

HAMMERTIME!

[orthancstone]

I've got to say using the Impact Hammer in the original UT was quite easily the most fun possible. Sure, anyone with a weapon can own you...but when you take out someone, EVERYBODY knows it :D.

I get my pleasure...

[DaBj]

...from owning all those I couldn't get as a kid.
And yes, I do feel SOME guilt over it.
But then again, they are all *MINE [dabj.net]*
(Best part is that it's an old picture, I have more now, muahahaha)
=)

Re:I get my pleasure...

[JDWTopGuy]

In case anybody's afraid to click that link, it's just game cartridges and stuff.

Be more descriptive when linking to images.

Re:I get my pleasure...

[JDWTopGuy]

However, "cartridges and stuff"....
I am offended Sir, that is my Nintendo Game & Watch collection, mostly boxed!

I had no idea what most of it was... sorry. :)

640x480

[Object01]

Running 3D games at the lowest resolution possible. 640x480 is getting harder to do, but 800x600 satisfies -- it has a "feel" to it. And it plays faster. :)

Team killing without penalty

[focitrixilous P]

So, I confess, I enjoy the occasional game of Gunbound [gunbound.net] 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.

PSO

[paradesign]

First for Sega DC, then for the Cube. I must have put at least a few hundred hours into each, but the kicker is i havent played a single minute online. I just became addicted with the leveling up. Id play it at night and it was always, 'One more level, then ill sut it off.' Then the sun came up and i had to go to work, sleepless.

I now refuse to pull it off my shelf.

Its kind of nice that they're ruining the 3rd game, cause now i wont get addicted to it. I dont like card games. Let me hack and slash and

Just messing with the game world

[johannesg]

I just love doing non-game related things in the game world (usually when I need a break from the game proper).

For example, going through Deus Ex and stealing all the plants from all the offices in the Unatco building and putting them in my own office (looks like a greenhouse!). Or opening all the taps in the washing room. Or playing with the basket ball.

Or alternatively, playing with the Warthog in Halo. The idea being that you find an inaccessible spot and then try to get your Warthog into it. I swear, they could make an entire game out of that alone: just gives us difficult jumps, small ledges, narrow gaps, and obstacles, and let nature do the rest...

Games ARE a guilty pleasure

[Erbo]

For my part, I suppose, just playing games is a "guilty pleasure." See, my wife doesn't like computer games, and she wishes I wouldn't play them...but I do it anyway. Usually, though, she insists I wear headphones while doing so, as some games' sound effects are so bass-heavy, especially through a subwoofer-equipped speaker system, she complains of "feeling" them.

Re:Games ARE a guilty pleasure

[Erbo]

Um...holy crap. Now I've seen everything.

It would make an interesting experiment...if I owned a PS2, which I don't...

Worms 2 and Worms: Armageddon

[ndogg]

Taking Super Banana Bombs and blowing the whole level up, killing everyone, including myself. Doesn't always work out that way, though. A lot of times, I just end up killing my own team.

Oh, and being Donkey Kong in Super Smash Bros. and carrying everyone off the cliff.

My guilty pleasures...

[Mmm coffee]

...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.

No, I don't have a girlfriend. How can you tell?

Re:My guilty pleasures...

[Cipster]

Pics plz? Thanks :)

Re:My guilty pleasures...

[Mmm coffee]

Insightful? The hell?! :D

Don't got it, that was back in the days of Win98 so I've been through quite a lot of crashes and OS upgrades since then. (Win98 > Win2K > GNU/Linux) Plus I don't even have any of my PS games anymore.

If anyone wants to grab a screenshot then head on over to zophar.net and grab a FF9 movie viewing utility that they had. Pop in the last FF9 disk and load the huge movie for the ending, when she runs into Zidane's arms start going through frame by frame. The picture itself is blu

WC3: Ancient Protectors

[dbirchall]

Playing as a Night Elf, I like to build a bunch of Ancient Protectors (a dozen is a good number), uproot them and walk them to some totally inconvenient location - say a bottleneck between two areas of the map, or a healing/mana place - and then set them up so that anything that wants to go through there has to "run the gauntlet," with multiple things hurling boulders at them.

My guilty game pleasure.....

[narftrek]

downloading the games from P2P.

$60 a game? Whatever.

WAV to the nice people

[spyrochaete]

When old DOS games started losing their novelty I used to wreak havoc on the WAV files. My squealy prepubescent tenor made for a pretty foulmouthed baseball announcer.

One word

[Chuck Chunder]

Gib

One Guilty Pleasure

[alexpage]

Having a Windows install just for gaming. I swear, if it wasn't for Neocron [neocron.com] and other games not working properly in WineX, I'd never touch my Win2K install with a bargepole!

Grant Theft Auto - Xbox

[Dolemite_the_Wiz]

I love finding new ways to blow things up and finding what will get the cops after me with more than 4 Stars.

I found that by lining up any number of cars right next to each other and using a shotgun to make the first one blow up, you can set off a REALLY cool chain reaction of cars blowing up (GTA VC). The strength of the blast of the first car is good enough to start the next car in sucession and so on. Now that the Game is on Xbox, the game has WAY more memory than the PS2 so you can go off and get mor

Daikatana

[The Snowman]

I'm just waiting for someone to come out of the closet and admitting to liking Daikatana...

Re:Daikatana

[randyest]

Keep waiting.

But I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

The people on the sidewalk.

[euxneks]

I like running over them with cars and possibly shooting them.. wait a minute.. You mean video games? uhh.. yeah... me too... =P

I'm not a gameaholic

[unassimilatible]

I don't need them, but I do respect and admire them

I've heard Charles Bukowski [amazon.com] say the same thing about vodka shots.

Personally, I like nading two or more guys in BHD, and have them get enraged and call me a NooB.

"That's GENERAL NooB to you, sir!"