[The Blueberry Hill]

(I guess this thread title could also belong to something entirely different in Galaxy Oddity.)

I have this kind of dumb thing for games where you are a sniper, and Descent clones (3-D cave flyers?). Dumb because I buy these games but never enjoy playing them.

I like playing games slowly, taking my time, picking my own course of action, brutal risk/reward systems and tension built around those things. Sniper games appeal to all that. But I also hate all the military and gun nerdery, and the complexity that comes from that. Using sniper rifles in other games seems to satisfy me well enough, until I see some new sniper game for sale and get al excited about having to account for wind factors and bullet trajectory. And maybe even having sniper matches against other people.

In Descent clones I mostly just like the strange 3-D spaces, the floaty physics, and the feeling and sound of clunking into walls. I am pretty bad at fist-person shooters, and that applies to these too. My favourite thing about playing Descent was setting up cameras in multiplayer, actually. Managing to not buy Miner Wars 2081 is a proud achievement of mine, but I just got excited about the textures in this game on Steam Greenlight (prompting this thread) Geocore

Maybe all this is a better definition for the term 'guilty pleasures'.

Share you irrational weaknesses. DO NOT TELL ME if there is a Descent-clone with sniper rifles.

[allensmithee]

Playing EDF2025 versus matches w/ my little brother, we do sniper vs sniper.

I am tryna think of what it is for me... I guess gritty, urban 3D beat em ups. I end up liking these more often than not. Im playing The Warriors and have Beatdown: Fists of Vengeance and Final Fight: Streetwise on my list to play next.
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[tacotaskforce]

I will buy any game that has:

1)purchased property with some sort of interior decorating
2)playing dressup with virtual dolls
or 3)a theft mechanic that has actual thought put into it

I already own nearly every game that has one of these, excluding hidden object games, so my fetishism for virtual material goods has yet to be sated or controlled.
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[Drem]

When I was younger I was a sucker for any game that had a monster fusion mechanic. Just seeing the word "fusion" brought up all sorts of ideas and possibilities no game at the time could ever match and I knew that but it didn't stop me from buying games like Master of Monsters anyway.

[Felix]

for me I think the obvious ones are:

-- ball-rolling games
-- isometric srpgs (until nippon ichi cured me of this)
-- abstract twin-stick shooters

[zombieman000]

Checklists, new game plus and unlockables for finishing the game, collectables/gashapon machines,

[Gironika]

Driving games.
Note how I am not saying "racing games", yes, there is a difference! I bought Driver SF, Split/Second, Sleeping Dogz, WRC3, Sonic&All Stars Transformed, Driving Emotion Type-S and ENTHUSIA all for the same reason - some are trying to be different, others are a new take on an otherwise well-known genre - but all are not the "usual" choice.
The (almost) open world titles Driver SF and Sleeping Dogs have a refreshing take on a known formula defined by GTA - they're less perfect than GTA5, yeah. Split/Second and Sonic&AS are the best arcade racing games of the last few years since F-Zero GX, and ENTHUSIA still is the single most impressive Driving Simulation game of the last ten years. Forza and GT are bigger, have nicer cars, have more installments, might be more refined - but they never moved the goalposts or tried to have a new take on an otherwise pretty old formula - for whatever reason, KONAMI did what Square couldn't do in the hilariously bad Driving Emotion Type-S.

The list of driving games I did play at one point, but (luckily?) never bought is <way> longer …
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[CubaLibre]

Assassin's Creed.

:(
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[Talbain]

I guess I would say walk-along games. Proteus or knytt or Yume Nikki or other games where walking and jumping are really the only things you do and the focus is just on looking around at stuff. I wish there were more of them. Conflict-oriented games are always a bit awkward to me, though I guess that's capitalism is about all you can say.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

I guess mine are open world games in the vein of GTA though they don't have to be close copies of that particular version of the formula just so long as they're attempting something interesting and aren't just trying to be straight up GTA clones (because I still play the GTAs pretty regularly so I don't need other games trying to be what they are).

I'll do you one better Cuba, instead of Assassin's Creed games I have Spider-Man games. They tap into my boyhood love of Spider-Man and merge it with my adult love of GTA and manage to do so in a way that I end up excusing even the shittiest mission design game after game just for a decent web slinging through Manhattan experience.

Part of my love of GTA comes down to the driving experience for reasons Gironika mentions (mixed in with the stuff tacotaskforce and Zombieman000 mention and a heaping helping of my love for exploring a unique hand-crafted environment). Spider-Man games have web swinging instead of driving and each game, like with GTA, they change and tweak the formula to varying degrees of success. In many ways all the new open world Spidey games are still trying to find a good balance between the Spider-Man 2 swinging and something more mass market friendly (with fan opinion still firmly in the "Spider-Man 2 swinging or bust" camp) but that doesn't stop me from picking these games up as they come out and punch-kicking my way through their horrid story modes to get at the sweet collectathon aspect.

I'll be waiting for price drops on the latest one though, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as it looks pretty much like a slightly better version of the game that came before which is Arhkam-meets-Spidey with an emphasis on style over substance.

Other than Spider-Man and GTA I guess for me it's if the game has 1) an interesting, unique (as in not randomly generated but hand made by human artists) world to explore unhindered, 2) some mechanically interesting means of transportation (GTA's driving physics, Spider-Man's web swinging, Crackdown's jump/climbing), and 3) some form of checklist-based progression be it missions to complete or stuff to collect. Meet those conditions and I'll probably be interested regardless of my better judgment (see: Spider-Man games, most open world games that don't have a super-powered main character and a lot that do).

I guess I could also add Doom/Quake type (or inspired) FPS games as well. I have a giant blind spot for those sorts of games as well.
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[evnvnv]

[Felix]

Mr. Mech's post just reminds me of how much I love Saints Row 4 against all odds (I hate most of its component parts and genre tropes on paper)

[Felonious Monk]

Bethesda "open-world" games a la recent Fallouts/Elder Scrolls.

Help

[bza]

Dress up and very detailed character creators alone can get me interested in a game.

Korean MMOs are the bane of my existence.
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[BenoitRen]

I tend to buy fighting games that look cool, but then don't play them much. This is because I like the idea of fighting games, but can't grasp their mechanics.
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Get Xenoblade Chronicles!

[Mr. Mechanical]

[Mr. Mechanical]

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[Mr. Mechanical]

Sorry smithee! ;)
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[Loki Laufeyson]

sleeping dogs has nice environments, but everytihng else looks like and ed hardy t-shirt come to life

the saint row series is a shonen manga about friendship, but with morre swearind
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[tacotaskforce]

[TXTSWORD]

[tiburon]

[Rud31]

[Felix]

Everything EA Vancouver does is generally great, anything by another EA studio I am immediately skeptical of

other Vancouver devs, though, are like ... the Mario Strikers / new punch out studio (meh) and the Dead Rising 2&3 studio (also meh)

[CubaLibre]

[schroeder]

[Felix]

Dungeons of Dredmor just looked too terrible for me to get into. their second game could be good though!

wrt Morrowind, I'm still waiting on Skywind...

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I've been cured of so many

Like how I used to buy every game by Rebellion because of AvP. The good: got to play Rogue Trooper which I wouldn't have known about otherwise. Bad: Judge Dredd. That cured me so hard I haven't even played Sniper Elite even though I think it could be okay (not great but okay)

I played every fps I could get my hands on since I was a little kid, until I burned out on the early 2000s and now can't even remember when I last played one. Played one for more than half an hour is even more ridiculous...

I would like to be the guy that plays everything with Vikings in it but I just can't do it, the games are too shitty

I do try to play everything noir, or rather with noir style characters in it, just the noir aesthetic doesn't do it for me, but there's few games like that. Good: the Max Paynes. Just sorta passable: LA Noir

Recommend me some irrational weaknesses, just throw some out

[allensmithee]

LA Noire is not sorta passable. It is complete shit. I am wholly convinced that game is the paramount miscarriage in all history of video games.
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[DJ]

Anything with substantial amounts of (comparatively) unshitty worldbuilding put into it. Anything. Even things I really should not buy.
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[luvcraft]

metrovanias. I still enjoy them, and fortunately haven't really found many bad ones.
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[Felix]

I think Knytt Stories finally did in my enthusiasm/patience for infinite variations on metrovania

[Tulpa]

[Loki Laufeyson]

metrovaniae
bestiaries
console-style roguelikes
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[Brooks]

Metroidy games are really hard to do very well, so I end up playing very few but I'd like to have more since it's probably my favourite single-player mode

My weakness is consuming playthrough videos but this has the advantage of keeping me away from titles that only appear interesting; I don't think any title, if actually bad, can survive the glare of Youtube

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