The gaming confessional box - all your sins and lies will find you out

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AmpleApricots said:
- I like spreadsheet simulators but I also dislike playing with other people so I basically like games that are the videogame equivalent of hitting the "=" button repeatedly on a calculator and watching a number grow. I like to make up my own stories in these games and give myself house rules and use them more as a vessel for role playing. Usually games like this have meaningless traits etc. you can apply to your playstyle (see Stellaris) or are deeply mathematically flawed. (see Stellaris) When I get really bored or have extra time I sometimes make elaborate spreadsheets and graphs to figure out how the games are flawed and how to fix them. Usually then I figure out that fixing them would mean introducing equilibrium which would make the numbers not go up much anymore and would actually maybe be less fun. I was too lazy to ever test this theory in over twenty years by modding.

- I don't give a shit about frame rates. I just don't. I always lock the frame rate to half my monitors refresh rate, even in shooters, even if my computer could easily do it. It makes the graphics card more quiet and often saves a significant amount of electricity and practically halves system requirements. Yes I see the difference between 30 Hz, 60 Hz and 100 Hz, no I don't really care.
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I don't play grand strategy games like spreadsheet simulators or role-play them, but the way I entertain myself with them is that - and you all can laugh at this, I know this is really, really weird - I narrate the story to myself, out loud, as I play. As in an actual fake history lecture on my little alternate history.
 
albertbrown26 said:
I think the moral of the story is that I’m not playing RPGs and JRPGs and I haven’t felt this happy in years. It’s kind of a strange feeling.
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Meant to say “I’m NOW playing RPGs and JRPGs”.
My mistake. It’s what happens when you forget to read a book.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I don't play grand strategy games like spreadsheet simulators or role-play them, but the way I entertain myself with them is that - and you all can laugh at this, I know this is really, really weird - I narrate the story to myself, out loud, as I play. As in an actual fake history lecture on my little alternate history.
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I have a similar thing, I get more invested in old jRPGs if I don't keep the default names and instead name the characters stupid shit like HotNips, Banana, Meds or Sootfoot. It makes them my characters, like pets in a way. I should have started doing that years ago. Aeris getting shanked in FF7 really upset people... I wish I had named her Tailpipe back then, it might have made me more emotionally invested.
 
I find FFXIV beautiful graphically and I expected to like it, love it even. I wanted to like it and I didn't.

To be honest, the best part was farting about with the character customization page. I found game play, so slow and painful.
 
First time I ever played a Doom game was the PS1 port.

I wouldn't say that's a sin though, the PS1 port is actually pretty good.
 
RightToBearBlarms said:
I don't like Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines that much
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As one that likes the game, I'm still disappointed the guy that keeps making his unofficial patch still doesn't find obvious bugs to fix shit, and I can never see how the hotel is all that scary.
 
When I played Ultima Online back in the day I was a pickpocket who wore disguises. One time my friend came through the moongate and I stole an bunch of shit from his backpack (I didnt know it was him because he was also disguised) and then he got ganked by PKs, while I got away unscathed
 
DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
I 100%'ed Dragon Ball: Xenoverse before it was ever properly patched and made playable. I was then promptly banned for grossly exploiting glitches in PVP to get on the Leaderboards. That's right. I'm one of THOSE people.
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What kind of glitches? How were you banned?
 
The Last Stand said:
What kind of glitches? How were you banned?
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Specifically the one that got my character deleted was the You Can't Win combo glitch.
So basically how it works is you pick a human for this build and equipt the Z-Soul You Can't Win.
Make sure the character is female as they have the lowest base stats and the shortest you can make them as that also lowers their base stats. Keep in mind it doesn't work anymore but You Can't Win would give you a boost to every stat each time your ki bar filled all the way. The thing is human's ki fills on it's own slowly.Now what you also want to do is have the special move Change Body and the Potential Unlocked transformation. By doing this every time you punch someone their screen is filled with a huge pillar of bright white light effectively blinding them and you get a boost to every stat including speed. Eventually you're zipping around the stage as an invincible lvl 1 character and all your opponent can see is white light and YOU CAN'T WIN flashing in the corner of their screen as you beat them to death with kicks and punches. Oh and for whatever reason that specific combo somehow makes it so that You Can't Win stacks infinitely.

Alternatively you can use change bodies at the start and now they are a level one with the lowest possible base stats and completely unable to use You Can't Win. It was a super douchey strat for a while.
 
DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
I 100%'ed Dragon Ball: Xenoverse before it was ever properly patched and made playable. I was then promptly banned for grossly exploiting glitches in PVP to get on the Leaderboards. That's right. I'm one of THOSE people.
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Did the game itself banned you or were you system banned?

I never used glitches online.
 
I have not played a game of fallout 4 without using cheats. I always end up giving myself a bunch of crafting supplies and turning the settlement system into post-apocalypse Sims. Made Sanctuary a walled town with concrete foundations and hung up a neon sign reading "Sanctuary: Fuck off we're full", turned Red Rocket into a military base and the focal point of all supply caravans, and turned Spectacle Island into a concentration camp.

I used to troll friends with Soulcalibur III by having the game on with an action replay already used and letting them pick their character first, then entering a command to play as Night Terror. Only worked once on each friend, but it was hilarious.
 
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