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I've never actually beaten a GTA game despite playing every single one of the 3D ones.

I dunno, I just lose interest over time. Farthest I ever got was a part in San Andreas where you get the jetpack, and I just kinda drifted onto something else.

I did beat Saints Row 2 and 3 though. I like GTA and its clones, they're just all very long games. Speaking of which, I'd like to get through Sleeping Dogs someday, that was a lot of fun when I played it
 
Aberforth said:
I've never played a Grand Theft Auto game. No idea why, but the series has never interested me in the slightest. Saints Row 2 is the closest I've gotten.
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Guts Gets Some said:
Apparently I need to be crucified according to most gamers because I generally loathe the first-person genre, online gaming (I like single player), and I prefer physical copies vs digital.



Not a bad alternative. Saint's Row just get more fun and GTA keeps getting less so, since they focus on 'immersion' and 'realism' more than making a fun game.
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Honestly (and here's my first confession) I find the GTA series to be overrated outside of Vice City and much prefer the Saints Row series. The Insurance Fraud mini game alone clinches it for me.

Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
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.
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Best one I ever got was when I rented Secret of Mana from the local video store. I liked to look through other people's save files and found one where the characters in one were called Faggit and Notits.

Apart from what I said above I also don't believe modern JRPGs cut it when compared to their 16-bit era counterparts. Western RPGs have overtaken them for mine. I also don't like online gaming. I'm not a people person so I won't buy any game that doesn't have good single player content.
 
MsStevieMarie said:
Honestly (and here's my first confession) I find the GTA series to be overrated outside of Vice City and much prefer the Saints Row series. The Insurance Fraud mini game alone clinches it for me.
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Absolutely. I'm the same way. GTA peaked gameplay wise with San Andreas, and while GTA V was certainly still a good game, it can't compare to the hours and hours I've had of pure joy with Saint's Row, or any Volition game, honestly. They're probably my favorite developer.
 
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W00K #17 said:
A few times in cod 4 I would play search and destroy and as soon as the match started point my rpg at the ground and fire, thus taking out almost my entire team before the match even really started.
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One time in Hardcore SnD, somebody called in a care package. I stood underneath the smoke indicator so that the care package would fall on me. But it would kill the original person, not me.

I took the care package.
 
Battlecruiser3000ad said:
I unironically love the campaigns in CoD games. Own all the PC-released ones from CoD1 to WW2. Infinity Warfare was the best one. I have never even tried to play any of them multiplayer. I will no longer stay silent, Cawd pride world wide
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I really liked cod for a long time but I stopped playing around modern warfare 2, it just started feeling like madden, releasing the same game every fall.
 
I hate FPS games on consoles. Hell even third person action games (GTA Clones/ Saints Row/ Infamous) piss me off because precision aiming is far harder to do with a controller than a mouse and keyboard. Auto aim takes any fun out of the game for me as well.
Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Turok did not appeal to me because of this.
 
I am willing to accept getting less than 60 FPS in exchange for maxing the settings at 4K. In fact, in Total Warhammer II, my framerate routinely is of cinematic proportions but then again I'm mostly in a high overhead view issuing orders and things rather than zoomed right in.

With a little luck I'll have a whole new build by the time CP77 comes out that will be capable of 4K and 60 FPS on max. Assuming of course that when the Nvidia RTX 3080 comes out, it costs less than my soul, because as a ginger I don't have one.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
I am willing to accept getting less than 60 FPS in exchange for maxing the settings at 4K. In fact, in Total Warhammer II, my framerate routinely is of cinematic proportions but then again I'm mostly in a high overhead view issuing orders and things rather than zoomed right in.

With a little luck I'll have a whole new build by the time CP77 comes out that will be capable of 4K and 60 FPS on max. Assuming of course that when the Nvidia RTX 3080 comes out, it costs less than my soul, because as a ginger I don't have one.
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I think the 60 fps stuff is silly, and I can't notice a difference in most cases. Then again, I am blind as a bat so maybe having 100+ vision is the reason why I don't.
 
Shield Breaker said:
I think the 60 fps stuff is silly, and I can't notice a difference in most cases. Then again, I am blind as a bat so maybe having 100+ vision is the reason why I don't.
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It really depends on whether the game running at 30 fps can still look good. Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 both technically run at 30 fps in their initial releases and the PS3 releases, but they still animate smoothly so it doesn't really matter. The Batman Arkham games also still animate smoothly even at 30 fps. Meanwhile you get like half the seventh generation (Rockstar's output is a particular offender) which have clunky animations when they run at 30 fps but then look okay when running at 60 (playing games like Max Payne 3 and Mass Effect on console and then PC is like night and day to me).

I do think that not every game needs to run at 30 fps. I don't care if a turn-based RPG or a slow-paced stealth game are running at 30 because the action's not fast enough to justify it.
 
Shield Breaker said:
I think the 60 fps stuff is silly, and I can't notice a difference in most cases. Then again, I am blind as a bat so maybe having 100+ vision is the reason why I don't.
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I can notice the difference up to around 120fps with GSync on, so no tearing, but I really don't care if it's running at 30 or 144. Frame rate to me is like offering a dog either a cat turd or foie gras - both are perfectly fine.

ugh.
 
Ex Cummunicated Sasser HD said:
So do I... I played 3 with the high end graphics mods, weather mods and texture and shader updates about a year after it came out, (Dual 4870's, core 2 quad clocked to close to 3Ghz, and 4Gb DDR2 Ram), then played that game for a long time. Then F:NV didn't sit with me so didn't get much further than half an hour into it before I went back to 3. I prefer 4 to F:NV too... far better buildup for the first hour or so.

Edit: I've never played Doom 3 without a flashlight mod. :oops:
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degenerates like you belong in a cross.
 
When I was like 12 I had cybersex with a girl on runescape.

I didn't know at the time that 80% of girls in online games are dudes just saying they're chicks.

I wish I had a chat log though. I can just imagine the sexy lines 12 year old me was busting out: "I rub your boobies and my PP gets bigger."
 
i bought a rtx 2080 and ended up only playing those free 2d games from the epic store for 5 minutes a time. I had the thing for a week and then lost interest in games. now i just look at those free games and think "i'll play those games someday".

the last game i played for a long time was heavy rain.
 
I own every Civ game in big box versions or at least physical discs for the later ones, but I'm too stupid to understand how to play any of them. I also own them all on Steam, and don't think I've played a single one. Same goes for the Sim City games. All I ever do is install, just open a pre-made map and destroy it, then uninstall 10 minutes later when I realise I don't know what I'm doing.

I also own the full game with all the DLC for CKII and never got past the tutorial before noping out.
 
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