Gamer confessions

[RobertAugustdeMeijer]

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.

[o.pwuaioc]

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.

[ElkinFencer10]

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.

[RobertAugustdeMeijer]

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

[RobertAugustdeMeijer]

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

[ZRofel]

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.

[o.pwuaioc]

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.

[Limewater]

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.

[Anapan]

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.

[RobertAugustdeMeijer]

"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.