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Anyone Else Addicted to Absolutely Shitty Games?

Methuselah

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My name is Methuselah, and I am... *heavy sigh* ... a time waster.

I can't stop playing CastleCraft at the moment. Before that it was a tower defense game called Cursed Treasure.

Big games bore me, but these little lame ones get me hooked every time. I know that they are built to be addictive, and yet I can't say no. I mean, I am this close to upgrading my castle from lvl 2 to lvl 3. Think of the forests I will be able to conquer then!

:king-twitter:
 

Cognisant

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Get a notebook and design/conceptualise what a game should be.

This will help you realise how shallow and demeaning these shitty games are.
 

Yasmin

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Eh, I only ever play old games, like N64, SNES kind of old. Think Super Mario World, Tetris and Super Mario 64. I have a few Gamecube games like Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom and Luigi's Mansion. Anything I play has a kind of nostalgic meaning for me

But because it wouldn't be enough to just waste my time playing video games, I have to suck at it too. I was two when I first picked up the controller and "played" Super Mario 64, it's thirteen years later, and I still haven't beaten it. :rolleyes: Ridiculous.
 

COM.III

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I was two when I first picked up the controller and "played" Super Mario 64, it's thirteen years later, and I still haven't beaten it. :rolleyes: Ridiculous.

That's a shame. Though I will agree, it isn't one of the easiest games I've played.
 

Yasmin

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That's a shame. Though I will agree, it isn't one of the easiest games I've played.

I'm close. I have a 118 stars. I just get frustrated and quit.

At first I thought I just needed practice. But no, I'm just inherently untalented with video games. I'm a disgrace to my generation.
 

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But no, I'm just inherently untalented with video games. I'm a disgrace to my generation.

Ditto about sucking at games and ditto about being a disgrace to my generation :D just not for sucking at games.
 

zxc

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Oh I hate those 'shitty' online games (they know who they are!). I can't stand them for five seconds! :P but then again, I'm a gamer (of 'proper' games), so I'm not really used to games being so insubstantial. Some tower defence games I wouldn't clump with those other online games though, they require some planning behind your actions.
 

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Yes but I get stuck on that mindset of 'if you can make it yourself, why feed on others?'. These accompany novels. I can write my own stories, I can make my own music, my own movies, videos, history, reality, so why do these at all? Although the problem with my reality is that it has less quality in detail. But if something is truly shitty, I think the self over game could work.
 

Gather_Wanderer

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That's a shame. Though I will agree, it isn't one of the easiest games I've played.

Are you kidding? It took me hardly any time to find all 120 stars and earn that worthless power-up you earn at the end as a result. Well, it actually isn't too bad because you pretty much can't die from falling after that but then again, the "flip right before you hit the ground" combo already served this purpose, so...

On a side note, I did used to be awesome at video games, say, back in 4th grade. I was always a Sonic fan as opposed to Mario though (I think I've memorized just about every pixel in every game in that series....) I'm horrible now, with the lone exception of Gran Turismo.

As far as crap games go though....anyone ever play futurecop for the PC? I used to always play the demo for it...it was almost like you just had to defend your base with different land and aircraft. It kind of sucked, but I do like just about any game with giant mechs, missiles, and lasers.

Ooh...the lasers...
 

snafupants

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Are you kidding? It took me hardly any time to find all 120 stars and earn that worthless power-up you earn at the end as a result. Well, it actually isn't too bad because you pretty much can't die from falling after that but then again, the "flip right before you hit the ground" combo already served this purpose, so...

On a side note, I did used to be awesome at video games, say, back in 4th grade. I was always a Sonic fan as opposed to Mario though (I think I've memorized just about every pixel in every game in that series....) I'm horrible now, with the lone exception of Gran Turismo.

As far as crap games go though....anyone ever play futurecop for the PC? I used to always play the demo for it...it was almost like you just had to defend your base with different land and aircraft. It kind of sucked, but I do like just about any game with giant mechs, missiles, and lasers.

Ooh...the lasers...

yo butt, how was the party yesterday?
 

Gather_Wanderer

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yo butt, how was the party yesterday?
Note: This came out to be a not-so-brief reply.

Well the party ended up turning into three parties. The first was for a good friend of mine, of course, and we didn't stay too long as the crop of women there actually were unimpressive and for some reason seemed to be standoff-ish. We arrived around 11:45 and stayed around for about a half an hour until the guy I came with says, "Hey bro, there's a bunch of other places around here that have way better girls. Let's leave and then come back."
We left and ended up at a place called Bon V, for someone's private party; We obviously didn't know who the guy was. We got to the door and the bouncer asked us who we were...I was about to turn around until somehow my friend pulls a magical lie out of his hat and says he knew the guy...I mean it was one of the strangest things I've seen in some time. Too, it was almost as if the bouncer threw him some rope and kinda helped him guess the name, which was ultimately some guy with a name that started with an M...I don't even recall what it was. I think my friend said Mike too, saying "Mike is too common of a name for us to be wrong". Oh it was something.
Anyway we walked in there and this guy sees a girl he wants within 90 seconds and starts walking over to talk to her (He did this at the first club too. I had no idea he didn't know her: I assumed he did and, after he flagged me over, introduced myself thinking he did but then was told shortly after that she was a stranger, and that she didn't turn out to be as attractive as she looked on the approach.) Anyway at this second place, I tagged along as he started messing around with this girl, who happened to be very good-looking and in a group of equally attractive women......except for the one he and his "new lady" tried to hook me up with. I was being hooked up with someone who wasn't at all bad looking, but was getting to be considerably drunk and had no inhibition regarding talking to me at all. (I did spot her when she first walked toward the group--she was already there--don't know where she was coming from, maybe the bathroom--and she made eye contact with me and saw that she liked me...but I didn't like her obviously. Had no intention of being puked on. :)
Anyway we ended up dancing with these girls for a little while. I'm not sure if it was because I haven't been out in this way in awhile, but man was this awkward! She kept thrusting her arse into me in an extremely obnoxious way, much different than her friend who actually looked like she made some sort of sense. I tried to hide my embarrassment but couldn't, as my friend was behind the other girl uncontrollably laughing....I couldn't believe we stayed for probably five more minutes and then took off back to the other party (For the friend who had a birthday).

We, again, didn't stay at the other party that long, but there was a much greater amount of people there when we got back. I walked into the VIP section and got a drink this time and then kind of stood around watching as the birthday guy swirved around in a drunken glory. I recognized a few people I knew and said hi, but the friend I came with decided that we should head to another part of downtown while we still had a little time.

We ended up at another place called the Griffin Lounge, or something like that. Actually, I think that's what it was. It was around 1:30 and most places close after 2, so we were against paying 20 bucks to get in anywhere....didn't know this would ultimately lead to my friend slipping in the back after some security guys and me having to follow. (For the record, I thought I knew this guy but my previous conclusion was a total misfire. He is an extrovert.) The setup of the lounge wasn't so bad and of course, there were many good-looking ladies around. Thee were some on a stage in the middle of this large room and I thought for a second they were strippers...They weren't, but I wondered what I had gotten myself into. This time, when my friend approached one of the first women he saw, he was turned down... granted her attitude seemed to be a little unreasonable. I walked around a little bit not knowing where I was going and locked eyes with some really attractive girl. I just kind of looked at her without saying anything (Had no clue what to say) and she smiled at me for awhile. I did not go and talk to her and it sucked. I wasn't nervous or anything but I was one of those passerby situations in which I just didn't really know what was going on, was walking somewhere and then boom! I shrugged it off, saying to myself "I didn't plan on doing much but observing tonight anyway..." but I admitted to myself that was just a cop out.
My friend agreed with this assessment, to say the least. :)

I didn't realize I would write this much and in an unrelated thread. Still, that's not the entire story and I'll have to finish later.
 

snafupants

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haha swerving around in drunken glory punctuates any memorable birthday. this thread blows anyway, finish up the saga while its fresh in your memory.
 

Gather_Wanderer

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haha swerving around in drunken glory punctuates any memorable birthday. this thread blows anyway, finish up the saga while its fresh in your memory.

Ok so I'm back. By the way, WTF is up with me deciding that I'm going to take myself off the dating market for awhile...and then I keep running into this extremely interesting and cute girl in the gym. I don't really know where she's from and she has a little bit of an accent...Don't think for a minute I passed this one up. I didn't try to start anything and didn't do the phone number thing either, but I think that's making it worse. She totally likes me, and workout buddies were telling me all these good signals she was sending while I was standing there talking to her. How do people notice all these extra things? I'm not completely aloof, but still...

Anyway...

When we were on our way out of that third place, my friend started walking through random groups of girls and saying things on our way out. I have to say, to the casual observer, he would come off as kind of a...well.....but to me it wasn't actually that bad. He wasn't rude or anything, just very direct..maybe a little bit reckless. Not too bad though. I don't know, maybe it's because he's seems to be a little wealthy...he does drive a nice car (Thinking about when we pulled up to Bon V and we saw a bunch of girls looking into his car to see who was driving it. He was happy about it and I was looking at the gold-digging women thinking.."YOU BASTARDS! It really doesn't take much to get in your pants, does it?!") He walked up to one girl and asked her for a cigarette, even though he doesn't smoke them, and then started trying to talk to her. The rest of our time around that really consisted of me standing 3 feet behind him while he would start talking to some girl. Maybe it was precautionary. I'm not sure.
The night was winding down and we left that area and drove a little north to get some food. Five Guys Burgers and Fries was the place.
Sat a down at a table after ordering some food, and then he starts talking to a girl we saw on the way in. This one was with her boyfriend.
He wasn't rude...she looked sort of exotic and he just wanted to know about her ethnicity. Once again, I couldn't believe it as she actually started talking with him, engaging him in a conversation while her boyfriend was just standing at the front door waiting for her to come out.

I've got to ask, why in God's name is it so easy for other people to be completely oblivious to reserve? I do not believe that I'm shy and will talk with most people, almost anyone if they engage me in conversation. This guy though? I'll never develop/achieve the kind of carefree, "I'm just out to have fun" nature that he has. I can be outgoing at times and think that I have balanced out as much as I can over the years as far as introversion goes, but the way he went about last night, it was a relentless badgering of intimidating strangers. And by intimidating I mean smoking hot women.

I do general conversation well and use my seemingly odd (to most people) sense of humor as fuel, but simply transitioning that to something sexual is a beast I cannot slay. Looking back on the not-exceedingly rare occasions I've had success with this kind of shallowness... maybe it was mostly luck.....
 

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In that while playing it I felt generally more deflated than elated, World of Warcraft fits the description of "shitty" I guess. I don't play it presently, however, and do not intend on doing so again.
 
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