Popular games you have absolutely zero respect for

[vovan]

Anything involving shooting people in first-person perspective, or any game that was ported from a console.

Second that

[Unspeakable Horror]

The Sims.

[Jethro83]

1. The Sims, and all of its pointless expansions
2. Diablo series
3. Warcraft III

...any game that was ported from a console.

Actually, KOTOR is an excellent game. If anything, its better on PC. GTA 3 and GTA Vice City are pretty good as well.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

any game that was ported from a console.

Some are REALLY good (ie, Halo and GTA3)

I have to agree with Imran, you can't completely generalise here. Halo is great, and lots of people like KotOR.

I hate as much as Skanky does the consolification of great games like Deus Ex, but it's not true that all consolified games are pants.

[Jamski]

Actually, KOTOR is an excellent game. If anything, its better on PC

KOTOR is a PC game, using the same engine as NWN. The console version is ported from the PC, but just happened to release first.

GTA3 is the exception that proves the rule.

As the sequel of a PC game, doesn't count as a console port.

PROVING that console ports all suck sweaty donkey balls

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Except Halo.

[Jamski]

Including Halo, as it is a shooter, and automatically pants.

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Well at the risk of upsetting many of the people here that's a dumb attitude to take.

There are many many average or bad FPS games that are released that anyone can, in good faith, call pants. But to lump the games that stand out above the pack with those bad games, just because you don't like the genre, just shows an ignorance of that sphere of gaming.

If you don't like FPS fine, that's your prerogative. But if so you are not best placed to assess the merits of games within that genre.

[Jamski]

This thread is about popular games I have no respect for.

I have no respect for Halo, ok.

And I said that "it pants", which would be like a thirsty dog, when of course I meant to say "It are pants"

-Jam

[DrSpike]

Fair enough, you can call it a popular game you have no respect for, but you (and this goes for anyone else making silly blanket statements) cannot call it pants with authority unless you have played the game and others within the genre for comparison.

I know you like RPGs, and have played a lot. If you post you dislike a certain RPG given your familiarity with the genre this is clearly a different kind of statement than not liking a game in a genre which, by your own admission, you do not play.

[Skanky Burns]

So you have great familiarity with goal-less games such as the Sims, then?

[DrSpike]

I played it enough to be able to criticise it with knowledge gained from actually playing it rather than just making blanket statements in ignorance. I will never criticise outright a game I have not played, even if I post that I do not personally like the genre.

[Space05us]

change your name back

[Jamski]

Doc was is a closet Sims fan

-Jam

[DrSpike]

No, never a fan.

I'm glad that's the best argument you can make. I'll consider my point made.