Everyone loves it, but you absolutely hate it...

[ShurikenUK]

Call of Duty. Call of my f*cking arse more like...

[kitamesume]

Call of Duty. Call of my f*cking arse more like...

same can be said for WoW.

[metro.]

Classic Rock.

Just because it's older, doesn't mean it's better.

[gits]

Call of Duty. Call of my f*cking arse more like...

same can be said for WoW.

No it can't be said, or atleast not by all of us.

onT: Cosplaying, seriously looking at other cosplayers can be fun but to do it myself? 

[ShurikenUK]

Call of Duty. Call of my f*cking arse more like...

same can be said for WoW.

Yea no offence to the fans, but I whole heartedly agree good sir, or madam. I lost a CLOSE friend to WoW. I witnessed the guy transform from social, funloving little devil, into a reserved, reclusive and completely anti-social husk after he started getting into MMO's (specifically WoW). Those games "turn" people, like a digital form of heroine, and I've seen real life examples of both, so Im not just sprouting nonsense.

Soon theres gonna be MMORPG refuge clinics where hopelessly addicted vagrants get their fix of life as an orc or an elf, JUST like the Cathode Ray Project in Video Drome (except with games, not just TV), or the heroine dispenseries in real life. Nah Im making it sound like a joke, but I feel quite strongly about games like WoW, especially after the loss of a good friend. I'll take a minutes silence now, to reflect on times long past and honour those who lost their lives in this ancient struggle.

[Ixarku]

Yea no offence to the fans, but I whole heartedly agree good sir, or madam. I lost a CLOSE friend to WoW. I witnessed the guy transform from social, funloving little devil, into a reserved, reclusive and completely anti-social husk after he started getting into MMO's (specifically WoW). Those games "turn" people, like a digital form of heroine, and I've seen real life examples of both, so Im not just sprouting nonsense.

Soon theres gonna be MMORPG refuge clinics where hopelessly addicted vagrants get their fix of life as an orc or an elf, JUST like the Cathode Ray Project in Video Drome (except with games, not just TV), or the heroine dispenseries in real life. Nah Im making it sound like a joke, but I feel quite strongly about games like WoW, especially after the loss of a good friend. I'll take a minutes silence now, to reflect on times long past and honour those who lost their lives in this ancient struggle.

Actually, I lost a RL friend to the WoW Hellmouth as well, although my friend in this case wasn't that social to begin with and was as always a bit unstable in certain ways.  He disappeared into the game years ago, and I'm not sure now if he's alive or dead, as I have no way to contact him now, and before we lost touch, he rebuffed any attempts to contact him by anyone we knew.
 
I myself played WoW for a while but gave it up completely, I dunno, maybe 4 years ago.  Shortly after WotLK came out, whenever that was.  I love games but I've not been hooked on any game like that, before or since.  Now I shun WoW completely.  A couple of my friends periodically bring up the game, but I'm well past the point of caring anymore.  I've sampled a few other MMOs since, but the spell that kind of game once had on me has been broken.

[ShurikenUK]

Yea no offence to the fans, but I whole heartedly agree good sir, or madam. I lost a CLOSE friend to WoW. I witnessed the guy transform from social, funloving little devil, into a reserved, reclusive and completely anti-social husk after he started getting into MMO's (specifically WoW). Those games "turn" people, like a digital form of heroine, and I've seen real life examples of both, so Im not just sprouting nonsense.

Soon theres gonna be MMORPG refuge clinics where hopelessly addicted vagrants get their fix of life as an orc or an elf, JUST like the Cathode Ray Project in Video Drome (except with games, not just TV), or the heroine dispenseries in real life. Nah Im making it sound like a joke, but I feel quite strongly about games like WoW, especially after the loss of a good friend. I'll take a minutes silence now, to reflect on times long past and honour those who lost their lives in this ancient struggle.

Actually, I lost a RL friend to the WoW Hellmouth as well, although my friend in this case wasn't that social to begin with and was as always a bit unstable in certain ways.  He disappeared into the game years ago, and I'm not sure now if he's alive or dead, as I have no way to contact him now, and before we lost touch, he rebuffed any attempts to contact him by anyone we knew.
 
I myself played WoW for a while but gave it up completely, I dunno, maybe 4 years ago.  Shortly after WotLK came out, whenever that was.  I love games but I've not been hooked on any game like that, before or since.  Now I shun WoW completely.  A couple of my friends periodically bring up the game, but I'm well past the point of caring anymore.  I've sampled a few other MMOs since, but the spell that kind of game once had on me has been broken.

Sorry to hear that man, well said though, you had a taste but you managed to keep ontop of it and pulled yourself away in the end. I dont want to seem like Im just hating on the game or its fans, but I just see MMO's as a bad thing, its hard to concentrate on their good points. I love gaming too, Im twiddling away at my PS3 analogue sticks nearly every day and grew up in a "gamers household" (lol), but atleast those kind of games (sounds kinda arrogant but its not meant to!) can still be considered GAMES, and not life-replacements. Games were cool when they were just... games!

[kitamesume]

i've preferred games that didn't take days to finish, mostly strategy games or the now-well-known MOBA genre.

games i liked aside from the two types of games mentioned above are Metro2033, Left4Dead series, Diablo series (except 3 since it retardedly needs you to play online), half-life series, Minecraft(can you even call this a game? lol), and i forgot the others.


now to be on topic, i dunno why but i really disliked(dunno if i'm at the level of "hate" yet) huge open world games, like stalker or fallout3.

[SamDeanLove]

Big Bang Theory (the show). I just think it's really not funny at all. I mean all it does it make fun of nerds. And that's it. That's the entire premise of the show. Ooh look at the nerds being socially awkward.

I also agree on CoD. It's just not very good gaming imo. There are so many other games I would rather play. I'd play my neopets PS2 game from elementary school before I'd pick up my game of CoD.

[jaybug]

Big Bang Theory (the show). I just think it's really not funny at all. I mean all it does it make fun of nerds. And that's it. That's the entire premise of the show. Ooh look at the nerds being socially awkward.

I also agree on CoD. It's just not very good gaming imo. There are so many other games I would rather play. I'd play my neopets PS2 game from elementary school before I'd pick up my game of CoD.

And all they really did was make Urkel white.

[ShurikenUK]

I also agree on CoD. It's just not very good gaming imo. There are so many other games I would rather play. I'd play my neopets PS2 game from elementary school before I'd pick up my game of CoD.

Heheh, yea, or Digimon World on PS1, maybe some Zelda 64, Pilot-wings or Turok 2, Syphon Filter 1,2 & 3, Tenchu etc. All "child-hood days" games that I'd probably enjoy a lot more than playing against some "leets" on COD.

[cyph3R]

life...

[megido-rev.M]

life...

Though in all likelihood, not everybody likes it anyway for whatever reason O_o.

[jaybug]

Well on the bright side life always comes new, not used. Imagine being born into an old man, instead of a baby. You get maybe 5 years before you're dead. And 1/2 of those will be spent in a nursing home for the criminally insane. Well, on that bright note, at least you don't suffer from insanity, you are enjoying it too much.

[Nikkoru]

Stephen King.

I never really read King before, outside of the first Dark Tower book which wasn't all that bad. Then I got an e-reader and with it a small mountain of mainstream popular fiction. At this point I've gotten down to the Ks, so here I am.

He's just so...repetitive... really really repetitive. He has some good characters but then he runs their characterizations into the ground in the next dozen books. He rarely if ever explains his supernatural whatever and when he does it's always a massive let down. Once you grasp his formula things become kind of like playing Madlibs.  I may be accused of being religiously intolerant at times, but even I find his unsubtle attacks on Christianity to be trite and tactless.

While I wouldn't say I hate King, I fail to see the reason for so many of his books to exists. He's like Goosebumps for adults.

I'm developing a serious prejudice against American pop authors, it's disconcerting.

[metro.]

Stephen King.

I never really read King before, outside of the first Dark Tower book which wasn't all that bad. Then I got an e-reader and with it a small mountain of mainstream popular fiction. At this point I've gotten down to the Ks, so here I am.

He's just so...repetitive... really really repetitive. He has some good characters but then he runs their characterizations into the ground in the next dozen books. He rarely if ever explains his supernatural whatever and when he does it's always a massive let down. Once you grasp his formula things become kind of like playing Madlibs.  I may be accused of being religiously intolerant at times, but even I find his unsubtle attacks on Christianity to be trite and tactless.

While I wouldn't say I hate King, I fail to see the reason for so many of his books to exists. He's like Goosebumps for adults.

I'm developing a serious prejudice against American pop authors, it's disconcerting.

Try reading several of Clive Cussler's books. His writing style makes Tolkien look terse.

[Ixarku]

Stephen King.

I never really read King before, outside of the first Dark Tower book which wasn't all that bad. Then I got an e-reader and with it a small mountain of mainstream popular fiction. At this point I've gotten down to the Ks, so here I am.

He's just so...repetitive... really really repetitive. He has some good characters but then he runs their characterizations into the ground in the next dozen books. He rarely if ever explains his supernatural whatever and when he does it's always a massive let down. Once you grasp his formula things become kind of like playing Madlibs.  I may be accused of being religiously intolerant at times, but even I find his unsubtle attacks on Christianity to be trite and tactless.

While I wouldn't say I hate King, I fail to see the reason for so many of his books to exists. He's like Goosebumps for adults.

I'm developing a serious prejudice against American pop authors, it's disconcerting.

King has his moments, but I've only read his older stuff -- Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot, and probably a couple of others -- and that was decades ago.  My mom had similar complaints about his explanations for the supernatural.  Dean Koontz is another author I lump in with King.  He has a few good books (Phantoms, Twilight Eyes, The Bad Place), but after a while his writing just feels tired and pointless.
 
I've been meaning to go back and read other stuff by these authors to see if my impressions will be different, but I just never get around to it.  I've got so much other stuff that's higher on my list.

[jaybug]

Sk has a new one out that my English Novel professor was very complimentary about. Also I hear the Stand was exceptional. ANd that is what makes King so interesting as an author. He can crank out the books, but he can also write quite well. That said I haven't read nay of his books in a very long time. Why bother, it will be a movie soon anyway, right? Hey, ho, let's go! lol

chipotle. really? it's that popular? it's only a roasted jalapeno ya know? Oh, it was ripe instead of green, so that makes all the difference in the world, right? so what. It's the culinary equivalent of Alton Brown's uni-tasker.

[Nikkoru]

Stephen King.

I never really read King before, outside of the first Dark Tower book which wasn't all that bad. Then I got an e-reader and with it a small mountain of mainstream popular fiction. At this point I've gotten down to the Ks, so here I am.

He's just so...repetitive... really really repetitive. He has some good characters but then he runs their characterizations into the ground in the next dozen books. He rarely if ever explains his supernatural whatever and when he does it's always a massive let down. Once you grasp his formula things become kind of like playing Madlibs.  I may be accused of being religiously intolerant at times, but even I find his unsubtle attacks on Christianity to be trite and tactless.

While I wouldn't say I hate King, I fail to see the reason for so many of his books to exists. He's like Goosebumps for adults.

I'm developing a serious prejudice against American pop authors, it's disconcerting.

King has his moments, but I've only read his older stuff -- Pet Sematary, Salem's Lot, and probably a couple of others -- and that was decades ago.  My mom had similar complaints about his explanations for the supernatural.  Dean Koontz is another author I lump in with King.  He has a few good books (Phantoms, Twilight Eyes, The Bad Place), but after a while his writing just feels tired and pointless.
 
I've been meaning to go back and read other stuff by these authors to see if my impressions will be different, but I just never get around to it.  I've got so much other stuff that's higher on my list.

The problem is he extends those moments into hours, and then days.

I guess what I'm saying, he's a good writer who writes lots of mediocre books that drag down my opinion of better works because even in those you can see the same hamster wheels spinning. Like seeing a magic act after having had all the tricks revealed. You can still appreciate the skill and the craftsmanship that went into it, but your initial reaction is... "meh."

I also read the books sequentially in a very short period of time, which I do not recommend.

I've been warned away from Koontz quite loudly, and Cussler seems terrible.

Is there any modern mainstream American fiction writer who's consistently good? All I can think of is a few fantasy, science fiction, and comedic writers.

[MikaMik]

I don't know why, but I cannot stand reggae music. It gets on my nerves and makes me become very irritated.