The Daily Grind: What game do you feel bad about liking?

Alganon.

I feel bad because of the amount of drama that has gone on with the game.. but as a F2P indie game, it's not to bad.

What keeps me playing and interested is that it's new, and it's going to go through changes. Things like WoW don't really change anymore, you've got the same busted Warrior mechanics you had back in the day, going through YET AGAIN another "rage normalization". Rage doesnt work. At least Alganon realizes this and is removing it all together.

I like feeling like my feedback counts, that I can help shape something. I think Alganon, if it survives 12 months, will be a great game to play.

It's just gotta dump the drama... lol.. and get down to releasing new cool stuff every week.

mmo wise world of warcraft xd... console wise two words lol

Mabinogi. I think it looks gay (yes I know I'm immature for using that word as an adjective) but the gameplay is fun.

heh, I think alganons only issue is it still tries to pretend its not just a cookie cutter fantasy mmo.


EvE just didnt have the content (since its mostly player driven) to keep me around even tho Ive played it off n on for almost 6 years (90% off lol) but ive always said its a cool game, and a very very unique one (both in universe and gameplay / design)

I enjoy wow, and am not ashamed of it :p hell i get a kick outta the people who do think they're special and "different from everyone else" for bashing wow.

I tried Champions online during its free weekends WAY back when... and that one i liked more then maybe i'd be willing to admit... but not enough to ever buy it lol >_<

Well yeah, the "drama" for the game is that they did indeed rip off a lot of stuff from other games. That was a major point a lot of people gave feedback on during early beta, myself included.

The upside to that is the curret dev team is busy trying to remove as much of that as they can and put in something that is far away from the original guy in charges vision of "lets take everything people like from other games, and put it into one game, they will flock to us". I remember having conversations in world chat with him and other devs about how stupid that idea was. It failed miserably.

So yeah, that is the part of why I feel bad about liking Alganon because it has suc a tarnished image right now.

The upside though is that even in it's current state, which is better than it was a few weeks a go and much better than a few months ago .. even like this... there is much to like and much potential. It just needs to last through a few months of ripping out crap and replacing it with original mechanics or content. If it can d that, it'll be a game worthy or spending time on.

I enjoy seeing change in games. It;s why I am back playing EQ2 and why I quit WoW. Some games improve for the better over time, some games cling to broken crap and try to pile crap on top of crap.

Cooking Mama is pure awesome.

Champions Online. I hate the saturday morning cartoon storylines, and PVP will never get the attention it needs but it's still pretty fun gameplay wise.

Almost every f2p MMO there is. I just like them. Even the crappy ones have their charm.

I generally want to like every MMO I try (with the exception of Alganon), so I feel bad when I find a deal-breaker that makes me dislike the game.

Examples:
I really liked the combat system in CO so I feel bad that I have never been able to level a char to max level because the quests are so tedious and boring.

I like the space part of STO so I feel bad that the horrible ground combat, crafting and repetetive quests made me /sighquit.

I love the setting and combat in AoC so I feel bad because I have never gotten a char to max level because of boring and grindy quests.

I'm pretty ashamed of my lvl 49 runescape character. MANY a wasted hour spent there

I'm ashamed I can't seem to break my EVE habit despite my complete and utter lack of interest in it at the moment.

Writing overly aggressive and bitter comments about it on various messageboards seems to be more fun than logging into the damn thing.

Still EVE is better than whatever rest of you carebears play

Yeah, I'm not tracking why anyone would "feel bad" about liking a game.

When you log on, you are sharing the virtual community with other players who feel the same as you about the game in question.

When you go to forums...well there are usually many folks there who would like to make YOU feel bad about liking a game...but that is usually because of some internal issues they may have and nothing to do with you.

Frankly it's no ones business what games you like and don't like and opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one. So until someone else pony's up my monthly fee, I'll like what I like at the moment and the resident hater can p*ss off :P

Vanguard. It's a great game and has such a wonderful community, but so much of the MMO world seems to think it's dead, and SOE certainly hasn't done much to persuade people otherwise. Vanguard is on my list of "MMOs to return to someday."