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MOBAs and MMOs are easy enough for me to avoid.

It was a hard choice between shooter mechanics and everything having to be open world. QTEs and the Uncharted 2/Heavy Rain models also deserve consideration.

I knew open world wouldn't be a popular choice, because yeah, it can be fun dinking around in these things, but then you also get a million games who can't do it well and waste your time with meaningless junk. If I was still a kid, this kind of thing wouldn't be quite as agonizing, but it's obnoxious that every game, even Zelda, is ready to appease this incessant demand to be open world.

I really hate how a lot of games take control away from the player, too. QTEs are not gameplay and neither are cinematic rides with a sprinkling of choices.

I am ready to suck.

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Really a headline looking like a movie poster is the least of my concerns. And yes, it would be the same in America.

I'm not really expecting trained reporters to break down on TV for something happening across the seas. Or even here. Because there's plenty enough here alone. There's plenty going on on the opposite side of the world. No one's asking them to cry when a bomb goes off in Beirut, or Syrian children wash ashore, or the West blows up a bunch of Iraqi civilians. To me the waste of human life is just as repugnant.

Should I be in near-tears watching this barrage of news? Because I just end up feeling some mixture of sad, angry, and disgusted by humanity.

Don't worry, you're still not American.

I stick to single-player. At least I don't have to pay extra or spend time trying to get into MOBAs or MMOs. No worries then. No disappointing people or dealing with... uhm, less mature audiences.

I always have fond memories of playing through Punch-Out. I can vaguely recall watching my father play and as I recall I watched him lose to Bald Bull. So it was so awesome to not only conquer that game but do it on my own.

There was also erasing my parents' data on StarTropics, but eventually I made it further than they did anyway.

Playing Starcraft all the time.

Oh yeah, taking Pokemon Blue to school with all my friends. We'd trade and and have Metronome battles. We knew an older kid with a Game Genie who got us Mew. I remember helping another kid beat Misty with underleveled pokemon and then we made fun of her for the moves her dumb starfish used.

Used to play Mario with my mom and that's pretty much the last time we'll ever play games since she can't handle newer ones and doesn't have time anyway.

I've got a ton of memories from the N64 era, just discovering Smash or getting afraid of the Stalfos kids in Ocarina or the transformation from 2D to more fully-fleshed worlds.

I wish I could say I had a lot more of those types of memories since then. There are games that shocked me and characters I've loved but it's not quite the same and not when you're only playing alone.

StarTropics

Earthbound/Mother

Banjo-Kazooie

An Assassin's Creed about assassins and doesn't look boring/sucky/filled with monotonous side tasks in order to make yet another "open world" game

Eternal Darkness

A good Metroid (someday...)

I swear Nintendo is dedicated to trolling me.

Or any loyal fanboy.

Bongo Bongo forever

It's like Nintendo keeps trying to piss off its most loyal supporters, such as myself.