Why don't you play good games Snap?
Attempt at burn FAILED!
Seriously though, GTAV and Dota2 are both masterful games, as well as
Ninja Gaiden Sigma (1) and MOST games that I play. Mercs 2 and BFBC were sadly exceptions because I allowed myself to get caught up in the hype that the store guy was selling me. They sounded fun by the way he explained them, but GTAIV was simply infinitely more fun than Mercs 2, and BFBC was liquid shit next to just about ANY other shooter at the time (which was rightfully dominated by COD4 then). But most of the time I hold out for the really, really good games.
GTAV is just an amazing, amazing game. Like many of the best games (in visuals) it takes the latest titles and a retrospective to be able to look back on it and realize that its graphics could be improved upon, because otherwise it looked THAT good. It never takes itself too seriously, yet its story is grounded and not flighty and ridiculous (the mission "Did Someone Say Yoga?" alone is a perfect mix of sincere and absurd, symbolic and literal). The voice acting is top notch, the characters are distinct and vivid, and the gameplay makes words like "intuitive" and "fluid" and "responsive" feel totally lacking. Not to mention INCREDIBLY fun, and always colorful. Coming back after nearly-a-year hiatus to the game and reading up on many of its details, I'm STILL finding out new things that I never noticed, like all those alternative ways to approach a quest in FO1/FO2 that you never knew about, you learn new things that were hidden in GTAV all the time. I'm only JUST now beginning to play something else when I sit my ass on my exercise bike for an hour a day, as I've neared the 100% mark in my latest run of GTAV, only this time I've endeavored to make it the "biggest payoff" run, unlike my first, where my characters could not afford every property in the game without some SERIOUS grinding. This time they're all gonna be billionaires! =D And the road to those virtual riches, unlike many other games, won't be tedious and boring. It'll be filled with entertainment AND delightful gameplay the whole way through.
As for Dota2, there's just no measurement for its greatness. You gotta be real sour to try and lump it up with bad games. =P Graphics have never been a must for me, but they've always been icing on the cake of a good game that I thoroughly enjoy, and Dota2's visuals are just breathtakingly spectacular. The framerates are so smooth and the animations are so crisp yet filled with character and the models themselves are simply jam-packed with detail and life! When I first played the beta back in late 2011 coming off of the earlier Dota clone
Heroes of Newerth, I somehow mistook the models for simplistic and bland, but then I watched a stream that had the visual settings maximized for display and literally drooled at the presentation. EVERY animation was just so beautiful! I came back to Dota2 off of other clones (yes, including LoL, so my distaste for the game is grounded in experience) for the gameplay, the high-end skill cap, the masterful level of balancing and patching, and just the superb gameplay in general, but damn if the visuals weren't some SERIOUSLY sweet icing on an already fantastic cake of unspeakable exquisiteness. I watch the pro games because they're that entertaining and strategically involving enough that they always keep you guessing what's gonna happen next. I play the game at the upper-end public level because it's always fun. I follow every patch release note because its so refined and meticulous that it's incredibly exciting to me on a mechanical level. It's a wonderful game, and one of the very, VERY few that can keep me entertained again and again, year after year.
That being said, I'm STILL taking a tiny break from exercising to GTAV and currently doing so to Sigma. I never completed the game on its highest difficulty setting (because I was adamant that every attempt would net me higher and higher scores, so I became increasingly demanding of my own performance and too perfectionist to continue) so I felt like I'd give that a go at long last this time around, but I'm not a lofty or impractical man, so I figured I'd do a dry run on Hard, first. Well, that didn't go so well (I felt), so now I'm replaying it on Normal, and working my way up. Yep, gonna beat the game from the very beginning, then again on Hard, and AGAIN on Very Hard, and at long last get around to beating Master Ninja, and hopefully end with a respectable karma score. I'm in the top several hundred in the world for my VH run, so given the sheer level of demand the game makes of its players, who knows? I may crack top 100 in MN! =D Or well, I can dream, anyway..... I will be returning to GTAV before I undertake all of this, to wrap up the 100% completion and all-billionaires statuses.
