Tell Us Dammit: Have You Ever Lied About Playing a Game?

***wraggster*** · August 25th, 2008, 00:12

Whoops! Hey, we missed TUD on Friday because of all the hoorah with GC 2008, so looks like I am the temporary caretaker of the giraffe this weekend. I got a question you can answer one of two ways. Or two questions and you can answer one. Or both. Who cares, here it goes.

So I'm hideous about staying current with popular culture. Lots of times people will ask me if I've seen a movie, or if I watch the latest HBO Original drama that everyone's raving about. (I never saw Borat. I don't watch Entourage.) And I'd rather avoid the horrified expressions and fulminating evangelism, so I make a non-committal statement in the affirmative and then dodge my way out of the conversation.

But last week, I had to admit I've never played Halo 3. (Well, never played it in multiplayer. I played it a little in singleplayer mode.) I felt like I had no good reason for that, especially as a games blogger, but that was a choice made before I came to Kotaku. So that leads us to today's TUD:

Have you ever bought and not played a video game because of peer pressure?
and/or
Have you ever told someone you played a game even when you hadn't, for any reason?

I'm especially curious about the second one. And for the record, I do have Halo 3. I bought it late last year when I was too busy for gaming. I'm working on that one.

http://kotaku.com/5041067/tell-us-da...playing-a-game

**Eviltaco64** · August 25th, 2008, 01:06

Not that I remember.
Sometimes I barely play a game, or I play a demo of a game and get the feel of it.
I dont think I've ever lied about playing a video game to make myself look 1337.

**JKKDARK** · August 25th, 2008, 01:42

I bought several games which I still didn't play.

**silverstein101** · August 25th, 2008, 01:59

i work at best buy(US), and i kinda hate to say this, but sometimes i'll recommend a game that i've looked at, and read reviews for, and know that at a minimum is at least a decent game[with the exception of haze, unfortiontaly i didn't read the review on that one until after i recommended it to a bunch of people]

**ish420ism** · August 25th, 2008, 02:46

Not personally. but a friend claims to have seen his brother fight sheng long, on snes version of street fighter2. Still claims it to this day. I don't, can't, and won't believe it.

**masterchief929** · August 25th, 2008, 03:12

i don't think i have ever lied about playing a game and it would be stupid to buy a game because of peer pressure.

**mike_jmg** · August 25th, 2008, 04:40

I don't think I've ever lied about something like that, but I bought a game I haven't played yet, like 2 months ago LOL

**Pilot_51** · August 25th, 2008, 05:22

Originally Posted by Eviltaco64

Not that I remember.
Sometimes I barely play a game, or I play a demo of a game and get the feel of it.
I dont think I've ever lied about playing a video game to make myself look 1337.

That pretty much summarizes it for me. I don't remember and don't know any reason for me to lie about such a thing. I'd say the worst I've done was play the demo of BF2142 for a couple laggy minutes and I sort of use that to say I've played it, although I'm truthful in that I'd say I've barely played it if I'm asked "how much?" or whatever. I dislike BF2142 for the direction it takes the series (I like the real-world accuracy of the vehicles and weapons in BF1942, BFV, and BF2) and not because I don't find it to be fun, so I win anyway.

When I'm not certain if I've played or watched something, as in I don't remember but it's possible I've forgotten, I usually say something like "I don't think so" when asked, which probably happens all too often. Maybe about 5% of the time when someone starts describing it I'll recall it.

I don't have much peer pressure in regard to games aside from my online friends, but my friends are good about not making fun of me or making me look bad if I have or haven't played a game (otherwise they wouldn't be my friends), so I see no point in lying about it.

**Eviltaco64** · August 25th, 2008, 05:29

Now we need to make an after school special about a troubled teenager who resorts to buying Halo 3 because his friends wouldnt think he's cool if he didnt.

It'll feature Bugs Bunny and the gang trying to teach him what the REAL monster is. Hell, there might even be a musical!