Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Guy who lurks]

Yoshi’s Story, which was an abomination

i thought people liked that game

 

[The Hardest R]

i thought people liked that game

Yoshi’s Island, sure. Yoshi’s Story was painfully unambitious and extremely short with virtually no replay value.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm not sure why, but Nintendo just didn't allow much to make it into the N64.

Nintendo's choice of cartridges over CDs provided disadvantages that developers/publishers had to attest if they wanted an N64 title. Limited space inside meant omitted content, specialized cartridges meant longer manufacturing costs. I'm sure Nintendo was also strict on what content could be allowed on their console then.

And that controller, very untraditional with a poorly designed analog stick. Nintendo is carried by their starship franchises. As bad as the Wii U performed, why do you think several Wii U first party titles made it to the Switch?

 

[Gondolindrim]

For whatever reason I never had a PS3, but I'm always amazed by the games that came out in that generation that you never hear about. I think that was a better time, less hits but more variety.

 

[The Hardest R]

For whatever reason I never had a PS3, but I'm always amazed by the games that came out in that generation that you never hear about. I think that was a better time, less hits but more variety.

I agree. Unfortunately, The Great Recession was absolutely brutal on developers and publishers that wanted to take a chance on a new idea but wanted assets in 720p or 1080p. 2006 through 2010 was definitely the silver era of gaming, though. Microsoft stepped on their own dicks with Kinect. Soyny, rattled by their performance in the early days of the PS3, definitely had a stronger finish.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

I genuinely miss Homefront 1's multiplayer

 

[Ser Prize]

Agreed, Ciri's living a pretty rough life. Doubt she has time to put a pound of cosmetics on every morning.

She sure did in Witcher 3, which is where the problem stems. On it's own I'd discount it; she's not even particularly ugly. But then you compare her to Witcher 3 Ciri and you see they altered the lower part of her face in a noticeable manner.

It's moreso that prior generations of game devs were introverts that aligned with libertarianism. They weren't explicitely right-wing, and the right was anti-video game for a while so it allowed leftists to feel welcome (at least once it wasn't so male dominated).

The 'right' were anti-game but it was the left that actually pushed to get it censored. Clowns like that one guy people loved to rally around and scream "FUCK YOU DAD" were just distractions.

 

[The Ugly One]

She sure did in Witcher 3, which is where the problem stems.

You're misremembering. She absolutely did not have that foundation-encrusted, glowing, Kardashian-style, poreless, ultra-contoured look that you see in the fan edit. Looks like they changed her face shape, but she didn't look like a Sephora ad before. Looked kind of like Kristen Stewart with raccoon eyeliner and a little blush. Gotta glow if you're going to battle.

 

[Ser Prize]

You're misremembering. She absolutely did not have that foundation-encrusted, glowing, Kardashian-style, poreless, ultra-contoured look that you see in the fan edit. Looks like they changed her face shape, but she didn't look like a Sephora ad before. Looked kind of like Kristen Stewart with raccoon eyeliner and a little blush. Gotta glow if you're going to battle.

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Oh the fan edit is garbage, but if you compare Witcher 3 Ciri to Witcher 4 Ciri you can see they changed the fuck out of her lower face. Probably another Horizon thing where they want to make her look 'strong'.

 

[Progtopher]

Oh the fan edit is garbage, but if you compare Witcher 3 Ciri to Witcher 4 Ciri you can see they changed the fuck out of her lower face. Probably another Horizon thing where they want to make her look 'strong'.

I remember seeing some edit of some fighting game where there was a fan edit of some black character, I think the game was either street fighter or tekken (the 3d modeled ones, not the 2d shit)

 

[The Last Stand]

Corny comic, I know but:



that is why I despise joining clans, guilds or adding "friends" for multiplayer titles.

 

[Brain Power]

Toby Fox and everything he has made is overrated as all hell. I'm tired of seeing him shoehorned fucking everywhere after Undertale got released.

 

[WULULULULU]

Game developers who have zero respect for PC gaming should not be given respect in any form whatsoever.

I read a post regarding an interview from Gamesradar about Unicorn Overlord and Vanillaware's inability to read the room regarding PC ports has left a bitter taste to me. Their unwillingness to allow a PC port of their games (hell I want a Dragon's Crown port) is bewildering to me considering that many Japanese gamers have already slowly started their transition to PC gaming (hence the abundance of JP Apex and Overwatch players in these years coupled with the PC MonHun games) not to mention many devs from Japan have started allowing a PC release, even their asian neighbors have started leaning into PC (such as Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade's PC port coming in 2025, not to mention the PC release of Earth Defense Force 6). This reeks of entitlement and a director's sense of pride that reminds me of the pretentious side of the indie gaming scene.

What eventually angered me that lead me to post this was the director's gall to complain how their company was in the constant case of bankruptcy, that they were running out of money, then they complain and beg to "please help us we're running out of funds uwu" type of shit. Atlus and SEGA are there and willing to port the fucking game for you retards, then you say "nah we can handle it" then the cycle repeats. This type of shit reeks pretentiousness on a whole other level that reminds me of the above post of Toby Fox and the indie scene.

The director thinks he can rise up and have his works be presented as some form of artwork yet he has this thinly veiled hatred for PC and constantly shits out begging posts for funding. Thing is, Vanillaware has nothing to show for that can be considered a "big hit" to keep them financially alive in the long run. Nintendo had to craft their roots before PC gaming was a thing so that they can be established and independent from PC as a whole and they have first party titles that incentivizes purchasing their platform (to compare in terms of UO's genre, that is Fire Emblem). Vanillaware is run with gimmicky shit, from their gameplay to storylines of their entire catalogue, and as a result you get a disjointed viewpoint of what they are capable of.

I compared this shit from the Bloodborne PC port that everyone wants but the situation has been reversed. In Sony's case, its the publisher holding the Bloodborne IP but Hidetaka Miyazaki is okay with giving Bloodborne a PC port, its just Sony being retards as usual. Here, Atlus and SEGA are open to PC ports (Persona 3-5, SMT V and Sonic Frontiers) but Vanillaware are too fucking dense to give a shit whatsoever. One is the publishers fault, the other is the developers' fault.

Vanillaware dug their grave with 13 Sentinels, now they can bury themselves in the same grave. Fire Emblem Three Houses and XCOM 2 will continue to be played in the tactical RPG genre and Unicorn Overlord will be forgotten in the sands of time, all because of the director's pride and ego.

 

[Norstein Bekkler]

This reeks of entitlement and a director's sense of pride that reminds me of the pretentious side of the indie gaming scene.

kamitani publicly feuded with a kotaku writer over dragons crown lol
dude's done some of the most beautiful video game art ever, but he's def prideful (and retarded)

 

[mrs thickness]

Vanillaware has nothing to show for that can be considered a "big hit" to keep them financially alive in the long run.

There is so much untapped horny loser SRPG money on the table in a post-3 Houses, and especially post-Engage, world. Not saying Unicorn Overlord would be the big hit, but there's an incredibly obvious amount of Fire Emblem in it, and Atlus is probably curious to try considering how much of the direct legwork they're willing to take on. Too bad the director of UO doesn't get a followup to his decently-successful directorial debut, which he made in the first place because he wants there to be more SRPGS since fucking noone else is making them. Nu-XCOM died an entirely pointless and preventable death, the people involved with FE live in bizarro world, and Square Enix likes drinking the stuff under the sink too much. Incredible waste of opportunity and the genre as a whole suffers because whoever holds the sticky stinky japanese soybeans has to be a stupid faggot.

THREAD TAX: Fire Emblem has been for horny losers since day 1 except it was for horny losers who play Rance and are tripping over themselves to tell you how epic NTR is.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

(Most) Game developers who have zero respect for PC gaming should not be given respect in any form whatsoever.

FIFY (this is also my tax, fuck the vast majority of game devs new and old).

There is so much untapped horny loser SRPG money on the table in a post-3 Houses, and especially post-Engage, world.

That mobile game Heroes proves that in spades, people are lovin' the artwork for the attractive (99% of) women. Even some of the male characters, from what I hear people are scrambling for them even if they suck gameplay wise (I think it suffers from the Yu-Gi-Oh effect where effects are a novel's length). Putting that in a mainline FE game will be like Awakening all over again.

Fire Emblem has been for horny losers since day 1 except it was for horny losers who play Rance and are tripping over themselves to tell you how epic NTR is.

Wat? No seriously what the fuck are you talking about? NTR? What does Rance, a game I'm sure barely anyone knew before the memes and hentai animation spread, a game that was (probably) not even a blip on the popular of FE1, a game that was barely even a year apart release wise, have to do with Fire Emblem

I'm not even a FE fan (anymore, dropped after Awakening) but this is just retarded. Everything else you posted I agree with.

Corny comic, I know but:

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that is why I despise joining clans, guilds or adding "friends" for multiplayer titles.

Wish I could get that experience, feels like a ghost town for some good engagement in online games.

Probably another Horizon thing where they want to make her look 'strong'.

Context.

Dust 514

Hurts the soul reading that.

 

[Progtopher]

Battle for Bikini Bottom is kind of overrated, it's kind of just Super Mario 64 with just Spongebob, I think Heavy Iron's product before it, Night of 100 frights is a lot better. And THQnordic needs to stop making Spongebob related shit, there's other franchises besides yellow cheese man that could use a remaster for one of their games if they ever got one. And yes, they are making another Spongebob game after Patrick received his own game.

 

[WULULULULU]

Square Enix likes drinking the stuff under the sink too much

>FF director: We won't be going back to our turn-based roots on FFXVI
>gets mogged by Baldur's Gate 3, a turn-based RPG with optional gay bear sex, on 2023
Get fucked.

 

[capitalBBustard]

>FF director: We won't be going back to our turn-based roots on FFXVI
>gets mogged by Baldur's Gate 3, a turn-based RPG with optional gay bear sex, on 2023
Get fucked.

>pretends 16 didn't get fucked over by PS5 exclusivity
>pretends BG3 is popular because muh turn-based
>pretends BG3's gameplay is the same as timer based Pokemon combat that was in FF
Only thing missing was pretending you're high IQ for pressing X in a menu.

 

[Jace on ice]

>FF director: We won't be going back to our turn-based roots on FFXVI
>gets mogged by Baldur's Gate 3, a turn-based RPG with optional gay bear sex, on 2023
Get fucked.

FF15 failed because it started life in 2013 as project Nova Crystalis and then as Project Verses 13 both of which were canceled and reworked into what would eventually become FF15.

There was basically no possible way for them to sell enough to offset a nine year dev cycle in which they started over several times.

16 failed mostly because it was incredibly boring and it honestly wasn't much of a game being about 80% cutscenes and not good ones.