Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[AN/ALR56]

I've replayed KOTOR 1 and i can't fucking do the light side path, it is really the most evil shit i could ever think of:

Spoiler

Somehow, not killing someone, but instead mind raping them into oblivion, filling their mind with a entire lifetime of fake memories and then tricking them into being set off in the hopes your subconscious guides you like a torpedo into blowing up everything you once were and everything you ever built in your life is the good side?, i can't really think of any worst fate,at least if you die, you die with your identity, the you intact, not even demoni9c possession is a evil of a act to do on someone, at least the devil is only hijacking the body or puppeting the soul, they don't format and rewrite the soul into something else

At least, mass effect, barring some cringe dialogue options has a far better good and evil system, because it's freed from the star wars shitty concept of a always evil vs always good duality, you can choose to be a idealist or a pessimist pragmatist.

Lucas should had written the force as something neutral, a power of nature, something like harnessing the wind or some shit and let the actions of the characters define them, like in every single comic book or metaphyisical powered character ever written before and after star wars.

 

[ChampFantana]

Unpopular opinion?

Final Fantasy is a dogshit franchise, and none of the games are worth playing no matter how many they remake.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Don't say that too loud in this thread, you'll get some tranny who swears that they're ZE UBERMENSCH and can see 666fps, and will shove a headache inducing slideshow reel to prove it. Nevermind that if you took the FPS indicator away, they wouldn't actually notice a difference between 60fps and 75fps or higher and it's just placebo effect if they claim to.

I don't know why this continues to be controversial. People can tell, though it's deminishing returns. Not every game needs it or benefits from it. That's really all there is to it.

By this point, people still arguing it are just console fanboys mad that their PS5 Pro XL can't run Sony slop quite as well as a £6000 high end gaming PC. Likewise, those saying a game is unplayable unless it's at 2000fps with ray tracing DLLS whatever are also coping.

Final Fantasy is a dogshit franchise, and none of the games are worth playing no matter how many they remake.

I remember back in the day when people would say Final Fantasy 7 was the first Final Fantasy. You're right though. FF only has a fanbase in the west because FF7 blew their minds with those FMV cutscenes.

 

[The Ugly One]

I've replayed KOTOR 1 and i can't fucking do the light side path, it is really the most evil shit i could ever think of:

Spoiler

Somehow, not killing someone, but instead mind raping them into oblivion, filling their mind with a entire lifetime of fake memories and then tricking them into being set off in the hopes your subconscious guides you like a torpedo into blowing up everything you once were and everything you ever built in your life is the good side?, i can't really think of any worst fate,at least if you die, you die with your identity, the you intact, not even demoni9c possession is a evil of a act to do on someone, at least the devil is only hijacking the body or puppeting the soul, they don't format and rewrite the soul into something else

At least, mass effect, barring some cringe dialogue options has a far better good and evil system, because it's freed from the star wars shitty concept of a always evil vs always good duality, you can choose to be a idealist or a pessimist pragmatist.

Lucas should had written the force as something neutral, a power of nature, something like harnessing the wind or some shit and let the actions of the characters define them, like in every single comic book or metaphyisical powered character ever written before and after star wars.

I do NOT remember this at all. I just remember killing some guy with a robot jaw or some shit. Wasn't he powering himself with dudes in glass tubes? Come to think of it, I barely remember the story...some kind of giant stellar engine for making space ships, some Sith archaeology, a really terrible water planet, and a thief chick with big fleshy appendages on her head. And then I killed a dude with a robot jaw.

 

[ZMOT]

Jesse Faden from Control?
Starts off as a scared young woman drawn into a spooky skyscraper to find her younger brother.
Ten minutes later, she's appointed to director of a massive goverment agency by picking up a magic gun.
Twenty hours and over many challenges, trials and setbacks, she gradually grows into the leader and heroine needed to save the agency/world/brother.
The character has a wide jaw, yes, but, so does the cute actress who plays her.
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except that's not a female character, that's christoph waltz.

if you took the FPS indicator away, they wouldn't actually notice a difference between 60fps and 75fps or higher and it's just placebo effect if they claim to.

the problem isn't frames, but frametime.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

the problem isn't frames, but frametime.

The guy you're replying to literally believes that there is no perceptible difference when going from 60Hz to 120Hz

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

By this point, people still arguing it are just console fanboys mad that their PS5 Pro XL can't run Sony slop quite as well as a £6000 high end gaming PC. Likewise, those saying a game is unplayable unless it's at 2000fps with ray tracing DLLS whatever are also coping.

Considering a PS5 is at the price of a mid range PC, it doing mid performance is fine. That the disk drive is separate annoys me because the reason to get it is also to upscale PS4 games.

EDIT: Fucking phone posting.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Battlepasses of reasonable reward, price and frequency are good. Paying for DLC and subscription services have become the norm, and the concept of playing a shooter 'just for the fun' or the MMR is an outdated concept.

I don't mind being assblasted for 25 mins (as much) if I get half a battlepass level towards a fomo-but-not-really skin.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I would actually be okay with modern Naughty Dog making a new Jak and Daxter game. The way I see it, it'll go one of two ways: If it's good, then great. If it's bad, then nothing really changes. The originals that I grew up with will always exist and we'll just not talk about the reboot, same thing happened with Ratchet and Clank when they made that movie tie in (which I enjoyed actually)

I also thought the movie tie in was fine. Nothing special, but not worth the hate. The only issue was the edginess of the original was gone, making it more bland, but it was still a fun play.

 

[The Ugly One]

the problem isn't frames, but frametime.

Did they stop putting motion blur in games? There were ton of 30 fps games in the PS2 and PS3 era, but they were virtually all using hardware motion blur.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

It's never a game that would actually put that rig to the test like Cyberpunk 2077, is it? Shit, I hate fags who will spend that level of scratch on a rig, just to play the most basic bitch flavor of the season twitchbait garbage like Overwatch, Fortnite, or <CURRENT YEAR> Call of Duty.

Don't say that too loud in this thread, you'll get some tranny who swears that they're ZE UBERMENSCH and can see 666fps, and will shove a headache inducing slideshow reel to prove it. Nevermind that if you took the FPS indicator away, they wouldn't actually notice a difference between 60fps and 75fps or higher and it's just placebo effect if they claim to.

I can understand bottoming out the graphics in specific niche cases (like in War Thunder, playing on bottom settings removes a lot of clutter from the maps and sometimes gives you an advantage when playing ground forces), or if you're on an old rig and you're trying to achieve a stable playable framerate. But if you're already at stable and playable, why the hell would you make a game look worse for a few more frames?

if you build a pc to play cp77 at max with all the nvidia shit settings you have mental retardation

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

It's never a game that would actually put that rig to the test like Cyberpunk 2077,

Does Cyberpunk really have high requirements these days? FSR3+FG gave it a huge performance uplift. STALKER 2 would be a better example.

 

[The Ugly One]

Does Cyberpunk really have high requirements these days? FSR3+FG gave it a huge performance uplift. STALKER 2 would be a better example.

The purists don't like using upscaling or frame generation.

By the way, you can get frame generation in any game on any fairly recent GPU (pretty sure GeForce 10 series or Radeon 500 series work) using the Lossless Scaling app on Steam. It's only $7 and is worth every penny.

 

[The Foxtrot]

The guy you're replying to literally believes that there is no perceptible difference when going from 60Hz to 120Hz

There isn't.

if you build a pc to play cp77 at max with all the nvidia shit settings you have mental retardation

If you do that for any game, you have mental retardation. Bragging about your rig used to be who could make the most kickass rig without taking out a mortgage.

Does Cyberpunk really have high requirements these days? FSR3+FG gave it a huge performance uplift. STALKER 2 would be a better example.

If you want to max everything out, yes. If you just want the game to still look sexy as hell but you don't care if everything's maxed out, not really.

 

[ReasonablyRetarded]

This is an unpopular opinion among the niche but:
Even on sim-games there's a limit that should be maintained in regards to realism in order to uphold a game's primary objective, being fun.

I enjoy sims.
But I'm currently playing War on the Sea and having to deal with the dogshit early war American torpedoes is a pain.

If you're unaware, early war American torpedoes were a total clusterfuck and ungodly unreliable (fun rabbit hole albeit infuriating to dive down).
Just now I was setting up an ambush on a Japanese convoy with 2 submarines, launching 12 torpedoes to get 8 hits, but 6 duds that just straight up do nothing, it absolutely sucks.
Hell, there's a singular Japanese Mogami class heavy cruiser in my current campaign that has achieved mythical status because despite being hit by a dozen torps total, they all managed to be duds.

 

[The Ugly One]

This is an unpopular opinion among the niche but:
Even on sim-games there's a limit that should be maintained in regards to realism in order to uphold a game's primary objective, being fun.

I enjoy sims.
But I'm currently playing War on the Sea and having to deal with the dogshit early war American torpedoes is a pain.

If you're unaware, early war American torpedoes were a total clusterfuck and ungodly unreliable (fun rabbit hole albeit infuriating to dive down).
Just now I was setting up an ambush on a Japanese convoy with 2 submarines, launching 12 torpedoes to get 8 hits, but 6 duds that just straight up do nothing, it absolutely sucks.
Hell, there's a singular Japanese Mogami class heavy cruiser in my current campaign that has achieved mythical status because despite being hit by a dozen torps total, they all managed to be duds.

Imagine how bad Panzer General would be if dive bombers sucked as much in the game as they did in real life.

If you haven't played the game, dive bombers are basically an auto-win button once you get their rank up. SSI loved their Stukas.

 

[ReasonablyRetarded]

Imagine how bad Panzer General would be if dive bombers sucked as much in the game as they did in real life.

If you haven't played the game, dive bombers are basically an auto-win button once you get their rank up. SSI loved their Stukas.

Haven't played it but I've looked into it before.
It's kind of annoying because on the Japanese side submarines are pretty much an instant win button, but on the US side they are still decent enough, but just infuriating to use(to be fair, carriers are the real instant win button in this game) .
I still do recommend the game especially it being on sale right now, but man. It has it ups and downs.

 

[The Ugly One]

Haven't played it but I've looked into it before.
It's kind of annoying because on the Japanese side submarines are pretty much an instant win button, but on the US side they are still decent enough, but just infuriating to use(to be fair, carriers are the real instant win button in this game) .
I still do recommend the game especially it being on sale right now, but man. It has it ups and downs.

The original game is basically abandonware, and easy to find, but there is an excellent hex-for-hex remake called Panzer Corps on Steam, and its equally excellent sequel (now in full 3D!), Panzer Corps 2. I recommend them all without reservations.

 

[Jace on ice]

I would actually be okay with modern Naughty Dog making a new Jak and Daxter game. The way I see it, it'll go one of two ways: If it's good, then great. If it's bad, then nothing really changes. The originals that I grew up with will always exist and we'll just not talk about the reboot, same thing happened with Ratchet and Clank when they made that movie tie in (which I enjoyed actually)

If Naughty Dog made a new Jak and Daxter game it would just be 10 hours of Jak buttfucking Daxter as a metaphor for toxic masculinity or some shit.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

There isn't.

If you don't want to look like a dumbass, actually compare 120 FPS to 60 FPS on something that displays >60 FPS. If you compare a "120 FPS" video to a 60 FPS video on a monitor with a 60 Hz refresh (usually in the settings), it WILL look the same.

The problem is that usually neither side thinks of this, so you get one person who erroneously DOES see 60 fps = 120 fps and is willing to die on that hill, and the "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU" side who knows that's wrong but doesn't know why the other person sees it that way.