Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

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The XBOX Series S is actually a nice little console. It's affordable, easy to use and reliable. Perfect for the average normy that just wants to play sports games or Fortnight. Had it been given a bit more love by Microsoft such as a bigger SSD, and possibly an attachable disc drive to better take advantage of the backwards compatible library I think it would've done much better.
 
The Gifted Kid said:
The XBOX Series S is actually a nice little console. It's affordable, easy to use and reliable. Perfect for the average normy that just wants to play sports games or Fortnight. Had it been given a bit more love by Microsoft such as a bigger SSD, and possibly an attachable disc drive to better take advantage of the backwards compatible library I think it would've done much better.
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They should have come up with a naming scheme that wasn't confusing so people would know it wasn't the same thing as an Xbox One Series S. Ineffable stupidity is behind Xbox branding.
 
Chapalapachapa said:
not liking turn based games is totally fine. no i wont play fallout 1 and 2
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I absolutely HATE turnslop, yet I love the first two Fallout games. I guess being able to blow a dinner plate-sized hole in my enemy's torso with a burst from my Bozar wins a lot of good will from me.

I still don't give a shit about Rogue Trader though, and never will. Ain't gonna bother with Dark Heresy either.
 
The Ugly One said:
They should have come up with a naming scheme that wasn't confusing so people would know it wasn't the same thing as an Xbox One Series S. Ineffable stupidity is behind Xbox branding.
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The name didn't hurt it in any way. Nobody would have given a shit about the S either way.

I'm of the same opinion with the Wii U though. The Wii U failed because it didn't offer enough value/change to normies over the Wii and the gimmick was shit.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Videogames are so time consuming that people develop sunk cost mentality about it and take it really personally.
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I'm the opposite: I fear sinking time into games if they turn out shit. I'll refund a game Ive waited years to buy on a $19 sale just in case I don't feel like I'll play it more than 20 hours. But then a game does drop like Grounded, fucking love it to bits, almost 100% it, but then I stop playing for a while and just don't wanna get back into it cause itll take 6 hours to regain my understanding of it. Which is fucking fine, but it doesn't feel that way. I can't sloppy seconds a game no matter how much I love it.
Scarthew said:
Unironically yes, if you collect every korok seed you're an idiot theyre scattershot placement is to ensure you get enough in a playthrough while providing a small observation puzzle. Wanting to get them all is achievement brain shit.
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I can't play games without achievements, but the kind that push you to do things you wouldn't otherwise do. Tomb Raider Remaster is fucking S++ tier in achievements. Small little things you have to do here and there in a level that aren't hard but require going out of your way to do. And then you've done them. 100%ed the map. Never again. No retarded "now replay the game xD" type slop.
Problematic User Forever said:
I'm of the same opinion with the Wii U though. The Wii U failed because it didn't offer enough value/change to normies over the Wii and the gimmick was shit.
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Nintendo has been choosing gimmicks over performance since the 64. "superior CD disc format? Nah we'll make a... half... disc.. for the gamecube". A fucking MOUSE in a controller? What for? To play 480p Civ 7, which is bombing btw?
 
How come consoles that associate themselves with power end up having long term issues? PlayStation 3 had the YLoD because of bad capacitors, the original Xbox as well has bad clock capacitors that would burst over time, I recall the Sega CD having disc read errors or bad marketing.
 
The Ugly One said:
Deep Rock Galactic, No Man's Sky, Battlefield series.
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Was Bad Company the first BF with destructible environments? I can't remember.

Can you destroy stuff to make shortcuts, block off sections of the map or bury enemies under rubble in the more recent installments?
 
dont think this is too unpopular of an opinion but completely playable games getting remastered is just retarded. I was playing nwn2 earlier this year and it's been scheduled for a remaster really scared about that because of how gay and trooned out d&d is. Why? It's fine. Oblivion? Again, I was playing oblivion earlier this year. What I saw of the remaster takes away the spirit of the game.
If it can run on a modern system I don't see the point. Given current year, I don't even see a reason to remake older games like Albion, NWN1, BG1 or even Dark Souls to fix lost izalith. Just seems like a cheap cash grab. Blizzard outsourced WCIII to some gook company that was underequipped to do it. No one in Bethesda can use anything other than frostbite or creation so they outsourced Oblivion Remaster hence why it's in ue5. So you aren't even getting anything close to authenticity.
 
⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
but then I stop playing for a while and just don't wanna get back into it cause itll take 6 hours to regain my understanding of it.
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this is why its so difficult to start new games nowadays. I am not good playing an hour here or there, if i do that i'll just kinda loose interest because it drags on for weeks to see the end of a long game that way. If i try to make time to play some proper sessions and play an entire weekend for example then i might have wait to whenever i have the time to continue, and i might drop it just because other things get in the way.

There's games i definitely want to sit down and beat but i haven't found the right time for it.
 
LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
this is why its so difficult to start new games nowadays. I am not good playing an hour here or there, if i do that i'll just kinda loose interest because it drags on for weeks to see the end of a long game that way. If i try to make time to play some proper sessions and play an entire weekend for example then i might have wait to whenever i have the time to continue, and i might drop it just because other things get in the way.

There's games i definitely want to sit down and beat but i haven't found the right time for it.
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When did playing a game start feeling like I accidentally booted up Netflix with controller support?

You press "New Game" and bam — 20 minutes of cutscenes, emotional piano music, and a guy staring out a rain-soaked window contemplating his dark past™.

All I wanted was to swing a sword or jump on a Goomba, not unpack a tragic backstory about why the princess left.

And then there's the forced interactivity just to make sure you're paying attention.
“Move the left stick slightly to bond with your dying friend.”

“Tap square repeatedly to understand generational trauma.”
I just want to play, not attend a playable TED Talk.

Also, why the sudden obsession with over-explaining everything?
It’s like games are scared you won’t understand the emotional nuance of stomping cartoon mushrooms unless they drop three hours of lore on you first.

"See, Mario jumps on Goombas because of deep-seated resentment from his childhood in Brooklyn—"
No.
He jumps on them because that’s what you do in Mario. It’s a game.

Whatever happened to learning the story as you play?
Let the world tell it.
Let the gameplay do the work.

Dark Souls nailed this.
Minimal exposition, just a weird, haunting world that makes you curious.
You want to figure it out.
No one’s spoon-feeding you cutscenes every five feet, yet somehow it has more atmosphere than half the “cinematic” games combined.

And best of all?
People actually talk about it.
They share theories.
They piece things together.
You get community, not just passive viewers.

Games don’t need to act like movies to be meaningful.
They just need to trust players to play.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Not an unpopular opinion per say but I firmly believe the reason people dip in and out of games so quickly, myself included, is just the general speeding up of media consumption and doomscrolling. I can be 100% into a game one day and want to uninstall and refund it the next. The best moments I've had in gaming has been hours of just complete obsession with a game. Same way you don't see people devoting so much of their person to a game that they'll afk in stormwind just to chat with guildies. Nah, now it's Discord and playing something else.
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When I was younger I used to devote time to just running around worlds in Mario, Zelda and GTA, just messing around and doing what was available. Now, I don't really have the patience to do so, I think I just grew out of surfing around on a koopa shell in Bob-bomb Battlefield because it wasn't as much fun as when I was ten, or gunning down a bunch of people in San Andreas because I'm not 16 any more. I have games I've thought about platinuming but then the time sink just makes it seem too daunting and I don't.
 
Slap47 said:
Physical goods is one of those things that everybody says they want, but most do not really want.
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The Ugly One said:
You can feel nostalgia for past experiences without being willing to give up all the modern conveniences that made those past experiences go away.
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Again, I personally feel the need to have those experiences again, but I would need a PS3, Xbox & 360 to have those experiences. There has to be an easier way to play older games without needing to pay top dollar for physical media, keep older hardware and rely on hit and miss remasters.

I am thinking any buying a 360 again, but again, some consoles are accident prone.
 
The Last Stand said:
Again, I personally feel the need to have those experiences again, but I would need a PS3, Xbox & 360 to have those experiences. There has to be an easier way to play older games without needing to pay top dollar for physical media, keep older hardware and rely on hit and miss remasters.

I am thinking any buying a 360 again, but again, some consoles are accident prone.
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With some of the consoles, you can hack them to use fixed storage instead of a removable drive and play ROMs off flash storage or whatever.
 
The Ugly One said:
With some of the consoles, you can hack them to use fixed storage instead of a removable drive and play ROMs off flash storage or whatever.
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Something easier than that. Like a machine where I could keep games inside and just swap the controllers.
 
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