Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Cryptosporidium 138]

dual posting but it's sort of the same with Skullgirls. Where everyone wrote it off because of the style then when they actually played it realized how technically and legit it is as a fighter but because it missed the window of opportunity to be a "mainstay" with the fighting game community due to the first impressions it only stayed as long because of its niche. The recent changes effectively kind of killed any interest the game ever had.

God Skullgirls. What happened to Skullgirls and Mike especially is fucking criminal. Them going back and taking all the panty shots out and censoring big band's story still pisses me off to this day, i don't play the game anymore after what they did to it and Mike.

But yes it definitely did get hit with the same thing DOA did. Skullgirls never got the recognition it deserved because it was lewd even though it was an incredibly fun fighting game at its core.

 

[Judge Dredd]

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Food for thought
I'm going with "k"

"Sure."
Works in real life too. They get really mad they know you don't care or aren't taking it seriously, but also can't shout more because you technically agreed with them.

There really don't seem to be any creatives on the right, at least not in games, so we've been in this trough of creativity for over 10 years now.

It's not a left-right thing. It's that creative mediums have been overtaken by boring political people who want to preach their message. Anyone creative is shut out for the "wrong politics" or shut out because they don't have the right connections. The few that go indie and do make it become a target the instant their head is above the parapet.


Thread tax: I miss game reviews, and they should make a come back.
No, I'm not talking about 2012 era game journo payola slop.
I'm not talking about modern day YouTubers that seem to be an exercise in virtue signaling, confirming preconceived opinions, or just using "review" as a vehicle for entertainment and self promotion.
And while I can appreciate a 3 hour deep dive as much as anyone else, being able to get an informative review in around 3-6 minutes seems to be a lost art.

 

[umseriously]

It's actually good to have a backlog of games even if you're buying or pirating new ones.

 

[The Last Stand]

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Perpetual niggeration.

I've been so restrained in my abuse and this is how they treat me?? Cock-suckers! Bashi-bazouks! Pedophiles! Fuck-tards! NIGGER

Why even participate in text chat, especially the way you presumably do, when you'd know how moderated it can be nowadays? At that point, you're doing it to yourself IMHO.

 

[Snake of Diamond]

God Skullgirls. What happened to Skullgirls and Mike especially is fucking criminal. Them going back and taking all the panty shots out and censoring big band's story still pisses me off to this day, i don't play the game anymore after what they did to it and Mike.

But yes it definitely did get hit with the same thing DOA did. Skullgirls never got the recognition it deserved because it was lewd even though it was an incredibly fun fighting game at its core.

You gotta love how some of these "wokies" really act. They want all media to be ultra political and not shy away from topics that are controversial yet when said topics show up in media they either portray it in an unrealistic cartoony way or censor it to the point that it loses the value to the story. Big Band was one of my favorite characters in the game and had a fun style to learn so censoring his backstory like that left a really bad taste in my mouth. It was also one of the most useless things the new team did but that is to be expected. These are the types who can't create they just co-opt to destroy.

Yep, they can't create shit. They have to push the same bullshit agenda, over, and over, and over again. The only time they get anything half way decent is when they steal it, when they shove the CREATOR out of his own fucking game by backstabbing and lying to him.

The funny part is that my two favorite characters in that game are the men, neither of which have huge fucking tits flopping everywhere or the panty shots the faggots that took over Skullgirls despise oh so much. It's almost like Skullgirls is more than just T and A? Big Band and Beowulf are the coolest fucking characters and they deserved far better than to rot under Skullgirls new shitty propaganda pushing, backstabbing, two faced piece of shit, "developers."

They want to coddle peolpe, treat everyone like kids who need protected and have no ailments. It's a stunted juvenile mindset treating everyone else as if they are also stunted but individual peolpe are more sophisticated than the collective. Slight power level here but as a minority i don't care about representation i just want the thing to entertain me that is the base level of what video games, movies, music, etc are supposed to do. Their agenda takes away individual thought and forces it to be collective so as a minority i should be whining with the crowd because there's not enough brown people in media whining about racism.

It's ironic when people will go you shouldn't judge something on perceived appearances and actually look deeper into things but you catch those same people with things like DOA and Skullgirls. They wrote them off as just being sexy fighters not understanding that the sexiness is part of the experience. It's like complaining about items in a Mario Kart game which sure they're annoying but it's the appeal of why people play Mario Kart as it makes racing more interesting than just general racing,

 

[Asian tech support]

what?
people rip on DS2, i haven't seen anyone talking shit about DS3 in a long time.

I personally don't like it as much as Demons/DS1/BB but I'm also a giga souls autist and if it doesn't tickle my autism just right, it ain't it. Imo, the only thing DS3 has over the earlier titles is that their tech got bosses to do more than sit in a spot and pivot... which is probably why the game receives universal praise for its bosses. It's also THE From game that properly put them into the mainstream. Every sloptuber says it's their favorite, tons of people on the forum say it's their favorite, and I can understand why even if I disagree.

 

[Cryptosporidium 138]

You gotta love how some of these "wokies" really act. They want all media to be ultra political and not shy away from topics that are controversial yet when said topics show up in media they either portray it in an unrealistic cartoony way or censor it to the point that it loses the value to the story. Big Band was one of my favorite characters in the game and had a fun style to learn so censoring his backstory like that left a really bad taste in my mouth. It was also one of the most useless things the new team did but that is to be expected. These are the types who can't create they just co-opt to destroy.

Yep, they can't create shit. They have to push the same bullshit agenda, over, and over, and over again. The only time they get anything half way decent is when they steal it, when they shove the CREATOR out of his own fucking game by backstabbing and lying to him.

The funny part is that my two favorite characters in that game are the men, neither of which have huge fucking tits flopping everywhere or the panty shots the faggots that took over Skullgirls despise oh so much. It's almost like Skullgirls is more than just T and A? Big Band and Beowulf are the coolest fucking characters and they deserved far better than to rot under Skullgirls new shitty propaganda pushing, backstabbing, two faced piece of shit, "developers."

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Most modern games people say are life changing I just think are worth playing but nothing groundbreaking. Maybe it's because I've been gaming longer than these newer gamers have been alive.

 

[The Ugly One]

I replayed Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring back to back and was surprised at how much more creative the boss and level design was compared to Elden Ring because people rip on that game for some reason.

I feel the same way about it that I do about Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction. It was fine, I just didn't have any appetite for more after 1, 2, and 3. After Demon's Souls, DS1, and BB (skipped DS2), there wasn't anything DS3 could possibly do, really.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Most modern games people say are life changing I just think are worth playing but nothing groundbreaking. Maybe it's because I've been gaming longer than these newer gamers have been alive.

Everything needing to be the best game evar or the worstest game of all time is really draining as well. It's one thing if we're talking Concord or something like that, but is the latest ubislop or fortnite clone really that bad when compared to the likes of Superman 64 or Big Rigs? Not a chance.

I also see the opposite a lot from old timers. Declaring new games that are genuinely good to be bad for the dumbest of reasons. Vampire Survivors is pretty great, but if falls under the definition of "pixel-shit" or "indie-shit". Buckshot Roulette is another game I saw get a lot of flak that seemed unwarranted.
But VR is my big example when it comes to this kind of thing. No matter what kind of VR mechanics they come up with, there's always a complaint that it isn't original enough, or that it's just one game, or that it could be done by pressing a button on flatscreen so doesn't count, or that it's too similar to an existing IP.

 

[Lei Wulong's Left Leg]

I did not care for Red Dead Redemption 2. It insists upon itself.

 

[Cryptosporidium 138]

I did not care for Red Dead Redemption 2. It insists upon itself.

What? Petah what does that even mean?

I agree though, but i don't know what that's worth as i didn't really like red dead one either, never beat either of them. Never beat GTA 4 or 5 either, yet i've beat Bully about half a dozen times.

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

I do not like this thing, and I will never understand why it's so frequently recommended as (one of) the best PC gamepads. Just out of the box, its directional pad is a squishy, imprecise mess that renders it useless for games that require complex digital inputs like 2D fighters, and its analog sticks are simply not very durable. It has some things going for it, like its ergonomics and the fact that it's not coated with that stuff that degrades into fucking GLUE over time, but it's still a piece of crap.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

The NES mega man games have intresting concepts but they aren’t executed well due to the difficulty of the games (which to be fair was nessecary given games were shorter then due to memory limits)

 

[playswithsticks]

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I do not like this thing, and I will never understand why it's so frequently recommended as (one of) the best PC gamepads. Just out of the box, its directional pad is a squishy, imprecise mess that renders it useless for games that require complex digital inputs like 2D fighters, and its analog sticks are simply not very durable. It has some things going for it, like its ergonomics and the fact that it's not coated with that stuff that degrades into fucking GLUE over time, but it's still a piece of crap.

Are you looking at recommendations for personal submarine controllers per chance?

 

[Loris Yeltsin]

Are you looking at recommendations for personal submarine controllers per chance?

Heh, I had completely forgotten about that. They used a different iteration of it, though, the wireless one.


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I personally don't like it as much as Demons/DS1/BB but I'm also a giga souls autist and if it doesn't tickle my autism just right, it ain't it.

Speaking of Souls 'tism, one of the (admittedly many) things I didn't like about DS3 was that they removed that clanky, scrapy sound effect from walking around in heavy armor.

I'm not literally autistic but this annoyed me for some reason.

 

[Jace on ice]

I did not care for Red Dead Redemption 2. It insists upon itself.

RDR2 feels like a tech demo in that the level of hyper realism and animation quality and shit like that is incredibly impressive.

But is it actually fun to play?

No, not really.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

RDR2 feels like a tech demo in that the level of hyper realism and animation quality and shit like that is incredibly impressive.

But is it actually fun to play?

No, not really.

Yeah, the missions (AKA core gameplay) always interest me the most in games of that kind and RDR2's were mostly underwhelming. Too much time is spent getting to the objective. There's a whole chunk of the map that serves no purpose other than hunting. Barely any mission can be completed in an unorthodox way.

I remember watching this video shortly after finishing the game and I think I agreed with everything that guy said. It has 11mln views, so there's a decent chance it was posted in this thread at some point.

 

[Irregardless]

Everything needing to be the best game evar or the worstest game of all time is really draining as well. It's one thing if we're talking Concord or something like that, but is the latest ubislop or fortnite clone really that bad when compared to the likes of Superman 64 or Big Rigs? Not a chance.

I don't think it helps that the margins of a game being good or bad have widened either.
Like when I think of games I've played recently, there's very few that I would consider just "OK" rather than being "good" or "bad", compared to when I was growing up there were plenty of games I played that felt just "OK".

I think a lot of it does have to do with quality, and a lot of company's back in the day unironically putting the fries in the bag when it came to just making a fuckin game.
It feels like the same situation that's going on with a lot of Hollywood where there's no more "AA" movies, the kind of movie that has a budget of $10 million and makes back $25 million.

 

[Jarch6]

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I do not like this thing, and I will never understand why it's so frequently recommended as (one of) the best PC gamepads. Just out of the box, its directional pad is a squishy, imprecise mess that renders it useless for games that require complex digital inputs like 2D fighters, and its analog sticks are simply not very durable. It has some things going for it, like its ergonomics and the fact that it's not coated with that stuff that degrades into fucking GLUE over time, but it's still a piece of crap.

Did you just wake up from a coma you succumbed to in 2012? I haven’t seen this thing put forth as a controller recommendation (beyond the titan memes) in eons.

what?
people rip on DS2, i haven't seen anyone talking shit about DS3 in a long time.

Because DS2 has the “black sheep” reputation it has plenty of contrarian supporters (/v/ and YouTube to a lesser extent) whereas DS3 is known for being the first FS game with mass appeal which makes it easy to shit on for questionable reasons (too many references to DS1, linear levels, etc.)

I'd argue that a live service is a far more risky investment.

Have you considered that as a boomer I don’t actually understand the videogame market and just see how much Fortnite and Roblox make and want a piece of that pie with my company to make my shareholders happy?