Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

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I have no idea how unpopular this idea is, but whatever genre Vampire Survivors, Soulstone Survivors and Megabonk ect. is (reverse bullet hell?) the defining genre for now along with Soulslike, and AAA companies will be late to the party and rip it off 10 years from now.
at least it's not CRAFTING...
 
I have no idea how unpopular this idea is, but whatever genre Vampire Survivors, Soulstone Survivors and Megabonk ect. is (reverse bullet hell?) the defining genre for now along with Soulslike, and AAA companies will be late to the party and rip it off 10 years from now.
Shit, the blueprint for those games is basically Crimsonland which came out in like 01 or 02

Eons of slop await
 
Shit, the blueprint for those games is basically Crimsonland which came out in like 01 or 02

Eons of slop await
That's true, only real difference is Crimsonland made you actually press a button to fire a weapon instead of automatically firing. That was a good game, I actually really like that whole genre that doesn't really have a name yet. Another one just like Crimsonland is Tesla vs Lovecraft, made by the same company over a decade later. Unfortunately they seem to have gotten more into mixing crafting slop with their later games, which sucks.

But I can almost guarantee that 5-10 years from now EA or someone like that will get awards from games "journalists" just for copying that formula.

It doesn't seem too difficult for a small team to make them, which leads to big variance in gameplay. I personally like Rogue Genesia and one called Boneraiser Minions where you summon units from a graveyard to hover around you, so it's almost like a moving tower defense with you as the thing to protect while you are moving. I feel like people barely talk about these unless they are the flavor of the month, when I feel it's some of the best modern gaming has to offer.
 
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are you trying to say that the value of something can be correlated to the quality of it?
More that the F310 wins on price to performance so if someone is on the market for a controller on a budget of a fishing hook and a twig i think it’s a compelling proposition.

I bought myself one when my previous controller broke while I was playing through MGS5, and used it for a while afterwards before i got myself an 8bitdo.
 
That's true, only real difference is Crimsonland made you actually press a button to fire a weapon instead of automatically firing.
Observing the devolution from Robotron 2084 to Crimsonland to Vampire Survivors, you can actually track the medium's retardation as a function of time
 
These days the go-to is an Xbox controller
Dualsense* steam offers support for all major controls and its the superior option by far. First off the xbox control is bad for fighting games and platformers because it lacks a dpad (I know someone's gonna say it has one, the disc is a joystick it lacks axial locking). The sticks are misalign constantly keeping your hands asymeyrical for any camera heavy game, the xbox face buttons are convex for some baffling reason making them uncomfortable to rest and to press and muddying lean presses. On top of that.

The dual sense gimmicks let you use gyroscope aim for emulated games, cursor for old fps games that had 2 hands on keyboard but mouse for interact and give full functionality for all of sony's ports. Its by far your best option.
 
Less "Unpopular" than "Not fully understood", but it took me this long to realize when people said that certain people see themselves in ugly video game characters, I knew that, but the full implications didn't really sink in for me until recently.

Believe it or not, it was this specific image that made it click for me and raised me to a whole new level of understanding:
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They LITERALLY AND FULLY see themselves in that thing with the stomach roll! They look at it and say "This is me!" some of them really, truly can't see this and go "This is me":
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This whole time I knew they wanted "Things that look like them" in video games but I was thinking of it in the same way where it's like "Oh I may not personally be Doom Guy, but I see myself in him because I can relate to how he acts."
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They don't feel "represented" until they see the Thing That Looks Like Them because they NEED the thing to be THEM! It would be like if I needed a character maker in Doom so I could recreate myself in my physical body. It's almost ineffable how subtle the difference really is, but I get it now, and I wonder what understandings remain to be uncovered!
 
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This whole time I knew they wanted "Things that look like them" in video games but I was thinking of it in the same way where it's like "Oh I may not personally be Doom Guy, but I see myself in him because I can relate to how he acts."
I guess I never thought about it because I basically look like a cross between Duke Nukem, Johnny Cage, and the two guys from Contra, but I can see how representation might be a problem for ugly, weird-looking, and/or brown people.
 
They don't feel "represented" until they see the Thing That Looks Like Them because they NEED the thing to be THEM!
When I was a kid playing Duke Nukem, I just thought he was cool, so I wanted to play more games starring him.

As an adult, I want good characters and stories I can be invested in, or I want to roleplay custom characters. I very rarely make "myself" in games with character gen unless the game wants you to do that.

It was only as a teen with massive self-esteem issues that I had any desire for LITERALLY ME characters. So, I'm assuming that's why these spergs have this issue: they're stuck in emotional arrested development around their teenage years, and still need to live vicariously through characters who are superficially the same to have a sense of self-worth.

.... And then there's just narcissistic cunts who can only care about themselves.
 
"Man, I sure do like Duke Nukem 3D, but I'd like it a lot more if Duke were a scrawny teenager with terminal acne and a Megadeth T-shirt!"

I mean yeah that's what it'd be for the average kid, but I was surrounded by a lot of lower-lower-class niggerfaggotry as a child, so my 'teenage rebellion' was through Paragon Commander Shepard, not Postal Dude.
 
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I'm probably the only one who thought the Legend trilogy Lara Croft was the best one. Apologies. It was my first and its a favorite. Even with Zip and Alistair's annoying chatter.
 
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)
Am I crazy, but outside M&B the classic Mega man games are easy? You have infinite continues, the levels are short and the checkpoints are generous. In the later ones you can carry multiple full heal items that don't reset upon a continue(except mm2). That in some of the entries you can buy or grind for more, basically making them infinite and trivializing all the boss fights. The Megaman games are only really hard in a few difficulty spikes such as the Wily 2 and 7 boss fights, but overall are very forgiving and easy games.
 
I have no idea how unpopular this idea is, but whatever genre Vampire Survivors, Soulstone Survivors and Megabonk ect. is (reverse bullet hell?) the defining genre for now along with Soulslike, and AAA companies will be late to the party and rip it off 10 years from now.
I've been enjoying Megabonk and Vampire Survivors, but I can't help but notice that it's just a mobile game with all the shitty ads and features removed.

Honestly, if these fucking jeets and chinks would just make a decent barebones game instead of trying to gacha-fy everything I'm sure mobile gaming wouldn't be such a fucking joke.
 
It’s surprising that the top down shooter genre (in the form of vampire survivors) didn’t explode earlier despite already existing in essentially the same form over 20 years ago.

I’m sure it was a combination of price point & total market size. More people really should have bought & played brood war / wc3 even just for their custom map scenes.
 
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