Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

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I was almost going to throw out my old Geforce GTX 1060, but they're now going for more than what I paid for my Geforce RTX 2080. I'm glad I stopped myself from almost giving into getting rid of old equipment. Unfortunately I can't benefit from it monetarily.

A relative of mine had their kid fry his computer for school, so the card is going towards that, I have an 800watt power supply I'm also bringing. So the only thing I couldn't really source myself was the ram and motherboard. I also gave them a list of cases that are under 100 bucks for budget builds.

but yeah the kid wrecked a fucking apple workstation, not a cheap mistake. I haven't seen the damage yet but he apparently shattered the case trying to open it to stick glitter and bubble solution in the cooling fans so he could have special effects happen while he was streaming for class.

He's like 1st grade and doesn't know what green screen is. He'd like lights for his PC build though.
 
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Most video game writing is like, really bad. I actually am sort of a connoisseur of trashy scifi books nobody's ever heard of and most of them are worlds apart in quality of writing, setting, consistency, originality etc. compared to even the better written games. Video games are cool when they allow non-linearity and you can choose your own adventure, so to speak and I can then sort of oversee a thin story if I get to make up my own but as soon as they're linear, they're masturbatory fanfic-level trash. Writing by committee is basically never good and I cannot stand linearity anymore. Give me freedom in games or give me death.
 
Marissa Moira dijo:
I was almost going to throw out my old Geforce GTX 1060, but they're now going for more than what I paid for my Geforce RTX 2080. I'm glad I stopped myself from almost giving into getting rid of old equipment. Unfortunately I can't benefit from it monetarily.

A relative of mine had their kid fry his computer for school, so the card is going towards that, I have an 800watt power supply I'm also bringing. So the only thing I couldn't really source myself was the ram and motherboard. I also gave them a list of cases that are under 100 bucks for budget builds.

but yeah the kid wrecked a fucking apple workstation, not a cheap mistake. I haven't seen the damage yet but he apparently shattered the case trying to open it to stick glitter and bubble solution in the cooling fans so he could have special effects happen while he was streaming for class.

He's like 1st grade and doesn't know what green screen is. He'd like lights for his PC build though.
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I finally understand who is the intended market for RGB components.
 
The Hyperdimension Neptunia series has one of the least toxic communities ever if you look at it a certain way: it's not infected with stupid cancellation drama and pretty much everyone can tell fiction from reality. Most people know the games are of questionable quality and play it for the ecchi/lewd content, the writing and stellar English dub, and characters for the most part. The music is also pretty good in those games.

Sure there's a lot of ERPers and stuff but I feel like most people in the Nep communities are pretty self-aware of themselves being degenerates from what I can tell. I've never really seen people too actively a part of them who force trans agenda, even if they seem troonish in some other ways besides political opinions.

I guess the fact the games aren't remarkably 'great' as a JRPG, but would be amazing as a VN, make the entry bar much higher and only attracts those willing to deal with that.
 
NonceyWoncey dijo:
The Hyperdimension Neptunia series has one of the least toxic communities ever if you look at it a certain way: it's not infected with stupid cancellation drama and pretty much everyone can tell fiction from reality. Most people know the games are of questionable quality and play it for the ecchi/lewd content, the writing and stellar English dub, and characters for the most part. The music is also pretty good in those games.

Sure there's a lot of ERPers and stuff but I feel like most people in the Nep communities are pretty self-aware of themselves being degenerates from what I can tell. I've never really seen people too actively a part of them who force trans agenda, even if they seem troonish in some other ways besides political opinions.

I guess the fact the games aren't remarkably 'great' as a JRPG, but would be amazing as a VN, make the entry bar much higher and only attracts those willing to deal with that.
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Your last line makes a good point but I see it the other way. Yeah, Neptunia would work fine as a VN (all of its cutscenes are already styled that way) but adding actual gameplay, as simple as it is, probably made it appeal to a wider audience. VNs are super niche and it probably wouldn't have taken off like it did in that format.

I do agree that the fanbase is one of the most self-aware though, they're also pretty quiet and don't tend to badger people to play the games nor spam memes.
 
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The original Mass Effect was the only good one in the series and the ME2 fags are the reason we got the 3 and Andromeda that we did.
 
AmpleApricots dijo:
Most video game writing is like, really bad. I actually am sort of a connoisseur of trashy scifi books nobody's ever heard of and most of them are worlds apart in quality of writing, setting, consistency, originality etc. compared to even the better written games. Video games are cool when they allow non-linearity and you can choose your own adventure, so to speak and I can then sort of oversee a thin story if I get to make up my own but as soon as they're linear, they're masturbatory fanfic-level trash. Writing by committee is basically never good and I cannot stand linearity anymore. Give me freedom in games or give me death.
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Hear, hear. I've been having a lot of fun with Kenshi, Mount and Blade, and other games where you're given lore and can just come up with your own story.

Oh, right, unpopular opinion. Space shooters like Freespace need to come back. They don't need to simulate a full economy like Elite: Dangerous or X, just give me some fancy starfighters, missions to fly them in, and maybe a dumb story for context, and I'll be happy. Star Wars Squadrons is kind of on the right track, but I'd prefer anybody but EA make them.
 
People who watch HIDDEN GEMS videos are scum and garbage and only do so to buy up supply and treat games as an investment.

Then again the mental retardation that's currently going on with Pokemon Card and the McDonalds promotion is rather funny, McDonalds had to start not advertising them because people were outright stealing happy meal promotional items which didn't even happen back when they also promoted beanie babies and other crazes that were big.

Scalpers are being forced to sell their scalped stock to make bail.
 
Marissa Moira dijo:
I've never given a single iota of a shit about Waluigi because he's never had his own game and just exists as filler in a series of mostly lukewarm mario spinoffs.
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Noone cared about him anyways except for his voice being a meme because it was so obnoxious/stupid. Heh.

Bender dijo:
I do agree that the fanbase is one of the most self-aware though, they're also pretty quiet and don't tend to badger people to play the games nor spam memes.
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Yeah I'm part of it. I own the Blanc and Vert keychain plushies too, they fit perfectly in my chair's cup holders. (That said I think Compa is my favourite character.)

M3xus dijo:
Oh, right, unpopular opinion. Space shooters like Freespace need to come back. They don't need to simulate a full economy like Elite: Dangerous or X, just give me some fancy starfighters, missions to fly them in, and maybe a dumb story for context, and I'll be happy. Star Wars Squadrons is kind of on the right track, but I'd prefer anybody but EA make them.
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All your base are belong to us. Heh, I actually own Zero Wing, for the record. Set me back about 25 quid, but well worth it, it's a fairly decent space shooter from that era but I'd say its main draw is how amazing the music is <3

Mad that was 20 years ago tbh (even more mad that the guy who made the song killed himself in 2011, which rearranging the numbers gives 2101... guess it was a prophecy...)

I'm just slightly younger than that video, and actually that guy's death was on the day I turned 10 years old, god I wish I'd been around for those times, I read up a lot on how things were and talk to a lot of older people who were actually around during the internet's peak or are interested in that era, and I definitely can feel the downhill slip even between 2011, 2013, and 2016 somehow (when I would have actually been around).
 
KotOR II is better than KotOR I even without the Restored Content Mod, and cripple-Ayn Rand is my favorite Star Wars character.

Also the only MMO (that I'm aware of anyway) that does storytelling well is RuneScape and its retro version. Actual in-depth quest system, really ground-breaking for its time, and its sad that 20 years later the MMO genre is still sorely lacking in legitimately fun, well-written narratives.
 
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Oh, right, unpopular opinion. Space shooters like Freespace need to come back. They don't need to simulate a full economy like Elite: Dangerous or X, just give me some fancy starfighters, missions to fly them in, and maybe a dumb story for context, and I'll be happy. Star Wars Squadrons is kind of on the right track, but I'd prefer anybody but EA make them.
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What most of the developers of these games nowadays don't get is that space is terminally boring. There's no nice scenery to look at or navigate, there's no cave off the walking route to explore or things to find - it's space. Old games like Privateer and Wing Commander etc. understood this by letting you skip the non-combat flying parts with a small animation by hitting the autopilot and basically just bother you when there's actually stuff happening. Developers nowadays completely miss the point that this was not a technical limitation, but a gameplay feature. The older Elites sorta didn't have this feature but still let you speed up time so that these parts were reasonably short. (even though one could argue they were still too long)

It's why I can't stand ED or X although I love such games too. You spend way too much time flying a straight line through the black. It simply is not fun.
 
I didn't think Star Fox: Assault was that bad of a game. It's main problem was that it was way too short for its price. It needed at least five more missions.

The gameplay, however, wasn't nearly as bad as people say it was. While I will say the best parts of the game are the linear Arwing levels (namely the first and last missions), the other levels aren't that bad.
 
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