Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Rick The Stick]

In current year I'm of the opinion that Cosmetics either need to be purchasable outright, because gating fucking colors or basic ass pngs behind dozens or hundreds of hours of grinding is retarded and a piss poor attempt to inflating play time, or there needs to be an avenue for everyone to be able to get the supposedly meaningless Cosmetics, just at different rates depending on skill level. If they don't actually mean anything then it shouldn't be an issue if the low level scrub can get the super awesome armor too, especially if they have to grind 10x more than the sweaty players.

But this won't happen because players put an outsized value on a bunch of polygons and then tie that value into their own self worth. If they see some scrub wearing the same super special armor they are, they don't care that it took the scrub an extra 500 hours to get it. The entire thing and their self worth has been invalidated.

 

[The Last Stand]

or there needs to be an avenue for everyone to be able to get the supposedly meaningless Cosmetics, just at different rates depending on skill level.

I'm more towards this point. Some current games do it "better" than others, but mainly they're locked behind a grind or a paywall. I want to harbor this point again that once upon a time, cosmetics were obtainable through natural progression or completing challenges.

 

[NeonFlux]

Get Woke, Go Broke is half true and half not true. Indie games and AA games can compete with AAA games but never fully replace them.

When people talk about their favorite indie game, they're talking about the few good games like Pizza Tower or another title that their favorite publisher/youtuber brought up. They're not talking about the titles with less than 1000 steam reviews that you have to hunt for.

GTA 6 is going to be dogshit safe edgy slop, but it's going to sell billions because people will go for what they know. Same thing with remakes and live service games, TF2, CS2, Dota, etc. will always be making millions even though they're in bad states because they're like lifelong friends to many, It gives people a sense of stability and predictablity to their lives. Remakes are like seeing an old friend after 10-20 years to a lot of sad people.

Everyone likes to humanize animals and objects.

Vanguard, the dead space remake, and others failed because even though they were popular franchises, they were never "normie" levels of unquestionly popular so they failed.

If the average niggercattle is given the choice of never touching a new video game again or just eating the prison food, they're going to chow it down by the hand full.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

In current year I'm of the opinion that Cosmetics either need to be purchasable outright, because gating fucking colors or basic ass pngs behind dozens or hundreds of hours of grinding is retarded and a piss poor attempt to inflating play tim

Here is a better solution. Just include them and not require them to be purchased with your money nor time.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

GTA 6 is going to be dogshit safe edgy slop

It will be a mix of every single trend and meme from the last couple of years. Pure chaos to the point you'll start questioning your sanity, kinda like The Amazing Digital Circus. No rhyme or reason, just endless barrage of screaming, mainstream hip-hop, oversaturated colors, and lame references to American politics. I think I'll probably skip all cutscenes and mute all dialogue, which is the correct way of consuming modern AAA games.

 

[Scarthew]

I wouldn't consider adding online as a flaw since it would eventually happen

Because that's when he learned he wasn't good at video games

 

[Calandrino]

I treat DLC as a tip for the developers. Sometimes I feel ashamed at having too much fun without paying a comparable amount of money, so I make sure to buy as much DLC as possible.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

GTA 6 is going to be dogshit safe edgy slop, but it's going to sell billions because people will go for what they know.

It’ll be slop with all the lame pop culture shit the past few years. There will be plenty of Trump jokes, 6 7 memes, and famous Florida man stories in the game. But the game will be a technical marvel and the normies will eat this shit.

 

[Setzer Gabbiani]

I treat DLC as a tip for the developers. Sometimes I feel ashamed at having too much fun without paying a comparable amount of money, so I make sure to buy as much DLC as possible.

I do this with Game Pass titles if I don't just buy them outright.

 

[NeonFlux]

It’ll be slop with all the lame pop culture shit the past few years. There will be plenty of Trump jokes, 6 7 memes, and famous Florida man stories in the game. But the game will be a technical marvel and the normies will eat this shit.

I want more gun customization. I also hope they took notes from the "Rebalanced Dispatch Enhanced" mod and the wanted level goes all the way into the national guard coming in tanks, apcs, as well as soldiers dropping in from planes.

I don't give a shit about anything else, just let me run over niggers at the beach. I'll buy it at a later date to mod out the pozzed shit if it's too much to handle.

 

[Gondolindrim]

GTA 6 is going to be dogshit safe edgy slop, but it's going to sell billions because people will go for what they know.

I mean surely you weren't expecting Grand Theft Auto to suddenly become a lynching simulator where everyone says nigger and mows down protesters. Safe Edgy is one thing, but you shouldn't take it personally when a game doesn't go over the top offensive. They still need to sell copies.

 

[The Backwards Man]

Might as well say Tekken 3 was the only good entry. Tekken 1 is pretty damn rough, and Tekken 2 isn't that much different. I am curious why Tekken 3 though - Tekken 4's flaws are obvious, but TTT and T5 are normally held in pretty good regard.

Tekken 6 had much that can be considered flaws: from the obvious anime injection (see Lars + Alisa), the first combo extender with bound, a weird plot, and a mediocre campaign. I wouldn't consider adding online as a flaw since it would eventually happen, and at least back then its issues could be explained away by it being new. It hurt the local scene, but between fighting games niche status and the death of arcades, it was evolve or die.

I actually think Tekken 2 was a massive improvement over 1. It no longer felt as "stiff" as the first game and was far more fluid. The only real gripe I have with Tag Tourney is rather minor, the soundtrack for both the arcade and the rearrangement sucks and there's like one theme in the OST that I actually remember.

Maybe I'm just too old and haven't gotten gud enough but I hate the walled stages that were introduced in every game past 4. Getting sandwiched between the wall and a 10 hitter just completely kills my interest in playing. Granted 5 is nowhere near as bad as 4 in this regard but there are some stages such as Dragons Nest and Acid Rain that suck to fight on. There are some other things I don't like about 5 such as the aesthetic and the OST. Compare it to Tekken 4 which has a very defined, colorful aesthetic, Tekken 5 just looks and sounded bland in comparison. Also I don't really have any way to prove this (mostly because I'm too lazy and don't care enough to do further research into the matter) but I swear the hitboxes in 5 are just all over the place, especially for King.

Also Jinpachi sucks ass to fight. That one frame stun attack he likes to spam is gay.

Complete and utter joke, everything being played for laughs.

Nigga went from Kazuya's rival to a comic relief character.
The fact that Paul's burning fist also only does like 20% damage now is criminal.

 

[The Last Stand]

It's the biggest reason I still have my Xbox One.

The original Xbox One had to be one of the worst designed consoles yet. Damn thing looked like a VCR and took up half the dresser or TV stand. Second only to the PlayStation 5. Oblongly shaped that looks like a spaceship than anything.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Ninja Gaiden on the NES is easier for me than Castlevania. Both are great, but while Simon's whip has a longer range than Ryu's sword, I'd prefer Ryu's speed in being able to evade or run from enemies.

The original Xbox One had to be one of the worst designed consoles yet. Damn thing looked like a VCR and took up half the dresser or TV stand. Second only to the PlayStation 5. Oblongly shaped that looks like a spaceship than anything.

It was designed with gaming as an afterthought and more of a general media device, which explains the VCR aesthetic.

Get Woke, Go Broke is half true and half not true.

It wasn't true in the first place. You had games which were woke for their time, shitting on what was acceptable in the eyes of polite company, and yet they still became classics or did well enough to warrant sequels. Hell, for a good long while, between the tail end of the Bush years to the middle of the Obama presidency, most nerd game spaces were chock full of leftists, before the Left went full SJW and torpedoed half their support. In such a time, outing yourself as a conservative got most nerds to treat you like a leper.

 

[Calandrino]

Ninja Gaiden on the NES is easier for me than Castlevania.

In a world that made sense, these would be games of average difficulty.

 

[funwithshemales69]

Not much of an unpopular opinion maybe, but Ive been playing Beyond Good and Evil for the first time and while its an amazing game and I like it a lot, the save system is a bit antiquated. It has a lot of PS2 gimmick mechanics which I really like like the photo system, the partner mechanic split and puzzle solving but manual saves is a drag. It is charming but I would prefer autosaves, just for convenience. I will also use this post to gush about the game, it really feels like a game which came out 20 years ago and something I wouldve played as a child, in the best ways. The aforementioned gimmick mechanics like the camera system, the partner mechanic split, character designs, story and dialogue, side activities are just so good, so nostalgic. Its not like 2010s open worlds where the side activities are a fucking chore and the world is so big that its devoid of meaning. It also reminds me too much of Atlantis the Lost Empire for some reason, while its probably inspired by french comics cause the creators french, I have a nagging feeling that it swiped a lot of Atlantis's atmosphere concepts and character dynamics. Also feels like late 90s early 2000s YA fantasy.

 

[Calandrino]

I mean surely you weren't expecting Grand Theft Auto to suddenly become a lynching simulator where everyone says nigger and mows down protesters. Safe Edgy is one thing, but you shouldn't take it personally when a game doesn't go over the top offensive. They still need to sell copies.

I bet a AAA lynching simulator starring sexy women in confederate flag bikinis would do better than Concord or Dustborn.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

In a world that made sense, these would be games of average difficulty.

They are, but most modern goobers see them as hard.

They didn't live back in my time as a kid, when finishing games was a hard-earned achievement, not a normal occasion.

 

[McMitch]

the save system is a bit antiquated. It has a lot of PS2 gimmick mechanics which I really like like the photo system, the partner mechanic split and puzzle solving but manual saves is a drag.

Auto saves, especially how they are implemented in modern games is a symptom of everything becoming open world Ubislop with a bunch of downtime, played exclusively by the unthinking masses. Video games are the same as any other software where relying on auto save to ensure you don’t lose an entire session’s progress is a skill issue.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Auto saves, especially how they are implemented in modern games is a symptom of everything becoming open world Ubislop with a bunch of downtime, played exclusively by the unthinking masses. Video games are the same as any other software where relying on auto save to ensure you don’t lose an entire session’s progress is a skill issue.

What about that one time I was playing Sleeping Dogs and my PC had an aneurysm while the game was autosaving? I had to replay 2/3 of the game because it only had one save slot. Can games at the very least have more than one save slot just in case?