Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Bugaboo]

Spore is one of my favorite games

 

[Surtur]

The Intellivision is better than Colecovision.

 

[Dunsparce]

-Dawn of Mana and Unimited SaGa were great games by Sqaure Enix for PS2 even though they are what lead to the demise of their respectives series(Outside of Japan, at least)

-Radical Dreamers deserves every bit as much praise as the other two Chrono Series games(Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross)

-Dragon Quest > Final Fantasy(I like both, though)

-The Wonderswan line of handhelds(Wonderswan, Wonderswan Color, and SwanCrystal) , despite being Japan-only, are some of the best handhelds ever made, and don't deserve to remain little more than footnotes in gaming history like they are now.

 

[Fialovy]

-Dragon Quest > Final Fantasy(I like both, though)

Definitely this, I mean, I like Dragon Quest better. Among the main reason is because well, the quality is consistent. I may sound a bit of a hypocrite because I honestly haven't played the later Final Fantasy games, but mainly because well, I just haven't had any desire, whereas Dragon Quest pulls me in.

The only Final Fantasy games I really have any desire to try are I-VI and IX and I have played I and IV already.

 

[punchabunch]

Spore is one of my favorite games

I wanted to like spore. I wish I could like spore. But the content on it just dries up after a few hours. Couple this that EA wouldent pull a Sims with it and milk its expansions for all its worth, thusly killing the game.

 

[Saney]

I don't think tetris is fun.

 

[renomakicwc]

Spore is one of my favorite games

I wanted to like spore. I wish I could like spore. But the content on it just dries up after a few hours. Couple this that EA wouldent pull a Sims with it and milk its expansions for all its worth, thusly killing the game.

I used to love spore myself, despite how the damn thing was so glitchy (Such as crashing if I click the dress up button in-game, forcing my critters to be naked for all of history). But, as I played more and more, I began to realise that this game has wasted a lot of it's potential.

For instance, my fave age is the civilization age, a time where you build a nation, gather resources, conduct diplomacy and wage war. Sadly, after a few playthroughs, I began to wish to do more in this mode, as well as for certain items such as diplomacy to have been worked on further.

Diplomacy is bland and isn't really that much. If anything, it's the most dumbed down version of it you can imagine. Warfare is also quite dull, having only three units to pick from (unless you are an economic powerhouse, then you have no army at all, which is stupid), and it is made worse with bland combat.

Hell, when you get into combat, it gets confusing quite quickly. Why are my Bi-planes shooting lasers despite not having any slapped on? Why aren't my Tiger tanks using their 88MM guns to attack the city, instead popping cannon balls out of it's hatch? And if you are playing a religious faction, why do you use ugly music makers instead of weapons of war, and where did they get the technology to make huge holograms to bitch at the city of their targeting?

Really, I could go on and on about how flawed it is. And that's just one mode. All of other modes have their own flaws which should have been fixed, such as in space mode where for no reason whatsoever, you are not allowed to make your own fleet of spaceships to protect your galactic empire, but everyone else can. Why? Just.. Why?

 

[punchabunch]

Spore is one of my favorite games

I wanted to like spore. I wish I could like spore. But the content on it just dries up after a few hours. Couple this that EA wouldent pull a Sims with it and milk its expansions for all its worth, thusly killing the game.

I used to love spore myself, despite how the damn thing was so glitchy (Such as crashing if I click the dress up button in-game, forcing my critters to be naked for all of history). But, as I played more and more, I began to realise that this game has wasted a lot of it's potential.

For instance, my fave age is the civilization age, a time where you build a nation, gather resources, conduct diplomacy and wage war. Sadly, after a few playthroughs, I began to wish to do more in this mode, as well as for certain items such as diplomacy to have been worked on further.

Diplomacy is bland and isn't really that much. If anything, it's the most dumbed down version of it you can imagine. Warfare is also quite dull, having only three units to pick from (unless you are an economic powerhouse, then you have no army at all, which is stupid), and it is made worse with bland combat.

Hell, when you get into combat, it gets confusing quite quickly. Why are my Bi-planes shooting lasers despite not having any slapped on? Why aren't my Tiger tanks using their 88MM guns to attack the city, instead popping cannon balls out of it's hatch? And if you are playing a religious faction, why do you use ugly music makers instead of weapons of war, and where did they get the technology to make huge holograms to bitch at the city of their targeting?

Really, I could go on and on about how flawed it is. And that's just one mode. All of other modes have their own flaws which should have been fixed, such as in space mode where for no reason whatsoever, you are not allowed to make your own fleet of spaceships to protect your galactic empire, but everyone else can. Why? Just.. Why?

The game by itself is fine. The problem is that it had a giga-huge hype and quite a few years of development time for what we got. While true most of it is probobly due to them trying to make their somewhat-groundbreaking creature creator useable (theres quite alot of intresting bits of it on the technical side) what we got is something very waterd down. Oh, we got everything promised, yet nothing really extra. And if you were hoping that EA was going to make it into the game we were always hoping for with about 6 expansions and 10 stuff packs, then

 

[butt in trouble]

-The Gears of War series isn't really that great and it tries to hide it under HD graphics.
-Halo is actually pretty cool now because all the little kids on X-box live have moved on to Call of Duty because it's easier.
-Bioware did a good job fixing Mass Effect 3's ending.
-People who bitch about EA and still buy their products are very sad people.
-I prefer the all-stars versions of the first 3 mario games.

 

[Rio]

Honestly, the bitching about EA is kind of out of control in general imo. People blamed EA for Mass Effect's ending, even though EA has literally 0 involvement in the writing of Mass Effect's story. That's bioware's job. They also got blamed for something Maxis already admitted was on them (the Sim City disaster)... then when they put gay people in their commercial, it was "using them to get acceptance" even though every single other company that does that is applauded as being progressive, and I could just go on forever.

I mean I get that people don't like EA, but why not restrict things we blame on them to things that they've actually done wrong?

 

[Surtur]

I think half the fussbover the ME ending was people wanting to blame EA for something.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

I used to play games all the damn time, but now I don't feel the interest. Thing is, if I go play something older (N64 and earlier) I have a shit-ton of fun. 98% of newer games bore or confuse me.

I'm planning to just sit back and play my older games from here on out, and carefully select maybe one current-gen system for the very rare new game that grabs me. Is anyone else doing the same?

 

[trip2themoon]

I don't think tetris is fun.

Yeah, it gets really boring really quickly. I think most puzzle games are boring. These are the exceptions: Pipe Dream, Pac Attack, Puzznic and (if it counts) Lemmings. Columns on the MD is possibly one of the worst puzzle games ever.

 

[QI 541]

The average quality of video games these days is much higher than they were in the past.

 

[Ivan Komarov]

I love the Atari 7800.
I still feel the Jaguar had potential.
I don't get why people find Gmod fun outside of pissing off 12 year olds.
I only pirated Minecraft for the Creative mode.
Final Fantasy 7 not only sucks hard in terms of the FF series, but looks like pure ass nowadays.
I enjoyed Final Fantasy 8.
The arcade Moonwalker will forever be better than the Genesis one.
Also, I prefer calling it "Mega Drive" and not "Genesis", even though I'm an Americlap.
I had fun with Duke Nukem Forever.
I have more fun with GoldSrc games than I do the Quake series.
I hate Counter Strike and its' profags.
The only good Sony system was the PS1.
Wind Waker and the Oracle games are best Zeldas.
Starcraft just doesn't appeal to me. Neither does World of Warcraft.
I put the first Final Fight and Streets of Rage 2 on the same level of awesomeness.
I don't get why people don't like HL2: Episode One so much. It was the logical progression for a sequel system; they couldn't just go "Oh hey Gordon's out of City 17" and cockslap their fanbase.
Most of the shit /v/ hypes at times is just plain retarded.

That should do it for now.

Garrysmod is good if you have a server with 10 or more people on it and an addon like ACF. You make a fort, artillery systems, and air support, and then shoot the fuck out of eachother with fuckhueg guns, and custom tanks. Spacebuild2 was great, but my favorite SB servers all died with the update. That, and sb_gooniverse and sb_new_worlds got boring after awhile

Episode one was short as hell, but it had it's moments, like seeing the inner citadel, and escorting refugees. Still prefer HL2 and HL1 over it

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

I don't get why people don't like HL2: Episode One so much. It was the logical progression for a sequel system; they couldn't just go "Oh hey Gordon's out of City 17" and cockslap their fanbase.

It doesn't make any sense from a naming perspective. HL2 was the "first episode", so "HL2: Episode One" should have been called "HL2: Part two" or "HL2: you'll pay $50 for this shit", or "HL2: I'm Gabe Newell and I look like a thumb and I'm too busy sticking a Rainbow Dash doll up my ass to work"

 

[Enig]

I don't get why people don't like HL2: Episode One so much. It was the logical progression for a sequel system; they couldn't just go "Oh hey Gordon's out of City 17" and cockslap their fanbase.

It doesn't make any sense from a naming perspective. HL2 was the "first episode", so "HL2: Episode One" should have been called "HL2: Part two" or "HL2: you'll pay $50 for this shit", or "HL2: I'm Gabe Newell and I look like a thumb and I'm too busy sticking a Rainbow Dash doll up my ass to work"

It's not so much the name as it is people complaining about the gameplay. What the hell did people expect from a game that is about you getting the hell away from a giant metal tower that is about to Tsar Bomba the fuck up? Why throw all sorts of brand new concepts at you when you're busy dealing with that? That, and people still complain about how long the game was in time, as if they expected another Half-Life 2 right after getting just that.

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

I don't know, I think Half Life (with the circa 1998 quake engine) is the third best game ever.

 

[Seahorses]

I really don't get why people like games like LoL and DOTA 2. Whoopdie doo, follow a very rigid order system and win over and over without any room for creativity, soooo much fun

LOL is pretty much the only game I play nowadays. It's not the order system, or the creativity that keeps LOL down, it's the community. One mistake might get you griefed for the better part of an hour.

Some of my opinions, in brief:

- I enjoyed Deus Ex: Invisible War.
- I might be the only person that played Still Life and the sequel.
- I want to like Dwarf Fortress, but I think it's awful. What can I say? I'm spoiled. I want graphics, tooltips, mouse control, etc.
- The "Metroid-Vania" style is always going to be better.
- I think Capcom going "retro" with the Mega Man sequels is stupid. I prefer the Mega Man 8 style, even the Mega Man Powered Up style. I'm glad my 600$ (at time of purchase) PS3 can handle your silly NES graphics. Kids watch a couple of AVGN videos and suddenly decide all they want is retro.


I also liked Duke Nukem Forever. So, is that starting to make it a popular opinion? I mean, I wasn't expecting something groundbreaking from the Duke, just titties. :mrgreen:

 

[Watcher]

Just a few for now

I actually like that TF2 went hat focused and I in fact prefer TF2 now then back when you only hat stock weapons
Yes I said it

I don't really enjoy Baldur's Gate 2 and I prefer the original.

I think the Force Unleashed (The first one) is one of the worst games of all time

Far Cry 2 is my favorite in the series by far.

Dishonored is a dumbed down Deus Ex Human Revolution/Thief clone

I think Epic's best game was the original Unreal

I really really enjoyed Doom 3 and it's jumpscares

I think Diablo 1 is better then Diablo 2