Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

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CowPox dijo:
Video games are to millennial zoomer types what nigger ball is to boomers, a low iq distraction. That being said occasionally the medium can produce true art or valid entertainment etc.
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Another great take on why somebody hates video games.

I actually liked the bulky Xbox OG controller. It was easier to grip from my experience.
 
The Last Stand dijo:
Not every shooter needs multiplayer, online or otherwise. Any game that HAS multiplayer needs to have offline capability by default.
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One of the greatest tragedies in gaming is the removal of offline splitscreen multiplayer and forcing you to be online for certain game modes. Why do I need an online account to play a horde mode game by myself, and why does it have to be always online? That's always been a pain in my ass.
 
LORD IMPERATOR dijo:
One of the greatest tragedies in gaming is the removal of offline splitscreen multiplayer and forcing you to be online for certain game modes. Why do I need an online account to play a horde mode game by myself, and why does it have to be always online? That's always been a pain in my ass.
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It also means you need four copies, and four consoles, for four players as well which is another factor. Plus four copies means four email addresses, phone numbers, credit cards, and other data that these companies can sell to business or intelligence services. Like how streaming services are now actively blocking account sharing, and trying to get you to sign additional accounts onto the plan, so that they can collect more data and isolate their users more.
 
TheHarbinger dijo:
It also means you need four copies, and four consoles, for four players as well which is another factor. Plus four copies means four email addresses, phone numbers, credit cards, and other data that these companies can sell to business or intelligence services. Like how streaming services are now actively blocking account sharing, and trying to get you to sign additional accounts onto the plan, so that they can collect more data and isolate their users more.
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Exactly. They destroyed what was a fun party mechanic where you and three of your buddies can just shoot the shift and have fun, just so they can mooch off whales. And the fact that it worked is one of the greatest tragedies in gaming history. The money-grubbers won over the people who want to make fun games. Is it any surprise that the gaming industry is in the shits that it is now?
 
TheHarbinger dijo:
It also means you need four copies, and four consoles, for four players as well which is another factor. Plus four copies means four email addresses, phone numbers, credit cards, and other data that these companies can sell to business or intelligence services.
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I remember the PSP and DS having ad-hoc multiplayer built in. Ad-hoc is the ability to locally share your game for a multiplayer session to nearby systems. That should make a comeback.
 
The Last Stand dijo:
I remember the PSP and DS having ad-hoc multiplayer built in. Ad-hoc is the ability to locally share your game for a multiplayer session to nearby systems. That should make a comeback.
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It won't, not in the foreseeable future, because game companies want you buying copies per player. The only exception are free to play games riddled with microtransactions.
 
The Last Stand dijo:
I remember the PSP and DS having ad-hoc multiplayer built in. Ad-hoc is the ability to locally share your game for a multiplayer session to nearby systems. That should make a comeback.
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Gameboy games had that as did tons of PC games. Lots of PC games would ship with two installers, one for the entire game, and then one for multiplayer which didn't require the disc. So you could install the multiplayer component an an infinite number of PCs. This encouraged students at universities to share the games and would fuel them to purchase their own copy for the story or campaign mode.

Eventually PC demo discs would make that type of marketing more obsolete. As you could give out a free couple of single and multiplayer levels in the demo to get people to purchase your game.
 
The Last Stand dijo:
Not every shooter needs multiplayer, online or otherwise. Any game that HAS multiplayer needs to have offline capability by default.
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I think that when companies became comfortable making multiplayer-only games it cheated us of a ton of potentially great campaigns. Everyone started churning out multiplayer games with niches (like Rising Storm 2 for Vietnam, Chivalry 2 for fantasy Medieval, and WW1 Game Series with WW1) that could have had at least a small-scale, poorly-acted campaign, and instead these niches have no campaign and no room for a competitor.
CowPox dijo:
Video games are to millennial zoomer types what nigger ball is to boomers, a low iq distraction. That being said occasionally the medium can produce true art or valid entertainment etc.
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That's kind of unpopular, in the sense that I tend to either see people completely dismiss vidya or completely devote themselves to it. I agree that the medium occasionally can produce true art. As in, it has the potential, sometimes it does, but it's mostly the cheapest kind of pulp.

Boomers in my experience are massive hypocrites (but its to be expected with old people with anything) about vidya. They recognize TV as a waste of time but become outright indignant at the idea that vidya is just young people's TV.
 
Mr. New Vegas dijo:
CoD Zombies is better than most of the CoD games. I wish they would just make a zombies only game which had all the maps from all the games into one but sadly that wouldn't make as much money so Activision never will.
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They have (had?) mobile ports of CoD Zombies for iPhone/iPad. I don't like horde modes, but I have been enjoying myself with Der Riese. I think the best Zombies maps were Mob of the Dead, Shadows of Evil, Der Riese, Buried and IX.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug dijo:
I think that when companies became comfortable making multiplayer-only games it cheated us of a ton of potentially great campaigns. Everyone started churning out multiplayer games with niches (like Rising Storm 2 for Vietnam, Chivalry 2 for fantasy Medieval, and WW1 Game Series with WW1) that could have had at least a small-scale, poorly-acted campaign, and instead these niches have no campaign and no room for a competitor.
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I'm not interested in phoned in campaigns the same way I'm not interested in tacked on multiplayer. Should there be offline local multiplayer? Absolutely.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug dijo:
Boomers in my experience are massive hypocrites (but its to be expected with old people with anything) about vidya. They recognize TV as a waste of time but become outright indignant at the idea that vidya is just young people's TV.
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"For Boomers, TV is a primary sense organ."

Ughubughughughughughghlug dijo:
it's mostly the cheapest kind of pulp.
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And that's a good thing. A lot of the stuff consider "high art" nowadays was mass entertainment in it's day.
 
There's pros and cons to both matchmaking and a server browser. Matchmaking allows the game to pool players for you respective of connection or availability at the cost of segregation. Server browsers allow you to curate and customize matches to the host's liking at the expense of repeated experiences. If there's low populations for either, be prepared to wait or be at the mercy of the community.

Which do I prefer? I like how MCC and MW2019 onward handled a "blend" of both. A list of game modes you can enable/disable, although I wish player counts would be default for all online experiences.
 
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