Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Marissa Moira]

Bandai Namco now wants to expand the reach of elden ring including making a book series

written by GRRM

He apparently has something ready to go which means GOT was not being worked on.

However this isn't going to go over well. I mean the Soulsborne people on youtube already made videos praising the lore and quest design.

Then it turned out that the masterful quest design really was just broken quests and the lore was half done as well because the finishing lines of dialogue were not shown.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

NBA Ballers actively predicted the amount of times the luxury lifestyle for basketball athletes will leave them either broke or filing for bankruptcy.

Or if not that, show why corporations can distract young ballers by buying the most expensive cars, jewelry and other materialistic items.

Spoiler

Still a great game, though. The cheat codes in the, were fun for a Midway game.

 

[Slightly Apathetic Mario]

-I enjoyed Battlefield V, I thought it had some good maps, the Pacific maps were pretty good, shame they never got around for the soviet update.

-I enjoyed the first few weeks of New World, making a group of friends to gang up on anyone in PVP areas was funny and meta-jewing the player-driven economy was fun to make easy money, sad to see the game dying and the in-game economy fucked.

-I prefer Half-Life 1 over 2

-I just never got the appeal of Yakuza, and it's fanbase is really fucking annoying

 

[Safir]

I've never understood why some women get so upset by breastplates (be it in games or other media). If you're a woman, those boobs have got to go somewhere and it's going to get real uncomfortable real quick if they're not properly accommodated.

Boobs are soft, there's no muscle in them to be "accommodated".
Armor isn't flush with the body and there's padding underneath.

Now, some women are unlucky to have absolutely massive chonkers, but it's a conscious choice to make one or more female characters in a game / movie implausibly talented.
Athletic women, even those who are built like brick shithouses, have small boobs.

Viv Culverwell, Aussie bodybuilder and indoor rowing champion (78 kg)


Tracey Lambrechs, based NZ weightlifter (107 kg)


Darya Naumova, Belarusian weightlifter (75 kg)


Miyake Hiromi and Margarita Eliseeva (Slav from Kazakhstan), both under 48 kg

(This is a post about IRL boobs, not about realism vs coomerism in fiction.)

 

[Marissa Moira]

So the Astrobot games have outsold the entire Ape Escape franchise(which is 12+ games)

People can look at Playroom and playroom VR as party games which would be canonically the first two astrobot games, but half the ape escape franchise was party games.

Meanwhile there's only 4 astrobot games, and 3 of them have a main platforming section.

I think people lamenting the vita and the first few attempts at first party sony game franchises really missed the boat with the PSVR, because that shit is all still there and it's still going to be there with the PSVR2.

 

[Psyduck]

Warrior Within is the best game in the series from a mechanical perspective and innovated on the first game's core mechanics in an intelligent, logical way.

It's just such a shame what they did to it aesthetically.

What, you didnt like fucking Godsmack blasting out as you get chased by the Dahaka???

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

So the Astrobot games have outsold the entire Ape Escape franchise(which is 12+ games)

People can look at Playroom and playroom VR as party games which would be canonically the first two astrobot games, but half the ape escape franchise was party games.

Meanwhile there's only 4 astrobot games, and 3 of them have a main platforming section.

I think people lamenting the vita and the first few attempts at first party sony game franchises really missed the boat with the PSVR, because that shit is all still there and it's still going to be there with the PSVR2.

Reminder that marissa moira is a shill that can go fuck itself also ape ecaspe is better than soulless garbage tech demo : the game

 

[Nick Gars]

Been playing D2R on a buddy's PS5, and everytime I do I'm reminded why I hate his specific set up. He has a 60+inch tv. The more I play games on oversized screens the more I actively hate them.

The best way I can put it is it's an overload of information to the brain and makes it extremely difficult to remained focused on the whole screen which is especially troublesome on a game like D2R's Hell difficulty where a single misstep can kill you. For my focus, it's like having to look over 4 separate screens at the same time, I'm still processing the same amount of information, but in a bloated an inefficient way. Imo anything beyond around 30 inches just isn't for gaming, it's for cinema and TV.

 

[Matt Damon]

To give an example of what I mean, I watched the long plays for a video game like Modern Warfare 2 for example back in the day, as I played the game years later as my computer was a potato.

It didn't feel much surprising to play since I knew from watching longplays, what to expect

But it's a problem that's caused by electing to watch a video and can be solved by simply not watching that video.

That's trivial even by video game standards.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Been playing D2R on a buddy's PS5, and everytime I do I'm reminded why I hate his specific set up. He has a 60+inch tv. The more I play games on oversized screens the more I actively hate them.

The best way I can put it is it's an overload of information to the brain and makes it extremely difficult to remained focused on the whole screen which is especially troublesome on a game like D2R's Hell difficulty where a single misstep can kill you. For my focus, it's like having to look over 4 separate screens at the same time, I'm still processing the same amount of information, but in a bloated an inefficient way. Imo anything beyond around 30 inches just isn't for gaming, it's for cinema and TV.

Playing on a 60+ inch tv will always be autistic and It doesnt help that in my case it causes headaches for me

 

[moocow]

Been playing D2R on a buddy's PS5, and everytime I do I'm reminded why I hate his specific set up. He has a 60+inch tv. The more I play games on oversized screens the more I actively hate them.

Playing on a 60+ inch tv will always be autistic and It doesnt help that in my case it causes headaches for me

Sit further away from the TV, you doofuses.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Boobs are soft, there's no muscle in them to be "accommodated".
Armor isn't flush with the body and there's padding underneath.
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Now, some women are unlucky to have absolutely massive chonkers, but it's a conscious choice to make one or more female characters in a game / movie implausibly talented.
Athletic women, even those who are built like brick shithouses, have small boobs.
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Viv Culverwell, Aussie bodybuilder and indoor rowing champion (78 kg)

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Tracey Lambrechs, based NZ weightlifter (107 kg)

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Darya Naumova, Belarusian weightlifter (75 kg)

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Miyake Hiromi and Margarita Eliseeva (Slav from Kazakhstan), both under 48 kg

(This is a post about IRL boobs, not about realism vs coomerism in fiction.)

So what? I am revolted by your gross muscle girl fetish that borders on troon fetishism.

Ugh, I remember thinking it was unbelievably cringy from day one, even while gay emo shit was actually trendy. The first game had such a cool, unique flavor to it and it was cast aside for something that made absolutely zero sense for the world or the character.

Would it surprise you if the new art director of the game looked like a nu-metal idiot and him and the prince both shared the same tattoo?

 

[Matt Damon]

Would it surprise if you the new art director of the game looked like a nu-metal idiot and him and the prince both shared the same tattoo?
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Wow, I figured for sure it must be some Ubisoft exec who thought they'd sell more units by "being hip with what the kids like".

Finding out someone actually thought it was totally badass and awesome is even gayer than it being a cynical marketing ploy.

 

[Heavy Duty Boots]

Voice acting worsens almost every game it's in
It only sounds good in SOME japanese and eastern european games with native audio

 

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[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Voice acting worsens almost every game it's in
It only sounds good in SOME japanese and eastern european games with native audio

American VO has gotten worse over the years. Not sure why that is, but a lot more of them sound higher pitch? Soylent or Valley Girl? I'm fumbling around, but VO from 10-20 years ago could have been plausibly cast in radio plays.* Now, I wouldn't want them in a radio play.

*Not radio plays, but the English dub of Monster or Cowboy Bebop's English dub has pretty good acting in general. And of course, Batman and Superman TAS is it's own league of acting.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

American VO has gotten worse over the years. Not sure why that is, but a lot more of them sound higher pitch? Soylent or Valley Girl? I'm fumbling around, but VO from 10-20 years ago could have been plausibly cast in radio plays.* Now, I wouldn't want them in a radio play.

*Not radio plays, but the English dub of Monster or Cowboy Bebop's English dub has pretty good acting in general. And of course, Batman and Superman TAS is it's own league of acting.

Maybe anime has had a CalArts-like effect on voice acting?

 

[Marissa Moira]

Maybe anime has had a CalArts-like effect on voice acting?

There's a weird standard that's kind of arisen due to decades of exposure where people have an idea of what an english speaking anime character should sound like and if you pick a different voice it's going to sound off to a good many people.

Like if someone sounds Australian or has a cockney accent that's either going to be a minor character, goon, or comic relief, it's not going to be a member of the main supporting cast.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

There's a weird standard that's kind of arisen due to decades of exposure where people have an idea of what an english speaking anime character should sound like and if you pick a different voice it's going to sound off to a good many people.

Like if someone sounds Australian or has a cockney accent that's either going to be a minor character, goon, or comic relief, it's not going to be a member of the main supporting cast.

I'm thinking more that the people that are drawn into VO discovered the vocation and pursued that dream because of anime and anime voices was the only thing that they had trained, sort of how like third gen CalArts inspired faggots have only ever drawn genderblobs and you can't expect much more than that from them because they can't fucking draw!

 

[Marissa Moira]

I'm thinking more that the people that are drawn into VO discovered the vocation and pursued that dream because of anime and anime voices was the only thing that they had trained, sort of how like third gen CalArts inspired faggots have only ever drawn genderblobs and you can't expect much more than that from them because they can't fucking draw!

Actually most artists can't fucking draw, that's why they keep practicing and redoing shit, because they're afraid/terrified that people will find out that they can't draw. You only get better in learning on how to hide your shortcomings.

Calarts are faggots because they don't get better at anything, their growth is a plateau

Anime Voices tend to be type cast and that's partially because of what genres are popular. But it's like instead of an individual actor being typecast, it's getting 100 guys to do an impersonation of a singular actor. Like you're not getting anyone delivering lines like Anthony Hopkins or Christopher Walken. It's them trying to fit the mold of a pre-established character.