Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

It's called a pre-built PC.

Valve would make one that don't got a big lit-up case and a bunch of other useless shit. They'd just do it better because it's Valve. Why do you brainthinkers complicate things??? It's GOOD because it's VALVE.

also something about Linux gaming because by Windows 13 we'll be needing to provide vaccination proof to access our PC

 

[Thiletonomics]

This is one of my favorite loading screens in that game, and I never took it as the game trying to tell me I was a bad person. Some gamers are either really big fucking pussies or (more likely and what I've believed for a while) rely way too much on game journos and video essay faggots explaining a game to them.

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Is the loading screen trying to say that killing for yourself, as an act of self-defense, is murder? And that you should just give up and be killed?

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Is the loading screen trying to say that killing for yourself, as an act of self-defense, is murder? And that you should just give up and be killed?

You're overthinking it. It's a knock on how society views the military and also a joke that you are playing a video game.

 

[byuu]

but I would love to have a console that is small enough to take with me anywhere and that can play everything the Deck can (basically everything that works on Linux and runs on the Deck hardware) and also acts as a mini desktop PC.

Just use the Deck with its dock?

 

[The Southwest Strangla]

RTS are fun and persona/Danganronpa games are for pedos

 

[The Ugly One]

The thing is that the Steam Deck isn't built of different parts for each and every user like computers are so I believe it would be much simpler to build games and certify that they run on it. Running games on Linux is painless most of the time but there are certain ones that have problems for certain hardware, like Left 4 Dead having some graphical issues on AMD cards I think, and there's also the factor of games not having to compile shaders because Steam already delivers them to you precompiled. I also believe that a home console version of the Deck could be much, much smaller than a regular computer. I'm not sure how much of a size difference removing the controller and screen (edit: and the battery, which is the worst aspect of the Deck) and adding ports would make, but I would love to have a console that is small enough to take with me anywhere and that can play everything the Deck can (basically everything that works on Linux and runs on the Deck hardware) and also acts as a mini desktop PC.

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It sounds like what you want is an Xbox with worse specs.

Not unpopular with me. I don't want a handheld but I'd buy a "Steam console" that was upgradeable over time. I trust Valve to do the hardware/software compatibility finetuning necessary for such a thing. Maybe that's the next step. Maybe Nintendo will be releasing games on PC in 10 years like Sega releases games on Nintendo now.

If your box is upgradeable, then you can't make it console-sized. Consoles can be as compact as they are because the thermal profile of the components is known down to the watt, and components are directly attached to the PCB, so you can design them fairly precisely to dissipate heat efficiently. Put the GPU on a card and allow somebody to throw in a different one in there in a couple years with 75% more heat output, and it screws everything up. If you can't control the heat, then the best you can do is a large box with plenty of interior open space and fans, i.e. your typical gaming PC case.

 

[ddd]

Devil May Cry 5's gameplay put me to sleep and the story is embarrassing, not even funny bad just bad

 

[Ruin]

Devil May Cry 5's gameplay put me to sleep and the story is embarrassing, not even funny bad just bad

The southern mechanic lady is so absurdly obnoxious. When I heard her say something like "we gun kick us some Demon ass! Yee Haw!" In the reveal trailer it was the first time in quite a while I cringed irl.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave]

The only one of these Walking Simulator style games that was good was Until Dawn, and that’s entirely because that game’s just a low budget horror movie.

No seriously, considering it started development as a PS Move game, it’s not complete shit.

 

[THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN]

Now I can tell my opinion really is unpopular.

Just use the Deck with its dock?

I would really like to take just an Apple TV sized console, controller and power cord with me on a backpack without worrying about the screen getting scratched and having to bring the dock along too, I really don't like to play games when I'm commuting or outside so I think that would be a good idea.

It sounds like what you want is an Xbox with worse specs.

I'm not familiar with the Xbox so I would have to ask, is it capable of running things a desktop PC can?

 

[byuu]

I would really like to take just an Apple TV sized console, controller and power cord with me on a backpack without worrying about the screen getting scratched and having to bring the dock along too, I really don't like to play games when I'm commuting or outside so I think that would be a good idea.

Why are you lugging around a console all the time?

 

[Meat Target]

All the Fromsoft Soulsborne games are pretty overrated. They are carried by the interesting setting, graphics and aesthetics it strives to achieve and it masks the shallow gameplay of ''Roll, hit, roll''. Each game, with the exception of Sekiro, have glaring problems that hold them back from being amazing games. I am also getting sick of the Dark Souls formula of storytelling and the ''dystopian apocalyptic world with burdened group of people'' setting they seem to love so much. That being said, I still enjoy playing them but I do not revere them as a lot of the gaming world seems to.

They're flawed masterpieces, IMO. The whole "muh environmental storytelling" shtick is intriguing, but there's so much depth to the story that the average person simply is not treated to within the confines of the game (in Bloodborne's case, major plot details literally got lost in translation from the original Japanese).

It's as if FromSoft looked at old CRPGs that rely on the Great Wall of Text for loredumps, and committed the precise opposite error: it tosses you an Encyclopedia and a note that says "I.O.U. one plot".

As far as builds and questlines go, the game expects the player to be precognizant. "Used that seemingly inoccuous item instead of saving it for this very specific purpose? Didn't talk to that NPC hiding in a barrel down an alley? Whoops! You blew it. Better luck next playthrough".

More exposition and dialogue, and not having the details stretched so thin that you forget about them, would have vastly improved them.

 

[The Ugly One]

I'm not familiar with the Xbox so I would have to ask, is it capable of running things a desktop PC can?

No, and neither is the system you're trying to define.

It's not that your opinion is unpopular, it's that it's self-contradictory and incoherent. It sounds like your requirements are:

1. Gaming PC specs
2. Super-compact form factor
3. Upgradeable
4. Certified software library
5. Everything available for PC runs on it

You can't have all of those together. 1 & 2 are thermodynamically impossible, 3 & 4 are technically impossible, and 4 & 5 are practically impossible.

 

[Matt Damon]

They're flawed masterpieces, IMO. The whole "muh environmental storytelling" shtick is intriguing, but there's so much depth to the story that the average person simply is not treated to within the confines of the game (in Bloodborne's case, major plot details literally got lost in translation from thr original Japanese).

It's as if FromSoft looked at old CRPGs that rely on the Great Wall of Text for loredumps, and committed the precise opposite error: it tosses you an Encyclopedia and a note that says "I.O.U. one plot".

I'm pretty okay with anything that stymies the autistic nerd urge to compartmentalize, explain, document, and Wiki-ize every single thing in a fictional world.

Leaving a lot of the story and details of a game world to the imagination prevents "Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center"-type farce.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Skill trees shouldn't exist anymore. It is a game mechanic that was already old 10 years ago, it must simply go at this point.

 

[Road Work Ahead]

No, and neither is the system you're trying to define.

It's not that your opinion is unpopular, it's that it's self-contradictory and incoherent. It sounds like your requirements are:

1. Gaming PC specs
2. Super-compact form factor
3. Upgradeable
4. Certified software library
5. Everything available for PC runs on it

You can't have all of those together. 1 & 2 are thermodynamically impossible, 3 & 4 are technically impossible, and 4 & 5 are practically impossible.

Mini-itx has been getting more and more popular over the last few years. While you can't quite get down to console sized, you can get pretty damn close.

 

[The Ugly One]

Mini-itx has been getting more and more popular over the last few years. While you can't quite get down to console sized, you can get pretty damn close.

Consoles have gotten almost as big as PCs, so "almost console sized" doesn't mean what it did back when the PS2 Slim was smaller than a notebook. And he said a Mac Mini form factor. A Fractal Node 202 is 8x larger than a Mac Mini - and that box is going to have heating issues if you try to cram high-end hardware into it.

 

[Calandrino]

No, and neither is the system you're trying to define.

It's not that your opinion is unpopular, it's that it's self-contradictory and incoherent. It sounds like your requirements are:

1. Gaming PC specs
2. Super-compact form factor
3. Upgradeable
4. Certified software library
5. Everything available for PC runs on it

You can't have all of those together. 1 & 2 are thermodynamically impossible, 3 & 4 are technically impossible, and 4 & 5 are practically impossible.

Just do all the processing on the cloud and stream it to a smart device using deep learning

 

[The Ugly One]

Just do all the processing on the cloud and stream it to a smart device using deep learning

Add the power of the blockchain to leverage a web3 community-driven interface, and now you're playing with power!

 

[Matt Damon]

The developers of the Shadowrun Returns trilogy managed to seamlessly blend all the most annoying bullshit of old-school isometric CRPGs with all the most annoying bullshit of turn-based tactics games without diminishing either.

It's truly a once-in-a-generation caliber achievement.