Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Mega Black]

It's not like previous Zeldas didn't have "open worlds". You just had to, you know, play the game to open things up fully. Like fucking Ocarina of Time you step out of the forest and you can't even get anywhere before it's night and there's monsters coming out of the ground to attack you. Breath of the Wild, eh, whack some Moblins with sticks, you can get the Master Sword if you want to, whatever. Ganon's over there, fight him when you want.

I agree for the most part, it's an open world that's too open. There's all these physic systems you can play with, climbing, ways to interact with the world, but no reason to use any of it because Revali's Gale + glider gets you everywhere. The most fun I had in the game was on my first playthrough when I chopped down a tree to get over a river on the plateau without the glider. I'll always enjoy smaller more directed open world games over wide open sandboxes full of fucking NOTHING.

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.

The wookiepedia ruined an entire generation of creators and Brandon Sanderson keeps the ball rolling down that slope. Fromsoft is alright if you're willing to draw your own conclusions from time to time, you don't need to know absolutely everything. It makes the worlds more mysterious and intriguing.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

1. None of the Call of Duty games released after 2012 are all that good
2. Back 4 Blood is actually a pretty good (albeit overpriced) spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead

 

[snailslime]

DOOM 2016 >>>>>>> Eternal

 

[Pissmaster]

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.

I don't think what you're asking for could ever really exist, because if you were gonna manufacture a small-as-possible gaming PC, you may as well stick a screen and controls on it, and extend its usefulness for most people by an enormous margin. Hence, the Steam Deck, and its dock for people exactly like you. Just get a screen protector if you're not gonna use it.

Speaking of which, Sony did kind of do that with the PlayStation Vita TV:


It was crap in a lot of different ways, but the main question was, why didn't they just release the planned TV out cable for the normal, portable Vita? Because like, how many people are in situations where they'd like to bring around a portable game system, a controller, a power cord, an HDMI cable, but adding a screen and some built-in controls is a bridge too far?

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

I don't think what you're asking for could ever really exist, because if you were gonna manufacture a small-as-possible gaming PC, you may as well stick a screen and controls on it, and extend its usefulness for most people by an enormous margin. Hence, the Steam Deck, and its dock for people exactly like you. Just get a screen protector if you're not gonna use it.

Speaking of which, Sony did kind of do that with the PlayStation Vita TV:
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It was crap in a lot of different ways, but the main question was, why didn't they just release the planned TV out cable for the normal, portable Vita? Because like, how many people are in situations where they'd like to bring around a portable game system, a controller, a power cord, an HDMI cable, but adding a screen and some built-in controls is a bridge too far?

Iiirc there was a Vita to HDMI adapter planned but it was scrapped in favour of the PS TV

And most of the time, if my memory doesnt fail me, the PS TV was just advertised as a way to stream your PS4 and 3 to another TV in the West, the Nips and Chinks cared more about the Vita part because they actually got games for it

I remember that was the trend at that time, iirc Valve tried something similar with the Steam Link, but it was phased out in favour of just streaming from PC to PC

 

[The Last Stand]

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

DmC wasn't THAT bad. Could do without all that singing.

Call of Duty: WW2 wasn't a bad CoD. The brotherhood approach with storytelling was decent, espeically with its motifs. Multiplayer was leagues better than Black Ops III, aside from the loot boxes.

 

[Ruin]

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.

See you think that but the popular alternative is a Destiny/Far Cry thing where you simply gain a flat 2% damage and health increase per level which is a thousand times more boring than picking perks from a skill tree.

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[THEY STOLE MY FORESKIN]

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. Certified software library
4. Everything available for PC runs on it

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

Now I realized that I didn't explain well what I meant, only Píssmaster seems to have understood. I was thinking of taking the Deck hardware and making a home console of it, basically take out the screen, controller and battery, but it's indeed unpopular because I really don't like the dock and having to charge the Deck though almost nobody has problems with it. A thin gaming PC would be a very good idea in my opinion and the Deck is a good foundation for one (again, in my opinion). Indeed, if I wanted something to play very performance intensive games I would buy a normal gaming PC, but the idea of taking a mini gaming PC that's not as capable to a friend's house or a hotel in my backpack seems very cool. This reminds me of something, actually.

 

[The Fair Lady]

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.

Nico is pretty much the only problem I have with DMC5, and she's actually one of the reasons I was hesitant about even checking the game out.

 

[Matt Damon]

See you think that but the popular alternative is a Destiny/Far Cry thing where you simply gain a flat 2% damage and health increase per level which is a thousand times more boring than picking perks from a skill tree.

Be careful what you wish for.

Absolutely. Is there something that's broadly agreed upon to be better than skill trees?

It's really hard to take someone seriously if they say "_____ simply must go" when there's no clearly superior (or even equivalent) alternative.

 

[Pig Boss]

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.

And yet they're still some of my favourite CRPG's

 

[The Ugly One]

Now I realized that I didn't explain well what I meant, only Píssmaster seems to have understood. I was thinking of taking the Deck hardware and making a home console of it, basically take out the screen, controller and battery, but it's indeed unpopular because I really don't like the dock and having to charge the Deck though almost nobody has problems with it. A thin gaming PC would be a very good idea in my opinion and the Deck is a good foundation for one (again, in my opinion). Indeed, if I wanted something to play very performance intensive games I would buy a normal gaming PC, but the idea of taking a mini gaming PC that's not as capable to a friend's house or a hotel in my backpack seems very cool. This reminds me of something, actually.

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The Gamecube has the CPU and the GPU on the same PCB, sharing a massive, monolithic heat sink, with the fins aligned with push-pull fans for wind tunnel-like design. It is exactly the sort of design you can't do with a modular PCIe card.



Gaming laptops are designed according to similar principles - exploit monolithic design and fixed components to optimize convective heat transfer. But those aren't upgradeable. That's why I said upgradeable and micro form factor are incompatible.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Here's a weird one that I'm only going to call "unpopular" based off a bunch of comments I've read on Youtube.

For some reason, Youtube algorithm has decided to show me a bunch of videos of the PS1 error screens, often with descriptions and comments about how creepy/scary they are.

This shit isn't scary. Fearful Harmony just sounds like a bunch of glitched/annoying chimes. Personified Fear sounds almost no different from the regular start up, just louder?

Yet I always see comments ranging from "this is the creepiest thing ever" to "I literally crapped my pants in fear at this".

I could *maybe* understand if someone got these by complete accident when they were like 7, but from everything I'm seeing you have to intentionally try to trigger these and it takes like 3-15 minutes of trying to read a disk before they even start.

 

[Cod of War]

I really don't know where else to post this.


Every god damn day, I see 20+ articles on fucking mods in my news feed. That's right, mods. Are they ever any impressive kind of mods, like adding a new campaign, total rebalances or something wholly unique? Lol, NO! Every single god damn article is some dumb shit like "dis guy putted da Goku frum da Draygoon Bull into udder fightin' game, ain't dat neat?".


Unpopular opinion time: Most mods are fucking gay and cringe, you put all this time and effort into fixing/improving someone else's work, instead of your own. You're a programming cuck. The vast majority of mods that aren't basically patches are for coomers and people who absolutely need to shove other out of place properties into places they don't belong (ponymod faggots are the perfect example). Mods can be amazing and offer great improvements to old games, but the vast majority are dog shit and the people who made them should be ashamed of themselves.

/tesg/ & /fog/ on suicide watch.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Probably not unpopular but fuck it, I've had a few.

Steam's software is a real piece of shit. How many times do I boot it up and it loads the "on sale now" page but there's nothing displaying? This bug has happened for years. If there's not more than one item that they're highlighting, I can't refresh the page and there's no way to close it and bring it up again. Whatever's on sale that day is just lost to me. It's not like I'm looking for more excuses to buy games, but come on, you're giving me the popup, at least let me SEE the popup!

Then all the needless tabs and refreshing to go to community view, workshop view, I can never remember the right menu sequence to uninstall a game, it's just so fucking clunky for something that brings them in billions of dollars a year. Tell some white nigger who gets 3% of the Steam revenue to code you up a new interface that doesn't require 20 clicks to do everything.

edit: included a screenshot so you can see what this is because maybe I'm the only one who gets it. ignore that my library is full of trash games that Steam is trying to get me to play

 

[WULULULULU]

Probably not unpopular but fuck it, I've had a few.

Steam's software is a real piece of shit. How many times do I boot it up and it loads the "on sale now" page but there's nothing displaying? This bug has happened for years. If there's not more than one item that they're highlighting, I can't refresh the page and there's no way to close it and bring it up again. Whatever's on sale that day is just lost to me. It's not like I'm looking for more excuses to buy games, but come on, you're giving me the popup, at least let me SEE the popup!

Then all the needless tabs and refreshing to go to community view, workshop view, I can never remember the right menu sequence to uninstall a game, it's just so fucking clunky for something that brings them in billions of dollars a year. Tell some white nigger who gets 3% of the Steam revenue to code you up a new interface that doesn't require 20 clicks to do everything.

edit: included a screenshot so you can see what this is because maybe I'm the only one who gets it. ignore that my library is full of trash games that Steam is trying to get me to play
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Tell me about it, they have the most money in the world and somehow they can't start from scratch?

 

[Pissmaster]

Probably not unpopular but fuck it, I've had a few.

Steam's software is a real piece of shit. How many times do I boot it up and it loads the "on sale now" page but there's nothing displaying? This bug has happened for years. If there's not more than one item that they're highlighting, I can't refresh the page and there's no way to close it and bring it up again. Whatever's on sale that day is just lost to me. It's not like I'm looking for more excuses to buy games, but come on, you're giving me the popup, at least let me SEE the popup!

Then all the needless tabs and refreshing to go to community view, workshop view, I can never remember the right menu sequence to uninstall a game, it's just so fucking clunky for something that brings them in billions of dollars a year. Tell some white nigger who gets 3% of the Steam revenue to code you up a new interface that doesn't require 20 clicks to do everything.

edit: included a screenshot so you can see what this is because maybe I'm the only one who gets it. ignore that my library is full of trash games that Steam is trying to get me to play
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Yeah, that's a really bizarre thing with Steam, those usually take a while to load. Though you can disable the popup in the settings.

also Guacamelee is pretty good. plus Steam just wouldn't be Steam without countless trashy bundle games all throughout your library

 

[WULULULULU]

Yeah, that's a really bizarre thing with Steam, those usually take a while to load. Though you can disable the popup in the settings.

also Guacamelee is pretty good. plus Steam just wouldn't be Steam without countless trashy bundle games all throughout your library

I do have the original Guacamelee, but is the sequel worth a try?

 

[Pissmaster]

I do have the original Guacamelee, but is the sequel worth a try?

I never picked it up, I liked Guac but not enough to go for the sequel

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Here's a weird one that I'm only going to call "unpopular" based off a bunch of comments I've read on Youtube.

For some reason, Youtube algorithm has decided to show me a bunch of videos of the PS1 error screens, often with descriptions and comments about how creepy/scary they are.

This shit isn't scary. Fearful Harmony just sounds like a bunch of glitched/annoying chimes. Personified Fear sounds almost no different from the regular start up, just louder?

Yet I always see comments ranging from "this is the creepiest thing ever" to "I literally crapped my pants in fear at this".

I could *maybe* understand if someone got these by complete accident when they were like 7, but from everything I'm seeing you have to intentionally try to trigger these and it takes like 3-15 minutes of trying to read a disk before they even start.

There's also this fag who finds Super Mario 64 terrifying because the castle is... EMPTY!!!:
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