Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Unreal 5 is not as impressive.

Graphics look good, but it's engine bloat on top of engine bloat, builds that are so poorly optimized they take 10GB on the hard disk, and run at 10FPS on anything but a 2000€ computer. Visual scripting is not that impressive and the documentation is atrocious.

 

[Meat Target]

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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Steam once uninstalled TF2 without my consent.

 

[WULULULULU]

Steam once uninstalled TF2 without my consent.

A sign to stay away from Trannies and Furries perhaps?

 

[JektheDumbass]

Fucking hate Dark Soul’s fanbase. Once I said something to the effect of “I hate the Souls franchise, never even played one the fanbase is just godawful” and a helpful Soulsfan decided to help prove my point by rushing in and going “Did you died to the first boss?! Git good lololol!”

Should’ve used that third nuke.

Gamers in general, man. Every time I point out gamers are shit some semen-encrusted mouth breather comes out of nowhere and says something that proves me right.

 

[Calandrino]

I think Chrono Trigger, Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy VII are all overrated and not very good. I have played much better video games than them, and fans of those games are insufferable because they never shut the fuck up about how "amazing" the games are.

If nobody else ever told me that Chrono Trigger was supposed to be a great game, I don't think it ever would have occurred to me that it was anything special. I can't even remember it well enough to complain about it.

There's also this fag who finds Super Mario 64 terrifying because the castle is... EMPTY!!!:
(content starts around 2:20)

Probably should have titled the video something like "How My Anxiety Disorder Affects My Daily Life". Those of a Poe-esque nervous temperament find much to disturb their sensitive imaginations in Mario 64, Majora's Mask, and the Godzilla NES game. Is this the FNAF audience?

 

[JektheDumbass]

DOOM 2016 >>>>>>> Eternal

I don't mind "use different weapons for different encounters"

I don't mind "use one weapon to break guard, then a different for the weak point"

I think "frantically scrolling through all your weapons because you barely have enough ammo to kill one enemy without doing so, also you don't have an actual melee attack because fuck you" is irritating. Yes, I know ammo drops like crazy and if you do the thing you won't run out. I don't think the thing is fun and I would rather play a different game.

 

[Matt Damon]

Gamers in general, man. Every time I point out gamers are shit some semen-encrusted mouth breather comes out of nowhere and says something that proves me right.

Nerds in general.

There's a reason for the long-standing stereotype of nerds being pompous maladjusted losers who are unpleasant to interact with and it's not the cope explanation that "everyone is jealous of them".

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

I'd find Shadowrun more enjoyable if the cover mechanic weren't so wildly unintuitive and blasting a dude point blank from behind with a shotgun gave me better than 72% chance to hit. My team makes XCOM grunts look like crack shots by comparison.

The setting is neat and the writing is well-done, but the combat routinely makes me want to break my mouse.

 

[snailslime]

I don't mind "use different weapons for different encounters"

I don't mind "use one weapon to break guard, then a different for the weak point"

I think "frantically scrolling through all your weapons because you barely have enough to kill one enemy without doing so, also you don't have an actual melee attack because fuck you" is irritating. Yes, I know ammo drops like crazy and if you do the thing you won't run out. I don't think the thing is fun and I would rather play a different game.

The chainsaw mechanic in eternal is ridiculous. At least in 2016 it was actually fun

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Nerds in general.

There's a reason for the long-standing stereotype of nerds being pompous maladjusted losers who are unpleasant to interact with and it's not the cope explanation that "everyone is jealous of them".

I've found I have more fun with normal people than "hardcore" gamers at this point. The whole gamer culture starts to become super annoying and embarrassing after the age of like 25.

I used to just think I hated people on Gamefaqs, but then I just found out all "gamers" fucking suck.

 

[Meat Target]

There's a reason for the long-standing stereotype of nerds being pompous maladjusted losers who are unpleasant to interact with and it's not the cope explanation that "everyone is jealous of them".

I've found I have more fun with normal people than "hardcore" gamers at this point. The whole gamer culture starts to become super annoying and embarrassing after the age of like 25.

I used to just think I hated people on Gamefaqs, but then I just found out all "gamers" fucking suck.

Some of my most autistic acts of internet vandalism were on /v/, instigated because I was genuinely MATI over their sheer insufferability.

It's a common trend; in general, I often come to despise the "communities" of things I like. Maybe it's a "familiarity breeds contempt" deal.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Some of my most autistic acts of internet vandalism were on /v/, instigated because I was genuinely MATI over their sheer insufferability.

I thought I left that shit behind on Gamefaqs but it It happens to me here more and more and it brings me a mucha shame.

I should probably just get off the internet.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Elden Ring's boss fights tried to ape monster hunter more and failed.

Their tells are too random for a good bit of them, and they also can be highly mobile while the player isn't. The bosses need more structure, and also a camera that doesn't fuck up when locking on when the boss decides to jump 3 miles across the room. I felt that they were behaving too fast and loose, sometimes it just boiled down to the boss using it's weakest move 3 times in a row as a deciding factor for victory.

 

[thegooddoctor]

People whined too much during the 7th gen, yes in some ways it was a downgrade over the prior gen, but from a western perspective at least we didn't realize how good we had it and almost all the times people really shit a brick about something were not as bad as they made it out to be.

Ironically the thing that pissed me off the most, the state of Japanese games at the time, /v/ seemed to not care too much about and you were called a filthy weeb if you pointed out that Silent Hill had gone to shit for example.

Most of the outrage I saw was over things like Fallout 3, was it as good as the first two? No, was it still a fun game that is better than Fallout 4 and 76? Yes.

Similar deal with Skyrim, so much whining about it not being Morrowind but it was still a good game.

The "PS3 has no games" meme was funny, but now the PS5 literally has no games, I wish we still got stuff like the Uncharted trilogy or God of War 3, instead we get stuff like Last of Us 2.

I just wish people had lightened up a bit, now we really do know what it's like to have gaming go to shit.

I completely agree, despite its flaws, there was always an enormous sense of scale, ambition and real sense of mechanical deft to so many games of the late 2000s and seventh generation when compared to the 2010s-2020s era of gaming. This idea that the PS3 was an abject disappointment and so devoid of memorable games compared to previous and later generations is absurd.

The PS3 was an incredibly fun and incredibly slick console with so much ambition and still has some of the best action games Sony made, God of war 3, the original uncharted trilogy, some of the early Call of duties, Ratchet and Clank a crack in time, LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, Motorstorm, and countless others. There was always something new and interesting on the horizon even if there were plenty of lacklustre shooters, Sony were at their creative peak trying as many new things as they could. It’s a far cry compared to the Visually amazing but repetitive Open-World Sandbox stuff we get served all the time now.

 

[Matt Damon]

I completely agree, despite its flaws, there was always an enormous sense of scale, ambition and real sense of mechanical deft to so many games of the late 2000s and seventh generation when compared to the 2010s-2020s era of gaming. This idea that the PS3 was an abject disappointment and so devoid of memorable games compared to previous and later generations is absurd.

The PS3 was an incredibly fun and incredibly slick console with so much ambition and still has some of the best action games Sony made, God of war 3, the original uncharted trilogy, some of the early Call of duties, Ratchet and Clank a crack in time, LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, Motorstorm, and countless others. There was always something new and interesting on the horizon even if there were plenty of lacklustre shooters, Sony were at their creative peak trying as many new things as they could. It’s a far cry compared to the Visually amazing but repetitive Open-World Sandbox stuff we get served all the time now.

It was also the last period where you could generally expect a single-player game to be a complete, finished product that wasn't conceived from the beginning as a mere vessel to sell the player more shit in the pause menu.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I completely agree, despite its flaws, there was always an enormous sense of scale, ambition and real sense of mechanical deft to so many games of the late 2000s and seventh generation when compared to the 2010s-2020s era of gaming. This idea that the PS3 was an abject disappointment and so devoid of memorable games compared to previous and later generations is absurd.

The PS3 was an incredibly fun and incredibly slick console with so much ambition and still has some of the best action games Sony made, God of war 3, the original uncharted trilogy, some of the early Call of duties, Ratchet and Clank a crack in time, LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, Motorstorm, and countless others. There was always something new and interesting on the horizon even if there were plenty of lacklustre shooters, Sony were at their creative peak trying as many new things as they could. It’s a far cry compared to the Visually amazing but repetitive Open-World Sandbox stuff we get served all the time now.

The truth is I have real mixed feelings for the era, it's hard for me to really say it's "better" or miss it because Japan really did go through a shitty period for a while there and even /v/ types realized something was wrong by the time of RE6 and DMC 2013.

And Japanese developers and publishers have made some great strides since (with the exception of Konami)

But it was a better time for western gaming for sure and people didn't appreciate that enough, much better times for companies like Bethesda, Rockstar and Sony's US studios.

And honestly I don't think the mid 2010s is half bad either for western games, but then the late 2010s arrived and the whole thing started to decline before entering near complete freefall in the 2020s.

Basically 2017 was the turning point, that was when the decline started for the west but also when Japan started it's comeback, it's been a weird 5 years.

 

[Pissmaster]

I got Spec Ops: The Line for free a few years ago, and the more i read about the game, especially from people who mindlessly praise it, the less i want to play it, it's been like 6 years since i got Spec Ops and it's been just gathering dust in my backlog, but that's ok, not to play the game is the right choice after all.

Spec Ops: The Line is a mediocre but perfectly serviceable cover shooter released smack dab in the middle of the era when cover shooters were big, so it got a lot of love for just being subversive. It’s about as good as you can possibly adapt Heart of Darkness to a video game, but if playing the game version of that story doesn’t appeal to you, you’re not missing much. The game is still literally a cover shooter that takes a few days to play through, so if that doesn’t appeal to you, just skip it.

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

The truth is I have real mixed feelings for the era, it's hard for me to really say it's "better" or miss it because Japan really did go through a shitty period for a while there and even /v/ types realized something was wrong by the time of RE6 and DMC 2013.

Japan was weird, but still kicking. Nintendo is obviously the biggest Japanese publisher and the Wii was a pretty ambitious era for them. I would argue that a good chunk of some of their best titles were on the 7th gen Wii or DS. Brawl, MKWii, 64 DS, Super Star Ultra, Return To Dream Land, Country Returns, NSB, Super Sluggers, Diamond & Pearl, I could go on. Nintendo kicked so much ass that generation yet got shoved aside because Muh Gimmick console.

Even looking past Nintendo we still got the return of Street Fighter, some killer Sonic titles near the end (Colors & Generations), Nier, MVC3, Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, World Ends With You, etc..
If you played PlayStation/XBOX, then yeah, the Japan offerings were weak, but Nintendo and I believe the PSP still were a great showcase for their time.

 

[The Ugly One]

I completely agree, despite its flaws, there was always an enormous sense of scale, ambition and real sense of mechanical deft to so many games of the late 2000s and seventh generation when compared to the 2010s-2020s era of gaming. This idea that the PS3 was an abject disappointment and so devoid of memorable games compared to previous and later generations is absurd.

The PS3 was an incredibly fun and incredibly slick console with so much ambition and still has some of the best action games Sony made, God of war 3, the original uncharted trilogy, some of the early Call of duties, Ratchet and Clank a crack in time, LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2, Motorstorm, and countless others. There was always something new and interesting on the horizon even if there were plenty of lacklustre shooters, Sony were at their creative peak trying as many new things as they could. It’s a far cry compared to the Visually amazing but repetitive Open-World Sandbox stuff we get served all the time now.

The PS3 era was a step back in creativity, but the overall visual fidelity and smoothness of games was so much higher and more consistent than the PS2 era that it made up for it IMO. Online multiplayer of course was far better.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Spec Ops: The Line is a mediocre but perfectly serviceable cover shooter released smack dab in the middle of the era when cover shooters were big, so it got a lot of love for just being subversive. It’s about as good as you can possibly adapt Heart of Darkness to a video game, but if playing the game version of that story doesn’t appeal to you, you’re not missing much. The game is still literally a cover shooter that takes a few days to play through, so if that doesn’t appeal to you, just skip it.

I loved Spec Ops: The Line but it started a bad trend of pretentious douches replacing creativity with "subverting your expectations", Spec Ops: The Line walked so The Last of Us 2 could run... and take a giant shit on your face.

I liked Uncharted 4 for the most part but there's a little tip of the hat to Spec Ops: The Line that was creepily tone deaf given the Uncharted series and was an obvious sign of things to come with Druckyboy.

The whole Woke mentality genuinely gives me the chills with how alien it is and Spec Ops: The Line was proto-Woke, which makes it more interesting and worthy of respect than what came later, but you can trace a bad direction after it.

Spec Ops: The Line is a lot more interesting when you compare it to earlier times and the original Spec Ops series, which it, alongside a bunch of other similar war themed games from the late 90s and early 2000s that seemed tailor made for the shelves of Wal-Mart, is an interesting reflection of America's changing attitudes about war pre and post Iraq war.

Japan was weird, but still kicking. Nintendo is obviously the biggest Japanese publisher and the Wii was a pretty ambitious era for them. I would argue that a good chunk of some of their best titles were on the 7th gen Wii or DS. Brawl, MKWii, 64 DS, Super Star Ultra, Return To Dream Land, Country Returns, NSB, Super Sluggers, Diamond & Pearl, I could go on. Nintendo kicked so much ass that generation yet got shoved aside because Muh Gimmick console.

Even looking past Nintendo we still got the return of Street Fighter, some killer Sonic titles near the end (Colors & Generations), Nier, MVC3, Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, World Ends With You, etc..
If you played PlayStation/XBOX, then yeah, the Japan offerings were weak, but Nintendo and I believe the PSP still were a great showcase for their time.

The DS was certainly a rare high point for Japan at that time as was a few other things, but Silent Hill went to shit, Resident Evil went to shit and so many Japanese series, publishers and developers dried up, it was a huge contraction of the market when compared to the PS1 and PS2 days.

 

[get_ur_gamon]

Dawn of War Soul Storm is better than Dark Crusade in many ways. In particular the base building. DC forced you to delay victory and build up the rest of the map in preparation for later games. DOW SS meanwhile allows you to speedrun skirmishes and move onto the more exciting stuff like strongholds.