Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Creep3r]

Cubivore

 

[Basic Blonde Boy]

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It is a super strange game that I have played a bit of. It can be kinda jank, and I honestly have no idea what the goal is a good chunk of the time, but it is endearing in how strange it is. In terms of story it makes no god damn sense, you have to destroy the chrome things because they are eating the forest resources, yet you character does the same. There is a literal Fuck meter that gets you to turn your Cube into a giga chad that gets bitches. Your mans dies then you play as the kid each chapter. Then there is the weird rainbow bridge heaven sections. It is such a strange, strange title that very few seem to acknowledge.

 

[The News Crews]

not sure if it’s that unpopular but I like Call of Duty campaigns. Makes me feel like I’m in a dumb action movie with all of the set-pieces. I couldn’t care less if the plot made any sense

 

[FatMebius]

I don't like Western AAA games and haven't for around a decade or so. I have more fun with janky, low budget JRPGs I buy on the cheap.

 

[Thiletonomics]

not sure if it’s that unpopular but I like Call of Duty campaigns. Makes me feel like I’m in a dumb action movie with all of the set-pieces. I couldn’t care less if the plot made any sense

The OG Modern Warfare Campaigns were hella good, and ended in a very satisfying way, unlike how the current trend is to let the big bad live at the end.

 

[the_tepes]

I think every Fallout and Elder Scrolls game is overrated. The story of those games is either nonsensical (since Fallout 4)
or pretty standard and flat (random dude, stupid prophecy, bla bla bla - and no, I didn't read all the books in any Bethesda game).

The gameplay is tedious in every game. Combat in ES barely manages to not be frustrating all the time
while the gunplay in the latest Fallout games is an insult. You can literally see the shitty gunplay in Starfield.
So another easy pass on a shitty Bethesda game - which will be made functional by a group of stupid fanboys
who just don't get it.

 

[Local Degenerate]

So, this is tangentially related to games, but I need to get it off my chest:

Can we stop pretending that gold digging bitches don't lie all the fucking time, so Blizzard is *clearly* full of literal rapists?

Are we all just going to sit here and pretend we *didn't* just sit through months of Amber Heard being a lying cunt?

I'm so sick of every fucking talking head around gaming wagging their fingers at Blizzard, since they're all rapists and tit-milk stealing perverts, when the only word we have in that direction is A) The parents of a dead woman, and B) women in the company.. Both of which, you'll note, stand to gain in a big way by accusing a massive company of this shit. A massive company that, coincidentally, only started getting these accusations when it fell from public grace.

I'm not saying there isn't shady shit going on in there, there almost certainly is, but let's not pretend the only reason any of us are willing to jump on the hatewagon along with little miss 'a man stole breast milk from the locked safe only women knew the combo to get int.' is anything other than Bliz is making shit games.

If Bliz was still the publics golden boy, all of this would've been blown off as what it very well may be: Bitches gold digging.

Remember, despite what the left wants: America is still run on an Innocent until proven guilty system.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

So, this is tangentially related to games, but I need to get it off my chest:

Can we stop pretending that gold digging bitches don't lie all the fucking time, so Blizzard is *clearly* full of literal rapists?

Are we all just going to sit here and pretend we *didn't* just sit through months of Amber Heard being a lying cunt?

I'm so sick of every fucking talking head around gaming wagging their fingers at Blizzard, since they're all rapists and tit-milk stealing perverts, when the only word we have in that direction is A) The parents of a dead woman, and B) women in the company.. Both of which, you'll note, stand to gain in a big way by accusing a massive company of this shit. A massive company that, coincidentally, only started getting these accusations when it fell from public grace.

I'm not saying there isn't shady shit going on in there, there almost certainly is, but let's not pretend the only reason any of us are willing to jump on the hatewagon along with little miss 'a man stole breast milk from the locked safe only women knew the combo to get int.' is anything other than Bliz is making shit games.

If Bliz was still the publics golden boy, all of this would've been blown off as what it very well may be: Bitches gold digging.

Remember, despite what the left wants: America is still run on an Innocent until proven guilty system.

Most of those offenses are so pety. Most of it sounded like the perpetually unfunny blowing stuff out of proportion. A lot of it felt like the broom-up-their-ass HR harpies trying a hostile takeover of the chill dudebro codecels.

"Women do all the work and men just pass their work onto us" fuck off. Pointless paperwork and stupid questionaires are not what moves the company forward. I'm sorry codecels made you complete those useless corporate forms for them. You are a contribution to the company, pushing useless paperwork and meetings onto people is important.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

A lot of people told me Rebel Galaxy Outlaw was shit, but I got it for like 5 bucks on GoG and I'm actually enjoying it despite the subtle undertones of woke/girl power shit that the title screen gives off.

I heard that the developer got bullied out of game development because he took an EGS deal which I find kind of funny.

 

[Ser Prize]

I love Fallout: New Vegas to death, probably in my top 10, but I feel people hype it up way too much and it's certainly no 10/10. It has so many problems that I can understand someone not liking it. Just to list a few off the top of my head:

Spoiler: List

1. Graphics look like puke and everything is orange
2. Open world is empty and lifeless most of the time
3. Vegas, the games namesake, is the worst area in the game. Looks horrific and is riddled with loading screens that makes doing quests in it tedious
4. You have to install mods just to stop it from crashing randomly or triggering soft locks during missions
5. Combat is basic, okay-at-best FPS
6. Game gives you too many SPECIAL points at the Vigour Tester. You can make yourself overpowered before you even leave Doc's house
7. Changing skill checks to a solid number requirement removes all the tension and makes the game easy (something Fallout 3 does better than NV)
8. Main quest becomes uninteresting after you kill Benny
9. Caesar's Legion has barely any content. Not even a single companion.
10. Lanius is a joke. The game builds him up as an animalistic savage and yet when you meet him he speaks sophisticated and can actually be convinced to leave. The writers just forgot that was his personality when making this section and made up an excuse for it in Lonesome Road to explain it
11. Out of the 4 main DLCs, only Dead Money and Lonesome Road are actually worth playing

Extra unpopular opinion: Dead Money is the best main DLC in NV and gets way too much hate. Old World Blues is reddit tier and I hate going back to it each playthrough.

Hey pal, Honest Hearts was great. Agreed otherwise.

 

[Ensok]

not sure if it’s that unpopular but I like Call of Duty campaigns. Makes me feel like I’m in a dumb action movie with all of the set-pieces. I couldn’t care less if the plot made any sense

The OG Modern Warfare Campaigns were hella good, and ended in a very satisfying way, unlike how the current trend is to let the big bad live at the end.

I guess I'll have to say then that while I can enjoy Call of Duty campaigns, I did not like MW2's because I saw it for the cynical, bleeding heart, Anti-American propaganda that it was. MW1's was not bad but it does make 2's more annoying.

Also how am I not supposed to root for Shepherd in that fight at the end? The guy is in his 60's, he just crashed out of a helicopter, two much younger SAS agents with more direct combat experience are chasing him, and he beats the shit out of them on his own. How am I not supposed to root for that guy in that situation?

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

How am I not supposed to root for that guy in that situation?

He killed Ghost and Roach, bro. (and started World War III)

I get what you mean though. I personally was rooting for the Colonel at the end of Avatar.

 

[Sandraker]

Jet Set Radio Future while being one of my favorite games ultimately is carried by everything but the gameplay.

The gameplay is bland at best and tedious at worse that feels like the worse aspects of a collect-a-thon. Skating around it in feels like shit at times and since you can't really fail tricks or grinds you're overall just building up speed to barely tap an obnoxiously placed graffiti spot. Those combat parts are also a drag since you can't do much without spray cans and its nothing more than head ramming into your target and spraying them with your very limited can count only to rise and repeat in a very small area.

Its a very cool game on its on from a aesthetics point but take that bitch out thats screaming about birthday cake and its just backtrack fest with janky controls.

Hopefully Bomb Rush Cityfunk builds on the formula more.

 

[thegooddoctor]

I have had more fun with the switch than the PS4 or PS5, despite the staggering difference in power there is just so much more fun to be had with the quick easy nature of the switch on the go, the switches library isn’t as dense but it’s just focused more quick and fun to play on the go more than anything else. People talk shit about Nintendo being filled with autistic fat sweaty geeks which they undoubtedly are, but they at the very least do prioritise ‘fun’ in a game over anything else. Way more than Sony and Xbox obsessing over the graphics and making games little more than interactive stories, FPS’s and bloated open worlds.

There is a more clear focus on accessibility and broad appeal with Nintendo games and regardless of you feel about the more limited technology and more ‘childish demographic at least they have genuine passion for making games actually well ‘fun’ compared to so many other companies these days.

 

[Pissmaster]

I've never been big on Smash Bros and I've always found the competitive scene and obsession with tourneys to be cringe, but I preferred it when the series had only 1st party characters. It gave Greedtendo a chance to show off some of their lesser known IPs and even give them revivals or even introduce them into the west, as seen with Kid Icarus and Fire Emblem/Mother 3 (although the latter two ended up becoming cursed with cursed fanbases as a result). And it also encouraged stuff like Sony's smash bros knockoff or Sega's racing games where you could have the IPs of your other favorite companies duke it out and bring relevance back to some of their lesser known IPs too.

The shift towards popularity polls and fan demands now though is just turning it into a Pooh's Adventure of 3rd parties. The excessive amount of Mario and FE reps only makes the roster feel even more distant from its original roots of being a "Bros" series where different related sibling IPs finally had a chance of teaming up and colliding. And to make matters worse similar clones like Sony's, Cartoon Network's and even Nickelodeon's didn't take off either due to meh gameplay or not understanding how to have a fun roster that acted as a tribute to the past. Also being an obscure IP that gets added to Smash Bros now is effectively a curse since it just draws in a gaggle of crossover autists who don't bother to play the games or just skim to shitpost crossover art, as is what happened with the new gaggle of obnoxious american and britbong Dragon Quest fans who initially mocked the Erdrick characters as being too obscure despite being relevant enough in Japan while also forgetting that Smash started with a mixture of popular IPs and obscure ones.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Shrek, Goku or Mickey Mouse show up soon.

iirc Sakurai's said that his only rule about Smash characters is that they must have originated from video games, so at least that cuts out those three you mentioned. Still, Smash's lineup seriously feels like it was just Sakurai's personal picks, which is the one way I figure we ended up with so many Fire Emblem characters and the likes of Sora, instead of like, Shantae, and the Doom Slayer.

And speaking of Hero/Erdrick seeming too obscure to Westerners, apparently Japan felt the same way about Little Mac. Punch-Out isn't nearly as big of a thing over there as it is here.

 

[The News Crews]

The OG Modern Warfare Campaigns were hella good, and ended in a very satisfying way, unlike how the current trend is to let the big bad live at the end.

It’s still boggles my mind that the same people who made modern warfare’s story made ghosts. What the fuck where they thinking with that ending? At least modern warfare 2019 was good.

 

[Ensok]

iirc Sakurai's said that his only rule about Smash characters is that they must have originated from video games, so at least that cuts out those three you mentioned. Still, Smash's lineup seriously feels like it was just Sakurai's personal picks, which is the one way I figure we ended up with so many Fire Emblem characters and the likes of Sora, instead of like, Shantae, and the Doom Slayer.

And speaking of Hero/Erdrick seeming too obscure to Westerners, apparently Japan felt the same way about Little Mac. Punch-Out isn't nearly as big of a thing over there as it is here.

Honestly I still feel characters like the Doom Slayer and Master Chief would feel too out of place in Smash. But then again I felt the same about Sephiroth and Kazuya Mishima among some others so who knows. I've seen all the people screaming for Geno for a while but Mario has enough characters anyways and he's such an absurdly minor character already. I'd rather have Majora, Crash, or another Sonic character.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

iirc Sakurai's said that his only rule about Smash characters is that they must have originated from video games, so at least that cuts out those three you mentioned. Still, Smash's lineup seriously feels like it was just Sakurai's personal picks, which is the one way I figure we ended up with so many Fire Emblem characters and the likes of Sora, instead of like, Shantae, and the Doom Slayer.

And speaking of Hero/Erdrick seeming too obscure to Westerners, apparently Japan felt the same way about Little Mac. Punch-Out isn't nearly as big of a thing over there as it is here.

Is Fire Emblem even that popular to begin with? like you said, it was probably Sakurai's picks, because otherwise i doubt FE is popular enough to warrant that many characters in the roster.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I think it is a good thing that Final Fantasy has abandoned that strange half assed attempt at making a turn based RPG feel like it isn't turn based.

 

[Thiletonomics]

I guess I'll have to say then that while I can enjoy Call of Duty campaigns, I did not like MW2's because I saw it for the cynical, bleeding heart, Anti-American propaganda that it was. MW1's was not bad but it does make 2's more annoying.

Also how am I not supposed to root for Shepherd in that fight at the end? The guy is in his 60's, he just crashed out of a helicopter, two much younger SAS agents with more direct combat experience are chasing him, and he beats the shit out of them on his own. How am I not supposed to root for that guy in that situation?

I do have to give credit to MW2, because it had a lot of things that wouldn't be PC or pass ESG requirements in today's world, such as the No Russian mission, and the parts where Russia attacks the US.

And regarding Shepherd, he did have to hopelessly see his soldiers get killed off in a blink of an eye, in the events of MW1, with this famous quote from him:

"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fucking watched. Tomorrow, there will be no shortage of volunteers. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand."

So, this is tangentially related to games, but I need to get it off my chest:

Can we stop pretending that gold digging bitches don't lie all the fucking time, so Blizzard is *clearly* full of literal rapists?

Are we all just going to sit here and pretend we *didn't* just sit through months of Amber Heard being a lying cunt?

I'm so sick of every fucking talking head around gaming wagging their fingers at Blizzard, since they're all rapists and tit-milk stealing perverts, when the only word we have in that direction is A) The parents of a dead woman, and B) women in the company.. Both of which, you'll note, stand to gain in a big way by accusing a massive company of this shit. A massive company that, coincidentally, only started getting these accusations when it fell from public grace.

I'm not saying there isn't shady shit going on in there, there almost certainly is, but let's not pretend the only reason any of us are willing to jump on the hatewagon along with little miss 'a man stole breast milk from the locked safe only women knew the combo to get int.' is anything other than Bliz is making shit games.

If Bliz was still the publics golden boy, all of this would've been blown off as what it very well may be: Bitches gold digging.

Remember, despite what the left wants: America is still run on an Innocent until proven guilty system.

The other factors about Blizzard that people are trashing them for, i.e. the Blitzchung ban fiasco, World of Warcraft's lore direction in the later games, going all-in on the Woke train to milk those sweet ESG points, and Diablo Immortal having some of the most exploitative monetization systems in a game, don't help their cause at all.

Going back to the topic at hand, given how it's a trend for dead characters to somehow comeback, i.e. the Kael'Thas "Merely a Setback jokes", it made me appreciate what happened with Tychus Findlay, in that he died, and stayed dead. Even though I was rooting for him to live in SC2's story, the fact that Blizzard didn't resort to bringing him back, was probably for the best.

And I also like Tychus's Co-Op Commander design, where you basically control 5 hero units with one ability each, like a MOBA game where 1 person is in charge of the 5 units. Blizzard also said that it was a "What if" scenario, to keep that part of the lore valid, even though Co-Op mode is not canon by design.