Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

Playing Portal is the equivalent to getting lost in your head and not worrying about outside things that you can not control. This is the reason as to why video games exist. I do wonder what a Portal 3 would look like, though I don’t know how that would play out.
 
I actually like Crusader Kings III and think 90% of it is a major improvement over II. MUCH better looking and while it inherited that from the first one
 
Here's mine: people need to stop listing "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" in bad video game lists, because I doubt it's the only broken shovelware CD-ROM that made it to store shelves in the early to mid 2000s and nobody actually played it in 2003.

The idea of bad video games is the expectation vs. reality. It's why ET sucked so hard even though it wasn't especially bad for Atari standards. It's why Daikatana was terrible even though it wasn't the worst game on the market. And it's why you can consider a game an atrocity even if others like it.

If you get oversold on a mediocre game it often turns "bad" just on the disconnect from what you experienced versus what you expected.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Here's mine: people need to stop listing "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" in bad video game lists, because I doubt it's the only broken shovelware CD-ROM that made it to store shelves in the early to mid 2000s and nobody actually played it in 2003.

The idea of bad video games is the expectation vs. reality. It's why ET sucked so hard even though it wasn't especially bad for Atari standards. It's why Daikatana was terrible even though it wasn't the worst game on the market. And it's why you can consider a game an atrocity even if others like it.

If you get oversold on a mediocre game it often turns "bad" just on the disconnect from what you experienced versus what you expected.
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Shouldn't those be the most disappointing games than the worst games of all time? E.T. gets called one of the worst games of all times because it gets blamed for the North American Video Game Crash of 1983. E.T. is most likely not even one of the worst Atari 2600 games let alone one of the worst games of all time. The issue with E.T. is people don't know how to play it thus it's complete shit and it being the scapegoat for the Video Game Crash is just icing on the cake. How many people really play Atari 2600 these days? Most people when they play retro console games start with the N.E.S. not the Atari 2600 or magnavox Odyssey so people don't put into perspective how E.T. stacks up with the rest of the 2600 library.
 
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"DND-Inspired story-driven roleplaying game" is almost as much of a joke as "quirky earthbound-inspired jrpg". Idk about you, but Baldur's gate 1 is hell of a chore to play. Plotline's kinda unremarkable, characters have that "fantasy-inspired cardboard cutout" feel, completely devoid of human qualities. Gameplay's just not the right stuff for single-player game. Clearly shows that the whole DND fad unfit for vidya. And besides, it spawned similar kind of "legacy".
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> Clearly shows that the whole DND fad unfit for vidya.

Before there were D&D-inspired "story-driven" roleplaying games, there were D&D dungeon crawlers. Those were awesome, despite having none of the fun parts of D&D dungeon-crawling (spatial memory was fun but it was new). The D&D legacy is very much alive in games like Dark Souls, which do have the fun parts. In contrast, in the Baldur's-Gate genre branch, the dungeon-crawling part devolved into a perfunctory theme park experience that did not actually affect the outcome of the game.

On the story side, there also was a 180 degrees reversal from the spirit of D&D -- not only the plots became so on-rails that they prescribed your character's reactions, but the win states degraded into 3deep5u soy diarrhea that would be a lose state in a D&D game.

Vidya would greatly benefit from retvrning to the D&D of old.
 
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> Clearly shows that the whole DND fad unfit for vidya.

Before there were D&D-inspired "story-driven" roleplaying games, there were D&D dungeon crawlers. Those were awesome, despite having none of the fun parts of D&D dungeon-crawling (spatial memory was fun but it was new). The D&D legacy is very much alive in games like Dark Souls, which do have the fun parts. In contrast, in the Baldur's-Gate genre branch, the dungeon-crawling part devolved into a perfunctory theme park experience that did not actually affect the outcome of the game.

On the story side, there also was a 180 degrees reversal from the spirit of D&D -- not only the plots became so on-rails that they prescribed your character's reactions, but the win states degraded into 3deep5u soy diarrhea that would be a lose state in a D&D game.

Vidya would greatly benefit from retvrning to the D&D of old.
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Don't forget D&D sidescrollers like Shadows of Mystaria that also were extremely good.
 
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PeriodicTrouble said:
Shouldn't those be the most disappointing games than the worst games of all time? E.T. gets called one of the worst games of all times because it gets blamed for the North American Video Game Crash of 1983. E.T. is most likely not even one of the worst Atari 2600 games let alone one of the worst games of all time. The issue with E.T. is people don't know how to play it thus it's complete shit and it being the scapegoat for the Video Game Crash is just icing on the cake. How many people really play Atari 2600 these days? Most people when they play retro console games start with the N.E.S. not the Atari 2600 or magnavox Odyssey so people don't put into perspective how E.T. stacks up with the rest of the 2600 library.
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Disappointing implies you still found value in them. I've had plenty of disappointments where it undershot what I really wanted, but still was okay. Heck, even some video games that I liked have had disappointing parts or disappointing endings. I like Deus Ex, but find the endings lackluster. I like SimCity 4, but it still falls painfully short in so many areas.

I think it's just part of the bigger problem that every "top x video games" list seems super artificial; it's all the same shit. I'm not complaining about at least one Zelda game making it in the top 10 (if not top 5), it's the total lack of obscure favorites as the list continues.

Pic related is something I got from /v/ a year ago (exactly a year ago, in fact) because not just because
I think some of those choices denote excellent taste, it also is the most "real" list I've ever seen just because of the sheer diversity of it all. Some of these are definitely stuff I've heard of before and even played but NEVER see in "top X" lists.
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Sexyphobe said:
Spec Ops: The Line, as some sort of meta-commentary... Is garbage and has nothing in the game itself to really support that thinking.
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I've always felt like people took the few digs it makes at the player way too seriously. The loading screens and some vague dialogue about how much you enjoy killing and pretending you're a hero is metacommentary that has been present in games since fucking Metal Gear. If anything it's a much more biting critique of the genre itself, since COD and Battlefront are basically propaganda for the military industrial complex.

If you get bent out of shape that the game is "MAKING FUN OF ME FOR LE HECCIN WHITE PHOSPHOROUS!" then you're probably just an insecure retard. Especially since, yeah, the game doesn't give you a choice there and you get a chance to prove Conrad (and thus the game) wrong about their presumptions regarding you at the end of the game. Unlike earlier, you CAN decide to not shoot the soldiers that come to pick up Walker at the end of the game.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
I'm sure there are some exceptions, but by and large Genesis games always sounded overly loud and super tinny and annoying.
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Funnily enough there is a reason for this

TL:DW: Sega distributed software to make composing game music easier. Software included rough patches (instruments) to be used as a jumping-off point for developers to tweak. Most developers lazy and just used the patches as-is.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Disappointing implies you still found value in them. I've had plenty of disappointments where it undershot what I really wanted, but still was okay. Heck, even some video games that I liked have had disappointing parts or disappointing endings. I like Deus Ex, but find the endings lackluster. I like SimCity 4, but it still falls painfully short in so many areas.

I think it's just part of the bigger problem that every "top x video games" list seems super artificial; it's all the same shit. I'm not complaining about at least one Zelda game making it in the top 10 (if not top 5), it's the total lack of obscure favorites as the list continues.

Pic related is something I got from /v/ a year ago (exactly a year ago, in fact) because not just because
I think some of those choices denote excellent taste, it also is the most "real" list I've ever seen just because of the sheer diversity of it all. Some of these are definitely stuff I've heard of before and even played but NEVER see in "top X" lists.
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Damn that /v/ user has some patrician taste in vidya
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
I will never understand people who say Genesis games sounded better than SNES games.

I'm sure there are some exceptions, but by and large Genesis games always sounded overly loud and super tinny and annoying.
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To me it will forever be a /v/ meme, the Megaman X BGM alone shits over 95% of the Mega Drive's sound library.
Xarpho's Return said:
Disappointing implies you still found value in them. I've had plenty of disappointments where it undershot what I really wanted, but still was okay. Heck, even some video games that I liked have had disappointing parts or disappointing endings. I like Deus Ex, but find the endings lackluster. I like SimCity 4, but it still falls painfully short in so many areas.

I think it's just part of the bigger problem that every "top x video games" list seems super artificial; it's all the same shit. I'm not complaining about at least one Zelda game making it in the top 10 (if not top 5), it's the total lack of obscure favorites as the list continues.

Pic related is something I got from /v/ a year ago (exactly a year ago, in fact) because not just because
I think some of those choices denote excellent taste, it also is the most "real" list I've ever seen just because of the sheer diversity of it all. Some of these are definitely stuff I've heard of before and even played but NEVER see in "top X" lists.
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This is a great list, lots of good titles without going the obscure hipster game route. Star Trail is the most underrated cRPG in existance.
 
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I never hung out on /v/. I think I heard most of these things on GameFAQs back in the day tbh
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/v/ and /vr/ were the places where i heard the Genesis sound chip being praised like it was made by Apollo himself and certainly better than the Super Nintendo sound chip. As someone who owned both a SNES and MD as a kid i always wondered if these motherfuckers actually got ears.
 
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Fuck Rising Storm 2 and it's aSyMmEtRiC spawning system. I've determined that the main, fundamental difference between it and Isonzo is just that one wastes my time making me cross 50 miles to get back to the frontline everytime I die, and the other doesn't. It doesn't, in the end, add anything to the experience that Rising Storm does that bullshit with having a tunnel or a leader. It just ruins it.
 
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