Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[NetVet]

Gaymers mad, hahahah look at them. Like I said in my first post, go play to the max go get all the trending titles on steam and gog and just fucking rampage on vidya this week to spite me. I promise you I'll be pissed and mad knowing you play 14.5 hours of vidya each day of the week.

 

[Mega Black]

Games may be art but I wish they weren't sometimes.

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

Its really fucking annoying when you are having a good duel back and forth against an opponent and then his anime harem fuckbuddies come out of nowhere, turn it into a 5v1 and gank you.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Okay, it's not unpopular (or something anybody's thought of at all), but I HAVE to say it.
If your hunting/fishing/whatever game is going to include a measurement for the weight/size/whatever of the animal I just brutally killed, INCLUDE THE PERCENTILE AND/OR STANDARD DEVIATION.
I'm not a hunter, if I was I'd be out hunting and banging cracker women impressed by my hunting. I don't know wtf a normal size is for an animal so the number is completely meaningless to me. If, on the other hand, the turkey was at the 78th percentile of all turkeys generated by the game, then I'd know that's a big deal and I should include it in my MLG montage.

 

[VasonJoorhees]

Most mainstream games that everyone is playing are garbage. Valorant, any battle royale game, Overwatch, COD, etc.

The games are not even designed to be fun. They're designed to be competitive. Everyone's trying to make the next esport phenomenon. I'm so sick of it lol. Competitive =/= fun. Skill based matchmaking =/= fun. Dropping in on whatever battle royale and dying in 5 seconds because what's his face found a better gun than me off spawn =/= fun.

Nobody I see playing these games seems to have fun either. I join my buddy's Discord and I hear all of them just getting butthurt over Valorant screaming in their mics and shit. And yet, they continue to play it. Such is the defiance of man. It's literal sadomasochism.

And these same people will go on to bitch that games aren't fun anymore. No, they are, you're just playing shitty games. Go play some Deep Rock Galactic, or Speedrunners, or SCP Secret Laboratory, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands, any platformer like Crash Bandicoot or Rayman, etc.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Most mainstream games that everyone is playing are garbage. Valorant, any battle royale game, Overwatch, COD, etc.

The games are not even designed to be fun. They're designed to be competitive. Everyone's trying to make the next esport phenomenon. I'm so sick of it lol. Competitive =/= fun. Skill based matchmaking =/= fun. Dropping in on whatever battle royale and dying in 5 seconds because what's his face found a better gun than me off spawn =/= fun.

Nobody I see playing these games seems to have fun either. I join my buddy's Discord and I hear all of them just getting butthurt over Valorant screaming in their mics and shit. And yet, they continue to play it. Such is the defiance of man. It's literal sadomasochism.

And these same people will go on to bitch that games aren't fun anymore. No, they are, you're just playing shitty games. Go play some Deep Rock Galactic, or Speedrunners, or SCP Secret Laboratory, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands, any platformer like Crash Bandicoot or Rayman, etc.

I think somewhere deep in many people's monkey brains is an assumption that if a game is competitive that makes it more like a sport (or a board game treated like a sport, as chess is) and that then makes it a more valuable use of time. People pride themselves on the skill they hone, much moreso than being good at a singleplayer game. Strategy gamers seem prone to similar thinking.

 

[VasonJoorhees]

I think somewhere deep in many people's monkey brains is an assumption that if a game is competitive that makes it more like a sport (or a board game treated like a sport, as chess is) and that then makes it a more valuable use of time. People pride themselves on the skill they hone, much moreso than being good at a singleplayer game. Strategy gamers seem prone to similar thinking.

I agree, but what I don't get is why people in this position consider "skill" or sportiness a more valuable use of time. Playing games and having fun (and having fun in general regardless of what it is you're doing) is a valuable use of time.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Most mainstream games that everyone is playing are garbage. Valorant, any battle royale game, Overwatch, COD, etc.

The games are not even designed to be fun. They're designed to be competitive. Everyone's trying to make the next esport phenomenon. I'm so sick of it lol. Competitive =/= fun. Skill based matchmaking =/= fun. Dropping in on whatever battle royale and dying in 5 seconds because what's his face found a better gun than me off spawn =/= fun.

Nobody I see playing these games seems to have fun either. I join my buddy's Discord and I hear all of them just getting butthurt over Valorant screaming in their mics and shit. And yet, they continue to play it. Such is the defiance of man. It's literal sadomasochism.

And these same people will go on to bitch that games aren't fun anymore. No, they are, you're just playing shitty games. Go play some Deep Rock Galactic, or Speedrunners, or SCP Secret Laboratory, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands, any platformer like Crash Bandicoot or Rayman, etc.

Sometimes I wonder how much the multiplayer scene would be shook up if every game had a buy-in and you were forced to play with randos only. Most people play what their friends do, and playing with friends can make any heap of shit fun. Then for the free stuff, take away the poorfags and chinamen, and the audience for that class of game is fucking dead.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Tracer is unappealing and Symmetra is the best waifu.

 

[anustart76]

Tracer is unappealing and Symmetra is the best waifu.

I'm just here for DVa

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I'm just here for DVa

I'd lie if I said I wouldn't fuck DVa but I'd feel dirty, dislike gamer girl stuff.

 

[Strangolapreti]

Gaymers mad, hahahah look at them. Like I said in my first post, go play to the max go get all the trending titles on steam and gog and just fucking rampage on vidya this week to spite me. I promise you I'll be pissed and mad knowing you play 14.5 hours of vidya each day of the week.

I'm not mad, I'm just embarassed by your stupidity.

 

[Spud]

Tracer is unappealing and Symmetra is the best waifu.

I'm just here for DVa

Ladies, all your waifus are the best

 

[Goblin9]

Most mainstream games that everyone is playing are garbage. Valorant, any battle royale game, Overwatch, COD, etc.

Going to push back on this one.
Modern gaming isn't bad. It's just bland and average. You can still have fun playing CoD, Halo Infinite, Overwatch, Diablo 4 or even Ubisoft games. They're like 3D Sonic games, there's nothing especially wrong with them, but there's also nothing right. They're acceptable, a homely girlfriend in your small town type of acceptable. If you spend less time bitching and more time playing you will find something you enjoy in them.. but it's not going to be anything you tell your grand kids about.

I think somewhere deep in many people's monkey brains is an assumption that if a game is competitive that makes it more like a sport (or a board game treated like a sport, as chess is) and that then makes it a more valuable use of time. People pride themselves on the skill they hone, much moreso than being good at a singleplayer game. Strategy gamers seem prone to similar thinking.

Everyone wants to be a streamer/youtuber now and thinks they're an MLG pro. It's the modern version of wanting to be a rock star. League of legends is the game I most associate with this shift in attitude. Before LOL saying you were an MLG Halo player was a joke and competitive clan matches outside of European in person events were mostly teenagers dicking around and doing what worked for them casually while paying more attention.

 

[VasonJoorhees]

I hate the concept of souls games and will never play them (only played the first one for a while). It's literally artificial difficulty. While other games present you with an enemy and you try your best to defeat him inevitably dying in the process, they also give you good checkpoints so you don't have to keep travelling from far away to get back to where you were with all your items missing too. That's what artificial difficulty is. That's why soulsfags claim their games are le HARD!!! Newsflash fags, ANY game is hard if you don't put enough checkpoints in it. This is why NES games and other retro games are infamously hard. Not to mention the fact that soulsgames have notoriously bad hit detection and hitboxes, making it literally not your fault when you lose but also punishing you harshly for it. Also they're games with 0 story just incoherent japanese ramblings. Also they look ugly and brown all the time like fps in consoles 10 years ago. That's it.

I agree to an extent.

They do have some nice art direction in their games in regards to some things, but playing the actual games feels like a chore. It's hard to the point that it doesn't feel like I'm playing a game, it feels like I'm working - except I'm not getting paid to do it.

The souls game I played most was DS3. I put about 20 hours into it. I got to the Abyss Watchers, died a few times, then stopped playing. The journey was grueling. It took me ages to get out of the place with the cemetaries that lead to the castle. Even when I did overcome and conquer I was not having fun.

The progression system feels really unrewarding, the UI for all of the menus is hideous. I felt like I was fighting the inventory management system. I had to google how to equip armor, I legitimately could not figure it out lol. The system of collecting souls and trying not to lose them is annoying. Combat is clunky and lacks fluidity IMO. I could go on and on.

Just go play Monster Hunter. Its like Dark Souls, except the game isn't actively doing everything it can to stop you from having fun.

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

If you start politisperging ad nauseum in an LFG group, you need to be banned from using LFG. The mute button exists for good reason, but it doesn't matter when they have the ear of the party leader who is complicit in it or how well you know the raid or how often you have completed it without dying. They are not there to play the game. They are there to force war-time levels of propaganda.

 

[Calandrino]

I hate the concept of souls games and will never play them (only played the first one for a while).

I hate From games and I never played any of them either. We are way ahead of all the guys who play games for 80 hours, then complain about them, then play them another 80 hours. I don't have to play a game to get irrationally mad about it, I have something called an imagination.

I donno. It has more effort in it than the bog standard 'lol, I said faggot, isn't that such a troll!?'

At least this has length and commitment, rather than hiding behind 'troll' for just being a fucking retard.

The fact that it's a retarded troll is just a bonus.

I think he's posting his True and Honest opinions and not making up stuff just to piss people off. If being retarded and wrong and very impolite qualifies as trolling, this thread is rife with trolling imo.

Nobody I see playing these games seems to have fun either. I join my buddy's Discord and I hear all of them just getting butthurt over Valorant screaming in their mics and shit. And yet, they continue to play it. Such is the defiance of man. It's literal sadomasochism.

Sounds little different from the KF gay men community tbqh

 

[Matt Damon]

I don't know how unpopular this is, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone else talk about it online, so fuck it:

It's weirdly common for video game soundtracks to feature the stuff the devs/audio production guy liked the best and omit the music that was most prominent in the game. They'll have the end-credits song that everyone hears once, but leave out things like mission select menu or hub world music that you listen to for ten hours straight.

I suspect their logic is that those tracks are designed not to draw too much attention to themselves and just set an atmosphere, but THAT'S the music you hear when you actually play the damn game. I had no clue what the main theme of Metal Gear Solid was and I'm not sure it's ever played in-game (maybe once?), but I'll remember this track for the rest of my life.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I don't know how unpopular this is, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone else talk about it online, so fuck it:

It's weirdly common for video game soundtracks to feature the stuff the devs/audio production guy liked the best and omit the music that was most prominent in the game. They'll have the end-credits song that everyone hears once, but leave out things like mission select menu or hub world music that you listen to for ten hours straight.

I suspect their logic is that those tracks are designed not to draw too much attention to themselves and just set an atmosphere, but THAT'S the music you hear when you actually play the damn game. I had no clue what the main theme of Metal Gear Solid was and I'm not sure it's ever played in-game (maybe once?), but I'll remember this track for the rest of my life.

The first time, and I do mean FIRST TIME I recall hearing the *actual* MGS theme from MGS1 was in the intro FMV for MGS VR Missions stand alone disk, which I played a year or two after playing MGS 1 (and I spent a ton of time playing MGS1).

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the actual MGS theme was only ever used during the end credits when you beat the game with Tuxedo, Stealth and Infinite Bandana unlocked. This explains why I never heard it, because as a kid I couldn't get through the damn torture sequence to get the Meryl ending for like 3 or 4 years.

Apparently besides the secret credits music, it was only ever used in trailers for MGS1 and VR Missions, and they just so happened to use the trailer for VR Missions as its intro cutscene after the Konami logo. Sure, the "fanfare" was used during alerts and boss battles, but the actual theme was never present in the main game I'm like 95% sure.

Edit: The version of the theme I'm talking about

 

[Matt Damon]

The first time, and I do mean FIRST TIME I recall hearing the *actual* MGS theme from MGS1 was in the intro FMV for MGS VR Missions stand alone disk, which I played a year or two after playing MGS 1 (and I spent a ton of time playing MGS1).

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the actual MGS theme was only ever used during the end credits when you beat the game with Tuxedo, Stealth and Infinite Bandana unlocked. This explains why I never heard it, because as a kid I couldn't get through the damn torture sequence to get the Meryl ending for like 3 or 4 years.

Apparently besides the secret credits music, it was only ever used in trailers for MGS1 and VR Missions, and they just so happened to use the trailer for VR Missions as its intro cutscene after the Konami logo. Sure, the "fanfare" was used during alerts and boss battles, but the actual theme was never present in the main game I'm like 95% sure.

That makes sense. I was always confused by nostalgia-bait callbacks to it in later games and people saying "oh, it's the MGS1 theme!" like I was supposed to be familiar with it.