Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[xXx: State of the Union]

I think this is probably more of an unpopular opinion to reddit fags, but Cait Siths name is pronounced "Kate Sith", not fucking "Cat She"

I'm supposed to believe that translators couldn't figure out that her name was supposed to Aerith, or that they thought that Americans would find it "too weird", but that not only did the Japanese writers wanted that fucking toy cat to have some weird name with the weird Celtic pronunciation, but that the translators thought THAT was fine and Aerith wasn't?

I'll concede to calling her Aerith, I'm not going to call that thing Cat She. They should have just fucking translated it as "Catshee" if that was the intention.

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

Destiny 2 has the worst "community" ever. They are so hellbent on shilling carries/recovs or dicking around with their IRL friends that they wont ever give any pointers or even a "git gud" before you are REMOVED FROM FIRETEAM without warning or a chance to say anything regardless of your skill level.

Then there's the issue of cheaters controlling not only trials but any discussion of cheating that will be quickly censored, buried, and banned within moments of talking about anything relevant like the DDOSers and other cheaters being so atrociously bad that bungo had to implement sunsetting of pinnacle weapons with a smoke screen to hide the fact law enforcement knocked on their door telling them to do something about it.

Then there's always some smartass with a gaslighting or invalidating quip no matter what benign thing you say. Hell you can learn to empathize with mass shooters because of the playerbase behind that game being just that bad. Yes there are other playerbases just as bad and there's always some good people scattered in like needles in a haystack, but you can at least play the game without these cliquish antisocial assholes being as prevalent as they are in Destiny where entire game modes are literally unplayable because of them.

>Inb4 some reddit larp of "OMG I MET MY BEST FRIEND, WIFE, PETS, etc ON DESTINY, ITS THE BEST THING THATS EVER HAPPENED TO MEEEE!" by some bot.

 

[Matt Damon]

I'll concede to calling her Aerith

Nope. "Aeris" might be a bit on the nose in terms of wordplay, but at least it reads like a plausible name rather than some kind of lisping faggot thing.

"OH MY GOTH AERITH! YOU LOOK THO CUTE IN THAT DRETH!"

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Nope. "Aeris" might be a bit on the nose in terms of wordplay, but at least it reads like a plausible name rather than some kind of lisping faggot thing.

"OH MY GOTH AERITH! YOU LOOK THO CUTE IN THAT DRETH!"

I only concede because they've spent the last 20 years basically bashing it into my head that it *has* to be Aerith. I still think 'Aeris" in my head but I'll type Aerith if I have to so reddit fags won't have an aneurism.

But if after 20 years, they finally say Cait Siths name out loud and it's fucking Cat She? Get fucked.

I know this seems autistic, but holy shit I hate when they do this shit years after I play a game and are just like "lol that translation was bad and wrong and you're wrong for going by it"

Kojima and his cult can fuck off with that shit about the MGS translation as well. MGS is the only good one.

tl;dr: You get one stupid name from me. Only one.

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

I only concede because they've spent the last 20 years basically bashing it into my head that it *has* to be Aerith. I still think 'Aeris" in my head but I'll type Aerith if I have to so reddit fags won't have an aneurism.

But if after 20 years, they finally say Cait Siths name out loud and it's fucking Cat She? Get fucked.

I know this seems autistic, but holy shit I hate when they do this shit years after I play a game and are just like "lol that translation was bad and wrong and you're wrong for going by it"

Kojima and his cult can fuck off with that shit about the MGS translation as well. MGS is the only good one.

tl;dr: You get one stupid name from me. Only one.

Another example of the rewriting of history by "the la li lu le lo."

 

[Pissmaster]

I only concede because they've spent the last 20 years basically bashing it into my head that it *has* to be Aerith. I still think 'Aeris" in my head but I'll type Aerith if I have to so reddit fags won't have an aneurism.

But if after 20 years, they finally say Cait Siths name out loud and it's fucking Cat She? Get fucked.

I know this seems autistic, but holy shit I hate when they do this shit years after I play a game and are just like "lol that translation was bad and wrong and you're wrong for going by it"

Kojima and his cult can fuck off with that shit about the MGS translation as well. MGS is the only good one.

tl;dr: You get one stupid name from me. Only one.

The nice thing about Japanese entertainment is that you can look up the Japanese pronunciation of names to figure out what was intended. According to the FF wiki, her name is エアリス, which is pronounced like "eaarisu", which is straight up fuckin' "Aeris". Her name is Aeris.

Cait Sith's name is ケット・シー, or "catto shi", which does come close to "cat she", but fuck you I grew up calling him Kate Sith so his name is pronounced Kate Sith.

Speaking of FF, another goofy translation is Cyan Garmonde from FF6. "Cyan" is a color that's pronounced "Sigh-ann", but years later I find out his Japanese name is カイエン, "kaieyn", like Cayanne peppers. Go figure.

 

[Matt Damon]

I know this seems autistic, but holy shit I hate when they do this shit years after I play a game and are just like "lol that translation was bad and wrong and you're wrong for going by it"

The further back you go, the more likely the translator hired was just some guy who knew Japanese and tried his best to make it sound "right" to English-speaking audiences, rather than some keikaku-means-plan professional turboweeb who treats Japanese scripts like they're sacred religious texts.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

The nice thing about Japanese entertainment is that you can look up the Japanese pronunciation of names to figure out what was intended. According to the FF wiki, her name is エアリス, which is pronounced like "eaarisu", which is straight up fuckin' "Aeris". Her name is Aeris.

Cait Sith's name is ケット・シー, or "catto shi", which does come close to "cat she", but fuck you I grew up calling him Kate Sith so his name is pronounced Kate Sith.

How the fuck do I hear stories for years about how "Aerith" was so fucking important to link her to "Earth" or whatever and some translator was like "Nah, sounds like Aeris, it's Aeris." but somehow the damn near pointless cat on a moogle was so ingrained in celtic mythology that the translator was like "sounds like cat she, but I better use a bastardized spelling of the celtic shit this is derived from"?

 

[Pissmaster]

The further back you go, the more likely the translator hired was just some guy who knew Japanese and tried his best to make it sound "right" to English-speaking audiences, rather than some keikaku-means-plan professional turboweeb who treats Japanese scripts like they're sacred religious texts.

Or a Japanese person who knew English and tried their best, like FF4's original release. That's how you get "You spoony bard!" and "I, Garland, will knock you all down!".

How the fuck do I hear stories for years about how "Aerith" was so fucking important to link her to "Earth" or whatever and some translator was like "Nah, sounds like Aeris, it's Aeris." but somehow the damn near pointless cat on a moogle was so ingrained in celtic mythology that the translator was like "sounds like cat she, but I better use a bastardized spelling of the celtic shit this is derived from"?

I have no clue why they went with Cait Sith, either.

The cat-sìth (Scottish Gaelic: [kʰaʰt̪ ˈʃiː], plural cait-shìth), in Irish cat sí (Irish: [kat̪ˠ ˈʃiː]) is a fairy creature from Celtic mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. The legends surrounding this creature are more common in Scottish folklore, but a few occur in Irish. Some common folklore suggested that the cat-sìth was not a fairy, but a witch that could transform into a cat nine times.[1][2]

The cat-sìth may have been inspired by the Scottish wildcat itself.[3] It is possible that the legends of the cat-sìth were inspired by Kellas cats, which are a distinctive hybrid between Scottish wildcats and domestic cats found only in Scotland (the Scottish wildcat is a population of the European wildcat, which is now absent from elsewhere in the British Isles).

Cait Sith in FF7 is a robot that's wirelessly controlled by Reeve, a Shinra employee who joined Avalanche to spy on the party, but eventually turned on Shinra and acted as a double agent. The only thing they have in common is that they're both cats.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

As far as retro games are concerned, I still don’t get why Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for the PS2 is so expensive to buy on placed like eBay. There should be no reason that a game like this should $100-$200.

I know I can use an emulator for it, but the thought still remains. It’s been like this for more than a few years now,

 

[Pissmaster]

As far as retro games are concerned, I still don’t get why Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for the PS2 is so expensive to buy on placed like eBay. There should be no reason that a game like this should $100-$200.

I know I can use an emulator for it, but the thought still remains. It’s been like this for more than a few years now,

The fragility of discs, especially old ones, make them very very iffy to cost so much money. Especially since there are several ways to play pirated games on a PS2 and get the same, or an even better experience.

 

[Matt Damon]

The fragility of discs, especially old ones, make them very very iffy to cost so much money. Especially since there are several ways to play pirated games on a PS2 and get the same, or an even better experience.

There's a whole subculture that really wants "authenticity" at any cost.

Call me a heretic, but I'll gladly accept a reasonable facsimile of the real thing for the unbelievable convenience (as well as many outright technical advantages) that emulation provides. The idea of buying and keeping a bunch of slowly dying hardware, games, accessories, and CRT televisions is laughable when I can play essentially any game for any hardware at any time without even having to stand up.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

There are a bunch of overpaid computer touchers out there that get paid $250k+ a year to be a senior software engineer or whatever but they have no family or obligations so they blow their paychecks on stupid shit like vast retro collections. With the mass layoffs going on, there will be a point where they will start to sell their retro collections, CRTs, etc. I remember back when a hard to find Saturn game went for like $100 but now I see some of them going for $400-500. A fool and their money and all that…

 

[The Last Stand]

As far as retro games are concerned, I still don’t get why Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for the PS2 is so expensive to buy on placed like eBay. There should be no reason that a game like this should $100-$200.

I know I can use an emulator for it, but the thought still remains. It’s been like this for more than a few years now,

Limited print and cult classic status of Marvel vs Capcom 2. This was around the time that fighting games weren't too popular until SFIV.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Ultimate was the greatest fighting game ever created.

 

[GET!]

Indie games are shit. They are either fart huffing virtue signalling disguised as a game, or low effort plagiarism.

The way that reviewers, games and journos soysmile and 'zomg amazen gayme eva' over a 2d side scrolling shooter or pixel art infested visual vomit-on-a-screen, tells me they never lived through the 2D era. I was a 'late-comer' to games and my first game spy vs spy on the master system. But even I know that the dross and shite released nowadays pales in comparison to the even average side scrollers back in the day.

Indie game devs are so devoid of talent, that they can only make basic bitch 2d sidescrolling games and I would respect them a tiny bit if instead, they tried making games like Megalomania, Syndicate, Theme Park, Road Rash, populous, fallout and Alex Kidd (to name but a very few).

Indie games are the only place with any real creativity remaining in the industry. Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, Barotrauma and Enter the Gungeon are some of the successful examples from recent (or in DFs case, not so recent) years that come to mind. Plus, indie devs with actual creativity seem to know to keep their political virtue signalling out of the game, much more than large publishers.

I don’t give a flying fuck about Elden Ring. It looks like the most bland, inoffensive normie tier r/im14andthisisdeep game I’ve seen in a long time.

Actually I’ll say that about the Souls series in general. Take away the “OMG! Leik it’s soooo difficult guiz!” gimmick and nothing really of interest is left.

I used to think much the same until I actually played one and realized that they're not actually that hard. They're just fun games, and nobody actually cares what happens in the "story". Also making a subreddit reference is cringe.


Now if you want an actually unpopular opinion, I think that Pokemon and the turn-based, Final-fantasy-esque RPG genre is boring and lame as fuck. They're the kind of games that I struggle to picture anybody having fun with at all.

Especially Pokemon. If you're still buying those games in the current year and coping as to why they're all the same, I have no respect for you. If you were honest and said that you only enjoy them because they remind you of your childhood, I have a little more respect, but that's still pathetic.

 

[Book Thief]

Cait Sith's name is ケット・シー, or "catto shi", which does come close to "cat she", but fuck you I grew up calling him Kate Sith so his name is pronounced Kate Sith.

I hate to be that asshole, but that is not a 'Ka.' That is a 'Ke.' And since Japanese 'E' sounds are pronounced like 'Eh,' it'd be closer to "Kate," which is likely why the translators went with "Cait."

As for the 'Shii,' it's important to remember two things. One is that Japanese lacks a 'th' sound (Which is why Aerith/Aeris's Katakana ends in a 'su' sound. Just like the Death Note is called "Desu Nooto" to Japanese speakers). The second is that there's multiple ways to romanize certain characters. I'm not going to go full in on the details, but the "Shi" character can be romanized as "Si," which looks different to us, but is pronounced no differently. That may or may not have had an influence on the translators decision.

However, I do happen to know of a different Japanese franchise that also has a "Cait Sith." It's the "Madou Monogatari" series and its more-popular spin-off, "Puyo Puyo." So I quickly looked up a video of Puyo Puyo Tsu, and sure enough:


"Futago no Ketto Shii" or "Cait Sith Twins."

So in conclusion, "Ketto Shii" is "Cait Sith."

 

[Calandrino]

this is a spaceship btw

 

[The Zekenator]

While I don't necessarily disagree completely, I think people tend to over-romanticize jank. They'll remember the one time something unique and unexpected happened but forget the fifty times that the jank broke a mission completely forcing a reload or whatever.

I find the older I get, the less tolerance I have for trying to make something broken accidentally work.

"Jank" in this context can also mean trying to parse through a bunch of different systems, mechanics, and/or game interactions that culminate into some outcome that the developers never intended the player to execute either because they didn't see it coming as players tend to master game systems faster than developers do, or because it would require too many "what ifs" to occur for the average player to find and thus they didn't bother trying to build around it.

Like Divinity Original Sin 2 is a huge mess of several different spell lists categories, skills, and stats that you can customize in a bajillion different ways with a bunch of weird environmental shit like transporting lava from one end of a 10-15 walk map to the other end solely using a specific spell. Because lava one shots if something touches it, if you can get an enemy to move into the lava it just instantly dies. So if you can find lava you can terrian transmute the lava wherever you'd like to just drag it with you if you're patient enough.

Or dragging an enemy across about a mile of land to get them to some overpowered NPC that will solo them for you because you manipulated the AI in two different ways.

You can also do dumb shit like this where you literally just lift a chest up in the air with your mind and one shot things using weight.

These are not simple systems that explain themselves to the player, as the telekinesis example involves you knowing the map to know this chest exists, and knowing that this will actually work by using a skill that all it says it lets you do is lift up items at a distance and is not intended for combat.

So these big thick block of systems can behave in unexpected ways and the fact you can get these outcomes that are clearly not intended is to some called "jank" knowing and exploiting jank for some people is part of the fun with games like this even if they're not exactly well refined balanced systems.

It is the difference between a weird looking exploit like my example, and a genuine glitch or bug like you are talking about.

 

[verissimus]

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...and your point is what exactly?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Those two CD-I Zelda games aren't that bad.

Yes, those cut scene are infamous at how bad the animation/acting is, bit for the time fully animated cut scenes like that were relatively groundbreaking.

The actual game play is pretty standard platforming, and while really hard at times is still kinda fun.

The best parts of those two games however are the soundtracks:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL129497C6AFC310E3

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRo3mbmQFGTYVV4CvUlK1C8EegeKpxmXr

(Sorry, can't embed playlists)

They're pretty techno, and always got me pumped.

As for the 3rd one Zelda's Adventure, that game look like a total borefest with none of the personality or charm of the first two.

Instead of a side scrolling view it's top down, and instead of cool animated cut scenes you mostly get bland, boring voice acting over regular game play.
Here are the few live action cut scenes compiled into a video:

Mostly boring static shots.

Game play looks really boring too. Can't really say for myself though, since I didn't have this one as a kid and the price for used discs was always outrageous.

Here's a taste, though: