Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Asian tech support]

most of them never played it at the time

I suspect that a lot of them still haven't played it and just watched the 8 hour Patrician video.

 

[mrs thickness]

>oh yeah name some good games
>wowwwww only eight

damn i didnt know we were on /v/

I really no not understand the doomerism at all. All I have is a switch and a very mid PC. I don't give a single shit about mario, zelda, kirby, mobile games, games where the filesize is too big, sony games, ea, ubisoft, fotms like epic cat game or hogwarts crap, capcom games, square enix games, fromsoft games, fighting games, visual novels, most anything that involves crafting, open world, 1st/3rd person shooting, or multiplayer, all off the top of my head, but I still feel like I've got a backlog that grows exponentially each year. I'm one of the pickiest, quick to drop a game bastards there is, and I'm still drowning in games to play. That's not even including classics I haven't gotten around to or replays of games that I really enjoyed. Feels like I'm on a fuckin different planet, reading there's nothing good to play.

 

[Pissmaster]

I dunno about anyone else but is anyone else just losing interest in video games in general? I mean, I still like a few classics now and then but I have little to no affinity for the latest and greatest or whatever.

It's hard to get excited when there is butt-fuckin' nothin' coming out that is immune to woke bullshit. Like a Dragon 8 isn't until 2024, most likely late '24. It really feels like everyone involved with the game industry just hates video games. How am I supposed to stay enthusiastic when the people running the show hate me, hate their jobs, and only want to push the agenda of their financiers?

There's a real listless feeling I get whenever I start up the ol' Pissputer and load up Steam, only to see a billion and one games that I couldn't care less about. Nothing is innovative, nothing is new, nothing pushes the envelope.

 

[Duke Nukem]

It's hard to get excited when there is butt-fuckin' nothin' coming out that is immune to woke bullshit. Like a Dragon 8 isn't until 2024, most likely late '24. It really feels like everyone involved with the game industry just hates video games. How am I supposed to stay enthusiastic when the people running the show hate me, hate their jobs, and only want to push the agenda of their financiers?

There's a real listless feeling I get whenever I start up the ol' Pissputer and load up Steam, only to see a billion and one games that I couldn't care less about. Nothing is innovative, nothing is new, nothing pushes the envelope.

There's a reason that Futurama referred to our era as the Stupid Age. Except I don't think it'll ever end.

 

[Scarthew]

DS2 pvp was dogshit for high tier play but I probably had more fun with off meta builds than I did in DS1 outside of troll builds. DS1's restrictive metas were never as gay as DS2's fotm metas though. Thinking about this really takes me back. CMW MLGS at launch, old sun/ring of thorns at launch, spiced RW CB/great resonant soul/forbidden sun spam, super parry frames on the painting guardian sword, buff stacking helixodon, gowers ring, dark fog bat staff, buffed watcher's sword, ice rapier, etc. The patch cycle for the first nine months or so was wild.

Unpopular opinion tho: DS3 is trash. It's not as garbo as DS2 but its still shit.

They have different strengths, again 2 had good pvp shit campaign, 3 had a good set of bosses but had nothing interesting in its campaign. Its rpg mechanics were also basically scrapped as a cost. Mages got the short end of the stick in 3 with their damage types being gimped without stacking gear and most spells were useless, luck builds got nerfed to uselessness soon after launch and stamina costs for weapons were too high while dodging cost nothing. So this meant that fast weapons were necessary for punishing abundant rolls and everyone was forced into quality builds so everyone used the same build and weapons. ds3 just ended up being really generic and most of its additions werent great. weapon arts were too flashy and often not practical and the ability to switch them got cut shortly before release, fp estus was a good idea in the wrong game since mages were already so weak and low drop rates combined with luck being useless resulted in unreasonable grind for specific items.

I dunno about anyone else but is anyone else just losing interest in video games in general? I mean, I still like a few classics now and then but I have little to no affinity for the latest and greatest or whatever.

indie games are where its at.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

damn i didnt know we were on /v/

I really no not understand the doomerism at all. All I have is a switch and a very mid PC. I don't give a single shit about mario, zelda, kirby, mobile games, games where the filesize is too big, sony games, ea, ubisoft, fotms like epic cat game or hogwarts crap, capcom games, square enix games, fromsoft games, fighting games, visual novels, most anything that involves crafting, open world, 1st/3rd person shooting, or multiplayer, all off the top of my head, but I still feel like I've got a backlog that grows exponentially each year. I'm one of the pickiest, quick to drop a game bastards there is, and I'm still drowning in games to play. That's not even including classics I haven't gotten around to or replays of games that I really enjoyed. Feels like I'm on a fuckin different planet, reading there's nothing good to play.

You don't sound very picky to me at all if you have that many new games you like. Sort of defeats your argument, because it seems more like he's actually the picky one because he only liked 8 games.

That's even pickier than me so I assume he's exaggerating, but I hope you are because I have no idea how you can be drowning in good games when gaming is currently a sewer.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

You don't sound very picky to me at all if you have that many new games you like. Sort of defeats your argument, because it seems more like he's actually the picky one because he only liked 8 games.

That's even pickier than me so I assume he's exaggerating, but I hope you are because I have no idea how you can be drowning in good games when gaming is currently a sewer.

I kind of agree with him, there's never been a lower barrier to entry to game dev which has resulted in an embarrassment of good indie games (and yes also an embarrassment of shit, but you take the good with the bad). I guess if you only play AAA open worlds or consoles you might feel it's a little lacking, but that's kind of on you for choosing to limit yourself. It's a bit like saying there are no good movies coming out because Disney sucks.

I'm an ancient crone but I remember a time when the only games available were the 20 or so titles that were stocked at Blockbuster, with most of the good ones being checked out already on Friday. (This meant I ended up playing a lot of Bubsy and Clay Fighter.) Or whatever handful of overpriced CD-ROM titles you could find at your local Babbage's that may or may not run on your family desktop, and may or may not be too bugged to play, with no hope of a patch.

 

[mrs thickness]

You don't sound very picky to me at all if you have that many new games you like. Sort of defeats your argument, because it seems more like he's actually the picky one because he only liked 8 games.

That's even pickier than me so I assume he's exaggerating, but I hope you are because I have no idea how you can be drowning in good games when gaming is currently a sewer.

it sounded better in my head than, "most of my favorite series are either dead, dying, or desecrated beyond recognition, the exceptions sell like shit, and gaming press events are almost unanimously unwatchable, but sometimes something looks neat! why are guys so upset? " The point that I'm trying and kind of failing to make, I think, is that even with a very narrow range of interests it's easy to find something new to at least try.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Can you remember a good game that's not a remake released in the past three years?

My taste is probably bad, but whatever.

Sakuna of Rice and Ruin
Shin Megami Tensei 5
Rune Factory 5(not as good as 4)
Persona 5 Strikers
Doom Eternal
Carrion
Maneater
Resident Evil Village
NEO The World Ends With You
Elden Ring
Yakuza Like a Dragon
Nioh 2
Ys IX Monstrum Nox
Scarlet Nexus
Lost Judgement
Metal: Hellsinger
Sonic Frontiers

I'll never understand why Morrowind is usually considered the gold standard for guild quests in Elder Scrolls games. Each mission is boring as fuck and does very little (you can see little hints of a through-line in retrospect, but nothing that would keep you interested while you're doing them) to build to the narrative conclusion of the quest line.

They're really no different than Skyrim's oft-maligned guilds, except a lot longer.

I thought Oblivion's guild quests were considered the gold standard.

 

[anustart76]

I really do wish they made a sequel to Mario Kart: Double Dash for the Nintendo Switch. Mario Kart 8 was fun for its time, but I still believe that Double Dash was the game that needed to have a proper sequel.

There's no way this is unpopular. Double Dash is easily the most unique and memorable in terms of "gimmicks" of the Mario Kart series, plus the GameCube-era nostalgia makes it even more well-remembered. I don't think there's anybody who wouldn't love another Double Dash, or at least a tacked-on Double Dash mode for Mario Kart 8.

Can you remember a good game that's not a remake released in the past three years?

Personally, I really loved Tales of Arise, Doom Eternal, and both Judgment games. Still, it's not like it was when I was a kid, how there was always something new coming out to get excited over.

 

[The Zekenator]

Can you remember a good game that's not a remake released in the past three years?

My tastes are kind of specific, as I like weeb RPGs and roguelikes, and may not apply to many people here but sure.

I've played about 3 good deckbuilder roguelikes extensively, Gordian Quest, ChronoArk, and Arcanium (the artistic direction is furry shit, but the game was fun and that's enough for me in this genre). I also got Vault of The Void, but that game I need to actually try more before I call it good. Slay The Spire is a little past your timeline as it came out officially in 2019. Monster Train was also pretty fun, but my least favorite of the bunch of roguelikes I've played in the past year or so.

The Last Spell was a fun SRPG roguelike, got plenty of hours in that and will probably play more eventually. Against The Storm was pretty good too, very interesting colony builder game with a roguelike twist. Because of this design choice it took the best part of that genre (the very start) and just made it the whole game. Slice and Dice was also pretty good, it is a little bit on the unusual side with it being dice focused and the graphics are about 20 years out of date by most standards, but game was fun so who cares?

I enjoyed Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Fire Emblem Engage fairly recently as far as more mainstream shit.

Vampire Survivors is a good bit of brainless fun without a ton of bullshit to it and it costs about as much as buying a cheap pizza. I'm not terribly interested in the many many games it has spun off, but that's fine as I never have to play those.

Symphony Of War and Crystal Project were fun indie RPGs made by people who give a shit. Probably play and enjoyed those more than a handful of other AAA rpgs that have come out in the last decade, they had charm and care put into them even if they might stumble sometimes.

There's other stuff that I've found neat demos for that I want to try the full version, and other things I'm somewhat interested in but I just have other stuff I'd rather play right now like Tactics Ogre Reborn (a remake that is quite different from its original versions) and Triangle Strategy that I picked up recently. So I still got plenty of game to chew through alongside games older than 3 years ago.

I like to think I'm a pretty critical person with a pretty specific taste, but I still find plenty of decent shit to play and much of it I like. If I had to think of a game that came out recently that I didn't really like it would probably be something like Fire Emblem 3 Houses, that game actually felt like it was wasting my time and I regret trying to engage with it all the way. KH3 was also dog shit besides the DLC content, so pretty much only about 10% of that game is good total.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

it sounded better in my head than, "most of my favorite series are either dead, dying, or desecrated beyond recognition, the exceptions sell like shit, and gaming press events are almost unanimously unwatchable, but sometimes something looks neat! why are guys so upset? " The point that I'm trying and kind of failing to make, I think, is that even with a very narrow range of interests it's easy to find something new to at least try.

That's a more reasonable take, and I agree. I think having tempered expectations helps. If you expect to find new favorites you'll probably end up more disappointed than just being satisfied with something neat.

 

[Nick Obre]

indie games are where its at.

And the "it" in this case is faux retro pixel games, flavor of the week meme games, and genderblob visual novels

 

[anustart76]

Pixel art is at this point bland and unappealing. Pixel art platformers are boring and lazy.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Doom 64 was the pinnacle of the franchise, particularly level design.

 

[Calandrino]

it sounded better in my head than, "most of my favorite series are either dead, dying, or desecrated beyond recognition, the exceptions sell like shit, and gaming press events are almost unanimously unwatchable, but sometimes something looks neat! why are guys so upset? " The point that I'm trying and kind of failing to make, I think, is that even with a very narrow range of interests it's easy to find something new to at least try.

I know what you mean. When I scan the threads on this forum, usually none of the games sound interesting. Click into the thread, and even the people following every bit of news about the games and playing them on release won't like them, but they're obsessed with them anyway. Yet I never run out of games I'm interested in. I suffer from that rarest kind of autism that makes me actually like playing video games. Apparently people who like complaining about things on the internet are pretty well-served too, so everybody should be happy, I would think?

My taste is probably bad, but whatever.

Sakuna of Rice and Ruin
Shin Megami Tensei 5
Rune Factory 5(not as good as 4)
Persona 5 Strikers
Doom Eternal
Carrion
Maneater
Resident Evil Village
NEO The World Ends With You
Elden Ring
Yakuza Like a Dragon
Nioh 2
Ys IX Monstrum Nox
Scarlet Nexus
Lost Judgement
Metal: Hellsinger
Sonic Frontiers

See, I haven't played any of those. They're probably nice.

Doom 64 was the pinnacle of the franchise, particularly level design.

I once thought so, but that new level pack that came out with the Nightdive remaster nukes the old levels out of the water honestly. I've probably missed a lot not playing too many of the gazillion fan mods out there. It's a meme to bitch about the back half of Doom 2 but I always lose interest by the city levels, never finished it.

 

[Scarthew]

And the "it" in this case is faux retro pixel games, flavor of the week meme games, and genderblob visual novels

curse of the moon 1 and 2
bug fables
noita
hollow knight
cuphead
cruelty squad
barotrauma
payday 2
killing floor 2
intruder
duck game
deep rock galactic
risk of rain 1 and 2 and returns
rain world
your only move is hustle
streets of rogue
spelunky, any of em
vagante
barony
rabi ribi
earth's dawn
lost epic
tales of majeyal
necrodancer
30XX
baba is you
celeste
the forest
dont starve
invisible inc
oxygen not included
hyper demon
library of ruina
dungeon of the endless
binding of isaac and terraria cause theyre still getting updates
ender lillies
blasphemous
environmental station alpha
overcooked
axiom verge 1 and 2
river city girls 1 and 2(admittedly not as good as SoR4 but what is)
acceleration of suguri 2
guacamelee 1 and 2
hat in time
intravenous
postal 4
shovel knight dig (cause i bet most skipped this one)
unrailed
wildermyth
escape simulator
ultra kill
vengeful guardian moonrider

We are absolutely for spoiled for games in the indie scene and to assume theyre all tranny shit is absurd and this is just the shit ive played in recent memory.

 

[TheGreatDodongus]

I think some you need to take a step back. Honestly, what's more likely: That out of the thousands of new games being released annually, absolutely none of them are any good? Or that maybe you've just outgrown video games?

We're drowning in good games today. There's more 8/10-10/10 games available right now on Steam released in the last 4 years than any one (employed adult) person could possibly play through. I think a lot of you simply aren't motivated to play games except those you're nostalgic for, and you're choosing to blame the market instead of reexamining your interests.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Pixel art is at this point bland and unappealing. Pixel art platformers are boring and lazy.

The 8-bit stuff definitely is in most cases, probably even 16-bit too. Thing is, most indies don't have the artistic skill or talent to do good 32-bit style art. You know, like the 2D Saturn and Dreamcast games people rave about. If we got more good looking games like Street Fighter 3 with fluid animation and a good art style, I think the pixel art burnout would disappear.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

I think some you need to take a step back. Honestly, what's more likely: That out of the thousands of new games being released annually, absolutely none of them are any good? Or that maybe you've just outgrown video games?

We're drowning in good games today. There's more 8/10-10/10 games available right now on Steam released in the last 4 years than any one (employed adult) person could possibly play through. I think a lot of you simply aren't motivated to play games except those you're nostalgic for, and you're choosing to blame the market instead of reexamining your interests.

"You're just getting old" always felt like a cop out to me. I do feel like gaming is generally on the decline, not because "I'm old" but because it's the truth. Gaming has gone from being fun to play and/or simple escapism, to now trying to be either the next big e-sport or live service that milks your time and wallet. And games are worse off for this because everybody now is a sweaty try hard trying to be the next Ninja who forget games were supposed to be for fun or these people are so young they didn't experience how games used to be like even 10 years ago.

Anyways, an unpopular opinion I have is that SW battlefront 2 (2017) was a good game, or at least it was at the time it got released on Steam with the celebration edition.