Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

This is unpopular?

Only the most consoomer coom brained niggers think PS5 is good, let alone better than PS4.

And PS3 is better than PS4, Soyny fans always feel they need to defend the latest console. Once PS4 is fully put to rest they'll be able to admit PS3 was better.

 

[The Foxtrot]

And PS3 is better than PS4, Soyny fans always feel they need to defend the latest console. Once PS4 is fully put to rest they'll be able to admit PS3 was better.

And the PS2 is still the King of Consoles, suck on that Nintendrones!

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

And the PS2 is still the King of Consoles, suck on that Nintendrones!

It's a close call between PS1 and PS2, I can never really be sure which was better. The only Nintendo systems that even come close are GBA and DS imo.

 

[Radion_Godiva]

I lost interest during the PS2/Xbox/GC era, so those consoles will never count for me.

 

[The Last Stand]

I can see the appeal for games like The Order: 1886 as an interactive experience. Perhaps you want the cinematography of a movie with the interaction of a game without having to invest much of yourself into it. A blend of the two CAN work, look at Detroit: Beyond Human as a good example. But, the importance aspect of the video game medium IS interactivity and replayability.

Had The Order: 1886 been cheaper at launch and more interactivity, I think it could've been a cult classic thanks to its unique world building through its setting. Hell, it's a technical marvel even today.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I agree that Soyny peaked with the PS2. It was the first generation where 3D games looked halfway decent but didn’t have massive budgets where not selling millions of copies of one game meant closing down for good. Success tends to quickly go to Sony’s head and after learning their lessons with the PS4, they’re back to making mistake after mistake with the PS5.

 

[Radion_Godiva]

I agree that Soyny peaked with the PS2. It was the first generation where 3D games looked halfway decent but didn’t have massive budgets where not selling millions of copies of one game meant closing down for good. Success tends to quickly go to Sony’s head and after learning their lessons with the PS4, they’re back to making mistake after mistake with the PS5.

See for me the extra graphical detail of the PS2 era gave the gaming an uncanny valley effect. There was a level of abstraction in the PS1/N64 era, you used you imagination to fill in the blanks. But those fuzzy PS2 era character models never did it for me. I remember playing The Bouncer on PS2 and Eternal Darkness on the GC and just thinking they both looked like ass.

 

[Matt Damon]

Success tends to quickly go to Sony’s head and after learning their lessons with the PS4, they’re back to making mistake after mistake with the PS5.

That is the damnedest thing, isn't it? The company just cannot help making unforced errors any time they're the market leader and it's been consistently like that for over 20 years. They even tried to fuck up the Playstation 2 with needlessly difficult hardware architecture, but were already in such an overwhelmingly dominant market position that they couldn't quite manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

The original Devil May Cry is pretty fucking bad.

I played through Devil May Cry 2 back in the day and a little bit of 3 but never the original so decided to give it a shot. Fuck me its terrible. Dull repetitive gameplay, dogshit camera and some of the worst platforming I've ever had the misfortune to experience. For a game that about 5 hours long its also shockingly lazy and devoid of content - they re-use the same few bosses three fucking times each.

I am legitimately surprised this stinker managed to spawn an entire franchise. I can only put it down to pure style over substance, and critics giving Capcom an easy pass back in the day. People were impressed at how good the game looked despite it playing like ass and to be fair it still looks pretty good to this day. Shame about the actual game part of the game.

I played it recently and found it way harder than I remember it. Even new game+ was hard.

It felt like Dark Souls.

 

[Judge Dredd]

The company just cannot help making unforced errors any time they're the market leader

I see this all the time when it comes to censorship. A company gets in the lead, tries to dictate terms, the underdog allows more edgy content and leaps into the lead.

It's a shame more people can't have a more level headed take on things. It's either one extreme or the other. Everything is either really great or it really sucks.

This is covered extensively in the "I'm tired of this gay shit" thread.

When it comes to AAA, there's nothing to be excited about. It will all be woke shit with microtransactions, games as a service, and DRM. Consoomers will suck corporate cock, and everyone else will be rightly cynical. However, the correct answer is to look elsewhere. Indies, retro, mods, doesn't matter. It's those that can't stop consooming that live in a hellscape of constant negativity or forced positivity.


Thread tax: Clones of popular games are a good thing, especially if they take the formula and do something unique with it. When it's bad, we see the glut of World War 2 and modern army shooters copying Medal of Honor and Call of Duty. But games like The Surge, Stardew Valley, and Sonic All Star Racing do a better job than the games they're ripping off.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

It's a close call between PS1 and PS2, I can never really be sure which was better.

The answer is PS1 because games on PS2 were better overall. On the PS1 a kind of crappy game was still acceptable so you could spend hours playing Loaded or Destruction Derby. Why would you ever play a crappy game on the PS2 when there are so many decent to good games available? And why would you choose to play a very well received PS2 game from a genre you are not interested in when the system has several brand new decent to good games in the genre you like?

Games getting better made things worse. The PSX achieved the ideal balance of having one foot in the future and the other solidly in the toilet.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

The PS4 is still better than the PlayStation 5.

The PS2 is better than everything after except the Wii and probably the switch.

It's a close call between PS1 and PS2, I can never really be sure which was better. The only Nintendo systems that even come close are GBA and DS imo.

Idk why people like the gba and ds, I'm one of those people with huge buyers remorse cause the ds is the only console I spent money on and own and I was almost immediately disappointed by how shit the library had become cause I got it in 2012. Once I got into emulation I quickly realized the gba and the DS have two of the worst video game libraries in history in terms of replayable and iconic games. There's no reason to go back to a ds or gba in 2023, there's like 10 games worth going back to. The games on these are already forgotten and will never receive remasters which is a good metric cause companies remaster shit they perceive being good and popular from crowd census. The only reason I still have my ds in well maintained working condition is cause it will be worth a ton once it becomes a vintage console.

 

[X Prime]

If collections count, I suppose there's Mega Man Battle Network selling a million copies.

I think the Mario and Luigi games got crappy remasters.

In other words, it's not wrong. GBA was just where the weird low budget games went. Problem is, low budget games were often where some of the creativity was back then.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

If collections count, I suppose there's Mega Man Battle Network selling a million copies.

I think the Mario and Luigi games got crappy remasters.

In other words, it's not wrong. GBA was just where the weird low budget games went. Problem is, low budget games were often where some of the creativity was back then.

The weird low budget games on the gba and ds were rarely of very high quality. Mega man zero was alright, battle network was alright, advance wars and fire emblem were good but they were established franchise games with already good games on prior consoles despite the gba games being first of their kind in the west, boktai was alright, minish cap was okay at best, Mario party was pretty good, Aria of Sorrow is okay, what else is there? 10 games each for the ds and the gba. Contrasted wih the PS2 which also had great iconic low budget games from big corpos like God hand, viewtiful Joe, okami, samurai western, lot of others and that's just the low budget pseudo indies, there's a ton of high budget great games on the PS2 as well. Most of the ds especially is just shovelware now, who the fuck plays contra 4. If they had remade or remastered some n64, snes games on the ds like they did with Mario 64 it would've been good enough (the FF IV V VI remakes don't count). They had to reserve that for the 3ds which itself has a ton of great games excluding the remasters.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Idk why people like the gba and ds, I'm one of those people with huge buyers remorse cause the ds is the only console I spent money on and own and I was almost immediately disappointed by how shit the library had become cause I got it in 2012. Once I got into emulation I quickly realized the gba and the DS have two of the worst video game libraries in history in terms of replayable and iconic games. There's no reason to go back to a ds or gba in 2023, there's like 10 games worth going back to. The games on these are already forgotten and will never receive remasters which is a good metric cause companies remaster shit they perceive being good and popular from crowd census. The only reason I still have my ds in well maintained working condition is cause it will be worth a ton once it becomes a vintage console.

I can't comprehend thinking GBA & DS are among the worst game libraries. Even ignoring the entirety of the 2nd generation and the footnote consoles like 3DO, there's much worse out there. The vast majority of the 3rd generation has aged like milk outside of some true classics, and the 4th generation isn't aging as gracefully as people seem to think either tbh.

Look at what the GBA and DS had, there's of course lots of 1st party stuff but also tons of Capcom, Konami, and Square games. But what really makes them special are the hidden gems. Have you played Onimusha Tactics or Hotel Dusk? Few people ever seem to talk about them, but if you're into their genres it's hard not to like them.

They had to reserve that for the 3ds which itself has a ton of great games excluding the remasters.

I like 3DS but I'm always baffled when people elevate it above DS. I guess it's just different kinds of games we appreciate.

 

[MrJokerRager]

FIFA will still remain the top selling video game for years.

 

[anustart76]

I think the Mario and Luigi games got crappy remasters.

I think it was retarded to remaster 3 (I understand remastering 1, so you could play the whole series on the 3DS) but 3 didn't need a remaster at all. They should have made a sixth entry in the series.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I think it was retarded to remaster 3 (I understand remastering 1, so you could play the whole series on the 3DS) but 3 didn't need a remaster at all. They should have made a sixth entry in the series.

Skipping Partners in Time was dumb too, if they were going to remake the DS games at least do them in order.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

I think it was retarded to remaster 3 (I understand remastering 1, so you could play the whole series on the 3DS) but 3 didn't need a remaster at all. They should have made a sixth entry in the series.

I'm still salty we've never got this.

This is like the most obvious step right after Bowser's Inside Story, if Alpha Dream have made this instead of Dream Team, maybe the Mario & Luigi series would be still alive today.

 

[anustart76]

Skipping Partners in Time was dumb too, if they were going to remake the DS games at least do them in order.

From what I understood, the reason they chose 3 instead of 2 was that 3 was the most popular game in the series. I guess they figured it would sell better. But either way, I think a new entry would be better; AlphaDream was shuttered after the 3 remaster.

I'm still salty we've never got this.

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This is like the most obvious step right after Bowser's Inside Story, if Alpha Dream have made this instead of Dream Team, maybe the Mario & Luigi series would be still alive today.

I have been saying this for years. AlphaDream should have made M&L 6 with Wario & Waluigi as the guest characters. Considering the Waluigi craze at the time, it would have done phenomenally, and that quartet is a natural fit. 4 characters, each with their own buttons, just like Partners in Time with the babies.