Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Ouro Boros]

I want to see more games where the good ending is actually letting the world burn and the bad ending is saving everyone and such, because honestly....saving people who are already poisoned by their own charisma and the like don't deserve to be saved.

 

[Kheapathic]

Just had an exciting new problem where an Xbox One controller connected fine, but would exclusively read LT and RT triggers until I restarted Windows.

Anybody who likes wireless controllers is wrong and gay and has terrible opinions and you faggots are the reason that it's no longer possible to buy a decent wired controller.

Excuse me sir, this is the "Unpopular Opinions" thread, not the Gospel Truth thread.

 

[Pissmaster]

Yea I'm amazed niggercattle deepthroat WoW so much. It's not even that good (it never was) and each expansion makes it worse.

What kind of niggercattle must you be to pay $50 for the base game, $15 for each expansion (around 4 or 5) and then churn out $15 monthly to play the fucking game?

If I were here a decade ago, I could have written a novel about how much I hate World of Warcraft.

I loathe everything Blizzard releases. They can't put out a single fucking game without bringing out the absolute worst in everyone. My hatred dates all the way back to Starcraft, an already mediocre game that somehow became so popular, it might have been the first major eSport. Hearing about people playing it in internet cafes to the point where they get ill, popping uppers to max out their APMs, making an entire TV channel for it in Korea? What the fuck is going on?

And then StarCraft 2 was total garbage and died quickly, lol.

I remember reading about how StarCraft was thought to be perfectly balanced, so therefore it was the modern equivalent of Chess, until one day it just wasn't. I don't even know what happened. I guess StarCraft 2 came out, "replaced" it, and then took the wind out of everyone's sails? Gee, I guess it's not much of an answer to Chess, a game that's been played for well over a millennium, when StarCraft couldn't even make it 20 years. All of that stress, muscle strain, amphetamine abuse, drama, fighting, arrogance, bullshit, all totally useless, because it's an eSport, and eSports are the faggiest shit on the planet.

Blizzard is trash. Everything they make is trash. It all brings out the worst in everyone involved, from corporate to playerbases. Kill Blizzard, behead Blizzard, etc. Destroy every Blizzard game and never look back. (The Lost Vikings doesn't count)

 

[Matt Damon]

I loathe everything Blizzard releases. They can't put out a single fucking game without bringing out the absolute worst in everyone. My hatred dates all the way back to Starcraft, an already mediocre game that somehow became so popular, it might have been the first major eSport. Hearing about people playing it in internet cafes to the point where they get ill, popping uppers to max out their APMs, making an entire TV channel for it in Korea? What the fuck is going on?

I remember reading about how StarCraft was thought to be perfectly balanced, so therefore it was the modern equivalent of Chess, until one day it just wasn't. I don't even know what happened. I guess StarCraft 2 came out, "replaced" it, and then took the wind out of everyone's sails? Gee, I guess it's not much of an answer to Chess, a game that's been played for well over a millennium, when StarCraft couldn't even make it 20 years. All of that stress, muscle strain, amphetamine abuse, drama, fighting, arrogance, bullshit, all totally useless, because it's an eSport, and eSports are the faggiest shit on the planet.

I dunno, I don't think that means every Blizzard game is terrible. I think it just means people take video games way, way, way too seriously and life was better when "competitive play" just meant your brother or neighbor kid across the street would try to beat you over a home LAN.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

(The Lost Vikings doesn't count)

Kill that too, it was too complicated and ruined my Blockbuster night as a kid, I will not forgive it

 

[Pissmaster]

I dunno, I don't think that means every Blizzard game is terrible. I think it just means people take video games way, way, way too seriously and life was better when "competitive play" just meant your brother or neighbor kid across the street would try to beat you over a home LAN.

You're not wrong, but spergs will take any game way too seriously. If every single game on the planet except for specifically Wheel of Fortune on PlayStation disappeared overnight, you'd have spergs competing over who can scroll through the letters and click the right one the fastest, and exploits to force the random seed to give you all the shortest puzzles to speedrun it.

Blizzard seems to do all they can to encourage hyper-obsessive gaming like that. I tried playing StarCraft 2 online, after hearing about some beginner's only arena where you get like 50 games with only other beginners. The one and only match I tried, some guy turtled me for like 40 minutes before wiping me out within a minute. I don't like having my time wasted like that. And wasn't there some kind of negative rep you'd get if you quit matches early, instead of just sitting there watching the other guy dismantle everything you just spent an hour building, piece by piece? That shit is awful. Every bit of that is awful. What a miserable way to waste your time.

 

[Judge Dredd]

the PS4 learned from the mistakes of the PS3’s admittedly rather difficult launch and has just kept pushing out banger after banger during its run. Bloodborne, God of War 2018,, Red dead 2, spiderman 2018, Metal gear 5.

Fixed.

Even if these were the only games for the PS4 it would still be a brilliant console in its own right.

No. @SSj_Ness already covered how much of the PS4 library sucked compared to other systems.

And as someone who followed VR since the first Oculus Rift. I have it on good authority that having a over a dozen (arguably exclusive) high quality games for your system is not enough unless they come from established AAA franchises. Even the original Xbox and maybe even the Wii and WiiU, consoles notorious for their shit libraries have more to offer.

Maybe as a multi-plat machine it works, but I have a gaming PC so I don't need one of those.

Blizzard is trash.

They are the gaming industry's apple. They take an already popular game (Starcraft = 40k and C&C, Overwatch = TF2, etc.), remake it with a thick layer of hipster pandering, and rake in the money.

 

[Mega Black]

I dunno, I don't think that means every Blizzard game is terrible. I think it just means people take video games way, way, way too seriously and life was better when "competitive play" just meant your brother or neighbor kid across the street would try to beat you over a home LAN.

Every modern game Blizzard makes is terrible.

That's what drives me nuts about them. I haven't bought a fucking Blizzard game since they deleted my characters erroneously. It boggles my fucking mind that people KEEP giving this company all their money in droves. People give Nintendo fans and Sony Jabronis shit for being consoomers but Blizzard fans are a breed apart, especially since they openly admit to the games being shit and get mad about the company fucking them in the ass at every turn, just to go right back into the assfuck room without any lube.

Diablo III and Immortal are dogshit microtransaction crap! But D4 is gonna be good guys! Whaaat? They're fucking us again? How can this be!?

Even a retarded dog will learn to stop sticking it's nose where it hurts. But not the Blizzdrone.

 

[Matt Damon]

>inb4 "just play it on PC d00d"
You are the problem. God fucking forbid you playtest your own game or try something new once in a while that isn't spoonfed to you by developers that rightfully hate you and could care less. I am ready for the hats.

This is one of the dumbest thing I've read in this thread and there's 843 pages of autism competing for that crown.

EDIT: Claimed he was ready for hats. Immediately deleted his post when he received hats.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Every modern game Blizzard makes is terrible.

That's what drives me nuts about them. I haven't bought a fucking Blizzard game since they deleted my characters erroneously. It boggles my fucking mind that people KEEP giving this company all their money in droves. People give Nintendo fans and Sony Jabronis shit for being consoomers but Blizzard fans are a breed apart, especially since they openly admit to the games being shit and get mad about the company fucking them in the ass at every turn, just to go right back into the assfuck room without any lube.

Diablo III and Immortal are dogshit microtransaction crap! But D4 is gonna be good guys! Whaaat? They're fucking us again? How can this be!?

Even a retarded dog will learn to stop sticking it's nose where it hurts. But not the Blizzdrone.

Valve drones seem to be even worse in regards to this, as they continue to spend on all of the cosmetic micro-transaction schemes Valve puts out, because Valve is "more ethical" than other game companies. They also think that just because Valve is privately owned, that inherently makes them less greedy, even though Valve still strives to make mad money.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Valve drones seem to be even worse in regards to this, as they continue to spend on all of the cosmetic micro-transaction schemes Valve puts out, because Valve is "more ethical" than other game companies. They also think that just because Valve is privately owned, that inherently makes them less greedy, even though Valve still strives to make mad money.

Nah. Blizzard customers are worse. You even say that the average valve buyer will at least believe in them about something. Blizz customers openly state how shit Blizz is and then buy every new release. Usually guys who are so desperate to relive their college "glory" days of staying up all night playing Diablo or some shit.

A guy I know openly comments how shit WoW is yet can't help himself from buying a month sub a few times a year, lvl a healer up, get tired, and then declare how shit the game is.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Survival games are not games, there is no win condition and no goal to accomplish beyond "gather resource to craft thing to gather more resource". It's even worse if there's a respawn mechanic since then there isn't a lose condition either.

 

[The Ugly One]

You're not wrong, but spergs will take any game way too seriously. If every single game on the planet except for specifically Wheel of Fortune on PlayStation disappeared overnight, you'd have spergs competing over who can scroll through the letters and click the right one the fastest, and exploits to force the random seed to give you all the shortest puzzles to speedrun it.

Blizzard seems to do all they can to encourage hyper-obsessive gaming like that. I tried playing StarCraft 2 online, after hearing about some beginner's only arena where you get like 50 games with only other beginners. The one and only match I tried, some guy turtled me for like 40 minutes before wiping me out within a minute. I don't like having my time wasted like that. And wasn't there some kind of negative rep you'd get if you quit matches early, instead of just sitting there watching the other guy dismantle everything you just spent an hour building, piece by piece? That shit is awful. Every bit of that is awful. What a miserable way to waste your time.

Up until and not including SC2, Blizzard's big thing was taking games only autistics spergs liked and making them charming and straightforward enough for normies to play. WoW was more normie-friendly than EQ or DAC. Starcraft was more normie-friendly than C&C. Etc. Diablo was far more normie-friendly than "true" RPGs. But since they were normie-friendly, they were massively popular, and since they were massively-popular, they attracted their own share of autistic spergs.

With SC2, they decided to make a Starcraft game for the spergs rather than the normies, meaning it was designed first and foremost for hyper-clicking Koreans rather than anyone who likes fun. Since around that time, they've completely, utterly lost what made them special in the 90s. I mean, really, it's been 20 years since Blizzard did anything that deserves praise. Everyone just keeps hoping that this time, they'll go back to their roots. I'm guessing everyone who worked on the original StarCraft or first release of WoW is gone.

 

[Pissmaster]

Survival games are not games, there is no win condition and no goal to accomplish beyond "gather resource to craft thing to gather more resource". It's even worse if there's a respawn mechanic since then there isn't a lose condition either.

Those are akin to endless arcade games where the goal is to get the highest score. The goal is to try and survive longer than anyone else, with ever-dwindling resources and ever-growing danger.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Up until and not including SC2, Blizzard's big thing was taking games only autistics spergs liked and making them charming and straightforward enough for normies to play. WoW was more normie-friendly than EQ or DAC. Starcraft was more normie-friendly than C&C. Etc. Diablo was far more normie-friendly than "true" RPGs. But since they were normie-friendly, they were massively popular, and since they were massively-popular, they attracted their own share of autistic spergs.

With SC2, they decided to make a Starcraft game for the spergs rather than the normies, meaning it was designed first and foremost for hyper-clicking Koreans rather than anyone who likes fun. Since around that time, they've completely, utterly lost what made them special in the 90s. I mean, really, it's been 20 years since Blizzard did anything that deserves praise. Everyone just keeps hoping that this time, they'll go back to their roots. I'm guessing everyone who worked on the original StarCraft or first release of WoW is gone.

On the other hand, tons of people praise Valve for not turning DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike into Lowest Common Denominator shit, that Blizzard's other games are, as well as how other DOTA 2 and CS's competitors are. The Lowest Common Denominator shit that Blizzard games are probably did more damage to them in the long run, with them trying to chase after newer audiences. (and some that wouldn't even play their games to begin with, with the Rainbow pandering that's becoming more and more in-your-face) And given how DOTA's community has very little overlap with other games, compared to how every other game has some sort of crossover in fans in one way are another, it goes to show how Valve's game design works, even with the exploitative cosmetic micro-transactions that they have focused on in recent years, and less about the games themselves.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Valve drones seem to be even worse in regards to this, as they continue to spend on all of the cosmetic micro-transaction schemes Valve puts out, because Valve is "more ethical" than other game companies. They also think that just because Valve is privately owned, that inherently makes them less greedy, even though Valve still strives to make mad money.

Criticising or defending Valve is tricky. There is stuff to criticise and stuff to praise, but it's hard to do any of that.

It seems anyone with opinions on Valve has to be some kind of screeching autist who watches way too much Tyler McVickers. Want to talk about how Valve dropped Win XP and Win 7 support, thereby gutting their retro library? How about how their use of focus testing resulted in interesting features being cut from Left 4 Dead 2? Nope, instead you're only allowed to complain about third party CSGO gambling sites, Steam greenlight, Cinematic Mod, and how Half-Life: Alyx was VR only.

With SC2, they decided to make a Starcraft game for the spergs rather than the normies, meaning it was designed first and foremost for hyper-clicking Koreans rather than anyone who likes fun.

This raises something I wondered for a long time.

I remember hearing at release that StarCraft 2 had an amazing single player game, but after those initial reviews the single player was completely ignored in favour of the multiplayer. I remember hearing the mod tools were excellent too, but I never heard of any notable mod outside of a tower defense mode (which I think was to demo the tools).

I'm wondering what the single player was like, and if it holds up.

 

[Matt Damon]

Survival games are not games, there is no win condition and no goal to accomplish beyond "gather resource to craft thing to gather more resource". It's even worse if there's a respawn mechanic since then there isn't a lose condition either.

What about survival games that do have a win condition or story mode with specific win objectives? There's a fair number of those.

 

[Shidoen]

As a noob player new to Diablo, 3 isn’t all bad but I’m starting out with 2 which is pretty fun.

 

[skykiii]

Blizzard is trash. Everything they make is trash.

Unless its called "Blackthorne" or "the Lost Vikings," you mean?

EDIT: Sorry didn't see the smalltext where you specifically mention the latter... still saw no mention of the former tho.

I suppose it also goes without saying that I would defend the first two Warcrafts. I honestly found Diablo I fun back in the day but Phantasy Star Online is pretty much objectively better.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Criticising or defending Valve is tricky. There is stuff to criticise and stuff to praise, but it's hard to do any of that.

It seems anyone with opinions on Valve has to be some kind of screeching autist who watches way too much Tyler McVickers. Want to talk about how Valve dropped Win XP and Win 7 support, thereby gutting their retro library? How about how their use of focus testing resulted in interesting features being cut from Left 4 Dead 2? Nope, instead you're only allowed to complain about third party CSGO gambling sites, Steam greenlight, Cinematic Mod, and how Half-Life: Alyx was VR only.

This raises something I wondered for a long time.

I remember hearing at release that StarCraft 2 had an amazing single player game, but after those initial reviews the single player was completely ignored in favour of the multiplayer. I remember hearing the mod tools were excellent too, but I never heard of any notable mod outside of a tower defense mode (which I think was to demo the tools).

I'm wondering what the single player was like, and if it holds up.

You can also add the cheapening out on DOTA 2's competitive scene to the list (although E-Sports were never going to be sustainable in the long run), as well as how they handled Artifact and Underlords, since they were both games that were trying to cash in on popular trends at the time (card games and auto-battlers), using the DOTA 2 license, and both were promptly abandoned, when they didn't make the money that Valve expected them to.

As for StarCraft 2, I did hear that the story for it became worse in the later parts. The one thing that I do like about SC2's story, was that they kept Tychus Findlay dead for good (even though he was the best, and most relatable character in the story), and didn't make an asspull moment to revive him, which is a thing Blizzard (and other media in general) likes to do with their various characters.