Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Matt Damon]

If Xbox acquired/partnered with Sega during the Xbox, I think that Sega could've been saved as MS's first party for their then upcoming Xbox brand.

I think it would've been a bad deal for both companies.

1. The Xbox brand STILL hasn't been accepted by Japan more than twenty years later and a lot of Sega's big franchises were/are much more popular among the Japanese than in the West. It would've seriously hampered Sega's success to be tied to an American console and Microsoft would've seen only a small benefit in terms of market penetration.

2. Sega got its reputation for making weird decisions and having huge variability in quality very soon after the end of the Dreamcast. I don't think having Sega exclusivity would've been a huge selling point once the initial hype died down. Remember the breathless articles and wailing of Nintendo fans when Microsoft bought Rare? Just think how irrelevant that ended up being in the long run.

 

[Judge Dredd]

A game will come out and be pretty good, get universal acclaim and praise for a month or two, then the narrative will shift and suddenly the game is shit, was always shit, and you were just too retarded to realize it because of (minor flaw) and they're SOOO sick of people sucking the game off for being perfect (even though nobody was doing that)

It's a very specific kind of slow heel turn into negativity.

I see the opposite of this as well. That a game was secretly a masterpiece all along that just got screwed by the dirty rotten hate mobs, or was "fixed" after some minor update. Fallout 76 recently had fans try to re-appraise it as a misunderstood masterpiece, or at least not as bad as people said.

I hate to be that guy again, but a lot of hyped games these days aren't very good and don't survive the honeymoon period. Perfect example was Resident Evil 4 Remake. Hyped before launch. Hailed as the second coming of Christ at release. Two weeks later not a peep about it.

Any grown man who's ever uttered the phrase "the game doesn't really start until the level cap" should just end it now.

Sorry for the powerlevel, but related to the thread.

I missed WoW's peak. Other MMOs I either got to late or never committed to the degree as others. I tried a raid in Destiny 2 only to be told they didn't count as real raids. At the time, a bunch of people online and even a few friends were of the opinion that raid content was the only content that mattered. That MMOs don't start until you reach end game and have a full raid set.

I was confused by this, because I work under the assumption that you do eventually exhaust a game of content. That you should either play something else or start over. That opinion did not go over well.

Then I stepped on a MMO landmine by saying out loud. "If the only content that matters is end game raid content, why not cut out the open world, daily questing, farming for crafting materials, etc. and have a game where all you do is raiding? All the budget and design could go into the thing people actually want, instead of the roadblocks people hate.". The person I mentioned this to flew into a rage about how I didn't get it and was a fucking idiot. The same story got varying reactions, but almost all negative, and none would explain why. At best, I'd get an argument that pre-level cap is a glorified tutorial, but I don't buy that.

I'd later learn of social desirability bias. That only a small percentage of a MMO player base actually does the high tier end content. That what people say they want (more raids) is at odds with what they actually play (dailies and farming for materials).

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I don’t want unexplained or explained magical negroes in my video games. I don’t care about how many dragons or talking trees there are, get the blacks the fuck out.

In the same way that normies expect too little from games in the sense that they'll take every assfucking that comes their way in microtransactions, hardcore gamers have reached a point where they expect too fucking much from games. I don't know why it happened exactly, but it feels like last generation hardcores reached a point where games needed to be absolutely flawless or they are fucking garbage, which is such a weird position to take when a certain level of jank was just a normal part of gaming.

The worst ones of the bunch are the ones that say that they played 100+ hours (or some other ungodly number) of a game and hated every minute of it. I understand wanting to see if it gets better after a few hours but any more after that, it’s on you. I wish I had even a small percentage of free time to fritter away on things I hate.

 

[Meat Target]

The worst ones of the bunch are the ones that say that they played 100+ hours (or some other ungodly number) of a game and hated every minute of it. I understand wanting to see if it gets better after a few hours but any more after that, it’s on you. I wish I had even a small percentage of free time to fritter away on things I hate.

Paradoxically, some people are only happy by being miserable and complaining. It makes them feel superior.

 

[Matt Damon]

Paradoxically, some people are only happy by being miserable and complaining. It makes them feel superior.

Your post is wrong and dumb for many, many reasons, which I shall now spend the next several hours painstakingly enumerating.

Reason one...

 

[The Ugly One]

If Xbox acquired/partnered with Sega during the Xbox, I think that Sega could've been saved as MS's first party for their then upcoming Xbox brand.

Microsoft did partner with Sega. The problem is that games like Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT 2002 just didn't sell.

2. Sega got its reputation for making weird decisions and having huge variability in quality very soon after the end of the Dreamcast.

They'd had that reputation since the launch of 32X and Saturn.

Ironically the fact that they did this has made Redguards a politically fraught part of The Elder Scrolls series in Current Year.

Not only can you have unexplained fantasy niggers, but you can ONLY have unexplained fantasy niggers - any implication that they're a separate people from a different place in a way that mirrors human history has become racist.

Yeah, having some sort of Fantasy Desert Kingdom won't cut it any more, because MUH cultural appropriation and MUH colonialism. This is part of the whole deal where the woke insist the purpose of fantasy is to imagine a non-problematic world, and if you imagine something problematic, that means you must love problematic things, i.e., you're a bigot. So you have to have unexplained fantasy niggers, because only a racist wouldn't want that.

 

[Fag Albert]

I'm beginning to hate the "I play games to relax" people almost as much as I hate top end mongloids. They're like the stereotypical 'tryhard' but in the opposite direction, doing everything in their power to convince you of how much of a mature responsible adult they are and how little the game matters while they have a full meltdown because someone was better than them in said video game.

 

[Rick The Stick]

I'm beginning to hate the "I play games to relax" people almost as much as I hate top end mongloids. They're like the stereotypical 'tryhard' but in the opposite direction, doing everything in their power to convince you of how much of a mature responsible adult they are and how little the game matters while they have a full meltdown because someone was better than them in said video game.

The sub reddit patientgamers is perfect for shit like this. People who endlessly harp about how they just like to relax and enjoy the games. They don't care about being super serious gamers and like to take their time. That's why they're patient you see. They even pride themselves on not playing the newest titles.

And at the same time these faggots unironically use the place as a support group because these manchildren are having actual anxiety issues because they have a big backlog of games or they're experiencing "FOMO".

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

Yeah the Microsoft and Sega collaboration was a dud. However I did appreciate that Microsoft funded a lot of opportunities that mostly didn’t pan out but no way in hell could be replicated today: Jet Set Radio Future, Sega GT 2002, Crazy Taxi 3, Voodoo Vince, Blinx the Time Sweeper, Dead or Alive 3, Ninja Gaiden reboot, etc. Anything to avoid being considered the Halo box, which is what it ended up as anyway.

Sega got its reputation for making weird decisions and having huge variability in quality very soon after the end of the Dreamcast.

They even had it with the Dreamcast. Virtua Fighter 3 was not arcade perfect despite Dreamcast being more powerful than the Model 3 arcade board, it was a rushed port. Sega also left a lot of Model 3 and Naomi games unreleased. Capcom wound up releasing a bunch of simple ports for $29 or something like that for games like Mars Matrix, it was odd why Sega refused to do something similar. I liked the Dreamcast but Sega made a bunch of bad decisions. Feels like the only time Sega ever had their shit together was the Kalinske era of Sega of America. Bernie Stolar did his best but Sega was practically done by then.

these manchildren are having actual anxiety issues because they have a big backlog of games or they're experiencing "FOMO".

I have a large backlog of games and I just leave them shrink wrapped. At some point I’m just going to bite the bullet and realize I’m not going to have time to play Alex Kidd on the Switch.

 

[anustart76]

See this is the thing retards always say and it drives me nuts, as if crafting a cohesive and believable yet still fantastical world isn't priority one for every fantasy setting EVER MADE.

Why does the world in the game have gravity? There's wizards and dragons so why gravity?

Fuck you. If you want to put niggers into a setting that is obviously fantasy European then think about why someone with a different complexion would be there. Oh, they came from somewhere hot and sunny that isn't like our current location. WOW that was fucking hard.

Saying "there are niggers here because there just are dude why do you care it's FANTASY!?" Is the laziest and faggiest way to handle what is a point of valid criticism. Nobody complained about there being niggers in Skyrim because that setting puts the effort into explaining why they're there.

Instinctively it's obvious that the nigger/BMW don't fit in, but it's hard for most people to put into words. The problem is it breaks the verisimilitude, the suspension of disbelief. Dragons and elves fit because it doesn't break the immersion. But random niggers everywhere don't fit the world and make you immediately question why they're there. It's the same reason it would be immersion-breaking to see SpongeBob running around in Doom.

 

[Kheapathic]

I'm beginning to hate the "I play games to relax" people almost as much as I hate top end mongloids. They're like the stereotypical 'tryhard' but in the opposite direction, doing everything in their power to convince you of how much of a mature responsible adult they are and how little the game matters while they have a full meltdown because someone was better than them in said video game.

I hate the people who do that, while simultaneously try to do things like raiding; and do the "Nah man, I just want to clear the dungeon" without putting in the effort. Don't get me wrong, grinding gear and other shit isn't fun, it's work, but it's the price of admission. No bitch, you want a fucking carry, find someone else to carry you.

 

[Matt Damon]

I'm beginning to hate the "I play games to relax" people almost as much as I hate top end mongloids. They're like the stereotypical 'tryhard' but in the opposite direction, doing everything in their power to convince you of how much of a mature responsible adult they are and how little the game matters

I'm far from a mature, responsible adult, but games really DON'T matter. They're video games. We're grown men discussing electronic toys for kids and it's really healthy to keep that in mind.

while they have a full meltdown because someone was better than them in said video game.

Okay, but what if I don't do that? What if I really do just "play games to relax", don't have a meltdown when I lose, don't have any ego invested in how good I am compared to others, and stop playing a game the moment I stop enjoying myself? Your implication seems to be that no one ACTUALLY keeps a reasonable sense of perspective about games and it's all just posturing by secretly obsessive, unstable manchildren.

 

[Niggergante]

Baldur's Gate 3 is fun. You can ignore the gay stuff and I would kill the gay vampire but he's kinda growing on me (and he's my carry).

Oh and one more thing. He's been kept prisoner and a slave by a true vampire and was tortured, potentially sexually, thus unintentionally reinforcing that gays are made through rape and molestation. It really makes grug thunk.

>Inb4 not controversial
I lurk /v/ everything's controversial around there. There's plenty of conservatives boycotting this for petty reasons like trannies boycotted harry potter, but the difference is that this is actually interesting and not generic goyslop. It'd slop with soul.

 

[Fag Albert]

I'm far from a mature, responsible adult, but games really DON'T matter. They're video games. We're grown men discussing electronic toys for kids and it's really healthy to keep that in mind.


Okay, but what if I don't do that? What if I really do just "play games to relax", don't have a meltdown when I lose, don't have any ego invested in how good I am compared to others, and stop playing a game the moment I stop enjoying myself? Your implication seems to be that no one ACTUALLY keeps a reasonable sense of perspective about games and it's all just posturing by secretly obsessive, unstable manchildren.

Then you're not who I'm talking about. I think we're on the same page where I'm thinking very specifically about the fellas that have this weird need to be vocal about it to try and convince people that they're mature adult in some weird attempt to get validation from it. What you're talking about is what I want people to be. The people that actually play games to relax don't need to announce that shit to the world and try and get establish this bizarro victimhood over a vidya game.

 

[X Prime]

What about the people who insist that they don't want to think while playing a game? Is that what you mean?

 

[anustart76]

Baldur's Gate 3 is fun. You can ignore the gay stuff and I would kill the gay vampire but he's kinda growing on me (and he's my carry).

Oh and one more thing. He's been kept prisoner and a slave by a true vampire and was tortured, potentially sexually, thus unintentionally reinforcing that gays are made through rape and molestation. It really makes grug thunk.

>Inb4 not controversial
I lurk /v/ everything's controversial around there. There's plenty of conservatives boycotting this for petty reasons like trannies boycotted harry potter, but the difference is that this is actually interesting and not generic goyslop. It'd slop with soul.

All I know is it's a turn-based game with bear-fucking, so I'm not really interested.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I'm far from a mature, responsible adult, but games really DON'T matter. They're video games. We're grown men discussing electronic toys for kids and it's really healthy to keep that in mind.

No form of entertainment matters, strictly speaking, not just video games. One could argue the finer points, like reading a book possibly improving your vocabulary or something I guess, or watching sports that get you outside is healthy, but there's no greater inherent value in reading a book of fiction than there is playing a text-heavy video game. One just has a stigma that the other doesn't, even if the book is literally more childish in subject matter than the game.

Baldur's Gate 3 is fun. You can ignore the gay stuff and I would kill the gay vampire but he's kinda growing on me (and he's my carry).

Oh and one more thing. He's been kept prisoner and a slave by a true vampire and was tortured, potentially sexually, thus unintentionally reinforcing that gays are made through rape and molestation. It really makes grug thunk.

>Inb4 not controversial
I lurk /v/ everything's controversial around there. There's plenty of conservatives boycotting this for petty reasons like trannies boycotted harry potter, but the difference is that this is actually interesting and not generic goyslop. It'd slop with soul.

"Finally, some good fucking propaganda!"

 

[The Ugly One]

Instinctively it's obvious that the nigger/BMW don't fit in, but it's hard for most people to put into words. The problem is it breaks the verisimilitude, the suspension of disbelief. Dragons and elves fit because it doesn't break the immersion. But random niggers everywhere don't fit the world and make you immediately question why they're there. It's the same reason it would be immersion-breaking to see SpongeBob running around in Doom.

It's not just instinct. You're always given a reason for why elves live in the caves under the city, or lore behind the existence of the ancient dragons. You're never given a reason for why the village is 25% black. You're called a racist for saying there should be one. They're just there, bigot. Black people EXIST and are VALID.

 

[Asian tech support]

25% and evenly dispersed. Never any mulattos but always some prominent race mixed marriages. Don't even have the stones to fall back on using an enclave somewhere as the lowest effort explanation.
For all the flak TW3 gets, it handled race well. Nonhumans stay outside of the city walls, not a niggo in sight, and the Ofieri traveled very far to reach Velen. They could have easily added blacks as Zerrikanians exist in universe but would be rare. There was one in TW1.

 

[Judge Dredd]

So which do your guys think is worse? Unexplained diversity and millennial Californian values in a medieval fantasy setting, or a setting that has heavy handed political commentary? eg. The police are cartoonishly racist, and the villain has a Richard Spencer haircut and wears a red hat.