Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Rick The Stick]

Fighting games are more fluid, except those that you can cheat by spamming the same moves over and over but that's a flaw with the game.

Are you one of those retards who cries when a ryu player locks you to one side of the screen with fireballs? If you think move spam is cheating, it's because you're too stupid to figure out how to beat it. Simple as. Every fighting game has this. It's not a flaw. It's a way to gatekeep morons out of the scene and force noobs to git gud.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Are you one of those retards who cries when a ryu player locks you to one side of the screen with fireballs? If you think move spam is cheating, it's because you're too stupid to figure out how to beat it. Simple as. Every fighting game has this. It's not a flaw. It's a way to gatekeep morons out of the scene and force noobs to git gud.

cool story, bro. I don't play fighting games.

Joking aside, I prefer games that make me think, rather than make me do. I know many are the same and many are opposite. Racing, sports, fighting, platformers and action games are all 'do' games to me. RTS, Puzzle, RPG are all 'think' games. Roughly/roughly.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I agree. Having said that, retrofags have turned physical copies of games, particularly on Nintendo consoles, into investments. I bought Pikmin 3 for the Wii U for $60 and never got around to playing it. I was able to sell it to some fag for $200 a couple years later because it was factory sealed and Pikmin 3 was out of print.

I have a sealed copy of Metroid Other M. I bought it cheap years (I think the Wii was in it's final days) and never got around to playing it. Now I'm wondering if I should sell it. I'm certainly considering selling my sealed PSVita games though.


As for real hardware vs emulation. I like real hardware due in part to getting the "real" experience. I know that if there's a bug or frame rate drop, it's because of the game itself, not an emulation error. Emulation errors are almost never a thing on old hardware (especially anything 2D) but then you get to Playstation and things slowly get iffy. A modern console like the Xbox 360? Forget it. When it comes to unique hardware like the DS, things get even more complicated.

My autism does have a price limit. While I would like a CRT with real discs and new-old stock controllers, I'm not paying the price required.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I have a sealed copy of Metroid Other M. I bought it cheap years (I think the Wii was in it's final days) and never got around to playing it. Now I'm wondering if I should sell it. I'm certainly considering selling my sealed PSVita games though.

I think prices for this shit will keep going up. I remember 15 years ago people thinking Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Saturn going for $150 was the peak and now it’s going for $500. Neo Geo cartridges are going up to almost $1,000. It seems to be limited either to Nintendo consoles or other niche consoles like the Saturn or Neo Geo. A bunch of PS2 games, conversely, are like $10-20. It’s why I try to buy physical copies of Nintendo games. Retrofags have more money than sense which is good for me.

 

[Calandrino]

I have a sealed copy of Metroid Other M. I bought it cheap years (I think the Wii was in it's final days) and never got around to playing it. Now I'm wondering if I should sell it.

Destroy it so that it can't harm anyone else.

Every fighting game has this. It's not a flaw. It's a way to gatekeep morons out of the scene

Haha ok, how's that working out?

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Are you one of those retards who cries when a ryu player locks you to one side of the screen with fireballs? If you think move spam is cheating, it's because you're too stupid to figure out how to beat it. Simple as. Every fighting game has this. It's not a flaw. It's a way to gatekeep morons out of the scene and force noobs to git gud.

DO YOU WANNA PLAY THE FUCKING GAME?!

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Are you one of those retards who cries when a ryu player locks you to one side of the screen with fireballs? If you think move spam is cheating, it's because you're too stupid to figure out how to beat it. Simple as. Every fighting game has this. It's not a flaw. It's a way to gatekeep morons out of the scene and force noobs to git gud.

You might have grown up with OG street fighter, but the rest of us grew up with street fighter clone #352, who had easily spammable moves on one character that was literally unstoppable.

 

[DavidS877]

My autism does have a price limit. While I would like a CRT with real discs and new-old stock controllers, I'm not paying the price required.

Depending on your Autism/Price ratio you can try out FPGA 'emulation'. Closer to bare metal, some 'real' hardware support and a significantly more autistic fandom than emulation.

Things like MiSTer for DIY or Analogue Pocket for pre-baked.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Haha ok, how's that working out?

It's still better than games that stopped gatekeeping. Looking at you, Blizzard games, The Sims, and Magic: The Gathering.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Haha ok, how's that working out

Worked pretty well for about 30 something years until fighting games started catering to retards who would never have stuck with it anyway. Wasn't until we started having games with "modern" controls like SF6 currenrly and it's ilk that we had an influx of babies who could let figure out how to get around zoning or stuff a grappler.

cool story, bro. I don't play fighting games.

Joking aside, I prefer games that make me think, rather than make me do. I know many are the same and many are opposite. Racing, sports, fighting, platformers and action games are all 'do' games to me. RTS, Puzzle, RPG are all 'think' games. Roughly/roughly.

You're just retarded if you think fighting games are just "do". Shits basically virtual chess. You're playing a few moves ahead of your opponent and trying to accurately guess/read what they're gonna do before they do it, and reacting accordingly. Even if that means doing so in a single frame. Fighting games are essentially a blend of RTS and Puzzle.

There's a reason why people who only spam never make it further than playing against the cpu.

 

[Matt Damon]

Joking aside, I prefer games that make me think, rather than make me do. I know many are the same and many are opposite. Racing, sports, fighting, platformers and action games are all 'do' games to me. RTS, Puzzle, RPG are all 'think' games. Roughly/roughly.

Hey, we got ourselves an bona fide gamer intellectual in the thread, boys.

I didn't place well enough on the gamer SATs so I had to settle for gamer trade school, but honestly I think I prefer it here in blue-collar gamer trenches, rather than sitting in the ivory tower of gamer academia.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Hey, we got ourselves an bona fide gamer intellectual in the thread, boys.

I didn't place well enough on the gamer SATs so I had to settle for gamer trade school, but honestly I think I prefer it here in blue-collar gamer trenches, rather than sitting in the ivory tower of gamer academia.

At least you didn't drop out and turn into a junkie gamer addicted to mobile games, shooting up microtransactions in the gutter.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

You're just retarded if you think fighting games are just "do". Shits basically virtual chess. You're playing a few moves ahead of your opponent and trying to accurately guess/read what they're gonna do before they do it, and reacting accordingly. Even if that means doing so in a single frame. Fighting games are essentially a blend of RTS and Puzzle.

There's a reason why people who only spam never make it further than playing against the cpu.

Did you have to practice to be this autistic about games or does it come naturally? I never said fighting games don't have a strategy, it's more that they are games where you 'do', as in, have to put in lots of inputs, vs a point and click game. Hell, there's more 'do' actions in a fighting game - button inputs, than most any other game except those autistic ones on the PC.

You use chess as an example, which I would class as a thinking game, as you spend more time thinking than doing.

Hey, we got ourselves an bona fide gamer intellectual in the thread, boys.

I didn't place well enough on the gamer SATs so I had to settle for gamer trade school, but honestly I think I prefer it here in blue-collar gamer trenches, rather than sitting in the ivory tower of gamer academia.

This is dumb. You can do better.

 

[Matt Damon]

This is dumb. You can do better.

That's what my parents told me when I got rejected by both University of Gamer AND Gamer State University.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

That's what my parents told me when I got rejected by both University of Gamer AND Gamer State University.

Sounds like for you it's...

...game over.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Sounds like for you it's...

...game over.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

If you asked me how my day was going, would you accept a unabridged history of my kitchen table as a satisfactory answer?

Just tell us about the fucking kitchen table already!

I've heard the claim that Miazaki said that in his youth, he was obsessed with western fantasy novels, but the language barrier meant there were gaps in the lore he had to puzzle together himself. That his goal with the first souls game (whichever that was) was to recreate that feeling.

I read an interview where he talked about Excalibur(the Boorman movie) being an influence on Dark Souls 1 and that is pretty clear, from graphics to the story to some set pieces. It's also a movie that would be absolutely fascinating for anyone with limited english and an interest in fantasy, I know that from personal experience.

 

[Calandrino]

they are games where you 'do', as in, have to put in lots of inputs, vs a point and click game.

FPSes are simply disguised point and clicks

 

[Matt Damon]

Worked pretty well for about 30 something years until fighting games started catering to retards who would never have stuck with it anyway. Wasn't until we started having games with "modern" controls like SF6 currenrly and it's ilk that we had an influx of babies who could let figure out how to get around zoning or stuff a grappler.

People like you are why the fighting game genre is dead on its feet and why, despite a core of diehard fans, even modern fighting game projects from large publishers frequently are alloted so little funding and developer talent they can't manage to implement anything beyond perfunctory arcade/versus/training modes and rudimentary '90s-caliber online functionality which will only going to turn off MORE potential players.

Catering to le epic h4rdc0r3 is all well and good until you realize there aren't enough of those people to sustain continued investment into the genre.

 

[Rick The Stick]

People like you are why the fighting game genre is dead on its feet and why, despite a core of diehard fans, even modern fighting game projects from large publishers frequently are alloted so little funding and developer talent they can't manage to implement anything beyond perfunctory arcade/versus/training modes and rudimentary '90s-caliber online functionality which will only going to turn off MORE potential players.

Catering to le epic h4rdc0r3 is all well and good until you realize there aren't enough of those people to sustain continued investment into the genre.

Nah you're just a dumbass who thinks "dumbing down the controls to appeal to people who will never stick with it anyway" is the same as "bare bones 90s shit".

By all means, fix the fucking net code for all that is holy. Add in a bunch of offline shit for people to othe than arcade and vs cpu. Hell the offline content that absolutely wasn't for hardcore players is the sole reason a game like MK managed to outlast Street Fighter for so long and what made it so much fun. The games were still hard to master but all the offline content made it fun to learn and get better without bashing your head against the bedroom warriors who no life it.

You can make fighting games appealing to the masses without dumbing the controls down to single button inputs and auto combos.

But go ahead and argue a nonexistent point I never presented.