Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[fishercat]

I liked Fallout 4. It was a fun looter shooter kind of game and I liked Cait as a companion.

It's a lot easier to like a game when you ignore people insisting that it sucks.

 

[Super Hans v2]

I liked Fallout 4. It was a fun looter shooter kind of game and I liked Cait as a companion.

The only real knock against I have against it is that the gear tiers, that have should been at least doubled. Once you hit about level 25, you have what you're going to be using the rest of the game.

 

[Pissmaster]

Crypt of the Necrodancer is a bad game. It is boring and clumsy. But, it was very popular when it was new, to such an extent that it felt astroturfed, despite going on sale for dirt-ass cheap from time to time.

I really like rhythm games, I really like roguelikes, but the two just mix like oil and water. Having to keep the beat constantly just makes the game annoying to play, considering you're focusing on maintaining rhythm while also having to think through how you're going to traverse a roguelike dungeon, but the dungeons are fairly simple because of the insistence on keeping rhythm, and the whole thing ends up as both a bad rhythm game and a bad roguelike.

 

[Female Feet]

I don't like SWERY or his games, ironic Crap is still Crap

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Its such a shame since dead cells looks good

I think it looks generic, but the Castlevania crossover made me pay at least a bit of attention to what was otherwise just indie background noise like other supposedly "great" games (Ori, Hollow Knight, etc).

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Classic doom and nu doom fans are autistic spergs with one side reeing why nu doom doesnt have mazes while nu doom fans ree about how "old" classic doom feels and isnt a adhd simulator and this is coming from someone who enjoys both classic and nu doom

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

It's the lack of optimization that I don't like in modern AAA.

If you're a PC gamer it used to be way worse. Even when running the latest and greatest on the market there could be close to a 100fps difference between different parts of a level in some games.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

Classic doom and nu doom fans are autistic spergs

That's a fact, not an unpopular opinion.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Well, I'm in the right thread for this: Doom is ass, as are most boomer shooters.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I liked Fallout 4. It was a fun looter shooter kind of game and I liked Cait as a companion.

People get mad when I say it, but Fallout 4 is the best playing Fallout.

"But muh New Vegas writing!"

Nigga go read a book.

 

[Matt Damon]

I don't know how truly unpopular this one is, but I never see anyone talk about it despite it being a fairly common occurrence, so it seems to be at least unimportant to most people:

Any developer demanding needlessly high system requirements for ports of old games should be force-fed their own dicks. I can emulate the Dreamcast version of Shenmue on a goddamn cell phone, but I can't even run it natively on a Windows 10 laptop because it doesn't support newer DirectX features that the devs deemed necessary for a notoriously barebones port of a 25-year-old game.

People get mad when I say it, but Fallout 4 is the best playing Fallout.

"But muh New Vegas writing!"

Nigga go read a book.

I agree in the most technical sense that it's the best-playing Fallout, but there are much better playing shooters, much better playing looter-shooters, and much better playing open-world games. If you start positioning Fallout as a shooter and not as an RPG that happens to contain shooting, you put it in a whole new category of games that it can't compete with at all.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I'm okay with people saying Starfield is shit, but I find it really confusing when people complain about gay reddit shit in Starfield and then point to Baldurs Gate III and praise it.

Baldurs Gate III, like almost all things I've seen from Dungeons and Dragons for the past decade or so, looks like the gayest, most reddit shit I've ever seen with it's cutsiepie amazon demon women, quippy tumblr dialog and bear fucking.

As I said in the thread, the ones I don't understand are those that say "OMG! Worst game Evar!!!11! Uninstalling 125gb of ToddsLies.exe"
*cut to 12 hours later*
"I've put another 40 hours in and this game mega ultra sucks. Who would waste money on this crap."
*next day*
"I've 100%ed the game. Bloody awful from every stand point. -0/10!"
*that afternoon*
"I've finished my 5th playthrough and-"

Just stop playing the game already!


And as for BG3, it's amazing how people who were against wokeshit in, say, Spiderman, yell at me for passing on a game that seems full to bursting with wokeshit.

One benefit of Starfield is that, despite the cringe social justice writing, it at least doesn't do the millennial self aware thing.

t's the lack of optimization that I don't like in modern AAA. 20 to 50 gig games is huge, especially when compared to the 360/PS3 era when games were like 4 or 5 gigs. Games back then fit the definition of "good enough."

All for what really? Open world? Less loading screens?

At this point "unoptimized" to me just code for "I tried playing at 4k 144fps on Ultra, but it stuttered occasionally, unforgivable on the 3090 I overpaid for." If that rig failed to keep 60 at 1080p, then yeah, you might have a point, but 4k Ultra is for screenshots.

But even then, there's no accounting for lopsided machines. I repeatedly see people complaining that Starfield stutters, then complain they are unwilling to install a ssd. Not a m.2, but a ssd, meaning they must be running platter based drives. It's baffling to me how you could buy a $800+ GPU, then scoff at a fairly cheap part that is one of the biggest performance upgrades of the last decade.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Just stop playing the game already!

"No! The modders haven't fixed the game yet!"
I asked in another thread why the poster I replied to had 1000+ hours in Skyrim while complaining about it and... it was because of the porn mods
Starfield haven't been out for very long and I'm not following anything around but so far I've seen someone wanting a titty mod.

Any developer demanding needlessly high system requirements for ports of old games should be force-fed their own dicks. I can emulate the Dreamcast version of Shenmue on a goddamn cell phone, but I can't even run it natively on a Windows 10 laptop because it doesn't support newer DirectX features that the devs deemed necessary for a notoriously barebones port of a 25-year-old game.

It's wonderful when 360 ports are done well and the game is like "sure, run at 4k and SSAA it down to laptop resolution, it's not a big deal these days".

 

[Matt Damon]

And as for BG3, it's amazing how people who were against wokeshit in, say, Spiderman, yell at me for passing on a game that seems full to bursting with wokeshit.

One benefit of Starfield is that, despite the cringe social justice writing, it at least doesn't do the millennial self aware thing.

I don't understand why anyone was excited for BG3 at all, even if it weren't wokeshit.

As a huge fan of the Infinity Engine games, what exactly should have made me excited about it? It's made over 20 years after Throne of Bhaal by a different dev team, a different publisher, an entirely different type of gameplay, and (as far as I've seen) even the few returning cast members have been replaced with new voice actors.

Yet again, the hype that was surrounding this game seems to have been based on nothing more than consoomer brand recognition.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

Well, I'm in the right thread for this: Doom is ass, as are most boomer shooters.

I mean...werent you the guy who said you suck at action stuff so skill issue bro but otherwise i am the reverse opposite in that absolutely hate jrpgs because i a have short attention span when it comes to jrpgs ( doesnt help the grinding theyre infamous for and the fact that from what ive read from this thread it seems like 50-60% of jrpg stories are memeworthy ).

 

[Pissmaster]

Well, I'm in the right thread for this: Doom is ass, as are most boomer shooters.

I've just given up on trying to enjoy anything older than Half-Life

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

I mean...werent you the guy who said you suck at action stuff so skill issue bro but otherwise i am the reverse opposite in that absolutely hate jrpgs because i a have short attention span when it comes to jrpgs ( doesnt help the grinding theyre infamous for and the fact that from what ive read from this thread it seems like 50-60% of jrpg stories are memeworthy ).

I suck at them but still like them if they're good.

But yeah, grinding can suck in JRPGs and a lot of their stories are pretty generic.

I've just given up on trying to enjoy anything older than Half-Life

I hear that's a great one and intend to try it at some point. There's a few old shooters I like, but the maze-like stuff looking for keys just doesn't work for me, especially with the samey looking environments of stuff like Doom and Wolfenstein.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Just stop playing the game already!

This is something I've been harping about on the farms all summer it feels like. Not just with games, but film and shows as well.

The hate consoomer is a bigger faggot than the regular consoomer tbqh. And I keep seeing more and more of it on here and it's becoming sad as fuck. Even more pathetic when people present their obsession to IP as some crusade on the culture war.

Don't get me wrong, I love shitting on things. But there comes a fucking point where you realize you hate something and you move the fuck on. (that's assuming they actually hate it and aren't just trying to play at being cool)

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

I suck at them but still like them if they're good.

But yeah, grinding can suck in JRPGs and a lot of their stories are pretty generic.

If the authors don't care about the story then why should I?

I am sick of all of these retards shitting up online discourse insisting "THIS GAYME CHANGED MY LIEF!" when it comes to JRPGs, then when asked questions they only ever go full retard or go on a banning spree. I can't even be bothered to finish the 20 hour tutorial section every "game" in this genre has that does nothing but insult your intelligence in these wannabe "slice of life" garbage anime episodes with constant speedbumps.

For all the love the Japanese have for hidden flags and shit, you'd think someone along the way would have added an option to skip the tutorial segments on a first playthrough for any difficulty other than "OMEGA TRYHARD EXTREME GLORY TO THE EMPEROR 100% SPEEDRUN" mode. Yes there are some of them that do allow you to skip the tutorial, but they are a minority in the genre and most of them really suck when it comes to proper tutorials that get to the point, not re-iterate a mechanic you've been using for the past few months when you're nearing the end of a playthrough.

 

[The Foxtrot]

At this point "unoptimized" to me just code for "I tried playing at 4k 144fps on Ultra, but it stuttered occasionally, unforgivable on the 3090 I overpaid for." If that rig failed to keep 60 at 1080p, then yeah, you might have a point, but 4k Ultra is for screenshots.

Because fags used to say "60FPS is the best!", now they say "60FPS is LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE, I FUCKING NEED 144FPS" even when it's a proven fact the human eyeball can't see the difference between a 60FPS and a 144FPS framerate. Or that most games are still animated for 30FPS that is then interpolated to 60FPS.
If they can't get 144FPS at 4k ULTRA GRAFIXXX, then the game is totally unoptimized and unplayable 0/10. It's just one more way for retarded "PeeSee Gaymer Master Race!" types to have a dick measuring contest over.

But even then, there's no accounting for lopsided machines. I repeatedly see people complaining that Starfield stutters, then complain they are unwilling to install a ssd. Not a m.2, but a ssd, meaning they must be running platter based drives. It's baffling to me how you could buy a $800+ GPU, then scoff at a fairly cheap part that is one of the biggest performance upgrades of the last decade.

I've heard of this being a thing too, and it baffles me. A good, fast, meant-for-gaming 500gb SSD can be had for a mere $40 at <pick your local electronics store>, and there's only a few reasons why you wouldn't use an SSD over an HDD in the modern day, why wouldn't you cough up that (by comparison) paltry sum to get a decent bit of space?

Fuck, why not do what I did? I run my "modern" games (Fallout 4 onwards) on an SSD, and then all my "older" games (Skyrim and farther back) off my HDD, that way I'm not wasting SSD space on games that won't benefit from the improved read/write speed, and I can store my massive library of older titles on a big ass HDD for cheaper than the equivalent SSD cost. While SSDs have gotten a lot cheaper, Terabyte-sized ones still can kick your wallet's ass.