Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Asian tech support]

Arguing otherwise is fucking retarded and shows that Bethesda needs to dumb down their storytelling even more for the retarded masses.

That's 2011 Bethesda. They've dumbed down their writing since, which makes me sad as I will never get to read @LORD IMPERATOR's novel length schizoposts about TES6.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Unpopular opinion: location-based hit detection, especially headshots, has ruined first-person shooters, because it's expected to be in every game. Realism in games should be a spectrum, but in basically every game that isn't an outright milsim, the players expect pinpoint accuracy + instakill headshots, so aiming at the center of mass is objectively the wrong way to play in every single FPS now.

This really hurt Resident Evil imo. In the old ganes I think the only way you could get head shots was if there was a rare instance of being positioned higher up, or aiming up with they're right in your face (or down to blow their legs off). I think there were random times it would register as a headshot too. But in general it wasn't a main concern to target specific body parts, and I liked that a lot more.

RE4 made it reliably easy on Wii with great motion controls, but the rest are a problem. I RE2 remake you're essentially wasting ammo on these already spongy enemies with your extremely limited resources.

Skyrim writing is hilarious in that it causes a lot of people to reveal how stupid and basic they are. Paarthurnax is another example. He used to be a murderous piece of shit, like all dragons, but because he ran and hid he never faced consquences. The Blades are seen as bad because they're like "Hey wait a minute" and want him to answer for it. Did Paarthurnax redeem himself? I suppose you could say that, but since the Greybeards don't really do much, all he really did was spend several thousand years of sitting on top of a mountain.

I think that's why the Thalmor are so cartoonishly evil, they don't trust the players to understand the concept of a looming threat. And they're right.

He did redeem himself, and he taught the Greybreards during that time. I'm pretty sure if it wasn't for him everyone would've been fucked.

 

[Ser Prize]

Elden Ring is Fromsoft at their worst, especially story telling wise. Even the most devoted From schizos have been unable to parse a meaningful story from that game.

 

[The Ugly One]

Skyrim writing reveals how incapable normies are of parsing anything that doesn't have some hamfisted goodguy/badguy setup and a tiresome allegory to modern-day politics. The entire thing is shades of gray. Part of what makes it fun is there aren't a lot of obvious moral choices to make, at least not at the grand level. It's why it's a much more intriguing game to engage than, say, DA:I where oh wow, I can tell the mincing faggot he's brave for taking cocks up the ass? Wow, what a twist, didn't see that coming.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Mede Empire is corrupt

Stormcloaks only seem to care about glory and are inept

Neither side is the good side, neither side can defeat the Thalmor. Arguing otherwise is fucking retarded and shows that Bethesda needs to dumb down their storytelling even more for the retarded masses.

That is the point, neither side is correct. But the Empire at least has the logistics to back up their talk. A lone Skyrim has no footing to stand against the Dominion.

The Empire at least has a snowball's chance in hell to win. The Stormcloaks don't even have that.

@Friendly Primarina

It's a stretch to go from that to "glorified militia." There's nothing to suggest that the legions garrisoned in Skyrim are poorly-trained or poorly-equipped. They are probably wearing leather armor because they are skilled in light armor or have roles that require moving quickly.

Except that is not the case. They fight no faster than any regular mook; they're just jobbers in leather, which makes them even poorer than the Stormcloaks who at least can afford to have chainmail for most of their troops. Again, this is because, as Tullius tells you, the majority of the real Legion is down south preparing for the Great War Part 2: Thalmor Boogaloo. They see the war in Skyrim as a distant joke, and so they invested little in keeping Skyrim in the Empire, which pisses off Tullius to no end.

This of course, makes Ulfric's loss to Tullius during Skyrim's opening even more laughable. He lost to an enemy whose soldiers are in an even sorrier state than his were. If he can't even defeat a force inferior to his, what chance does Ulfric have against the Thalmor who have plate armor and magic?

This I take exception with. Alduin shows up because he's looking for the Dragonborn. He even targets you specifically if you hang around in the open long enough. Play the game.

Which again, means that if neither the DB nor Alduin were there, Ulfric would be dead. He only lives because literal gods got involved; the demigod and the god of the apocalypse were there and that allowed him to escape.

We don't know the circumstances of Ulfric's capture. We don't know the circumstances of his original capture either, for that matter. We don't know anything about Ulfric's service except what we see. That was my original point. You mean a high-value target got captured twice? Holy shit! Nobles and high-ranking officers used to get captured and ransomed all the time, I guess we should write all of them off as shitty leaders. Your whole opinion on Ulfric seems to be based on the fact he got captured + your own personal dislike of him. FWIW Ulfric does seem to learn from his mistakes and doesn't lead in battle until the final push.

This sounds like desperate cope for the fact that Ulfric just isn't a good general. Yes, nobles got ransomed all the time, but that was because many of them were better fighters than leaders and they did stupid things that got themselves captured in the first place. To lead a war, you need men who have studied the art of war and have mastered strategies and tactics, not chest-thumping neanderthals who kill little boys and act like they're tough because of it.

Ulfric hasn't done anything to convince me that he has a bone of tactical genius in his head. He's not the right person to lead a war. He's more like the kind of guy who's like a rabies-infested gerbil; one that you throw into your enemy's backyard to distract them while you do something else, like robbing him blind. Which makes Ulfric being a Thalmor asset all the more fitting. He's not that smart, so even if he wins, his Skyrim won't be much of a threat to the Dominion, but he has enough bite to occupy the Imperials for long. That was, until Tullius caught him.

 

[instant]

Elden Ring is Fromsoft at their worst, especially story telling wise. Even the most devoted From schizos have been unable to parse a meaningful story from that game.

I actually thought Elden Ring was one of their easiest to figure out blind without looking things up on the Internet. It was almost entirely thanks to Gideon, dude was literally a living wiki, both lorewise and functionally. I wish all the other From games had a Gideon.

 

[The Last Stand]

I actually appreciate that there are non-updated ports of games like Team Fortress 2 and CoD Wii titles. It preserves the developer's original vision.

 

[Frank(en) Castle]

It's been said multiple times in this thread, and based on recent discussion I've seen it may no longer be an unpopular opinion...
Max Payne 3 is far and away the best game in the series.

Halo 4's campaign, while weak in the villain department, served as the perfect epilogue to Master Chief and Cortana's story and they should've stopped there.
Horizon Zero Dawn was the shittiest Far Cry game I've ever played. Speaking of Far Cry, 5 is the best game and 2 kinda sucks ass.
The "Boomer Shooter" craze has long outstayed its welcome, I haven't played anything better than DUSK which started the whole thing (Cultic comes close, I'm really looking forward to the DLC this year).
Last of Us 1 is over-rated as fuck and I still haven't finished it.
Tomb Raider 2013 is great and I don't give a fuck that it's Uncharted but Woman.
Crysis 2 is the best game in that franchise and is in my top 10 games of all time.
Resident Evil 5 is as good as Resident Evil 4 and I hope it gets remade as well as 4 did. Related point RE4make > RE4 Original, though I do miss "No thanks, Bro!" and "Your right hand comes off?" Related, related point, RE:Village > RE7.
Arkane as a studio is insanely overrated.
The Binding of Issac is the best game ever made.
So yeah, I'm drunk as shit and these are my (maybe) hot takes.

 

[The Last Stand]

It's been said multiple times in this thread, and based on recent discussion I've seen it may no longer be an unpopular opinion...
Max Payne 3 is far and away the best game in the series.

Wait until the remakes come out. Will they retcon Max Payne 3?

 

[Frank(en) Castle]

Wait until the remakes come out. Will they retcon Max Payne 3?

Ahhhhhhhh man come on don't make me worry

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Halo 4's campaign, while weak in the villain department, served as the perfect epilogue to Master Chief and Cortana's story and they should've stopped there.

I'd say they could've made Halo 5 work if it was the journey of Chief trying to revive Cortana; you can either have him succeed in an emotionally-satisfying ending where Cortana awakens and shows her love for Chief, or have it be sad and show how none of Chief's efforts work, and he's just chasing ghosts. Either way, it could've been handled better than ''LOL SHE WAS REVIVED OFFSCREEN AND IS A VILLAIN NOW''. That's the kind of slop that even SyFy writers wouldn't descend to.

Last of Us 1 is over-rated as fuck and I still haven't finished it.

Given where Last of Us 2 ended up, I'd say you're better off. People who got really into Last of Us 1 fucking hated the second game.

Tomb Raider 2013 is great and I don't give a fuck that it's Uncharted but Woman.

It was still made when games were meant to be fun. Not to mention Lara looked decently pretty.

 

[Ser Prize]

I actually thought Elden Ring was one of their easiest to figure out blind without looking things up on the Internet. It was almost entirely thanks to Gideon, dude was literally a living wiki, both lorewise and functionally. I wish all the other From games had a Gideon.

Okay, then enlighten me.

 

[instant]

Okay, then enlighten me.

Are you asking me to explain the entire plot of Elden Ring or are you asking me what Gideon does?

 

[Ser Prize]

Are you asking me to explain the entire plot of Elden Ring or are you asking me what Gideon does?

Explain the plot of Elden Ring.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The Binding of Issac is the best game ever made.

This is crazy

 

[instant]

Explain the plot of Elden Ring.

In a world where everyone is guided by magical pixie dust farted out by a lady who looks like a man, you're a guy who's part of a race who had their eyes blinded to the magical pixie dust and was told to explore the frontier to one day get your pixie dust back. To help complete your mission, goddess manlady gave you effective immortality.

As it so happens, while exploring the outlands, your home country went into a civil war because a bunch of people stole the magic sword that can kill otherwise immortal gods. This bunch killed a bunch of gods before finally killing the goddess manlady's favorite son, and breaking the Elden Ring, which actually is only a ring in the same way that Orion's Belt is a belt. Fragments of the Elden Ring broke apart and went all over the place.

In the civil war, a bunch of goddess manlady's other children (and great great grandchildren) gathered most if not all of the broken pieces of the Elden Ring, as they are each the strongest person of their respective faction.

Now, goddess manlady has decided to coerce your race again, promising to return your magic pixie dust in return for fixing the Elden Ring.

With the sole exception of the nature of the Elden Ring, Gideon explains all of this, including what each demigod does and their legacy.

But other than Gideon, what really makes Elden Ring a lot easier to piece together blind is the fact that everyone is related. Every subfaction in Elden Ring eventually leads to one of the demi-gods or the queen of dusk, who are all fighting over the same thing. There isnt a moment comparable to learning about Izalith and wondering what the fuck her whole chaos flame bullshit (and its long winded derivative conflicts) is in relation to the first flame.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Games with morally grey heroes are becoming a rarity. Remember when a bloodthirsty mass-murderer like this guy was allowed to be the protagonist of a game?

And yes, in his game, you can lasso escaped slaves and drag them back to their masters, or slaughter innocent civilians if they get in the way. Or not, it all depends on you. You can be a polite mercenary who only kills when necessary, or you can go full Death Watch and blowtorch a whole city just to see the people run like chickens when set on fire. But nowadays, you can't even have that choice.

Jedi Fallen Order and its sequel teases you falling to the Dark Side, but they don't fully carry it out and have a Dark Side ending. No, Jedi Master Ginger Grease and his goth albino witch of a girlfriend both stay on the good side despite the fact that the former got royally pissed due to a betrayal from within his team, and the latter came from a Dark Side culture that uses the fucking undead as meatshields. You can't even entertain choices or make a decision anymore, even though previous Jedi game series, from Jedi Knight, to KOTOR, to the EP3 game and Force Unleashed did.

Even fucking Kratos got neutered into someone who regrets being a rage-monster so that he can be a good little daddy. You can tell the testosterone in video game characters has been expunged so that they can be good little role models that can't possibly be morally gray.

If that's the case, then let Nintendo have this generation. If they're just going to stick to heroes that are morally-good all the time, then let's go full-in and support a company that sees no evil and hears no evil outside of the bad guys that inevitably get stomped.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

RE4 made it reliably easy on Wii with great motion controls, but the rest are a problem. I RE2 remake you're essentially wasting ammo on these already spongy enemies with your extremely limited resources.

It wasnt actually that bad an idea though. Zombies being hard to outright kill meant that you had that other layer of strategy of whether it was better to spend the extra ammo to eliminate the zombie, disable the zombie or simply stun the zombie. It was a really good way of aping dead space which in turn aped resident evil 4, since you also had to worry about backtracking in that game and dodging Mr.X.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

It wasnt actually that bad an idea though. Zombies being hard to outright kill meant that you had that other layer of strategy of whether it was better to spend the extra ammo to eliminate the zombie, disable the zombie or simply stun the zombie. It was a really good way of aping dead space which in turn aped resident evil 4, since you also had to worry about backtracking in that game and dodging Mr.X.

It works mechanically, I just don't like it personally. I mean you always had to do that in RE2 to a degree, minus the dumb Mr. X, there just wasn't as much focus on action, it was simplified and the camera made it easier to juke enemies while keeping an eye on your environment. 3rd person behind the shoulder shit isn't as bad as 1st person at limiting your view, but nothing beats the fixed angles.

This is mostly a me problem since I'm not good at action games and these changes lean way more heavily into that. Like I said before, at least RE4 Wii made the action easier, I can't aim for shit in RE2.

 

[Gondolindrim]

I actually thought Elden Ring was one of their easiest to figure out blind without looking things up on the Internet. It was almost entirely thanks to Gideon, dude was literally a living wiki, both lorewise and functionally. I wish all the other From games had a Gideon.

Elden Ring is the only Fromsoft game whose story and lore was done by a professional author and, thus, was complete. I feel like From actually cut a lot of shit out because GRRM did too good a job setting up the world instead of putting a bunch of vague shit in item descriptions.