Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Anybody that unironically uses "skill issue" and "git gud" is a virgin tryhard loser.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Anybody that unironically uses "skill issue" and "git gud" is a virgin tryhard loser.

My replay of Skyrim has shown me that the fetishization of difficulty in recent years is overrated. There's nothing wrong with just playing something leisurely. Plus since everyone plays Souls now, it's a constant dick measuring contest to try and be a hardcore gaymer. Too much stress I say.

 

[Scarthew]

Anybody that unironically uses "skill issue" and "git gud" is a virgin tryhard loser.

git gud
salute the flag

 

[ce gars]

Anybody that unironically uses "skill issue" and "git gud" is a virgin tryhard loser.

I've seen too many assholes use it to excuse bad design. Leave it to the Internet to run something straight into the ground.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I've seen too many assholes use it to excuse bad design.

"Skill issue" is literally just sperg-code for "you shall not sully the good name of the corporate product I've invested my ego into!"

 

[Señora Airi]

My replay of Skyrim has shown me that the fetishization of difficulty in recent years is overrated. There's nothing wrong with just playing something leisurely. Plus since everyone plays Souls now, it's a constant dick measuring contest to try and be a hardcore gaymer. Too much stress I say.

Anybody that unironically uses "skill issue" and "git gud" is a virgin tryhard loser.

I don't think the people who fetishize difficulty and use slang realize that most people just want to either shoot aliens/bad guys/etc after a frustrating day at work.

 

[anustart76]

I don't think the people who fetishize difficulty and use slang realize that most people just want to either shoot aliens/bad guys/etc after a frustrating day at work.

This is exactly why I don't like Soulslikes/excessively difficult games. I don't have the time to grind, I just want to sit back and enjoy something.

 

[Rololowlo]

My replay of Skyrim has shown me that the fetishization of difficulty in recent years is overrated. There's nothing wrong with just playing something leisurely.

This is exactly why I don't like Soulslikes/excessively difficult games. I don't have the time to grind, I just want to sit back and enjoy something.

I played the whole Dark Souls trilogy with trainers at the ready and it was easily one of the best gaming experiences of my entire life. Even if you're not the target audience for a hard challenge the series is a neverending fountain of qualities.

Besides even with trainers available some people have an extreme mental block when it comes to using them. I can't help but think of the legions of people who would love the Souls games (or others) but can't because of that.

I use trainers even if I'm having no particular trouble with the game beyond ending fatigue. In Valhalla when I arrived in a new region I cleared the side content in 15 minutes in order to play the story with no distractions.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I think Spore is a nice game.
And i even consider Will Wright's magnus opus.
SimEarth is nice thought.

Spore was too ambitious and EA gave up too early. They should have tardwrangled Will Wright a bit better and focused on the creature creator/survival or space

Does Hollow Knight or Cuphead run as well on meager hardware as similar 2D platformers that use other engines? I'd be willing to bet not.

You can't just look at games that aren't graphically demanding on overkill hardware and conclude that Unity performance is comparable to other engines. I'm sure Unity Pong would run beautifully on a 16-core Ryzen CPU and RTX 4090, but that doesn't say anything about how well optimized it is.

Hollowknight and Cuphead is quite graphically demanding lol. CH uses a library of large textures and spritesheets and HK uses postprocessing and large textures for the bg.

But it's an issue with all pre built engines. Especially UE. The games get packaged with a ton of libraries and engine related code that goes unused. Most engine games are done by skiddies or pajeetcode that is shoddily tied together; the low barrier of entry means most coders can code after completing a udemy course.

That and devs are not taught how to optimize anymore. Back in the day, you had a limited space to ship your game. You had to cut down on assets, content or do things entirely different. Assets had to be compressed, etc etc. Now? Just upload a 180gb of raw assets, each texture is a 180MB psd file, meshes are 1800000 polys cause the game scales them down, a cube has 30000 polys and 4000x4000px textures because why not... And the user just has to wait 3 days to download the whole fucking thing. Don't get me started on arbitrarily code and shit like DRMs that tank down the performance...

 

[Raging Capybara]

I get sick of optimization talk because while criticism can have merit, usually it's utterly baffling what people expect from hardware. "My 10 year old budget laptop can't run Cyberpunk at 4k ultra. Poorly optimized trash! Devs should go back to coding games in assembly!"

@Pissmaster gets mad at games demanding SSDs to this day, a 10-year-old technology.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

boycotting Helldivers 2 for their Chinese kernel-level anticheat, i.e. rootkit [is one of the easiest decisions of all time]

people can rate me dumb and autistic all they like, I can't stop being right about Helldivers 2 being dogshit on PC
behold!

Edit/update:

Sucks to be a Helldivers 2 player on PC eh? Should've listened to me when I called the game out for shitty practices while everyone else was busy salivating over their preordering

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

I think the best platform for gaming is and always will be mobage. Let's face it, everything else is obsolete. Consoles are run by dirty money grabbing jews, spy agencies and Japanese people. Meanwhile, PC is a giant cesspit of fucking nerds who talk about how great and superior their rigs are while essentially replacing them every 5 years like the Sonyfags they deride and getting transed so they can more effectively groom kids on Discord. Mobile games though? They're upfront and honest about what cheap shit they are, they still at least advertise boobies and action instead of hormones and gayness, any phone you get isn't going to be more than 400$ to play your roulette wheel and you can pirate all the actually good games if you have the braincells to pick an Android. It's just better.
TL;DR

 

[Day of the Cope]

people can rate me dumb and autistic all they like, I can't stop being right about Helldivers 2 being dogshit on PC
behold!
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Edit/update:
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Sucks to be a Helldivers 2 player on PC eh? Should've listened to me when I called the game out for shitty practices while everyone else was busy salivating over their preordering

I caught so much shit for saying I wouldn't buy the game because it had kernel level anticheat.

I think the best platform for gaming is and always will be mobage. Let's face it, everything else is obsolete. Consoles are run by dirty money grabbing jews, spy agencies and Japanese people. Meanwhile, PC is a giant cesspit of fucking nerds who talk about how great and superior their rigs are while essentially replacing them every 5 years like the Sonyfags they deride and getting transed so they can more effectively groom kids on Discord. Mobile games though? They're upfront and honest about what cheap shit they are, they still at least advertise boobies and action instead of hormones and gayness, any phone you get isn't going to be more than 400$ to play your roulette wheel and you can pirate all the actually good games if you have the braincells to pick an Android. It's just better.
TL;DR

Every single gacha game I've seen is nothing but fucking chore simulators with the worst fucking menus I've ever seen in my life.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

I caught so much shit for saying I wouldn't buy the game because it had kernel level anticheat.

Avoided a rootkit and got vindicated by history
Stay principled

 

[Day of the Cope]

Avoided a rootkit and got vindicated by history
Stay principled

Hell, I don't buy any games within the first 6 months and even then I wait for a decent discount.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

Every single gacha game I've seen is nothing but fucking chore simulators with the worst fucking menus I've ever seen in my life.

Just like every other AAA game released in the past few years? At least gachas are free to play and run on anything

 

[Day of the Cope]

Just like every other AAA game released in the past few years? At least gachas are free to play and run on anything

The latest AAA game I played this year was Hogwart's Legacy. Before that was Death Stranding Director's Cute. And before that is, I guess, Psychonauts 2 which is barely AAA.

 

[Freya]

multiplayer and open world games suck and are for normies

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

open world games suck

There's enough variation within that category that I don't know how anybody can claim it all sucks - Breath of the Wild, Grand Theft Auto 4, Far Cry 3, and Elden Ring are wildly different experiences with wildly different gameplay and design.

It's like saying "action games suck" or "puzzle games suck".

 

[Anti Lolicon Bomb]

My replay of Skyrim has shown me that the fetishization of difficulty in recent years is overrated. There's nothing wrong with just playing something leisurely. Plus since everyone plays Souls now, it's a constant dick measuring contest to try and be a hardcore gaymer. Too much stress I say.

I'v been with the souls games from the start on ps3 (the only reason to own one over xbox 360 imho lol) and most of the git gud stuff was said in jest, the games are only difficult in contrast to the hand-holding nature of the time period they released in.
I would say it was DS3 I noticed everyone around the souls scene became a try hard pro gaymer faggot, it certainly seems to be the one that clicked big with youtube pvp memesters.
I miss the epicnamebro era, the souls scene was chill back then.