Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[The Ugly One]

Then you have the new people getting into the gaming market that are just like those people, so they'll pick console.

New entrants don't choose console; their parents choose console for them.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Why are you upset about two lines of dialogue when you admitted you had a better alternative?

Only two lines of child grooming, that's not so bad I guess, huh?

 

[Rololowlo]

Most gamers are proficient enough that they are completely blind to it, and massively overestimate what a newcomer will be able to do. Virtually all game suggestions for getting mom/dad/wife/grandma into videogames are complete bullshit and will be either uninteresting or overwhelming, typically both.

In the same ballpark, "give your piece of shit computer to grandma". Hell no. Give me a potato laptop and I'm savvy enough to make the most of it. Your grandma is precisely the one who needs a decent computer even for mundane shit.

 

[umseriously]

Silent Hills was going to be a disappointment. Also PT was overrated.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

New entrants don't choose console; their parents choose console for them.

The irony of it is that in the long run it is far, far, far cheaper to game on PC.

But boomertards don't get that, and wouldn't care even if they did, so they'll get Little Johnny a plastic piece of shit box that can't do anything BUT game, that then requires $60 a pop per new game (instead of three bucks on a Steam sale), and then a shitty computer when they get of an age to actually warrant such a thing.

Boomers also don't understand that gaming is the most resource intensive thing anybody will ever do on a computer. To them video games are frivolous and so they need a shitbox to run them, whereas work demands the high quality computer, although in real life whatever spreadsheets, statistical software, or other programs you're running for work call for a glorified calculator.

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't like having to watch Twitch streams to "unlock" content. I'd need a Twitch account and link that to a couple games to watch SPECIFIC streamers to get a skin. No, thank you.

 

[SIMIΔN]

I don't like having to watch Twitch streams to "unlock" content. I'd need a Twitch account and link that to a couple games to watch SPECIFIC streamers to get a skin. No, thank you.

Even otherwise excellent CDPR broke their no shitty DLC policy by locking a unique sniper rifle behind paying money to twitch streamers. Pay, not just watch.

https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/48730/cd-projekt-red-x-twitch-support-a-streamer

 

[Super Hans v2]

Even otherwise excellent CDPR broke their no shitty DLC policy by locking a unique sniper rifle behind paying money to twitch streamers. Pay, not just watch.
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https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/48730/cd-projekt-red-x-twitch-support-a-streamer

I'd agree it'd be shitty of them if that was the only way to get that group of weapons, but they're already part of the loot tables for the airdrops in PL. Being a paypiggy only got you instant access.

 

[The Ugly One]

The irony of it is that in the long run it is far, far, far cheaper to game on PC.

Not for a teenager, it's not. They want to play the games their friends are playing right now, not whatever shovelware or old games are on sale for three bucks. At $400, a PS5 is far cheaper than buying your 10-year-old his own gaming PC (and he's not touching mine).

Boomers are in their 70s and don't have children in the home. Parents of children are mostly Millennials.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Not for a teenager, it's not. They want to play the games their friends are playing right now, not whatever shovelware or old games are on sale for three bucks. At $400, a PS5 is far cheaper than buying your 10-year-old his own gaming PC (and he's not touching mine).

Steam Deck is cheaper than PS5 and has most of the same games.

If not PC then since PS4 is cross-play with PS5 and has 99% of the same games, that'd be even cheaper than either of those other options.

PS5 really shouldn't be selling as well as it is because on paper it shouldn't appeal to anybody but Sony diehards, but I guess everyone is just programmed to get the newest thing.

 

[The Ugly One]

Steam Deck is cheaper than PS5 and has most of the same games.

Looks like it's $500-$800 depending on the model. PS5 is $400. (It's also not a handheld that a kid is going to break in his backpack.)

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Looks like it's $500-$800 depending on the model. PS5 is $400. (It's also not a handheld that a kid is going to break in his backpack.)

Could've sworn PS5 was $500, but it seems to be the same price as the cheapest Steam Deck is, $400. Between those two I guess it just depends on preference and other considerations like you what you point out there.

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

Not for a teenager, it's not. They want to play the games their friends are playing right now, not whatever shovelware or old games are on sale for three bucks. At $400, a PS5 is far cheaper than buying your 10-year-old his own gaming PC (and he's not touching mine).

A PS5 is $500 + $80 a year for PS Plus. A PC in the long term is cheaper even if the initial investment is higher because you don't have to pay for online on PC plus there are Steam sales.

 

[Scarthew]

Steam Deck is cheaper than PS5 and has most of the same games.

If not PC then since PS4 is cross-play with PS5 and has 99% of the same games, that'd be even cheaper than either of those other options.

PS5 really shouldn't be selling as well as it is because on paper it shouldn't appeal to anybody but Sony diehards, but I guess everyone is just programmed to get the newest thing.

Do they still make any split screen games? Like what are the normies playing when friends are over on a playstation? Everything is online and the AAA coop craze is gone they don't make coop games because they can barely make games anymore let alone what adding netcode would do to the process.

 

[SIMIΔN]

Do they still make any split screen games?

Baldur's Gate had split screen local multiplayer, but the fact it was worth mentioning shows how uncommon the feature is these days.

Gaming nowadays is something done by people isolated in their room, not a group activity for people physically together.

 

[Scarthew]

Baldur's Gate had split screen local multiplayer, but the fact it was worth mentioning shows how uncommon the feature is these days.

Gaming nowadays is something done by people isolated in their room, not a group activity for people physically together.

Yea thats one of 3 games that came out last year, AC6, hi fi rush and BG3. Nothing else came out the entire year that wasnt a remaster. (there mightve been a yakuza or persona game and I guess RE4make if you count it)

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Silent Hills was going to be a disappointment. Also PT was overrated.

Agreed. I feel like people forget just how fucking obtuse PT was in figuring out how to progress through it because Kojima wanted everyone to "work together" on it.

 

[Scarthew]

Agreed. I feel like people forget just how fucking obtuse PT was in figuring out how to progress through it because Kojima wanted everyone to "work together" on it.

Silent Hills was going to be a bad Silent Hill game no matter what. It seemed to be copying SH2... AGAIN but this time with a character who was just truly evil and the twist that you're the bad guy was up front so there's not much sympathy to be felt toward the protag or anything to learn about him.

As for PT it was designed as a community puzzle and it worked fine as one the point was that no individual should be able to figure out what to do in private it was something a stream was meant to reveal to an audience and obtuse puzzles are necessary to attain the intended result. Whatever Silent Hills was going to be it wasn't going to have puzzles like those it was probably just going to be a standard horror game filtered through Kojima's weird stylings. If anything came close to PT's cryptic nature itd likely be an easter egg or a secret ending.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Do they still make any split screen games? Like what are the normies playing when friends are over on a playstation? Everything is online and the AAA coop craze is gone they don't make coop games because they can barely make games anymore let alone what adding netcode would do to the process.

Outside of fighting games, probably not. I genuinely can't think of anything modern outside of fighters I'd even want to play with a buddy anyway, Nintendo aside.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

The irony of it is that in the long run it is far, far, far cheaper to game on PC.

But boomertards don't get that, and wouldn't care even if they did, so they'll get Little Johnny a plastic piece of shit box that can't do anything BUT game, that then requires $60 a pop per new game (instead of three bucks on a Steam sale), and then a shitty computer when they get of an age to actually warrant such a thing.

Boomers also don't understand that gaming is the most resource intensive thing anybody will ever do on a computer. To them video games are frivolous and so they need a shitbox to run them, whereas work demands the high quality computer, although in real life whatever spreadsheets, statistical software, or other programs you're running for work call for a glorified calculator.

The problem with PC is that it is too difficult to set up in addition to the expense. I know many on here will speak about how setting up PC games are easier than ever, but you have to take in that general tech literacy is going downwards these days due to the one-click shop that is Apple and modern social media. Anything that isn’t click button will be too difficult for most normies to process.

As for the expense, giving a child a PC runs the risk of them breaking it and wasting more money than a console. Between them beating the hell out of it physically, or downloading without protection, there are too many risks that would make a console a better alternative.

Steam Deck is cheaper than PS5 and has most of the same games.

If not PC then since PS4 is cross-play with PS5 and has 99% of the same games, that'd be even cheaper than either of those other options.

PS5 really shouldn't be selling as well as it is because on paper it shouldn't appeal to anybody but Sony diehards, but I guess everyone is just programmed to get the newest thing.

Once again, Steam Deck can be too obtuse to operate. I recently tried to pair a controller to mine, which, is one hell of an exercise in frustration trying to get the Bluetooth to read. Stuff like displaying the image on the TV can also be fairly tricky depending on your Dock. If 3rd party, you have to switch to desktop mode and go through settings, which can be a bit of a process.

Steam Deck is also not widely available like a PS5. You have to order it from Steam, so it doesn’t have the same “walk into a Target and grab a console” ability that PS5 does. To get it, you would need to know about it and to check the site, whereas most parents will just get what is available when they go shopping.