Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Green Man]

It's annoying that practically any game where the local wildlife has the ability to attack the player turns them into zombie hordes hellbent on murdering you.

Yes, people are occasionally attacked and even killed by animals in real life, but being under constant assault from animals banzai charging into sheets of automatic gunfire ends up feeling ridiculous.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the only ones I know of that got it somewhat right [outside of the Legendary Animals which genuinely do just charge your ass most of the time], in my experience bears in that game will usually try to split before trying to maul you and the mountain lions aren't as vicious as they were in RDR1. That game had a meme around getting killed out of fucking nowhere by a mountain lion for a reason and the bears in Tall Trees traveled in packs which was great for money making but made that area a bitch to traverse. When I eventually made it to that area in RDR2 I fully expected hordes of bears to fuck my shit up but it was pretty sedate by comparison. In RDR1 you'd shoot three bears and by the time you're through skinning the second one, four more spawned and if you were out of dead eye you were kinda just fucked.

 

[The Last Stand]

Adults wind down from video games because they're expensive, they don't have anybody to play with and/or they're busy.

Edit: not "wind down," I mean like back away from the hobby over time. It's not compelling anymore.

 

[Calandrino]

Adults wind down from video games because they're expensive, they don't have anybody to play with and/or they're busy.

Video games aren't even that expensive. I can't have spent more than a few thousand bucks on video games in the past year or so. If you can afford to drive a car, be an alcoholic, own pets, or (god forbid) have children, you ought to be able to support a gaming habit. Stop buying fancy two-dollar sodas and name-brand spam and pick yourself up a nice video card and/or Nintendo cartridge, whichever way your preferences lean.

 

[The Last Stand]

Video games aren't even that expensive. I can't have spent more than a few thousand bucks on video games in the past year or so. If you can afford to drive a car, be an alcoholic, own pets, or (god forbid) have children, you ought to be able to support a gaming habit. Stop buying fancy two-dollar sodas and name-brand spam and pick yourself up a nice video card and/or Nintendo cartridge, whichever way your preferences lean.

You're too poor for gaming. You cannot afford $20 for a skin?! Thanks.

 

[The Last Stand]

Bump:

I could never understood the notion of replying to hate mail online. It doesn't help that responding to that could run the risk of getting you suspended. Voice chat is one thing, but having to type a salty reply to a random person seems like a waste of time.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I don't understand the push in the last ~10 years (seems to have started roughly with the Xbone/PS4 generation) to make UI elements as small as humanly possible. Here's the difference between Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring, but it's a trend that's very widespread.




Developers have more pixels to work with than ever and yet they're making vital information less and less readable at a quick glance. Give me big chunky, obvious UI elements that I can easily see with my peripheral vision any day.

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't understand the push in the last ~10 years (seems to have started roughly with the Xbone/PS4 generation) to make UI elements as small as humanly possible. Here's the difference between Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring, but it's a trend that's very widespread.

Dead Rising did the same thing in 2006 with the Xbox 360. Smaller text is more optimized for HDTVs.

Some open worlds get overwhelming because of how many markers and UI elements appear at once. Looking at you, Assassin's Creed.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Ever since 7th gen text has often been unreadable, and I hate that.

 

[Pissmaster]

You know what's downright strange?

Upon release, The Sims garnered widespread critical acclaim and was described by Wright as being successful in attracting casual male and female gamers. The game is regarded as one of the most influential and greatest games of all time. It won several awards and placed 31st on Time's The 50 Best Video Games of All Time list. The game has also been commercially successful, being one of the best-selling PC games of all time with 11.5 million copies sold.

Countless PC games, big and small, have made an appearance on Steam, or at least some other digital storefront over the years. The Sims, though? Still abandonware, as of 2024. It even runs perfectly fine as-is on Windows 11! But nope, somehow it's abandonware, despite being the biggest PC game for a few years.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

You know what's downright strange?



Countless PC games, big and small, have made an appearance on Steam, or at least some other digital storefront over the years. The Sims, though? Still abandonware, as of 2024. It even runs perfectly fine as-is on Windows 11! But nope, somehow it's abandonware, despite being the biggest PC game for a few years.

It's not just Sims 1, it's Sims 2 as well. Sims 2 use to be given out for free on Origin but they removed it from where Origin around 2018. Only Sims 3 and 4 are purchasable through digital storefronts. They don't want people getting their Sims fix by buying an ultimate edition of the older games for $60 with all the DLC. They'd prefer people are forced onto the newer 2 games where each DLC can be anywhere between $10-$40.

 

[ChampFantana]

Neg-rate me all you want, but modern multiplayer gaming is utter shit. I was around for the glory days of the OG MW Trilogy, and have so many fond memories of gaming before it became the sole refuge of retarded sweathogs and permanent virgins. Now, gaming is overrun by losers and retards who've never touched a pussy, and play 16 hours a day and YOU get suspended or banned if you point out that simple truth.. I swear, those sweatlords are so upset by never getting any that they insist on making it everyone else's problem.

Games are supposed to be fun, but the faggots do their best to make them as anti-fun as possible. I have adult responsibilities, I shouldn't have to sweat my ass off every match to avoid getting wasted by mongoloids who think they're gonna be the next big Twitch streamer.

This is probably just me yelling at clouds, but I really do lean towards single player games nowadays and find them infinitely more enjoyable than Halo 34 or Call of Ghosts: Black Ops 27.

Bring on the top hats.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

MGS4 sucked actually

Is it really like 20 hours of cutscenes sandwiched between 2 hours of gameplay?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

This isn't strictly Falcom specific but literally the majority of their female characters are in either skirts or short shorts. 95% of the time the thigh gap and their thighs in general are shown. Pervert devs? Its crazy. Literally every main female deutragonist has their thighs exposed.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

Neg-rate me all you want, but modern multiplayer gaming is utter shit. I was around for the glory days of the OG MW Trilogy, and have so many fond memories of gaming before it became the sole refuge retarded sweathogs and permanent virgins. Now, gaming is overrun by losers and retards who've never touched a pussy, and play 16 hours a day and YOU get suspended or banned if you point out that simple truth.. I swear, those sweatlords are so upset by never getting any that they insist on making it everyone else's problem.

Games are supposed to be fun, but the faggots do their best to make them as anti-fun as possible. I have adult responsibilities, I shouldn't have to sweat my ass off every match to avoid getting wasted by mongoloids who think they're gonna be the next big Twitch streamer.

This is probably just me yelling at clouds, but I really do lean towards single player games nowadays and find them infinitely more enjoyable than Halo 34 or Call of Ghosts: Black Ops 27.

Bring on the top hats.

You're not wrong. There has been a huge jump in meta-gaming. In earlier days, you could play suboptimal and do just fine. Now everyone knows what the best strat is and abuses it. Its part of the reason why RTS games died. Online gaming has passed the point of "logging on and playing to dumpster kids" to now requiring you to do your homework to even compete. There's often youtube channels dedicated to discussing meta-strats within a day of new patch notes coming out.

Fighting Games have been very cancerous about this with requiring you to lab all sorts of tech, frame data, and combos for hours before you even touch online. The only saving grace for Fighting Games in this regard is that if their roster is deep enough, sometimes you can roll people by playing off-meta shit that they have no knowledge or practice against, so they're completely unprepared for your bullshit. However a lot of online games don't have these "super unusual picks" to allow some people fuck around and catch people off guard.

The change in skill-based matchmaking has made this worse as well. In games like Halo 3, it was designed so that you would play against teams that you should stomp, play games where you were suppose to get stomped, and play games where you're evenly matched. Nowadays the modern dev believes having every match be evenly matched is fair and fun. The problem is that you now have to tryhard every game and are no longer given a respite of an easy matchup. Even in those games where your team was suppose to get dumpstered, everyone understood it was a matchup you weren't suppose to win so no one would care that much. These "already lost" games were actually fun because your team already gave up 3 mins in and everyone was just fucking around. If you were super lucky, you'd get teammates that understood they stood no chance and you'd actually team up and somehow win games you weren't suppose to.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Adults wind down from video games because they're expensive, they don't have anybody to play with and/or they're busy.

Edit: not "wind down," I mean like back away from the hobby over time. It's not compelling anymore.

Yeah gaming stops being a viable hobby when you're expected to lay down $100 dollars once a month

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

This isn't strictly Falcom specific but literally the majority of their female characters are in either skirts or short shorts. 95% of the time the thigh gap and their thighs in general are shown. Pervert devs? Its crazy. Literally every main female deutragonist has their thighs exposed.

Memories of Celceta comes to mind, I think the girls were normally dressed in that one. The girl from Gurumin too. I wanna say Brandish: Dark Revenant wasn't pervy either, but you rarely see any humans.

Yeah gaming stops being a viable hobby when you're expected to lay down $100 dollars once a month

Stick to emulation, or buy used/discounted. It's expensive if you consistently get the newest games at full price, but otherwise free or cheap. I only got 2 games this year at full price at or near launch, Another Code Recollection and Stellar Blade.

GameFly is a great choice if you actually play enough new games to justify a subscription.

 

[The Ugly One]

The change in skill-based matchmaking has made this worse as well. In games like Halo 3, it was designed so that you would play against teams that you should stomp, play games where you were suppose to get stomped, and play games where you're evenly matched. Nowadays the modern dev believes having every match be evenly matched is fair and fun.

Skill-based team balancing, which was in Black Ops II, was a hell of a lot more fun than skill-based match making.

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

Neg-rate me all you want, but modern multiplayer gaming is utter shit. I was around for the glory days of the OG MW Trilogy, and have so many fond memories of gaming before it became the sole refuge retarded sweathogs and permanent virgins. Now, gaming is overrun by losers and retards who've never touched a pussy, and play 16 hours a day and YOU get suspended or banned if you point out that simple truth.. I swear, those sweatlords are so upset by never getting any that they insist on making it everyone else's problem.

Games are supposed to be fun, but the faggots do their best to make them as anti-fun as possible. I have adult responsibilities, I shouldn't have to sweat my ass off every match to avoid getting wasted by mongoloids who think they're gonna be the next big Twitch streamer.

This is probably just me yelling at clouds, but I really do lean towards single player games nowadays and find them infinitely more enjoyable than Halo 34 or Call of Ghosts: Black Ops 27.

Bring on the top hats.

You won’t get no argument from me. Your post doesn’t even mention the worst aspect, and that is ‘hackers’, aka cheating cunts who use mod menus or related tools.

GTA Online had enough problems with OP vehicles and merciless grinding pre-2022, but the fucking scriptkiddy nonces completely ruined every aspect of that game from the missions to the races.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Memories of Celceta comes to mind, I think the girls were normally dressed in that one. The girl from Gurumin too. I wanna say Brandish: Dark Revenant wasn't pervy either, but you rarely see any humans.


Stick to emulation, or buy used/discounted. It's expensive if you consistently get the newest games at full price, but otherwise free or cheap. I only got 2 games this year at full price at or near launch, Another Code Recollection and Stellar Blade.

GameFly is a great choice if you actually play enough new games to justify a subscription.

Gamefly is still around?

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

The single-player campaigns in the Modern Warfare games are better than they were ever given credit for, I suspect because of the "COD bad" mentality amongst h4rdc0r3 gamers.

Sure, they're thrill rides with a lot of fluff and spectacle, but they're surprisingly well-constructed thrill rides with a lot of fluff and spectacle. It's easy to see that a lot of genuine effort went into them.