Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Higgs Bonbon]

Hollow Knight is overrated and a strong example of style over substance. People who chant for silksong need a flagpole wedgie.
do not google flagpole wedgie : (

 

[Gondola Enjoyer]

The sad part about Shadow of Mordor/War is that the main centerpiece mechanic of the game, The Nemesis System, largely doesn't exist if you're good enough to not die and don't need to run away.

"Just crank up the difficulty bro"
>get hit by one of the seven trillion crossbow guys from offscreen once
>die

My biggest problem going from Mordor to War was their newfound fetish for putting 50 crossbowniggers in every single area and scripted fight. Yeah, the first game was too easy because the normal grunt enemies are too easy, so instead of making more enemy types you can't just cheese to death, they quadrupled the number of ranged enemies, and reduced the number of melee enemies, leading to the arkham combat system breaking down, because you need to get out of melee and click on heads for a couple seconds every fight. Plus, you only get to carry a very limited amount of arrows or hammers, so you need to build into having more ways to regenerate ammo instead of shit you actually want.

Also very cool difficulty options that just juice the enemy damage to the point where you mostly die in one hit.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

"Just crank up the difficulty bro"
>get hit by one of the seven trillion crossbow guys from offscreen once
>die

My biggest problem going from Mordor to War was their newfound fetish for putting 50 crossbowniggers in every single area and scripted fight. Yeah, the first game was too easy because the normal grunt enemies are too easy, so instead of making more enemy types you can't just cheese to death, they quadrupled the number of ranged enemies, and reduced the number of melee enemies, leading to the arkham combat system breaking down, because you need to get out of melee and click on heads for a couple seconds every fight. Plus, you only get to carry a very limited amount of arrows or hammers, so you need to build into having more ways to regenerate ammo instead of shit you actually want.

Also very cool difficulty options that just juice the enemy damage to the point where you mostly die in one hit.

Yeah, it's like how Dynasty Warriors handles difficulty; up resistances and stats instead of new AI routines. It's probably caused by all the awkwardly implemented RPG mechanics put into it, which Arkham games don't do.

 

[Franz Joseph]

Red Dead Redemption II has awful schizophrenic writing. One second Arthur murders 50 Pinkertons all of whom presumably had families and were just doing their jobs and five minutes later he's moralizing and berating someone for killing just one person.

He's a mass murderer but also a good guy who detests slavery, respects women, and helps suffragets.

The following meme sums up the game's writing really well.

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RDR2 is a perfect example of doing a period piece but shoehornig in current year politics/worldview.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

I have no idea if this even counts but I don't like how much of the industry copied Dark Souls once it became the best series for gamers ever. I'm not mad at the souls series, at the most I'm annoyed by the more obnoxious fans but that's any game. I'm irritated that it's harder to find action-adventure games without the harder difficulty that asks me to spend a lot of time getting good at the game and lessened difficulty variety for us filthy fucking casuals for a while. I'm tired of companies going "but don't you like Dark Souls?" when I ask for a more single player oriented game. Many independent developers were inspired by the Souls genre so they have a reason they did it rather than "Make it like this so we can make money," not that there isn't indie developers like that of course. I think the trend is going down and the Soulslike glut is lessening, so at least that's nice. I just want a balance so I can play games while zoning out tired after a long day instead of focusing on improving something. The brick wall chipping can be a lot of fun, I respect people who do it, but damn do I have a limit on dedication I can give.

Soulslike clones are one thing but holy shit when most action adventure games, especially AAA goyslop, copy the control scheme and combat of Souls games I just gotta ask why? In particular the combat was never the strong suit of Dark Souls games, from the clunky but deliberate combat from the earlier titles to the rollslop it turned into today. So all we get in action games now is slow as fuck combat but with none of the challenge from Souls games. I'd rather AAA slop go back to the old AssCreed "combat" of spam either the attack or the deflect button to win, at least that one goes quickly.

 

[Belegar]

Modern Japanese video games are a mix of the worst of both worlds, of western progressive and eastern traditionalism. Dragons dogma 2 was hailed from the roof tops as game of the year and the best RPG from the last decade. Yet it plays more like a dumb downed remake of the first game then a sequel.

There are a lot of gameplay systems that didn't really work in the first one that's ported over to DD2 just cause traditional rpgs has them and ofcourse you have modern western wokeisms with black people every 10 feet in a traditonal european fantasy setting.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Soulslike clones are one thing but holy shit when most action adventure games, especially AAA goyslop, copy the control scheme and combat of Souls games I just gotta ask why? In particular the combat was never the strong suit of Dark Souls games, from the clunky but deliberate combat from the earlier titles to the rollslop it turned into today. So all we get in action games now is slow as fuck combat but with none of the challenge from Souls games. I'd rather AAA slop go back to the old AssCreed "combat" of spam either the attack or the deflect button to win, at least that one goes quickly.

You know what's really funny? Souls Games have slowly been morphing into DMC with the crazy, flashy combo moves. Even From is sick of the slow dungeon crawler combat.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

The 7th gen sucked and its the reason so many horrible business practices are a thing in gaming now ( also 70% of the 7th gen library being brown shooterslop ).

 

[Day of the Cope]

Since it's that time of the year: Steam Flash Sales were fucking awful and I'm glad they're gone. No, I did not enjoy calling my bank several times a day for several days because my card was locked down after multiple "suspicious purchases" and missing out on a good deal. I didn't enjoy feeling tethered to my monitor to make sure I didn't miss that one game I really wanted going on sale.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Since it's that time of the year: Steam Flash Sales were fucking awful and I'm glad they're gone. No, I did not enjoy calling my bank several times a day for several days because my card was locked down after multiple "suspicious purchases" and missing out on a good deal. I didn't enjoy feeling tethered to my monitor to make sure I didn't miss that one game I really wanted going on sale.

Agree, mostly because Steam hadn't had excellent sales like it used to for half a decade, if not longer. Just go to gg.deals or whatever. It's only the odd game here and there that is only sold through Steam, so you have to bite the bullet. Otherwise, good deals can be found elsewhere.

 

[D.Angus]

The 7th gen sucked and its the reason so many horrible business practices are a thing in gaming now ( also 70% of the 7th gen library being brown shooterslop ).

I've been redownloading old games to my 360.. Even fucking hardwired with super fast internet, the damn thing is handicaped by fucking shitty networking hardware. 2-3 hours for 8 gigs is fucking embarrassing. The only reason we still look back fondly on it is because the "8th" and "9th" generation might as well not exist for how little they've impacted positive progress. Good graphics my ass, when it's chugging like Tomas the goddamn Tank Engine.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Dragons dogma 2 was hailed from the roof tops as game of the year and the best RPG from the last decade.

Is that actually true though? I saw mostly meh 7/10 reviews and people being disappointed that it was a downgrade from the original.

Unless your talking about the ultra normie gaming sites like Eurogamer? I wouldn't know since I don't read those.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

I've been redownloading old games to my 360.. Even fucking hardwired with super fast internet, the damn thing is handicaped by fucking shitty networking hardware. 2-3 hours for 8 gigs is fucking embarrassing. The only reason we still look back fondly on it is because the "8th" and "9th" generation might as well not exist for how little they've impacted positive progress. Good graphics my ass, when it's chugging like Tomas the goddamn Tank Engine.

The 7th gen was also the last gen with a strong AA industry before the recession happened and shuttered a bunch of studios.

 

[umseriously]

PS2 boomers are annoying like hell.

 

[Seethecoper]

Roguelites like Noita, Risk of Rain 2, Death Must Die, etc are the best genre for someone with a job and family that needs hot beef injections of dopamine at 11pm when you finally have time to sit down and are about to fall asleep on your desk at 1205am. No one has time to remember the story of a game doled out over 60 hours for it to just be "good guy you thought was good actually bad" or "we fight for our friends".

Also, it should be legal to hold developers' family members hostage to force them to release content for Early Access shit.

And also anyone who enjoys Ark or have bought the game 4 separate times now should be shot

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Got Trek to Yomi and the combat... is influenced by, I wanna say Sekiro since it's a parry heavy game, but I don't have a way to heal during battle. I'm told that x,x,y will stun enemies so that I can heal by using a finisher, but setting up a finisher is inconsistent on normal. So I basically die twenty times per segment until I get the lucky run to advance to the next one. Checkpoint system is decent since the save points grant a full heal just before a combat area. If it's on sale, it's worth considering and it's not that big of a deal if you can't get a refund, but it's no Vagrant, Anno Mutationem, or Hardcore Mecha. Even Way of the Samurai games had a reliable method to heal.

A better recommend is Top Dog, a rogue-like arcade game made by the same guy who made Afterburn. Now I have access to both missiles and the guns instead of having to pick between them. More waves I clear, the more random upgrades I get. Simple game that runs on potato PCs.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Agree, mostly because Steam hadn't had excellent sales like it used to for half a decade, if not longer. Just go to gg.deals or whatever. It's only the odd game here and there that is only sold through Steam, so you have to bite the bullet. Otherwise, good deals can be found elsewhere.

Hard for me to say if Steam sales have "gotten worse" considering my library is pretty well stocked. That's not even getting into HITMAN being put at 90% off... for like 10% of the games content. That said, yeah, I just use isthereanydeal.com before picking up any game.

For anyone reading this, if you want HITMAN, get the normal version and the HITMAN 3 Access Pass: HITMAN 2 Expansion to get all the main content.

 

[Gondola Enjoyer]

Agree, mostly because Steam hadn't had excellent sales like it used to for half a decade, if not longer. Just go to gg.deals or whatever. It's only the odd game here and there that is only sold through Steam, so you have to bite the bullet. Otherwise, good deals can be found elsewhere.

Yeah, most of my steam purchases in the last few years have been games from 5-10 years ago that go for like $3-$5 on every steam sale (and FFXIV expansions, I guess). Any new-ish game, I just get a grey market CD key, because if I HAVE to buy a game to play it (denuvo, multiplayer game, online-only etc.), why wouldn't I buy it for 25-30% off before it's even out?

 

[Day of the Cope]

Yeah, most of my steam purchases in the last few years have been games from 5-10 years ago that go for like $3-$5 on every steam sale (and FFXIV expansions, I guess). Any new-ish game, I just get a grey market CD key, because if I HAVE to buy a game to play it (denuvo, multiplayer game, online-only etc.), why wouldn't I buy it for 25-30% off before it's even out?

There's literally no reason to buy a game when it comes out considering you're getting the worst possible product for the highest possible price tag.
People love to say "but multiplayer" as an exception, but if the game isn't worth jumping into 6 months after launch than it's not worth it now.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

N64 had some of the best video game songs in history, if not soundtracks. I cant stop replaying Slider, Dire Dire Docks, Astral Observatory, Lon Lon Ranch, Kokiri Forest and whatever else. The Gamecube/PS2 comes a close second, God Hands Gang of Venice and Wind Wakers Outset Island are such great songs. Mind you these are not games I played as a child, I played them all after the pandemic yet they have such a nostalgic childish 90s quality that they feel nostalgic, its amazing. Also Shinji Mikami is a much better auteur than Kojima, dare I say second best in Japan.