Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
As a straight fighting game, Smash has always been lacking mechanically when compared to Tekken or Soul Caliber. That's why item drops are so essential to Smash; they introduce weapons that change the power and abilities of characters in chaotic ways. 4 player battles also introduce more chaos and suddenly skill level isn't as important. The chaos is what makes the game fun and it's fighting game autists that insist Smash be played like any other fighting game.
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Maybe Smash 64, because it was more simple, but as early as Melee there's enough depth without requiring items. You don't need a dozen ways to lead into 80 hit juggle combos to have depth, in fact I question if that's even true depth in the first place, but that's another conversation.

Chaos doesn't make the game fun, that's a meme. If you're just mashing buttons frantically without much skill involved then that's boring and isn't even much of a game by definition, it's like other side of the coin of walking sims. If chaos was fun then tripping would be because it's just more chaos.

Nintendo usually does a good job of balancing skill with randomness, rarely do they make something boil down to chaos, or at least don't force you onto it. Mario Kart isn't a WWIII of mutually assured destruction blue shell apocalypses, for example, you only get those as a comeback mechanic. And people rightly complained when Mario Party got dumbed down to kill off any planning or competitive spirit.

I think Nintendo knew they fucked up with tripping, going too far in the opposite direction. They figured that out with Mario Party as well from what I can tell. You can also argue that Pokemon is meant to chaotic, go ahead and have a team of 6v6 Mewtwos if you want, but even Nintendo knows that's dumb and their official tournaments have restrictions. It all comes back to balance and choice, and in the end nobody's forcing you to not use your 6 Mewtwos, so don't stop somebody from playing how they want.
 
Sniperwoof said:
It's crazy Bioware just let ME3 multi-player die instead of creating a stand alone version of it.

Shit was so fun.
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Andromeda had a shorter version of it too and it probably would have been a good multiplayer game. But no, "My face is tired" meme describes everything that went on in that game.
 
Mr. 0 said:
Wasn't the issue with Epic Game Store that it was backed by Chinese company Tencent and that led to a lot of paranoia about data harvesting or security issues or something?
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The #1 issue with the Epic Game Store was simply that it wasn't Steam. That's it. It could have been executed perfectly, and since 99% of PC gamers hang off Gabe Newell's dick and worship him as some kind of fat god, they would have hated it. You had people refusing to buy games for years on end simply because it would have meant their money didn't go into his hooker fund.
 
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The Ugly One said:
The #1 issue with the Epic Game Store was simply that it wasn't Steam. That's it. It could have been executed perfectly, and since 99% of PC gamers hang off Gabe Newell's dick and worship him as some kind of fat god, they would have hated it. You had people refusing to buy games for years on end simply because it would have meant their money didn't go into his hooker fund.
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Are you a Chicom or something? Most people either have a neutral opinion of the Epic store or simply don't even know what it is.

You're quite literally the only person I've ever seen who goes out of his way to suck Epic's cock
 
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Sniperwoof said:
Are you a Chicom or something? Most people either have a neutral opinion of the Epic store or simply don't even know what it is.
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I remember when Epic Game Store was announced, there was massive butthurt on gaming forums that Epic would be selling their games somewhere other than Steam. At that time, nobody knew what features it would be missing, only that some games would be sold there instead of Steam.
 
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The Ugly One said:
I remember when Epic Game Store was announced, there was massive butthurt on gaming forums that Epic would be selling their games somewhere other than Steam. At that time, nobody knew what features it would be missing, only that some games would be sold there instead of Steam.
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There indeed was a butthurt, however, Epic's service was pisspoor for years. They only had their kidnapped indies to lure people in and still, only soytubers bougth into it. Everyone else just waited. No regional pricing was a huge turn off for me and pretty much everyone I knew at the time.
 
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X Prime said:
That's not his point. He's saying that, before it was even known that the actual EGS software was shit, people were assblasted that a Steam competitor existed.

Which is true.
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I don't think anyone ever got mad at GOG, GameTap, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, Greenmangaming, Microsoft Store, OnLive, Stadia, Luna, or any of the other countless PC game download services for just existing as competition for Steam. They get mad at those services for having worse user experiences and generally being shadier in different ways. GOG is especially well respected for having an anti-DRM policy, letting customers download offline installers for their games.

Customers are rightfully iffy about download services, and the respect they have for their customers. If a service like Epic can't even be bothered to add a shopping cart for a significantly long amount of time, how reliable can they actually be? And this is important in a situation where any service can just switch off your account on a lark, or deactivate a paid-for game from everyone's libraries. Steam has built a lot of trust and earned a lot of goodwill for a lot of reasons, some of which even being allowing you to indefinitely redownload games that have been pulled from Steam, as long as you have them in your account.
 
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Pissmaster said:
GOG, GameTap, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, Greenmangaming, Microsoft Store, OnLive, Stadia, Luna,
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I think GOG and maybe OnLive are the only ones that have ever been a competitor.
Gametap was one of the oldies, and that was seen as a competitor to Gamefly rather than Steam which only started selling games a few years before.
OnLive was the same as Gametap, but older. I'd say that and Gamefly were legitimate competitors to Steam back in the day, with the exception that they did kinda have different audiences.
Everyone hates Origin and Ubisoft because it's two more massive clients that need to be allowed to waste space on your PC, and rather than competing with Steam like normal platforms, they instead have you purchase through Steam to then use their godawful platforms. Meanwhile they do a poor job maintaining and have pulled support, so the money you paid is gone like piss in the wind. All this being said, the hate does basically boil down to "I fucking hate having my games off of steam, just let me use one platform".
Greenman resells keys for other platforms, same as G2A and Instantgaming.
Microsoft store is just an Xbox store client for PC replacing Games For Windows Live, and we were all pissed at GFWL being shoahed because now we can't play the fucking games we paid for. RIP to everyone's copies of Halo 2.
Stadia and Luna were jokes from the word "go", nobody ever even entertained Google and Amazon's fanciful delusions that they'd be competitors with Steam. I've yet to meet a single person who uses Luna for anything other than playing their free Amazon Prime games for half an hour, and then immediately deleting the client. I've also yet to meet anybody who took Stadia seriously or paid them a dime, aside from the type of people who unironically trade NFTs and go to Pounded Monkey conventions or whatever the fuck that gay shit was called.
 
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Macho Man's Rabbi said:
Everyone hates Origin and Ubisoft because it's two more massive clients that need to be allowed to waste space on your PC, and rather than competing with Steam like normal platforms, they instead have you purchase through Steam to then use their godawful platforms. Meanwhile they do a poor job maintaining and have pulled support, so the money you paid is gone like piss in the wind.
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It doesn't help that the earlier Sims games was pulled from Origin. They don't want you to buy a GOTY complete edition of Sims 2 to get your Sims fix for $60, they want you to buy Sims 3 or 4 and then layout several hundred dollars worth of DLC in front of you.
 
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Canoodler said:
Time to ruffle some feathers. Doom Eternal is better than Doom 2016.
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No thats just true. Eternal is a rare case of a big budget AAA game actually being designed to any degree. All the tools are useful and often necessary, higher difficulties aren't an after thought and are properly balanced so that you're intended to work your way up to a mastery of the game rather than just mindlessly pumping damage and health without any considerations. There's tons of support for that mastery with challenge maps and the first DLC which is brutal to new players. It's just all around a great game and I'm not sure how the next DOOM will top it.
 
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A shame the second DLC of eternal sucked, the stone imps forcing to use the rotary shotgun mod (probably because no one was using that over the grenade launcher mod) and the final boss being another Marauder simon says but this time with more phases and dragging for more than it should.
 
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Susie Sumner said:
A shame the second DLC of eternal sucked, the stone imps forcing to use the rotary shotgun mod (probably because no one was using that over the grenade launcher mod) and the final boss being another Marauder simon says but this time with more phases and dragging for more than it should.
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Well it was also way too easy and the hammer was just ridiculously overpowered leading to infinite loops of invincibility. Also the hammer also kills the stone imps, boss is definitely disappointing. The whole thing was probably the result of covid fucking up workflow.
 
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