Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Calandrino]

If a game has ludicrous requirements for unlockables then it's perfectly justified to use hacks or cheats to unlock them. Specifically, any game that requires me to spend excruciating amounts of time grinding to unlock shit, I would just use cheats and call it a day. Same for any game that requires you to play at god/TAS level to unlock stuff.

Get a load of the gigachad devs behind Jitsu Squad... unlocking is gay, playing a game until you're allowed to play the whole game is dumb, so here's an option to unlock everything. Which you don't have to unlock.

 

[fartsnstuf]

speaking a few pages back, i firmly believe that Smash Bros Melee is the worst of the series

 

[Brain Power]

The Nintendo 64 Castlevanias are good.

 

[Nick Gars]

Sonic Adventure 2 is only a pubic hair above Sonic '06 in quality. Adventure 1 gets the "its ok" pass simply because its nowhere near as bloated as either, but it is still a bad game. (tbf DX is bloated, no one asked for the extra dog shit ass side missions, but its not doing 31 stages a minimum of 5 fucking times each). You can't say "Adventure 2 is good, but '06 is trash" because it is an objective lie. Just because one pile of shit doesn't smell as bad as another pile of shit, it doesn't negate the fact you're still looking at and smelling two piles of shit.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Sonic Adventure 2 is only a pubic hair above Sonic '06 in quality. Adventure 1 gets the "its ok" pass simply because its nowhere near as bloated as either, but it is still a bad game. (tbf DX is bloated, no one asked for the extra dog shit ass side missions, but its not doing 31 stages a minimum of 5 fucking times each). You can't say "Adventure 2 is good, but '06 is trash" because it is an objective lie. Just because one pile of shit doesn't smell as bad as another pile of shit, it doesn't negate the fact you're still looking at and smelling two piles of shit.

I disagree. Adventure 2 was the New Vegas of the Sonic franchise. The complete apex of the series. After that, it was all downhill from there. It was more substantial and fun than the 2D games, with a deeper story and more fluid gameplay than the other 3D games, and it represented the height of the quality in terms of Sonic games.

 

[Markorian]

Sonic Adventure 2 is only a pubic hair above Sonic '06 in quality. Adventure 1 gets the "its ok" pass simply because its nowhere near as bloated as either, but it is still a bad game. (tbf DX is bloated, no one asked for the extra dog shit ass side missions, but its not doing 31 stages a minimum of 5 fucking times each). You can't say "Adventure 2 is good, but '06 is trash" because it is an objective lie. Just because one pile of shit doesn't smell as bad as another pile of shit, it doesn't negate the fact you're still looking at and smelling two piles of shit.

Adventure 2 has chao garden, 06 does not.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

Terraria is a bloated, poorly designed game that suffers from severe featurecreep and a loss of identity after the devs tried to warp and mangle it into some kind of a 'technical' boss rush game despite the lack of precision in the controls.
It's still fun once in a while though

 

[Nick Gars]

more fluid gameplay than the other 3D games, and it represented the height of the quality in terms of Sonic games.

Spoilering this since its a lot of sperging.

Spoiler: SA2 Autism

Dawg I've done 180 emblems quite recently, I genuinely don't know what you're talking about in regards to "fluid gameplay".

Getting sucked into a wall because I dared to veer slightly to the right? The homing attack not working half the time? Light dash rings being a crap shoot because your angle was off by a pixel, and god forbid you get a lightning shield before those sections? Bounce attacking into a god damn pit because the light dash activation zone around a ring is almost the same size as the rings physical hit box? Rail hopping just not working in general? Aiming with the mech being all over the place and its wishy washy controls that try to emulate a tank but just make it inconsistant as all hell in its movement? How the game constantly feels like its going from a snails pace to mach 7 because the controls always seem to jump from "sluggish and unresponsive" to "touchier than Jared Fogel", the mech characters being the most poignant examples of this? Almost every A rank requiring a very specific path because point combos are largely more important than speed IN A SONIC GAME?

Rouge and Knuckles are so close to the "fluid gameplay" you seem to refer to, but then they stick to walls like a fly on shit at the worst of times, get awkwardly stuck on geometry while climbing all the damn time and the camera fights them way harder than any other characters. Instead of having a speed objective or obstacle course with a finish line to reach, more like the other two sets of characters to make use of their unique movement options, you got them doing easter egg hunts in tedious enclosed levels that somehow feel too obtusely large and cramped at the same time. Pumpkin Hill, Meteor Herd and Mad Space being the exceptions to cramped, and Mad Space is just straight miserable even when you know the layout. Slap a healthy dose of getting tbagged by RNGesus into the mix, and you get levels where on mission 1 and 4 you just go to every major area looking for a hit and resetting the level if you don't get at least 2 by the return trip. Missions 2, 3 and 5 just fucking devolve to "run to these spots that never even change real quick, that may or may not take mere seconds depending on if the controls want to work, but don't worry too much about the A Rank because they have ludocrisly generous time limits", making their levels both a slog, and needless 1-2 minute medals/A ranks. Except Route 280. Fuck Route 280, even when you've "mastered" drift mode those karts control like a slip-n'-slide, and fuck that tunnel that always has a car at the end on mission 3. I still to this day could not tell you what the hit box is on the fucking cars, its bigger than them and they're sometimes not solid in the front and can just drive right under you, other times its solid and "kills" you.

Sonic Adventure 2's biggest issue is its trying to be too many damn things at once and it fails at all of them because it has no real focus and just ends up bloated. It wants to be a kart racer, a pet sim, a mech action game, a easter egg hunt game, and a Sonic game, and it can't make any of them work to a level I can call satisfactory. 31 levels you have to beat 5 times each minimum, 3 shitty kart races, 3 boss rushes, and the stupid fucking Chao Garden which is going to take you a inane amount of time to clear thanks to its time mechanics. God fucking help you if you get their stat levels to 99 without abusing the reuse bug or you start with 2 shitty Chao. I wouldn't hate the CG so much if there was something more substantial to it than just being a handful of races and no-input 'karate' to arbitraily tack on another 10 god damn medals at the cost of a required 4+ hours, despite the "challenges" themselves being wrapped up in 30 minutes the second you have two 99'd Chao. But noooo, you got to idle the fucking game and let them evolve because 2 of the medals are arbitrarily locked behind the stupid "hero/dark" system. It really exemplifies the overal bloat issue.

I cannot say at all I enjoyed slogging through it. I'm not 14 anymore and willing to cope with "its not that bad" out of fanboyism or being a poorfag. I genuinely felt like I was fighting the game the entire time more than I was playing it. Its not like it was a skill issue either, when the game would stop fucking fighting me for a bit, I was breezing through A ranks and usually getting it on my first actual completion of a mission. Everything in this game is just a rushed, nearly unplayable mess and it sure as hell doesn't hold up to today. I legit feel that anyone holding it above other 3D Sonic games is straight up being dishonest or under some intense delusion that this game isn't objectively a hot steaming dump on the side of the road.

In 2001 when it was slim pickings on decent 3D platformers, sure, it could get a pass, but then I think of Mario 64 and Sunshine, both games released around the same time (I'm aware Sunshine was '03 but it was still the same console generation). I fucking hate speedrunners and their dick sucking of these games, but objectively speaking these games hold up multitudes better than any Sonic game from the Adventure era to Colors. Hell even Adventure holds up better than 2 despite having most of the same issues, just by virtue of not being bloated to the fucking teeth (an argument can be made for DX and those stupid fucking missions however). I just don't know how many more ways I can say that this game is objectively garbage. You literally can't argue subjectivity with this game because the Mario games at the time from a polish and design perspective make it look like and feel like god damn Croc or Bubsy by comparison. Other 3D Sonics have their issues, but if you're gonna seriously tell me SA2 is better put together than Frontiers, Colors or even fucking Unleashed even with its shitty werehog sections, I have to seriously wonder what you're on.

tl;dr
Lol
No.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

tl;dr
Lol
No.

Lol

All parts of Adventure 2 are fun. The walker segments where you blow up shit, the speed segments where you play as Sonic or Shadow, even the emerald segments with Rogue and Knuckles have their challenge factor which makes it work. The only thing that feels out of place is the car sections, and there's only 2 of those levels in the campaign.

Also, if you did 180 emblems for the game, why did you keep coming back if it's shit? What, are you some kind of sadomasochistic gimp or something? There's tons of other games you can have fun with if Adventure 2 is shit for you, you know.

 

[Nick Gars]

Also, if you did 180 emblems for the game, why did you keep coming back if it's shit? What, are you some kind of sadomasochistic gimp or something? There's tons of other games you can have fun with if Adventure 2 is shit for you, you know.

An unfinished challenge started nearly 20 years ago and the burning desire to have the credentials to say "this game is objectively shit" after watching people wank it off for the same amount of time while ignoring the fact the game is held together with used chewing gum and dead dreams. If this is "the best 3D Sonic game", Sonic was fucking dead the second he left the 2D plane.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

An unfinished challenge started nearly 20 years ago and the burning desire to have the credentials to say "this game is objectively shit" after watching people wank it off for the same amount of time while ignoring the fact the game is held together with used chewing gum and dead dreams.

There's better use for your time. Like replaying those 2D Sonic games you apparently love so much

If this is "the best 3D Sonic game", Sonic was fucking dead the second he left the 2D plane.

I've played both, and I can say from my own experience that Adventure 2 is just as fun, if not more, than the 2D Sonic games.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Finally tried Black Flag a few months ago. Heard it was a great pirate simulator, but I wouldn't know, I can't sit through the tedious Assassin's Creed gameplay long enough to get to the good stuff. I want to sail and pillage and extort, not do parkour on Spanish tiles.

 

[Nick Gars]

There's better use for your time.

Yes, but spite is quite a powerful motivator and it could be argued video games are a waste of time to begin with. I also enjoy spitting on Sonicfags because its funny, so its worth my time in quite a few ways. It was also part of my backlog, the 2D games have long since been completed.

I've played both, and I can say from my own experience that Adventure 2 is just as fun, if not more, than the 2D Sonic games.

You evidently have a high tolerance for rotting shit.

 

[Pissmaster]

Finally tried Black Flag a few months ago. Heard it was a great pirate simulator, but I wouldn't know, I can't sit through the tedious Assassin's Creed gameplay long enough to get to the good stuff. I want to sail and pillage and extort, not do parkour on Spanish tiles.

I don't think it's all that long until you get a ship and the world opens up, and then you can do pirate stuff and ignore the rest of the game.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

Yes, but spite is quite a powerful motivator and it could be argued video games are a waste of time to begin with. I also enjoy spitting on Sonicfags because its funny, so its worth my time in quite a few ways. It was also part of my backlog, the 2D games have long since been completed.

I highly doubt it. I mean, the only thing the Sonicfags have to go on from your testimony is your word. Which they could easily describe as false and move on.

You evidently have a high tolerance for rotting shit.

You're the one who went full 180 emblems for a game that you yourself see as shit, so it's obvious that you're projecting.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

I don't think it's all that long until you get a ship and the world opens up, and then you can do pirate stuff and ignore the rest of the game.

Good to know, although if there's a lot more of this "tail an NPC in broad daylight while he slowly strolls around town" stuff between bouts of sailing, don't know if I have the gumption to see it through.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

"tail an NPC in broad daylight while he slowly strolls around town"

Don't worry, that's like a third of the game. There's even a segment where you tail a ship through a swamp. Thankfully you can just do pirate shit pretty early on and ignore the main game.

 

[Sniperwoof]

None of the Assassin's Creed games are very good, yes even the so called classic ones. They are very mid 6-7/10 games and most people remember them as being better than they were because they were like 12 when the played them and everything is awesome when you're 12.

 

[Eagle Bro]

It's crazy Bioware just let ME3 multi-player die instead of creating a stand alone version of it.

Shit was so fun.

ME3 Multiplayer didn't die though. Its still playable and just as easy to find a gold match today as it was a decade ago. They just delisted the non-legendary version of the ME games as if it was skyrim a few years ago.

Though you are right they should have stopped catering to the twitter troons forcing the femshep meme and just embraced the N7 spec ops as a standalone co-op game in vein of deep rock galactic. God Emperor Commander Admiral General Dr Professor Shepard's story is done and you can play as every race short of an actual reaper in it.

 

[Inco G. Nito]

Helldivers 2 is quite fair and if you can't finish difficulty 10 missions consistently with only 1 or 2 deaths you are bad at videogames.