Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

From what I understand, in Nier Reincarnation there are humans being stored on the moon in the ocean. The last remaining android 10H guards them until the events of Reincarnation begin where the ending implies a true human is brought back to life. Not sure if Reincarnation takes place during, before, or after the Automata true ending so 10H could meet the reconstructed 2B and 9S.

I didn't play Reincarnation, and I still don't want to comment on Replicant's ending on how humanity died.

 

[Asian tech support]

One of my buddies that's a PvPtard has apparently been dumpstering melee tards in Elden Ring by doing this. He stacks every single defensive buff possible, including Ironjar Aromatic, but still wears cloth armor to bait melee tards to run in and trade with him while he just channels Rock Blaster.

Perfumes are criminally underused.

Spoiler: specifics and a trip down memory lane

As a reminder for anyone curious, up until DS2 patch 1.07, players were able to stack self buffs. This resulted in players stacking sacred oath (+75 physical defense, +50 AR with some caveats), great magic barrier (+250 all elemental defense), resonant flesh (+20% max hp), numbness (+15% flat damage reduction but reduces FOV), and the good old green blossom. There are others but those were the main ones. After patch 1.07, any new effect would override an old one. It would remain that way until ER where the game delineates between self and aura buffs (think stacking golden vow and flame grant me strength). Self and weapon buffs would receive further nerfs, heavily reducing the duration but allowing the duration to scale based on a stat. This was presumably done to combat rampant spiced down buff usage but ultimately had no effect.

 

[Eagle Bro]

Nier automata is an overrated psuedo-bullethell that forces you to play through it 3 times with minimal changes to the plot just to pad out the playtime instead of adding more depth or length to the actual campaign.

From the random gundam intro that is never revisited to the implication of the android vs robot war never actually happening. With what appears to be humanity having long since wiped itself out instead and it being revealed that there were no actual living meatbags, human or alien, at all. They had already died off an untold amount of centuries ago.

You literally go over all the same story beats 3 times just with the actual name of the boss now with zero characterization behind them instead of "🕈︎❒︎︎⧫︎︎ ⧫︎︎⌧︎⧫︎ ︎︎❒︎︎︎ 🕆︎" with zero characterization behind them. The developer clearly gave up at the end of the first act.

If it wasn't for the retards obsessed with 2B's baboon ass, it would have been just as forgettable as the original nier.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

If it wasn't for the retards obsessed with 2B's baboon ass, it would have been just as forgettable as the original nier.

2B is as generic as it gets, the soundtrack is the only reason why the game gets 9/10 ratings instead of the 5/10 it deserves

 

[Eagle Bro]

2B is as generic as it gets, the soundtrack is the only reason why the game gets 9/10 ratings instead of the 5/10 it deserves

I really liked the city ruins OST. Just wish it didn't have like 5 in game variations for every track. Makes it difficult to find the version you like in search engines and the in game music player. No other game had this problem.

"Dynamic + vocals" was the version that really popped out.

 

[Calandrino]

You can't spell  Ni gger without  Nier

 

[Thé au lait]

You can't spell  Ni gger without  Nier

Let's be fair, the first one was about him lynching darkies into extinction

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

The developer clearly gave up at the end of the first act.

Worse. Ladies in lingerie, cryptic dialogue, 5 deep7u story, it's on the wall buddy c'mon.

it's obviously kojima tear fart sniffing. The kind you get from a Japanese 'artiste' who has the letters H O P E tattooed somewhere. You can tell the fart huffing is there because of all the meaning™. You have to replay it twice, no, thrice because it's too deep and you might not get it. It's deep and convoluted aka someone didn't tardwrangle this tard correctly

Thread tax: gamers are at fault for shitty consumer practices. Cod? Battlepasses? Micro transactions? Wallets talk.

 

[Thé au lait]

it's obviously kojima tear fart sniffing. The kind you get from a Japanese 'artiste' who has the letters H O P E tattooed somewhere. You can tell the fart huffing is there because of all the meaning™. You have to replay it twice, no, thrice because it's too deep and you might not get it. It's deep and convoluted aka someone didn't tardwrangle this tard correctly

I guess that's one way of telling everyone you either didn't play part 2, or you skipped every scene and piece of dialogue. Part 3 isn't the same events as 1 and 2, and half the point of the massive shortened part 2 is that you can actually understand what the enemies are saying this time

 

[Edgy But Dull]

Thread tax: gamers are at fault for shitty consumer practices. Cod? Battlepasses? Micro transactions? Wallets talk.

I agree but I feel a good portion of this is due to young kids and casual gamers coming off work. The amount of bullying kids do nowadays over their fortnite skins is fucking insane and really indicative of how fucked the future of gaming is in terms of microtransactions. As someone that played a lot of classic wow, there is an absurd amount of casual gamers that get off work, raid for a few hours, and never farm. You know what they do? They just casually buy gold like crazy. The whole concept of working for materials or doing any work is lost on them because "I've already done plenty of work at my job, I don't feel like it, I'll just buy it with my money."

These same retards will complain about how all the consumables keep getting more expensive and not realize they're contributing to the insanely out of control gold inflation. We had a guy in our guild that wasn't casual (played top 25 world speedrun guild on his man) and he complained about the consumable prices on our server by saying, "you guys need more bots and gold sellers on your server."

 

[Scarthew]

I agree but I feel a good portion of this is due to young kids and casual gamers coming off work. The amount of bullying kids do nowadays over their fortnite skins is fucking insane and really indicative of how fucked the future of gaming is in terms of microtransactions. As someone that played a lot of classic wow, there is an absurd amount of casual gamers that get off work, raid for a few hours, and never farm. You know what they do? They just casually buy gold like crazy. The whole concept of working for materials or doing any work is lost on them because "I've already done plenty of work at my job, I don't feel like it, I'll just buy it with my money."

These same retards will complain about how all the consumables keep getting more expensive and not realize they're contributing to the insanely out of control gold inflation. We had a guy in our guild that wasn't casual (played top 25 world speedrun guild on his man) and he complained about the consumable prices on our server by saying, "you guys need more bots and gold sellers on your server."

I have to imagine its not just whales funding this shit either, I see tons of people regularly using 30-40 dollar skins in games like siege. Its full lobbies all the time of expensive skins on multiple characters. The future's so fucked.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

• The intro is rushed. You should spend a few hours in your town/concord before the bombs fall because I just don't give a fuck that the town is gone.

No Fallout game should ever depict the actual moment of bombs falling and people entering the vaults because it's completely idiotic and nothing Vault-Tec did makes any sense if you think about it for even a moment. That's why the other games left it explained by a vague prologue and was otherwise just accepted as the premise necessary for the game to happen.

An important part of good writing is knowing what's goofy about your imagined world and not drawing attention to it.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Thread tax: gamers are at fault for shitty consumer practices. Cod? Battlepasses? Micro transactions? Wallets talk.

I have to imagine its not just whales funding this shit either, I see tons of people regularly using 30-40 dollar skins in games like siege. Its full lobbies all the time of expensive skins on multiple characters. The future's so fucked.

The problem is that just not buying it doesn't work.

To simplify the maths for sake of example. You have a whale that spends £6000 on skins. This scares off 10 plebs from the £60 AAA game. They are still £5400 in the black. You'd have to have 100 plebs not buy the game just to make up for 1 whale.

From there, it's simple economics. I forget the exact number, but isn't it something like 80% of the wealth is held by 1% of the population? As long as there's enough players to act as fodder for the whales to show off their skins or whatever, then no amount of keeping your wallet closed is going to help.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

No Fallout game should ever depict the actual moment of bombs falling and people entering the vaults because it's completely idiotic and nothing Vault-Tec did makes any sense if you think about it for even a moment. That's why the other games left it explained by a vague prologue and was otherwise just accepted as the premise necessary for the game to happen.

An important part of good writing is knowing what's goofy about your imagined world and not drawing attention to it.

I agree, but if they're going to be retarded enough to attempt the feelz route of it happening then starting the game with "normal family, tv report of war, army men out of nowhere, run to the vault down the street" is super retarded.

Hell, they could have even had you and your family selected by Vault-tec and you wonder around the vaults a bit before the bombs fall. Unless they retconned the canon, i believe the vaults were a social experiment, right? Each vault had something 'wrong' with it to see what would happen?

 

[Scarthew]

The problem is that just not buying it doesn't work.

To simplify the maths for sake of example. You have a whale that spends £6000 on skins. This scares off 10 plebs from the £60 AAA game. They are still £5400 in the black. You'd have to have 100 plebs not buy the game just to make up for 1 whale.

From there, it's simple economics. I forget the exact number, but isn't it something like 80% of the wealth is held by 1% of the population? As long as there's enough players to act as fodder for the whales to show off their skins or whatever, then no amount of keeping your wallet closed is going to help.

Yea that was true a decade ago for gacha shit but its so normalized now I see skins worth 60 dollars on far more than 2% of the playerbase. Paying money for virtual goods that do nothing is commonplace and accepted now. Kids get fortnite skins as Christmas and Birthday presents now.

 

[ZipDisk]

Vault-tec was always evil. The nuke in megaton has a fucking Vault-tec logo on it. the 101 experiment was that the vault was never meant to open, so they lobbed a nuke down the street from it.
Problem is, the megaton nuke didn't go off. Burke may as well have been a Vault-tec employee.

Vault-tec had a gay star trek dream of leaving earth behind. The vaults were meant to 'arden up humanity for the "great journey"

Problem is, there was no fucking destination.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

The problem is that just not buying it doesn't work.

To simplify the maths for sake of example. You have a whale that spends £6000 on skins. This scares off 10 plebs from the £60 AAA game. They are still £5400 in the black. You'd have to have 100 plebs not buy the game just to make up for 1 whale.

From there, it's simple economics. I forget the exact number, but isn't it something like 80% of the wealth is held by 1% of the population? As long as there's enough players to act as fodder for the whales to show off their skins or whatever, then no amount of keeping your wallet closed is going to help.

The whole "just don't buy it" doesn't work because the greater gaming audience has grown so vast that the normies that don't really care about video games completely undo any effort by the normal gamer and that's not even considering whales. Everyone plays games now and that has brought in a lot of people that largely don't care or know about games or the industry and they're perfectly content being cattle waiting to be milked.

 

[anustart76]

Nier automata is an overrated psuedo-bullethell that forces you to play through it 3 times with minimal changes to the plot just to pad out the playtime instead of adding more depth or length to the actual campaign.

From the random gundam intro that is never revisited to the implication of the android vs robot war never actually happening. With what appears to be humanity having long since wiped itself out instead and it being revealed that there were no actual living meatbags, human or alien, at all. They had already died off an untold amount of centuries ago.

You literally go over all the same story beats 3 times just with the actual name of the boss now with zero characterization behind them instead of "🕈︎❒︎︎⧫︎︎ ⧫︎︎⌧︎⧫︎ ︎︎❒︎︎︎ 🕆︎" with zero characterization behind them. The developer clearly gave up at the end of the first act.

If it wasn't for the retards obsessed with 2B's baboon ass, it would have been just as forgettable as the original nier.

Sounds like Shadow the Hedgehog in some ways, but with waifus instead of cartoonish edginess.

Not sure if Reincarnation takes place during, before, or after the Automata true ending

Reincarnation is set between Nier Replicant and Nier Automata

The whole "just don't buy it" doesn't work because the greater gaming audience has grown so vast that the normies that don't really care about video games completely undo any effort by the normal gamer and that's not even considering whales. Everyone plays games now and that has brought in a lot of people that largely don't care or know about games or the industry and they're perfectly content being cattle waiting to be milked.

The other part of this problem is that it doesn't exactly send a clear message. For example if players don't buy the PC release of a game because of excessive microtransactions, the developer/publisher may just take it as "oh I guess games don't sell on PC, we'll just stop releasing games there"

 

[Edgy But Dull]

The other part of this problem is that it doesn't exactly send a clear message. For example if players don't buy the PC release of a game because of excessive microtransactions, the developer/publisher may just take it as "oh I guess games don't sell on PC, we'll just stop releasing games there"

They must have been really confused by Summer Games Fest back in June.

Imagine receiving all sorts of awards for your game and then seeing a fucking supermarket simulator made by 2 dudes obliterate your sequel. Hell, Manor Lords was just 1 fucking slav.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Reincarnation is set between Nier Replicant and Nier Automata

That is weird since 2B is a playable character in Reincarnation.