Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[c-no]

In terms of video game characters, I feel Vaas from Far Cry 3 wasn't all that great. Compared to the Jackal from Far Cry 2, I just felt like wanting to shoot Vaas in the face once his plot armor was gone. True, he got corrupted and all from Hoyt and such but I just felt like wanting to be rid of him.

 

[Watcher]

In terms of video game characters, I feel Vaas from Far Cry 3 wasn't all that great. Compared to the Jackal from Far Cry 2, I just felt like wanting to shoot Vaas in the face once his plot armor was gone. True, he got corrupted and all from Hoyt and such but I just felt like wanting to be rid of him.

Vaas was not a particularly interesting character during development until his voice actor was casted

The developers didn't really write Vaas as a particularly interesting character and only made his dialogue more funny and his mannerisms more creepy once his voice actor was casted and gave a really really good performance.

This was something they rectified in Far Cry 4 by making Pagan Min an interesting character more in terms of how he's written

 

[TiggerNits]

Crafting in video games is dumb and gay. If you want to make shit, do it IRL, video games are for violence, you fucking autists

 

[Ruin]

What killed the Fable series was that they were just less and less intent on making actual RPGs. Fable 3 was pretty shit, Fable: The Journey was shit, and then when fans cried out for them to make another RPG, they almost finished a MOBA before they were just shut down.

Same thing that's going to kill the Fallout series unless Bethesda does a 180 and pulls their heads out of their asses.

 

[Burned Man]

Same thing that's going to kill the Fallout series unless Bethesda does a 180 and pulls their heads out of their asses.

That's a different problem altogether. It won't be the same problem until they try pushing Brotherhood of Steel as the next main installment of Fallout and then make a multiplayer shooter when people ask for an RPG.

 

[dunbrine47]

(For discussion sake)
The NES is not a "savior" of a "massive" crash the way people in the U.S have made it out to be.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

(For discussion sake)
The NES is not a "savior" of a "massive" crash the way people in the U.S have made it out to be.

I would call the NES a device that changed the way people perceived Video Games as a home medium that caused a shift in both the quantity and type of person who would buy them. It boosted a somewhat unhealthy industry.

 

[Ruin]

~Even though my rig can handle them I prefer not to use reshade or ENB because I'd rather have +15 fps than better graphics
~ I don't mid paying for DLC if the quality is good i,e Blood and Wine or Old World Blues.
~For all its faults the Saints Row series had an amazing character creator.

 

[Coster]

~For all its faults the Saints Row series had an amazing character creator.

I felt SR3 and 4 had significantly weaker character creators than 2. If they had built directly off of what 2 was doing it would've been better.

 

[alex_theman]

(For discussion sake)
The NES is not a "savior" of a "massive" crash the way people in the U.S have made it out to be.

Yeah. That "massive" crash didn't even really touch europe or japan.

 

[Weenus Salesman]

I don't really mind the illusion of choice in modern adventure games if the story is good enough.

Gen 1 of Pokemon had a lot of technical and objective problems and has aged really poorly.

Tales of Symphonia, while a compitent game and story, isn't as good as people claim it to be. Abyss all the way.

I really never saw the appeal of Geno from Super Mario RPG and never understood why he was such in high demand for Smash.

Overwatch's lore is kind of a mess and really only makes a select few characters interesting and relevant to the overall story.

 

[Dio Brando]

I think the worst for Street Fighter V is over. I believe nothing they can do at this point will be worse than the game's launch. While there are many (MANY) issues still unresolved, I find that the fighting itself remains unaffected and still feels very refined. It's not Street Fighter III, but then again, It will take a lot for Capcom to dethrone Third Strike. I heavily disagree with Daigo Umehara's statement that Street Fighter is dying, tournaments will only continue to grow bigger and Capcom plans to support this game until 2020, so I think the underwhelming sales don't have as big of an impact as people make them out to be.

And call me , but I think the Season 2 characters being all new faces is an alright idea. Akuma is the best he's been in years and is already dominating online, I think he can provide any nostalgia old fans demand until Season 3. Of course, if Season 2 is all new characters, I expect Season 3 to be all old faces. I think it's only fair.

 

[Captain_Asshole]

Destiny was fun at the beginning, but I quickly realized that it was a bit empty to put it bluntly. Still, I really dig the aesthetics.

 

[TiggerNits]

Destiny was fun at the beginning, but I quickly realized that it was a bit empty to put it bluntly. Still, I really dig the aesthetics.

Destiny looks amazing for sure, the art direction has been wonderful from day 1 and it doesn't get enough love for it, but the fact it's a console only online shooter has kept me away from it because I'm far too ingrained in to mkb controls for shooters to want to subject myself to that. If it ever ports to PC I'll probably grab it on day 1

 

[Captain_Asshole]

Destiny looks amazing for sure, the art direction has been wonderful from day 1 and it doesn't get enough love for it, but the fact it's a console only online shooter has kept me away from it because I'm far too ingrained in to mkb controls for shooters to want to subject myself to that. If it ever ports to PC I'll probably grab it on day 1

Its multiplayer is good enough if that's what you're going for.

 

[Puukalikka]

Gen 1 of Pokemon had a lot of technical and objective problems and has aged really poorly.

This so much, except I'm willing to go as far as saying that gen 4 was actually first playable generation and if you didn't play the first generations when they came out, there is zero reason to go back for them unless you just want to see how it was years ago.

 

[c-no]

(For discussion sake)
The NES is not a "savior" of a "massive" crash the way people in the U.S have made it out to be.

I would call the NES a device that changed the way people perceived Video Games as a home medium that caused a shift in both the quantity and type of person who would buy them. It boosted a somewhat unhealthy industry.

Yeah. That "massive" crash didn't even really touch europe or japan.

While the US experienced some crash in video games, Japan and Europe still had video games. As Lazarus said, what it did do was cause a shift. To say the NES was a savior, all it did was reinvigorate gaming in the US, that or at least brought in something else that wasn't Atari.

 

[Robotic Richard Simmons]

I'll bite... my big unpopular opinion is that The Witcher 3 is a boring snooze fest that couldn't capture me in the first 5-8 hours of the game. I thought the combat was shit, the graphics were questionable in some areas while gorgeous in others with characters I didn't give two shits about. I think they're bland and stale and the NPCs have better development at times than the main characters. There were too many sub systems to make the game feel more deep and involved than your typical fantasy adventure game. The story was high fantasy garbage that just felt like something that could have been told in a much better paced game. The game will forever be in my Steam account as a reminder that I basically paid $20 to ride a horse and look at sunsets and sunrises and admire the great voice acting in the game. It's nothing more than a glorified benchmark for my new PC to say I can get 60+ FPS on max settings.

 

[Ruin]

I finally got around to playing The Last of Us and holy shit what a fuck awful control scheme. Your game relies on shooting segments and stealth segments so you design a control scheme thats ill suited for both, bravo Naughty Dog bravo.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Graphics < Stability

I honestly don't care about high-res graphics. I don't need to see every drop of sweat on a Nord's face as I beat him to death. Graphics have just improved so much that I'm just not impressed anymore.