Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Rololowlo]

Default keyboard controls don't matter and you are a dumbfuck if they bother you in any capacity.

I'm watching the Digital Foundry video on Red Dead Redemption PC. The guy complains about the default sprinting key bringing up the sticky keys popup.

Solution 1: Who gives a fuck? Bind it to something else.

Solution 2: Who gives a fuck? Disable sticky keys. Get this: the guy is such a passive faggot that he includes the footage of him dismissing the window instead of taking three seconds to disable sticky keys entirely.

Solution 3: Complain about it in a professional video.

Granted I use the arrow keys so I take rebinding for granted, I never start a game without touring the setting menus. Still, even if WASD is standardized enough, it never fails to amaze me that some people are so passive that they never rebind their controls if something doesn't feel right, or they find it a hurdle significant enough to warrant mention.

This guy isn't a random tiktoker, he's a supposedly turbo badass PC tech tinkerer. And he complains about default keybinds in a professional video. To me it's such a non-factor that you don't ever talk about it or even think about it ever. It's like buying a new car and complaining about the default orientation of the rearview mirror.

 

[The Ugly One]

No it isn't. The shooting was fun, the movement was fine, and the platforming was not that difficult. Even if we remove the Star Wars branding and compare it to other games, it stands on its own.

"Interminable" does not mean "difficult." It means "long and drawn out."

This is the game I remember. Bad guys who just stood there while you zapped them, long sections mostly devoid of any conflict, boring, boring, boring. It isn't one tenth as good as Halo. It doesn't even rise to the level of Timesplitters. It's a snoozefest that ranks down there with Turok: Evolution and Unreal II.

It's a mediocre game that Star Wars fans adore because in the wake of the catastrophically bad Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans will praise anything that isn't literal dog shit if it has the Star Wars brand on it.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

This guy isn't a random tiktoker, he's a supposedly turbo badass PC tech tinkerer. And he complains about default keybinds in a professional video.

It's even dumber than that because he's complaining about what has been the standard defaults for the last 20 years

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

"Interminable" does not mean "difficult." It means "long and drawn out."

This is the game I remember. Bad guys who just stood there while you zapped them, long sections mostly devoid of any conflict, boring, boring, boring. It isn't one tenth as good as Halo. It doesn't even rise to the level of Timesplitters. It's a snoozefest that ranks down there with Turok: Evolution and Unreal II.

It's a mediocre game that Star Wars fans adore because in the wake of the catastrophically bad Phantom Menace, Star Wars fans will praise anything that isn't literal dog shit if it has the Star Wars brand on it.

That's not how it was when I played it. I had to run and gun or else get disintegrated if I stayed still. And of course, once the Dark Jedi showed up, it became even harder than Halo on Legendary.

Also, the fact that the SW franchise is dying right now proves you dead wrong about the franchise. A lot of what Disney pulls out for the SW gaming sphere is mediocre at worst, but since it wasn't up to the quality of the older games, the fans hated it.

 

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Default keyboard controls don't matter and you are a dumbfuck if they bother you in any capacity.

I hate it so much when keybinding menus are retarded though.
Like when you have the same key bound to lots of shit like Interact/Use/Accept/Enter Vehicle/Insert In Butt
Or when the keybinding menu claims that a key bind would be conflicting (and bars you from binding it) even though, in practice, it isn't
Or when you can do something with a controller but can't rebind that appropriately on keyboard. Like, GTA V car controls, with a certain stick rotation you can rotate a car in mid air laterally. On PC, to achieve the same thing you need to hold the handbrake and steer. The effect is that, on a controller, you can do it without braking, but on keyboard, you are forced to brake in mid air, which does have effects on the speed and engine and transmission.

 

[Deus Exica]

I love GTA, but free roaming after you complete the story gets boring. IV remedied that somewhat with friends activities.

Free roaming in most GTAs, but especially the modern era of Rockstar titles (including RDR2) is actually pretty shitty and boring because they put almost zero actual activities to engage with in the open world and their maps are barely interactive at all outside of random chaos, which V and RDR2 fuck up by having the fun police show up and instantly buttfuck you for daring to commit a crime in your open world sandbox game about committing crime.

 

[Gondolindrim]

I love GTA, but free roaming after you complete the story gets boring. IV remedied that somewhat with friends activities.

I feel the exact same way about Bully. Once you finish the school year, you might as well just restart the game. The last segment being named "Endless Summer" doesn't help since it's outright telling you that the world is now static and unchanging.

Weirdly though, I have the most fun in Red Dead when I'm just dicking around in multiplayer. I don't even play the story.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

All these chink gooner games (stellar blade and the descendents) would be better if a male was the lead and the girls were the price. all they do is being used by coomers and trannies as spank bank material or to re inforce their retarded ideas

 

[Yak-130 Mitten]

Have a few new ones.

There is a weird trend of trying to redeem Death Stranding as some sort of "hidden gem". Supposedly amazing game hated on by bad gamers. But this game just sucks. Its not fun, its insanely repetetive, story is godawful (but thats normal for a kojima game). Some compared it to Euro or American Truck Simulator, but in my opinion (and after 600 hours of gameplay in both) I hard disagree. Both ETS and ATS are great to wind down and just chill listening to Joe Rogan going insane about monkeys once more.

I really didnt like RDR2 and think its a pretty weak game. It has a great technical foundation, but it is completely destroyed by awful pacing and story spread way too much. Its like when Bilbo complains about feeling like a piece of butter spread on too much bread. I never finished it, because it was just too long, and most of it felt rather inconsequential at times. It also didnt help that I didnt find any likeable characters in this game (them having seemingly no free will and doing everything Dutch asks them to didnt help).

Most people complaining about censorship in online games and filtering are the ones who would spam FAGGOT FAGGOT FAGGOT in CSGO chat the entire round, and then wonder why they got banned. The older I get the more annoying those people are.

Borderlands TPS was easily the worst BL game, MUCH worse than Bl3.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

There is a weird trend of trying to redeem Death Stranding as some sort of "hidden gem". Supposedly amazing game hated on by bad gamers. But this game just sucks. Its not fun, its insanely repetetive, story is godawful (but thats normal for a kojima game). Some compared it to Euro or American Truck Simulator, but in my opinion (and after 600 hours of gameplay in both) I hard disagree. Both ETS and ATS are great to wind down and just chill listening to Joe Rogan going insane about monkeys once more.

I think I got it for free from Epic. I enjoyed it as a chill vibing game up until I kept having run ins with BTs. I also eventually connected it to the online and god damn, the game because painfully easy because the whole community has already set up highways and shit everywhere so you just hop in a vehicle and give no fucks. Then there's fighting with those bandit porters, which is unfun because the combat is pretty shit. The "walking simulator delivery system while balancing cargo" is a good loop but they fucked with it too much. Stopped playing right after I got on the boat.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

All these chink gooner games (stellar blade and the descendents) would be better if a male was the lead and the girls were the price. all they do is being used by coomers and trannies as spank bank material or to re inforce their retarded ideas

I'm pretty sure Bioware used to do that with KOTOR and Mass Effect, if you play as a male character. In the latter, you get to bang a hillbilly chick and the blue alien girl whose mom has DD-cup size, and in KOTOR, you get the female Jedi in a skintight jumpsuit with the British accent.

Kicking the shit out of the latter then having her profess her eternal love to me afterwards was one of the funniest video game romance scenes.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

Kicking the shit out of the latter then having her profess her eternal love to me afterwards was one of the funniest video game romance scenes.

More games need to have hot female villains so the player can romance them.

 

[The Last Stand]

Weirdly though, I have the most fun in Red Dead when I'm just dicking around in multiplayer. I don't even play the story.

I thought I was the only one that felt that way. I should HATE RDO with how vast the open world is with other players. It's a rough start, but once you learn how to level up, manage money, figure out its mechanics, it's an enjoyable experience. The linearity of RDR2's mission design ruins the open world.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

More games need to have hot female villains so the player can romance them.

Nothing says "romantic" like a slapfight or a smack on the ass before a kiss.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

More games need to have hot female villains so the player can romance them.

Women want to be conquered and bad women want to be corrected. That one hoe in BG3 is carrying the porn for that game entirely cause that's her entire schtick: Correctable.

 

[Breadquanda.]

I didn't think Watch Dogs: Legion was too atrocious of a game. There were definite issues and a lot of the writing and story were quite cheesy, but I thought it was a big improvement on the previous game. Most people I see now reflecting on the series find Watch Dogs 2 to be the best game, for some reason, but I find it obnoxiously political and cringy in its depictions of woke student activist type hackers. Yes, Legion kind of retained some of the cringe, but the new format about recruiting anyone made it feel more natural; it was a collection of random people from the street who came together to form a resistance group and not some self-insert of retarded fake teenage revolutionaries. There were some very funny moments with certain voice actors too, especially the Helen Dashwood old lady character.

One thing I will say Watch Dogs 2 had going for it, though, was an incredible user interface. I loved its rip-off Apple style and how sleek it all was.

I could be just speaking from some bias, really, since I got really into Legion during the lockdowns and to distract myself from some things. I also liked Assassins' Creed: Syndicate a lot, and the depictions of London sort of made me appreciate a place that I don't really care for in real life.

I'm not really touching on the originalWatch Dogs, since I was a big fan of that one and it doesn't even seem to resemble the ones that came after it.

 

[Scarthew]

its all ubisoft slop.

 

[Gondolindrim]

its all ubisoft slop.

My favorite brand (of slop)

 

[TORtlEMUStRaNSUS]

Far Cry 5 and New Dawn are the best Far Cry games.

 

[Breadquanda.]

Far Cry 5 and New Dawn are the best Far Cry games.

I would say 5 is best and 4 is second best, but I don't remember much about New Dawn; I should play it again.