Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Dewierra Mist]

I miss when modders just made cool stuff for fun because they really liked a game instead of trying to grift a patreon and start a discord cult.

Now you're lucky to get any decent mods at all in a sea of tranny niggerfaggot shitpost garbage with some kind of furfags or reddit trannies always somehow magically taking over the mod to the point no further work gets done on it as they ban all the actual developers whenever they aren't forcing other blatant glownigger psyop propaganda all over the modding platform.

 

[Vapor Sauce]

They're so obtusely written, I think it's intentional so that people WOULD skip over them AND they'd be "legally protected" to do as they see fit.

This is from 2008. Do you agree with this from that context?

Yes.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

I miss when modders just made cool stuff for fun because they really liked a game instead of trying to grift a patreon and start a discord cult.

this, I fucking hate most modders these days, they overpromise even worse then Triple A publishers then sit on their ass and do nothing, Video Game Modders are the greatest example against Socialism because people arent going to labor for free, not to mention the troonifcation of the modding scene.

 

[Point Man]

I fucking hate most modders these days, they overpromise even worse then Triple A publishers then sit on their ass and do nothing,

Modders are retarded and should do their work for free and shut the fuck up about it, I don't care about their wellbeing, I just want my armor reskin or whatever the fuck. They also shouldn't have an ego and sperging out at requests instead of just saying "no I won't do that" makes them even worse. Total developer death, but at the same time, total modder death.

Thread tax or whatever: I don't know how the fuck gacha mechanics are allowed and accepted in the US when lootboxes and the like have been heavily shunned and almost made illegal, it's a retarded mechanic and anyone paying for it are just as retarded as people opening TF2 crates. I swear that half of the acceptance is "it's Asians doing it, which means it's based" and that retarded line of thinking.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Thread tax or whatever: I don't know how the fuck gacha mechanics are allowed and accepted in the US when lootboxes and the like have been heavily shunned and almost made illegal, it's a retarded mechanic and anyone paying for it are just as retarded as people opening TF2 crates. I swear that half of the acceptance is "it's Asians doing it, which means it's based" and that retarded line of thinking.

And if you thought that TF2/DOTA2/CS2 loot boxes and Gacha games were bad, then you should see the complete that is the various microtransactions in annual Sports Games, i.e. EA Sports Games's Ultimate Team mode, and NBA 2K's MyTeam AND MyCity mode (the former being a loot box card mode like Ultimate Team, and the latter being a complete pay-2-win fest). WWE 2K also has their own Ultimate Team/My Team mode in MyFaction, and they just added their own version of the City mode for WWE 2K25 (called The Island), and 2K split up the Community Creations (where people can share and download custom-made wrestlers/arenas/title belts) to be no longer cross-generation (so it's PS5 and Series S/X, while PC is only paired with last-Gen consoles), because 2K does not want PC modders to unlock Island content without paying for it. And since the games are annual releases, and those modes require an online connection, those microtransaction purchases will go away once the games's servers shut down, and in most cases, you CANNOT carry those content over to the next game. 2K is the worst when it comes to that, since their Sports game servers are shutdown after only 2 years.

The scarier part about those game modes is that there are enough whales that buy all of that crap to keep the revenue flow going so those companies can make the same pretty-much copy-paste games with minor changes and updated rosters each year.

 

[Red Poker Chip]

And if you thought that TF2/DOTA2/CS2 loot boxes and Gacha games were bad, then you should see the complete that is the various microtransactions in annual Sports Games, i.e. EA Sports Games's Ultimate Team mode, and NBA 2K's MyTeam AND MyCity mode

What's funny (or scary) to me is that these people are closer to gambling for .pngs than any other gacha player - each of the ball-chasers is just a reskin of one another, with slightly different numbers. Yet they keep getting away with it.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

Unpopular opinion: The gameplay in Skies of Arcadia is not great and holds back what is otherwise a highly enjoyable JRPG.

 

[The Hardest R]

Now, this last part isn't restricted to just sports games, but it's particularly bad in that genre. I don't understand the dumbasses that pay for the same game every year with no other changes than updated team rosters.

My handegg-playing buddies in high school and college bought Madden on day one every year. They’d play the fuck out of it and that was pretty much all they’d play. It is funny to me that the PS2-era Maddens have more features than the modern Maddens.

 

[The Last Stand]

Unpopular opinion: The gameplay in Skies of Arcadia is not great and holds back what is otherwise a highly enjoyable JRPG.

@Vyse Inglebard, your thoughts?

Gaming should have never given an inch to griefers, campers, spammers and should have never removed private servers, privately-hosted public servers and vote to kick.

Let's do another example: in game content. If somebody on say, Forza, makes a livery of a swastika and publishes it, it should be removed and the offending account should be sanctioned accordingly.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Unpopular opinion: The gameplay in Skies of Arcadia is not great and holds back what is otherwise a highly enjoyable JRPG.

This is the main reason why Skies of Arcadia is an acquired taste, as it were. I can tolerate it because it was my first JRPG, and I've been playing it for years at this point. Completely understandable if the high encounter rate/repetitive battles turn off people.

 

[The Last Stand]

Patenting gameplay mechanics is asinine. The first example I know of Crazy Taxi, but WB did it for their Nemesis system from their Middle-Earth Shadow series. It stifles innovation. I think WB Monolith is defunct now.

 

[Jace on ice]

You know what I miss in games even more than boobs and panties?

Gore, for like a two to three year period in the mid 2000s the hottest thing in gaming was having a dismemberment system where you could bisect dudes, decapitate dudes, send body parts flying into the stratosphere.

Then it all just stopped, there are basically no modern day games that have any gore whatsoever, even rated M games have no gore, even games that are in franchises famous for gore like God of War Ragnarock have no gore.

 

[Dewierra Mist]

this, I fucking hate most modders these days, they overpromise even worse then Triple A publishers then sit on their ass and do nothing, Video Game Modders are the greatest example against Socialism because people arent going to labor for free, not to mention the troonifcation of the modding scene.

It’s interesting how often people bend over backward to defend bad-faith actors under the guise of "devil’s advocate". While dismissing those who point out real problems as overreacting. If online spaces are "just the internet". why do the same critics cling to nostalgia for how things used to be?

You can’t simultaneously shrug off accountability and mourn the consequences of that apathy. Enshittification isn’t some cosmic accident. it’s what happens when scrutiny is reserved only for the people trying to fix things, not the ones breaking them.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Let's do another example: in game content. If somebody on say, Forza, makes a livery of a swastika and publishes it, it should be removed and the offending account should be sanctioned accordingly.

No, they should not be banned. Even worse, making your own stickers and liveries in single-player games getting people banned is fucking dumb.

If I want to drive around a circuit I've named, "Gas all jews" in a car plastered with swastikas and Hitlers face, while naming my driver the nigger-knocker-downer 5000, I should be allowed, especially in single-player.

If people don't like it, then don't play the game, as we are often told by the trannies and faggots.

 

[The Last Stand]

No, they should not be banned. Even worse, making your own stickers and liveries in single-player games getting people banned is fucking dumb.

It's not single player. Your liveries are uploaded onto their servers for others to download and rate by default. Now, if you want to make a case of why created content is automatically uploaded without a choice of a local copy, I'd agree with you.

Remember that story where a player was taking screenshots of their naked Baldur's Gate 3 character and MS banned him for a year because they unknowingly uploaded nudity on Xbox Live? In that case, Xbox Live was uploading their game clips and screenshots without them knowing it WOULD do so by default. You have to navigate through a series of menus to toggle that off.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

If I want to drive around a circuit I've named, "Gas all jews" in a car plastered with swastikas and Hitlers face, while naming my driver the nigger-knocker-downer 5000, I should be allowed, especially in single-player.

I name my character "Niggerfaggot" in every single-player game.

If the game says "THAT'S OFFENSIVE YOU CAN'T USE THAT", I immediately uninstall and never play it again - if they go to the trouble of policing wrongthink that no one else will ever see, I already know exactly what kind of experience I'm in for.

 

[The Last Stand]

If I want to drive around a circuit I've named, "Gas all jews" in a car plastered with swastikas and Hitlers face, while naming my driver the nigger-knocker-downer 5000, I should be allowed, especially in single-player.

Keep the bolded point in mind. Your structured argument is that something like that should be universally allowed, even on a service that everybody would be able to publicly see. I'm arguing that with code of conducts for user generated content or communication, they are a necessary evil to regulate an online space or at the minimum, to conduct common decency.

Let's use this site as an example. With your logic, I should be allowed to have a naked picture of Marilyn Monroe on my profile because it's free expression and it's on my computer. (It's not, I'm making an example.) Null would say SFW and probably sanction me or if he's nice enough, warn me.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

It's not single player. Your liveries are uploaded onto their servers for others to download and rate by default.

I didn't know this but it's fucking retarded. What happens if I play with the console disconnected from the internet?

I'm arguing that with code of conducts for user generated content or communication, they are a necessary evil to regulate an online space or at the minimum, to conduct common decency.

Why does it need regulating?

Common decency?!?!?!? LOL. LMAO, EVEN. We passed common decency when faggots and pedophiles were marching the streets in gimp masks and dog suits. We passed common decency when every game has a story line about two men fucking. Common decency is so far in the rear view mirror that we would have to U-turn and drive an hour just to see it on the horizon.

A nazi car is not a social commentary, it's stupid fun and expression. A game should be fun, first and foremost. As soon as you ban things that are distasteful, those championing the ban are not having fun, have had a sense-of-humour failure and see political issues rather than daft fun.

Let's use this site as an example. With your logic, I should be allowed to have a naked picture of Marilyn Monroe on my profile because it's free expression and it's on my computer. (It's not, I'm making an example.) Null would say SFW and probably sanction me or if he's nice enough, warn me.

Drive around in a car shaped like a massive black dick that spunks every time you change gear for all I care. I wouldn't say that should be in a kids game like mario cart, but in forza or GT7? yeah, go literally nuts.

As for the bolded, SFW and NSFW have pissed me off since the invention of the word about 15 years ago. If you read the internet on works time and you get caught, regardless of what you're looking at, you SHOULD face consequences for being a lazy, workshy motherfucker. Why shit has to be made 'safe for work' when YOU SHOULD BE WORKING, meaning shit is more censored because some fucking faggot laptop caste just needs to view risky-click jailbait porn on reddit, is fucking retarded. But we're OT here.

 

[The Last Stand]

Why does it need regulating?

Common decency?!?!?!? LOL. LMAO, EVEN.

Listen to what I'm saying.

Xbox Live/PSN/Steam are online ecosystems regulated by Microsoft/Sony/Valve on various spectrums. Video games now have their own code of conducts for curated in-game content, cheating, voice communication, etc. that are enforced at their will.

"Common decency" as in being in a public space and not going out of your way to be a nuisance lest you face consequences. Don't cheat, don't spam, don't be obscene on the service you're using. If you do, don't be surprised if you're caught, you get punished.

I understand them in principle, I understand that online gaming can be unregulated with interaction. The principle of their Code of Conducts should be a middle ground that assumes the risk of Internet interaction but prevents it from turning into complete anarchy.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I understand them in principle, I understand that online gaming can be unregulated with interaction. The principle of their Code of Conducts should be a middle ground that assumes the risk of Internet interaction but prevents it from turning into complete anarchy.

I understand what you're saying and you're not wrong in your optimistic and hopeful views, which I respect.
In reality, as soon as conduct has to be regulated, the middle-ground is gone. Either let the community self-regulate with vote-to-kick and private servers, or allow anarchy.

Anarchy on the old web, in old online games, made the experience more fun. Censored, steralised, 'safe' conduct in the modern era has made gaming stale, miserable and dull.

The kid blasting rap down the mic on main chat should be muted. The camper hiding out getting cheap kills should be kicked, so too should the griefers. I don't agree that this should be handled by MS or Sony, nor do I think it's their responsibility to police it.