Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

wasn't that more for PR after all the trash that released for atari? "this is good, it says so on the label" (till it wasn't).
There was in fact an actual testing process to verify that the game could be completed and didn't have any showstopper problems, of the very sort apparently affecting True Crime: New York City. "Quality" as in "good" is subjective, so they couldn't do much about that. Nevertheless, the NES doesn't have any bad games to the best of my knowledge, although I've only played a couple hundred of them.
 
Doom 3 and its expansion are pretty bad. I'm posting in this thread because I know this game has defenders. I replayed it recently and barely had any fun.

Guns sound and feel awful. The shotgun and SSG in particular are every underpowered and you can actually MISS from point blank range. I watched some Shadowplay clips I recorded and couldn't believe my eyes.

Levels look like generic sci-fi and there's nothing memorable about them, Although they still hold up graphics wise.

Enemies keep spawning behind your back, so doing a 180 after hearing teleportation sounds becomes second nature to you. They also don't look anything like the designs we all know and love.

Bosses are laughable. You can kill at least two of them in about 10 seconds each.

The memorable music from D1 and D2 is gone. Yeah, 90% of it was ripped off, I know. I don't care that much.
The gun sounds Trent Reznor made are better than what id went with.
 
The real solution to "Body type 1/2" nonsense is that no video game should have a gender option in the first place. There's no legitimate reason to have playable female characters in any video game. Any man who plays as female characters will eventually be brainwashed into becoming a tranny, and women shouldn't be allowed to play video games,

You watch your character back for like 10-15 hours. I rather watch a nice curvy ass and turn the camera to see big tits instead of some flat ass dude and PECS.

If you are a man and you play as only men then you are really fucking gay in my opinion.
 
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Bosses are laughable. You can kill at least two of them in about 10 seconds each.
Bosses in shooters are almost universally terrible. The same gameplay balancing that makes cutting through dozens of comparatively weak enemies fun makes single strong enemies either a joke or complete bullshit.

The best way to do FPS bosses is something like Half-Life, where bosses were about solving a unique puzzle rather than dumping ten thousand rounds into them.
 
I’m honestly glad the SJW shitwave happened in the mid 2010s. Did it ruin Vidya? It sure as shit sped up the process but Vidya was already on a downward spiral anyway. It meant that anti woke sentiment was introduced to the general population and we’re actually in a better place culturally because of it. It’s better then the proto woke faggotry of the 2000s

Anti woke is getting mighty autistic itself. Watch how hard you swing that pendulum. You know what happened last time.
 
Anti woke is getting mighty autistic itself. Watch how hard you swing that pendulum. You know what happened last time.
Mighty autistic, getting sick of the entire games industry pandering to trannies, nigger etc.. Luckily, penduloom niggers like yourself are here to yet again dilate about how complaining on the internet is just as bad as billion dollar industries being woke.

A very centrist position. Btw, by last time, I hope you mean Joe Lieberman (democart shitlib) crusading against video games and creating the ESRB. Surely you are not just regurgitating your shitlib programming back when you were bombarded with fearmongering about muh rightoids muh christcucks that you are still clinging to like a cucked version of a fundie.
 
Mighty autistic, getting sick of the entire games industry pandering to trannies, nigger etc.. Luckily, penduloom niggers like yourself are here to yet again dilate about how complaining on the internet is just as bad as billion dollar industries being woke.

A very centrist position.
The Games thread is turning into A&N lite with takes like this.
 
Mighty autistic, getting sick of the entire games industry pandering to trannies, nigger etc.. Luckily, penduloom niggers like yourself are here to yet again dilate about how complaining on the internet is just as bad as billion dollar industries being woke.

A very centrist position. Btw, by last time, I hope you mean Joe Lieberman (democart shitlib) crusading against video games and creating the ESRB. Surely you are not just regurgitating your shitlib programming back when you were bombarded with fearmongering about muh rightoids muh christcucks that you are still clinging to like a cucked version of a fundie.

I don't know how you get all that from one measly sentence. I usually stay away from politics here or just about anywhere. I'm just saying that it's something to think about. You don't have to get your undies in a twist over it.

The ESRB or something like it was bound to happen. Just like with the PMRC and the movie ratings system before it. If you think vidya would have been exempt after becoming mainstream entertainment then you are living under a rock. It doesn't stop kids from getting their hands on this stuff. But it's a way for the industry to say "Yeah. We put a warning on it. It's your fault if you buy it for your kid because we won't sell it to him directly".

The ESRB does effect game content when studios are afraid of more explicit ratings hurting sales and even barring their games from being sold in some countries without content cuts. Arguably movies suffered more in the past from similar issues and the Hays Code.

Large corporations chase the money. They will always chase the money. They do it with more things than just woke gaming. See the forest for the trees. It's always been like this.
 
Btw, by last time, I hope you mean Joe Lieberman (democart shitlib) crusading against video games and creating the ESRB.
That was actually a good thing. Video games have long escaped this stigma that they're JUST made for children. As people grow older, so would their tastes or interests. You want to make an M-rated action-adventure game, go nuts. You want to make a platformer for general audiences? Parents won't need to worry much if the game they buy is meant for adults with an age rating system. If they buy it anyway, it's not like they were warned.
 
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Anti woke is getting mighty autistic itself. Watch how hard you swing that pendulum. You know what happened last time.
The sentiment being a mainstream talking point is enough. Anti Woke faggots have choked on their own shit plenty. Gamergate becoming gay in the late 2010s and the modern day failings of grifters like Styx and Quarter pounder. Pandora’s box was opened and that leaves the door open for people to push back in various forms. If that didn’t happen these opinions would still be fringe and the mainstream Vidya game industry would get more left anyway but slower like through first term Obama
 
Remastered games should be either included with the original copy, discounted heavily or given away. Majority of remastered games only ever get a graphical uplift, their settings fucked with and get a fancy looking badge that says "retold" or "remastered" .etc

Nobody should ever have to pay full price for a remastered game.
 
Enemies keep spawning behind your back, so doing a 180 after hearing teleportation sounds becomes second nature to you. They also don't look anything like the designs we all know and love.
This is always my biggest gripe any time I play it. With how cramped and linear the layout of the game is, it's a constant source of bullshit deaths. Yes, the originals do that shit too, but it wasn't a random "now spawn enemies behind the player to artificially spike the difficulty". Once you knew a monster closet was there, it wasn't gonna claim you again by just catching you off guard, if you died to that closet again, its because you need to get good. Doom 3 just devolves into looking behind you every single fucking time you hear a spawner go off with how constant it is with this shit.

I will, however, always hold the opinion that Doom 3 isn't a "terrible" game on its own, it has more to do with it having the name of "Doom" and being so vastly different to its predecessors. If it was just call "Space Horror 3000" or something, it would of been praised for its graphics, given average to slightly above average reviews for the gameplay, then forgotten to the sands of time. It's a bad Doom game, but an average game in its own right.
 
The Games thread is turning into A&N lite with takes like this.
He is disagreeing with the entirety of the video game industry, something that is about as unpopular an opinion on gaming as one can have, and you are claiming that he is shitting up the thread? The thread is "Unpopular Opinions about Video Games", not "Progressive Hugbox For Gaymers".

The only ones shitting up the thread are the people mad that unpopular opinions are being posted.
 
Honestly, I'm beginning to grow tired of the anti woke shit grift. When the community as a whole collectively comes together to beat back slop like "Assassin's Creed Shadows", or "Skull and Bones", it's a party, but when you're collectively throwing shit at the wall like retarded monkeys over dumb shit, it makes me question how serious a lot of this "movement" (for lack of a better term) is. I'm not saying this as "OMG LE ENLIGHTENED CENTRIST". I'm just saying this as a regular dude from the outside looking in.

If a game whiffs of woke, I avoid it. If it has small bits here and there, I sit, watch and observe before dipping my toes in. You honestly can't keep treating media of any kind this way, because it won't get better at all. A game can't just be bad on its own anymore. It has to be bad because the politics says so.
 
A franchise should never go past 3 mainline entries. Now if you want to make a spinoff that goes into a new genre or a few prequels thats fine but a trilogy is all thats required to tell any story or present the world you want you player to visit. It should honestly be illegal to make 4-6 or more games in one singular franchise to tell the same damn events with the same characters.
 
Graphics DO matter, but not in the realism slop kind of way, the disregard towards art direction has led to countless of games looking the same and feeling the same, and don't get me started on modern UIs using the same minimalist layouts when it doesn't fit the setting.
To add to this i think it is also about style and not just cartoony. There's still some games that have a more realistic style that still hold up to this day. I feel a lot of peolpe used the "aged" argument too loosely with certain games because to me art direction is extremely important. There's plenty of games i can say that could have used a more stylized look (one that comes to mind is Horizon Zero Dawn just off the top of my head) but still look pretty good for what they were trying to go for in terms of overall direction.
 
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