Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

LORD IMPERATOR said:
Castlevania Bloodlines and Castlevania Legends are unsung gems in the Castlevania franchise. SOTN and 4 are still the top dogs, but Bloodlines and Legends deserve some love, especially when Sonia Belmont has a fireball projectile attack with her whip and Eric Lecarde had a spear; both of which are far more useful against the undead than a simple whip or sword.
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I agree Bloodlines is one of the best Castlevania games, but Legends is straight ass and the only reason anyone tries to defend it is because it starred the only female protagonist and she got retconned out of the canon timeline (which of course she did, because Legend's plot doesn't sensically fit with the other games).

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Huh?
Am I already pre-modern because I associate showing off graphical prowess with monsoons turning everything into a puddly mess?
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I think that's mostly a racing game thing, for some reason. Maybe cause it makes the cars look shinier.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
I agree Bloodlines is one of the best Castlevania games, but Legends is straight ass and the only reason anyone tries to defend it is because it starred the only female protagonist and she got retconned out of the canon timeline (which of course she did, because Legend's plot doesn't sensically fit with the other games).
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I'm pretty sure the Saturn port of SOTN and the PC port of Dracula X also has Maria as a playable character. There was also Order of Ecclesia which also had a female protagonist, as well as the N64 game.

I beat Bloodlines and Legends both back-to-back, and I didn't have much of a problem with Legends other than the fact that it desperately needs a modern touch-up. I also thought it was funny that Dracula's worst enemies were born from his own seed, as if God was playing a big fat joke on him.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
I'm pretty sure the Saturn port of SOTN and the PC port of Dracula X also has Maria as a playable character. There was also Order of Ecclesia which also had a female protagonist, as well as the N64 game.

I beat Bloodlines and Legends both back-to-back, and I didn't have much of a problem with Legends other than the fact that it desperately needs a modern touch-up. I also thought it was funny that Dracula's worst enemies were born from his own seed, as if God was playing a big fat joke on him.
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Should have been more specific: only female Belmont. And because of that she was technically the only female main protagonist at the time, since Sypha and Maria were playable earlier (and Carrie right after) but weren't the main characters.

Legends doesn't have any massive issues preventing someone from playing the game, it's just super anemic in every way and doesn't feel as good as Christopher's games, which doesn't feel very excusable when Legends came out almost a decade after those games. I do think the idea of the Belmonts being descended from Alucard could be interesting (and keeps things simpler than what they came up with for Lament of Innocence), and there even was some old quasi-canonical Japanese stuff early in the franchise that described Simon as a dhampir, but it doesn't fit in very well timeline-wise.
 
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Retarded Weeb said:
I do think the idea of the Belmonts being descended from Alucard could be interesting
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Didn't the Lords Of Shadow games technically do that?

Lmao at Legends being "an unsung gem", it's boring as shit with overly long and bland levels (And I 100% it) and it somehow managed to be a Castlevania with really meh music (no, Harmony Of Dissonance doesn't count).
>Le fireball whip
Christopher and his incredibly clunky first game and much improved second game say hi. I'll say it again, Belmont's Revenge is really underrated.
 
The Nintendo/Japanese PlayStation button layout for the menus is retarded.

I don't care if it says "A" and "B" because those were the two buttons on the Famicom controller, and I don't care if PS uses Japanese iconography for right/wrong in the exact same spots - if I use the thing on the bottom to jump a lot, then could you so kindly make it the primary button for the menu items, too?!..
 
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Chuck 'n Geck said:
The Nintendo/Japanese PlayStation button layout for the menus is retarded.

I don't care if it says "A" and "B" because those were the two buttons on the Famicom controller, and I don't care if PS uses Japanese iconography for right/wrong in the exact same spots - if I use the thing on the bottom to jump a lot, then could you so kindly make it the primary button for the menu items, too?!..
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What games have B (Nintendo) or X (PS) as the jump button that don't also have it as select in menus? The ones I can think of are the Japanese PlayStation versions of Sonic games.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
What games have B (Nintendo) or X (PS) as the jump button that don't also have it as select in menus? The ones I can think of are the Japanese PlayStation versions of Sonic games.
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Recent example: anything on the Switch, as far as I'm aware. Also, anything on specifically Japanese PlayStation, up until Kusony decided it's a 90% California-oriented brand now.

...also, aside from messing with my muscle memory, I just don't believe it's ergonomic, exactly. I already feel mild discomfort going through a million create-a-character menus in Fire Pro Wrestling because the button I have to press the most is right near the edge of the controller - and I'm not sure I could trudge through a JRPG with the exact same layout. You know, the genre where menuing in any capacity is 85% of gameplay.
 
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The Last Stand said:
I'd figured original Xbox would be easier to emulate since an Xbox is just a modified PC. I wonder why it wouldn't be.
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Original Xbox emulation was neglected for a long time because most of the games people cared about already had far better PC versions. 360 emulation had a similar problem for awhile.
 
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Sega is a mid-tier developer at best. It's hard for me to articulate why, they just always feel like they're missing something. The best I can put it is their games are very basic and lack the polish of other developers. And this is coming from someone who had a Sega Master System before he got a NES. They're just too arcade-y.
 
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drammamean said:
Sega is a mid-tier developer at best. It's hard for me to articulate why, they just always feel like they're missing something. The best I can put it is their games are very basic and lack the polish of other developers. And this is coming from someone who had a Sega Master System before he got a NES. They're just too arcade-y.
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Microsoft should've bought Sega. Maybe they could've had Sonic as a mascot along with Master Chief.
 
The Last Stand said:
I'd figured original Xbox would be easier to emulate since an Xbox is just a modified PC. I wonder why it wouldn't be.
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tldr: lack of interest + emulating PC's isn't as easy as it sounds = no progress
 
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Plumber's Crack said:
tldr: lack of interest = no progress
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FTFY.
the negative nancy post in your image doesn't change the fact that anyone smart enough that could pour in time and skill to figuring this shit out isn't anywhere near interested and don't expect microjeet to do anything, they learned with nintendo as releasing a emulator version of your old hardware = less people buying the new hardware and games or buying subscription services, even sony is very tight handed when doing retrocompatibility with their games.
 
The Last Stand said:
Two games that come to mind with that are Super Mario Sunshine and Outrun: Coast to Coast.
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I was thinking he meant like dead island/far cry where bloom was the hot new shorthand for graphics ruining every game, often without a toggle to remove it.

This is true in real life photos too but bodies of water and strong contrast lighting are cheat codes for making something appealing. Fuck all that tan/teal crap. Take a photo of a lake and itll look beautiful 99.99% of the time as long as you center your thirds right.
 
Honestly, I get the no interest thing. There isn't even any interest to play anything from the OG Xbox it feels like.

Every single aging millennial nostalgia post that I ever see on social media that involves OG Xbox is *always* about Halo.

I know it wasn't the only game/series Xbox had, but it really does feel like that's the only game/series anyone gave a shit about on OG Xbox. I never see posts about Splinter Cell. I never see posts about Fusion Frenzy, or Crimson Skies, Grabbed by the Ghoulies or Blinx or any of the other games I remember my Xbox friends playing.

It's always just Halo. And you can play Halo pretty easily on PC.
 
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Problematic User Forever said:
Honestly, I get the no interest thing. There isn't even any interest to play anything from the OG Xbox it feels like.

Every single aging millennial nostalgia post that I ever see on social media that involves OG Xbox is *always* about Halo.

I know it wasn't the only game/series Xbox had, but it really does feel like that's the only game/series anyone gave a shit about on OG Xbox. I never see posts about Splinter Cell. I never see posts about Fusion Frenzy, or Crimson Skies, Grabbed by the Ghoulies or Blinx or any of the other games I remember my Xbox friends playing.

It's always just Halo. And you can play Halo pretty easily on PC.
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fusion frenzy might be fun for a game or two.

Also hunter the reckoning since the xbox one is the best. Strange that series just vanished right before the big zombie craze.

Also the best 360 game is ninja gaiden black or tenchu z.

Splinter cell is more associated with ps2 I feel. Especially double agent since the ps2 version is just a superior game to the totally different game by the same name on 360/pc

ps. halo sucks, all console fps do (except the first 2 rare titles)
 
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I unironically enjoyed the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow games aside from the stealth segments in the second one. They had incredible music and were generally fun to play.
 
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