Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Kofi Drinka]

I'm not saying that it's not good to have the option to play them. I just think for the sake of discussion allowing emulation and backwards compatibility just makes it too difficult to point at a library and say, "I like that one the best." I think mine would maybe be 3DS primarily due to the good exclusives that are difficult to emulate, the virtual console library and the original DS library being playable, but it's hard to nail something down for sure.

You have to define what a library means then. To me a library is the games you can purchase and run on the machine without modification. I wouldn't count using a modded 3DS as having the full library of everything it can emulate. But if I buy Sonic Gems Collection or Capcom fighter collection natively on the console then I think they're part of the library. Even if it's emulated it's still something you can buy, insert into the console and then play without any config. It's no different to pressing start to play a native game.

 

[Frick Marisa]

Emulation is the most optimal, efficient and better way to way to play old video games that doesn't require unique controllers like gun-on-rail-shooters. It is better than owning the hardware, and retro purchases is just consumerism slop.

EmulationCHADS actually play video games, retro game collectors just enjoy collecting funkopops.

 

[Never Scored]

You have to define what a library means then.

I did in the first post you quoted.

If you include ports and remakes...

I wouldn't count using a modded 3DS as having the full library of everything it can emulate.

No, but it has quite a lot when you include all the virtual console releases encompassing huge portions of the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Genesis and Game Gear libraries, on top of the entire DS library because you can just buy DS carts, pop them in and they work. There's also a lot of good shit on there that's not on anything else thanks to the two screen/touch screen gimmick.

 

[The Ugly One]

I'd argue DS's library is just as good as GBA's anyway, or at least super close. Then there's PS1 & PS2, absolutely massive and varied libraries full of quality stuff.

The DS has a GBA slot, so technically, it includes the GBA library.

 

[LongForgotten]

Cheating in videogames doesn't matter

 

[ParasiteSteve]

"I Must pay for my nigger slop, to people who would happily see me and my family dead. I am a good slave"

Or

"I am a nigger and have no concept of paying for things, and why that might actually be important. Here, let me leave this shopping trolley/kart in the middle of this parking space"

Or be a chad like me, and rob fat retards when they come out of gamestop and CEX.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The DS has a GBA slot, so technically, it includes the GBA library.

That's true, and makes it an insanely good library. PS3 effortlessly takes top spot from that perspective though.

 

[The Last Stand]

SThe DS has a GBA slot, so technically, it includes the GBA library.

So did the Wii with the GameCube.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

People who only play 1 game series and title themselves as gamers really piss me off.

 

[Never Scored]

That's true, and makes it an insanely good library. PS3 effortlessly takes top spot from that perspective though.

Yeah, I think this is why including emulation and backward compatibility make it hard to point at any one library as the best. Is Wario Land 3 part of the GBA library? Is the PS1 port of Chrono Trigger part of the PS3 library? Of course, it's always going to be subjective too. I generally prefer 2D games to 3D ones, so I'm not going to choose GameCube, for example.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

I think this is why including emulation and backward compatibility make it hard to point at any one library as the best.

The PC wins once again, for including the majority of all games and consoles ever made

 

[demicolon]

Far from an exhaustive list, but the reason I think the library is so good is because you get a bunch of SNES ports on top of original games that came out for the system.

GBA was big when it came out. First handheld system that approached the capabilities of a stationary console. Everyone wanted to have their game on it which is why the library is so good.

 

[Love Is Blue]

Could you give some examples? What are the top 3 games in each genre on the GBA?

max Payne 1

 

[The Ugly One]

So did the Wii with the GameCube.

yeah but the Gamecube had 9 good games.

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA VI could come out on Christmas Day and people will go every which way to get it. I won’t be surprised if people buy it TWICE. Once to have a digital copy and another time for a physical copy.

 

[Super Hans v2]

I won’t be surprised if people buy it TWICE.

Twice? Going off of GTA5, probably three. PS5, then the unfucked PS6 version that runs acceptably, then the PC version when that drops six months after that port.

 

[The Last Stand]

Twice? Going off of GTA5, probably three. PS5, then the unfucked PS6 version that runs acceptably, then the PC version when that drops six months after that port.

Twice, in context of its original release.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

GTA VI could come out on Christmas Day and people will go every which way to get it. I won’t be surprised if people buy it TWICE

That’s the reality of the situation, there’s a massive disconnect between people who complain about Video Games on the internet and those who generally buy and play it, the latter group generally doesn’t browse social media and when you point it out to the former they just shut down and get pissed off, most people buying GTA VI aren’t going to be angry if there’s 1 or 2 wokeslop missions, Twitter has become a no-go zone due to the amount of delusional “Anti-Woke” accounts crying about how there is one rainbow flag in their annual CoDslop there’s no saving vidya discourse at this point

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

People who only play 1 game series and title themselves as gamers really piss me off.

"Gamer" is not a title to aspire to.

 

[Caddo Cobgang]

"Gamer" is not a title to aspire to.

At this point it’s hard to disagree with that, the terms been metaphorically raped over the past 15 years