Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

projecteddrama said:
Also, I've pissed off retro gamers before by admitting I prefer 3D over 2d. I prefer the Metroid Prime games far more than the 2D Metroids, 3D Mario over 2D Mario, stuff like that. For whatever reason, that's caused people to have a bug up their ass at times when I've mentioned it
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If you said that 3D is objectively better, than I could probably understand people getting annoyed, but you can't really argue with someone's personal preference when it comes to the games they play.

I did find myself enjoying Metroid Prime quite a bit over Super Metroid. Maybe it's because I found the former's environment more immersive. I don't know.
 
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scorptatious said:
If you said 3D objectively better, than I could probably understand people getting annoyed, but you can't really argue with someone's personal preference when it comes to the games they play.

I did find myself enjoying Metroid Prime quite a bit over Super Metroid. Maybe it's because I found the former's environment more immersive. I don't know.
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I don't think you can really have an "objective" opinion. But I've run into a lot of retrofags in my day that insist the 8-bit/16-bit age is the "golden age of video games"
 
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projecteddrama said:
I don't think you can really have an "objective" opinion. But I've run into a lot of retrofags in my day that insist the 8-bit/16-bit age is the "golden age of video games"
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Yeah, those people annoy me too. There are great games that come out in every generation. It's just a hell of a lot easier now-a-days to see the crap and the shady practices some developers perform so it makes a lot of people a bit more jaded regarding games.
 
Lackadaisy said:
I don't like Steam, but there's nothing better. I wish there was a different option.
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There is GOG as an alternative but as far as I remember using that, it's more for old games than the newest titles.
 
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Yeah, those people annoy me too. There are great games that come out in every generation. It's just a hell of a lot easier now-a-days to see the crap and the shady practices some developers perform so it makes a lot of people a bit more jaded regarding games.
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Yeah, exactly. One just needs to watch AVGN to see that games were all better back in the day. The reason people think that is they were younger, and often had a much more narrow amount of games, so they think games were better as opposed to the fact as adults they try out more games.


c-no said:
There is GOG as an alternative but as far as I remember using that, it's more for old games than the newest titles.
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GOG is far better but for a lot of reasons, largely is just for older PC games
 
I think Earthbound/the entire Mother series is extremely overrated to hell and back. I only thought Earthbound was just okay, nothing special. If it really is the best non-Square RPG on the SNES that's not saying much because it sure as hell isn't the very best. And it wasn't even the three Final Fantasy installments for that matter.

It's Chrono Trigger.
 
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MysticMisty said:
I think Earthbound/the entire Mother series is extremely overrated to hell and back. I only thought Earthbound was just okay, nothing special. If it really is the best non-Square RPG on the SNES that's not saying much because it sure as hell isn't the very best. And it wasn't even the three Final Fantasy installments for that matter.

It's Chrono Trigger.
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I was about to argue with you on Earthbound but Chrono Trigger is my favourite SNES RPG, so never mind. Did you play Mother 3 though?
 
I played I dunno, maybe five or ten minutes before reading about the story instead and deciding not to play, same with Mother. It just doesn't seem like anything special. The only reason I actually finished Earthbound is because so many people I know cream their panties over that game and I just kept forcing myself under the belief that it would eventually start to reach Chrono Trigger levels of good. I couldn't do it two more times. To be honest Chrono Trigger probably set the bar too high for me. On the other hand I think Chrono Trigger really is just that good.
 
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Lackadaisy said:
I don't like Steam, but there's nothing better. I wish there was a different option.
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I feel you. For some reason people think that this DRM system is a next coming of Jesus on PC gaming. I hate steam, I hate origin, I hate uplay, but there is not lot of choices if you want to play new big games on PC. Of course some indie games comes without anykind of DRM and older games can be found on sites like GOG, but the current situation is a mess. You are stuck with biggest DRM that computer games has seen in years and for some reason people are happy about it.. while fighting against denuvo and other DRM, of course.
 
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I don't think Persona 5 is a master piece(TM) as everyone says, it feels very rushed in some parts, things that could be solved in 2 days take an entire week for no reason, most obvious traitor in videogame history, a lot of skills are useless filler, guns and negotioation are there just for the sake of nostalgia pandering and the ending is bad and dumb to the point it's obvious they're going to rerelease the game in a few years.
 
LucasSomething said:
I don't think Persona 5 is a master piece(TM) as everyone says, it feels very rushed in some parts, things that could be solved in 2 days take an entire week for no reason, most obvious traitor in videogame history, a lot of skills are useless filler, guns and negotioation are there just for the sake of nostalgia pandering and the ending is bad and dumb to the point it's obvious they're going to rerelease the game in a few years.
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It's been a trend with the last 2 Persona games of having an updated rerelease on a new console with better gameplay & story fixes, so I'm just waiting for Persona 5 Shadow Edition or w/e they decide to call it
 
I hated The Evil Within and most modern horror games irritate me to hell. To be honest, I thought the best era for Horror games was the PS2-era. Gems like Haunting Ground, RE4, Clock Tower 3, Silent Hill 2 and Forbidden Siren made for some wicked scares.
But my problem with modern horror is the undeniable, scripted dryness of it all. Take P.T for example - I loved certain aspects of it. But, once you've played it once, you've played it a million times. Just like Outlast, Slender etc. The bad guys are on set-routes; you always have set hiding places. And although you have no weapons, you can usually get by via just running into/past the enemy.
I just find it really droll because I can't be scared when I know that there's a way out/a way around easily. Even a game like Five Nights at Freddy's (which, despite it's disgusting fanbase was lauded as a scary game when it first came out); you can easily maneuver around the jump scares once you know the animatronics patterns.
Which brings me to my absolute autistic hatred of The Evil Within. That game is so painfully scripted and unscary while masquerading as a 'spiritual successor' to RE4 that it just makes me cringe. I was really disappointed by this game because it could have been so great.
At least with the PS1-PS2 horror games; there was an element of unpredictability. Even games like Yume Nikki and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis scare me more than modern flicks because you never know what's really coming.
 
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LucasSomething said:
I don't think Persona 5 is a master piece(TM) as everyone says, it feels very rushed in some parts, things that could be solved in 2 days take an entire week for no reason, most obvious traitor in videogame history, a lot of skills are useless filler, guns and negotioation are there just for the sake of nostalgia pandering and the ending is bad and dumb to the point it's obvious they're going to rerelease the game in a few years.
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Sadly I have to agree I just finished it and the ending pissed me off quite a bit. In Persona 3 & 4 the final boss was a literal God/Goddess hell bent on the destruction of humanity, In Persona 5 the big bad is

A Donald Trump style corrupt nationalistic politician who's using his supernatural abilities to become prime minister because if you had God like power that's what you would limit yourself to. Also after you defeat him he apologizes and goes to jail.

I'm not kidding that's literally the ending. This is possibly my biggest gaming disappointment ever and it annoys me I waited nine years for this. It also astonishes me that the same gaming press that raised holy hell over Mass Effect 3's ending is praising this writing trainwreck, which means future games will probably feature the same fan fic tier writing.
 
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