Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Cole009]

I wonder if this has been said before, but personally, escort missions are pretty alright. Then again, the only game that I've actually done so is Dead Rising where effectively all of them but 1 are mandatory. Didn't stop me from getting its Saint achievement though

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

While I'm quite racist and anti nigger I do feel the need to point out that the ugliest character in Dragon Age Inquisition was not in fact black but rather this hideous downie elf.
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To be fair, she is a lesbian.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

chosen the attractiveness of video game women as their hill to die

Do people not understand indicators and circumstantial evidence?
Like, it's not like the game will tell you to your face "hello, this product is soulless goyslop made to appease feminists and Jews and Jewish feminists and not to respect the player's time and money"
Instead, you use indicators like microtransactions, pre-order gear bonuses, kernel-level anticheats, negros in inappropriate settings, accurate face scans of men but wildly uglified face scans of women, etc.pp.

 

[Book Thief]

I don't understand why people hate Diablo II's Act 3 so much. Personally, I rather do that 1,000 times before doing Maggot Lair one more time.

Also, Rune Words are a terrible mechanic and completely ruined the game's balance, forcing you to spend hours upon hours of grinding for specific runes that can easily and irreversibly be undone if you step on the thousands of stumbling blocks that the game itself never explains. Put the runes in the wrong order? Dead. Put it a Blue or Yellow with slots? Dead. Didn't have the exact number of slots? Dead. Wanted a word for a "Mace Class" weapon, but didn't know that there are subclasses of the Mace Class that are hidden behind the scenes? Dead.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Rune Words are a terrible mechanic and completely ruined the game's balance, forcing you to spend hours upon hours of grinding for specific runes that can easily and irreversibly be undone if you step on the thousands of stumbling blocks that the game itself never explains. Put the runes in the wrong order? Dead. Put it a Blue or Yellow with slots? Dead. Didn't have the exact number of slots? Dead. Wanted a word for a "Mace Class" weapon, but didn't know that there are subclasses of the Mace Class that are hidden behind the scenes? Dead.

Better drop rates for runes would've made the system much better. I played D2 for hundreds of hours and the rarest one I ever got was Ist (#24).

Speaking of D2, can a veteran tell me how much they buffed Baal after patch... I think v1.10? I stopped playing a long time ago and when I picked it up again it was already on v 1.14 or later and Baal was extremely difficult. I just gave up because I realized that I needed all the rarest items and runewords to beat him. Everything was manageable until that point. Don't ask me what character or build I used because I can't remember.

 

[Ashkenazi Porn Actress]

I don't understand why people hate Diablo II's Act 3 so much.

The levels were large as fuck and the midgets with the blowguns and the Stygian Dolls sucked ass.

Better drop rates for runes would've made the system much better. I played D2 for hundreds of hours and the rarest one I ever got was Ist (#24).

Blizz never gave a shit and was completely content to gate high runes behind literal lottery tier drop rates (and we're talking Superball here, not scratch lottery tickets) and a mathematically impossible rune upgrade system.
Which in turn fuelled a multi-million dollar dupe/item shop industry that was busy effectively DDOSing a significant amount of the game servers at any point in time to trigger item duplication glitches. You also had pathetic shit like people telling straight up lies about running "self found" Enigma armors a few hours after ladder resets because hey, they and their friend were just super lucky power gamers ;^) (in reality there were jealously guarded glitches used to transfer items between ladder seasons).
Oh and in high level runs, everybody and their grandmother was running item picking scripts becuase lmao fuck you if you aren't a complete no-lifer playing this game.

Edit: This why playing Open Battle.Net with friends and pw protected games and just using an editor get whatever you want at a reasonable pace was totally superior.

Pretty much the only system on par with this shit is the health-damage progression in Borderlands 2 in NG+ and beyond. Whoever designed this should be worked to death in a concentration camp and I mean this completely sincerely.

 

[Scarthew]

I wonder if this has been said before, but personally, escort missions are pretty alright. Then again, the only game that I've actually done so is Dead Rising where effectively all of them but 1 are mandatory. Didn't stop me from getting its Saint achievement though
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Escorts, backtracking, timed, underwater. Ive never actually seen a bad one of any of these.

 

[The Ugly One]

Escorts, backtracking, timed, underwater. Ive never actually seen a bad one of any of these.

Tons of bad examples of the first in East St Louis.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

"self found" Enigma armors a few hours after ladder resets

That's a good one.

I agree about open battle.net co-op with cheats. Playing any game for hundreds of hours just to START having fun is stupid. You're runing around the same couple of levels over and over again anyway. There's no need to make it all so tedious.

I was never a "pro" D2 player. Was there any point to playing ladder other than seeing your name on a list?

 

[Book Thief]

The levels were large as fuck and the midgets with the blowguns and the Stygian Dolls sucked ass.

It's still Heaven compared to the Maggot Lair. I still have bad memories of that shit back when it was our family LAN game, before the expansion had come out yet. If you were playing Summonmancer, the game basically became unplayable at that point as you couldn't walk past your own minions, and the Unsummon skill didn't even exist yet. Good luck trying to funnel four players through a dozen skeletons cramming those tiny-ass hallways!

 

[Captain Syrup]

Holy shit, Vice City Stories is a waste. I remember being like mildly into it when it got ported to PS2, I 100% it, I’ve done worse for less.

But every time I revisit it now, or even just hear one of those VCS radio ads, I just feel this rising sense of fraud.

Early game: "Drive the guy. I dunno. Here’s 800 fake dollars.”

Bro, what did they do to the Flashback FM DJ? From GTA III? She’s just saying words at people. Not jokes. Her character is like: “haha what if a woman constantly flashed people but it’s off-screen so you just have to imagine it.”

The military base thing at first had me like “oooh,” but the gang business minigames feel like a chore. There’s literally no mechanical difference between a “level one” and “level three” weed factory other than the number going up.

Victor just stumbles ass backwards into a life of crime. Half the missions are him babysitting his dumbass brother.

In the interest of fairness there are like, two things I liked: The Hunter helicopter in the final mission! Nice.

Also, the trailer park weirdos. Loved ‘em. And the game murders all of them? Except the fat one.

 

[Scarthew]

Holy shit, Vice City Stories is a waste. I remember being like mildly into it when it got ported to PS2, I 100% it, I’ve done worse for less.

But every time I revisit it now, or even just hear one of those VCS radio ads, I just feel this rising sense of fraud.

Early game: "Drive the guy. I dunno. Here’s 800 fake dollars.”

Bro, what did they do to the Flashback FM DJ? From GTA III? She’s just saying words at people. Not jokes. Her character is like: “haha what if a woman constantly flashed people but it’s off-screen so you just have to imagine it.”

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The military base thing at first had me like “oooh,” but the gang business minigames feel like a chore. There’s literally no mechanical difference between a “level one” and “level three” weed factory other than the number going up.

Victor just stumbles ass backwards into a life of crime. Half the missions are him babysitting his dumbass brother.

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In the interest of fairness there are like, two things I liked: The Hunter helicopter in the final mission! Nice.

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Also, the trailer park weirdos. Loved ‘em. And the game murders all of them? Except the fat one.

Its like they asked what if the awful grind of late game vice city was an entire game. Maybe they wanted something more mechanically driven since it was a portable title but I was not a fan of either stories game. china town wars was good though

 

[radicalradishranger]

Want my unpopular opinion

Early days of gaming when 3D games were starting to become popular: Developers made female characters hot despite having limited technology

Today: Developers make female characters ugly despite having technology to make anything they want

GTA6 is no exception. Players are forced to play a F character and of course she is brown, small tits, no feminine figure and unattractive.

 

[The Last Stand]

I’m jealous that European countries have blue boxes for their PS2 games. The black cases elsewhere are too generic.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Want my unpopular opinion

Early days of gaming when 3D games were starting to become popular: Developers made female characters hot despite having limited technology

Today: Developers make female characters ugly despite having technology to make anything they want

GTA6 is no exception. Players are forced to play a F character and of course she is brown, small tits, no feminine figure and unattractive.

"hire fans lol"

 

[Retarded Weeb]

"hire fans lol"

I think at this point there's 10 times more of these types of edits that were made ironically as passive-aggressive seething than were actually made sincerely.

 

[Ashkenazi Porn Actress]

Was there any point to playing ladder other than seeing your name on a list?

No, it was literally just the "I'm a NEET who can waste 14 hours every day over 2 months doing Baal runs" award (time to 99 is a lot faster now but still a massive time waste). Just like most of PVP wasn't about skill but rather about getting your hands on rare, exceedingly expensive equipment with perfectly rolled stats to squeeze out the last possible drop of DPS.

That's a good one.

The even better thing? There were communities that weren't D2JSP that banned even talking about duping, hacks, bots and RMT. You had people doing this and anybody who called them out getting hit with the banhammer. It was like having a bodybuilding forum that bans even mentioning gear and then some Rich Piana lookalike turns up and tells you with a striaght face that his 23 inch arms are the result of creatine, good genetics and eight hours of sleep.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

It was like having a bodybuilding forum that bans even mentioning gear and then some Rich Piana lookalike turns up and tells you with a striaght face that his 23 inch arms are the result of creatine, good genetics and eight hours of sleep.

I was wondering about this recently. Do bodybuilders and strongmen still pretend they aren't juicing? I remember seeing a TV interview with one of the best strongmen about a decade ago and he was all "neither confirm nor deny" when asked about this. It's always been an open secret, so what's the point?

 

[Ashkenazi Porn Actress]

Do bodybuilders and strongmen still pretend they aren't juicing?

OT but yes it's still rampant, especially among the fitness influencer set.

 

[The Last Stand]

"hire fans lol"

What is the point of making women ugly in video games? I’m not disagreeing that it doesn’t exist, but why?