Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

I just played ARK for about 15 mins. I have to say after paying less than 5 bucks for it...

It blows, it looks like ass and it's over complicated for no reason.

desertfoxgoggles said:
I hated The Evil Within
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It felt like one of those games where it didn't know what it wanted to be and tried to be everything. That's one of the main reasons why it sucked.
 
Insurgency is the only fun multiplayer FPS set in the modern era

The modern Warfare games have fun single player campaigns, but the only one thats replayable is MW2

The ARMA series is way too janky and ugly for anything over $15 and only continues to exist because of mil-sim autists (I still get them because flying my friends around in helicopters is kinda fun)
 
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Ruin said:
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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I haven't played 5 myself but I think you're somehow missing the real final boss.

You didn't fight the fake Igor yet, right?
 
Dragon age 2 was not all that bad. I originally picked up both it and origins for around 10 bucks when inquisition was about to drop. I loved the shit outta Origins when i finished it and was about to go to 2. Now I've been to /v/ and i know they held 2 in low regards, so i decided to lower it down to the ground. When playing 2 its combat mechanics, while fast and flashy it was sallow but was serviceable for me. Story was allover the fucking place. I had plot points and characters that i loved and/or fuckin hated with a passion (fenris was so edgy he was funny).

looking back at my playthrough i now realize that I had liken dragon age 2 to a netflix special. /it was just a tv show
 
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NIGGO KILLA said:
Dragon age 2 was not all that bad. I originally picked up both it and origins for around 10 bucks when inquisition was about to drop. I loved the shit outta Origins when i finished it and was about to go to 2. Now I've been to /v/ and i know they held 2 in low regards, so i decided to lower it down to the ground. When playing 2 its combat mechanics, while fast and flashy it was sallow but was serviceable for me. Story was allover the fucking place. I had plot points and characters that i loved and/or fuckin hated with a passion (fenris was s edgy he was funny).

looking back at my playthrough i now realize that I had liken dragon age 2 to a netflix special. /it was just a tv show
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Considering I played DA2 to completion yet abandoned DAI at the 80% mark of the main quest, I think you're right.
 
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Ginger Piglet said:
Considering I played DA2 to completion yet abandoned DAI at the 80% mark of the main quest, I think you're right.
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DA2 at least has somewhat of a decent narrative and you actually grow attached to Hawke's struggle. Inquisition was just boring with really middling plot points everywhere. I've owned Inquisition since it came out and I haven't finished it yet, I just don't care enough.
 
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I think Guilty Gear as a whole would be better off if it wasn't a fighting game series. This probably makes no sense, but the lore is actually pretty cool and often gets overlooked due to the majority of the fanbase being the fighting game community. I just want to talk about shitty metal references, damn it.

This is going to make me look like a fag (especially if it's been previously mentioned in this thread) but Nier Automata's plot is complete shit compared to other games by Yoko Taro. The only reasons it got fans were 2B's ass and Platinum being involved.
 
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Yeah, Daggerfall may of been a good game that I played but the fact that said randomly generated dungeons were freakin huge made me want to make the same sound Rydell from Demons Souls makes when he wants to get out. Plus the bugs would still be problem even with the latest patch. Even though one should expect bugs in a Bethesda game, you wouldn't expect a bug that would render the main quest UNBEATABLE. Still, Morrowind is where the series started to get awesome due to the fact that the series not only had a more established lore but also an alien foreign land where one area is a desert with ash storms and the other has giant mushrooms for trees. Saying this makes me want to play Morrowind again, also I thought Arena, the first game in the Elder Scrolls series was much better than Daggerfall since it had a spell that could destroy walls. I'm not kidding.
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I finished Daggerfall maybe a year ago.... I started it 3 years ago. Twice I got the bug that made the main quest halt and :autism: made me return to it again. It was funny looking for solutions on the Internet; everyone basically said, "Lol. That's Daggerfall for you!"

Everything you said about Daggerfall was spot on. Some of the dungeons would take a literal day to finish (and would net you a handful of gold and basic straight sword for your efforts) and I had to resort to using walkthroughs a few times in the main quest dungeons (which always kills me a little inside). The most infuriating examples being
1) a single torch among hundreds of completely decorative others which needs to be clicked on to open the path to the end and 2) near the end boss, a statue or demon asks for a password which I dutifully had collected in my explorations. After typing in the password nothing happened at all on screen, so I entered it again. Apparently I had opened a big door on the pyramid leading to the final area and re-shut it again by telling him the second time and thereafter proceeded to spend a couple of hours looking for what the password did.

Good times; I can't wait for Morrowind eventually.
 
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Ruin said:
I generally enjoy antiheros more than goody two shoes types as my protagonists.
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Personally, I think mercenary is the best occupation for a video game protagonist. It's the perfect excuse to do video game objectives without people nitpicking why they'd be doing it in the first place. Big Boss and the Pussycats proves you can make them endearing and serve a story as well.

Which I guess segues into my unpopular opinion; I thought the story in Phantom Pain was serviceable. After being completely overloaded with story in MGS4, I enjoyed the story-optional approach Peace Walker forward made. I thought PW and TPP more than made up for it with stellar gameplay as well.
 
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dabluearmedbandit said:
I think Far Cry 2 is the best of the series. The story was amazing, it was actually really intelligent and dealt with a mature ass topic in a really adult way. And the gameplay was amazing. I loved how enemies would grab their buddies if they were hurt and drag them behind cover, I actually enjoyed the buddy system, and the weapon jamming made fights tense as hell.
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I agree, but the fact that the checkpoints would re-spawn their full compliment of enemy soldiers as soon as you were in redraw range was fucking annoying and dampened the overall experience immensely. I'm not saying clearing a crossroads checkpoint should be permanent, but maybe an in-game day wouldn't be too much to ask. Neither side on that war could have had the man power to replace the men (or jeeps) I had to destroy getting from place to place.
 
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Leo Bonhart said:
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I agree, but the fact that the checkpoints would re-spawn their full compliment of enemy soldiers as soon as you were in redraw range was fucking annoying and dampened the overall experience immensely. I'm not saying clearing a crossroads checkpoint should be permanent, but maybe an in-game day wouldn't be too much to ask. Neither side on that war could have had the man power to replace the men (or jeeps) I had to destroy getting from place to place.
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That and whenever you did a job for a faction their troops were still hostile. Maybe you guys wouldn't need to keep hiring me if I didn't have to kill 30 of your guys to get my destination.
 
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ZehnBoat said:
rule of thumb:
if someone plays the laughing scene and then says something along the lines of "gee, the acting is so bad"
you can disregard their opinion entirely.
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:late: Why can you disregard their opinion? Yuna's voice actor did a pretty good job trying to do a forced-laughter routine (in fact, I though she brought an incredible amount of emotional subtlety to many of her lines), but Tidus' laugh is horrifying. Grab a half dozen high-school student dramafags give them their motivation as such: "You're trying to impress the girl next to you by helping her forget some of the weight of what destiny has in store for her; try to shake off some of her ingrained inhibitions and get her to open up by being a bit over-the-top."

I'd bet 5/ 6 of them would improve on Tidus-dude's performance.
 
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TowinKarz said:
I liked Pac-Man for the Atari 2600, despite everyone listing it as one of the "worst" games in history whenever they make a compilation.
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This is not necessarily about Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 because my first console was the NES, but I was relatively poor growing up, so my family could generally only afford the bargain-basement games, which unbeknownst to my U-10-13 self, were generally buggy or industry rejects. Imagine having Fester's Quest and Friday the 13th comprising 20% of your games and feeling bad because you weren't good enough to beat them.
 
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