Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Burned Man]

The Modern Warfare series (1-3) were all pretty solid games and their single player and co-op was easily the best thing going in FPS' for awhile. Black Ops had promise but tried to do the "Near Future" bullshit after the first one that makes everything feel so antiseptic in its execution (looking at you, ARMA 3, Ghost Recon Future Warrior series and that ilk)that it just cannot be fun.

Plus doing overwatch from an AC-130 was a shit ton of fun

I was always happy when my brother bought COD for the multiplayer because that meant I got to play the campaigns. I enjoyed Black Ops one for Nam and I enjoyed the flashback scenes from the second one like fighting alongside the Mujaheddin and stuff . Kinda wish they just kept that as the whole game. I barely touch Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare beat Ghosts but didn't really enjoy it. But Modern Warfare 2 will always have the best campaign out of all of them.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

While we're talking about Call of Duty, I think 3 is sadly underappreciated (not MW3, just Call of Duty 3).

 

[SnowBall]

Ok I said go wild but jesus fucking christ :autism::autism::autism:. Calm yourself. I see your first point about over-sexualizing women in games. When I play an MMO I usually play as a girl. (because asians don't understand nigga hair and skin tones) The armor is always the same and makes you look like a street walker. I have a girlfriend so I'm not over here drooling over the new armor that shows my 3D character's cleavage. I just want some cool shit. I got over it eventually but MMOs from Asia tend to do this the most. In TERA it's 10x fucking worse because the classes are gender locked so they pretty much force every assassin to play as a sexualized loli.

The only Eastern MMOs I know of that avoid this problem are Final Fantasy XI and XIV. With a few exceptions the armor looks exactly the same on both genders or with slight differences. Subligars and chain mail bikinis are equally revealing on everyone.

On topic I think the 4th gen Pokemon games are underrated. They were held back by some questionable gameplay designs (like HM overload.) Since gen 7 got rid of HMs it would really benefit from a remake.

 

[Ruin]

I was always happy when my brother bought COD for the multiplayer because that meant I got to play the campaigns. I enjoyed Black Ops one for Nam and I enjoyed the flashback scenes from the second one like fighting alongside the Mujaheddin and stuff . Kinda wish they just kept that as the whole game. I barely touch Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare beat Ghosts but didn't really enjoy it. But Modern Warfare 2 will always have the best campaign out of all of them.

I really enjoyed Black Ops 2 multiplayer until they stopped giving a shit about cheaters and every time you dropped into a match you'd die instantly from one of the seventeen choppers in the air.

 

[MysticMisty]

On topic I think the 4th gen Pokemon games are underrated. They were held back by some questionable gameplay designs (like HM overload.) Since gen 7 got rid of HMs it would really benefit from a remake.

The best remake games are still HeartGold and SoulSilver in my opinion.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The best remake games are still HeartGold and SoulSilver in my opinion.

Y'know, I played SoulSilver without ever playing the original and I thought it was fine. Then the original Silver was put on the 3DS eShop and I gotta say I enjoy the original more. I think it's because I grew up playing Gen 1 and never really played past that so the original Gen 2 feels more like familiar territory to me which is why I prefer that over the remake.

 

[TiggerNits]

I really enjoyed Black Ops 2 multiplayer until they stopped giving a shit about cheaters and every time you dropped into a match you'd die instantly from one of the seventeen choppers in the air.

The cod multiplayer paradigm is awful. Kill steaks let you get bigger kill steaks is a terrible way to get new players up to speed

I never played 3 but MW and MW 2 I think still hold up.

3 is actually great. It's like they let Stallone rewrite a Tom Clancy novel

 

[Medici]

Y'know, I played SoulSilver without ever playing the original and I thought it was fine. Then the original Silver was put on the 3DS eShop and I gotta say I enjoy the original more. I think it's because I grew up playing Gen 1 and never really played past that so the original Gen 2 feels more like familiar territory to me which is why I prefer that over the remake.

I started Pokemon with my cousins GBC and Silver, coming back to it years later with Soul Silver felt like a breath of fresh air. Old Pokemon is incredibly dull imo.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I started Pokemon with my cousins GBC and Silver, coming back to it years later with Soul Silver felt like a breath of fresh air. Old Pokemon is incredibly dull imo.

I think for me, Pokemon Yellow was one of the first games I ever played so I'm pretty biased already, plus my older siblings never got anything beyond Gen 1 so I was sort of stuck with it. I have played some newer games; I've played a bit of Diamond and I got most of the way through X but I couldn't tell you what actually happened. SoulSilver was fine, but it never really grabbed me.

I guess I'm just sort of the opposite. I don't find the newer Pokemon particularly interesting and it's the older stuff that I feel more attached to. And I think that's why I prefer the original Silver over the remake because it feels closer to Gen 1 while also streamlining and refining all the stuff that didn't work in Gen 1.

I dunno, I guess I'm being an autistic nostalgiawhore, but the original Silver scratched an itch I didn't realize was there until I played it.

 

[Sigma]

I think Pokemon is very basic as far as RPGs go. I believe it only got as popular as it did because of the anime and merchandising.

 

[Vault Boy]

I really don't understand the obsession over the lore in the Fallout series. Don't get me wrong, I love the series and find some of the backstory very interesting, but I don't get why so many spergs shit their pants over things like Jet being a pre-war drug or how power armor works in 4. One's a minor retcon at best (and can be justified as the "creator" being a lying little shit), and the other is a gameplay mechanic to balance the power armor out, but you'll never hear the end of it or how much Bethesda is "raping" the lore.

It got to the point where there was a mod that set out to "correct" some of the lore "inaccuracies". The sheer autism and arrogance in thinking themselves as having more authority about the lore over the guys who own the series astounded me. What is it about Fallout that gets these guys to sperg endlessly about the lore so much? The series isn't as expansive as something like Star Wars (only five canon games), and the games are full of so much goofy b-movie shit like ghosts and robots powered by brains that I doubt the developers took the lore as seriously as these guys do.

 

[God of Nothing]

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. It can trick you into thinking some shitty game you played all the time when you were a whelp was the greatest game ever when really it was the only game you had.

 

[Lackadaisy]

I really don't understand the obsession over the lore in the Fallout series. Don't get me wrong, I love the series and find some of the backstory very interesting, but I don't get why so many spergs shit their pants over things like Jet being a pre-war drug or how power armor works in 4. One's a minor retcon at best (and can be justified as the "creator" being a lying little shit), and the other is a gameplay mechanic to balance the power armor out, but you'll never hear the end of it or how much Bethesda is "raping" the lore.

It got to the point where there was a mod that set out to "correct" some of the lore "inaccuracies". The sheer autism and arrogance in thinking themselves as having more authority about the lore over the guys who own the series astounded me. What is it about Fallout that gets these guys to sperg endlessly about the lore so much? The series isn't as expansive as something like Star Wars (only five canon games), and the games are full of so much goofy b-movie shit like ghosts and robots powered by brains that I doubt the developers took the lore as seriously as these guys do.

I'm a lore sperg, I'll cop to that, but I think most of it for me is that I was so unimpressed with 4 to begin with that I started looking for shit to nitpick. NV crapped on the lore in some respects too, and I love the fuck out of it.

 

[BriannaWoo]

I think Life is Strange is probably one of the most cringe-worthy games in existence to the point that if there is hypothetically a 'good' game in terms of story and game-play there I actually can't get more then a few minutes into it without turning it off. Everyone else I have spoken to about it seems to think it's an innovative masterpiece, I hope I'm not going mad and there are other people that think the same.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I think Life is Strange is probably one of the most cringe-worthy games in existence to the point that if there is hypothetically a 'good' game in terms of story and game-play there I actually can't get more then a few minutes into it without turning it off. Everyone else I have spoken to about it seems to think it's an innovative masterpiece, I hope I'm not going mad and there are other people that think the same.

You might enjoy this video then.

Personally, I do agree with you though for me it has more to do with my growing distaste for these kinds of games; when you get right down to it, your choices barely affect anything since the outcome is almost always the same. TellTale is super guilty of it too.

 

[Red Hood]

You might enjoy this video then.

Personally, I do agree with you though for me it has more to do with my growing distaste for these kinds of games; when you get right down to it, your choices barely affect anything since the outcome is almost always the same. TellTale is super guilty of it too.

TellTale games and modern adventure games in general are a good reminder of why adventure games got thrown to the wayside around the time Half-Life came out: they're boring, frustrating, and repetitive. You can tell a great story without limiting the gameplay to fetch quests and dialogue puzzles. The basics of adventure game gameplay can easily be incorporated as a subset of the gameplay in another genre, whether it's a shooter, RPG, or what have you. Most of the best remembered adventure games are funny. The gameplay still isn't interesting, though.

I mean, early survival horror titles basically took adventure game fetch quest and item combinations and added combat, 3D movement and exploration. The genre started becoming less important the second Alone in the Dark was released.

This is why I can at least appreciate King's Quest : Mask of Eternity and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. They at least made an effort to expand the gameplay of the genre.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

The sheer autism and arrogance in thinking themselves as having more authority about the lore over the guys who own the series astounded me.

Beth admitted to just using the fallout wiki to check lore. Like damn nigga.

 

[vertexwindi]

I really don't understand the obsession over the lore in the Fallout series. Don't get me wrong, I love the series and find some of the backstory very interesting, but I don't get why so many spergs shit their pants over things like Jet being a pre-war drug or how power armor works in 4. One's a minor retcon at best (and can be justified as the "creator" being a lying little shit), and the other is a gameplay mechanic to balance the power armor out, but you'll never hear the end of it or how much Bethesda is "raping" the lore.

It got to the point where there was a mod that set out to "correct" some of the lore "inaccuracies". The sheer autism and arrogance in thinking themselves as having more authority about the lore over the guys who own the series astounded me. What is it about Fallout that gets these guys to sperg endlessly about the lore so much? The series isn't as expansive as something like Star Wars (only five canon games), and the games are full of so much goofy b-movie shit like ghosts and robots powered by brains that I doubt the developers took the lore as seriously as these guys do.

I think it depends mostly on how "necessary" it is to retcon shit, like if Beth wants to introduce new Power Armors then fine, that's whatever, but 4 was the same game that introduced magic ghouls to the series for absolutely no good reason.

 

[WateredDownInk]

Gonna get a bit :autism: :autism::autism:for this one.
I loathe how much attention pikachu gets, specifically how they got those special costumes. It's just another cash cow attempt for more dolls to sell to kids. I know other people love the costumes, but I think they're dumb. How would pikachu even fight in a dress??? I'm sure they had an entire episode revolving around dressed up Pokemon once in the anime.

I still like pikachu, but they overshadow other Pokemon who could actually get a power boost or something.

 

[TheClorax]

I honestly thought that Samus Returns was a better remake of Metroid II than AM2R.
If you ask me, when the whole point of Metroid II is about the extermination of all The Jews Metroids, there should be more thought and effort put into making the Metroid encounters fun. In am2r, the fights felt repetitive and got irritating after a while. Especially when what clearly should have been a hit is off by a pixel and is a miss. In Samus Returns, each fight felt refreshing and had more ways to deal with the fights. You could either go in and fire away at the weak spot, or you could be more patient, and wait to do the counter-ability. The fights with the Beta Metrids were especially interesting, with either having to find and lure it out of hiding, or chase it through multiple rooms. In AM2R, it felt like there was far more effort put into the other bosses, rather than the actual Metroid fights. The Bosses that aren’t Metroids should be a compliment to the actual fights with the Metroids, not the bread and butter.
This is a nitpick, but the methods of travel are far better in Samus Returns. The teleportation aspect makes the travel more efficient when you can use one point to travel, rather than an inefficient pipe system that makes the Chozo feel not nearly as advanced as they actually were. Anyone could use pipes as transport, the Chozo use teleportation.
That, and Samus Returns had probably the best Ridley fight to date.