Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

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Monsieur Guillotine said:
The fact that Smash can only be considered a proper competitive fighting game if you disable 90% of the features is a sign that the FGC should stop treating it as one.
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I wouldn't consider that an unpopular opinion; the only I've seen that really think that are lolcows, and I wouldn't treat their opinions as being equal to normal people.
 
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Monsieur Guillotine said:
The fact that Smash can only be considered a proper competitive fighting game if you disable 90% of the features is a sign that the FGC should stop treating it as one.
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I don't people feel that fell the need to disable all the items and most of the stages so they can have a real match. At that point why not just play a real fighting game. Half the fun in Smash is all the dumb bullshit. They normally claim its to make it about skill, but I 'd argue it takes real skill to fight luck and the environment as well as the opponents.
 
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Ruin said:
I miss the turn based strategy rpg genre. Seriously it's almost fucking extinct, pretty much the only franchise still putting out new entries is Disgaea.
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does fire emblem count, or is it something else
 
Speaking as a Final Fantasy fan, I don't like XII very much. It's a beautiful game to be sure, and definitely one of the more realized FF worlds, but its combat is just plain boring and I hate that you have to work to get the more useful gambits to make your team actually useful. Games like Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment let you do whatever the hell you want right out of the gate, so I don't understand why they would arbitrarily start you off with some useless ones in XII.

And while I'm at it I don't mind the license system all that much. I think it offers a little more customization with how you want to specialize your party members.
 
BadTanMan said:
Smash Bros is the hackiest gaming franchise of all time and offers nothing new to fighting games aside from blatant fan service
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It's a party game, dude. Nintendo never intended for it to be played in fighting game tournaments and shit like that. Smash ain't a fightan vidya gaem.

You're basically saying you hate Mario Party because of RNG and wackiness and are comparing it to a game like Carcassone or Agricola or Catan. Totally different things.

"Blatant fan service". Lol. No shit, bro. That's some top notch commentary.
 
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I don't get the appeal of Stardew Valley. I'm not saying it's a bad game, I just could never get into it the way I could get into something like Terraria. Maybe it's the day/night system?

I don't think there's ever been a good Korean MMO and I'm amazed at how people keep getting burnt by them year after year. Also I don't think Wildstar got a fair shake, it had the best housing system in years and the over the top cartoonishness was refreshing amidst the swamp of stale Unreal engine Korean ports.
Syaoran Li said:
I think we need more video games set in the Vietnam War, even if I do know it's fairly unpopular compared to World War II, Modern, or Sci-Fi.
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Rising Storm 2: Vietnam has been around for over a year in which time they've added the ARVN and Australians. Obviously it's not going to appeal to people who don't like realistic shooters and it has a lack of official maps but it's really solid for getting your 'Nam fix.
 
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Streamlining (or dumbing down if you prefer) isn't always a bad thing. Some games have features that don't add a lot to the overall gameplay or are otherwise redundant or useless. Really, so long as it either gets replaced with a more interesting and involved system or gets merged with something else, streamlining actually has its place.

Now, if something that adds a lot to a game or at least has some potential in future releases gets removed without any real thought, or just for the sake of appealing to a "broader audience", then there's a problem.

Basically, just ask yourself. "How does this add or take away from the experience I intend to create?"
 
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