Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[loli]

The scaling for the pokemon you fight is pretty bad. Like you'll have trainer and wild pokemon levels in the teens but you're fighting a level 35 Steelix in the gym. This is partially because after Whitney or Morty, you had a couple of orders to take on the gyms. Then there's Claire with pokemon in the 40's but surrounded by wild pokemon in the 20's. You're basically underleveled the whole time even if you fight every trainer you meet unless you grind. And in Kanto, it's even worse because they use the levels from R/B for wild pokemon, so leveling up other Pokemon you found on the way is a pain in the ass too. At least the trainers are high level. And yeah, a lot of the boss battles aren't particularly hard(Gen 2 probably has the easiest League), but I've been doing nuzlocke runs and those levels start to matter when you got permadeath on.


Ha, you're a funny guy.

I normally only have 3 or 4 pokes by the time I finish the league so I've never had a problem being underlevelled for any gym fight. The Steelix is a pushover if you took Totodile, which you should have, unless you're not using starters.

The only remotely hard gym battle is probably Whitney due to Miltank and rollout and there not really being a counter to that by the time you fight her, unless you go out of your way to train up a Machop or Geodude or something, and I can see a lot of people not wanting to do that.

 

[DarkSydePundit]

2009 was the absolute best year for video game releases and no year will ever come close to that again

There were games that basically started whole new genres of games

Minecraft
MW2
Demon’s Souls
Angry Birds
Dragon Age: Origins
Borderlands
Assassins Creed 2
League of Legends
Batman Arkham Asylum
Uncharted 2

Honorable Mention: Bionic Commando

 

[John Titor]

2009 was the absolute best year for video game releases and no year will ever come close to that again

There were games that basically started whole new genres of games

Minecraft
MW2
Demon’s Souls
Angry Birds
Dragon Age: Origins
Borderlands
Assassins Creed 2
League of Legends
Batman Arkham Asylum
Uncharted 2

Honorable Mention: Bionic Commando

Eh, saying MW2 and Uncharted started a new genre is kind of stretching it but I get what you mean. The 2010s felt like a renaissance for gaming and we are currently entering the dark ages.

 

[DarkSydePundit]

Eh, saying MW2 and Uncharted started a new genre is kind of stretching it but I get what you mean. The 2010s felt like a renaissance for gaming and we are currently entering the dark ages.

MW2 made Gaming on YouTube popular.

Fight me.

 

[MysticMisty]

Whitney is really bad only if you chose Cyndaquil and/or partook in literally no training

Naw, Whitney is bad only if you fail to go to the department store with a spare Drowzee/Abra and trade it for a female Machop. I'm a Cyndaquil trainer and I never had any major problems back in Gen II (or the Gen IV remakes for that matter). Hell, my team was almost completely assembled by the time I reached Morty. The longest part was waiting to train my newly bred Eevee for several days so I could have a level 6 Espeon to work with.

 

[Mangy Mutt]

JRPGs are equally as tiresome. There are very few that stick out of the crowd of boring grindfestivals with various coats of paint slapped on.

Agreed. Other than Pokemon, I've never been able to finish a turn-based RPG. I've tried to enjoy the "classics" such as Final Fantasy 7 but I just can't sit through all the boring back and fourth grinding that usually makes up the first ten hours of those games. The only RPGs that are fun are the ones with RPG elements but are played in real time, such as with Kingdom Hearts.

Final Fantasy as a whole should have died out years ago (the very first one had FINAL in the name for a reason) but at least the change from traditionally turn based to action RPG is hopefully gonna make the 7th's remake actually fun to play.

 

[loli]

Agreed. Other than Pokemon, I've never been able to finish a turn-based RPG. I've tried to enjoy the "classics" such as Final Fantasy 7 but I just can't sit through all the boring back and fourth grinding that usually makes up the first ten hours of those games. The only RPGs that are fun are the ones with RPG elements but are played in real time, such as with Kingdom Hearts.

Final Fantasy as a whole should have died out years ago (the very first one had FINAL in the name for a reason) but at least the change from traditionally turn based to action RPG is hopefully gonna make the 7th's remake actually fun to play.

I used to love turn-based JRPGs when I was younger, I played the first Final Fantasy all the way through several times. I've played Chrono Trigger, great game. The Golden Sun series, excellent games. I just can't for the life of me get into the genre anymore, even Pokemon is becoming insufferable to play.

The whole numbers grindfestival RNG collectathon thing absolutely doesn't appeal to me anymore, especially with the ridiculous metas like the Pokemon community has.

 

[downwardspiral]

graphics have been good enough since 2013 and we should just stop and focus and making hardware cheaper.

 

[KingofNothing]

Frankly, the only cliff that really matters is between Blue and Red, something that was probably meant to be SLOWLY built up to. Whitney is really bad only if you chose Cyndaquil and/or partook in literally no training, while Morty is luck-based (an added 20% failure chance on Hypnosis, on top of 55% accuracy) and his Pokemon can be neutered by heading up to Route 43 for a Girafarig. And I love that they tried to keep the variable order that they had in Kanto (Gen 1 and Gen 2), even if it flattened the leveling curves everywhere.

Kanto was pretty lacking, though, probably because they had to squeeze it into the cartridge. There are a few areas that seem a bit too empty even then, and you can tell that they ripped a few areas straight from R/B and reverse-engineered them to fit them into the map grid. The reason the leveling is so bad in Kanto is that they had to keep levels low enough that people wouldn't be thinking "Huh, why isn't this guy in the Elite Four?"; it's actually worse than it should be in certain areas, especially with the wild Pokemon, but usually so you can get Pokemon at a low enough level to train them and develop them as you wish (they didn't have Move Reminders, after all). They probably could have squeezed Cerulean City's theme or Route 25's theme in there somehow, too, but the remixes they do have are pretty good.

EDIT: For those of you who did not beat the League because they either spread their Exp too thin, don't want to do any training, or don't want to pick up a Lapras... That's on you.

I've had more trouble with Whitney no matter my party, so many crits and male pokemon whenever I had to fight her. SO MANY CRITS. Also surprisingly fast. With Morty, I just toss a Pidgeotto or Noctowl in his face since they basically wall anything in that gym. I'd be shocked if someone couldn't beat the League playing normally though. You get so much money for Full Restores and Revives that even the worst player should be able to brute force it. I don't think they could have squeezed Cerulean City's and Route 25's theme in the original, that game was packed to the brim as it was. Something had to go.

I normally only have 3 or 4 pokes by the time I finish the league so I've never had a problem being underlevelled for any gym fight. The Steelix is a pushover if you took Totodile, which you should have, unless you're not using starters.

The only remotely hard gym battle is probably Whitney due to Miltank and rollout and there not really being a counter to that by the time you fight her, unless you go out of your way to train up a Machop or Geodude or something, and I can see a lot of people not wanting to do that.

I just don't feel right not walking around with a full team first chance I get, but that's me being autistic about it. Also yeah, Steelix is easy to counter, I was just pointing out the level discrepancies in the area. Again, I just have terrible luck with Whitney. She crit my Geodude to death with Rollout. Terrible

 

[loli]

I've had more trouble with Whitney no matter my party, so many crits and male pokemon whenever I had to fight her. SO MANY CRITS. Also surprisingly fast. With Morty, I just toss a Pidgeotto or Noctowl in his face since they basically wall anything in that gym. I'd be shocked if someone couldn't beat the League playing normally though. You get so much money for Full Restores and Revives that even the worst player should be able to brute force it. I don't think they could have squeezed Cerulean City's and Route 25's theme in the original, that game was packed to the brim as it was. Something had to go.


I just don't feel right not walking around with a full team first chance I get, but that's me being autistic about it. Also yeah, Steelix is easy to counter, I was just pointing out the level discrepancies in the area. Again, I just have terrible luck with Whitney. She crit my Geodude to death with Rollout. Terrible

Jesus, she killed your Geodude? On the first rollout? That's going through non-STAB, 4x resistance, and Geodude's respectable defense.

You roll a zero on luck irl?

 

[KingofNothing]

Jesus, she killed your Geodude? On the first rollout? That's going through non-STAB, 4x resistance, and Geodude's respectable defense.

You roll a zero on luck irl?

Several crit rollouts in a row actually. Not much you can do about countering that so early in the game, but that's the RNG Gods for ya. Fun fact, Rock doesn't resist Rock so only 2x resistance too

 

[loli]

Several crit rollouts in a row actually. Not much you can do about countering that so early in the game, but that's the RNG Gods for ya. Fun fact, Rock doesn't resist Rock so only 2x resistance too

I often forget that rock doesn't resist rock, it's probably my least-used type. Thanks for the correction.

Best counter for Whitney is probably confusion or double team, or use dig with Geodude, since I think you can get the dig tm in the national park.

 

[Kulee Baba]

graphics have been good enough since 2013 and we should just stop and focus and making hardware cheaper.

I would agree with that with the caveat that all games need to be at least a solid 60 FPS. Anything lower is unplayable to me now which hurts because I loved the Nintendo 64.

 

[Raging Capybara]

This is going to get hate for this but I dont like the Witcher 3. And I found the Last of Us meh.. (also found God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Uncharted series snoozy)

Obviously I'm not a IGN reviewer or gaming critic. But I found Witcher 3s story dragging. Last of us and the other 4 arent really my cup of tea.

I played 16 or 17 hours of "The Witcher 3" and stopped. nothing had happened so far. I'm still on level 5 or so, the story doesn't make any sense, I don't know what my character is supposed to do or mean apart from hunting monsters for a living. It's overall an incredibly dull game.

I understand why someone would like this game, but it's not for me. Gosh, with 17 hours I can marathon the whole Lord of the Rings movies.

And I didn't understand the combat too, I die every time even against a pack of wolves. It's too difficult for a pussy like me.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

Skyrim is a shitty game. It has terrible writing, boring characters, an uninspired world that is honestly an insult to the Nordic themes it leeches off of, the worst guild quests of all the Elder Scrolls games, utterly atrocious combat and every dungeon is a copy-paste bullshit rerun of the last.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Skyrim is a shitty game. It has terrible writing, boring characters, an uninspired world that is honestly an insult to the Nordic themes it leeches off of, the worst guild quests of all the Elder Scrolls games, utterly atrocious combat and every dungeon is a copy-paste bullshit rerun of the last.

Skyrim's Thieves and Dark Brotherhood quest made me yearn for the Oblivion quest more than.

 

[JM 590]

I used to love turn-based JRPGs when I was younger, I played the first Final Fantasy all the way through several times. I've played Chrono Trigger, great game. The Golden Sun series, excellent games. I just can't for the life of me get into the genre anymore, even Pokemon is becoming insufferable to play.

The whole numbers grindfestival RNG collectathon thing absolutely doesn't appeal to me anymore, especially with the ridiculous metas like the Pokemon community has.

Congratulations on growing up. Same boat here, same deal happened, I can't play turn-based RPGs anymore unless there's something strongly driving me.

South Park: The Stick of Truth was great because I'm a South Park fan and that game made me feel like a pig rolling around in shit. Undertale & Deltarune were decently amusing and short enough enough to carry me through. Citizens of Earth was fun and charming, but got really grindy near the end. That's about all I've played as an adult, though. Even the widely-beloved Persona 4 just couldn't hold my interest.

So I guess I can only really ever enjoy JRPGs if they were inspired by Earthbound and made by talented people.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

I played 16 or 17 hours of "The Witcher 3" and stopped. nothing had happened so far. I'm still on level 5 or so, the story doesn't make any sense, I don't know what my character is supposed to do or mean apart from hunting monsters for a living. It's overall an incredibly dull game.

I understand why someone would like this game, but it's not for me. Gosh, with 17 hours I can marathon the whole Lord of the Rings movies.

And I didn't understand the combat too, I die every time even against a pack of wolves. It's too difficult for a pussy like me.

To me, any Western RPG that doesn't let me create a character might as well be a JRPG.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

I played 16 or 17 hours of "The Witcher 3" and stopped. nothing had happened so far. I'm still on level 5 or so, the story doesn't make any sense, I don't know what my character is supposed to do or mean apart from hunting monsters for a living. It's overall an incredibly dull game.

The story gets a lot more focused and exciting after you leave the main continent. My recommendation is to push the story on your first playthrough. Any side quests can be completed during the endgame.

 

[c-no]

Skyrim is a shitty game. It has terrible writing, boring characters, an uninspired world that is honestly an insult to the Nordic themes it leeches off of, the worst guild quests of all the Elder Scrolls games, utterly atrocious combat and every dungeon is a copy-paste bullshit rerun of the last.

Much as I enjoy Skyrim, its guild system is shit. Morrowind and Oblivion had a more in-depth guild where you weren't the supreme leader within a few quest and in the case of Morrowind, they didn't throw in any drama. Fighters guild for Morrowind was dealing with a guild that was rife with some corruption that sucks up to one of the local guilds and you gain leadership by killing its head once you got far in. Meanwhile for Skyrim, it's become a furry wetdream and then find out that you become leader after a few quest because you had to fight another group that ended up being nothing more than glorified bandits with little lore beyond "they're mean people that kill werewolves." Compared to others that been around longer, a greenhorn that managed to be a furry a few days some how becomes head of the local equivalent of the fighters guild.

Despite Skyirm being bigger and all, its fantasy viking land still can't match up to dark elf land of Morrowind where you got giant mushrooms in a grazelands and giant hollowed crab shells as buildings in the wasteland area.