Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Fake News Anchor]

I think that if the game mechanics allow for save-scumming, you can't get mad at the player base for doing it. Tryhards that berate players for reloading during a 40 hour playthrough of Crusader Kings because their character died retardedly are assholes: I'm not throwing a 40 hour campaign down the toilet and lose my kingdom because I forgot to remove my character from the frontline of a pitched battle. If a game isn't meant to be save scummed, either don't allow for manual saves or do what CK2 does and only allow achievements on an Ironman mode.

 

[Calandrino]

Haven't really played the recent games but it looks like Mortal Kombat got better female models and costumes now that NRS has been taken over by SJW Communist trannies. The stripper-looking costumes from the older 3D games were too dumb-looking and tryhard, plus they all had sameface and lantern jaws. The costumes seem like they tried to fix "male gaze" while still being somewhat edgy and it kinda balances out into looking like something out of the 2D games or the movie, like kinda cleavagey and leggy but not something out of a terrifying deviantart bimbofication comic.

Metroid and Castlevania were some of the greatest titles on the NES.

Would I play either today? Probably not.

I would, they're apparently making money on those 8-bit style Bloodstained games

 

[KingofNothing]

Sonic R is the best Sonic racing game and the concept behind Sonic R should be used for every sonic racing game as despite it's flaws it at least stands out as being a more unique game than the other racing games that are just pure mario kart clones.

I agree with you in concept, but not in execution. The best Sonic racer is All-Stars Transformed. Sonic racing games SHOULD be like Sonic R though, but the game itself is not good.

 

[Meat Target]

I'm tired of these safe lukewarm takes people. You want an unpopular opinion? I like Oblivion, its a good game. Not without problems but for the time it was really impressive and still fun to revisit today.

I don't know why but almost immediately it became popular for contrarian nerds to hate on it and it still gets shit on to this day. The way people go on about it you would think its the worst thing since Superman 64.

This, same for Fallout 3. All the sperging about "hurr durr bad writing and not a real ArPeeGee" from fanboys of the old games is mostly rooted in nostalgia for their favorite geriatric CRPG.

I like turn based JRPG combat, I know a lot of people don't but I like it much much more than the active time open world games with 10,000 map markers to clear.

I don't dislike turn-based combat in JRPGs, but in western RPGs like the aforementioned old Fallout games, turn-based is rife with unintentional bullshit. "Oh, your shotgun missed that raider at point blank, but he can one-hit crit kill you with a crowbar from six tiles away in one turn!"

 

[Rakdos92]

This, same for Fallout 3. All the sperging about "hurr durr bad writing and not a real ArPeeGee" from fanboys of the old games is mostly rooted in nostalgia for their favorite geriatric CRPG.

I was surprised to learn that people look down on Fallout 3. I certainly enjoyed it more than Fallout New Vegas.

 

[Pissmaster]

I have to disagree with both

Metroid and Castlevania were some of the greatest titles on the NES.

Would I play either today? Probably not.

I don't think most games from the 8 bit era have aged particularly well, the color palettes, flickers, and janky animation compared to the 16 bit era place most of these games in the better remembered than played category.

And this is coming from someone who was a kid and played these games in their prime.

Some genres age better than others, like puzzle games on the NES are still perfectly playable when modern equivalents are just mechanically the same thing with nicer graphics. Two NES games I can easily recommend that I played as an adult are Devil World and Klax.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

I don't hate Mass Effect 3. Yes, the Crucible is a giant WTF, yes, Marauder Shield as the final boss is irritating as fuck and the last mission in general was rushed out ASAP which made it black and blue, and yes, the endings are tonally inconsistent with the sci-fi pulp the earlier games were. But it's a game that handles well due to PvE multiplayer and the Citadel DLC does try to fix the badness of Priority: Earth with a much pulpier and more engaging boss fight. It doesn't eliminate the main game's flaws, but as least they tried to fix the massive mistakes they made as best they could.

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

Some genres age better than others, like puzzle games on the NES are still perfectly playable when modern equivalents are just mechanically the same thing with nicer graphics. Two NES games I can easily recommend that I played as an adult are Devil World and Klax.

I would say anything with a arcade quality to them works extremely well too, Balloon Fight & Duck Hunt I think are still pretty funny for example. Would say the same for arcade conversions like Pacman & Mario Bros, those are still good versions of those games. I find that ironically the multi-level games that defined the NES are the ones that aged the worst.

 

[Vault Boy]

I was surprised to learn that people look down on Fallout 3. I certainly enjoyed it more than Fallout New Vegas.

The problem is that some people take their love for New Vegas to the point where they feel the need to shit talk Bethesda and their Fallout games whenever possible. Never mind that New Vegas wouldn't even exist without the foundation Bethesda made with 3, those fans would rather blame them for every flaw they're willing to acknowledge and act like Obsidian are simultaneously god-tier and helpless developers that keep getting "bullied" by the publishers.

Basically, I generally enjoy Obsidian games, but can't stand their fanbase for the life of me.

 

[Dysnomia]

Game series like senran kagura, the neptunia series and the atelier series all seem like low effort coomer bait.

I liked the Atelier Iris trilogy. But other than Atelier Annie for DS I haven't bought any other games. Iris had a male protagonist in all three. Although in the second game you switched between Viese and Felt, who were in different locations and had different tasks that tied into the main quest. I liked the clumsy wind mana in the shop who kept tripping. You can see that she actually does have feet because when she trips the tornado around her legs disappears.

The third game was my favorite. Nell was actually pretty cute and likable despite the big boobed ditz trope. I liked the side quest where you have to find homes for kittens.

Annie looks like a boy and I thought the kid on the cover was a boy at first and someone else was Annie.

But the modern ones really do like like waifu bait to me. Maybe they are good games. But it's obvious that there is a huge coomer aspect that sells the series.

 

[Meat Target]

The problem is that some people take their love for New Vegas to the point where they feel the need to shit talk Bethesda and their Fallout games whenever possible. Never mind that New Vegas wouldn't even exist without the foundation Bethesda made with 3, those fans would rather blame them for every flaw they're willing to acknowledge and act like Obsidian are simultaneously god-tier and helpless developers that keep getting "bullied" by the publishers.

Basically, I generally enjoy Obsidian games, but can't stand their fanbase for the life of me.

New Vegas is one of my favorite games of all time, and yet, because its fans are such fart-huffing snobs, I will not hesitate to shit on it just to make them sperg out.

 

[Vault Boy]

New Vegas is one of my favorite games of all time, and yet, because its fans are such fart-huffing snobs, I will not hesitate to shit on it just to make them sperg out.

I find New Vegas to be the best of a great trilogy of games, but people need to stop putting it on a pedastal.

At this point, I roll my eyes whenever a new hour long video about New Vegas comes out that amounts to sucking the game's dick with pseudo-intellectual rambling and pointless potshots to 3 (and 4 to a slightly lesser extent). That horse has been beaten to the point where it's a stain on the ground, what groundbreaking revelation can these guys possibly come up with to justify clogging up the YouTube results page?

I want Many A True Nerd to make "Fallout: New Vegas is worse than you think it is" just for originality's sake.

 

[Gloomy guest]

New Vegas is one of my favorite games of all time, and yet, because its fans are such fart-huffing snobs, I will not hesitate to shit on it just to make them sperg out.

I prefer New Vegas and the OG Fallouts but the No Mutants Allowed crowd are insufferable autists.

 

[Totally Awesome]

Haven't really played the recent games but it looks like Mortal Kombat got better female models and costumes now that NRS has been taken over by SJW Communist trannies. The stripper-looking costumes from the older 3D games were too dumb-looking and tryhard, plus they all had sameface and lantern jaws. The costumes seem like they tried to fix "male gaze" while still being somewhat edgy and it kinda balances out into looking like something out of the 2D games or the movie, like kinda cleavagey and leggy but not something out of a terrifying deviantart bimbofication comic.


I would, they're apparently making money on those 8-bit style Bloodstained games

Anybody who complains about "male gaze" is a fucking dumbass. Both men and women sexualize each other. They have sex and pop out kids, because that's how the humans work. No sexualization means no kids, which means the human species dies out.

 

[Naamaleipuri]

My friends and I sunk over 200 hours into Metal Gear Survive, despite all the outcry, it's a solid horde survival with some pretty unique mechanics. I'd say we got our money's worth.

Game series like senran kagura, the neptunia series and the atelier series all seem like low effort coomer bait.

I'm baffled that you included Atelier along with those two, a game series with a nearly 25 year old history.
Spawning multiple spin offs aimed for different demographics. You probably just saw a few pictures of Atelier Ryza and heard some controversy about it. So I'll forgive you.
Atelier Ryza is actually one of the best in the series, but I prefer the sprite art games.

 

[McAfee'sCorpse]

No Man's Sky had the best video game comeback ever.

 

[Demon King]

Not all Gacha games are bad.

 

[Gun Safety]

The constant improvements on graphics are a waste. We're playing the same games that were made 20 years ago but they just keep making it more graphically demanding so you have to pump thousands into hardware to keep up.

 

[Rakdos92]

The constant improvements on graphics are a waste. We're playing the same games that were made 20 years ago but they just keep making it more graphically demanding so you have to pump thousands into hardware to keep up.

Yeah, look at games that chose a more stylized design like, say, Killer7 or Super Mario 64. They might be old, but you can still enjoy the look of the game for what it is.
Hell, lemme try and count games that have the same thing: Star Fox Adventure, Super Mario Sunshine, Reus, Banner Saga, Bastion, Brigador, Brütal Legend...

 

[Marissa Moira]

Yeah, look at games that chose a more stylized design like, say, Killer7 or Super Mario 64. They might be old, but you can still enjoy the look of the game for what it is.
Hell, lemme try and count games that have the same thing: Star Fox Adventure, Super Mario Sunshine, Reus, Banner Saga, Bastion, Brigador, Brütal Legend...

You have no idea how much modern tech actually improves stylized graphics.

You can get shit that looks incredibly close to 1980's anime now and not just modern cell animation. There's particle systems that can perfectly replicate things like animation style explosions and all the little details.