Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Gondola Enjoyer]

Name me an experience where I could race a supercar down a highway and cause extravagant crashes for points.

Become an Eastern European politician, they do it all the time.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

When Metroid Prime was first announced, lots of people were concerned with how a 2D platformer would translate to a first-person perspective. Those people's concerns were entirely vindicated because, just like all first-person platforming, it feels like shit.

In fact, the only thing worse than the platforming in Metroid Prime is the combat in Metroid Prime. And the morph ball controls in Metroid Prime. And the pointlessly tanky enemies in Metroid Prime. And the godawful droning 15-second music loops in Metroid Prime.

Metroid Prime isn't a good game.

 

[LORD IMPERATOR]

When Metroid Prime was first announced, lots of people were concerned with how a 2D platformer would translate to a first-person perspective. Those people's concerns were entirely vindicated because, just like all first-person platforming, it feels like shit.

In fact, the only thing worse than the platforming in Metroid Prime is the combat in Metroid Prime. And the morph ball controls in Metroid Prime. And the pointlessly tanky enemies in Metroid Prime. And the godawful droning 15-second music loops in Metroid Prime.

Metroid Prime isn't a good game.

Most Metroid fans would disagree with you. Metroid Prime is a sacred, Holy Grail to them. Saying that it sucks is like telling an old-school Black Isle Fallout fan that Fallout 1 and 2 sucks. Metroid Prime 1-3 is seen by the Metroid fans as the last great games in the series before Metroid Dread returned the series back to form. Mostly because Other M pisses the shit out of them, and Federation Force was a nothingburger.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Metroid Prime 1-3 is seen by the Metroid fans as the last great games in the series before Metroid Dread returned the series back to form.

I haven't played Dread, but I'd rather play any 2D Metroid I've played a hundred times before any Prime game once. People want to pretend that it was some amazing translation of the series from 2D to 3D and it's just not - it's a miserable chore of a series that turns all the elements that work fine in 2D into a kludgy, annoying, unbearably slow mess in 3D.

God, all those endless fucking corridors where there's absolutely zero room to maneuver while you just exchange damage with some enemy that takes six quadrillion shots to die.

 

[RX-78]

Fans will accept all levels of mediocrity as long as it's made by the guy they recognize.

Welcome to any Nintendo fandom.

 

[Swine Schwein]

Everything should try to kill you, and everything that seems helpful should be a disguised monster.

The Immortal. Cool shit.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

Welcome to any Nintendo fandom.

I no longer wish for the Zelda franchise to improve, I only wish for it to get worse as a punishment to Zeldafags for constantly proclaiming that BOTW reinvented open-world games and is the greatest open-world game ever made. Please Aonuma, reuse the same map for the 3rd fucking time and make an even more horrendous menu UI that gets in the way of gameplay even more, I want Zeldafags to suffer.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

make an even more horrendous menu UI that gets in the way of gameplay even more

Without hyperbole, I've never seen a video game that makes it less intuitive to do something as basic as set a custom map marker. There's a million examples of much older games doing it so seamlessly that you never even think about it and yet Breath of the Wild manages to turn it into an ordeal.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

Without hyperbole, I've never seen a video game that makes it less intuitive to do something as basic as set a custom map marker. There's a million examples of much older games doing it so seamlessly that you never even think about it and yet Breath of the Wild manages to turn it into an ordeal.

Aonuma mentioned Skyrim being one of the main inspirations for BOTW and it really shows as only someone obsessed with Skyrim can design a game that forces you to pop into a menu UI constantly during combat and think that's perfectly fine.

 

[RX-78]

I no longer wish for the Zelda franchise to improve, I only wish for it to get worse as a punishment to Zeldafags for constantly proclaiming that BOTW reinvented open-world games and is the greatest open-world game ever made. Please Aonuma, reuse the same map for the 3rd fucking time and make an even more horrendous menu UI that gets in the way of gameplay even more, I want Zeldafags to suffer.

Breadth of Zelda's Wide Ass totally killed the open world genre for me, to the point to where I reflexively despise the "you make your OWN fun!!!!" types of games. What is the point of infinite freedom if there's utterly nothing to do in a game? I put my money down for tight controls, good UI, and most importantly structure.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Every Ubisoft Game: "Oh my god, they just have you climbing a tower to go to a bunch of points on the map. So awful."

Breath of the Wild: "Oh my god, they have you climbing up towers to go to a bunch of points on the map. This is revolutionary!"

 

[Judge Dredd]

When it comes to "worst game ever" or worst games of their respective generation, I can't see why people still point the games we all hear about like ET or Superman 64 or Big Rig Racing when there are so many low-effort itch.io LGBT/text "games" that they expect you to pay for.

I kind of get you, but at the same time it feels unfair to pick on them because they're so well known, and giving the mark of worst game would only make them notorious.

Though related (I might have said this before) but I think it's bullshit how the "best indie games of all time" lists are still pulled from Metacritic or game journo lists from the GamerGate era, listing trash like Gone Home, Braid, and Disco Elisium. Even if you like those games, it's criminal that games like Shadow Complex, Geometry Wars, and Hotline Miami are all but forgotten.

What about those that WANT to race but cannot afford it or just want to live out a fantasy that a simracer COULD provide?

The problem I have with simracers are those that spend ten grand on a racing rig set up. For that price you go to a track day and rent fast cars for real.

The Japanese suck at making video games. Western devs did it better until all the glowie propaganda took over full time during the 2010's.

Hi Phil Fish, still haven't moved on I see.

 

[AMHOLIO]

I try to look at the Sweet Baby thread every so often but it keeps devolving into "fuck woke fuck all darkies" instead of "fuck companies for pump and dumping overbloated messes of slop with forced woke as a defense mechanism". The thread just has more angry people on KF saying that since it's hard to find a site that lets you, but it's boring to browse through the highlights and it's people bitching about something like that. I'm glad there's still people there who end up defending games because they enjoy them and are fun even if they have gay wokeshit in them. I'm a simple asshat, as long as the game isn't preachy about the SJW part I'll be fine with a bunch of random ethnicities and sexualities. I just want a game where I'm not being forced into the grind loop of another popular multimillion dollar game and it's always online and it's filled with microtransactions and the writing is powersanded to be a marvel movie and so on. And translated to accurately reflect the original text if translated.

I miss games that I could buy at a normal price, and companies use YOU HATE WOKE LMAO as a meatshield and it's such a fucking pain watching that thread slide in and out of that. The pure anti-woke deserve a space to complain so it's why I'm not going there to complain. It's just painful to see the division of problem with game industry go into the culture wars again instead of problem with companies being slimeballs with bloat and using woke as a meatshield stay as such. Gaymer gayte.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

I try to look at the Sweet Baby thread every so often but it keeps devolving into "fuck woke fuck all darkies" instead of "fuck companies for pump and dumping overbloated messes of slop with forced woke as a defense mechanism". The thread just has more angry people on KF saying that since it's hard to find a site that lets you, but it's boring to browse through the highlights and it's people bitching about something like that. I'm glad there's still people there who end up defending games because they enjoy them and are fun even if they have gay wokeshit in them. I'm a simple asshat, as long as the game isn't preachy about the SJW part I'll be fine with a bunch of random ethnicities and sexualities. I just want a game where I'm not being forced into the grind loop of another popular multimillion dollar game and it's always online and it's filled with microtransactions and the writing is powersanded to be a marvel movie and so on. And translated to accurately reflect the original text if translated.

I miss games that I could buy at a normal price, and companies use YOU HATE WOKE LMAO as a meatshield and it's such a fucking pain watching that thread slide in and out of that. The pure anti-woke deserve a space to complain so it's why I'm not going there to complain. It's just painful to see the division of problem with game industry go into the culture wars again instead of problem with companies being slimeballs with bloat and using woke as a meatshield stay as such. Gaymer gayte.

Nah celeste and good tranny games are bad as well, fuck off with the troon shit.

 

[Catgirl Fornicator]

There should be more friendly fire toggled on by default in games to punish antisocial niggers like hunter mains in destiny 2. They are on average worse than having DSP on your team. Either they then learn to keep an eye out for their team at all times or they quit and nothing of value is lost. Win Win.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

fuck companies for pump and dumping overbloated messes of slop with forced woke as a defense mechanism

I think that's a false premise. A ton of these people are hardcore true believers and are willing to sink their companies if it makes them look sufficiently progressive.

 

[The Tall Man]

There should be more friendly fire toggled on by default in games to punish antisocial niggers like hunter mains in destiny 2. They are on average worse than having DSP on your team. Either they then learn to keep an eye out for their team at all times or they quit and nothing of value is lost. Win Win.

This does sounds more traumatic than controversial

AAA studios should offer all their games only via a stadia like streaming service, and everyone in their games should be fat, trans, gay and bipoc.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Nah celeste and good tranny games are bad as well, fuck off with the troon shit.

Hey, I don't disagree, but they're less immediate in this situation. I hate troons in my games so I just let the other people in the thread hate the race & sexuality part in peace. For the record, I'd hate to see all games become woke hell, I just want a game crash at this point then to tackle the woke hell. I don't think we'll stop seeing wokeness until we get rid of the extra greed incentive from companies (so dismantling DEI/BRIDGE) and sadly the current crop of game developers get burned out since there ARE too many true believers.

I think that's a false premise. A ton of these people are hardcore true believers and are willing to sink their companies if it makes them look sufficiently progressive.

Yeah, I know sadly. But I rather rally around them sinking their game based on quality to dodge their initial "reee you hate homos and black people (no other race matters". I hate those people too but I can't really say I care often about seeing homos and nonhuwhites appear in a game as long as they don't become preachy and not every game drops all white people. I think I just feel sad because I hate these guys but I'm notnas extreme as other kiwis who hate those guys so I don't have a side I fully want to be on other than stop lecturing me about white guilt and stop shitting up games with Hollywood movie problems. The censorship/forced diversity and mismanagement go hand in hand.

AAA studios should offer all their games only via a stadia like streaming service, and everyone in their games should be fat, trans, gay and bipoc.

Finally, only the most soy of gamers would follow, financial crash that bitch.

 

[The Hardest R]

I'll never understand the autistic inclination to say "Boy, I sure enjoyed all the fun parts of this game. Now let's spend ten times that long doing frustrating busywork the developers put in as a sadistic joke."

There was a lot of dick measuring contests with achievements during the 360’s heyday. I’m sure there are turbospergs that still give a shit about achievements. I’m not sure anyone ever gave a fuck about PlayStation trophies. I knew niggas who rented games just because it offered easy achievements that would give you 1,000 points.

Level scaling in general is absolutely ass.

I’m glad people have come around on this. I remember that was considered the hot new thing 20-25 years ago and thought it ruined any game it was implemented.

but it's boring to browse through the highlights and it's people bitching about something like that.

So don’t click on it? I haven’t bothered to see what the thread is about beyond the first few days.

Metroid Prime 1-3 is seen by the Metroid fans as the last great games in the series before Metroid Dread returned the series back to form. Mostly because Other M pisses the shit out of them, and Federation Force was a nothingburger.

I enjoyed Prime 1 when that came out. Prime 2 and 3 were boring though. I think in hindsight the GameCube really needed a strong quality game that had mature themes and that’s what contributed a lot to Prime’s hype. That was a big deal back then, especially since Grand Theft Auto 3 was a huge game at the time. In 2002-2003 if you couldn’t shoot things or kill a hooker, nobody wanted to play it.

 

[AMHOLIO]

So don’t click on it? I haven’t bothered to see what the thread is about beyond the first few days.

Yeah, I won't, don't worry. I just wanted to get out some bitching today, I should eat and go to bed.

I knew niggas who rented games just because it offered easy achievements that would give you 1,000 points

There's still cheap indie asset flip games that try to prey off this but I don't think they're successful as they used to be. At least, not in the English speaking game sphere, maybe China or Brazil still is trying to gload about their gay steam achievements catalog.