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Your controversial gaming opinions?
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Now I think, we all think, that these Battle Royale genre games are a little hit or miss, but having a fully optimized VR game of that type would be damn cool. Plus you need to add various NPC creatures to mess with everyone as the world gets smaller!
Like more experimental?
I don't like Seiken Densetsu 3 as much as Secret of Mana. In fact, I started my first playthrough of it months ago, stopped one day, and forgot until earlier today that I had been playing it at all.
I also like Secret of Evermore more than either of them.
I also like Secret of Evermore more than either of them.
Same here. It's really easy to get into, has varied environments (and looks pretty), and is, frankly, fun. I also really like the lore and world. It's one of the few games that I'm able to play for hours on end without noticing the time go by. I honestly preferred it to The Witcher 3.
I really don't think Splatoon and ARMS are even system sellers or popular. Yeah', they outstand in the AAA market and have nice visuals, but as a shooter and fighting games, if they were outside the Nintendo market, they would be considered pretty average, even mediocre. They're medium fishes in a small pond. Yeah, they have some millions of players but CoD and Bettlefield outdo them in community.
Local splitscreen multiplayer is a must in games and the option of playing online is not a scapegot. I wish i could play JoJo's Eyes of Heaven on PS4 with my brother, that he's reading the manga, but no splitscreen multiplayer. I would LOVE to pay to have the mild chance play online with a stranger in an abandoned game that could be good with frinds is it had splitscreen (?)...
I really cant take seriously anyone that clains The Witcher are masterpieces and CD Projekt RED is a greatd eveloper.
Hideo Kojima makes good games, with great gameplay. I laugh at the "lolkojimamovies" guys when they drool over AAA that rely heavily on the "cinematic" side.
Musou games are fun aside from licenses, but licenses make it more interesting and introduce mechanics like Hyrule Warriors. Also, best musou i have ever played is Sengoku Basara 3, FIGHT ME.
If the MOBA genre bombs, nothing of value will be lost.
Faeria is better than Hearthstone.
Horizon's Aloy's desing was a marketing stunt wanting to cynically capitalize on the "strong female lead" trend. Guerrilla Games, don't act like an hyperbudgeted game that is nothing more than a good looking sandbox didnt need to attract all demographies.
Japanese dubs aren't always better.
Handhelds are domed in favor of mobile.
Local splitscreen multiplayer is a must in games and the option of playing online is not a scapegot. I wish i could play JoJo's Eyes of Heaven on PS4 with my brother, that he's reading the manga, but no splitscreen multiplayer. I would LOVE to pay to have the mild chance play online with a stranger in an abandoned game that could be good with frinds is it had splitscreen (?)...
I really cant take seriously anyone that clains The Witcher are masterpieces and CD Projekt RED is a greatd eveloper.
Hideo Kojima makes good games, with great gameplay. I laugh at the "lolkojimamovies" guys when they drool over AAA that rely heavily on the "cinematic" side.
Musou games are fun aside from licenses, but licenses make it more interesting and introduce mechanics like Hyrule Warriors. Also, best musou i have ever played is Sengoku Basara 3, FIGHT ME.
If the MOBA genre bombs, nothing of value will be lost.
Faeria is better than Hearthstone.
Horizon's Aloy's desing was a marketing stunt wanting to cynically capitalize on the "strong female lead" trend. Guerrilla Games, don't act like an hyperbudgeted game that is nothing more than a good looking sandbox didnt need to attract all demographies.
Japanese dubs aren't always better.
Handhelds are domed in favor of mobile.
Sometimes I lose interest for games (that admittedly I wasn't 100% interested in) if their fanbase is too annoying (can't deal with criticism, elevates the creator to deity-level, etc). So I decided against giving Nier Automata a chance and my choice is cemented with every "YOKO TARO IS A GOD" or "DON'T CRITICISE 2B" I read :P
I refuse to play any RTS until they incorporate better battle animations. Hordes of warriors running into each other to... Stand still and swing randomly. I'm sick of seeing it.
Watched gameplay of They Are Billions and it stuck out like a sore thumb. Sure, it's an indie game and budget is a factor so I don't expect them to get it right. And I know that it needs crazy compute power and takes a lot of effort.
I want hit detection, dynamic animations like evading and blocking, physics etc.
The current state is just so stiff and boring that I don't even want to play those games.
Watched gameplay of They Are Billions and it stuck out like a sore thumb. Sure, it's an indie game and budget is a factor so I don't expect them to get it right. And I know that it needs crazy compute power and takes a lot of effort.
I want hit detection, dynamic animations like evading and blocking, physics etc.
The current state is just so stiff and boring that I don't even want to play those games.
I cannot understand how anyone can sit there with a straight face and say that PUBG was the BEST game of this year.
The Evil Within 1 was a gem of a game that got unduly hounded cos it was seen as too hard.
I haven't played a game with such an oppressive atmosphere throughout each element of its design since the first Demon's Souls, but nah, too few resources, fights were hard, it's rubbish.
Now I sit here playing the second one and it feels like an overreaction to unfair criticism, and the game is much easier as a result.
I haven't played a game with such an oppressive atmosphere throughout each element of its design since the first Demon's Souls, but nah, too few resources, fights were hard, it's rubbish.
Now I sit here playing the second one and it feels like an overreaction to unfair criticism, and the game is much easier as a result.
That's not controversial at all. That's just stating facts.
I can't understand anyone who doesn't think PUBG is one of the best games ever.
Yeah I should've included that whole genre, it's horrible.
:-D you are my soul mate
I feel even this has better animation than all those games:
I still wish Mighty No. 9 would become a franchise, comics, series, sequels. The whole shebang.
Naturally changes would have to be made but it's so painfully untapped at the moment.
Naturally changes would have to be made but it's so painfully untapped at the moment.
I feel like people are way too harsh with Dark Souls 2 and granted, the game has loads of issues (so their disappointment is not unwarranted), but it also had a lot of new ideas and there's just a lot to explore, especially if you own Scholar of the First Sin (or the DLC to the original). For me, it was a lot more challenging and memorable than Dark Souls 3, where they went a bit overboard with trying to make sure you remember all those callbacks to Dark Souls 1 (2 did this as well, but I feel like not to this extent).
This is not controversial. This is a fact.
What is controversial is my opinion that this isn't actually saying much. Mario Kart has really never been that good. In fact it's only with Mario Kart 8 that they finally made a decent racer out of this series.
Not really. It is pretty much the perfect game.
But I acknowledge that incorrect opinions exist out there :P
Hollow Knight isn't all that great, and is more in line with Metroid Zero Mission than SotN and Super Metroid.
Evil Within 2 was not a big improvement over 1. It was better to be sure but characters are still boring as hell and worst of all it still refuses at times to fully utilise its setting.
I like him as a personality(even if it is probably a bit put on) and all but Id agree the level of fandom around him is a bit strange.
I like him as a personality(even if it is probably a bit put on) and all but Id agree the level of fandom around him is a bit strange.
I read this opinion very often.
And my controversial opinion would be - Why!? It's the very definition of mediocrity. Ugly characters, ugly presentation, annoying audio, bland tracks. It plays well, but not so well that it automatically becomes a remarkable game. It could be better than MK64, but that's the worst Mario Kart game (which is controversial too, lol). I didn't love it back in the day, and I played it again as recently as last month - I'm still not sure what people see in it. It could not be even the best kart racer at the time considering it also had to compete with Diddy Kong Racing, which is on an entirely different level.
Same with Kojima. Gamers have this tendency to worship middle aged Japanese men, lol.
It's just my opinion but, for me, it has a really high skill ceiling with the timing based boost mechanics, and the way that boost can be stored briefly. Mario Kart touched upon similar mechanics with double dash and ds, which are the best MK games, but the waggling to boost always felt a little crude, and in general, I just preferred the timing based mechanics of CTR.
As far as graphics go, I think CTR looks pretty nice. Less smooth than Diddy Kong racing perhaps, but it has a lot more detail. Comparing it to Diddy Kong Racing, the tracks are also a lot more intricate, and the game itself, has much more mechanical depth. Diddy Kong is a feature packed game, but the handling model isn't especially good and there's no intricate mechanics for advanced players to enjoy moment to moment (no drift / boosting system). Additionally, the powerup system isn't all that much fun either, with a set of useless weapons at the lower tier that need to be powered up to have any major effect. Diddy Kong's weapons lack the catchup mechanics that CTR and Mario Kart do (the blue shell and similar items) and that makes the game inherently, far less accessible. If someone is worse at the game, they are just worse at the game and they're going to suffer in 12th place for it. In DKR if you're in first you can just focus on the blue balloons and run the same lap over and over again till you win. It just doesn't have the same dynamics as these other kart racers.
One game that doesn't come up in this comparison very often or at all is Speed Freaks on the PS1. I think that game is also better than MK64.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU5--ne4KE8
Really fun, really nice graphics (probably better than any of the games we've listed) and in general it's just got a lot of personality.
I do agree the drifting is good, but it's really the only thing I liked about it, personally speaking, haha. Maybe I'm too harsh because I do find it very ugly, everything from the font to the characters, it doesn't click with me. I like Polar, though, I always played as Polar :P But I'd disagree about the drifting being better than DD/DS as I pretty much believe the genre peaked gameplay-wise with MKDS. Mario Kart 8 and Sonic Racing Transformed have fantastic gameplay, but yeah, I feel like the drifting in DS made it a very different experience. As for DDR it wasn't deep, but it was fast, fun, polished, varied, beautiful, had a superb soundtrack, it was very close to being perfect IMHO.
I wish there were more kart racers ;(
Symphony of the Night sucks and I hate what it did to the Castlevania series. Give me back individual levels rather than this Metroidvania bullshit.
Most "artistic decisions" in AAA games were probably influenced by marketing on some level. I don't think this is necessarily wrong or right (we have no idea to know as consumers who don't work at Guerilla) but I don't think the motivations behind why the studio designed her that way actually affects the quality of her design (which, IMO, is excellent as someone who hasn't ever played Horizon).
Gameplay changes all the time though? Just look at Street fighter 4 to 5, or the abysmal SF vs Tekken. Or Zelda OoT to BotW.
Or how Melee went to abysmal Brawl and then to acceptable 4.
That statement is just factually wrong lol.
Mario Galaxy was overrated, and had shitty controls due to the Wiimote being garbage. An OK game, but would have been so much better if it could be played with a controller.
Mario Oddyssey is overrated too. Good game, but the gameplay is as dull as always in Marioland. Kinda sloppy controls too at times. Better than Galaxy, at least.
Sonic 1-3&K + Mania are better than the Mario series in its entirety.
Mario Oddyssey is overrated too. Good game, but the gameplay is as dull as always in Marioland. Kinda sloppy controls too at times. Better than Galaxy, at least.
Sonic 1-3&K + Mania are better than the Mario series in its entirety.
I feel that Madden (and to a lesser effect, Call of Duty) have perpetuated unhealthy, but inevitable, practices in the games industry.
I also feel that World of Warcraft has distorted what success is so much that the entire MMO genre suffers for it.
Maybe these aren't terribly controversial?
I also feel that World of Warcraft has distorted what success is so much that the entire MMO genre suffers for it.
Maybe these aren't terribly controversial?
Cosigned. And I'm not really knocking BOTW here, it's an alright game but GS is way more fun for me.
Not particularly, no. Those two fall under the "uncomfortable truths" category more than anything.