Unpopular opinion: The Wii is pretty much unmitigated shit with maybe a half-dozen games worth paying for. Motion controls are a vastly over-hyped gimmick that lost its luster after about three hours of Wii Sports.
People who don't "get" Half-Life, I don't consider them gamers.
That's funny, you'd think that people who play games are gamers.
I think the term gamer carries negative connotations.
I believe this too, but there is no real "good" word for a gamer other than "someone who plays games."
A jock can be called an athlete, for example.
I think it's more that certain people identify themselves as people who play games. These people tend to have terrible social skills. Me? I like to think of myself as a 'person.'
But first, a disclaimer. I express no opinion on OoT, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, or God of War because I feel both sides are well represented. I don't follow lots of threads, so it may be that some of my other opinions are well represented, and I just haven't seen it.
Clive Barker's Jericho was a campy romp and great fun.
Hellgate: London was a fun game, just buggy because it released too soon.
Eternal Darkness was a lousy game. (Fun story; lousy game.)
As a rule, stealth games suck.
Ratchet and Clank is the best PS2 franchise. Period.
Crimson Sea 2 was big fun. (Is this opinion rare because it's unpopular or because no one played it?)
Serious Sam has never been a successor to the old DooM games.
No shooter since DooM has been more fun, only more complicated.
Lego Star Wars rules, but Lego Indy and Batman are crap.
BioWare hasn't made a game worth playing since Shattered Steel.
There has never been a version of Counter-Strike that was fun to play. It has always felt like a janky mod.
Joint Ops was one of the most delightfully bug ridden games of all time.
Most RPGs are composed principally of filler and are not worth playing. This goes double for JRPGs and MMORPGs.
X-COM Apocalypse is just a better game than X-COM: Alien Invasion.
X-COM: Terror From The Deep fucking sucks ass.
Turn-based games were fine when that was all that the hardware and software could handle, but real-time is just plain and simply better except for a rare few cases when a game's mechanics truly need it, and why people constantly beat off to TBS I simply cannot understand.
Oblivion is a superior game to Morrowind if, for nothing else, the fact that I don't feel like I'm walking around on an enormous sun-bleached turd floating in a pool for 95% of the time.
On that note: body mods are designed by and for philistine perverts and mouthbreathers who can't go for ten seconds without some kind of sexual stimulation, and I wish nothing but a pox upon them.
On that note: 95% of Oblivion players are philistine perverts and mouthbreathers who can't go for ten seconds without some kind of sexual stimulation, hence why almost every single mod always showcases a female character with enormous tits in a skimpy outfit in its sample screenshots.
Ys V is fucking awesome. I mean, granted, out of like seven games it's still probably the second-worst of the lot, but it's only like one point behind the third-worst and 50 ahead of the worst of 'em all.
Diablo III should, where applicable, allow you to play with a gamepad, or at least gamepad+mouse. This "click to do everything" shit is getting really old.
EDIT: And on a Fallout note: fuck Dogmeat. Stupid dumbass dog is useless and people who go absolutly nuts over him are fucking idiots.
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edited January 2009
Nintendo still haven't managed to develop anything on the Wii that beats Wii Sports.
Shigeru Miyamoto is overrated and relies too much on his old ideas.
I hate how internet retards have sexualized Samus from Metroid.
Consoles killed the competitive FPS. Halo was the last nail in the coffin.
Soul Calibur > Tekken
Capcom makes bad fighting games. Fireball traps are not what we should be balancing 2D fighters around post 1995. I also still think SF4 looks bad, but I haven't played it yet. That, and SRK needs to stufu about other competitive communities.
Dead or Alive was a decent fighting game series. And it was fun, too.
Beyond Good and Evil was a completely mediocre and forgettable game. I played it at release, but I had no idea anyone else actually liked it until I encountered that opinion in gaming forums. Plus, the ending-ending was just dumb.
FFT was a bad game. Tactics Ogre did it way better way earlier, and Square fails for propping up their own dumb SRPG when they could be putting out sequels to a better series.
NIS games are grindfests with no rewards. They're really everything that is wrong with SRPGs, and while I see the appeal, I don't get the point: You're still limited to the challenges on the disk, and after a while you're just putting hours into a number-crunching simulator with terribly diminishing returns. They function alright until you hit about lvl100~, but after that you stop learning new skills, most of your old skills become useless, and you have to spend days grinding to accomplish anything (which is still nothing). And it's too bad, really, because I love the sprites and that the games don't take themselves seriously.
Actually, now that I think about it, there really hasn't been a truly good SRPG since Tactics Ogre.
Suikoden V was a bad game. Suikoden IV was worse, but V wasn't a return to greatness at all.
The only good GTA game was GTA 2, and only for the multiplayer.
God of War was simplistic and easy. Also, not very fun overall, and certainly not some new pinnacle of action gaming.
Dragon Quest VIII was a boring and insipid experience. I understand the appeal of oldschool, I do not understand the appeal of just playing a lousy game.
Oh man, I loved Jericho. It would have been better as a movie, but regardless Clive Barker knows his horror. I loved the plot even if the game was less than great.
People who don't "get" Half-Life, I don't consider them gamers.
That's funny, you'd think that people who play games are gamers.
I think the term gamer carries negative connotations.
I believe this too, but there is no real "good" word for a gamer other than "someone who plays games."
A jock can be called an athlete, for example.
I think it's more that certain people identify themselves as people who play games. These people tend to have terrible social skills. Me? I like to think of myself as a 'person.'
Then I would almost certainly be the former.
On the plus side, identifying myself as a gamer means people don't ask too many questions.
People who don't "get" Half-Life, I don't consider them gamers.
That's funny, you'd think that people who play games are gamers.
I think the term gamer carries negative connotations.
I believe this too, but there is no real "good" word for a gamer other than "someone who plays games."
A jock can be called an athlete, for example.
I think it's more that certain people identify themselves as people who play games. These people tend to have terrible social skills. Me? I like to think of myself as a 'person.'
Then I would almost certainly be the former.
On the plus side, identifying myself as a gamer means people don't ask too many questions.
I phrased that poorly. I'm not really sure how to put it more appropriately, but I feel that telling people I play games is about as important as telling them I sleep at night.
But first, a disclaimer. I express no opinion on OoT, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, or God of War because I feel both sides are well represented. I don't follow lots of threads, so it may be that some of my other opinions are well represented, and I just haven't seen it.
Clive Barker's Jericho was a campy romp and great fun.
Hellgate: London was a fun game, just buggy because it released too soon.
Eternal Darkness was a lousy game. (Fun story; lousy game.)
As a rule, stealth games suck.
Ratchet and Clank is the best PS2 franchise. Period.
Crimson Sea 2 was big fun. (Is this opinion rare because it's unpopular or because no one played it?)
Serious Sam has never been a successor to the old DooM games.
No shooter since DooM has been more fun, only more complicated.
Lego Star Wars rules, but Lego Indy and Batman are crap.
BioWare hasn't made a game worth playing since Shattered Steel.
There has never been a version of Counter-Strike that was fun to play. It has always felt like a janky mod.
Joint Ops was one of the most delightfully bug ridden games of all time.
Most RPGs are composed principally of filler and are not worth playing. This goes double for JRPGs and MMORPGs.
I havent really played Mario 64, but Sunshine is probably the worst of the games i own for the Gamecube. the controls are awful and the watergun gimmick is retarded.
People who don't "get" Half-Life, I don't consider them gamers.
That's funny, you'd think that people who play games are gamers.
I think the term gamer carries negative connotations.
I believe this too, but there is no real "good" word for a gamer other than "someone who plays games."
A jock can be called an athlete, for example.
I think it's more that certain people identify themselves as people who play games. These people tend to have terrible social skills. Me? I like to think of myself as a 'person.'
Then I would almost certainly be the former.
On the plus side, identifying myself as a gamer means people don't ask too many questions.
I phrased that poorly. I'm not really sure how to put it more appropriately, but I feel that telling people I play games is about as important as telling them I sleep at night.
Well that depends. Are you the kind of person who just goes around telling random people your interests? If someone asks me what my hobbies are, I'll tell them I play video games. It's not something everyone does, so it bears telling. But I'm not just gonna run up to some random person and be like "Hey, I'm a gamer."
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RoshinMy backlog can be seen from spaceSwedenRegistered Userregular
edited January 2009
Fallout 3 is the best Fallout game in the series. Bethesda basically manned up and saved the series from itself.
Suikoden V is absolutely awful. Slow pace, terrible characters, horrid voice acting.
Suikoden IV is pretty damn good. Feels a lot like an updated Suikoden I.
Final Fantasy X and X-2 are absolutely amazing in every way. From graphics to story to voice acting to gameplay there is nothing I dislike I about them.
Fallout isn't very good at all. It isn't AWFUL or anything, but it is nowhere at all near as good as it is hailed.
Robot characters are awful. Always. 100% of the time. No exceptions. "WHAT IS THIS THING YOU CALL LOVE" is one of the most abhorrent plot devices I have ever encountered.
I know. I know. This was from pages and pages ago. But I have to. HAVE. TO.
None of this existentialism bullshit from ROBO.
My possibly unpopular opinion:
Warfare and Diplomacy in Civilization 4 and expansions is FUBAR.
Fable (haven't played 2 yet, not necessarily eager to do so)
Every MegaMan after III (except for maybe the first Megaman X)
Portal
Half-Life/Half-Life 2
Halo series
Call of Duty series
Oblivion (I loved Morrowind but Oblivion has problems)
Grand Theft Auto (all of 'em)
Ninja Gaiden (new ones)
Vagrant Story
Ico
Xenogears
Gears of War
Splinter Cell series
Rainbow Six series
God of War series
Next up, games that are part of a series but are overrated (or underrated)
Chrono Cross > Chrono Trigger
Suikoden III > Suikoden II
Final Fantasy X >>>>> Final Fantasy VII
Every other Burnout >>>>>>>> Burnout Paradise (seriously, the open world bullshit isn't what I want out of a Burnout game)
And some general callouts here:
Capcom, screw you and your shitty puzzles in Resident Evil 4. Similarly, fuck you for enemies that I have to do special bullshit to kill---and as an addendum fuck you for inspiring that terrible Berzerker fight in Gears of War.
Stop including bullshit stealth missions in games not based around it. There's a reason I hate Splinter Cell guys, get it out of my damn RPG's.
Even despite its' repetitiveness and general staleness, the Samurai Warriors/Orochi Warriors series is the only action series I can stand to play anymore.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
edited January 2009
I don't like Valve at all. I think Valve is a company severely hampered by PC-elitism, laziness, and an outdated engine but they won't admit to any of it. Basically, they're starting to get corporate in a very bad way. Obviously, not a big deal for PC players. As a 360 player, though, they make some very lazy and stupid decisions.
They made the Orange Box for the 360, which I appreciate. But frankly, Source generally looks like shit on the 360 compared to how it can look on a PC. No, no, none of this "well, the 360 can't handle it as well as a PC" garbage. The Source engine is outdated. The only reason for it to look anything less than stellar on a 360 is out of placing profit over quality. Then they briefly supported the 360 TF2. Then they started blaming Microsoft for why there were no more patches and absolutely zero additional content for 360 players. For going on a year now, Microsoft has been apparently blockading Valve's valiant efforts to get 360 players that extra TF2 content and all those fixes that PC players enjoy. Right.
Now we have Left 4 Dead and that's been out for a couple months now without any major fixes for the 360. Let's do a comparison. I really don't like Fable II. I hate it, actually. But by the time it had been out for a month, it had already had what, 3 updates to fix issues? For Left 4 Dead, 360 players can look forward to a major update "in a few weeks". And Valve is again blaming the delay on Microsoft. I'm not saying there isn't a delay to get through the certification process; I'm saying that this update should've been out a month ago for both consoles and PCs. However, Valve did a typically sub-standard job of actually playing their own game so they missed a ridiculous number of issues. Oh, they also decided to switch off the extra film effects in the game if you aren't playing in HD. That makes a lot of damn sense. I'm sure it's because the 360 can't handle the Source engine, right? Even though Dead Rising had hundreds of active zombies at once that all looked better than the ones in Left 4 Dead.
I know Valve has done some great things with PC stuff in recent years, but from the console side of things they are rapidly climbing the ladder of douchebaggery towards the level of old-school EA. If they would just come out already and say "we simply don't give the 360 versions as high a priority and don't give it as much effort", I would probably have a much greater deal of respect for them than I do now. As it is, if they end up leaving Left 4 Dead a broken mess that I spent 60 bucks on, I will honestly be done with Valve products for a while.
Why would you ever buy a Valve game for a console?
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RoshinMy backlog can be seen from spaceSwedenRegistered Userregular
edited January 2009
I don't think you're a gamer, just because you play games. You don't call yourself a musician, just because you listen to music or an artist, because you once doodled something that looked like a bird or maybe a dog.
The word "gamer" implies a deeper understanding of videogaming, ie the history, the developers, the mechanics, and obviously, an appreciation of fine games. A connoisseur, if you will.
I don't think you're a gamer, just because you play games. You don't call yourself a musician, just because you listen to music or an artist, because you once doodled something that looked like a bird or maybe a dog.
The word "gamer" implies a deeper understanding of videogaming, ie the history, the developers, the mechanics, and obviously, an appreciation of fine games. A connoisseur, if you will.
I don't think you're a gamer, just because you play games. You don't call yourself a musician, just because you listen to music or an artist, because you once doodled something that looked like a bird or maybe a dog.
The word "gamer" implies a deeper understanding of videogaming, ie the history, the developers, the mechanics, and obviously, an appreciation of fine games. A connoisseur, if you will.
The SaGa and Mana series are more fun than the Final Fantasy series.
Legend of Mana is the best Mana game.
Console FPS controls are an abomination unto gaming and all modern console FPS' should support a KBAM controls. Seriously, both HD consoles have goddamn USB ports, LET ME USE THEM.
I don't think you're a gamer, just because you play games. You don't call yourself a musician, just because you listen to music or an artist, because you once doodled something that looked like a bird or maybe a dog.
The word "gamer" implies a deeper understanding of videogaming, ie the history, the developers, the mechanics, and obviously, an appreciation of fine games. A connoisseur, if you will.
Why would you ever buy a Valve game for a console?
Because you hate yourself.
That kind of opinion is what allows those assholes to thrive.
If they aren't going to optimize it for 360 then don't fucking release it on 360. They've already given up on PS3 because they're too lazy to try to do anything with it, why not just give up the console side altogether? It's obvious they hate console players.
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Chris Avellone is not the best writer in the world either.
Edit: Yes. Yes they have I see.
I think the term gamer carries negative connotations.
That's...more of a slightly-less-popular opinion than RE4. I'm not sure it's unpopular.
Unpopular would be like saying RE Zero is the best.
I believe this too, but there is no real "good" word for a gamer other than "someone who plays games."
A jock can be called an athlete, for example.
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I think it's more that certain people identify themselves as people who play games. These people tend to have terrible social skills. Me? I like to think of myself as a 'person.'
But first, a disclaimer. I express no opinion on OoT, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, or God of War because I feel both sides are well represented. I don't follow lots of threads, so it may be that some of my other opinions are well represented, and I just haven't seen it.
That was delightful. Thanks, CygnusZ.
X-COM Apocalypse is just a better game than X-COM: Alien Invasion.
X-COM: Terror From The Deep fucking sucks ass.
Turn-based games were fine when that was all that the hardware and software could handle, but real-time is just plain and simply better except for a rare few cases when a game's mechanics truly need it, and why people constantly beat off to TBS I simply cannot understand.
Oblivion is a superior game to Morrowind if, for nothing else, the fact that I don't feel like I'm walking around on an enormous sun-bleached turd floating in a pool for 95% of the time.
On that note: body mods are designed by and for philistine perverts and mouthbreathers who can't go for ten seconds without some kind of sexual stimulation, and I wish nothing but a pox upon them.
On that note: 95% of Oblivion players are philistine perverts and mouthbreathers who can't go for ten seconds without some kind of sexual stimulation, hence why almost every single mod always showcases a female character with enormous tits in a skimpy outfit in its sample screenshots.
Ys V is fucking awesome. I mean, granted, out of like seven games it's still probably the second-worst of the lot, but it's only like one point behind the third-worst and 50 ahead of the worst of 'em all.
Diablo III should, where applicable, allow you to play with a gamepad, or at least gamepad+mouse. This "click to do everything" shit is getting really old.
EDIT: And on a Fallout note: fuck Dogmeat. Stupid dumbass dog is useless and people who go absolutly nuts over him are fucking idiots.
Shigeru Miyamoto is overrated and relies too much on his old ideas.
I hate how internet retards have sexualized Samus from Metroid.
Consoles killed the competitive FPS. Halo was the last nail in the coffin.
Soul Calibur > Tekken
Capcom makes bad fighting games. Fireball traps are not what we should be balancing 2D fighters around post 1995. I also still think SF4 looks bad, but I haven't played it yet. That, and SRK needs to stufu about other competitive communities.
Dead or Alive was a decent fighting game series. And it was fun, too.
Beyond Good and Evil was a completely mediocre and forgettable game. I played it at release, but I had no idea anyone else actually liked it until I encountered that opinion in gaming forums. Plus, the ending-ending was just dumb.
FFT was a bad game. Tactics Ogre did it way better way earlier, and Square fails for propping up their own dumb SRPG when they could be putting out sequels to a better series.
NIS games are grindfests with no rewards. They're really everything that is wrong with SRPGs, and while I see the appeal, I don't get the point: You're still limited to the challenges on the disk, and after a while you're just putting hours into a number-crunching simulator with terribly diminishing returns. They function alright until you hit about lvl100~, but after that you stop learning new skills, most of your old skills become useless, and you have to spend days grinding to accomplish anything (which is still nothing). And it's too bad, really, because I love the sprites and that the games don't take themselves seriously.
Actually, now that I think about it, there really hasn't been a truly good SRPG since Tactics Ogre.
Suikoden V was a bad game. Suikoden IV was worse, but V wasn't a return to greatness at all.
The only good GTA game was GTA 2, and only for the multiplayer.
God of War was simplistic and easy. Also, not very fun overall, and certainly not some new pinnacle of action gaming.
Dragon Quest VIII was a boring and insipid experience. I understand the appeal of oldschool, I do not understand the appeal of just playing a lousy game.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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Oblivion is the most boring piece of shit I have ever played
Then I would almost certainly be the former.
On the plus side, identifying myself as a gamer means people don't ask too many questions.
I phrased that poorly. I'm not really sure how to put it more appropriately, but I feel that telling people I play games is about as important as telling them I sleep at night.
I see someone else agrees with me.
Well that depends. Are you the kind of person who just goes around telling random people your interests? If someone asks me what my hobbies are, I'll tell them I play video games. It's not something everyone does, so it bears telling. But I'm not just gonna run up to some random person and be like "Hey, I'm a gamer."
I know. I know. This was from pages and pages ago. But I have to. HAVE. TO.
None of this existentialism bullshit from ROBO.
My possibly unpopular opinion:
Warfare and Diplomacy in Civilization 4 and expansions is FUBAR.
Fuck the clothing
Fable (haven't played 2 yet, not necessarily eager to do so)
Every MegaMan after III (except for maybe the first Megaman X)
Portal
Half-Life/Half-Life 2
Halo series
Call of Duty series
Oblivion (I loved Morrowind but Oblivion has problems)
Grand Theft Auto (all of 'em)
Ninja Gaiden (new ones)
Vagrant Story
Ico
Xenogears
Gears of War
Splinter Cell series
Rainbow Six series
God of War series
Next up, games that are part of a series but are overrated (or underrated)
Chrono Cross > Chrono Trigger
Suikoden III > Suikoden II
Final Fantasy X >>>>> Final Fantasy VII
Every other Burnout >>>>>>>> Burnout Paradise (seriously, the open world bullshit isn't what I want out of a Burnout game)
And some general callouts here:
Capcom, screw you and your shitty puzzles in Resident Evil 4. Similarly, fuck you for enemies that I have to do special bullshit to kill---and as an addendum fuck you for inspiring that terrible Berzerker fight in Gears of War.
Stop including bullshit stealth missions in games not based around it. There's a reason I hate Splinter Cell guys, get it out of my damn RPG's.
Even despite its' repetitiveness and general staleness, the Samurai Warriors/Orochi Warriors series is the only action series I can stand to play anymore.
They made the Orange Box for the 360, which I appreciate. But frankly, Source generally looks like shit on the 360 compared to how it can look on a PC. No, no, none of this "well, the 360 can't handle it as well as a PC" garbage. The Source engine is outdated. The only reason for it to look anything less than stellar on a 360 is out of placing profit over quality. Then they briefly supported the 360 TF2. Then they started blaming Microsoft for why there were no more patches and absolutely zero additional content for 360 players. For going on a year now, Microsoft has been apparently blockading Valve's valiant efforts to get 360 players that extra TF2 content and all those fixes that PC players enjoy. Right.
Now we have Left 4 Dead and that's been out for a couple months now without any major fixes for the 360. Let's do a comparison. I really don't like Fable II. I hate it, actually. But by the time it had been out for a month, it had already had what, 3 updates to fix issues? For Left 4 Dead, 360 players can look forward to a major update "in a few weeks". And Valve is again blaming the delay on Microsoft. I'm not saying there isn't a delay to get through the certification process; I'm saying that this update should've been out a month ago for both consoles and PCs. However, Valve did a typically sub-standard job of actually playing their own game so they missed a ridiculous number of issues. Oh, they also decided to switch off the extra film effects in the game if you aren't playing in HD. That makes a lot of damn sense. I'm sure it's because the 360 can't handle the Source engine, right? Even though Dead Rising had hundreds of active zombies at once that all looked better than the ones in Left 4 Dead.
I know Valve has done some great things with PC stuff in recent years, but from the console side of things they are rapidly climbing the ladder of douchebaggery towards the level of old-school EA. If they would just come out already and say "we simply don't give the 360 versions as high a priority and don't give it as much effort", I would probably have a much greater deal of respect for them than I do now. As it is, if they end up leaving Left 4 Dead a broken mess that I spent 60 bucks on, I will honestly be done with Valve products for a while.
No he may be right actually.
And I used to be one of those NMA-type freaks who refused to believe.
Fallout 3 is very, very good.
what does it feel like to think with a free mind, scarab
The word "gamer" implies a deeper understanding of videogaming, ie the history, the developers, the mechanics, and obviously, an appreciation of fine games. A connoisseur, if you will.
So a person who knows a lot about video games
Just stop. Nothing good can come of this.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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Legend of Mana is the best Mana game.
Console FPS controls are an abomination unto gaming and all modern console FPS' should support a KBAM controls. Seriously, both HD consoles have goddamn USB ports, LET ME USE THEM.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a terrible game.
this was a poor choice to make
That kind of opinion is what allows those assholes to thrive.
If they aren't going to optimize it for 360 then don't fucking release it on 360. They've already given up on PS3 because they're too lazy to try to do anything with it, why not just give up the console side altogether? It's obvious they hate console players.