Welcome to my ignore list.
I knew my controversial opinions would make me some enemies.
Welcome to my ignore list.
Sports video games make gameplay adjustments more regularly than games of other genres. Games of other genres usually rely heavily on new stories for their sequels (without having that many gameplay adjustments).
Beyond Good & Evil is a terribly average game.
As a person who plays a character with a 100% stun combo (which in many cases is essentially a 100% life combo), has crazy range on her command grab because of the kara, and can combo her big damage super off said command grab I don't think you should be complaining about any other character with shenanigans that aren't Ken, Yun, or Chun-Li.Offtopic, I hate this match up so fucking much. WHY IS HER GROUND GAME SO FULL OF SHENANIGANS? :lol
After reading through the whole thread none of this really seems controversial at all. In fact I've seen a lot of people with most of these opinions.
Deus Ex 2 is a ridiculously underrated game, and it's better than Human Revolution. I never played the first.
I have an ATI card and played through the whole thing at 19 fps because of it. Come at me bro!
Mindjack is a horrible game.
The only one that comes to mind is I think MGS: The Twin Snakes is far superior to the original.
Final Fantasy 10 has the best battle system and level system in any RPG.
Agreed, but that is no longer a controversial opinion. More and more are seeing the light.
Final Fantasy 10 has the best battle system and level system in any RPG.
perfectnight said:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=34358917
Agreed, but that is no longer a controversial opinion. More and more are seeing the light.
Forgot one: Publishers have over-saturated the games market because they know we'll buy total and utter shit. I remember days when there was a MANAGEABLE release lineup that didn't cost $300 a month to keep up with. It's like everyone heard the money being made in video games and started queuing up for their chance to have the next big thing, but so many titles being around means almost NONE of them have a chance like they used to in previous generations.
Rockstar games are fucking garbage. They're full of filler even in story missions, they have terrible controls, the caricature NPC design is tiring and I'm at the point where I barely find the exaggerated dialog and character interactions engaging or amusing, the sidemissions have almost universally been terrible, the random generation of vehicles has always been weighted to spawn the same car that you are driving so the moment you get a good vehicle, everyone else has the good vehicle (due to memory issues probably), the games takes too long to complete, the first 5 hours of each game is a tutorial teaching you every single mechanic in the game, one mission at a time, there are too many uninvolved or tedious novelty mechanics / minigames introduced and each game relies entirely on the same tropey mission design as the previous game.
The only aspect of Rockstar's open world games that I find interesting are the emergent moments during gameplay where something unexpected happens, or when you can creatively solve a problem. The GTA3 trilogy did this the best, though it's since really just boiled down to "chase this dude and then shoot him". At no point do I feel like the Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead (specifically redemption) games take advantage of being in an open world and having so many interconnected mechanics going on. The transition between modes of gameplay is often way too slow (eg, needing to find a car, having to stop your car to get out to shoot dudes, needing to find some way to get into the air), but not in the way where you feel like any of this is intentional pacing. Or more accurately, it never ever feels like it evolves into something more.
I would almost make an exception for bully, except I've unfairly never given it a proper chance. I played it up until the point where I needed to do some lock-picking minigame that was just so unwieldy with a mouse and keyboard I didn't even want to plug in a controller to do it.
While most of these criticisms I have are mostly directed towards GTA4 and RDR, there are still a lot of issues I have with the GTA3 trilogy.
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So, I'll say some positive things too, I suppose. About other games, that is.
Edit: Also, apparently, some bad stuff.
Call of Jaurez: Bound In Blood was a fantastic, enjoyable game.
The Darkness is one of the best console games this generation.
Mafia 2 was good because it had no distractions from the main story.
Simulation games are actually way better than most people give them credit for.
Complexity and attention to detail in games is one of the best things a game can have. Games like Project Reality and those fucking helicopter sim games and ARMA and Dwarf Fortress are some of the best games out on the market because they do not hold your hand - instead you are expected to learn, and from that, the game becomes so much more rewarding even when you fail.
The more digital distribution services, the better. Steam having all the weight and power behind PC gaming is a bad thing, even if nothing bad has happened from it (and even if nothing bad happens from it in the future).
Fable 1 was an amazing action RPG.
Mirror's Edge's gunplay was really, really good. They could make an entire game revolving around it. Weighty, inaccurate and low resource gun battles make for good tension and rewarding resolutions. Having said that, they should never have been in that game at all.
Left 4 Dead 2 wasn't a fun game, even if it was a better game than Left 4 Dead 1.
Payday: The Heist is a really tense game to play with friends, although is absolute rubbish with randoms.
Trine 2 is one of the most disappointing indie games I've played in a long time.
Two Worlds 2 looked like rubbish, even when it looked amazing.
KOTOR's gameplay was bullshit.
Amnesia would be a better game if you were given a machine gun and grenades and it was brightly lit and there were monsters that just came out of the walls every single hallway. (I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Though I'd love someone to ruin that game by modding it like that. Like, a deconstruction of everything that game did well and try to convert it into your usual AAA title. That'd almost be as fun as it would be pretentious and wanky.)
Resident Evil 4 is a bad zombie game, and as a "monster mash" game, it is completely uninteresting. Don't get me started on Resident Evil 5.
I have really good opinions on video games and everyone should listen to me (nobody fucking read this far into my post I can say what I want)
All of Twisted Pixel's games take too long to play considering the complexity and engagement levels their games' mechanics provide. Including The Maw, which is already a two hour game. Expecially including Splosion Man.
People who object to Dead Rising's timer, save system (barring the complaint that it needs multiple save slots) and difficulty are game babies.
Borderland's key selling point - the amount of guns - is bullshit considering all guns feel the same to shoot. When a shotgun, sniper and rocket launcher feel all identical to shoot, you have done something so seriously wrong while making your game.
RAGE looked like garbage visually, even with the best high resolution texture mods and downsampled resolutions. The shooting wasn't that great, either. It was good, just... not great.
Call of Duty 3's multiplayer was better than Call of Duty 2's multiplayer (on console at least).
Dead Space is a sorry excuse for a horror game - at no point did I ever feel as if I was immersed in the game world. The scripting triggers were obvious and the monsters were uninteresting and nothing about it was scary. Not even attempts at jump scaring were scary.
TL;DR: I like ambition and punctuality. I dislike games that fail at the fundamental idea they're trying to make a game from (or in some cases, the fundamental idea that I think is the most fun about the game and should have been expanded on further).
The original Half-Life wasn't great, going through the tunnels, warehouses and sewers gets boring.
Resident Evil 4 is a bad zombie game
I like you.Metal Gear Solid is fucking awful, always has been, always will be, and if you enjoy the story you are my enemy.
Incidentally, what's your opinion on fighting games and single player?The excuse that military shooters don't need compelling single player content is complete and utter crap. "it's all about the multiplayer" is one of the worst things I've ever seen come out of this generation.
Dark Souls > Skyrim
Resident Evil 4 is one of the greatest games ever made (if not the greatest).