Raise the flame shield: Your "controversial" gaming opinion.
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I wonder whats going on in the controversial opinion thread this week...
Stay away!! Get out while you still can. You can't unsee the things you'll read here this week!
Some Nobody
Junior Member
That's the controversial opinion of...your friend, then? Ok. No offense then, but your friend's kinda lame for that, lol. I'm a black twentysomething from the deep south and I'm super hyped to play TW3. And I discovered it b/c my friend, another black twentysomething but from the Mississippi Delta, told me about it.
I definitely agree with the notion that gaming needs more women, or characters of color in the lead role. What bothers the crap out of me is when people try to cherrypick games and shit on them b/c they don't reach their personal standard of diversity.
I'm not anti-Sony. It's the other way around because I want them to keep going until the end of the world, but SCE would have been a much better company, and gamers would have been even happier with Sony products, if a batch of new people with fresh ideas took over there. SCE became extremely stagnant and the indie love show they're putting on now is just PR, not an actual change in the company.
Dr. Benton Quest
Banned
I'll never understand this line of thought. I'm not sure how a game like CRAWL is in any way playing on nostalgia. You could make the exact same argument against 3D games.
BouncyFrag
Member
Kratos has become one of my favorite gaming characters. I've been playing Ghost of Sparta (which is fantastic) from the GoW collection and rubbed my hands together when I ran into
and arrived in
. Yeah, Kratos fucked up both of them without hesitation.
*stares at clock waiting for GoW4*
King Midas
Atlantis
*stares at clock waiting for GoW4*
It sounds to me like your friend is an ignorant, uneducated, racist, who has a lot to learn about life.
silvermember
Banned
I guess your "friend" media consumption is limited to a few movies and games. Speaking as a black man, if I let the race of the character get in the way, I would not be able to play games, read a lot of books or watch TV/movies.
Personally, the concept of relating to a character is pointless and IMO extremely idiotic. Because they are not you, their actions and choices are not truly yours due to gameplay mechanics and game limitations.
To conclude, your "friend" is an idiot and should not ever think or attempt to speak for a whole segment of the population. Neither him or I can know who will buy the game, but I do know what he said is dumb.
That's exactly me. I hate how the World, not just gaming, is seeking diversity for the sake of diversity.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Lol. Gimme a fuckin' break. The world is doing that to stop things from being Straight White Male forever and ever. It's a GOOD thing. It's only bad when people cry about it and write six billion "thinkpieces". I'd prefer more diversity rather than what we have, I just don't need all the handwringing and tumblr posts.
I've been playing A Link to the Past recently, and I gotta say, it's really not that great. Or at least, it hasn't aged very well.
The game doesn't have a lot of character. There are no interesting NPCs and very little quirky dialog, the dungeons are pretty bland looking with uninteresting puzzles (a whole bunch of which seem to be block pushing puzzles), the difficulty curve is all over the goddamn place, the most jarring being the first time you enter the Dark World with enemies that do 3 hearts of damage when before that enemies did one heart at most, the story is generic "find the MacGuffins to unlock the final dungeon to beat the game" stuff (which I guess is kind of unfair due to being only the third Zelda, but considering Link's Awakening had such a good story I'm no so sure), and I don't really like how Link controls. Overall, I just find the game boring.
Ironically, A Link Between Worlds is my second favorite Zelda game.
The game doesn't have a lot of character. There are no interesting NPCs and very little quirky dialog, the dungeons are pretty bland looking with uninteresting puzzles (a whole bunch of which seem to be block pushing puzzles), the difficulty curve is all over the goddamn place, the most jarring being the first time you enter the Dark World with enemies that do 3 hearts of damage when before that enemies did one heart at most, the story is generic "find the MacGuffins to unlock the final dungeon to beat the game" stuff (which I guess is kind of unfair due to being only the third Zelda, but considering Link's Awakening had such a good story I'm no so sure), and I don't really like how Link controls. Overall, I just find the game boring.
Ironically, A Link Between Worlds is my second favorite Zelda game.
I have a friend, he is trying to become a doctor and has taken the test to get into med school. He is in a certain area in test results, let's call it second tier, and he has been trying for a couple years but he has been passed over because he's White and the schools are looking into minorities more for second tiers.
How is this not racism and "better" than everyone just getting an opportunity? He's one of the better "second tier" applicants but is constantly passed over. Hence, he's done better than some of the people that were chosen over him but they got in because they're not White. This is better?
If people were equally qualified and they chose Whites over others then that's a problem, but if better qualified/people with better results aren't advancing because of their skin color then what is that?
Edit: To tie it in to gaming, it limits what they creators may want to do as they could need to have a strong, female representation or a minority main character simply because people cry "diversity".
Oh, there are many factors at play like him not getting good enough results to be in first tier but if everyone is in a group and minorities are being chosen strictly because they're minorities then how is that "better"? Diversity to be diverse is just another form of racism to me.
This is derailing the thread, is there a thread in general that we can further discuss this for anyone that wants to keep this going?
Quadraphonic
Member
Just abolishing Jim Crow laws doesn't instantly put everyone on equal footing. There has to be this kind of uncomfortable preference left in the wake of the terrible choices we made in generations past.
Now, for how long and to what degree are questions worthy of debate. But to pretend they aren't needed misses the reason the preference is there in the first place.
Vanquish is completely overrated and I'd rather play Gears over Vanquish any day of the week. As cool as the boost mechanic is, level design, encounter design, and enemy AI is shlocky and uninteresting. Certain enemies are pretty neat and insta kill moves are fine and all, but the game is pretty "okay" most of the time and not this dumb holy grail of shooters that GAF continually seems to describe it as (that belongs to Halo).
I prefer my shooters without silly action game style combat mechanics.
I prefer my shooters without silly action game style combat mechanics.
Not sure if this is controverisal *maybe it is considering that there are alot of people who probably grew up on Pokemon*
I will just say this: Once you play X and Y, you can't go back to Red and Blue. You could however go back to Firered and imagine that was what Red and Blue were.
let's just say that..Red and Blue weren't nearly as good as i remember being.
I will just say this: Once you play X and Y, you can't go back to Red and Blue. You could however go back to Firered and imagine that was what Red and Blue were.
let's just say that..Red and Blue weren't nearly as good as i remember being.
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
This doesn't really sound like some opinion that anyone can just throw out at Sony without being an insider. Are you in a position to know that what you said really happens at Sony?
Serpens007
Member
To me Uncharted 3 is far better than 2. I don't know if this is "controversy", but it may be the minority's opinion.
Why so many people say that 2 is the best? I didn't like it that much
Why so many people say that 2 is the best? I didn't like it that much
cyber_ninja
Member
There's no controversy in your post; this is how it is.
If anything, it's probably better that TakeShad's not an "insider", since we can easily dismiss his post as tinfoil hat speculation without accepting it at face value. See Mortimer.
Didn't take until X/Y for that. I think everything got more or less future proofed with gen 3 though.
No, no, just a nobody. Move on with your comfortable viewpoint.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
From a pure mechanical standpoint, Resident Evil 6 is the best in the series.
Play the Mercenaries mode and prove me wrong.
Play the Mercenaries mode and prove me wrong.
shacklesmcgee
Member
We're still getting awesome indie games, who gives a shit?
Gearmarine
Banned
I like the new design for Dante in DmC
cyber_ninja
Member
Stop doing drugs, they bad for you.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Putting down ME2 in favour of rose-tinted memories of ME1 is hardly edgy stuff.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
The rising negative sentiment about "retro" game presentation could easily be turned on its head: modern games fall back on expensive production values to hide weak, generic design and sell $60 worth of graphics in place of a solid game.
Maybe a controversial opinion might be: the statistics suggest disinterest has set in around contemporary games, where two thirds of purchasers never finish the game. One theory is that people only play a game until the novelty of fresh graphics wear off, then realize they don't really enjoy the game that much. Thus there is really not that much to praise so-called state of the art AAA-tier gaming over so-called retro game design; it's not really leading a medium to the future, just taking advantage of people's vulnerability to marketing and social hype to slap down a lot of money on day 1 to not be left out on what one's friends are doing. (The latter phenomenon is so powerful it was frequently remarked upon in the early days of Xbox Live, when "everyone on my friends list is playing XX" became a common motivator for gamers.)
I personally enjoyed ME2 the most out of all three. The emphasis on the crew members and... one word: ARCHANGEL!
Besides, Omega is my favorite place in the entire ME universe.
LUFTRAUSER
Banned
I think that the Early Access / Paid Beta trend is bad for gaming, especially PC gaming.
He's better than Nero. Who should have never existed.
Novel Mike
Member
I think the GTA series is vastly overrated and I do not understand why its so popular.
oneils
Member
Had no idea what was going on in this thread. Now that I've read it a bit, seems fun. A place to vent unpopular positions.
So my rant: hd remake begging. It's worse than port begging. It should be bannable. Don't get me wrong, it's cool that some devs think it's worth their time. But i see the lamest requests from gamers.
No more, I tell you!
So my rant: hd remake begging. It's worse than port begging. It should be bannable. Don't get me wrong, it's cool that some devs think it's worth their time. But i see the lamest requests from gamers.
No more, I tell you!
The PC ports should not be taken as a reference for the Halo series. Halo is a console game and had the best controls for pads out of all fps to its time. Actually, it was Halo which made fps even salonable on consoles. To me, the vehicle controls remain the best up to this day. So intuitive and easy to control. If you played the Destiny Alpha, you'll know what I mean.
CS and Halo is a textbook example for games, that souldn't be compared as of their heavily platform-based gameplay-design. CS was made for keyboards and mouse, Halo for controllers.
Playing Halo on PC with mouse and keyboard, or CS on console with a controller... both are terrible experiences.
I played Halo from beginning to end on the Xbox after the PC port and didn't find it to be any better. It's still the same game.
2 weapons, regenerating health, lame main character, bullet-sponge enemies etc. Ports don't change those fundamental problems.
Let it begin.
The game doesn't have just 2 weapons.
Where do you see a problem with regenerating health?
It did nothing great, even for its time.
I dunno why people loooooove MAster Chief so much. He is soo generic.
I mean carrying 2 weapons at a time. That's not even a "console concession", it's just a game design choice. You could carry plenty of weapons at the same time in Goldeneye and even dual-wield them.
I absolutely hated hiding behind rocks waiting for the shield to recover. I've begrudgingly grown accustomed to it over the years because Halo was a major inspiration for FPS developers and fans of the genre have had no choice, but at the time I thought it was a terrible idea.
Playing a game like Wolfenstein in 2014 that basically has no regenerating health (only in tiers of 20, which I think is a great way to do it) absolutely reinforces the idea to me that regenerating health was an awful "innovation" for FPS games.
Well I wouldn't call it the worst personally but it definitely is one of the puzzling things for me as well
No way in Hell Platinum should be the go to choice for a game that requires a good story/story telling, characters, atmosphere or even open world gameplay..they have not proven themselves in any of these departments imho. Which is why I don't support the notion of them making an Attack On Titan game.
Fast beat em ups and over the top action based games are their cup of tea and there is nothing wrong with that. I do want them to revive GodHand.
GalacticGravy
Member
I find most N64 games unplayable. I can't stand that awful, awful controller. Also, it looks like shit. I remember being a kid when it came out and thinking "My Zelda game looks better than that new Zelda game. I can't tell what's happening."
That, and the gameplay was subpar as well.
People only gush over it because it looks great and is very well-acted, which just goes to show that people want movies, not video games.
And count me in on the hating Halo bandwagon as well.
And I feel I should have a positive controversial opinion as well so:
I think Nier and Deadly Premonition are some of the smartest games of the last generation.