/flame shield raised:
-people who play games for the story have chosen the wrong hobby
-the less story in a game the better
-many of the big franchises traditionally associated with the playstation brand got popular for all the wrong reasons, mostly due to edgy presentation or due to story, but the competitors always offered better gameplay (mgs, wipeout, tekken, silent hill, killzone, uncharted)
-baldur's gate 1 is better than 2
-there's not much videogame to be found in planescape torment
-ultima ix is an excellent action-adventure game, has some of the best dungeons in the industry
-I still don't understand why bethesda became the biggest player in the rpg genre
-the witcher 2 may have a good story and characters, but it's not a good rpg
-silent hill is far behind resident evil and fatal frame in terms of gameplay and game design
-resident evil 4 is a bad 3rd person shooter (no shooting while moving!?) and an even worse horror game, the enemies are completely ridiculous
-resident evil code veronica is the second best old-style re after remake
-resident evil 2 is one of the worst old style re, it does however have one of the best soundtracks
-there's nothing wrong with tank controls
-people who criticize the early tomb raiders should not do so before trying the games on pc with a keyboard
-half life 2 getting game of the decade is joke, it's just an ok game with a few good presentation ideas
-the first turok is better than goldeneye or perfect dark
-trespasser is a good game, nails the jurassic park and survival atmosphere perfectly
-dead or alive itagaki era is the best 3d fighting series, tekken is the worst (of the big ones)
-developers should stop contaminating fighting game rosters with characters that don't belong in the same universe
-arkham city sucks because it became a boring ubisoft style open world
-omikron the nomad soul is revolutionary as far as 3d open world cities go, came out before shenmue and gta 3, yet never gets mentioned
-racing games should never be open world
-star wars episode I racer is the best futuristic racer ever made, f zero gx and extreme g 1 follow closely, all are better than wipeout
-people who even attempt arguing who had the better graphics between psx and n64 must have some severe eye damage, or are playing dumb. The n64 was always a generation above. Pre rendered cut scenes, orchestral music, recorded dialogue are not what makes a game functional nor good, they're not the meat of the game.
-texture warping and lack of filtering made the psx outdated as soon as it came out, n64 games still hold up to this day
-since the wii nintendo has been releasing half a decade obsolete hardware, I don't understand how they get a pass on that
-the wii u doesn't deserve to sell more than the dreamcast or the vita, as these systems were actually ambitious and cutting edge when they came out
-the ps1 to 3 era controlller is the worst one ever made, yet sony is the only manufacturer who deemed it not necessary to change the design for subsequent generations
-the ps4 is the first good console sony has made (hardware wise)
-people who say the pc is a good gaming platform, let alone the best are deluding themselves, all pc gamers seem to be these days are hardware obsessed people who want to brag about their rig, but don' care about games
-the golden age of the pc was 97-2000, what we have now is an indie infested joke. When was the last time an industry defining (as in beyond genres that work only on pc) game was released exclusively on PC?
-sport games are not games in the traditional sense, nor are people who only play them gamers
-I'm tempted to extend this definition to gta and assassin's creed
-Linear scripted cinematic experiences are just as bad as open world sandboxes with zero level design and gameplay systems, and both seem to constitute 99% of AAA games nowadays
/that shield won't hold much longer...
