Fuz
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You had fun playing through vehicle stages?
(Xen is really a small part of HL1, anyway)
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You had fun playing through vehicle stages?
(Xen is really a small part of HL1, anyway)
maquiladora
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I can only ever look at this thread in small doses before I start to get angry reading the posts.
Lion Heart
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I don't understand how the Xbone even sold 11 million units so far, it should be like 3-4 mil of the die hard Stathams only. There is pretty much no reason to own one with the PS4 available.
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The PS4 is the sorriest example for a console generation leader to date. Minor convenience features don't make up for subscription based multiplayer, and PSN is still fucking terrible compared to PC services to boot. The tech-at-time of release is weaker than any major PS system to date, and the first party exclusives I've played (not played Bloodborne or the Order) have been mediocre at best.
I know the PS4 is in the hearts of many around here, but it's a box of average-at-best. The all hail savior Sony nonsense that circled E3 2013 for maintaining the status quo was nauseating... Well, with plus required for MP, they didn't even maintain the status quo.
I think the Xbox One is worse, but that's hardly controversial.
I have the opposite sentiment and I find most of the posts here pretty intriguing ... !
Roberto Larcos
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I looked at a PS4 for a while, and just couldn't justify it.
I like racing games and football, so I bought an Xbox One with Forza 5 and FIFA 15. But while Xbox has had some pretty decent exclusives (played a lot of Titanfall, still need to get into Sunset Overdrive, really enjoyed Dead Rising 3, and Forza Horizon 2 is my favourite game this gen), there's not a single PS4 title that really made me go - 'I need this'.
Souls games just aren't for me, I've tried them before, they're just not my cup of tea. Drive Club is eh, and I've got Forza 5 and Forza Horizon 2 already. Knack was meh. Killzone: Shadow Fall and Infamous added to series' I've never played before, and neither really grabbed me anyway. I generally enjoy MotoGP games but I knew the next one and Ride would be on Xbox One. The Order kinda bombed. I'm British so not a baseball fan. LittleBigPlanet 3 is the weakest in the series, and I could play TLOU / Flower / Journey on considerably cheaper hardware if I wanted to.
Of course, this is just me. A lot of people really enjoy baseball games and Souls games and don't give a shit about racing games. But there's just not much there for me. Yet. I can't imagine how I'd have survived with a launch PS4 though as a racing fan with the only AAA racing game for a year being Need for Speed Rivals. At least Project CARS scratches the sim itch and The Crew (sort of, almost, tries to) scratch the open-world itch, that just isn't enough.
SpinningBirdKick
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VR will be another gimmick like the Wii's waggle.
It will burn brightly and fade away within a generation.
It will burn brightly and fade away within a generation.
orthodoxy1095
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Naughty Dog has been a fairly high quality developer for like 19 years. I'm not worried about the future to be honest.
ActuallyHulk
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This. Everything that has a beginning has an end. Every single thing. I don't know how they will go out but they will go out.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Esports are legitimately sports. We don't need to call them esports but we do because some people have irrational hang ups about the term "sport".
HackTheSlash
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I actually really liked Dantes Inferno even though most people saw it as a "meh" generic God Of War clone.
I remember when i was finished with God Of War 3 and i wanted more. I went looking around and heard about Dantes Inferno and how similar a game it was. So i picked it up and actually really loved it for the fact that it was so similar. I didnt have to re-learn the controls so it all came naturally.
I remember when i was finished with God Of War 3 and i wanted more. I went looking around and heard about Dantes Inferno and how similar a game it was. So i picked it up and actually really loved it for the fact that it was so similar. I didnt have to re-learn the controls so it all came naturally.
RocketRacoon
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I think FF8 is a great game, and it's the most interesting of the 3 PSX titles.
Wait, iss this thread still mostly people shitposting about popular games?
LowlySmokeGuy
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Combat is distinct too though. Did you think Dark Souls 1 and 2 were reskins of Demon's Souls? Of the 4 Souls-like games, Bloodborne is the least similar to the others.
Soul Calibur is not only the best 3d fighter franchise, it's the best fighter in general. Fuck quarter circles.
If you didn't also say morrowind, I'd agree. Well, actually I agree that Morrowind's combat was a mess, at least. But I have no idea what you consider an interesting world if you think Morrowind's world was generic.
If you didn't also say morrowind, I'd agree. Well, actually I agree that Morrowind's combat was a mess, at least. But I have no idea what you consider an interesting world if you think Morrowind's world was generic.
Naughty dog were never as big as they are now. Nowhere near as relevant or important as they are nowadays.
Naughty dogs relevance began life on the PS3. Yes they made crash bandicoot which was a decent series (and sold very well) but they still weren't that relevant then. And their games history prior to crash bandicoot is even less relevant.
They're certainly not been as high as you're implying for the last 19 years. Back in the day Japan and Japanese developers were the most relevant things in gaming, look at how things are now. The biggest selling games nowadays aren't from Japanese developers.
While you might think it unbelievable that naughty dog won't always be perceived the way they were, if you had told me Sega wouldn't make consoles anymore when I had a mega drive, and you had told me that Nintendo and Sega had made games together I'd say you were crazy....
Exactly. It's normal that people don't want to accept things, or can't see a possibility of things changing, but they do. If I said that Sony and Microsoft aren't always going to be relevant when it comes to gaming people would say I'm nuts, but I'd pretty much say that those two companies relevance won't last. Microsoft will be the first to go though, likely selling the Xbox division.
And look at the TV market, Japan was at the forefront, Sony and Panasonic. Koreans were budget crap, now look at who the biggest players are in the market. Soon enough the Chinese manufacturers will become more common too....
Skyrim, I give you
Morrowind was an absolutely stunning game for its time IMO (and its world had an amazing political and cultural depth that I actually have yet to see replicated in another RPG), and its story was actually pretty clever in how the game never answered several major questions about it (also basically the more you read about the Nerevarine, the Tribunal and House Dagoth, the more you realized just how much of a moral gray area and how tragic the whole conflict was).The problem I have with TES as a series is that in my eyes, it never actually progressed from Morrowind (I guess that makes my controversial opinion
). It reworked the combat into a different type of crappy, added a bunch of additional, tacked-on mechanics that do nothing for the game's actual depth and completely lost all the good stuff related to the story and setting that I mentioned above. So instead of actually evolving (think Morrowind's world and politics with The Witcher's approach to dialogue, quests and choice/consequence - that's roughly how I imagine TES should have been changing over the years) it became this bland sandbox with a "quantity over quality" approach where you can do anything as long as it's boring and repetitive.JJDinomite
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Video game addictions can cause as much harm as a drug or alcohol addiction. It can destroy friendships, family ties and functionality in the real world.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
My man.
The Mad Draklor
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I get not understanding the appeal, but both Halo and Gears have their own looks, and play styles/formula's that have been copy/pasted by other games over the years, not to mention fans get real bitchy (especially when it comes to Halo) if the devs deviate from said play styles even a little bit. Not to mention one could never confuse Gears or Halo for anything else, they are the very opposite of "generic".
I care less and less about Nintendo products as the years go on. All the hype around Splatoon is reminding me that I just don't give a shit, even if I do have the hardware to play the games.
Note: I'm not looking for anyone to sell me on Splatoon or any other Nintendo game that I feel doesn't deserve the hype (most of them, to be honest).
Note: I'm not looking for anyone to sell me on Splatoon or any other Nintendo game that I feel doesn't deserve the hype (most of them, to be honest).
Completely agree. Aside from Bloodborne the PS4 has been frankly pathetic. And I want it to be good I bought the damn thing. But there's nothing there from Sony's vaunted first party developers, and they just announced that they will have a "sparse" 1st party lineup again. And even Bloodborne is just Dark Souls, albeit with a better setting, combat and enemy design, and other things. And that kinda extends to this generation as a whole. There's been nothing "new" this generation from any of the 1st party developers that usually pave the way, and 3rd parties are mostly pumping out what they always do. Overall I'd say this is probably the worst start to a generation in modern video games (NES on)
Langdon Alger
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I bought an Xbox One because I hate the PS4's controller.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I feel similar, though I am pretty damn hyped for Mario Maker.
LowlySmokeGuy
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I didn't give up on KOTOR, but I will say that I enjoyed the second game considerably more. Thr story was better and the characters were more interesting to me, specifically the villains.
Isn't that what everyone is saying? Just that it's really good, albeit lacking in content right now and missing some basic features of online games? I don't think this is that controversial.
John Bender
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Yep, I am old enough
Konami, Capcom, Rare? Each of them has it's own (bad) story. Especially Rare.
The good thing about ND is, that they have creative freedom, no hard deadlines, no issues about the budget of their game, and as I've already said... the right people on top of the company. I see a great future for them.
WhiskerFrisker
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I partially agree with this statement. I am interested in some stuff; mainly Xenoblade X, Zelda U, and Starfox, but some fans act as if the games are God's gift to gaming. I played 3D world and I was expecting it to be some incredible game by the way people ragged on about it but I wasn't really sold on it and honestly got tried of playing it.
So I guess I am just annoyed by some overly zealous fans.
This is a stop gate generation for the new frontier of gaming: virtual reality.
A few months ago there was a Forbes article about gamers being boring which I largely agreed with. Instead of celebrating the nintendo and Ms being disrupters in their own way (WiiU with the touch screen gamepad and Xbox's Kinect and home entertainment focus) we have instead gone for another iteration of Sony's conservative consoles which brings nothing new to the table except some better hardware and a long-overdue update to their controller design.
Also, I know that technically isn't 'my opinion' but I like it
Also, I know that technically isn't 'my opinion' but I like it
Well I don't find it really good tbh.
I think it's a pretty decent shooter with a lot of style, but nothing mindblowing.
Maybe this is my problem too.
Every game that comes for the WiiU is treated by it's fanbase like it's a life changing experience that should not be missed, when some of then are just "Ok" (IMO)
Yeah, gwent is ama- wait what?
Not controversial.
Roberto Larcos
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Yep, I am old enough
Konami, Capcom, Rare? Each of them has it's own (bad) story. Especially Rare.
The good thing about ND is, that they have creative freedom, no hard deadlines, no issues about the budget of their game, and as I've already said... the right people on top of the company. I see a great future for them.
From all we know about Rare's downfall (from the people inside the studio), they had plenty of creative freedom and weren't struggling for money. That technique isn't fallproof. Give a studio too much rope, they just might hang themselves with it.
WhiskerFrisker
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A lot of games are really good and have solid gameplay. Donkey Kong is fun and I am not even a big fan of 2D platformers. But like you said, the hyperbole from some make it look like you've missed out on the greatest thing ever.
SmokedMeat
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I really hate when a game has literally ten thousand different materials for me to collect to create a myriad of shit. I've got enough shit in...I don't even know where I'm keeping it, but enough shit to fill an aisle in WalMart, and yet I'm still lacking some ingredients for some spell, oil, erection pill, or whatever.
Seriously is this something anyone actually enjoys? This is why I like dumb and simple sometimes.
Seriously is this something anyone actually enjoys? This is why I like dumb and simple sometimes.
Roberto Larcos
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This is what crafting weapons / armour feels like in Diablo 3 for me.
GravityMan
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Splatoon will not have the staying power of Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros. I felt this way ever since Nintendo first announced the game. By the end of August, most gamers will have shelved or traded-in/sold Splatoon and moved on to other games. The upcoming additional content won't help.
Xenoblade Chronicles X will not be as good as Xenoblade Chronicles...which itself was a great game but not among the best RPGs ever.
More reviewers will complain about Batman: Arkham Knight and XCX being too big and too open. We've already seen some people criticize The Witcher 3 for being too big and having too much content. There is a subtle but growing backlash against open-world game design in general.
The Witcher 3 is a better game than Skyrim and Fallout 3/NV (not really controversial). However, TW3 will not have as much staying power as Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas...or even Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect 1/2/3. By Nov/Dec of this year, most people will have moved on from TW3 (except the small number who want the expansions)...while a large number of people will still be playing Skyrim, the Fallout games, DA and ME then and beyond.
Xenoblade Chronicles X will not be as good as Xenoblade Chronicles...which itself was a great game but not among the best RPGs ever.
More reviewers will complain about Batman: Arkham Knight and XCX being too big and too open. We've already seen some people criticize The Witcher 3 for being too big and having too much content. There is a subtle but growing backlash against open-world game design in general.
The Witcher 3 is a better game than Skyrim and Fallout 3/NV (not really controversial). However, TW3 will not have as much staying power as Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas...or even Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect 1/2/3. By Nov/Dec of this year, most people will have moved on from TW3 (except the small number who want the expansions)...while a large number of people will still be playing Skyrim, the Fallout games, DA and ME then and beyond.
SmokedMeat
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You'll be wrong. I guarantee you'll be wrong. Three weeks ago I would've agreed, but playing is believing.
Roberto Larcos
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Didn't people say the same about Titanfall? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Titanfall - but the multiplayer population did fall off a lot (although it's levelled off now). Without being facetious, maybe the Wii U's lack of titles may mean that people stick with it longer, but as it stands, not enough content.
diablo 3? are you kidding me? theres like 4 crafting items.
Roberto Larcos
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I'm level 43 or something (not had it for long), but while I have a ton of a couple necessary items for crafting, I'm extremely low on one of the others. To the point that by level 40, I've been able to craft 1 shield.
Am I missing things somewhere?
huehuehue
This gen so far has been shit. Boring broken at launch multiplats, weak, broken at launch exclusives (Halo, Driveclub, Ultra), bunch of upports. Only appealing games on Xbox or PS to me are Killer Instinct and Bloodborne, neither of which make the consoles worth buying. Wii U has a decent lineup but not particularly appealing to me. And it's probably got a year or two left at most, so I doubt I'll miss out on much.
ScottSullivan
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Diablo 3 is complete shit with an unappealing art style, pointless grinding, and a terrible Story
Blizzard....where did your good writing staff go? Starcraft 2 had a shit story too but at least it was a good game
Blizzard....where did your good writing staff go? Starcraft 2 had a shit story too but at least it was a good game