Raise the flame shield: Your "controversial" gaming opinion.

SoraNoKuni said:
Super Mario 64 was bad, and has aged really bad as well.

I am ready to receive my punishment.
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It was a great proof of concept for a lot of things that became standards for 3D gaming. That said, I never found it very fun.

In fact, the only 3D Mario games I enjoyed were Sunshine and Galaxy. 3D Land is hot garbage.
 
sp3ctr3 said:
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing > Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

I don't get peoples hardon for Transformed. I like the very fast pace of the first game, and being on the ground only means that the tracks have incredible flow. Transforming into a boat and going into water physics or transforming into a plane taking to the skies slows the game down. It doesn't feel as fast anymore.

It's like playing Marvel vs Capcom 2 on Normal speed instead of Turbo 1.

I feel like I'm the only person on the planet with this opinion? Maybe the majority prefers gimmicky kart racers instead of the raw thrills experience?
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Probably just because they nuked online play in the PC version of Racing, in a moment so disappointing it practically knocked the wind out of us, so we sort of try to rationalize it away.
 
That Sega cannot be trusted to make a good Sonic game and... gasp should be given to the Young guns at Nintendo who made Splatoon to create a Sonic game for the 2016 crowd.
 
Any 3D Mario game that doesn't have you collect a star or star equivalent at the end of a level can go jump off a cliff.

Super Mario Sunshine was a great game.

The Order 1886 was an okay game for the price I paid, which was 10 bucks.

I think the importance of VR is being vastly overstated. It's not going to be a Kinect-sized failure, but pretty goddamn close with the current tech we'll be staring at for the next 5 years.
 
Nintendo haven't made a good console since the N64.
Resident Evil 4 killed the series.
FF13 was a huge improvement over FF12.
Telltale and Platinum Games are both massively overrated.
Uncharted 3 > Uncharted 2.
Master of Orion 3 was the best game in the series.
 
I'm not sure how controversial these are but:

- I think Destiny has by far the best gun play in any fps game. Halo, CoD, Battlefield, etc.. are hard to play and enjoy once you get to understand how Destiny plays. It has it's downsides like any game but it's just so smooth and easy to pick up. Very impressed with what Bungie has done, warts and all.

- I think it'd serve Nintendo well to be sold to a company like Disney. It's pretty clear they're living off the fans and have no idea what to do next.

- The PS4 and Xbox One are pretty disappointing so far. They played it too safe and as a result we got incremental improvements. I have both and enjoy them well enough but I just feel they missed a golden opportunity to really push hardware standards forward.

I'm sure I have more.
 
Auctopus said:
This isn't really a controversial opinion but this seemingly new trend of having "We need to talk about..." or "This thing really needs discussing" as a thread title is the new most annoying thing on GAF.

This isn't the UN, nothing NEEDS discussing. Just state what you want to talk about and your opinion, stop being so melodramatic like every piece of DLC is a human rights offence.
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Those titles are second only to the titles/posts that say "Am I the only one?"

NO WE'RE ON A BOARD OF LIKE 100,000+ USERS, OF COURSE YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE. LEARN TO SPEAK PROPERLY.

/rant over.
 
Man I have a lot of games lol but I'll just list the first 3 things that came to mind.

1) I thought Black back on PS2 was phenomenal for a FPS game back then.

2) I also thought, Alpha Protocol was amazing,

3) Lastly, The Last of Us did not deserve all the hype it got. Honestly, it was a good game, but it was not THAT great of a game. IMO, it was sub-par and super cliche to the point Ray Charles could see what was going to happen next.
 
Lasthope106 said:
Bloodborne didn't deserve to be GOTY. Dark Souls II is a better game.

Fallout 4 is amazing. Sure it can get repetitive after a while but the world and atmosphere are fantastic. All the environmental storytelling, and the mini stories that you get in each location are what this game is all about.
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I agree with all of this.
 
PseudoViper said:
3) Lastly, The Last of Us did not deserve all the hype it got. Honestly, it was a good game, but it was not THAT great of a game. IMO, it was sub-par and super cliche to the point Ray Charles could see what was going to happen next.
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There isn't a positive or negative opinion about the Last of Us that counts as "controversial" anymore.
 
Alvarez said:
There are way too many gamers who lie about their gaming tastes in an attempt to appeal to their peers.
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Thank you!

* Undertale is VERY bland and doesn't deserve the praise it is getting.

* Battlefront is the worst thing DICE has ever created and makes me concerned about BATTLEFIELD 5.
 
Hey Bethesda, and every other developer who does this shit:

Stop programing ENEMY NPC's that ignore the non-enemies (which also happen to be shooting the ENEMY NPC's) only to have the ENEMY NPC bypass the NPC's unloading a god-awful amount of firepower - to kill me - it's stupid - not mention ILL-fucking -LOGICAL !!!!!

Much Appreciated
 
ShinUltramanJ said:
Clunky? What's clunky about it?
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Semi-related:

I played (and adored) the game originally on PS3, then bought the PS4 remaster. PLayed the PS3 game every night untl completion, but dipped in and out of the PS4 game over a few weeks, with days between sessions. What struck me the most is that every time I went back to it, I'd spend 5 minutes fumbling about, trying to remember the control layout. Didn't find the controls intuitive at all.
 
The lack of boots on the Fire Emblem protag bothers me.

Visually, it's distracting, and because of how damn impractical it is. Why the fuck would you not be wearing shoes while fighting to the death? It's terrible design, and it's annoying. It's going to irk me in Smash, and it's going to irk me in Fates. Geez.
 
Sapiens said:
Nintendo really needs to make Sunshine more available. Great game - great mechanics.

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Stories in video games are rarely done well. Portal 2 is one of the very ver very few games that does it right.
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Is this really controversial? Even with the recent push toward heavier narratives in games complaints about awful writing still seem frequent. It takes a lot of talent to write a game plot that is good and a not just good by "gaming standards".
 
SPE said:
Semi-related:

I played (and adored) the game originally on PS3, then bought the PS4 remaster. PLayed the PS3 game every night untl completion, but dipped in and out of the PS4 game over a few weeks, with days between sessions. What struck me the most is that every time I went back to it, I'd spend 5 minutes fumbling about, trying to remember the control layout. Didn't find the controls intuitive at all.
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You not being used to the control layout doesn't make a game clunky. I find Just Cause 2's control layout to be unfamiliar, but I would call the game clunky because of it.
 
ShinUltramanJ said:
You not being used to the control layout doesn't make a game clunky. I find Just Cause 2's control layout to be unfamiliar, but I wouldn't call the game clunky because of it.
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Fixed it.

Or at least that's what I think you meant to say.

On topic:

I don't see the appeal of JRPGS and I feel weird because of it. Like I'm missing this wonderful, rick aspect of the gaming industry that for whatever reason just doesn't stick with me.
 
I have another one and it's that mobile gaming sucks. Worse than JRPGS i think it's beneath me. At least with JRPGS I'm open to giving them a good college try.

Mobile gaming? Naw.
 
Brawly Likes to Brawl said:
Is this really controversial? Even with the recent push toward heavier narratives in games complaints about awful writing still seem frequent. It takes a lot of talent to write a game plot that is good and a not just good by "gaming standards".
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I feel like it is when I read a lot of posts about what people think is good.
 
maybe not all that controversial but here it goes...

1) MP sucks 99% of the time. I just don't enjoy it. I play games to escape the real world. SP for me is where it's at.

2) I got The Order 1886 for $10 and for that price it's a 9. I just can't understand when I see people writing about how it's the worst game ever. If I had bought it at full price it would still be far from the worst game ever. It would just be an overpriced game.

3) I was genuinely sad that Fallout 4 wasn't what I was expecting. Witcher 3 ruined so much for me.

4) Halo in general is one of the most boring scifi stories/universes I've seen. Like someone pushed the "generate random scifi universe" button. I'll admit the gameplay is great though.

5) Nintendo's next system will once again fall flat. Not sure what they will do after that though. I feel like they have some really troubling times ahead. While they have a loyal fanbase, it's shrinking every year. At some point they will be left behind.

6) Gran Turismo feels way too soulless, clinical, and sterile. The next one will be the same.

7) I see it shit on all the time but I got a PSTV for $30. Sony should include one with every PS4. Seriously... I duplicated my PS4 in my bedroom for $30. As long as you have a fast home network, buy it.
 
Trace said:
The 3DS is the worst thing that has ever happened to gaming in the console space.

If you had all just followed the Vita...
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3DS is one of my favourite systems ever, and Vita is the first Sony console I don't buy. I'm part of the problem :P
 
Ocarina of Time, Resident Evil 2, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Banjo Kazooie, Majora's Mask, Paper Mario, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Crash, Rayman 2, Klonoa, Symphony of the Night, CTR, Diddy Kong Racing, etc.

...are still amazing games, even if you'd play them for the first time nowadays (which I did in several cases). In certain aspects they might even stomp many modern games. I can't respect any hobby gamer who rejects Generation 5 games or calls classics like that unplayable by default today. If you do, you're the equivalent of pseudo movie buffs who don't wanna watch black and white movies. Some games do in fact age badly, in particular anything going for realism like yearly sports titles. But a gem in many cases stays a gem, even with (not even always that) bad graphics. And tank controls can be learned within an hour, after that you're set forever. If something is truly unplayable nowadays, it was probably average to begin with. Maybe I wouldn't recommend any of the above to casuals or only half-interested gamers, but any hardcore gamer mustn't shy away from classics before the HD era, even if it's 3D, nor shit on entire generations because of biased reasons.
 
Trace said:
The 3DS is the worst thing that has ever happened to gaming in the console space.

If you had all just followed the Vita...
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I wouldn't worst thing, but yeah it's without a doubt my least favorite handheld and I sometimes think about selling this piece of junk
 
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