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[civilstrife]

Smash Bros Brawl is far and away the best game in the series.

My group of friends has been playing it nonstop since release. It made gamers out of nongamers in the group.

Melee was great for its time, but pales next to Brawl.

 

[zoukka]

On top of that Halo is the most overrated POS.

It's the most functional FPS series on consoles. Even if you don't enjoy the setting, you still shouldn't be wondering why it's higly rated.

 

[snap0212]

It's the most functional FPS series on consoles.

How is it any more functional than CoD, for example? Serious question.

 

[djtiesto]

How is it any more functional than CoD, for example? Serious question.

Yup, even though I hate the CoD series at least it runs at 60FPS, and it definitely controls/feels better than Halo.

 

[Valhelm]

How is it any more functional than CoD, for example? Serious question.

The Halo games utilize a dynamic battlefield that directly contrasts with the flat campaigns of Call of Duty titles. The enemy AI is incredible, and there are no (or maybe very few) areas in which enemies continue to spawn until you cross an area.

 

[mokeyjoe]

Ok...

Doom is still the best FPS ever.
FFXII is the best Final Fantasy.
Online multiplayer sucks.

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Brazil]

If I had to choose between Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate II, I'd choose the former without blinking.

 

[komojo]

Whew! Finally read through this whole thread. Here are my "controversial" opinions:

Video games are art and have been ever since the first one was invented.

Sonic CD: US soundtrack > Jp/Eu soundtrack (except the Level Complete and Boss themes)

I've never really cared for the art style in Wind Waker, especially Link's character design.

Duke Nukem Forever isn't that bad. No, really. It has its share of terrible moments, but I think a lot of people missed some of the good parts because they didn't give it the benefit of the doubt:

• Snarky loading screen messages (Dodge enemy bullets to avoid taking damage. If you fall of a cliff, it's probably your own fault. If you get stuck, try looking for FAQs online.)
• Obscene messages written on the cans in the Duke Burger pantry
• It had interactive elements that are still missing in a lot of modern games, like the vases in the casino that you can pick up and throw.
• I liked the first person POV shots when you get knocked backwards. I also like how you can see your feet when you look down. When you look at yourself in the mirror, the walking animation looks wonky, but it perfectly matches up with the feet that you see when you look down, as well as the first person gun model.
• The core gameplay isn't as bad as people make it out to be. I've certainly played worse.
• There were some little moments of dialogue that made me chuckle. "Come on, Duke, let's go kick some alien butt!" "Yeah! Let's go...rupture some spleens!" "Why are you such a douche?" Why is that funny? I don't know, there isn't really a joke there per se, but it's a totally non-serious tone of voice that you never really hear in video game dialogue. YMMV.
• I laughed at the part in the casino stage where you have to jump over a shark to get past. It's just subtle enough that a lot of people will miss the joke, and may not have been intentional.
• I downloaded the recent Dr. Proton DLC and I wasn't expecting anything funny, but the
  Spoiler

  "I've got balls of steel!"
  scene made me laugh out loud.

 

[Magnus]

Super Smash Bros. games are as incredibly popular as they are because they are a button mashers' dream come true and anyone can play them and make impressive or hilarious looking things happen onscreen. I'm not debating that there may be a technically proficient fighting game underneath the chaotic and mascot-rich facade, but that facade is the reason almost everyone, their SO's and their parents play the games.

 

[Yoona]

A game isn't worth playing if you can only play it with a motion controller.

No one would ever care about Killzone 2/3 if they weren't PS3 exclusive.

Crackdown was an abysmal game.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is the scrubbiest, shittiest game of all time.

 

[PKrockin]

Super Smash Bros. games are as incredibly popular as they are because they are a button mashers' dream come true and anyone can play them and make impressive or hilarious looking things happen onscreen. I'm not debating that there may be a technically proficient fighting game underneath the chaotic and mascot-rich facade, but that facade is the reason almost everyone, their SO's and their parents play the games.

This is the least controversial post in this thread.

 

[Tawney Bomb]

Shin Megami Tensei games are boring as hell.

Final Fantasy IX is the best FF. VIII gets my vote for worst FF.

Pokemon has been dead since Gold and Silver on the GBC.

Blizzard hasn't churned out anything worthwhile since Diablo 2: LoD.

Every JRPG is the same thing.

Feminine lead characters who are male are awful.

 

[Jake Tower]

Morrowind has the best combat of the Elder Scrolls games.

 

[Arooguy]

Too Human was one of my favorite, most played games of this generation and everyday when I check gaming news, I hope for a sequel announcement.

 

[7threst]

Shin Megami Tensei games are boring as hell..

This cannot be...

 

[castlegar]

GAF's appreciation for GiantBomb is weird and mostly unwarranted.

And people knock one of their most valuable assets (Patrick) and outright attack him, for seemingly being not 'bro' enough and ruining their dynamic when he's probably the most informed member of the group.

 

[TheMan]

everything praised as being "hardcore" in Dark Souls was really just annoying as fuck

Spoiler

at least let me pause the goddamn game

 

[krameriffic]

Final Fantasy XIII was awesome

Batman: AA and AC are boring

Left 4 Dead isn't very fun

wut.

All realistic, cover-based third person shooters with regenerating health, and the Uncharted series in particular, need to be taken down about 50 pegs in popularity because it is a bland, boring and overdone gameplay model.

GAF's appreciation for GiantBomb is weird and mostly unwarranted.

And people knock one of their most valuable assets (Patrick) and outright attack him, for seemingly being not 'bro' enough and ruining their dynamic when he's probably the most informed member of the group.

I don't understand the hatred for Patrick either. There really isn't one among them that I don't like.

 

[Pirabear]

* I think people who can't at least fathom the appeal in turn-based combat have ADD.
* Xbox 1 had one of the least appealing lineups for a mainstream console
* Online play is overrated. I'd much rather play local multiplayer or by myself, instead of random racist 12 year olds from the boonies.
* Dudebro is a great catch-all term.
* Star Ocean 4 has great gameplay
* Vanquish single-handedly shits all over every other third person action game
* 2D Mario/Zelda/Metroid >>> 3D Mario/Zelda/Metroid
* Gaming hasn't been the same since SEGA left the hardware market
* SEGA-CD gets way too much hate, there are a number of bonafide classics on the system (too bad most people only remember Sonic CD and the shitty FMV games)
* I feel the people who are so anti-Japanese gaming are probably pretty boring people in real life, the kind who won't even try any food that's more 'exotic' than chicken fingers or watch subtitled movies.

I like you.

-With the amount of company shut downs, money pinching, and the industry in general afraid of taking risk now more than ever, I'm simply baffled at how anyone can claim this is the best gen/"golden era". I like indie games, but they don't fix the souring of this gen at large.

 

[Correctomundo]

[*] I laughed at the part in the casino stage where you have to jump over a shark to get past. It's just subtle enough that a lot of people will miss the joke, and may not have been intentional.

I get it.




Heeeeeyooooo!

 

[krameriffic]

Assasins Creed:
All the Assasins Creed games I have tried had horrible controls when jumping around.

This is something that became really apparent to me while playing Revelations. In the previous 3, I enjoyed it or at least didn't completely hate it, but the movement in Revelations really started to irritate me. It's so automated and feels out of your control on so many levels. The fluidity of animations takes precedent over the flow of the climbing and jumping, and placing aesthetics before gameplay is bad design. Having played Infamous 2 and Arkham City right before it, I was really fucking pissed off about how bad the movement and city traversal in ACR is. It's slow, frustrating, clunky, unresponsive and needs to be completely overhauled in whatever AC game they offer this year.

The combat needs a complete overhaul too, but that's not an opinion, it's fact.

 

[Pakkidis]

1) I find Halo terribly boring.

2) I find GTA games terribly boring.

3) I find Duke Nukem Forever somewhat enjoyable. It has its flaws, but was still fun.

4) Regenerating health, 2 gun limit is so played out.

5) JRPG's have some of the worst storytelling, dialogue and plot ever. I also don't consider them RPG's in a sense..more like adventure games with stats. RPG's to me has to have choice, in either how you develop your character or the choices you make in quests. Too many JRPG's provide neither.


6) I find fighting games terribly boring. Memorizing different combos is not my idea of fun.

7) I really enjoyed LA Noire.

 

[Psychoward]

Assassin's Creed 2 might be the most overrated game ever, Bioshock 2 is better than 1

 

[Baraka in the White House]

Half-Life 2 was a poor direction to take the series.

 

[Magnus]

This is the least controversial post in this thread.

I've been met with nothing but venom and hate whenever expressing that opinion in the past, haha. SSB fans are uproarious and vehement in their defense of the game.

 

[-PXG-]

Uncharted is good, but horrendously overrated. Darksiders is one of the worst games I've played this generation. Japanese games this gen have been very disappointing and have been on a steady decline in quality

 

[Haunted]

Uncharted is good, but horrendously overrated. Darksiders is one of the worst games I've played this generation. Japanese games this gen have been very disappointing and have been on a steady decline in quality

First statement is not that controversial, second statement is a lie, third is a fact.

C'mon son, step up your game.

 

[WanderingWind]

Batman: Arkham City was a bloated mess of a game.

 

[Toppot]

Darksiders is one of the worst games I've played this generation.

Same. It's just a terribly uninteresting game.

 

[Christine]

The context shift in Zelda II's roaming overworld battles is unforgivably disruptive. As are Okami's bound arenas.

 

[Setero]

3D Zelda are pretty mediocre and 2D Zelda games are infinitely better.

 

[that1dude24]

The big name blizzard games are overwhelmingly boring.

 

[Valhelm]

Half-Life 2 was a poor direction to take the series.

What kind of sequel would you have preferred?

 

[DuckReconMajor]

I love the Call of Duty games, single and multiplayer. I'm like the last "nerdy" kid I know that bought Modern Warfare 3. People kept telling me MW3 is just a map pack for MW2. Well that's why I bought it.

Doom is still the best FPS ever.

Doom will always be the best game ever.

 

[olore]

What kind of sequel would you have preferred?

No Combine who I do not care for

Weapons with soundeffects to match

Enemies that force you to use all weapons. You know, like in HalfLife

No strange dystopian unnamed Eastern-Europe city with oppressed people who I do not care for



My choice list:

Doom2 is still an awesome, balls-to-the-wall thrill ride with the best doublebarrel shotgun ever implemented in a FPS

HL2 is shit. Episode 2 has it moments

MGS is an excuse for hours upon hours of cutscenes

Bioshock has cute atmosphere, nothing else

Skyrim, Oblivion, GTA etcetcetc. Can`t invest +100 hours in a friggin` game anymore. Developers, give me a simple game

 

[MarshMellow96]

God of War is wildly overrated, as is the Elder Scrolls series.

Ocarina of Time is infuriatingly obtuse. Zelda II is where Nintendo need to draw influence from.

I really enjoyed Metroid: Other M.

Simple games are more compelling. I would choose to play Pushmo over Skyrim every time.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Some more:

Shining Force III is my favorite SRPG, ranking over the Fire Emblem games. I love the special attacks, weapon levels, great pacing/challenge, and fantastic audiovisual quality that this game(s?) brought to the Sega Saturn. Very repayable, too, and with Motoi Sakuraba's most boring soundtrack yet!

3rd Gen Pokemon all the way—grew up on said stuff, and Hoenn's the region of champions.

D2 was good. It outdid the usual Kojima project in every single way, and is possibly the most intentionally-insane game ever created. And the music is good too.

Artdink made great games. I actually don't know how well-known the company is with GAF, but there's never a better time to find out.

D2 was amazing imo. Most underrated game of all time. I loved it. It was also creepier and more atmospheric than 98% of these so-called horror games.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

The Darkness sucks donkey balls.

Halo and Gears of War MP blow.

 

[JerzeyDevil]

Uncharted is one of the most boring games I've ever played, and the gaming industry's Hollywood boner is the single worst thing to happen to the medium in the last decade.

There, I said it.

Ninja Gaiden NES cutscenes are still, imo, the most effective way to tell a story in a game without pulling the player away from the experience for too long or making them feel like just an observer in regard to the overall experience.

 

[bengraven]

Here's some more:

- Doom3 is one of the best FPSs of the last decade. Probably second to Half-Life 2 in my books.

- Japanese games lack a soul to me. It's like the cultural differences: subtleties in the way characters act or maybe it's the translation's issue. But every JRPG I used to play and try to now, the characters are robotic or overly emotional - as if someone is injecting too much emotion to give them a personality. It strikes the same sense that the "uncanny valley" does - it FEELS like a decent story, but I don't feel comfortable there. Hard to explain, but again, I think it's the very subtle cultural differences and the way people interact that it's hard to pick up on. I get the same vibe from certain European games, like Stalker and Witcher, which I love and the differences aren't nearly as polarizing, but sometimes I'm like "an American or Brit would have written that differently".

- graphics really don't matter anymore. Some of my favorite games of the last few years are Mount & Blade and Minecraft, which I talk up all over this board. M&B looks worse than many 2001 PC games. But both games are so damn fun. I just don't give a shit about beautiful scenery in games - give me something with a decent framerate and some color and wrap that around a great fucking game.

Morrowind has the best combat of the Elder Scrolls games.

Wait, what? Explain this enigma.

 

[Toby]

Uncharted is one of the most boring games I've ever played, and the gaming industry's Hollywood boner is the single worst thing to happen to the medium in the last decade.

You stole mine!
Uncharted was dull, and I hate the stereotypical character Drake is.

 

[bengraven]

You stole mine!
Uncharted was dull, and I hate the stereotypical character Drake is.

I haven't even played it, but I lack any interest in the game. Sounded like a decent tomb raiding game at first with terrible subtitles and I love Naughty Dog, but the cult of personality around the game has actually made it worse.

I went from "this is kind of interesting" to "ignore all Uncharted topics" after the cult got a bit annoying. I'd still play it though, if I had a PS3, but I'd only rent it.

 

[Fezan]

RE5 is better game than both DS.

 

[Tain]

RE5 is better game than both DS.

I can get behind this.

 

[rpgb46]

fuck majoras mask
fuck la noire

liked jedi power battles

 

[weekend_warrior]

Uncharted is one of the most boring games I've ever played, and the gaming industry's Hollywood boner is the single worst thing to happen to the medium in the last decade.

Is that so... hmm, k.

 

[Christine]

Is that so... hmm, k.

What's funny is that you've picked an animation that highlights what JerseyDevil doesn't like about Uncharted as strongly as it speaks to your own reasons for excitement about the game.

 

[perfectnight]

Batman: Arkham City was a bloated mess of a game.

Also, the combat in this game was the opposite of good. Nice animations do not make a good combat system.

 

[Flying_Phoenix]

The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass was a worthy Zelda game. It was great.

The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker wasn't only the worst Zelda game, but mediocre as a game in general. Also the graphics don't hold up as well as people pretend it to.

The Xbox 360 controller is insanely over-rated.

The Xbox 360 isn't that good of a gaming console. Shitty interface, pay to play online that is above-average, mediocre first party lineup, and very few exclusives. I don't really get the love for it.

This generation of consoles are hilarious. One console that was once prone to a 1/3 failure rate (literally), another that was insanely overpriced for a feature that wasn't necessary, and one thats idea was drastically underutilized and was hilariously underpowered in which was excused for being "cheap".

I can still see motion control not only being the future for 3D games, but replacing the gamepad for almost all genres due to superior (yes superior) controls. Unfortunately outside of Nintendo and less than a handful of games (SSX Blur, Red Steel 2 *I'd list some Kinect and Move games but I haven't played much of any of them*), hardly anybody has even somewhat pushed the scheme.

The immense praise for Uncharted's incredible life-liek graphics are baffling. Not only do the games not look that impressive compared to many PC games, but the games don't even have the best graphics on the system they are exclusive to.

The Vita is much more likely to be Saturned than perform better (on a stable long term basis) than the PSP.

Ten years from now or so we will have cell phones and similar devices that are great legitimate gaming machines.

Is that so... hmm, k.

Did you even read his post?

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

-I would prefer the PlayStation 4 to be another $599 system with super nice specs and superior build quality rather than be $300-$400 and a ho-hum competitor to the next Xbox.

-The 3DS is a *magical* system, and the best handheld Nintendo has made since the original GameBoy.

- The Witcher 2 is the best RPG of the last five years, and easily outclasses Skyrim, Mass Effect, FallOuts, Final Fantasys, etc.

-WiiSports and Skyward sword are the ONLY games to use motion controls well.

-Playing online with PC gamers is a 1000x more enjoyable experience than playing with randoms on XBL or PSN.

-The PSP would have outsold the DS in NA and been the "winner" of last gen had it launched at $199 and had a second analog nub. Unfortunately, in the different climate, the Vita will have a severely difficult time gaining
momentum.

-Metal Gear Solid is my favorite gaming IP ever; and MGS: The Twin Snakes is the best entry in the franchise.

-Bethesda is an awful, awful developer, and their games are extremely overrated.

-Nintendo's IPs and games are some of the most mature in the entire industry. A game doesn't need blood, guns, boobs, cursing, or the color brown to be a masterpiece, a critique on gaming, an exhilarating experience, or tell a mature and passionate story about serious issues.