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

Ahasverus said:
Online multiplayer turned Gaming into a macho fest.
Guns are boring and I hate how american players love them, especially after I was raised in a country with internal conflict, guns are not awesome when they've killed many loved ones. It's not that they shouldn't be there (man I LOVE GTA) but making them the end of it all and with every "AAA" game turning about them (and killing.. in a brutal gory "awesome" way) makes me sick.. and sad.
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This, there's no better weapon than ones own fists (I was raised on Bruce Lee movies), martial arts-based games aside from vs fighting are becoming less common but there are still some great ones coming out like Batman Arkham City which in many ways is the Yakuza of the west.

SEGA: Please get Streets of Rage Remake officially released on XBLA/PSN/Steam like you did with that Sonic CD recreation.
 
  • The Witcher 2 isn't a good game. It is pretty as hell, but it is far from a good game. It suffers from a poor control scheme, mediocre story, and boring gameplay.

  • Xenoblade Chronicles is massively overrated due to Project Rainfall hype. It isn't the RPG of this generation. In fact Lost Odyssey is better than Xenoblade Chronicles and I didn't even enjoy that game that much.

  • Waggle motion controls are not enjoyable and are detrimental to the gaming experience.

  • Marvel V Capcom 2 is better than MvC3

  • Tekken, King of Fighters, and Virtual Fighter are awful fighting series.

  • Starcraft is better than SCII

  • GTAIV is the worst rockstar game ever made.
 
It's been said before, but The Windwaker was/is the apex of the Zelda franchise. And until those western dudes release the reboot, we will never know.
 
The Witcher 2 is pretty amusing because it's a esoteric eastern european game in a high budget western game's clothing. For every moment that I was taken away by something very high quality about it, there was something there that reminded me where it came from.

But it's not not a good game.
 
So I never really got into Halo, I played part one for a couple of minutes before thinking it was kind of rubbish. But all the tens and the fanboy praise starts to nag, and here I don't have anything else to do, so I asked Halo Reach for my birthday. I just spent twenty minutes playing it. My reactions so far:

Starting up the campaign, people in the lobby: me, nobody else. Er, duh? Game loaded, are you sure you want to play the campaign? Press X to cancel! WTF?! I don't touch anything and sure enough a few seconds later I'm in the game. I don't know who all these people are. They look like master chiefs so I'm guessing my allies. I walk around a bit. Oh those look like enemies, zapzapzap am I hitting them? God this is floaty. They're going down so I guess so. My allies are blabbering, can't make out what they're saying, why aren't my subtitles on? Let's go into the menu, subtitles are on... only works when your xbox is set to another language? What is this shit?!
I decide to just press on and follow the quest marker. Some more shooting, oh I'm in a Warthog. How the hell do I turn? Going down a cliff FUUUUU. Okay so I figured that when I try to look around I turn, so I can't look around while driving, what a crappy way to steer a car. When I reverse, do I look right or left to turn in the right direction? After trying six times I still haven't figured it out. Continuing on. I'm driving, don't really know where or why, just following the quest marker. A dropship lands and all my comrades jump out. Right. I'm left alone in my warthog while they're shooting, aimlessly driving back and forth. How do I get out of my car? I figure my best guess is to go into the controller menu to see which button makes me get out of the car. Doesn't say. Back in the game I press all the buttons, but my character stays in the car. A few seconds later I'm suddenly besides my car?! What happened?!

As I shoot some more enemies, my friends are shouting at me, but I can't really hear what above the sound of my gun and am not able to read it as subtitles either. I deduce it's important for the story. Is there a story? I'm not sure. The objective marker says I have to enter a transport and sure enough there's a transport there. Can't enter it. Is there a button? Dunno. I hop around the transport without any luck. Oh wait, there's another transport that I should be boarding. Twenty minutes into the game, the game finally decides to help me. "use RT to turn" it says. What is this steaming pile of turd, why do people insist that Bungie is on top of the game when it comes to FPS games? Why does this get high marks for anything? RAGE.
 
Guys, don't post or view this thread if you don't have thick skin.

People are talking about how they feel. If they're trolling, you can't know because it's an opinion thread and sometimes that opinion can be expressed by strong hyperbole. Some of the trollers are fairly obvious, like the "Pokemon = pedophiles" statement, which could have been expressed easier by saying "adults who play kiddie games are creepy and possibly pedophiles". Still an asshole, but at least a much clearer, bleached asshole. Maybe I feel that people who like dating sims have Asberger's. I kind of do, but that's my opinion as an adult.


Bottom line is, I'm seeing a lot of feelings hurt and they shouldn't be. "Raise your flame shield" as in "here be people flaming popular game series".


Odrion said:
The Witcher 2 is pretty amusing because it's a esoteric eastern european game in a high budget western game's clothing. For every moment that I was taken away by something very high quality about it, there was something there that reminded me where it came from.

But it's not not a good game.
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Well, technically all of Europe is considered "the west". The Witcher is a WRPG. Some people even add Russia to the list of the "west".

I think it would be more accurately stated as "white people RPGs".
 
Okami has a nice graphical style, but as far as gameplay is concerned, it can't even hold a candle to the very worst of Zelda games.

The Baldur's Gate games were dumbed down versions of AD&D 2nd edition, the story wholly derivative of the Forgotten Realms short stories and novels, which were cool but pretty derivative and second tier to begin with. Bioware got more interesting after these games

Viewtiful Joe was horribly repetitive, and people only like it because of its selfreferential nerdy image.

(J)RPGS are infinitely better when they have offline coop, and because of this alone Secret of Mana is indisputably a better game than Chrono Trigger, and Tales of Symphonia than contemporary Final Fantasies.
 
Less is more. Nearly every game out there would be better if it was shorter, we should drop the idea that games need to last 15 hours at least for them to be good. In fact, every game that is above 15 hours (except Skyrim) has padded bits that are shit to play and would be better if left out.

Deus Ex:HR has a dumb story and doesn't really shine in anything.

Streamlining is great. The equivalent of cinematography and editing in a movie, when it's done well it's an art, and it's the main difference between a good game and a masterpiece.
 
Loved FO3, hated FONV. Maybe it was like loving the First cd a band puts out and hating the rest though. For all of its flaws I just found FO3 way more immersive and intriguing. I even really liked the DLC. Couldn't finish NV, it just lost me.
 
Gilby said:
Batman: Arkham Asylum/City has terrible character design, at least from what I've seen. Especially batman himself.
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Oh god it really does. Batman is so ugly. Catwoman though I found to look really cool and it's the reason I was willing to give the game a chance. I'm glad I did as it was great.

Actually the world design of AC is pretty good.
 
IN MY OPINION

-Fracture is better than Halo 3 and has a better campaign, with Halo 3 having one of the worst campaigns I've ever played
-The Tales series is unbearably bad and the worst long-running JRPG series of all-time
-The story in Red Dead Redemption is repetitive, underdeveloped trash
-Fallout 3 was incredible. New Vegas sucked.
-Mega Man 7 is much better than MM3, and MM4 is one of the worst MM games of all-time
 
Freep5637 said:
Loved FO3, hated FONV. Maybe it was like loving the First cd a band puts out and hating the rest though. For all of its flaws I just found FO3 way more immersive and intriguing. I even really liked the DLC. Couldn't finish NV, it just lost me.
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I had the same. The reason could also be the same, but I felt that FONV lacked the poignancy and importance of FO3. In FO3 you never experienced life outside your vault bubble, and you have to leave the vault and have no place to go, so you have a reason to explore. You try to find your dad. Then you set out to purify the water, or else you and everybody will die. All these things matter. Whereas in FONV there's no impending doom, people are doing okay without you, and you survived an attack on your life. Do you really want to figure out who tried to kill you and why? It's a pretty dangerous but not impossible world out there. Just get a house somewhere nobody finds you and live a quiet life. That to me would seem like the logical choice, not doing all the stuff you end up doing, just because it's a game and, well, you can.
 
Rahxephon91 said:
Oh god it really does. Batman is so ugly. Catwoman though I found to look really cool and it's the reason I was willing to give the game a chance. I'm glad I did as it was great.

Actually the world design of AC is pretty good.
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Just look at his shoulder-to-hip ratio! It looks like he should constantly be falling over.
 
bengraven said:
Guys, don't post or view this thread if you don't have thick skin.

People are talking about how they feel. If they're trolling, you can't know because it's an opinion thread and sometimes that opinion can be expressed by strong hyperbole. Some of the trollers are fairly obvious, like the "Pokemon = pedophiles" statement, which could have been expressed easier by saying "adults who play kiddie games are creepy and possibly pedophiles". Still an asshole, but at least a much clearer, bleached asshole. Maybe I feel that people who like dating sims have Asberger's. I kind of do, but that's my opinion as an adult.


Bottom line is, I'm seeing a lot of feelings hurt and they shouldn't be. "Raise your flame shield" as in "here be people flaming popular.
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If you don't take everything in this thread extremely personally then you are obviously one of them trolls!
 
Speevy said:
Games involving swords and sorcery are more fun than shooters.
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I don't think that's inherently true, but I do I think the shooter genre has become the most over-saturated, generic, innovationless genre on the market today. Where as sword & sorcery games have seen a lot more variety, in terms of controls, storys, and genre crossing.
 
perfectnight said:
I feel like you just described a lot of MM games.
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Probably! I don't recall the first three MMs being that way, but then I was eight when I played them and didn't know games could be difficult without platforms disappearing without any cue or enemies obnoxiously popping out of nowhere dropping you into a pit.
 
spekkeh said:
Then you set out to purify the water, or else you and everybody will die.
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This isn't actually true. "Everybody will die" if the Enclave (who really shouldn't be there and only make a major military appearance in the last third of the game) add the virus to the water, but the radiation in the Potomac isn't going to kill you or anybody anymore than it has been for the last 200 years.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
This isn't actually true. "Everybody will die" if the Enclave (who really shouldn't be there and only make a major military appearance in the last third of the game) add the virus to the water, but the radiation in the Potomac isn't going to kill you or anybody anymore than it has been for the last 200 years.
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It's been quite a while since I played it, but I didn't really have the feeling the world was thriving either, and thought it quite possible that the mutants would some day take over from the humans.
 
Killzone 1 was the best Killzone. It was limited only by the hardware it was on. If it was remade on the Killzone 3 engine with a stable frame rate it would blow 2 & 3 out of the water.

Virtua Fighter hit its peak at 2, now it is just prettier graphics with the same animations and sound fx. You can make the same argument against Tekken and say 3 was its peak as well.

Ridge racer is the exact same game every time. I still like it though.
 
ess is more. Nearly every game out there would be better if it was shorter, we should drop the idea that games need to last 15 hours at least for them to be good. In fact, every game that is above 15 hours (except Skyrim) has padded bits that are shit to play and would be better if left out.
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Today, games that are 12 hours long are considered "lengthy." Remember when God of War's ten hours was considered short and a mark against it?

But I don't agree with that idea. I use to! I use to think if they made a game shorter, they would cut out the padding and it would be a great experience from start to finish. Except that after six or so years of applying it to games. I found that games that would still have that padding, still do. They don't seem any better or worse, merely shorter.
 
I think that this generation has been great and competitive in the shooting Genre. You could even say that this is the golden age of Shooters (I respect people saying PC). I give credit to the 360's controller (Dual Analog) for most of it.

I worry that MOST OF US are now all brainwashed with what I call cross-hair fever and don't subconciously choose to play a game without "aiming". I will however say that with the success of Shooters as a genre, there was somewhat of a drought in the RPG genre, and I can only say a handful of Good (non-shooter) RPGs were released. I want to see more new genres being created in the mainstream dev scene, Mirror's Edge was it's own game as far as I know... I'll leave it to Indie Developers >_<

Xenoblade, Witcher 2, Lost Odyssey, Persona 4, Last Story, Contact (DS), Skyrim, I must be missing some game ^_^. (Oh, and Sorry FFXIII, I love final fantasy but you don't belong here)

I think Wii U is NOT NEXT GEN, we'll see E3 2012.

I loved Gears of War 1, but then hated the whole franchise after finishing the whole trilogy. I wondered what the hell I was doing wasting my time on it.

I think Final Fantasy 7 is one of those games which people who couldn't finish it, criticise it, while others think they shouldn't play it since they know who dies already.

Only game which deserves 10/10 for graphics is Wind Waker & maybe Okami and Team Fortress. Games with an art-style, not realistic blandness. More next-gen games should look like them in HD, that is all

I find Zombies boring, there's so much popularity associated with them. Only Zombies I enjoyed are Resident Evils 1-3, Walking Dead, and mildly Left4Dead.

I cringe reaching a moment when I speak to a fellow gamer who doesn't voice his own opinion and notice his/her opinion which blindly mirrored by an online source. Don't get me wrong, I myself read sites and gather info, but when they argue your opinion using it, that's just a downhill slope. I have noticed their opinions change after verbally battling me. Cringeworthy... I think this is hard to explain, OR I am simply an idiot and I don't know so.

I could go forever... oh and Rockstar games are HIGHLY OVERRATED, I played many of them, but I can't tell what it is, I can never take them seriously. I played with the motorbike continuously in Vice, I somehow finished it and GTA 3. Every other game, even GTA 4, were games I don't connect with... *sigh* I do respect their game release schedules though...

I think the best Wii game ever made is No More Heroes, and the best DS game ever made is Contact.
 
Odrion said:
Today, games that are 12 hours long are considered "lengthy."
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Really? I don't think I've heard anyone say that before. Anyway, to stay on topic, I thought CoD MW2's six hour campaign was exactly right when it came to length. I never even bothered with the multiplayer, and still thought it was good value for money (admittedly bought it a bit cheaper on the interwebs).

Speaking of which. I think the CoD series is one of the most groundbreaking and interesting series when it comes to storytelling in games, and are one of the best examples of what games can do as an artform. There I said it. The story itself is horrible, it's true, and you shouldn't play more than one game in the series, like, ever. But there are very few games (or films for that matter) that can give you an accurate sense of scale pertaining to a major conflict, by actually letting you be the peons all over the world and experiencing what they are experiencing. Also, half of the protagonists you play as die during the course of the game, yet the game still goes on. Amazing! For all the crass dudebro bravado it's almost the antithesis of a power fantasy.
 
- Devil May Cry 4 is just as good as DMC3; would've been better if they hadn't recycled bosses.
- Mass Effect 1 is a crappy tech demo compared to ME2.
- Half-Life 2 is a standard unexciting shooter that drags on and has really uninteresting puzzles (if you can even call them that). I like the expansions alright, though.
- Left 4 Dead is just plain boring as shit.
- 3D Sonic games pre-Colors have their quirks but they also have lots of charm and are overall enjoyable games (except 2006). Heroes and Unleashed (360/PS3 version) especially receive lots of shit that they don't deserve.
- Path of Radiance is the best Fire Emblem by miles.
 
Even MW2 had Takedown. :V

(Call of Duty 1's intro to the Russian campaign is still a highlight for me, even if it hasn't aged well.)
 
Halo Reach sucks, low jumping height and load outs are stupid.

COD 4 was and still is the best COD game, not saying much there.

Halo Wars is a fun RTS.

GTA 4 is balls.

MGS series is overrated.

PlayStation controllers suck.

N64 games have not aged very well.
 
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