Huh? Did you play Donkey Kong Country Returns? It owns!
Raise the flame shield: Your "controversial" gaming opinion.
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Huh? Did you play Donkey Kong Country Returns? It owns!
There's people who will like anything if they can play it with others.
We don't waste time on those people.
Decent adventure, whilst its controls were, in every respect, dismal.
I did. It's a pretty good game, but not that great. I haven't played Mario Kart 7 though.
This is a thread about controversial gaming opinions. As in, ones that go against what most think. Is it really necessary to play Defense Force here?
Though bringing up reviews as as a defense is sad regardless of what the thread is.
I have to say Bioshock. And I explain why in a little walltext, spoiler alerts!
Don't get me wrong, that game is awesome, nice gameplay (even if it's unbalanced, once you've made 500$ you can buy almost everything without worries about money because you're gonna make money again very fast... And anyway, you can finish the game without upgrading any plasmide, personally (more or less) until the encounter with Ryan I used just the lvl 1° that I've found exploring, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing). The story is awesome, nothing to say to the plot and the atmosphere, I really really liked it, the bad thing about the game for me is the storytelling, I mean, I felt like there weren’t a background for my action at all, I’m in this city and I’m doing these thing because a man ask me to do it. At the and you discover that this man were controlling you. And this make sense, but it felt like “I don’t want to write a story for the character, I’ll make this person do this thing and to explain that I’ll say that he is controlled by another person”. Even after you discovery that you’re controlled, you team-up with the Tenenbaum, but even there you just go on, you even make yourself a BigDaddy (undergoing some irreversible operation) without say “A”. You just do it, like a puppet. Now, I understand all the subtext (he is a men without choice, no self-awareness, it’s a puppet in the master’s hand and all the message) but… Am I losing something? Does the game build itself just on the city and her’s background? And the ending just reinforce my thoughts. You kill the bad guy, save the Little Sisters, come back to the surface, let them grown up, live a life, and then you die. Was all the game about saving the Little Sister? Not a word on Rapture’s destiny, of its inhabitants… Nothing.
I surely liked the game, but after all these years, all the entusiastic comment, when I played it (like a month or two ago) I was like disappointed for the story. But the background is great, my criticisms are all for the "main character story"
I surely liked the game, but after all these years, all the entusiastic comment, when I played it (like a month or two ago) I was like disappointed for the story. But the background is great, my criticisms are all for the "main character story"
Not controversial if it's true.
You'll have to amplify things.
Gunmonkey36
Member
HamPster PamPster
Member
Kingdom Hearts 1 had a fanastic plot/story. It was simple, touching and well told. It was the other games that ruined the series' story.
Togglesworlh
Banned
I don't know if I'd call it fantastic, but I definitely enjoyed it at the time. Simple, charming, fun. I then followed it up with Chain of Memories and, while I enjoyed the gameplay, the story went to hell, so I stopped caring as much.
theboywonder
Banned
Gameplay wise, Majora's mask SUCKS. There, I said it.
Is it different from OoT?
But we finally more or less settled on a standard gamepad. It's kind of a thin silver lining, but I do like it.
Togglesworlh
Banned
Also making the 360 controller automatically work with Windows has been a godsend for PC gaming that requires a gamepad.
Fantastic as compared to where they've taken it, maybe. But yeah, they a crazy work in that first game. I have a hard time following it nowadays, and not because it's too complex, like some people want to believe it's just silly and too all over the place to really care about anymore.
Very thin, but I'll agree there. Skyrim shows off this silver lining very well.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Infamous is better than Infamous 2
Interfectum
Member
Crackdown is better than Infamous
The_Hitcher89
Member
Never played it
Try this on for size
Infamous is an equal game to Batman:AA on and better than AC
Rahxephon91
Banned
Infamous was a pretty awful game.
Don't know about 2, it sure looks better, but I'm not willing to give it a chance. I've given 1 too many already.
Don't know about 2, it sure looks better, but I'm not willing to give it a chance. I've given 1 too many already.
Gunmonkey36
Member
2 isn't much different from the first. If you didn't like the first one don't bother with 2.
Interfectum
Member
Never played it
Try this on for size
Infamous is better than either Batman:AA or AC
I got that beat.
Prototype is better than Infamous.
As someone who hates blood and gore, Prototype is one of my favorite games from this gen.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Mother of God....
I love Prototype, thought it would be one of my favourite games. Then I got about 3 hours in, the controls were getting on my nerves, the missions were boring me, the enemies were frustrating rather than fun, I already knew that it got a lot harder, I'd lost the thread of the story and couldn't have cared less about the characters, and I just started throwing people at skycrapers, cars at people and people at people for an hour or so. Never touched it since.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Well Im open to the idea of open world Superhero game. It's been a while since I played 1 and I dont remember all my complaints, so bare with me.
I thought the visuals were hideous. It was a very rough and ugly game. While 2 sadly stayed with the meh character designs the visuals look a lot better.
Repetitive gameplay. Those underground parts were very boring and never felt more then busy work. I didn't like the combat, which not only lacked excitement, but also just seemed to be me doing electric high fives. At least 2's combat looks far more interesting and I think the Melee combat is probably better implemented.
I remember the aI enemies just being very boring encounters and I know that even after I took over an area of the city they would still seemingly shoot at me, which was already annoying just traveling through uncleaned areas. Just added annoyance.
So if the 2nd isn't like this then maybe it's worth checking out.
I did that but for 40 hours. It's the reason I bought the game! I probably spent 50 hours in Spider-man web of shadows just swinging around the city. I'm really weird when it comes to open world games. You couldn't pay to play a GTA game but I'll spend crazy amounts of time in Prototype and Spider-Man.
HamPster PamPster
Member
Really? I hate them too so I passed on the game. The powers and movement looked interesting but that trailer... when he cuts the guy and ugh I feel sick
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I dunno, this seems pretty well agreed upon mostly...the introduction of Organization XIII sent the series flying off the handle and taking the focus off of the villains being a Injustice League of Disney Villains.
TheLastCandle
Member
Well, of course that's the point of this thread, but plenty of people have been replying with comments here and there in reply to stuff they do or don't agree with. Wasn't trying to play defense force but I can see why it looked that way.
Maybe I'll add a new controversial comment to this thread in response though; I think high metacritic/gamerankings review scores are generally a good way to prove a game isn't complete festering ass, but a low one doesn't guarantee a game is bad either.
BabeSlayer
Member
FireEmblem (any) is better than FF tactics
weekend_warrior
Banned
Checking the GiantBomb thread reminded me that I must be one of the few people who doesn't like the SSX series.
Not Shadow Dragon.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I bought Prototype, but couldn't get past the third or fourth mission, as the game bored me to tears. I actually liked inFamous far more. However, I'll give Prototype that it made you feel far more like a nigh indestructible demigod than inFamous ever did, and jumping over buildings was awesome. Also, auto-jumping over cars was neat.
TaroYamada
Member
I think it's a good thing, as a pc gamer, that consoles have held PC's back. It's made the PC a healthier market by reducing cost of entry for newcomers.
No
Infamous is a shitty game, Infamous 2 is actually a pretty good game. They fixed all the issues I had with it at least. It's not repetitive anymore and the combat is actually fun this time. They're both better than Crackdown. God that game is straight up ass.
jim-jam bongs
Member
That's not really controversial, though if you had also said "and I hope this trend continues for the next decade" it would be. I think most PC gamers these days are pretty happy with the lower cost of entry, we just don't want technology to stagnate for any longer than it already has.
theviolenthero
Member
Ape Escape for the PS1 is better than Super Mario 64.
The Wii, thanks to backwards compatibility, is the best console ever made.
Super Mario Brothers 2 is a classic.
Graphically, the best game you can play on your Wii is F-zero GX.
The Wii, thanks to backwards compatibility, is the best console ever made.
Super Mario Brothers 2 is a classic.
Graphically, the best game you can play on your Wii is F-zero GX.
woundedbear
Neo Member
I have yet to play a great game on a touch device. I mean a game that I'll always remember.
While I loved Portal 2's inventiveness, I think its very existence is something approaching a betrayal of the original's artistic integrity.
I worry about the time and resources developers are dedicating to the multiplayer dimension of games that don't need one.
3D is holding back inevitably more interesting trends and developments in technology.
While I loved Portal 2's inventiveness, I think its very existence is something approaching a betrayal of the original's artistic integrity.
I worry about the time and resources developers are dedicating to the multiplayer dimension of games that don't need one.
3D is holding back inevitably more interesting trends and developments in technology.
Deified Data
Banned
Agreed.
Could you expand on that? Do you mean the original creator's intent?
lifa-cobex
Member
Not one bloody thing made me jump or feel on edge with fear during the whole game.
I wouldn't call it survival horror. It should just be called survival.
I literally can not get my head around people enjoying ff13 if they enjoyed the previous titles.