Raise the flame shield: Your "controversial" gaming opinion.
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Ah, I see.
I see what you mean. I think it may depend on the game, but certainly games that have any pretensions of 'realism' feel a bit weird without it to me - as if you can shoot with perfect accuracy from the hip while running at full speed.
I'm not sure if it would work for something like Quake. Having said that I thought it actually worked really well in Brutal Doom and that's even faster/crazier.
It's definitely a better mechanic than recharging health. Honestly I think health packs are a superior mechanic for 90% of games, I don't care if it's considered old fashioned it's just better.
Yeah, I didn't like it much - is it held in high regard or something?
The Water Temple in OOT is the best. In fact it may well be the best level in anything ever.
I like your style, the Water Temple is awesome. And yeah people are all "IT'S SO GOOD SINCE IT'S TOTALLY BREAKING THE CONVENTIONS OF WHAT A ZELDA DUNGEON IS"
Whereas I think it's confusing and dumb and I had to get out of there to get some bombs because the dungeon itself doesn't supply bombs.
I think ADS works best when aiming is done with an analog because its sensitivity is nowhere near as wide as a mouse so there needs to be separate speeds for looking around and aiming at mid to long ranged targets.
It's not really "controversial" if most people around the world agree...
Quake, Doom, Uridium, Pac Man, Minecraft, Black, Uncharted, Gran Turismo, EverQuest, Half Life, Diablo, Legend of Grimrock, Streets of Rage, Knight Lore etc are just a few that I've enjoyed over the years. I live in the UK, and Nintendo didn't have an impact over here the same way it did in America. Most people went atari - commodore/sinclair - sega - pc or playstation. I do remember a guy that was a Nintendo fan, he had a snes when it launched, a n64 when that launched. But most people I know didn't play Nintendo. I'm sure if I was American things would have been different, and I'm sure I've missed some Nintendo games I would have really enjoyed. But I don't feel like I've really missed out, and I've never looked at their hardware or software and wanted something from them. I did play Xenoblade a year ago, and that was great.
A industry where binding of Isaac gets big, FEZ is praised and hyped, F2P games like Dota 2 ooze of charme and soul, where people can kickstart their dream projects and see them come to life... It has probably never been a better time to be a gamer.
And no I have not played more "creative" games than in recent times.
MrCompletely
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I don't understand how someone who considers himself to be an adult can be interested in pokemon. Im embarrassed for you.
Nostremitus
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I feel the same way about GTA and the vast majority of FPS fans... but yeah, I've never played a Pokemon game.
Lumpy Onion
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I love how some of the posts in this thread aren't really controversial gaming opinions all all and the thread just becomes a chance for people to spout mean-spirited statements to piss people off. (and no I don't like Pokemon if you are wondering)
I really dislike Borderlands. It's bland, lifeless, and boring, and fails at being either a good FPS or a good RPG.
Skyrim is an awful game, filled to the brim with fetch-quests, repetitive puzzles, same-ish caves/temples, shallow combat, and little enemy variety. You just play the same experience over and over again until you realise they've copy-pasted the locations on the map.
The Water Temple from OoT was easy. Twilight Princess' Water Temple was more complex.
Moral Choice in video games is a dead-end, overrated trend and has never lived up to its promise.
Asian developers are very often the ones bringing innovation to stagnant and trope-filled genres.
Mario games are soulless and I lose interest so quickly with them. It even took me over a year to finish SM64. I never finished SMG.
IGN podcasts are fun to listen to.
I quit playing Wind Waker because its linearity frustrated me when there's an illusion of freedom.
Skyrim is an awful game, filled to the brim with fetch-quests, repetitive puzzles, same-ish caves/temples, shallow combat, and little enemy variety. You just play the same experience over and over again until you realise they've copy-pasted the locations on the map.
The Water Temple from OoT was easy. Twilight Princess' Water Temple was more complex.
Moral Choice in video games is a dead-end, overrated trend and has never lived up to its promise.
Asian developers are very often the ones bringing innovation to stagnant and trope-filled genres.
Mario games are soulless and I lose interest so quickly with them. It even took me over a year to finish SM64. I never finished SMG.
IGN podcasts are fun to listen to.
I quit playing Wind Waker because its linearity frustrated me when there's an illusion of freedom.
I love that people use this topic just to hate on people for enjoying a fucking video game, especially Pokemon. Grow up.
MrCompletely
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I'm not deliberately trying to piss anyone off, my opinion is that pokemon is for 10 year olds and it weirds me out how anyone over that age can take it seriously.
I know right. What a bunch of weirdos having fun with a babby game. I'm glad I grew out of that stage
Wow! How dare they enjoy a video game just because you think it's for 10 year olds!?
What's the difference between it and any "serious" RPG, in your opinion? That monsters "faint", instead of dying?
what the fuck is a babby game?
A misspelling of baby game. I was being sarcastic and am fully aware of how ridiculous MrCompletely's post was.
Yeah and kids/teens are the main characters. Just like how something like Lord of the Flies or Battle Royale are childrens movies.
Call me when you realize that the metagame of any Pokémon game is like 20 times more complex than any rpg or shooter you like/play.
drugstore_cowboy
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Plasma TVs are terrible for gaming and TN monitors are underrated.
- Wonderbook is important for the gaming industry.
- Gears of War is the equivalent to trashy romance novels.
- Squarenix has given up.
- Under the current leadership, Sony will continue to be too scattered to stay relevant.
- Most Nintendo 1st party properties (not unlike most modern FPS) are too shallow to be a truly innovative contender in the gaming space.
- Pokemon will always be good. Too bad it will be the same game.
- Metal Gear Solid 4 is the best Metal Gear game.
- Modern Resident Evil games should be called something else and probably were before Capcom decided that a new IP wouldn't sell.
- We all know Kotaku is a joke, but DAMN... IT'S A JOKE
- Although it's sad about THQ (and my thoughts go out to all those employees), their library represents almost everything that's wrong with the industry - exception: Homefront
- The Dreamcast would not have failed if it was released a year later.
Okay... stopping now. This is way too addicting.
- Gears of War is the equivalent to trashy romance novels.
- Squarenix has given up.
- Under the current leadership, Sony will continue to be too scattered to stay relevant.
- Most Nintendo 1st party properties (not unlike most modern FPS) are too shallow to be a truly innovative contender in the gaming space.
- Pokemon will always be good. Too bad it will be the same game.
- Metal Gear Solid 4 is the best Metal Gear game.
- Modern Resident Evil games should be called something else and probably were before Capcom decided that a new IP wouldn't sell.
- We all know Kotaku is a joke, but DAMN... IT'S A JOKE
- Although it's sad about THQ (and my thoughts go out to all those employees), their library represents almost everything that's wrong with the industry - exception: Homefront
- The Dreamcast would not have failed if it was released a year later.
Okay... stopping now. This is way too addicting.
I NEED SCISSORS
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Resident Evil 5 is probably my new favourite in the series.
Rollo Lawson
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Kingdom Hearts series is a bit over my head...
You have a Gears of War avatar. cmonson
The Walking Dead is a very poor adventure game and an average visual novel, certainly nothing near "Game of the Year" caliber. Compared to recent adventure games (e.g., Ghost Trick), its puzzles are derivative, trivial (the game's interface gives the solutions away half the time), and scarce. Compared to visual novels (Zero Escape, Heavy Rain), the story line is simplistic, the characters underdeveloped, and player influence on the plot negligible. I feel that the combination of the television show's popularity, the low price, and the low time investment required significantly inflated the ratings on this game. Read the comic book instead (the TV show is dumbed down, censored, or flat out altered far too much) or pick up The Road by Cormac McCarthy (again, avoid the movie; it fucking blows) if this is your thing.
Question: Have you ever followed structured PvP in the Guild Wars series? It's fundamentally different from other MMOs in that it grants players unlimited access to skills and gear, eliminating the balance concerns from those sources. It also limits the number of skills a player can have equipped at a given time, meaning the meta develops around popular skill builds in much the same way as deck archetypes of army lists in tabletop games.
- many of the hyped AAA games are actually medicore, but get undeserved good review scores because of nice presentation
- way to much budget goes to grafics and presentation of games these days, gameplay isn't a priority. This will get even worse when PS4 and 720 get released
- most of the best games in the next years will be indie games which nowhere use the power of nextgen (like Super Meat Boy, Minecraft, Hotline Miami)
- Nintendo builds by far the most quality hardware of the big 3 (speaking about manufactoring quality)
- stylised and colorful games are much prettier than realistic visuals
- PS4 and 720 won't really exceed current PCs in the visuals of the games
- way to much budget goes to grafics and presentation of games these days, gameplay isn't a priority. This will get even worse when PS4 and 720 get released
- most of the best games in the next years will be indie games which nowhere use the power of nextgen (like Super Meat Boy, Minecraft, Hotline Miami)
- Nintendo builds by far the most quality hardware of the big 3 (speaking about manufactoring quality)
- stylised and colorful games are much prettier than realistic visuals
- PS4 and 720 won't really exceed current PCs in the visuals of the games
MrCompletely
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yikes! I've had avatars shut off for years
DyslexicAlucard
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I really hope that you mean "example" there. And really, THQ has a fantastic library and, in my opinion, deserves a lot more success than it's gotten the last couple of years alone. Darksiders, Metro 2033, Saints Row: The Third, Company of Heroes and Dawn of War II easily justify THQ's existance.
People who claim others like a game because of "nostalgia" is just a cheap cop-out because they can't adequately comprehend good/bad game mechanics.
Like this guy.
If you are gonna judge people by the genres they play, I really question your social skills.
Like this guy.
If you are gonna judge people by the genres they play, I really question your social skills.
Resident Evil 4, while a very good game, is very overrated: Just to reconfirm. I do really like Resident Evil 4. I'm just surprised how highly regarded the game is. I definitely preferred the series before 4 and still hope it would go back to that.
The first Uncharted, is the best.
Dead Space 3 looks perfectly fine: Anyone who thinks the previous two games, were proper horror games, are kidding themselves. That goes double for Dead Space 2. They've always been more Aliens, than Alien. This new one seems to have some bombastic sequences sure, but apparently few and far between. There's been plenty of footage, showing game play reminiscent of the first game too. The cooperative mechanic has no bearing on the single player also, unlike Resident Evil 5 and 6.
Rayman Origins is the best 2D mario, of the past 10 years or so.
Max Payne 3 is the best TPS this generation.
Dustforce and They Bleed Pixels are seriously underrated platformers and are better than a lot of others being held on high pedestals lately.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow > God of War 3: Please don't murder me.
Infamous was a chore to play.
The Nintendo 64 controller was a crime against humanity.
The first Uncharted, is the best.
Dead Space 3 looks perfectly fine: Anyone who thinks the previous two games, were proper horror games, are kidding themselves. That goes double for Dead Space 2. They've always been more Aliens, than Alien. This new one seems to have some bombastic sequences sure, but apparently few and far between. There's been plenty of footage, showing game play reminiscent of the first game too. The cooperative mechanic has no bearing on the single player also, unlike Resident Evil 5 and 6.
Rayman Origins is the best 2D mario, of the past 10 years or so.
Max Payne 3 is the best TPS this generation.
Dustforce and They Bleed Pixels are seriously underrated platformers and are better than a lot of others being held on high pedestals lately.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow > God of War 3: Please don't murder me.
Infamous was a chore to play.
The Nintendo 64 controller was a crime against humanity.
Ventilaator
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Man, this is just...
I'd say that THQ exploding highlights just how fucked the gaming industry is, because that's the one single major publisher who had games that weren't part of the infinite river of grey sludge coming from EA and Activision.
Unfortunately many, many people will use this thread as an excuse to post their shitty unsubstantiated opinion because they lack the skills to articulate their opinion or don't care to understand opposing arguments (aka stroke their hate-boner). Good thread to identify people who aren't worth listening to though.
The Real Abed
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Halo hasn't been good since the first game and I'm amazed that it is still going.
Also, I liked Yoshi's Story.
Oh, and the PlayStation DualShock controller is the worst controller I've ever used. And that INCLUDES the N64 controller which I liked. (Though I had a better more ergonomic third-party N64 controller back then anyway)
Also, I liked Yoshi's Story.
Oh, and the PlayStation DualShock controller is the worst controller I've ever used. And that INCLUDES the N64 controller which I liked. (Though I had a better more ergonomic third-party N64 controller back then anyway)
Snacks the sober sea lion
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Mario Kart 64 is not even close to the best Mario Kart. The framerate is terrible, everything you do makes you spin out, and the controls are the worst the series has ever seen.
I like you. That game is fucking awesome, and that controller is impossible to hold comfortably.
Crapitalism
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I think gun violence is endemic in American society and the big gaming corporations are in league with the armed forces and puppeteers, making sure all children know how to accurately shoot a fellow human being in the head.