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

-PXG- said:
I don't know if I've said this already

- I don't consider anyone a true gamer if they don't, at the very least, respect Nintendo. You don't have to like them, or their games, but at least recognize the influence they've had through out the years and the entire industry. I feel sorry for anyone who didn't grow up playing their games as kids. To this day, Nintendo is one of the few companies that is able to harmonize art, music, perfect controls and superb level design. They truly get it. They simply capture why video games are fun and what makes people come back for more, over and over again. Few companies are able to do his and even smaller few are can do it consistently.

- Most gamers are really stupid, terrible at games and have awful, AWFUL ideas. Devs really shouldn't listen to the vast majority of their fanbase. Then again, at times, fans are right about things. If a game is horribly unbalanced or is ridden with bugs, most feedback is probably sound. Any other situation, the devs are better off doing what they think is best for the game.

- "Entitlement" is just another way for assholes to convince others that they shouldn't care about their own rights. Sure, these companies are in business to make money. But that doesn't mean I have to give it to them. In the end, without us they wouldn't exist. Gamers should be very concerned about what their money is actually doing towards and know exactly what they're buying. They shouldn't have to just "deal with" anything. Speak up, vote with your wallet. Push back and say no.

- There is nothing wrong with having "cinematic" type game play. However, I don't want every fucking game to glorified shooting gallery, with mindless QTEs that runs in 30 fps. That isn't a game. It's interactive movie. Yeah...I'm looking at you Naughty Dog.

- Oh...OH...OHHH!!! How on God's green Earth is League of Legends so popular!?!??! It's one of the most boring games I have every played. Sure, the characters are neat. But one game mode...one map.....you're kidding right? Complex and deep, my ass. I just can't believe it. I literally fall alseep playing this game. I go into a near comatose state everytime I attempt to watch LOL Twitch streams with friends. Jesus. I really can't stand that game at all. I can't. I CAN'T

- Bioshock Infinite was very disappointing. Great story. Wonderful art. Good music. But game play....what happened Irrational? Linear as fuck, boring, predictable encounters and everything that made the other Bioshock games great, just watered down to nothing. I really hope the DLC is better.

- Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes and Florian Himsl are geniuses. Someone give them a blank check and let them do WHATEVER they want.
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I do respect Nintendo for what they used to be, and how they brought videogames back from the brink of death. However, I see respect as something that is earned, but needs to be maintained. For instance if you do great deeds and then do several terrible ones should I not lose respect for you? Nintendo has made far too many missteps for me to respect them as they stand right now. I gave them plenty of slack, waiting right up until the Wii U to write them off as a valid source of game entertainment, but I can't abide another lackluster system on their part.

It is my honest opinion that Nintendo should just throw up the white flag and join Sega. They've made one incredibly bad decision after the other. They managed to pull out a success with the Wii because they brought in people of all ages through a unique gimmick, but those people weren't fooled again when the Wii U came out. Nintendo doesn't know what it's doing any more, and their PR people say ridiculous things like "We're not competing" and "We don't care what Sony and Microsoft are doing."

It's really nice that they are willing to try and innovate and expand on games, since that's what they did with the NES and its controller. Nobody had anything like it at the time, but it's that simple controller that stood the test of time and is standard today. Why don't they just stick it out for a generation and decide to fall into the fold? Make great games and go with a controller that actually works. I guarantee you if Nintendo did both of those things people would buy their console.

The problem is Nintendo is stuck in the past, clinging on to characters that have existed for decades. From a philosophical perspective it's nice to say things like "We're not competing with other companies" but from a real world perspective they've gotta be out of their minds to think consumers aren't comparing their hardware to other manufacturers. I love Nintendo because their system and its games were a huge part of my childhood, but they've lost it in terms of a company.
 
Halo 2 had a great campaign (still not as good as the other games though).

Half-Life 2 is overrated.

A Link to the Past is my least favorite canonical Zelda game, and I've played almost all of them to varying degrees.

Burnout Paradise was complete shit and killed my love for the franchise.
 
I don't care about the PSN+ free games since they only end up taking up my time. If there is a game I want, I will buy it myself when it comes out, I don't want anyone else to decide for me what to play. time > money
 
The Sonic series sucks past Sonic 3.

The Nintendo 64 was Nintendo's worst console and I can count the games that hold up today on both hands.

I think the Wii U is more interesting than either the PS4 and Xbox One.
 
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
I don't care about the PSN+ free games since they only end up taking up my time. If there is a game I want, I will buy it myself when it comes out, I don't want anyone else to decide for me what to play. time > money
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The games are free based upon membership, they aren't forced upon you and you're free to pick and choose titles as you see fit. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
 
Daggerborn13 said:
The games are free based upon membership, they aren't forced upon you and you're free to pick and choose titles as you see fit. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
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It's what you get in return for the subscription.

It's not a great deal for me, that's all. If I am interested in a game, I will buy it myself. I cannot waste time on random games.
 
-PXG- said:
- "Entitlement" is just another way for assholes to convince others that they shouldn't care about their own rights. Sure, these companies are in business to make money. But that doesn't mean I have to give it to them. In the end, without us they wouldn't exist. Gamers should be very concerned about what their money is actually doing towards and know exactly what they're buying. They shouldn't have to just "deal with" anything. Speak up, vote with your wallet. Push back and say no.
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I like you.
 
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I was playing this game earlier today, and I'm convinced that it is truly one of the best FPS games I've played, and certainly of this generation. Crysis in general is the best FPS franchise ever created, after Half-Life.
 
Put over 1000 hours into Battlefield games. Put over 1000 hours in COD games.

Battlefield is not a better game than COD as the internet mobs would have people believe. BF offers a wider array of experiences than COD while COD offers a narrow and focused experience, namely just infantry combat. But what COD does do COD does better than BF.
 
NotLiquid said:
The Last Of Us wasn't anything better than decent. It was slow, dull, unremarkable and predictable. Far from a GOTY, let alone of best of the generation.
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Oh, this is interesting. Could you elaborate on your claims? i'm not trying to question your opinion or anything, i'm just curious about this. Specially the predictable part...
 
-PXG- said:
I don't know if I've said this already

- I don't consider anyone a true gamer if they don't, at the very least, respect Nintendo. You don't have to like them, or their games, but at least recognize the influence they've had through out the years and the entire industry. I feel sorry for anyone who didn't grow up playing their games as kids. To this day, Nintendo is one of the few companies that is able to harmonize art, music, perfect controls and superb level design. They truly get it. They simply capture why video games are fun and what makes people come back for more, over and over again. Few companies are able to do his and even smaller few are can do it consistently.

- Most gamers are really stupid, terrible at games and have awful, AWFUL ideas. Devs really shouldn't listen to the vast majority of their fanbase. Then again, at times, fans are right about things. If a game is horribly unbalanced or is ridden with bugs, most feedback is probably sound. Any other situation, the devs are better off doing what they think is best for the game.

- "Entitlement" is just another way for assholes to convince others that they shouldn't care about their own rights. Sure, these companies are in business to make money. But that doesn't mean I have to give it to them. In the end, without us they wouldn't exist. Gamers should be very concerned about what their money is actually doing towards and know exactly what they're buying. They shouldn't have to just "deal with" anything. Speak up, vote with your wallet. Push back and say no.
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Good posting there.
 
Current Nintendo is best Nintendo, as a fan since the NES days.

Not only that, I think current Nintendo is basically following the same steps as old Nintendo. They've always been a family-friendly company, they've always been a Mario-happy company, their handhelds have absolutely always been underpowered, etc. - and the truth is very few early Mario games are as fantastic as Galaxy 2 or 3D Land (in my opinion, none). Fire Emblem just saw its best game yet, Kirby keeps releasing nothing but top-notch stuff like Epic Yarn, Mass Attack and Return to Dream Land, and Pokémon has been consistently awesome. I can't speak for Zelda and Metroid since I'm not a fan of those series, but maybe the disappointment comes from those? Other M is a stinker, but then we had MP3.

I feel like most Nintendo hate comes from the fact that they're not following Sony / MS, and not really because they're not "what they're used to be". Because their 1st party output has been amazing on DS, Wii and 3DS.

BTW, about Nintendo not following Sony / MS... why on Earth would you people want that? :( I buy Sony and Nintendo systems, I don't need them to be identical. I don't own a WiiU (because it's not hyperbole to say it doesn't have games, really) but I love the concept and I'll eventually get one to go along with my PS4. You're weird to me if you want Nintendo to be the "HD triplet".
 
georly said:
I prefer 30 FPS to 60 FPS.

60 FPS looks like it's being fast forwarded and looks weird to me.
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I think for a lot of people if you aren't used to it it looks like that. If you give it some time I think you'll come around on it. The unfamiliarity seems to be what catches most people off guard. It's different, so they don't like it.

I think that if you spent more time with it you might end up liking it and seeing why some of us prefer it.
 
Zombie games and zombie apocalypse need to come to an end. It's a dull, monotonous trend that's wearing thin. There are some exceptions to this rule, most notably when it's sci-fi zombies (Dead Space or the Husks in Mass Effect) but the usual contemporary zombie genre is ridiculously boring. My opinion on this extends beyond gaming as I feel the same about movies, tv shows, etc. but gaming has been struck with a large number of zombies.

I wouldn't mind seeing Esports become an officially recognized professional sport besides just League of Legends. I would like to see sports books at my Vegas hangouts to have the option to place bets on Esports. I want to put down a $10 parlay ticket on some dudes playing Starcraft or CoD MP.
 
1) I've no interest in buying or playing The Last of Us.

2) I've no interest in either Xbox One or Playstation 4.

3) I dislike three of the most popular genres (at least I think they're the most popular genres) in gaming. So I dislike Shooters, Sports games and racing games. Only exception to sports games are Inazuma Eleven and Mario Sports games while the only exception for racing games are Mario Kart games.

4) I've played Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword and I've loved all of them. I don't think any of them are bad.

5) Gameplay should always come first, no matter what the game.

6) I think the game is good, if I'm having fun playing it. That's all I ask for. Anything else is an added bonus.

I probably have more, but I can't think of any right now.
 
Point and click adventure games are the most boring pieces of shit in gaming. Would rather tie a chain to my nads and play tug of war with a 400 pound fat chick.
 
XBone and PS4 are going to have similar fates as the Wii U....big launch month, followed by a horrific post-launch draught and a desperate climb back into relevancy.

With the exception of the Wii, there has not been a smooth launch from a sales perspective since the PS2. With the XBone and PS4 failing to take off, third-parties will keep releasing their games as cross-gen, further daming MS and Sony's sales goals.

The net effect is the first ever decrease in total console sales since the NES, and I think its going to be a big decrease.
 
LTTP I've started playing the Witcher 2 the other day, and the lame first tutorial was already confusing as fuck. Going into menus in menus to boost something, before casting some kind of other buff or rune from another menu and then pressing one of three buttons as a result of one of two weapons... It's really harshing my mellow, feels like work. I already get tired thinking about it. Why can't I just press A to Awesome. This game feels like it needed a lot more streamlining. Streamlining is like editing in movies, it moves gaming forward.
 
The Hitman Series should be taken from Square and given to Visceral games

Devil May Cry should be given to Platinum games

MVC3 is Trash because of its 1 hit and your dead play style

Having a girlfriend that plays video games sucks because you have to take turns playing games

Dantes Infero is better than DMC Ninja theory

The worst part of any adventure game are areas where you have to traverse poorly lit rooms.
 
I don't like Ocarina of Time. I feel like its just another spin on A Link to the Past but in 3D. In comparison to A Link to the Past, it fails. Story was slow. Quest was the same, find 3 stones then find the medallions (or maidens in LTTP's case). Going into another world (to the future in Ocarina of Time). Dark World was way better executed than the future.

Ocarina of Time can get the priase for perfecting 3D targeting, but the game is half-baked when it comes to being a new original Zelda. Far from the best game ever.
 
Bar Ravenholm, Half-Life 2 is perhaps one of the most boring shooters created. I don't understand why the game receives so much praise. The gunplay is atrocious. I had to force myself to play this game and even then I didn't finish it.
 
I havn't enjoyed Nintendo's output since the GBA. I feel they are lazy, out-of-touch, and redundant. If Nintendo went the way of the sega, i wouldn't give a damn. They don't belong in the hardware business.
 
Just remembered some more...

1) I'm not interested in PC gaming. It has just never appealed to me.

2) (Don't know how controversial this is outside of GAF, but...) I love Tales of Graces.

3) None of the IOS games should have a plot. I dont care about a plot in any cell-phone or tablet game.

4) Super Paper Mario is the second-best Paper Mario game.
 
- I probably enjoyed my time with Assassin's Creed Revelations slightly more than Brotherhood, even though AC:R is both much less of an advancement for the series and probably an objectively inferior game. The AC games, in my opinion, work best when you have lots of stuff to climb up, so in the cities plus the Frontier in 3, and the fact that Revelations was basically all city, as well as the little extra movement mechanics and convenient stuff they added in AC:R to make just moving around the map that bit more fun slightly elevated how much I enjoyed it above Brotherhood. It may also be because I played Revelations after 3, which was kinda a mess, so to go back to a rather more functional AC game was rather refreshing. 2 is still the best of the lot, though.

- Borderlands 2 is a flat out inferior game to Borderlands 1. I mostly liked the first game but it did have some pretty major flaws with its basic gameplay, and in 2 they did so little to advance or fix those flaws of the first game in 2 that, gameplay wise, it's hardly worth calling a sequel, the weapons still feel pretty terrible compared to every other FPS, there's still only one active skill so everything feels rather repetitive after 20 or 30 hours, co-op is bullet-spongy to the point of near unplayability with more than 2 people, etc. The quest structure kept forcing you to basically go back through areas you'd literally just been through as part of the main quest immediately afterwards, forcing you in some places to replay major story beats and bosses for no logical reason, it does this in at least 3 or 4 places I could think of off the top of my head and most likely a few more that I've forgotten. Unlike the first game, they really make an effort to actually create a story of some description, try to actually create developed characters and actually include some voice acting and non-quest-text writing, which don't get me wrong is a noble goal, but it's literally all fucking terrible. Like, jesus christ, none of the writing even closely brushes past the semblance of being funny and is roughly as subtle as a freight train, the vast majority of characters, from new or new-ish characters like Handsome Jack and their version of Claptrap to existing characters like the BL1 main characters, are completely insufferable and endlessly irritating, it just all kinda a trainwreck.

- The first two thirds of Crysis is possibly the best game ever made, and that is not an exaggeration, the combination of the wide open levels, the suit powers, the slightly broken physics and the great enemy AI just make for a sandstorm of gameplay perfection which no other game really comes close to. Shame the last third is so poor.

- Since we've counted Crysis out, Just Cause 2 is instead the best game ever made. Apart from the bits where it isn't, but hell, it still is.

- I should admit that my time with it is very limited, only three or four hours, I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what it actually is, but my experience thus far with Dead Rising 2 has been almost universally negative. So much of its appeal seems to hinge entirely on the novelty factor of 'wear silly clothes and run over zombies with bicycles' that it almost feels like they forgot to make any of it vaguely fun, the damn survivor escort AI is completely terrible, and I understand that was a major improvement over the first game so god knows what that was like, the story or characters aren't really interesting or appealing yet, the combat isn't really fun, your character moves so damn slowly and there isn't a sprint button, and the constant passing of time and requirements of deadlines seems pretty interesting going in but winds up making everything in the game feel like a chore, you want to completely skip out of all the most enjoyable parts of the game because you feel the need to do as much stuff as possible in the time you have. Then I ran into a boss fight in a toilet when I was trying to save, which it gives you no warning about at all, got horribly murdered and lost an hour of escorting an old woman across the mall, so I uninstalled it.
 
I played Just Cause 2 after reading several reviews that praises its "fun, open world and incredible set pieces" and traded it in the next day.

Terrible voice acting and direction with an equally poor and predictable script. Clunky-as-fuck shooting mechanics and an aiming system that felt like the devs had spent a few hours with a duel analogue stick controller the night before.

Also. I prefer Killzone 3 to Killzone 2. A lot.
 
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