She looks a lot like her. Both white teen (at one point) girls with similar hair and some similar facial features. They don't look identical if that's what you mean to say.
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She looks a lot like her. Both white teen (at one point) girls with similar hair and some similar facial features. They don't look identical if that's what you mean to say.
RickGhastly
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I'm 100% with this. It's odd that the "games are art" crowd often has so many issues with so-called tasteless material. In any mature medium, there's room for everything. Hell, Russ Meyer was making films alongside the greats of the Hollywood Renaissance. If GG Allin wants to wipe poo all over himself and assault people, it's no attack on the greater artform unless you're a sheltered, myopic child. Fill in the vacancies of what isn't there. Don't regress back into moral panic mode and attempt to browbeat these figures into conforming to your ideas of what's tasteful. The garbage is always going to be there (because, frankly, people like me pay for it).
That overused whynotboth?.gif really applies here. We can have games with greater representation, greater nuance and greater sophistication. However, it'll never happen at the expense of losing our garbage. Push for initiatives to expand the industry rather than constrict those who are already creating.
Elitist1945
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She looks a lot like her. Both white teen (at one point) girls with similar hair and some similar facial features. They don't look identical if that's what you mean to say.
Isn't that from the Reveal trailer before they changed Ellie's look, though? Or am I mistaken.
petran79
Banned
I agree, except in the shady case of Death Cargo.
Yep.
If microsoft or Sony released a game that used controllers from 2 generations ago people on here would go batshit crazy.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
Sonic games have never been good. Even the best Sonic game (Sonic CD, IMO) was merely okay.
But Nintendo can't be talked about unless you're jizzing over whatever they've done. Even the slightest negative comment brings down a swarm of diehards in a way no other company gets. I have a feeling that's why the criticisms of their actions are generally muted on most message boards. It's just not worth the headache.
But Nintendo can't be talked about unless you're jizzing over whatever they've done. Even the slightest negative comment brings down a swarm of diehards in a way no other company gets. I have a feeling that's why the criticisms of their actions are generally muted on most message boards. It's just not worth the headache.
Princess Viola
Member
I think controllers with asymmetrical analog sticks are inferior to controllers with symmetrical analog sticks.
I am a very average guy.
Elitist1945
Member
Ugh yes. Fucking love symmetry.
King Cobra
Banned
I like when girls in video games are busty.
DoktorEvil
Banned
I mean it's no secret that Nintendo loves money more then they love video games, so yeah this attempt to "compromise" with Youtubers is incredibly shallow.
She looks a lot like her. Both white teen (at one point) girls with similar hair and some similar facial features. They don't look identical if that's what you mean to say.
She doesn't look like that in the game.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
I agree with this 100% and it's once again Rockstar refusing to let blacks be anything other than Gangsters. It bothered me as well that he was just down for everything, and on the other hand, he had to be that "real" guy that shows them how fucked up their lives really was because he's black.
Unreal was 100 times better than Half-Life and its a shame it garnered so much more attention. I also think HL1 killed FPS games by starting the whole being more cinematic and more realism thing.
I'm sure alot of ppl think Halo and COD contributed to its death which is true, but HL started it.
I'm sure alot of ppl think Halo and COD contributed to its death which is true, but HL started it.
Dude that's quite the opinion, bro.
ShooterMcGavin
Member
The Mass Effect universe is better than the Star Wars universe.
Add me to the list of "The Last of Us wasn't THAT incredible" group. I still think it was a very good game (7.5 or 8 out of 10) though.
I loved the characterization in it. Joel and Ellie were awesome characters to spend time with. Everything around them? Bleh. I've seen this type of post-apocalyptic world many times in games/movies/TV. I found the actual journey through the story fairly dull until the incredibly tense ending.
The stealth gameplay annoyed the hell out of me as well. Every time Ellie would mindlessly run into an enemy and nothing would happen because they weren't programmed to react to her, it killed all immersion for me.
This was all after playing it right at release on PS3. I got the PS4 package with TLOU remastered so I plan on revisiting it soon and seeing if maybe I was just wrong the first time around.
All that is weird because another huge game of that year, Bioshock Infinte, is one of my favourite games ever despite its often mentioned gameplay flaws (combat feels out of place, why doesn't everyone use vigors?). I just felt a more personal connection to Booker and Elizabeth, Columbia was an incredible creation and much preferred the overall presentation of that game. I simply loved being a part of the world of Bioshock Infinite.
I loved the characterization in it. Joel and Ellie were awesome characters to spend time with. Everything around them? Bleh. I've seen this type of post-apocalyptic world many times in games/movies/TV. I found the actual journey through the story fairly dull until the incredibly tense ending.
The stealth gameplay annoyed the hell out of me as well. Every time Ellie would mindlessly run into an enemy and nothing would happen because they weren't programmed to react to her, it killed all immersion for me.
This was all after playing it right at release on PS3. I got the PS4 package with TLOU remastered so I plan on revisiting it soon and seeing if maybe I was just wrong the first time around.
All that is weird because another huge game of that year, Bioshock Infinte, is one of my favourite games ever despite its often mentioned gameplay flaws (combat feels out of place, why doesn't everyone use vigors?). I just felt a more personal connection to Booker and Elizabeth, Columbia was an incredible creation and much preferred the overall presentation of that game. I simply loved being a part of the world of Bioshock Infinite.
Elitist1945
Member
I remember reading this was done purposefully, because it would get really annoying to have the player punished for Ellie getting spotted, and not the player themselves.
Oh I totally understand how it would've been incredibly hard to do otherwise. Maybe always ensuring that Ellie is a certain distance away from an enemy? I don't know. Maybe I have no room to criticize the difficulty in getting that done. Still though, it took me out of the combat encounters.
I kinda had fun with Shadows of the Damned. Had no regrets selling it after one playthrough, though.
I didn't play Killer is Dead, but couldn't agree more on Lollipop Chainsaw and No More Heroes. So yeah Grasshopper is off my radar usually. But I don't know if comparing them to Platinum or Itsuno's games is fair since they seem to have different goals than those developers.
Sleeping Dogs is really overrated.
Pros:
-Excellent Story
-Melee Combat was very well done with the Triad Skill tree and Kung Fu School working as a fantastic upgrade system.
Cons:
-Driving is horrendous, yet makes up for a LARGE portion of the game's core gameplay.
-City is lifeless, yet people claim it breathes more than most games (although all open world games have yet to achieve this).
-Side Missions could have been better.
-The Cop Score system is horrible, actively punishing you for uncontrollable things like colliding with other cars mid-pursuit.
-Controls are little finicky at times.
Was it bad? No, not in the slightest. It was a fun game, and I was reeled deep into its plot. But people herald it as a masterpiece. It is far from the perfection people see it as. Sure, it was United Front's first title, but I will never understand why people won't stop talking about it.
Pros:
-Excellent Story
-Melee Combat was very well done with the Triad Skill tree and Kung Fu School working as a fantastic upgrade system.
Cons:
-Driving is horrendous, yet makes up for a LARGE portion of the game's core gameplay.
-City is lifeless, yet people claim it breathes more than most games (although all open world games have yet to achieve this).
-Side Missions could have been better.
-The Cop Score system is horrible, actively punishing you for uncontrollable things like colliding with other cars mid-pursuit.
-Controls are little finicky at times.
Was it bad? No, not in the slightest. It was a fun game, and I was reeled deep into its plot. But people herald it as a masterpiece. It is far from the perfection people see it as. Sure, it was United Front's first title, but I will never understand why people won't stop talking about it.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
Ever racing game ever released still pales when compared to the PS2 Gran Turismo games.
matrixman92
Member
Half Life 2 is extremely boring and dull...I completely forgot I even started playing it like a week ago until today.
As much as i enjoyed my time with it, i agree on its overratedness. The thing that the game really hangs it's hat on is the fact that combat is melee focused. It was enough of a breath of fresh air to overlook other things IMO. If it maintained the wild and reckless gun fantasy that most other modern open world games provide, no one would have given a damn at all.
Yeah, I think those are the pinnacle of the GT series, but I enjoy the Forza games (particularly 4) much more than any of the GTs. Maybe that in itself is controversial, who knows?
petran79
Banned
Realms of the Haunting did it first I think, but that game was amazing.
Hyperzephyrian
Banned
The new Thief was a good (but flawed) game. It did pure stealth better than any game since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Elitist1945
Member
Halo multiplayer is not fun.
elcuervo75
Banned
I was just being lazy and typing my list really fast.
My brother had a Genesis and I had a SNES. I didn't like the controller or the types of games that were on it, with the exception of Streets of Rage. I hated Sonic.
Portable gaming is just not fun IMO. I have tried Game Boy, Game Gear, GBA, DS Lite, PSP, and my iPhone 5 and I just cant have any real fun with any of them. New Super Mario Bros on the DS would be the only exception but that hardly justifies me putting another minute into portable gaming.
I should add that to my list. lol
Littlebigbenny
Neo Member
I hate (!) open world games.
JinjoUnchained
Member
..."that are not tightly designed". Add that qualifier and I'd agree with you. What's the point of an open world if it's all bland, repetitive, and uninteresting? "You mean I can go anywhere in this lifeless cut-and-paste world?" That's more of a chore than something I'd actually want to do.
A "tightly designed" world will have some geographical variety, good mix of open areas and towns, good mix of combat and exploration, and thematic or mechanical elements that tie the different sections together, like a guy from one village you find in a completely different area. Make it feel like an interesting, varied place where you don't know what will come next; one minute I'm surveying the landscape and exploring, the next I'm running away from a high level enemy that I'll have to come back to later. That's the first goal, whether it's "open world" or not. Majora's Mask accomplishes this and it's not what I'd call open world, but it doesn't really matter.
So if the game establishes that kind of world AND makes it open world in a way that doesn't break the game, then the open world concept can work well. But that's a lot harder to pull off.
Heh, I'm actually 36, been gaming since Atari 2600 and plan on still gaming at 90 hopefully.
Elitist1945
Member
The Order: 1886 is a stellar experience and I want more games like it.
Tekomandor
Member
I think nostalgia-pandering faux/isometric RPGs are bad for the genre. Not that they can't be good, but the idea that they are all the genre ever could or should be is a toxic one.
DoktorEvil
Banned
I also hate open world game, especially when they're empty like Mafia 2 was.
Damn people are still paying attention to my reply!?
Well I made that post over two weeks ago but sure, your post is pretty much perfect for this thread after all
Ally of Justice
Member
When I was young (and Christmas trees were tall), one of the games that I had always wanted to play was Ocarina of Time.
I remember "plugging" my snes controller to the tv in order to "play" the commercials and previews they showed on tv for it. But I never had a N64.
Through the years, I used to read about how great it is, how it is a masterpiece and a must.play game. Once again, even with the advent of emulators and me getting a relatively high-end PC (at least one that could play N64 games), I never played it.
I finally got it about 6 months ago, for the 3DS. I was really excited about it, about how I would finally play that game that I had always wanted to play since my childhood.
With all the best intentions, I started it.
I really, really tried to like it.
I inspected everything, I went on to collect skulltulas, to explore and do everything I wanted to do as a kid with a new game.
But every dungeon felt like a chore. I was looking forward to finishing dungeons so I could do everything else and, even then, even looking for skulltulas felt like a chore.
I don't know, maybe it was something else for its time, but now, it feels lacking.
Don't get me wrong. While I'm not a Zelda fan, I enjoy Zelda and games like them.
I remember "plugging" my snes controller to the tv in order to "play" the commercials and previews they showed on tv for it. But I never had a N64.
Through the years, I used to read about how great it is, how it is a masterpiece and a must.play game. Once again, even with the advent of emulators and me getting a relatively high-end PC (at least one that could play N64 games), I never played it.
I finally got it about 6 months ago, for the 3DS. I was really excited about it, about how I would finally play that game that I had always wanted to play since my childhood.
With all the best intentions, I started it.
I really, really tried to like it.
I inspected everything, I went on to collect skulltulas, to explore and do everything I wanted to do as a kid with a new game.
But every dungeon felt like a chore. I was looking forward to finishing dungeons so I could do everything else and, even then, even looking for skulltulas felt like a chore.
I don't know, maybe it was something else for its time, but now, it feels lacking.
Don't get me wrong. While I'm not a Zelda fan, I enjoy Zelda and games like them.
RandomSeed
Member
Blighttown isn't so bad.
Oh boy, the edgy thread is back
Aladdin on Megadrive is a shitty game that plays like shovelware and the SNES version is actually a perfectly functional game with somewhat decent level design. I seriously have no idea why so many people think the Megadrive version is better. Maybe it's the character animations and the sword. But that game isn't good.
New Super Mario bros U is the best 2D Mario game. Mario 3 was far better for its time and much more influential, but I live in the present.
Aladdin on Megadrive is a shitty game that plays like shovelware and the SNES version is actually a perfectly functional game with somewhat decent level design. I seriously have no idea why so many people think the Megadrive version is better. Maybe it's the character animations and the sword. But that game isn't good.
New Super Mario bros U is the best 2D Mario game. Mario 3 was far better for its time and much more influential, but I live in the present.
17 Seconds
Banned
TLoU is a snoozefest with a boring story.
Wolfenstein: TNO is only as popular as it is because it came out around the same time as Watch Dogs and people love being contrarian.
Destiny is the best console multiplayer shooter ever.
Wolfenstein: TNO is only as popular as it is because it came out around the same time as Watch Dogs and people love being contrarian.
Destiny is the best console multiplayer shooter ever.
RayearthRob
Member
Rayman Legends is the best 2D platformer ever, and I'm a nintendo fan! Ahahaha
Terareflection
Member
Persona 3 and 4 aren't that great.
They are good and challenging RPGs that are hampered by Social Links being so tied to the battle system. These pads the games' length and eventually makes the games overstay their welcome. I like to battle, let me battle.
They are good and challenging RPGs that are hampered by Social Links being so tied to the battle system. These pads the games' length and eventually makes the games overstay their welcome. I like to battle, let me battle.
Not sure if this is "controversial" but don't know where else to put this.
Almost done with Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, and I'm not sure if I like it all that much. The combat can be fun, but the use of combos feels erratic and unpredictable. Other parts of game can be frustrating. My main gripe is the bad camera angles that throw you off during crucial sequences like the Dahaka chases. The perspective will suddenly switch, disorient me, then I'm dead and out of time. Or during fights, the camera gets stuck in weird positions and doesn't let me rotate or correct it. Also, with mouse sensitivity cranked up as high as it goes, it's still pretty slow to turn and rotate. The save system is also hit or miss, with some segments taking quite awhile to reach the next checkpoint without running out of health.
A decent game, but a considerable step down from The Sands of Time.
Almost done with Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, and I'm not sure if I like it all that much. The combat can be fun, but the use of combos feels erratic and unpredictable. Other parts of game can be frustrating. My main gripe is the bad camera angles that throw you off during crucial sequences like the Dahaka chases. The perspective will suddenly switch, disorient me, then I'm dead and out of time. Or during fights, the camera gets stuck in weird positions and doesn't let me rotate or correct it. Also, with mouse sensitivity cranked up as high as it goes, it's still pretty slow to turn and rotate. The save system is also hit or miss, with some segments taking quite awhile to reach the next checkpoint without running out of health.
A decent game, but a considerable step down from The Sands of Time.
Evoker1995
Member
Sonic 3D Blast is the best classic Sonic game. I probably have this opinion due to it being the game that introduced me to the Sonic series, but to this day, I enjoy it more than Sonic 1-3&K.