What are your *Actual* hot takes regarding video games? I mean ACTUAL stuff that would get people riled up?

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Astro Bot is boring and gets the praise it gets because of member berries and a lack of good 3D platformers.

JRPG is a genre you should grow out of when you become an adult.

Gears 2 and 3 are massively overrated.

Souls combat is stale and boring.
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Oof I massively disagree with all but first. Good hot take
 
Minecraft is shit.

2D Zelda games were far better than modern 3D Zelda.

Gamepass and non/exclusivity are great for everybody and I'm glad MS have gone this direction.

I will probably day 1 the next Xbox. Because I prefer Xbox, but also because it's supposed to run Windows and Steam,.

FEAR, to this day, has the most fun moment to moment combat of any shooter.
 
Post PS2 Sony is a boring developer at best

Post Xbox 360 Microsoft is a boring developer at best

WRPGs Suck

Twilight Princess is a good game but I think it's an 8.5

Zelda Breath of the Wild is the worst Zelda game

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the best game in the franchise

Star Ocean 3 has the best battle system and best Item Creation in the franchise

I love both Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross

The only multiplayer games I'm interested in is Splatoon and Sea of Thieves

Baldur's Gate III is overhyped, overrated and sucks

Xenogears is a fantastic game but if they ever remaster the game I would love for them to fix the stupid platforming section

When it comes to battle system, Xenosaga Episode 2 has the best one out of all three games

Rean is my Number One JRPG Protaganist

I prefer 2D Zelda to 3D Zelda way more

Vita is a terrible handheld

JRPG will always be the best genre

Suikoden 3 is my favorite Suikoden

Yokai Watch is way better than Pokémon

Halo 4 is best Halo

Switch is Nintendo Best Console since the SNES
 
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Gaming peaked a long time ago.

F-Zero GX, Battlefield 2, FFXII, Super Metroid, Ninja Gaiden Black, FF Tactics, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Halo 3, Metal Slug 1, Outrun 2, Bionic Commando NES, Donkey Kong 94, Gunstar Heroes, DoDonPachi, Ace Combat Zero, etc.
It was all downhill from there. No one is touching that shit ever.

All the best developers retired - and the industry is now run by clueless fucktards.
 
1. Dark Souls 2 is better than 99% of games but sucks compared to the other souls games.
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Actually i think this too. DS2 (damn, it really is hard to say DS2 this days, another DS2 comes out in a few month) got to much hate for no reason. I truly believe Dark Souls 3 is much, much worse. DS3 is where From really got bored themselfs from this forumula but kind of had to do another DS. And DS2 was quite good. Majula is the best hub area in the series. So cozy.

DS3 was so lazy. I remember there was moment where one bonefire was so near to another you could see the next one in front of you while you were standing near the other. And people hate ot linear level structure of DS2, DS3 is worse. Animations and assets were reused in DS3 from Bloodborne.
 
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Unreal engine has caused gaming to become stale. Too many games feel like they play the same with the same limitations. Gaming was more interesting when you had a multitude of game engines.

Shenmue I & II are still some of the greatest games ever made. A fully realized world with a great level of interactivity, deep fighting system, beautiful soundtrack, and interesting story. It is a terrible fucking shame III could not be made with a solid budget. I still hold hopes for an eventual 4th.

Wii's IR controls kicked the shit of playing with dual sticks in FPS games.

Days Gone was the best game Sony made last gen, it kicked ass and made me finally buy a PS4.

Star Fox Zero was a blast to play. Especially in co-op mode.

Perfect Dark Zero was actually really fun to play online back in the day. Campaign sucked though.

Halo Infinite and Halo 5 are probably the best playing games in the series. 2 was an extremely fun but glitch ridden mess and 3 had tons of balance issues. 1 was just boring. Never cared for Reach. 4 sucked. Campaigns were damn good in the original trilogy though.

Smash Bros. Melee was an amazing game for its time, but Ultimate is without a doubt the best game in the series.

Mario Odyssey is the definitive 3D Mario, it takes the cake.

Breath of the Wild is the most fun I've ever had playing an open world game, but it is not the best Zelda. Twilight Princess retains the crown.

Vice City is still the best GTA game.

MGS2 remains the best game in the series, though Twin Snakes was quite fun. Remains to be seen how the remake of 3 will fare.

Street Fighter VI is glorious.

F-Zero GX remains the greatest fun racing game ever to grace this earth. Burnout Revenge is a close second.

To be continued…
 
Zelda Botw dogshit
Soulslike overrated
Pokemon gen 1-3 the only poke games that are actually good. everything after that just ok or bad.
Usual suspects, boring recent Sony exclusives (horizon, god of war, last of us)
Hate Nintendo fans that think the company belongs to them and suck Nintendo's toes.
 
theHFIC said:
People who cry "woke" or "DEI" or "Sweet Baby" about modern games because there is someone other than a muscular white dude or large breasted women as the main character have deep down mental and sexual identity issues of their own.
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I always assume its that Closet Legislator/Priest/Congressman thing where the guy who is so anti Gay is secretly Gay which is why he spouts against it so much.
No one can have that much hate and vitriol for Woke/DEI/Sweet Baby without having a horse in the race.
 
WoW, and any other MMO with that style combat sucks donkey dicks. I can't for the life of me understand how anyone likes that combat where hit detection is nonexistent, and you don't have direct control of each action.
 
Basically every video game story is total trash. There may be 4-5 good ones. It blows my mind when I see people fawning over the story in some dopey shit like Baldur's Gate or Mass Effect or whatever. The best video game story of all time isn't as good as a half assed novel or movie. It's just junk to move the gameplay along can we please stop pretending these people are narrative artists?
 
TexMex said:
Basically every video game story is total trash. There may be 4-5 good ones. It blows my mind when I see people fawning over the story in some dopey shit like Baldur's Gate or Mass Effect or whatever. The best video game story of all time isn't as good as a half assed novel or movie. It's just junk to move the gameplay along can we please stop pretending these people are narrative artists?
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What game story do you Actually like??
 
Modern Naughty Dog makes games that are visually pleasing and flashy, but gameplay-wise are surface level and paltry.

Also the TV show The Leftovers is highly overrated and all characters are melodramatic and their excessive crying feels unearned.
 
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Days like these... said:
FF X was trash and the start of the end of FF as we knew it
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You may not like FFX which is fair ... but it had all the classic FF elements, protagonist hero story, beautiful magic girl, turn based combat and evil lets rule/destroy the world bad guy, and sold 20 million copies (counting all FFX and FFX-2)

So still was very much the FF you knew... even if you didnt like .. like many people didnt like 8 but the formula was there and a lot of people loves 9 ... the formula began to change in XII with the shitty stop action combat .. for me that was clearly the beginning of something really different.

So all in all good hot take, definitely.
 
AA and specially AAA games are not ART. They are or should be a product based on fun, made by dozens or hundreds of different people, that have to sell and make a profit, usually for investors. Treating games as art is progressively killing gaming in the west.

Some indie game self financed passion project made by a couple of people ... yes this can be as "artsy" as they want.
 
Video games, whilst occasionally fun, are a pitiful waste of time and we are all wasting our lives clicking buttons and watching pixels explode rather than doing something meaningful with our lives.

And no, I don't care if you also have a PhD, the act itself is a waste of time.
 
People totally lost sight what single player games are supposed to be.
Shitting on ff XV and XVI is a total nonsense (I am just coming from other thread). Sure, games are flawed, not perfect.... but stop focusing on that.
Unique, single player experiences that offer something other games do not. I do not care how "not final fantasy" these titles are. Shut up idiots.

And yes. Stuff like Forspoken of FF XV (2 most hated games) are better than any call of duty in last 10 years.
 
kikkis said:
Valve is full of shit. For a 70 dollar game you pay 21 dollars to valve for download and a basic client with some qol features
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They are a prime example of doing basic stuff and not doing anything bad.
It's like taking credit for not smoking when you are in the room with smokers who are trying to stop smoking.
"easy, I don't smoke" while you never smoked in your life.

It's a store, they sell stuff. tak 30% and that's it while other store fuck up majorly
 
rofif said:
People totally lost sight what single player games are supposed to be.
Shitting on ff XV and XVI is a total nonsense (I am just coming from other thread). Sure, games are flawed, not perfect.... but stop focusing on that.
Unique, single player experiences that offer something other games do not. I do not care how "not final fantasy" these titles are. Shut up idiots.

And yes. Stuff like Forspoken of FF XV (2 most hated games) are better than any call of duty in last 10 years.
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Having shitty taste on games is hardly motive for calling others idiots.. but go on.
 
Bernardougf said:
Having shitty taste on games is hardly motive for calling others idiots.. but go on.
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shitty taste?
That's your argument? Go back to the other thread, I answered you nicely.
If being able to enjoy a good game is having a shitty taste, call it whatever you want. I am 36 and play games precisely 30 years now.
I know what I like to appreciate in a video game. And it's not always fully tangible. It can be vibe of the whole product that's more than sum of it's parts.

Some people are just constant whiners. They cannot appreciate what they have in front of them because it always could be better.
Would you complain that the tits could still be a bit bigger if you fucked a super model instead of enjoying the moment lol?
this is game development. nothing is perfect.
 
rofif said:
shitty taste?
That's your argument? Go back to the other thread, I answered you nicely.
If being able to enjoy a good game is having a shitty taste, call it whatever you want. I am 36 and play games precisely 30 years now.
I know what I like to appreciate in a video game. And it's not always fully tangible. It can be vibe of the whole product that's more than sum of it's parts.

Some people are just constant whiners. They cannot appreciate what they have in front of them because it always could be better.
Would you complain that the tits could still be a bit bigger if you fucked a super model instead of enjoying the moment lol?
this is game development. nothing is perfect.
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Yeah.. imo you have shitty taste and I only need forspoken for this... which dosent make you a idiot btw ... so whine all you want but tune down the insults.
 
Bernardougf said:
Yeah.. imo you have shitty taste and I only need forspoken for this... which dosent make you a idiot btw ... so whine all you want but tune down the insults.
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yes, because I like forspoken from thousands of games I played.
I said many games the game is an 8 and I like it.
And somehow I am an idiot for being able to find enjoyment in a video game.
I will never understand the hate boner everyone has for this game. It's not so bad but people love hating on it and people who liked it.

You judge me over liking one 8/10 game over other thousands of games I played.

Do you even think how this looks?
guy - oh yeah, I liked this game.
people - fuck you you stupid idiot!!!!!!!!!!!! bad gaming taste!!!!!!!!! (and that continuing for years after the game came out. Seriously. this is so embarrassing for the whole community)

Fucking internet. Fucking forums. ... "I think we never should've connected" - Kojima
You should've seen the resurgence of posts on reddit forspoken "hey this game is actually good. I am surprised" when the game was free on psn. Tons and tons of post.
 
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  1. Konami have done the right thing by getting rid of Kojima!
  2. Mario and Zelda games are overrated to hell and critics treat Nintendo games softly.
  3. Hardcore Nintendo fans are all dysfunctional and falls on different grades of the autism spectrum.
  4. Sony,MS, Nintendo should extend the life of each console to 10 years without successors to align with longer gaming dev and to get most of current console and allow a more meaningful transition.
  5. Only benefactor of Activ acquisition was Activision shareholders and management.
  6. cinamatic games are not bad, I find people who skips cutscenes (first time) weird.
  7. Current gaming landscape and output is very healthy and not as bad as everyone is crying about.
  8. MGS3 is the weakest of the first 4 games.
  9. No mans Sky is the shittest game I have ever played.
  10. Elden Ring has the best open world map.
  11. Tank controls was never bad. It still is playable and has valid use cases.
  12. PC audience love to port-beg for everything despite only playing RTSs and FPS games.
  13. All major storefronts offer steep sales for games all year but internet give you the impression that you only get that on Steam.
 
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80% of the initial game sales are based on it's previous installment, regardless of the current game's quality.

Good games will sell like shit if people have a bad taste from the previous one, and bad games will get a free pass if they follow a good one.

This also works on movies, though due to the shorter length, word of mouth can some times save it in the long run.
 
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SweetTooth said:
  1. Konami have done the right thing by getting rid of Kojima!
  2. Mario and Zelda games are overrated to hell and critics treat Nintendo games softly.
  3. Hardcore Nintendo fans are all dysfunctional and falls on different grades of the autism spectrum.
  4. Sony,MS, Nintendo should extend the life of each console to 10 years without successors to align with longer gaming dev and to get most of current console and allow a more meaningful transition.
  5. Only benefactor of Activ acquisition was Activision shareholders and management.
  6. cinamatic games are not bad, I find people who skips cutscenes (first time) weird.
  7. Current gaming landscape and output is very healthy and not as bad as everyone is crying about.
  8. MGS3 is the weakest of the first 4 games.
  9. No mans Sky is the shittest game I have ever played.
  10. Elden Ring has the best open world map.
  11. Tank controls was never bad. It still is playable and has valid use cases.
  12. PC audience love to port-beg for everything despite only playing RTSs and FPS games.
  13. All major storefronts offer steep sales for games all year but internet give you the impression that you only get that on Steam.
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I dont think most of this are hot takes ... can definitely agree with n.1 ...

I would add that consoles should be more expensive from the get go and than make the gen longer ... also dev times are longer that it should be due to bad leadership and over indulgence... some studios are launching great games ever 4 years... taking 6-8 years is peak incompetence and bad management of resources.
 
Zelda is one of the most overrated series ever, new entries riding onto nostalgia from americans playing ocarina of time on n64 xD
It's always looked at through rose-tinted glasses by western reviewers singing praises.
 
rofif said:
yes, because I like forspoken from thousands of games I played.
I said many games the game is an 8 and I like it.
And somehow I am an idiot for being able to find enjoyment in a video game.
I will never understand the hate boner everyone has for this game. It's not so bad but people love hating on it and people who liked it.

You judge me over liking one 8/10 game over other thousands of games I played.

Do you even think how this looks?
guy - oh yeah, I liked this game.
people - fuck you you stupid idiot!!!!!!!!!!!! bad gaming taste!!!!!!!!! (and that continuing for years after the game came out. Seriously. this is so embarrassing for the whole community)

Fucking internet. Fucking forums. ... "I think we never should've connected" - Kojima
You should've seen the resurgence of posts on reddit forspoken "hey this game is actually good. I am surprised" when the game was free on psn. Tons and tons of post.
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Bro calm down. You're deliberately wearing your controversial opinion on your sleeve like its your whole personality and getting riled up when people tease you for it. Whether you like it or not most people think Forespoken is trash. People that played it for FREE on PSN don't represent everyone.

Take it with good humor and move on.
 
Gatekeeping is a good thing, not everything should be for everyone,.

If you don't have at least 20 hours a week to play videogames, you should not be allowed to write an opinion an a gaming forum or a social media.

If you suck at videogames you should net be allowed to write an opinion about videogames (that applys for everything in life).

Games difficulty options are for pussies.
 
gow ragnarok overrated and does not deserve 90+ metacritic. especially with that ending sequence that turns the ragnarok event into corridor fights. "oh that tower has fallen down", "oh look jormungandr is doing stuff on the background", "oh dwarves are not coming, it's just me". final sequence is built up like avengers endgame but continues like antman quantumania. pretender game

almost all metacritic scores are bloated and ruins the gaming. when I look at a 9/10 IMDB movie I can be sure that it will really be a great movie. when I look at a 90/100 metacritic game, I just cannot be sure if it is bloated or not.

last of us part 2 has one of the best stories in gaming history and abby is such a cool character.

horizon series, but most importantly forbidden west is one of the most overrated games of this generation, both from a story and graphics perspective. forbidden west is a 5 hour lackluster story stretched into 25 hours of open world slog. I prefer AC VALHALLA over it because at least AC VALHALLA does not try act like it is some premium high quality game. it also doesn't act like it is trying to tell a supposedly "great story". people who lived for 1000 years... and this is how they came out to be? it almost feels like writers of the game lacked imagination. ac valhalla's ISU lore sections have much more imagination involved than anything forbidden west has to offer. and once I'm not satisfied with the story or characters or whatever people are liking with it, the rest of the game is even worse than ac valhalla in terms of open world content. a game where 90% of side quests are "go to here and save this and come back". ac valhalla had much better side quests in some regions

kay looks mostly fine in ac outlaws and actually is a decent character. star wars outlaws is a much MUCH better than game horizon forbidden west can ever dream to be.

40-50 FPS with reflex on PC is a much superior experience than consoles that run the same game at full vsync latency at 60 FPS or full GPU bound latency at 60+ FPS. only that 40-50 FPS looks less smoother but plays better due to having MUCH lower latency. the whole point of having higher frames should be to get lower latency.
 
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Elden Ring: Shadows of the Erdtree sucks. The progression system is terrible and kills the power fantasy. Eat a "pill" and you're 10% stronger! So much wow! The fact that it does not transfer to the base game makes it even worse.
 
I don't have a specific nuclear hot take or something, some popular and beloved games i don't like but thats just everyone, i don't have one particular thing to say.
I guess i can say that story in RPGs is not that important.
 
I really don't like BG3 companions (i can maybe save Shadowheart, that's it), i think the roster doesn't hold a candle to DA Origins'.
 
Black_Stride said:
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I always assume its that Closet Legislator/Priest/Congressman thing where the guy who is so anti Gay is secretly Gay which is why he spouts against it so much.
No one can have that much hate and vitriol for Woke/DEI/Sweet Baby without having a horse in the race.
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I always assume its that Closet work lover thing where the guy who is so anti Mondays secretly loves Mondays which is why he spouts against them so much.
No one can have that much hate and vitriol for the weekend ending without having a horse in the race.
I always assume its that Closet hurricane lover thing where the guy who is so anti hurricane damage secretly loves having his house destroyed which is why he spouts against them so much.
No one can have that much hate and vitriol for natural disasters without having a horse in the race.
I always assume its that Closet leukemia lover thing where the guy who is so anti cancer deaths secretly loves having his child slowly dying in his bedroom which is why he spouts against it so much.
No one can have that much hate and vitriol for disease without having a horse in the race.
 
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I guess i can add something but i don't think its a hot take.

Presentation matters more than we give it credit for, the way the game presents itself to the player is highly important and can make or break your experience, the game presents its gameplay mechanics in a nice intuitive way with good enough explaining is important, not too much explaining because that will make it dull and boring to navigate and overwhelm the player, but also not too little and being obscure and confusing which frustrates the player.
The games that do this smartly are not credited by the community but they are by the journalists.
Also presenting a story is more important than the story itself, writing obviously takes the cake, but the core story doesn't matter that much, especially in a game. When i look at some of the games i love for their "story" its not really the story itself, but the way its directed and presented, when i look at some of the characters i like its not that they are oh so deep and complex but more that they are well acted and performed that they are brought to life.
The tone of the story and how it presents its themes either via cinematic cutscenes or any other way such as voice recordings or lore pages or environmental artistic storytelling is all an important part of that.
You can take the most generic fantasy story and it will be great if the presentation is well thought-out, but it doesn't matter to me if your story discusses the deep complexity of the subconscious mind if your presentation is boring and shit.
Also aesthetics matter, not just in art direction but how you present it, games with ugly presentation are often very offputting and make the whole thing harder to digest, it could be ugly environment (unless on purpose) ugly characters, ugly voices, ugly menus..etc
However its important to remember that as good as Presentation can be, it can never make up for a mediocre and shallow game, so while it has importance, its not going to save the game.
 
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Naked Lunch said:
Gaming peaked a long time ago.

F-Zero GX, Battlefield 2, FFXII, Super Metroid, Ninja Gaiden Black, FF Tactics, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Halo 3, Metal Slug 1, Outrun 2, Bionic Commando NES, Donkey Kong 94, Gunstar Heroes, DoDonPachi, Ace Combat Zero, etc.
It was all downhill from there. No one is touching that shit ever.

All the best developers retired - and the industry is now run by clueless fucktards.
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agreed, but even more so than the devs the biggest fucktards are the ones who are playing, it's because of them we are where we are
 
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