Crispy™ Controversial opinions about RPGs that you know deep down are true.

[Grognardius Rex]

It’s been nothing but decline since pedit5.

 

[smaug]

blobbers belong in the jrpg subforum

Might and Magic is not a fucking JRPG

 

[Lady_Error]

There won't be good actual RPG's coming out for a while.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Years of decline had made all of us hollowed inside.

 

[Strange Fellow]

This thread is reddit-tier "unpopular opinions" bullshit where all the people with garbage taste crawl out of the woodworks and assure each other that liking total trash is acceptable.

Let's turn it on its head.

Darklands isn't very good.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

Darklands isn't very good.

I've never played it but I will fight you to prove my true monocled nature.

 

[Lady_Error]

Darklands has some good parts to it, while the combat is absolute shit. The overall game is really mediocre, compared to other RPG's of that time.

 

[deama]

Fallout 3 is actually decent.

Dark souls isn't an RPG.

 

[Rules Lawyer]

Many older RPGs are highly overrated. They used to be great at the time but much better games coming out along the years have made them entirely obsolete.

I disagree. They offer much more than modern games. Comparing Morrowind to Skyrim for eg, no levitation, no spellmaking, no teleport, no jump, no mark/recall, no attributes, no classes, no polarms <<<insert more 50000 things>>>> and the unique thing that skyrim brought who worth is the vampire lord form and better graphics.

When I think of "older" games, I think of the games I played growing up (I guess I'm outing myself as middle aged now) -- ultima 4, ultima 5, darklands, might and magic, wizardry, bard's tale, etc. Or perhaps the games I played in college, like fallout, baldur's gate, etc. Everything these old games did (exception for torment, noted below), SOME modern games do better. No, I don't mean skyrim, and no I don't mean any JRPG.

I don't get the hate on modern games. It's like people on here just automatically hate anything that's newer. Ok, fallout and elder scrolls got kind of fucked up, but how blind do you have to be to not see games like PfK as being better than something like Baldur's gate in every conceivable way? PoE? DoS? What the fuck people? (exception being Planescape; flawed game because the combat and interface are dogshit, but I don't think ANY game has ever had a better plot, more memorable characters, and more true RP'ing decisions).

 

[Harry Easter]

I should have spend most of that time on a different hobby.

 

[Cryomancer]

I don't get the hate on modern games. It's like people on here just automatically hate anything that's newer. Ok, fallout and elder scrolls got kind of fucked up, but how blind do you have to be to not see games like PfK as being better than something like Baldur's gate in every conceivable way? PoE? DoS? What the fuck people? (exception being Planescape; flawed game because the combat and interface are dogshit, but I don't think ANY game has ever had a better plot, more memorable characters, and more true RP'ing decisions).

I don't think that Pathfinder Kingmaker is better than BG in "every conceivable way". in some points like character creation, PfK is superior. In others like encounter design, i honestly think that BG1/2 is better. But PfK was made with old school principles in mind, not modern ones. And received an backlash from game journalists "why my axe is not killing an insect swarm", so they got forced to re design most encounters to avoid this butthurt and improve ratings.

About DOS 1/2, i din't liked DOS by one reason. Too much "modern BS" like

1. Cooldowns - I fired an arrow in a specific way, now i need to wait X turns to fire in the same way. Why?
2. Artificial limitations like "you can only have one summon"
3. Spells/skills don't feel deadly due armor/magic armor
4. Bows with 13m range is something that makes no sense too. I IRL can easily hit targets smaller than humans at 50m with my 175 lbf crossbow and don't consider myself an good shooter
5. The armor who never deflects blow, but works more like "another hp layer"

Pillars of Eternity 1/2 is a good game, but offer less spells, less classes and less interesting stuff than BG for eg.

PS : Is not only bugthesda games who are fucked up. Bioware games, Blizard games...

 

[MpuMngwana]

New Vegas is best Fallout.

Wizardry VII is worst Wizardry.

Every time period has good games and shit games. Being old does not automatically make a game better than "all the shit that comes out nowadays" (nor does being new make a game better than "last gen shit that doesn't even have 32K textures").

 

[Max Damage]

This is Trigger Codex with a statement: Electric Boogaloo, but why not: Baldur's Gate fucking sucks. The "it's totally like real time but we'll still use rounds lmao" combat is retarded, characters are still written by Bioware, encounter design is absent, exploration is -boredom and trial-by-error based, you HAVE to roll stats when creating character (no, you don't get to pick low-strong preset, that'd make too much sense), and the antagonist has all the charisma of a limpet. Also, Charisma isn't needed for sorcerer, yay for effortless powergaming?

 

[pomenitul]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a cute little game worth a distracted playthrough. Insofar as 3/4 of it is semi-competent filler, it is most certainly not the second coming of BG or even IWD.

 

[deuxhero]

Bioware was never good. Jade Empire was their least bad game.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

This thread is reddit-tier "unpopular opinions" bullshit where all the people with garbage taste crawl out of the woodworks and assure each other that liking total trash is acceptable.

For it to be the true Reddit experience it'd need to be, "Unpopular opinion but" and then proceed to say something everybody on that particular board agrees with.

 

[Rules Lawyer]

Pathfinder: Kingmaker is a cute little game worth a distracted playthrough. Insofar as 3/4 of it is semi-competent filler, it is most certainly not the second coming of BG or even IWD.

IWD had some nicely planned battles. BG2 was great all around. I don't get the love for BG1. I was not particularly impressed with it. Way too much filler.

 

[Egosphere]

Kotor I > Kotor II

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Incendax]

RPGs don’t need to have combat at all.
We’re just sluts for violence.

 

[Agesilaus]

Planescape Torment is a bad game. The sequel is probably worse but who can honestly be bothered loading it up.

Pathfinder is a bit shit. All the "Divinity" games are shit.

BG1>BG2

U7>U6

BattleTech: Crescent Hawks Inception, Teudogar and the Alliance with Rome, Nethergate, the Geneforges, and AoD are probably the best RPGs of all time.

hmmm so many more great opinions to share


Blobbers are pure shit
JRPGs are shit

 

[Ramnozack]

All video games are a waste of time, each of us is wasting his precious life on bullshit that ultimately does nothing for us. The time and effort spent on games could be spent on bettering ourselves and our positions in life, and if we did that, all of us would be happier than we are now.

 

[smaug]

All video games are a waste of time, each of us is wasting his precious life on bullshit that ultimately does nothing for us. The time and effort spent on games could be spent on bettering ourselves and our positions in life, and if we did that, all of us would be happier than we are now.

This is probably true.
Fuck it, video games are fun

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

You think you're the player, but computers play you.

 

[moon knight]

Good combat is important.

Fallout 1 and 2 have horrid trash tier combat, but I never felt it had a negative impact on the overall experience