Anime Your Unpopular Gaming Opinions

[Hag]

Yoshi's Island, for the record, is my personal favorite 2D mario game.

I played it on Gameboy Advance and did not finished it. It was gorgeous, but I did not find it fun. You're always treading on eggshells, any wrong movement and the baby starts his insufferable crying, and god forbid you loss one star too many, meaning you'll have to start again.

 

[Zombra]

Star Control 3 is better than Star Control 2.

 

[Saldrone]

Hitman: Contracts was an actually great Hitman game.

Replaybility is significantly improved if said game is relatively short.

 

[NecroLord]

Hitman: Contracts was an actually great Hitman game.

How is that an unpopular opinion, my man?
It's arguably the best game in the series!
Also the most atmospheric.
And the Jesper Kyd soundtrack...

 

[Ol' Willy]

Contracts is great

 

[Saldrone]

Hitman: Contracts was an actually great Hitman game.

How is that an unpopular opinion, my man?
It's arguably the best game in the series!
Also the most atmospheric.
And the Jesper Kyd soundtrack...

It isnt unpopular then? since It received a lot of criticism due to recycled levels from the first game and lineal level design and generally considered inferior to Silent Assassin and Blood Money

 

[NecroLord]

Hitman: Contracts was an actually great Hitman game.

How is that an unpopular opinion, my man?
It's arguably the best game in the series!
Also the most atmospheric.
And the Jesper Kyd soundtrack...

It isnt unpopular then? since It received a lot of criticism due to recycled levels from the first game and lineal level design and generally considered inferior to Silent Assassin and Blood Money

Not recycled, but improved.

 

[kangaxx]

IMO Half Life 2 is overrated beyond all belief.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Half Life 2 is overrated

Not as a tech demo

 

[janior]

Daggerfall has decent systems but awful quests and even worse dungeons.

Pool of Radiance and other goldbox games are at best a historical curiosities.

Elden Ring/Sekiro are the worst fromsoftware games.

 

[Falksi]

Star Control 3 is better than Star Control 2.

I play Star Control 1 significantly more than I do Star Control 2

 

[NecroLord]

Daggerfall has decent systems but awful quests and even worse dungeons.

Dungeons are absolutely massive and labyrinthine, and this can make navigating and the quests themselves very difficult.
Quest items and monsters get randomly placed in the dungeon...
Still, I love Daggerfall precisely for this reason.

 

[sabotaj]

Great topic.
The creators of Max Payne are assholes for aging him to the point where they would have had to make him a retiree in a hypothetical 4th series.

 

[Socrates]

Elden Ring/Sekiro are the worst fromsoftware games.

I would argue DS2 and Demonsouls are.

 

[Valestein]

Yoshi's Island, for the record, is my personal favorite 2D mario game.

I played it on Gameboy Advance and did not finished it. It was gorgeous, but I did not find it fun. You're always treading on eggshells, any wrong movement and the baby starts his insufferable crying, and god forbid you loss one star too many, meaning you'll have to start again.

That game is piss easy, the enemies are basically harmless with how you can easily get crying mario back and the only real dangers are environmental hazards. It reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog with its rings.

 

[Hell Swarm]

From software should add an ELO system to souls games. Invasions should have a hidden rank so you're more likely to be paired against someone of an equal skill level. This would solve the problem of try hards invading newbies and plug pullers preventing invasions at all (plug pull counts as a loss). If you have summons in game you should be matched by much higher ranks than you usually would, you should be put higher up the list for invaders searching at the master rank levels.

Invasions should also happen organically where 2 players in the same area can phase into the same multiplayer instance without using an item (items and covenants should still remain in the game for specific PvP players). A ghost will solidify and then it's up to you two to figure out if you want to fight or work together. It would revive the original feeling of Demon's souls co op systems before it became fight clubs and gank squads.

 

[Baron Tahn]

Grimoire sucks ass!

 

[GamerCat_]

This thread was made in anticipation of my arrival. The world spirit spoke to Lemming42 on my behalf.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Quake is and always was overrated game, impressive tech demo for when it was made, but as a game it's fucking boring...and very brown.

Read Masters of Doom and Romero's new book. They talk about its troubled production.

The brown was a result of tech limits. 8 bit colour was all they could process with their engine.

 

[Ezekiel]

From software should add an ELO system to souls games. Invasions should have a hidden rank so you're more likely to be paired against someone of an equal skill level. This would solve the problem of try hards invading newbies and plug pullers preventing invasions at all (plug pull counts as a loss). If you have summons in game you should be matched by much higher ranks than you usually would, you should be put higher up the list for invaders searching at the master rank levels.

Invasions should also happen organically where 2 players in the same area can phase into the same multiplayer instance without using an item (items and covenants should still remain in the game for specific PvP players). A ghost will solidify and then it's up to you two to figure out if you want to fight or work together. It would revive the original feeling of Demon's souls co op systems before it became fight clubs and gank squads.

I have a better idea. Improve the offline by letting the player pause the game. I stopped caring about invasions and cooperation after Dark Souls II. The try-hards who idle in the same places forever don't care about the world anyway, act like the whole thing is a joke.

Also, you should absolutely be able to disable the messages they spam everywhere, whether you play offline or online. Many are intentionally placed in front of/on NPCs and items. There are so many that they make the world look worse.

 

[Falksi]

From software should add an ELO system to souls games.

Don't Bring Me Down with that stuff, besides, it'll only cause Confusion with every Showdown.

 

[Hell Swarm]

From software should add an ELO system to souls games. Invasions should have a hidden rank so you're more likely to be paired against someone of an equal skill level. This would solve the problem of try hards invading newbies and plug pullers preventing invasions at all (plug pull counts as a loss). If you have summons in game you should be matched by much higher ranks than you usually would, you should be put higher up the list for invaders searching at the master rank levels.

Invasions should also happen organically where 2 players in the same area can phase into the same multiplayer instance without using an item (items and covenants should still remain in the game for specific PvP players). A ghost will solidify and then it's up to you two to figure out if you want to fight or work together. It would revive the original feeling of Demon's souls co op systems before it became fight clubs and gank squads.

I have a better idea. Improve the offline by letting the player pause the game. I stopped caring about invasions and cooperation after Dark Souls II. The try-hards who idle in the same places forever don't care about the world anyway, act like the whole thing is a joke.

Also, you should absolutely be able to disable the messages they spam everywhere, whether you play offline or online. Many are intentionally placed in front of/on NPCs and items. There are so many that they make the world look worse.

I agree completely. Pausing the game is a reasonable expectation. If you need the bathroom or to do something and you can't pause it you have to quit out. It's dumb and there's no good reason for it while offline.

Finger butthole.

 

[Tehdagah]

All games should have multiplayer.

 

[Ezekiel]

Oh, and I forgot to say that 99.8 percent of the messages are irreverent. Nonsense. Completely useless feature.

 

[NecroLord]

Quake is and always was overrated game, impressive tech demo for when it was made, but as a game it's fucking boring...and very brown.

Read Masters of Doom and Romero's new book. They talk about its troubled production.

The brown was a result of tech limits. 8 bit colour was all they could process with their engine.

Romero's got a book?