Anime Your Unpopular Gaming Opinions

[KörangarTheMighty]

The only women in combat I'd accept is a farmers wife using a shotgun to defend her home. Nothing else is tolerated.

No. Terror on the Prairie is a shitty movie.

 

[n0denz]

No, bait would be something like Brotherhood of Steel > New Vegas.

The people who even know about BoS wouldn't be the types to make lazy bait.

 

[n0denz]

The only women in combat I'd accept is a farmers wife using a shotgun to defend her home. Nothing else is tolerated.

Not Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor or Kay Ness from the critically acclaimed video game Star Wars: Outlaws?

 

[Hell Swarm]

Can you fuck off out of this thread and go to the politics subforum or wherever please, thanks.

No. I'm talking about games.

The only women in combat I'd accept is a farmers wife using a shotgun to defend her home. Nothing else is tolerated.

No. Terror on the Prairie is a shitty movie.

I don't care about movies. I'm sick of starting a game and finding my party's only melee character is a woman. Probably larping as a knight.

 

[Ezekiel]

Witcher 3 has too much content. So many side quests that the momentum the story could have had is destroyed. Dwarf shouted for help for yet another quest, and what was I gonna do, ignore him and wonder what it was about? In that second playthrough years later I lost interest before leaving for Skellige.

 

[Silverfish]

I'm sick of starting a game and finding my party's only melee character is a woman.

If her physical stats are shit, but her weapons are poisoned, it's okay.

 

[El Presidente]

Witcher 3 has too much content. So many side quests that the momentum the story could have had is destroyed. Dwarf shouted for help for yet another quest, and what was I gonna do, ignore him and wonder what it was about? In that second playthrough years later I lost interest before leaving for Skellige.

I haven't played Witcher 3 but one thing I dislike a lot is games with pressing, urgent main quests ("we have no time! You must go immediately to X city and inform the king we're under attack!") that shower you with low stakes side quests at every turn. these two things don't fit well together at all, I don't larp in games but it inevitably makes me feel like a retarded mega-autist if I get an urgent, high importance mission and then proceed to lose myself in the world's side content for the next 30 hours.

This is the equivalent of Garrett stopping to swim in Lord Bafford's swimming pool, then bathing on his bathtub, dining on his table and sleeping on his bed, and then proceed to steal the scepter when he wakes up.

 

[Butter]

This is the equivalent of Garrett stopping to swim in Lord Bafford's swimming pool, then bathing on his bathtub, dining on his table and sleeping on his bed, and then proceed to steal the scepter when he wakes up.

Garrett has balls the size of the Millennium Falcon. I could see it.

 

[Lemming42]

The Witcher sucks in general, I just don't get it at all. Tried all three games and never get more than an hour in before thinking "this is depressingly shit" and bailing out. The writing seems awful too, the entire concept makes me laugh out loud. Oh I'm the best swordsman in the world and I have Sephiroth hair and special glowing demon eyes!!! Dumber than Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Wray, who might legitimately be a more complex character than Witcher Man.

It's up there with Mass Effect as something that surely became popular just because the medium of videogames is relatively young and there's not much better on offer for people who want that kind of thing. Sort of like how people in 1940 would be proclaiming The Thin Man series to be the best films ever, even though they're not that good and nobody a century later gives a fuck about them.

 

[El Presidente]

Usually in such games what I prefer is to keep playing through these urgent main quests until their urgency drops and the game points you to something a little more cooled off, finally giving you a break to enjoy more menial quests, but I've seen more than a few games where, when the main questline finally gives you this opportunity, by then you're already some renowed hero figure and it doesn't make sense anymore for you to go kill the rats in the fat screaming lady's cellar. In other words, most of the game's side content is novice oriented and novice toned, but the main quest keeps giving you urgency until you're Lord Buttkicker, savior of the world. This annoys me a lot.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

The writing seems awful too, the entire concept makes me laugh out loud. Oh I'm the best swordsman in the world and I have Sephiroth hair and special glowing demon eyes!!! Dumber than Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Wray, who might legitimately be a more complex character than Witcher Man.

Should have been "Oh, I am an albino with flowing white hair and certain non-human features, am an exceptional swordsman and also employ magical abilities, have a special sword, make use of alchemy, am a womanizer, and am nicknamed the White Wolf".

 

[Hell Swarm]

Should have been "Oh, I am an albino with flowing white hair and certain non-human features, am an exceptional swordsman and also employ magical abilities, have a special sword, make use of alchemy, am a womanizer, and am nicknamed the White Wolf".

Looks like David Bowie. A sure sign the artist was a fag.

 

[OndrejSc]

I tried Fallout 1, I tried to like it, but: no go.

 

[Hobknobling]

The writing seems awful too, the entire concept makes me laugh out loud. Oh I'm the best swordsman in the world and I have Sephiroth hair and special glowing demon eyes!!! Dumber than Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Wray, who might legitimately be a more complex character than Witcher Man.

Should have been "Oh, I am an albino with flowing white hair and certain non-human features, am an exceptional swordsman and also employ magical abilities, have a special sword, make use of alchemy, am a womanizer, and am nicknamed the White Wolf".

This character trope comes from Kalevala though many authors were probably more influenced by Gandalf who is based on Väinämöinen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Väinämöinen

 

[United Nations]

All the following games are pieces of shit..

1. Planescape Torment
2. Resident Evil 4 & 7
3. The Witcher series
4. Doom 2016
5. Quake 2
6. Darkwood
7. Diablo IV
8. Skyrim
9. Fallout 4
10. Grim Dawn
11. Metro Exodus
12. Disco Elysium

 

[OndrejSc]

Fun fact: GandAlf was the great grandfather of Alf of Melmak.

 

[Lemming42]

Probably said this before but I hate the idea of vaults from Fallout being experiments. It's far more interesting if Vault-Tec is a legit company and when/if vaults do go wrong, they do so because the people inside them managed to fuck them up on their own. The idea of them all being cartoon deathtrap experiments is the single worst idea Fallout 2 introduced, which is really saying something.

 

[Ash]

Eh, the experiments angle is far more interesting. People's own fuckups would be far too predictable and far too boring. It'd be the usual downfall from greed, ego, classism, someone fucked someone else's girl, someone left the oven on and everyone suffocated, typical retarded boring human shit. You want them to be a soap opera drama. I want them to be conspiratorial speculative sci-fi horror shows. It's total ...as long as it remains fiction, it is fun to think about.
It also has the excellent effect of turning vaults in to immersive horror game segments with very sinister backdrop, something video games can do quite well.

 

[NecroLord]

Probably said this before but I hate the idea of vaults from Fallout being experiments. It's far more interesting if Vault-Tec is a legit company and when/if vaults do go wrong, they do so because the people inside them managed to fuck them up on their own. The idea of them all being cartoon deathtrap experiments is the single worst idea Fallout 2 introduced, which is really saying something.

Vault 69.
Quite the experiment, yes?

 

[Hell Swarm]

A middle ground would be better. 1 in every 20 are experimental and the others are standard bunkers. It would make the experiments interesting to discover and rewarding in the lore. If everyone is special no one is special, so have special vaults be rewards for exploration and lore reading.

 

[Silverfish]

Fun fact: GandAlf was the great grandfather of Alf of Melmak.

I'm given to understand that GandAlf is back. In pog form.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

A middle ground would be better. 1 in every 20 are experimental and the others are standard bunkers.

I thought that was the case. Wouldn't proper experiments have "normal" vaults for comparison?

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

It's up there with Mass Effect as something that surely became popular just because the medium of videogames is relatively young and there's not much better on offer for people who want that kind of thing. Sort of like how people in 1940 would be proclaiming The Thin Man series to be the best films ever, even though they're not that good and nobody a century later gives a fuck about them.

I don't think that's necessarily true. Witcher and Mass Effect, to my knowledge, had success partially down to the developers making it so your choices mattered in later games, even if this was more illusionary than not. Games taking advantage of something unique in the video game medium. Something experimental in theory. The Thin Man, meanwhile, doesn't really do anything that takes advantage of being a film, you could make it a play without much change. It's appeal lies in the dynamic between the two leads. The Thin Man is probably something more like Sam & Max whereas those would be more akin to some forgotten German Expressionism film.

 

[Hell Swarm]

They were popular because they were at the right time for the cultural zeitgeist and had large marketing budgets.

 

[Lemming42]

I don't think that's necessarily true. Witcher and Mass Effect, to my knowledge, had success partially down to the developers making it so your choices mattered in later games, even if this was more illusionary than not. Games taking advantage of something unique in the video game medium. Something experimental in theory. The Thin Man, meanwhile, doesn't really do anything that takes advantage of being a film, you could make it a play without much change. It's appeal lies in the dynamic between the two leads. The Thin Man is probably something more like Sam & Max whereas those would be more akin to some forgotten German Expressionism film.

That's interesting. My comparison with The Thin Man wasn't based on anything specific about the film, I was just trying to think of something very popular at the time that most people nowadays haven't watched and don't really care about, which is broadly how I assume Mass Effect and The Witcher will be seen 80 years from now.

I think you're right though in that a part of their success was in their use (or rather the way they pretended to use) of the unique strengths of videogames as a medium. I guess it's just a matter of waiting for an even more popular game to come along and do it better in a way that makes BioWare games or Witcher look quaint and simplistic in retrospect - maybe BG3 already has for BioWare, Larian's success is definitely going to cause big problems for Dreadwolf.