Unpopular gaming opinions
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infinikitten
big old brat tbh
Minecraft is so unnecessarily ugly, man. I don't even normally care about graphics that much; I can pick up games that are actually old and play them without caring, but Minecraft? No. It looks like **** and for some reason that really rubs me the wrong way.
Hahaha, that's great. Thanks for showing me that.
And I agree with infinikitten. But you know what's worse than minecraft? Minecraft clones
On the developer's side I kinda understand it. Since they're indie games, they might not have a lot of resources to make art for the game. 2D pixel graphics is easy to pull off, so you don't have to resort to relatively high-res images or even 3D models. A lot of the games they make also don't need more than just pixel graphics, since indie games are often fairly simple in their execution.
On the customer side... I don't know. Maybe it's some sense of nostalgia? People that still think that the original Mario Bros. was the best game of all time, or maybe they're hipsters that don't want to play a release from a big studio. I don't really understand the hype for it either, since a lot of the games are just kinda regurgitated from games that came before it.
Indie games annoy me in general anyway. There's some I've bought, some I've gotten for free, and very few I actually enjoyed. The first time I realized that indie gaming wasn't really my thing was when everybody and their mom praised Braid into the heavens and all I could think was that it's slightly above average.
Oh god. The Minecraft clones look even worse. :/
EndlessElements
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i-i have to agree. Diddy Kong racing was a big part of my childhood
I think people that say this are stuck in the past, because I've heard the same thing for several years now. It's also ignoring a large portion of the market, i.e. the fact that Microsoft/343I is milking the Halo series and going to do so for years, Sony just keeps getting first/second party action-adventure games, EA/Activision/Ubisoft pumps out the same trash year after year with very little change...
Astro Cake
Senior Member
Overwatch isn't going to "kill" TF2. Overwatch is far too different from TF2 for that to happen.
lithiumlatte
life is strange
Mine is that angel of darkness was not the worst tomb raider. 
EndlessElements
Senior Member
Mine is that angel of darkness was not the worst tomb raider.
amen! i actually adore AoD
Somewhat related, but I always thought Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart, by FAR.
EndlessElements
Senior Member
^ yeah that game was also pretty fun, but i sadly didn't get to play it much. i did play a lot of Crash Bash though and loved it.
i don't like Kingdom Hearts 2 at all. i think the first game is by far better
i don't like Kingdom Hearts 2 at all. i think the first game is by far better
Naughty Dog are overrated.
Now don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed all of their games so far with Jak trilogy being among my favorites ever, but they're not even close the 'best dev ever' like a lot of people say (not necessarily here, on a Nintendo focused forum). They're becoming one of these developers that are more 'wannabe movie creator' rather than 'videogame developer'.
Uncharted II is probably the last game by them that I thoroughly enjoyed in its entirety. It seemed to have the right balance between gameplay and story, with there being a very small amount of time where I wasn't shooting people, climbing around, solving a puzzle or sitting around for 30 minutes looking for the ledge I'm supposed to climb and generally 'playing the game'.
Uncharted III had a lot more time where it felt like the game was playing itself. Still a lot of shooting and climbing around but there was a definite shift from gameplay to 'attempted movie', yano, where they're more concerned with me looking at their cool set pieces than actually playing the game.
'The Last of Us'...Well...That game was all about the story. Great story granted, I really did enjoy it but as a game...No.
It was just Uncharted's shooting and questionable stealth mechanics thrown into an environment shooting large waves of nameless peons, move to next bit of story, rinse, repeat. I mean for a game that tries to focus on stealth a lot, the mechanics are awful. They weren't even great in Uncharted, there was just enough variation in Uncharted to make it less of an issue.
Basically, it felt more like I was 'putting up with' the gameplay rather than 'enjoying it'.
They might have only released those 2 games since Uncharted II but the shift has been gradual and it feels like they're going to go more and more down the 'movie developer' route. Now they're leaning more towards story with the gameplay becoming something you 'put up with' rather than enjoy. Maybe it's just me but I don't spend ?60 to hear a story, I pay for a game. Story is something that should compliment good gameplay, not the other way around (at least in my opinion).
Yea...I actually despise the originals a lot more. The controls were enough to put me off entirely but it also looked like pure vomit on the PS1. If it wasn't for me getting Tomb Raider Legend for cheap in a deal on PS2, I would never have gotten into the series since the originals put me off almost entirely.
Now don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed all of their games so far with Jak trilogy being among my favorites ever, but they're not even close the 'best dev ever' like a lot of people say (not necessarily here, on a Nintendo focused forum). They're becoming one of these developers that are more 'wannabe movie creator' rather than 'videogame developer'.
Uncharted II is probably the last game by them that I thoroughly enjoyed in its entirety. It seemed to have the right balance between gameplay and story, with there being a very small amount of time where I wasn't shooting people, climbing around, solving a puzzle or sitting around for 30 minutes looking for the ledge I'm supposed to climb and generally 'playing the game'.
Uncharted III had a lot more time where it felt like the game was playing itself. Still a lot of shooting and climbing around but there was a definite shift from gameplay to 'attempted movie', yano, where they're more concerned with me looking at their cool set pieces than actually playing the game.
'The Last of Us'...Well...That game was all about the story. Great story granted, I really did enjoy it but as a game...No.
It was just Uncharted's shooting and questionable stealth mechanics thrown into an environment shooting large waves of nameless peons, move to next bit of story, rinse, repeat. I mean for a game that tries to focus on stealth a lot, the mechanics are awful. They weren't even great in Uncharted, there was just enough variation in Uncharted to make it less of an issue.
Basically, it felt more like I was 'putting up with' the gameplay rather than 'enjoying it'.
They might have only released those 2 games since Uncharted II but the shift has been gradual and it feels like they're going to go more and more down the 'movie developer' route. Now they're leaning more towards story with the gameplay becoming something you 'put up with' rather than enjoy. Maybe it's just me but I don't spend ?60 to hear a story, I pay for a game. Story is something that should compliment good gameplay, not the other way around (at least in my opinion).
Mine is that angel of darkness was not the worst tomb raider.
Yea...I actually despise the originals a lot more. The controls were enough to put me off entirely but it also looked like pure vomit on the PS1. If it wasn't for me getting Tomb Raider Legend for cheap in a deal on PS2, I would never have gotten into the series since the originals put me off almost entirely.
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Yeah that definitely happens too, and a lot of people call them out for it. Halo is definitely going downhill (not too big a fan of it), Sony is still trying to get some new games, and Ubisoft/EA are very much guilty for releasing games that are pretty much reskins. But when Nintendo does the same thing, very few people complain about it.
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the fans won't complain but everybody else does! people call Nintendo out for this on every site I've been to..
I personally don't mind sequels of games I love (it's a game per console so shut up) but I'm just bothered by nintendo's latest actions with this horrible youtube copyright thing and the amiibo swarm, now we also have cards, free to play games that ask you to either pay or wait and their plans on mobile gaming and the new NX thingie. it's all worrying....
now I'm afraid for their future
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