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[PSYGN]

Gran Turismo 7 lighting bloom looks like ass in a lot of the screenshots I've seen. Way too pronounced and drowns out the details, as if someone went in and applied a soft brush to every light source. This can be a learning moment for me since I haven't played the game, is this something a user applies in photo mode or does the game actually do this by default? And maybe it's meant to be seen in motion with HDR and isn't mimicking photo, but I see a lot of this with GT7 and it just looks bad.

 

[Unknown?]

Every game from now on should just be a new mode in Fortnite. Similar to how all restaurants were Taco Bell in Demolition Man.

 

[Ironman_Bad]

Sony in house when they actually decide to make games are far and away the best development studios, Uncharted, The Last of Us, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Astrobot, Gran Turismo

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Nintendo - Overrated borning developer that makes games for girls and boys and lacks original new IP's

Halo 2 - One of the worst sequels ever made and overrated crap

Ghost of Tsushima - Overrated and graphically not that impressive either other than some nice grass effects

Shenmue - Overrated, dull and boring

Digital Gaming - Is so much better than physical games

SCUD Racer - Isn't anywhere near as good as some people make out and is in fact quite dull to play

SEGA GT 2001 - An overlooked classic with better graphics than GT3/4 and also the best racer from that period

Rise Of The Dragon - Is so much better than Snatcher

Always Online - Xbox should have had the balls to stick with their original online plans for the Xbox One

PS2 - A letdown of a console and graphically took us back in some area's like textures and screen res

Kung Fu Choas - An overlooked gem and so much better than Power Stones and is the best multi-player fighting game

Mega CD - Not only a great Add-on it also had some of the best games ever made

Good hot take

I disagree with all of these ha

 

[cormack12]

Gran Turismo 7 lighting bloom looks like ass in a lot of the screenshots I've seen. Way too pronounced and drowns out the details, as if someone went in and applied a soft brush to every light source. This can be a learning moment for me since I haven't played the game, is this something a user applies in photo mode or does the game actually do this by default? And maybe it's meant to be seen in motion with HDR and isn't mimicking photo, but I see a lot of this with GT7 and it just looks bad.

You can adjust a lot of things like exposure, lamp brightness, flare etc. You could easily correct that shot to be more 'subtle', but you could probably also capture it raw in game depending on track, tod etc

 

[GigaBowser]

sony is trans woke crud now used to bee my favoirte bbuuuuuuuut now crud cept for astrobot and returnal

 

[lifa-cobex]

Ps5 pro is an overpriced waste of money.
Any side projects that sony releases are also a waste of time. I.e vr, 3d, handhelds or motion controllers.
They make a song and dance around it's upcoming release and after a year of being on the market. They stop being interested.

I say this a somone who's only ever bought ps consoles.

 

[Hudo]

sony is trans woke crud now used to bee my favoirte bbuuuuuuuut now crud cept for astrobot and returnal

no cap fr fr.

 

[Paasei]

All things considered, I still really enjoyed the first Watch Dogs and AC:Unity.

BotW is a boring game.

 

[Hudo]

Ultima (due to IV, Underworld, and Online at minimum) deserves vastly more credit as a landmark franchise for gaming innovation than it gets. It should always be in the conversation alongside Mario, Half-life, Final Fantasy, etc.

Ultima (together with Wizardry) is also directly responsible for giving birth to JRPGs. Yuji Horii made Dragon Quest trying to streamline stuff he thought could be done better while playing Ultima and Wizardry. And Ultima VII is directly responsible for Original Sin 2 and BG3's core game design, as said by Swen Vincke himself.

Ultima really is not mentioned enough when it comes to having a legacy. And it's really annoying that EA are sitting on this IP and doing jack shit with it.

 

[T-0800]

Gaming related. I just finished the first season of the Halo TV series. I loved it.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Gaming related. I just finished the first season of the Halo TV series. I loved it.

I feel betrayed and I don't even know you

 

[gaming_again]

The Meral Gear games have always been awful.

Achievement 'hunters' need to be rounded up into camps. The whole feature has made gaming worse.

People who collect old gaming hardware are mentally ill.

Rockstar have been woeful since San Andreas.

Games can be art, but it is very rare.

Armoured Core VI is massively underrated.

 

[T-0800]

I feel betrayed and I don't even know you

 

[simpatico]

I yearn for the days when console wars were fought with passion and courage. This oracle predicted the trans epidemic 27 years ago.

 

[Impotaku]

Mainline Pokemon has been shit since day 1, ugly graphics ugly screeching grating sounds & boring story. Even decades later still borderline mid tier, obsessive fans & nostalgia fuels that franchise to gloss over its terrible shortcomings because gamefreak can’t program for shit.

Astrobot is only been hyped as much as it is because PS5 gamers are so starved of good platforming games that when an above average one hits they think it’s the second coming of Jesus when in reality it’s like giving a starving person a cheese sandwich. Rescue mission in VR is the majorly superior game Astro should have never dumbed down to flatscreen gaming.

Dreamcast was a rubbish console with a weak library, a console so crap it nearly sunk the company and forced them to go 3rd party to survive.

 

[FewRope]

PS5 is actually worse than PS3. We are back to playing games at 480p with fake upscaling, it's fucking embarrasing

 

[Ovek]

PS5 is actually worse than PS3. We are back to playing games at 480p with fake upscaling, it's fucking embarrasing

This isn't a hot take its the truth.

 

[GHound]

All platforms need to fire their entire content moderation teams and only hire people that pass a series of tests essentially designed to find out if they're retarded enough that they'll just grab a downed power line.

 

[Idleyes]

I'd like to see Mario fix at least one pipe in game. Just one fucking pipe bruh.

 

[Idleyes]

For real fuck that, Mario been around for 43 years! Starred in over 200 games across multiple genres, platformers, racing, RPGs, sports, and even educational titles! 5 to 6 Educational titles and not a single one had to do with actual plumbing!?!? Mario is not a fucking plumber.

 

[killatopak]

Gunplay is a highly overrated metric to judge games.


Yes, I’ve enjoyed DMC2 thank you very much.

 

[Idleyes]

Steam sales = For 90% off you can buy games you’ll never play.

 

[Impotaku]

I'd like to see Mario fix at least one pipe in game. Just one fucking pipe bruh.

After the end credits are over he goes over sorts Peaches pipes out.

 

[cireza]

Animal Crossing and Kirby are objectively bad games.

Objectively.

Now that's some hot take. Not mine though, but from our good friend vaibhavpisal

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/metroid-prime-4-beyond-showcase-at-the-upcoming-nintendo-switch-2-direct-will-allegedly-%E2%80%9Cblow-everything-else-in-the-direct-out-of-the-water%E2%80%9D.1681796/post-270212713

 

[FewRope]

I yearn for the days when console wars were fought with passion and courage. This oracle predicted the trans epidemic 27 years ago.

Damn, 1998 huh

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Gunplay is a highly overrated metric to judge games.


Yes, I’ve enjoyed DMC2 thank you very much.

What kind of games are we talking about?

 

[Idleyes]

What kind of games are we talking about?

I bet it's not that Reskin Simulator named COD.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Rockstar makes awful games. GTA V and RDR2 have awful gameplay and only high production values.

GTA VI will likely be a shallow experience as well.

Came to post this, pretty much. Rockstar has never made a good game. That's my hot take.

 

[Idleyes]

Came to post this, pretty much. Rockstar has never made a good game. That's my hot take.

 

[Idleyes]

League of Legends is where gamers learn how to blame other people for their problems.

 

[Herr Edgy]

This sums up GAF's intelligence level

 

[Idleyes]

The plot of Genshin Impact is basically coping with the loss of your sibling by gambling away your money to find a slave that’s worth endlessly farming Gods over. All so they can stand around looking cool in your party menu.

 

[Dynasty8]

Easy, forgiving and hand-holdy games suck. "Casualization " is ruining gaming and no one cares if you work 5 jobs and have 10 kids.

 

[Idleyes]

PlayStation VR is the only way to punch a child in the face and get away with it.

 

[Arsic]

Rogue likes and rogue lites are the single worst type of lazy systems in games that are only made to keep a player on a hamster wheel.

The worst of the worst. Exception is Hades 2.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

PlayStation VR is the only way to punch a child in the face and get away with it.

Not the only way. There are many places in the world where smacking kids for being little shits is the norm.
God knows I've had my share of getting smacked lol
Edit: You said PUNCH in face. I take everything back.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Came to post this, pretty much. Rockstar has never made a good game. That's my hot take.

I disagree:

But i do agree GTA V and RDR2 have awful gameplay

 

[Lunnarre]

Every Mario game after sunshine is shit.
Edit: also Elden Ring is mid at best and FF15 was way better than FF16.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

I’ll go. YOLO, right?!

TTYD was the last truly perfect videogame. Been downhill ever since 2004. Improved graphics and storage of modern machines hasn’t improved anything in actual game design. A GameCube was really all you ever needed. Still has by far the best Smash game, too

 

[Missingnomer]

• GTAV is a bad video game. Gameplay is boring and Story is cringe.
• Red Dead Redemption 2 is a bad video game. Gameplay is boring. Story was good, but couldn't be bothered to finish it.
• Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom are terrible Zelda games. The open world is empty and boring.
• Anyone who plays Pokemon above the age of 15 and isn't plaything it with their kids has a mental illness.
• Console gamers are dumb for being okay with terrible game performance (30 FPS, upscaling garbage) and brain-dead internet subscriptions.
• Indie devs that make pixel/rogue-like games are garbage and should be banned from making video games.
• No Man's Sky is always praised, but no one plays it. You didn't play it and if you did, you realized it was boring and not worth your time.
• Games like LoL, CS:GO, and Fortnite aren't popular for the right reasons. People just play them because their shit PC/console can play them and they have 0 time commitment associated with them. They are free-to-play, easy to pick up and play for an hour and drop. These games are garbage and not worth your time. Stop wasting your time playing repetitive garbage.
• Competitive esports scene has done more damage to gaming than anything. Even more damaging than the Fortnite battlepass.
• The MTX and GPU market demonstrates how the gaming community is full of man-children with no self-control. They have to buy these GPUs at 3x-5x MSRP that give 15% performance gain to just end up going back to their shit live-service game that doesn't even benefit from the increased performance. They purchase a $3,000 CS:GO skin because they are emotionally and relationally stunted in real life.
• If you have LED gamer gear in your gamer room, you are actually part of the problem. Actually.
• Gamers are so lonely that they give game developers billions of dollars (yes, billions) to make coomer-bait characters (JPEGS and videos) to collect and jack off to. This is literally OnlyFans but with fake/digital characters.

These are just the ones that popped into my head when I read the OP.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Every Mario game after sunshine is shit.
Edit: also Elden Ring is mid at best and FF15 was way better than FF16.

Agreed on FF15. Fucking love that game. Played it all the way through twice. Don’t understand the hate at all

 

[San Dan Glokta]

I’ll go. YOLO, right?!

TTYD was the last truly perfect videogame. Been downhill ever since 2004. Improved graphics and storage of modern machines hasn’t improved anything in actual game design. A GameCube was really all you ever needed. Still has by far the best Smash game, too

What is TTYD

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

What is TTYD

oh boy

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Idleyes]

Man, fuck every single one of you Undertale and Kingdom Hearts fans. Y’all out here pretending to understand a book where every two pages are missing, every three pages are on fire, and every fourth page is written in some lost alien language from a civilization that never existed. Get the fuck outta here with that shit!

 

[Majukun]

Hello games, developer's of no man sky, should not be celebrated as a good example.
they sold millions and millions of copies of their game by blatantly lying...yes they fixed the game in the long run, no it does not justify what they did and they should pay for it.

funny thing is, that SHOULDN'T be an hot take..but everytime i voice this opinion I'm swarmed by their fans telling me that I am being "petty", that I should let the past go.
and I'm left wondering what the hell is wrong with people

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Hello games, developer's of no man sky, should not be celebrated as a good example.
they sold millions and millions of copies of their game by blatantly lying...yes they fixed the game in the long run, no it does not justify what they did and they should pay for it.

funny thing is, that SHOULDN'T be an hot take..but everytime i voice this opinion I'm swarmed by their fans telling me that I am being "petty", that I should let the past go.
and I'm left wondering what the hell is wrong with people

The problem is that the vast majority of gamers are fucking cockroaches. They don't have the discipline to properly boycott anything, and they forget the past in the approx time it takes to take a dump. Fucking embarrassing.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

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.

Unreal Engine and Epic Games as a whole has poisoned the industry and every game using the engine looks exactly the same now.

Id Software hasn’t made a good game since Quake 3

edits since original comment:

PC gaming generally gets the worst ports of console games and they try to cope with claiming resolution and high frame rate to a majority who doesn’t care.

GTA 6 is going to tank score wise because the core of Rockstar that made the previous ones so good are gone and the expectations and bar is set higher than what can be achieved.

What these people don’t realize is that they are simply the other side of the same coin from the Resetera types. The same thing goes for most politically minded people IMO. The other side will always bitch about each other even when it’s bitching about the same actions that they give themselves a pass for.

 

[mayham2199]

Mario is overrated shit. Mario Kart is, too. I hate Zelda and Pokemon. Man I could go on for ages, and trust me it's not only Nintendo.

Honestly this. I’m just not a fan of nintendos games.

 

[DryvBy]

Gamers that play games for sexy stuff are weirder and worst than the people who play video games to complain (FemFreq type people).