Bill R Boggess
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FMV games had a very short lifespan on the timeline of gaming and even at their apex, critics and gamers often took issue with the paucity of quality gameplay that most of them delivered.
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FMV games had a very short lifespan on the timeline of gaming and even at their apex, critics and gamers often took issue with the paucity of quality gameplay that most of them delivered.
KonradLaw
Member
Yep. FMV novelty quickly wore off. The trend lasted longer, but devs were soon using FMVs solely as an addition to regular games with complex gameplay.
Melchiah
Member
Yeah, as far as I can remember, games like Phantasmagoria were more of a novelty back then, and never gathered the same extent of critical acclaim as the best of today's story-driven games.
As long as you don't do too many at once, the Riddler trophies in Arkham City and Knight are a lot of fun.
Ethan Winters in RE7 is a good character, and going even more controversial, RE's main characters, outside of RE2's and Barry, aren't that great and have been made blander as the series went on and everyone became a superhero.
Ignoring their microtransaction and preorder nonsense, WB games is probably the best multiplatform console publisher outside of maybe Bethesda.
Ethan Winters in RE7 is a good character, and going even more controversial, RE's main characters, outside of RE2's and Barry, aren't that great and have been made blander as the series went on and everyone became a superhero.
Ignoring their microtransaction and preorder nonsense, WB games is probably the best multiplatform console publisher outside of maybe Bethesda.
eXistor
Member
Shovel Knight the game is rightly praised as retro-style gaming done right, I myself rank it quite highly in the best games of the last 10 years. But its equally praised soundtrack doesn't quite deserve that praise imo. There's a few standout tracks, like the main theme, but most of the songs sound like nothing to me. The melodies are generally very forgettable. It's consistenly been the low point of the game for me and I don't understand the praise it gets. Compare it to *insert random NES game of note* and there's a very good chance it blows SK's ost out of the water.
I couldn't care less for The Last Of Us. I did go in with a lot of expectations when I purchased the Remastered Edition, seeing as it's one of the best games ever made when looking at the reviews.
What I got didn't live up to my expectations. I didn't enjoy the game, and after a couple of hours, I turned it off, uninstalled the game, and I have yet to install it back.
And I don't care much for either of the Souls game. I liked Nioh though.
What I got didn't live up to my expectations. I didn't enjoy the game, and after a couple of hours, I turned it off, uninstalled the game, and I have yet to install it back.
And I don't care much for either of the Souls game. I liked Nioh though.
Triscuitable
Member
Every Halo game until Halo 5 had absolutely godawful weapon balancing that made one or two non-power weapons totally dominant, and rendered everything else either niche or useless. That's not to say they were bad, but when the go-to gun is the battle rifle or DMR, something's up that needs serious tweaking.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Yeh, with you there. Have tried a few times to get into it but it never sticks. Thought I would have loved it but didn't like the world design (just felt like different places with a series of paths between more than a world) and the combat really grated on me. Ended up playing Gwent and going from town to town just for that, then dropped it entirely.
Judge Magister Zexion
Banned
Yeah this, hearing from friends saying it was the "Best RPG/Shooter of the Gen" all the time made it quite the letdown when I finally was able to play. Immediately went from $60 Day one to maybe $20 when it's old to play with friends.
eot
Banned
It's activision, their games don't drop in price
Melchiah
Member
Well, Destiny did drop in price when the big year two expansion arrived, and you could get it, the main game, and the two previous expansions for 60€. That's when I plan to get Destiny 2.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
I feel like this really isn't that controversial an opinion to hold, at least around here lol.
Imp the Dimp
Member
I liked the game but I'm not really sure where it's reputation stems from. I didn't think it was outstandingly good at anything. Overall enjoyable though, I'm not gonna hate.
Persona 5 is one the most overrated experiences I had in my gaming years. I went in expecting something very well made and engaging/entertaining and instead I found myself baffling how this ultra repetitive borefest of anime teen angst is considered a masterpiece.
Incredible amount of repetition, infuriating repetitive dialogue, awful pacing, baffling game design, way too long, for the most part boring characters and themes that are explored only on the surface without ever even remotely making you use your brain like:
Being a dick is bad, dont be a dick.
Being a bigot is bad, dont be a bigot.
Being a bully is bad, dont be a bully. etc
It feels like 2nd grade all over again.
Amazed, absolutely amazed GAF...
Incredible amount of repetition, infuriating repetitive dialogue, awful pacing, baffling game design, way too long, for the most part boring characters and themes that are explored only on the surface without ever even remotely making you use your brain like:
Being a dick is bad, dont be a dick.
Being a bigot is bad, dont be a bigot.
Being a bully is bad, dont be a bully. etc
It feels like 2nd grade all over again.
Amazed, absolutely amazed GAF...
SuperRaddy
Member
Hate the word "protagonist", what happened to main character....
purseowner
Member
I think this is the strangest post I've seen in this topic.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Yeh. I think was what happened to "main character" was he grew up, and found that people refer to them as protagonists in the wider world.
999 has a better story than Virtue's Last Reward.
The GBA Fire Emblem games are nowhere near as good as people remember them being, and had they not been most people's first interaction with the series, none of them would even be considered good.
Random encounters are a (boring) relic of the past and should remain that way.
The GBA Fire Emblem games are nowhere near as good as people remember them being, and had they not been most people's first interaction with the series, none of them would even be considered good.
Random encounters are a (boring) relic of the past and should remain that way.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Relative to..?
My controversial gaming opinion seems to be that right now I'm finding Super Mario Odyssey quite uninspiring and generally bland. I think it's the art direction and too much smooth, flat textures of similar colour in a lot of the areas, combined with said areas being a few bits and pieces with lots of plan, and badly done skyboxes.
Jubenhimer
Member
Whether you like it or not, Nintendo's primary target audience is, and always will be casual gamers. Most of every decision the company makes, is made with this audience in mind. So next time you complain about Nintendo not doing something for your specific individual tastes, just remember who the primary target audience for most of these games and consoles are.
That doesn't mean casual games are bad, or that they can't be hardcore either. Splatoon is a casual shooter, but also has stuff that hardcore gamers. It's like a well written kid's show in that sense.
Also, most of the people who complain about motion controls are the ones who don't understand them.
That doesn't mean casual games are bad, or that they can't be hardcore either. Splatoon is a casual shooter, but also has stuff that hardcore gamers. It's like a well written kid's show in that sense.
Also, most of the people who complain about motion controls are the ones who don't understand them.
I'm of the mind that the fundamental gameplay looks amazing, but the more I see of the game the less excited I get. When I saw how many moons are in an individual area in the recent footage my reaction was "Oh god, that could get tedious," more than anything.
The ๖ۜBronx;249524967 said:
Ahh let me go on full ranting mode. Why I dislike The Witcher 3?
1. No recap. The game threw me right in the middle of nowhere, and told me to just go find this woman. Who is Yennefer? Why should I care? Is it just because I had sex with her before and I'm horny now? The game was not friendly at all to people new to the franchise.
2. The Witcher Sense. Remember your first quest in the game, to find the arsonist? I thought I had to talk to villagers, gather information, and do my own deduction. Nope! just followed that visual effect that made me nauseous.
3. God damn the control. Geralt controls like a truck, his horse a tank.
4. Geralt's voice. He sounds like he smokes four packs a day.
5. Fucking fetch quests that are not fun at all. Let's fight this chimera, but first you need to talk to this master of herb or master of trap or whatever. You know what? I'm fucking Geralt the white fucking wolf, why don't you go talk to him and let me just sit here and have some tea?
6. The combat. lol what the fuck is that?
7. Open world where you'd meet some bandits every three steps. With so many bandits in the world they'd all starve to death after they got nothing left to rob.
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Agreed. Especially on the combat. So fun being two shot by drowners on death march because Geralt has to do some dumb animation before he attacks. And the witcher sense is so annoying. The screen goes all blurry and I can't see shit. Who thought that was a good idea? Liked witcher sense a lot better in witcher 2.
I may try and go back because people keep saying their was a patch that "fixed" the tank controls and Geralt controls better but man it was super annoying trying to play with those controls. Only got to the second town before I said fuck it. I did like gwent tho. Super addicting.
Unspoken90
Member
Hating FF XIII isn't exactly an unpopular opinion. I'd say liking it is.
Comrade Doggo
Member
The Witcher games aren't really all that good. Or fun.
MetaCircular
Member
Focus on 'player narrative' rather than actual narrative makes games worse. It ruined BoTW, and it ruined MGSV.
I don't want to 'create my own story.' I don't want a sandbox. I want a linear series of finely-crafted challenges.
I don't want to 'create my own story.' I don't want a sandbox. I want a linear series of finely-crafted challenges.
Melchiah
Member
I tend to agree. When I reached the open area in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, I just quit the game, and haven't returned to it since. It just feels exhausting, and it's not my idea of fun. I'd much rather go from point A to point B, with maybe few minor branches inbetween.
CS:GO killed what was my favorite online shooter series of all time. Original CS and Source are leagues better.
GTA 4 is a much better game than 5.
Fallout 4 is the only fallout game I've liked.
Borderlands 2 is incredible and my favorite co-op shooter of all time.
Bloodborne is alright if ultimately disappointing overall. I beat it and have no desire to go back, unlike Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and 3.
Final Fantasy XV was an amazing game.
Edit: The last great Burnout game was Burnout 3. God of War is extremely overrated. The original Portal is much better than 2. Heavy Rain is amazing. Bad Company 2 is the best military multiplayer shooter of all time. Bioshock was incredibly dull as was the level design. Ninja Gaiden on xbox is the best character driven action game ever.
The only good Halo game is the original. I enjoyed Dragon Age: Inquisition.
That felt good.
GTA 4 is a much better game than 5.
Fallout 4 is the only fallout game I've liked.
Borderlands 2 is incredible and my favorite co-op shooter of all time.
Bloodborne is alright if ultimately disappointing overall. I beat it and have no desire to go back, unlike Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1 and 3.
Final Fantasy XV was an amazing game.
Edit: The last great Burnout game was Burnout 3. God of War is extremely overrated. The original Portal is much better than 2. Heavy Rain is amazing. Bad Company 2 is the best military multiplayer shooter of all time. Bioshock was incredibly dull as was the level design. Ninja Gaiden on xbox is the best character driven action game ever.
The only good Halo game is the original. I enjoyed Dragon Age: Inquisition.
That felt good.
Bakkus
Member
100% agree
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Final Fantasy XIII is not a bad game.
I played the inferior Xbox 360 version and admittedly didn't finish the very last chapter, but in my defence (given I'm saying this isn't a bad game) it is a very long game and I'd still like to go back to it at some point.
Pros:
-The soundtrack is awesome.
-The CGI is astounding for 2009/10, and not only does it look good but some scenes are genuinely entertaining
-The story is incredibly dense and you really get to know the characters.
-The visuals were breathtaking, and with a few improvements (more polygons, more round edges) would still hold up today, almost 8 years since its release.
-The combat system isn't terrible, and if prefer a turn-based system, it's pretty close to just that
-The voice acting is generally good, perhaps Vanille aside. Note that I'm praising the voice acting (Laura Bailey, Ali Hillis, and Troy Baker are always good), not the characters they were voicing.
-The settings were pretty good.
Granted, it didn't live up to the E3 2006 trailer, but it's an enjoyable game I will go back and finish some day. Also, the shortcomings of the series are over now, as all that might come out now is a remaster of the trilogy. Fans can now look forward to a bit more of XV, a whole series of VII remakes in skilled hands, and eventually a whole new XVI. You don't have to feel that Lightning has taken over Final Fantasy anymore. Sure she makes cameos every now and then, but by and large she is gone. Time to give XIII a second chance.
Plague Doctor
Member
I am really happy that MT and especially loot boxes are getting widely put the flames and pitchforks right now and there are growing calls for regulation and inquiry on them. Exploiting gambling practices that skirt the existing laws is something that definitely deserves internet outrage.
It almost feels like big pubs sense this could be the last hooraw for them on unfettered MT and milking it for all its worth. I am remembering that.
They are not your friends, your buddies, or akin to the sports team you root for despite what their PR says. They are literally only as good as their recent track record and what the next game they are developing looks like, includes, and the state the game releases in.
It almost feels like big pubs sense this could be the last hooraw for them on unfettered MT and milking it for all its worth. I am remembering that.
They are not your friends, your buddies, or akin to the sports team you root for despite what their PR says. They are literally only as good as their recent track record and what the next game they are developing looks like, includes, and the state the game releases in.
Rexatality
Member
There'd be less toxicity towards game developers if the developers didn't go overboard with their balance changes or treating their consumers like idiots (i.e Bungie, Blizzard, etc...)
O.v.e.rlord
Banned
I believe that the continued shitting on shadow of war is because it's the cool thing to do. And pple will scream "LOOT BOXES" and I'll agree. But I've moved on and really look forward to playing the game despite the "LOOT BOXES"
Triggerhappytel
Member
They literally mean the same thing. They're synonyms for one another.
I really tried with The Witcher 3 and there were things about it I really liked, but it's also extremely frustrating in various ways. These are coming from someone who didn't play TW1 and played only about two hours of the 360 version of TW2:
- Character movement feels bad, and by extension the combat does too. Character movement is like it was in GTAIV, where Geralt is like a vehicle with a turning circle of a few feet, and it feels really sloppy and laborious. The combat has a similar sense of slidey loopy movement as well. None of it felt anywhere near as tight & responsive as something like Dragon's Dogma or Horizon Zero Dawn, for instance.
- He starts the game feeling so fucking weak. He's meant to be an experienced monster hunter who's bee doing this for decades, so at least put me in an area of low-level enemies that I can kill easily to gradually get me used to the combat. I spent so much time at the beginning of the game having to rest because I kept getting my arse kicked by regular enemies.
- Likewise, your weapons break way too fast and it's utterly tedious. Every time I got a few hundred gold in those first few hours I'd have to spend it all fixing my sword and possibly my armour too. Maintaining weapons just felt like a fucking nuisance because it's too frequent.
I did love the environment & gameworld though, and Novigrad felt wonderful for a videogame city. Amazing scale & very alive. I do need to revisit it, but the actual gameplay was perhaps my least favourite part of it.
EDIT - and also, I fully agree that it relies way too much on the Batman sense. I can't wait for that game mechanic to die off.
neurosisxeno
Member
Source was literal dogshit. The guns handled like ass and the game took 3 years to be playable on most peoples PC's. On top of that, just about every change was bad, much as was the case when Valve took over and released 1.6. Valve is bad at making Counter-Strike content, which is why CS:GO was so good when Hidden Path was working on it.
LordRaptor
Member
Attitudes about lootboxes right now are literally hysterical, as in people are acting as though they are in the grip of hysteria, not that there is anything funny about it.
I don't know if this is pent up aggression over those CS:GO gambling sites - which were actual gambling - having nothing done to them, or just because the popular "I am A GAMER and I SPEAK FOR GAMERS!" voices are cundit firebrand demagogues who make their money by riling people up over things, but its ridiculous.
A bunch of people need the equivalent of a quick slap in the face, then a sit down with a warm blanket and a cup of tea.
I don't know if this is pent up aggression over those CS:GO gambling sites - which were actual gambling - having nothing done to them, or just because the popular "I am A GAMER and I SPEAK FOR GAMERS!" voices are cundit firebrand demagogues who make their money by riling people up over things, but its ridiculous.
A bunch of people need the equivalent of a quick slap in the face, then a sit down with a warm blanket and a cup of tea.
blue_phazon
Member
Which one?
Some Nobody
Junior Member
I don't really care that you don't like TW3. That's cool. But this complaint always sounds dumb. "Don't make me go do that, I've got more important things to do." I can't wait for the tea-sipping mini-game instead of getting the stuff necessary to make my weapon more effective against fighting a monstrous witch.
And. I'm very, very tired of the "pro-lootcrate" force. It's literally making games more shitty and they're all "But the devs! Don't you care?" and "They've got to make money some way", which confuses devs for publishers. That or "I don't mind spending money" which is irrelevant because the decision is actively making the game worse.
I don't really care that you don't like TW3. That's cool. But this complaint always sounds dumb. "Don't make me go do that, I've got more important things to do." I can't wait for the tea-sipping mini-game instead of getting the stuff necessary to make my weapon more effective against fighting a monstrous witch.
You know, fetch quests are not that bad when the combat is good. You get some cool weapons in the end and you use them to fight bosses. All good. But what if the the combat is not good? What if fighting the enemy is not fun? What if that chimera is not worth it? People say the quest is the strong part of TW3. Well, it needs to be stronger to mitigate the tepid combat.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
After watching the ending to Monolith's last attempt at shitting all over Tolkien's lore, I wish I could go back in time and just shut them down after the original Blood. What a truly awful company.
Also, Skyrim is goddamn trash.
Also, Skyrim is goddamn trash.
I think even the Bioshock games have better combat and pacing. Regardless if you spend 95% of your time eating used syringes.
flashman92
Neo Member
I think SNES soundtracks sounded better in general, but the best soundtracks were on Genesis. This is mostly because I prefer strong melodies (I think that's the right word) over strong atmospheric music, which I find forgettable.
When people refer to Nintendo magic part of me wants to just roll my eyes and say they're crazy, but because so many people seem to think this I feel like I must be crazy.
When people refer to Nintendo magic part of me wants to just roll my eyes and say they're crazy, but because so many people seem to think this I feel like I must be crazy.
Cpt Conifer
Member
I'm looking at the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance series right now and thinking how incredibly overrated it was. Record of Lodoss War on the DC came out TWO YEARS earlier and utterly cleans its clock, and probably remains one of the best console hack n' slashers. Yet it makes sense in a variety of ways how the public would have zero awareness of this game. You're talking about a game based on an anime license, yet with NO aesthetic resemblance, coming out on a console that sold a maximum of 9 million worldwide (iirc) and was on its way out. It would have had its best chances in North America, but there'd be no way in hell it could compete with the already-revered Baldur's Gate license.
My salty ass is thinking back to the sheer internet circlejerk of 2001-2002 around this game and thinking how wrong you all were (though you didn't know any better). Good god, what a bland game where the designers pretty much took the worst aspects of the genre and elevated them to priority status. I knew there was a reason I rented this and felt no impulse to continue past the first few areas -- the biggest thing it had to offer were the water rippling effects that were an early example of what was to come in the evolution of water effects.
My salty ass is thinking back to the sheer internet circlejerk of 2001-2002 around this game and thinking how wrong you all were (though you didn't know any better). Good god, what a bland game where the designers pretty much took the worst aspects of the genre and elevated them to priority status. I knew there was a reason I rented this and felt no impulse to continue past the first few areas -- the biggest thing it had to offer were the water rippling effects that were an early example of what was to come in the evolution of water effects.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Red Dead Redemption is beautiful, has immaculate presentation, some of the greatest voice acting in a game ever and a wonderful open-world environment, but the actual gameplay is pretty fucking boring. You spend an absurd amount of time on horseback listening to conversations in its first few hours and the shooting is incredibly uninvolving because it relies too heavily on the auto-aim. Of course, the alternative is no fun either as you spend a lot of time shooting at enemies on horseback or from horseback, and aiming at those speeds would be a pain in the neck.
I dunno, it's a game I admire for various reasons (although the lack of swimming feels really cheap) but I don't think it's fun hardly at all.
I dunno, it's a game I admire for various reasons (although the lack of swimming feels really cheap) but I don't think it's fun hardly at all.
Jaded Alyx
Member
That's nice. What does it have to do with this thread though?