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[Ian Henry]

I gotta say my takes:

We need a new player in the industry. As expensive as it is. With Nintendo doing they own thang now, Sony and Microsoft are competing against one another. They're both acting kind of stagnant rn despite the titles coming through the woodwork. I'm betting someone like Amazon or Samsung can make some noise or so to bring a different style to the industry. Samsung especially cause they got that hardware but the software needs some work tbh.

Ori and The Will Of The Wisps was snubbed from VGAs GOTY nominees. Easily one of the best games of 2020. An excellent metroidvania. The Xbox stigma possibly didn't help it's case unfortunately.

Spiderman PS4 and Miles Morales are overrated. The web slinging is tight but the controls feel janky at times, especially with the inputs. Story ain't that good either. Batman Arkham remains the better superhero gaming franchise and Spiderman PS4 feels like a reskin of it.

We need some new Fighting Game IPs especially in the 3D realm. I love me some Tekken, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter, KOF, Dead Or Alive but it's time for a new guard and new beginnings. I get they sell very well but I would love to see a new wave of Fighters grace this gen. Sequel Stagnation is a disease, it must be stopped. Also, I would like to see indie devs take a shot at their interpretation of 3D Fighters. It's difficult but at least find a way to make it different and unique. The potential could be there if the devs put a lot if passion and soul into it.

Finally, We are not in a Golden Age of gaming. If we were then we would be seeing a whole lot of innovative and creative titles come in the forray. We're just seeing the styles and standards we saw from the 6th Generation but with better graphics and more microtransactions. Good thing there are devs like Bethesda, Sony, Capcom, Devolver Digital, etc despite criticisms are able to deliver at least some fresh experiences. I just hope we see more in the future.

 

[kikkis]

I can't stand when people cite repetition as downside for gameplay. My most played games like COD are certainly repetitive when you break it down, but the key distinction is that repetition is really good.

 

[MasterDerico]

I think 90% of Ps4 first party games, pure garbage. Visual novels with deep like a puddle gameplay. There's exceptions, that's why it's not 100%.

PlayStation consoles are my favorites to play, because of the japanese and jp only games.

MORE lol

Series i don't like;

-zelda
-assassins creed
-uncharted
-halo
-metro
-tlou
-the witcher
-pokemon
-call of duty
-fifa
-gta
-monster hunter
-smash bros
-minecraft
-ratchet and clank
-metal gear (rising is awesome tho)
-battlefiled
-dark souls
-gears of war
-crackdown
-tom clancy
-donkey kong
-metroid
-battletoads
-kingdow hearts
-hitman
-every star wars game released (dont like the movies so...)
-lego
-Etc, etc, etc...



Come at me!

 

[FoundryMusic]

Tetris is, and always was, shite.

 

[teezzy]

Video games are for nerds

 

[Petaya Berry]

Games are much more impressive than books.

Even my late grandmother knew some famous books, but I don't think that people knows the "best" game "story". And to be honest, there is not a good story in games in the last 20 years.

 

[Woggleman]

A lot of the gaming community are pretty much male Karens.

 

[mcz117chief]

Doom is life, but Doom 2 is shit and it's level design sucks donkey ass.

true, but there are a few good levels and some of the music pieces are top tier.

 

[TintoConCasera]

true, but there are a few good levels and some of the music pieces are top tier.

Yeah true! Into Sandy's City is one of my favorites. It also give a lot of potential to the community to create custom maps, specially thanks to the expanded enemy roster.

I still play it from time to time but man, some levels are a sin.

 

[mcz117chief]

man, some levels are a sin.

100%, Shawn's Got the Shotgun is my favorite.

 

[DeaconOfTheDank]

I actually don't mind the controls in Red Dead Redemption 2.

It kinda felt like information overload at first, but then I started noticing common patterns for most interactions to the point where I could sometimes predict the buttons I should press to achieve a desired result. For example, picking something up is almost always done by holding square/x, looting is done with holding triangle/y, etc. However, whenever the controls don't match up with my mental model then things can be very jarring (cutscene QTEs come to mind).

I can't really defend the lag in animation, but it definitely added to the immersion factor. Ironically, Soulsborne titles have the same "issues" (animation lag, buffering of inputs), but everyone praises them for precise, deliberate combat... and I love Soulsborne combat.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

The Metro games are better than Fallout.

 

[regawdless]

Gunplay and combat in Cyberpunk (PC with MKB) is better and more fun than any singleplayer mode of all Call of Duty games.

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

Gunplay and combat in Cyberpunk (PC with MKB) is better and more fun than any singleplayer mode of all Call of Duty games.

Haven't played the game yet buuuuuuuuut......

 

[regawdless]

Haven't played the game yet buuuuuuuuut......

Then you should play it. I'm doing a pistol only build, focussing on headshots and crit damage. I play very aggressive and it's just so dynamic with all that dodging, sliding, double jumping, slow mo etc. Stylish Action fun galore.

While CoD is basically whack a mole with enemies popping in and out of cover. While you better stay in cover as well.

 

[Spaceman292]

Haven't played the game yet

There's your problem.

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

Then you should play it. I'm doing a pistol only build, focussing on headshots and crit damage. I play very aggressive and it's just so dynamic with all that dodging, sliding, double jumping, slow mo etc. Stylish Action fun galore.

While CoD is basically whack a mole with enemies popping in and out of cover. While you better stay in cover as well.

There's your problem.

I'm no fan of CoD but i think it has good gunplay as far as weapon feel and recoil are concerned, and as i said before I haven't played the game yet and won't anytime soon but i'm basing my thought on footage and the CDPR previous games, but you could be right.

Cheers.

 

[regawdless]

I'm no fan of CoD but i think it has good gunplay as far as weapon feel and recoil are concerned, and as i said before I haven't played the game yet and won't anytime soon but i'm basing my thought on footage and the CDPR previous games, but you could be right.

Cheers.

Yeah, CoD has good feeling weapons and in multiplayer, it's of course great. Not to my liking, but undeniably good.
Singleplayer is a different story though, in my opinion most encounters aren't that fun or interesting. While I'm having a blast tearing down bases in Cyberpunk.

 

[evanft]

Cyberpunk 2077 has better gameplay than most open world games, action RPGs, or whatever genre you want to fit the game into. It easily best absolutely everything rockstar has ever produced and shits all over Fallout.

I’ll go even further. CB2077 is a dramatically better game than Red Dead Redemption 2. RDR2 has an amazingly detailed world that is dragged down by some of the most bone-headed design decisions I’ve ever seen. It feels like a game made by people who never played any of the other open world games that have released since GTA5. The gunplay feels a generation behind everything else, almost every system/mechanic seems designed to create friction for the player, and the mission design is straight out of the ps2 era. CB2077 may be missing features, but at least the core gameplay loop is fun and offers players a huge amount of choice as to how they handle any particular situation.

Shit, Far Cry 5 is better than RDR2 now that I think about it. And Watch Dogs 2 is better than all of them.

 

[kikkis]

I don't get why some gamers are so excited about new IPs. Like when was the last time new ip delivered something vastly superior and innovative especially in the gameplay department.

 

[NeonGhost]

Loot boxes are better than paying for over priced skin bundles

*Edit* earning loot boxes

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

If Sony announced tomorrow a box that you could attach to your PS5 that would allow it to play PS1/PS2/PS3 game discs I would easily pay $100 for it. Maybe more if it included FPS/resolution enhancements.

lol Same.

 

[zoeyfan69]

I bet this has been said here a ton of times, but DMC: Devil May Cry is a legitimately good game that gets too much shit

 

[Damien Crowley]

Loot boxes are better than paying for over priced skin bundles

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

I bet this has been said here a ton of times, but DMC: Devil May Cry is a legitimately good game that gets too much shit

It's a good stylistic action game by western standards with good art direction BUT it’s a terrible Devil May Cry game with awful story and characters, Tameem needed a strong leach and for this to be called anything else besides DMC, if they would've done that the game would've had a chance with both fan reception and getting a sequal to improve and iterate.

 

[Halo is Back]

MW2 multiplayer was absolute trash. Terrible spawn places and system. Glitches and exploits were rampant throughout that game. One of the most unbalanced FPS games I have ever played. IW was more concerned with putting cool shit in the game rather than making a cohesive balanced game.

 

[zoeyfan69]

It's a good stylistic action game by western standards with good art direction BUT it’s a terrible Devil May Cry game with awful story and characters, Tameem needed a strong leach and for this to be called anything else besides DMC, if they would've done that the game would've had a chance with both fan reception and getting a sequal to improve and iterate.

I won't claim it's a work of shakespeare but I thought Donte and whatever funny name you wanna call vergil were entertaining characters. I don't think like, any devil may cry game really has that good of story? I can understand not liking the tryhard edginess of DMCDMC but I adore it even if I'm probably interpreting it the wrong way. It at least has some character to it, which is more than i can say for DMC2

 

[Miles708]

Dreams on PS4 is a true revolutionary game.
Revolutionary. Yes.

Everyone likes to bitch about the lack of creativity and risk-taking in the industry, only to outright ignore a miracle even when it unfolds after their eyes (and it's at half price).
It takes practice and time, but creating your content has never been so fun.

New game designers will come out from dreams, people with 0 experience in programming can create games. And music. And models. On a console. Without code, while also being fun.

How's that anything other than revolutionary.

 

[mxbison]

If Rayman Legends was a Mario game it would be praised as one of the best 2D platformers ever.

 

[Tschumi]

The easier and cheaper it is to play games, the law we enjoy, appreciate, remember them.

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

I won't claim it's a work of shakespeare but I thought Donte and whatever funny name you wanna call vergil were entertaining characters. I don't think like, any devil may cry game really has that good of story? I can understand not liking the tryhard edginess of DMCDMC but I adore it even if I'm probably interpreting it the wrong way. It at least has some character to it, which is more than i can say for DMC2

DMC3-4 had good stories for action games where their aren't a priority, both didn't take themselves seriously and had a ton of one liners and great action scenes like any action movie from the 80s-90s and had cool/funny characters.

The problem with Ninja Theory is they were obsessed with subverting expectations, taking a very silly premise of half demon half human action character action game deadly serious and trying to give Dante "depth" and "vulnerability", taking him from a simple archtype of action hero slacker who deals with the loss of his family by living in the moment and twisting it and going over board with the edgeness with the useless sex scene and sexual references of rat semen and the like, and the baby killing wew lad.

DMC2 was a shit game because Mikami took over from Kamiya and he didn't know how to handle the combat or tone and he probably was short on time, so he focused on what he knew gun action which is why DMC2 is the blacksheep of the franchise.

I like NT DMC for what it is but it’s no masterpiece, it sits their with other Japanese IPs done by western studios like Bionic Commando, Dark Void, SH after 4 and the like decent games with no longivity or depth too obsessed with what was "in" at the time and with presentation/story.

 

[NeonGhost]

Rather earn loot boxes in a game for a chance at a skin then paying $25

 

[Leosocial]

Battle Royale games are tedious and unfun.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

Battle Royale games are tedious and unfun.

They get boring after a couple of games. I can't play anymore than that. I have no idea how people can play them all day everyday.

 

[Jokerevo]

The Witcher 3 And Botw are two of the most overrated games of all time.

 

[MafiaMurderBag]

Battle Royale games are tedious and unfun.

They get boring after a couple of games. I can't play anymore than that. I have no idea how people can play them all day everyday.

They're only really fun if you're in a squad with friends, with mics. Half the joy is the social/communication aspect as well as not playing with random morons who can't work as a team.

But I do also admit, It's frustrating & anticlimactic spending 10 mins waiting in a lobby, starting a match & dying the second you touch the ground, rinse and repeat.

 

[AutumnLeaves]

If Rayman Legends was a Mario game it would be praised as one of the best 2D platformers ever.

Christ, this is so true and it freaking hurts.

 

[Nikana]

Battle Royale games are tedious and unfun.

I really dont get the love. Ive tried a lot of them. I just dont find the total randomness of drops to be fun at all.

 

[sobaka770]

If Rayman Legends was a Mario game it would be praised as one of the best 2D platformers ever.

Rayman Legends eats Ori for breakfast. The fact that Ubi stopped making those smaller scale UbiArt games is a crime.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

MW2 multiplayer was absolute trash. Terrible spawn places and system. Glitches and exploits were rampant throughout that game. One of the most unbalanced FPS games I have ever played. IW was more concerned with putting cool shit in the game rather than making a cohesive balanced game.

It wasn't the most balanced looking back. I remember those Model shotguns. I have so much nostalgia for those early COD games, but I can admit they had a lot of stupid and annoying perks. I remember 3x Frag and Juggernaut in COD4 was really bad too.

 

[kikkis]

I don't get why reviewers expect sequel to have new gameplay mechanics let alone ground breaking ones every time.

I will try to explain that with metaphor. First game is designed to be like a sphere. If you try to make sequel bigger sphere, then it will get criticized for being more of the same. If you try to add new protrusions to the sphere e.g new mechanics then it's one shitty sphere. If you make too many changes then it becomes a cube and shouldn't have been sequel in the first place but rather a new ip. Only sane option for sequel is to refine to be as much of a sphere as possible but that doesn't sit well with reviewers and most gamers at least on message boards.

 

[Woggleman]

I actually like Cyberpunk 2077 enough to put in my number two GOTY. That is pretty controversial these days.

 

[kyussman]

Far Cry Primal is the best in the series.
It actually takes many of the gameplay elements of the series and puts them in a realistic setting....all the hunting and gathering makes a lot more sense when you are a cave man,lol.
It also had a visually gorgeous world....I played it on hard difficulty in survival mode and it was a pretty fantastic experience.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

I actually like Cyberpunk 2077 enough to put in my number two GOTY. That is pretty controversial these days.

It's a good game, just a shame all the bugs overshadowed everything and is what will stick in people's minds. I think once they fix and iron out all the issues, you will hear a lot more positivity surrounding it.

Even No Man's Sky found its community after a disastrous launch.

 

[magnumpy]

Mario is the single darkest crime to be forced upon innocent gamers everywhere and I will *NEVER* forgive Nintendo for that crime against humanity and all of our children who will live through a world where such horrors exist through no fault of their own

it's not just a personal grudge that I hold, but a perpetual sadness that will exist from now until the end of time

 

[tommib]

Last of us part 2 was the first really good game from Naughty Dog. The rest were experiments that lead to TLOU2.

 

[sadmaker]

I cant stand combat in adventure games (tomb raider, uncharted, fallen order).

I set em all on easiest difficulty possible to get past all that crap and back to exploring and puzzle solving.

Probably not controversial, just a pet peeve

 

[Danjin44]

I love Souls series but I think I enjoy the combat, weapon system and boss fights on Monster Hunter more, especially Rise ( the mobility is fantastic).

 

[EruditeHobo]

Nintendo hasn't made a truly great game since Mario 64 & Ocarina of Time. Everything else is just iterating on the brilliance of those game designs, those are the best games in their respective series by FAR (only Link to the Past comes close to either of them), and Nintendo since then has been complete diminishing returns on their ability to release versions of those games, which are always less interesting and exciting no matter how many gimmicks they try to slap on.

Nintendo is the most overrated dev of the last 20 years. Breath of the Wild puts me to sleep. Mario Odyssey and that catsuit game aren't worth more than an afternoon of play, and only then if you play with a room full of friends doing co-op.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

I cant stand combat in adventure games (tomb raider, uncharted, fallen order).

I set em all on easiest difficulty possible to get past all that crap and back to exploring and puzzle solving.

Probably not controversial, just a pet peeve

The puzzle solving was actually the worst part of Uncharted for me. I'm so bad at them. The combat and AI can definitely be wonky at times. I actually played the Uncharted collection on Brutal difficulty for the trophy. They weren't kidding.