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[San Dan Glokta]

My hot takes:

1- Every console manufacturer should take extreme measures in gate-keeping games on their consoles, and should openly sign exclusive content rights with 3rd party publishers, and porting to PC or competition shouldn't even be on the table (i.e. M$: fumbled the bag big time, Sony: In the process of fumbling the bag, Nintendo: Rather good regarding this till now).

2- SOMA is a mediocre game at best. Its only "Horror" or "Deep" or "Philosophical" because it reflects the player's own insecurity regarding his/her place in the universe, and what comes after. It's made from the ground up as misery porn for nihilist-esque mindsets.

3- Red dead games are slow as molasses bore-fests. They don't deserve the hype besides the horse testicles in RDR2.

4- The actual best Call of Duty game was Infinite Warfare.

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

Open world games are by large boring as fuck.

 

[Power Pro]

That the most popular games in terms of sheer sales numbers and revenue are some of the worse in the industry and hurt it more than move it forward.

 

[jshackles]

Most games that aren't single player JRPGs aren't worth playing

 

[kanjobazooie]

Indie pixelshit games should be banned.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Games felt better to play when developers had to roll their own engine - reliance on Unreal and Unity and their myriad assists for rookie devs have largely destroyed game feel.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Multiplayer games make game developers lazy as shit, they don't need to worry about writing good stories or good AI at all.

 

[Gaiff]

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.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

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.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Metacritic scores and Sales Data are meaningless to me. And so are the Gamers that care about them.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

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.

Oh, now this one I completely agree with. Completely.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Xbox Series S is a good console

 

[Neff]

Other M is one of the best Metroid games.

 

[No BBC=Anger]

Nintendo is for kids.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

MS should make a hostile Nintendo acquisition for its game to be on PlayStation and PC.

 

[MayauMiao]

Hellblade II is a glorified walking simulator.

 

[That Damn Kid]

It's okay for mainline Pokemon games to not have every single Pokemon

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Nintendo is for kids.

I'd say its a mildly lukewarm take lol. A lot of people agree with this. I stopped caring because ultimately games are entertainment and some people enjoy their kid games.

 

[drganon]

Rogue likes/lites are trash.

 

[Euler007]

The first hour of FF16 is more fun than any single hour played of BOTW.

 

[clarky]

Most posters on GAF are cunts

 

[No BBC=Anger]

I'd say its a mildly lukewarm take lol. A lot of people agree with this. I stopped caring because ultimately games are entertainment and some people enjoy their kid games.

1080 snowboarding and F Zero series are great and a few others. I can see why some would pass up on Mario.

 

[Gaiff]

Nintendo is for kids.

So are Legos and Hot Wheels.

 

[The Fartist]

Final Fantasy VIII is the best FF and should've gotten the remake treatment instead of VII.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Most posters on GAF are cunts

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Bloodborne is overrated, and without the dlc the game would be mid.

To add calling the genre soulsborne is stupid as there was 1 bloodborne ten years ago and it hardly influenced the genre.

 

[Shatohin]

99% of scenarios and stories are for retards or kids.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Most posters on GAF are cunts

As a misogynist I hope this isn't true

 

[Thabass]

Skyrim is actually high tier garbage with some of the worst combat I have ever played in a video game.

 

[theHFIC]

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

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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.

 

[touchfuzzy]

Every single 'Lego' based game sucks.

 

[f~N_CH_1:3:3:3_SushiBoat]

Tekken 4 wasnt nearly as bad as people claim and 90% of all "issues" would've been resolved with beefier block pushback and looser BDc.

Armored Core 6 is inferior to OGs simply due to the fact that energy management took a backseat and youre no longer playing as the pilot, but are now the mech - in terms of input and feel. Two pillars of what made AC, thrown aside

 

[hemo memo]

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.

I agree with Mario Kart and Pokemon. But Zelda and Mario? Nah, especially 3D mario.

Every single 'Lego' based game sucks.

Absolutely

 

[Nankatsu]

Yakuza has lost its charm since Nagoshi left.

 

[The Fartist]

Kojima is a pretentious dork that wasn't good enough to make films so he found a lane in videogames.

 

[LectureMaster]

My man adamsapple is a better fanboy than my man James Sawyer Ford

 

[Icymanipulator]

The circle strafing combat in souls game is stale and has been for years, the bosses are incredibly lame compared to monster hunter where fights are way more dynamic.

 

[viveks86]

Jordan and Abby are HOT!

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

1. Turn-based JRPGs never went away and the turn-based purists need to lose the persecution complex

2. Most turn-based JRPG battle systems suck and are some of the most mindless, repetitive, boring “gameplay” ever invented. They just superficially feel all deep and “strategic” because you’re picking stuff from a menu.

3. Who even gives a shit whether mainline Final Fantasy goes back to turn-based? We get one mainline FF game per console generation. The people begging for this care more about their opinion being validated than about actually playing the thing. They’d probably find some other reason to hate it anyway.

 

[joeygreco1985]

Hitman Absolution is the best in the entire series, modern trilogy included.

 

[Clear]

Graphics are less important than ever.

Back in the day being a "graphics whore" was at least supportable as often visuals were approximate of what they were supposed to depict due, to technical limitations.

For literally generations now though, even in average titles, the level of fidelity is almost always enough to clearly perform their function. I mean in the sense that you can have atmospheric environments, expressive characters, sufficiently detailed geometry to depict almost anything clearly.

And yet people seem to bitch more than ever about "low res textures", "shader quality" and other minor imperfections as if photo-realism is the only thing that's acceptable! And then of course there's the obsession with metrics, as if you need massive resolution and frame-rate to have a fun experience despite the historic growth of gaming disproving that categorically.

Stop fixating on the minutia, and appreciate the overall effect. Most of all understand that above a certain point graphical detail is just a novelty!

Next generation technology is not going to make games more fun or immersive. Its a fantasy that is used to encourage people to keep spending on the latest and greatest products.

 

[Kilau]

Mario Galaxy isn’t a good game.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Hitman Absolution is the best in the entire series, modern trilogy included.

I agree! Not hot enough of a take I'd say ha

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Streaming is the future. Physical media is dead and almost* buried. Microsoft has done irreparable harm to the pricing structure for games being released...and they did that on purpose to drive their "content and engagement" strategy to supply themselves with a advertising revenue/opportunities going forward.

 

[Idleyes]

Capitalism stifles advancement! If a studio can create a game requiring high-end hardware, it ends up appealing to fewer consumers and thus makes less money. Consequently, developers focus on ‘piece-of-shit consoles’ for broader market reach and bigger sales, resulting in slower technological progress aligned with each new console generation, roughly every ten years, instead of the more frequent upgrades possible with PC hardware.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Men_In_Boxes has good taste in games

 

[mobilesworking]

The Wii U is better than the Switch, if only because the Switch effectively killed the playful, whimsical, idiosyncratic personality of Nintendo's Iwata era.

 

[Holammer]

Nintendo should go PC.

Lossless Scaling is great.

Digital Foundry is pretty neat.

Rogue-likes are fk'n awesome.

 

[Hookshot]

Nintendo games are actually too complex for some here, which is why they dismiss them as lame and kiddie, as it's the time in their lives when they got frustrated with them.

 

[near]

Sony first party games are dogshit bar Kojima Productions stuff.

Square Enix have been releasing bad games since Matsuno left and have been in decline since the Gooch left.

Konami the most under appreciated publisher of all time.

Nintendo has the brand image of a kids toy manufacture

Druckmann is a cuck and wants all women to look like men.

Modern gaming for the most part is boring and uninspired.