What are your *Actual* hot takes regarding video games? I mean ACTUAL stuff that would get people riled up?
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R6Rider
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San Dan Glokta
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delirium trigger
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Frostpunk 2 is the hardest game to run on pc, forget Indiana.
The Fartist
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Feathers ruffled, mission accomplished.
Idleyes
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The freedom in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is immersion breaking! Zelda has been holding back Ganon for a century, desperately waiting for Link to save her, meanwhile, he's out there building a fully operational space shuttle just to see if he can leave Hyrule’s atmosphere.
Felessan
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Live service games are the future
Nintendo niche and for kids
Indies are trash
"Creativity" (aka mental decease products) is overrated
Turn based JRPG are for weebs
Nintendo niche and for kids
Indies are trash
"Creativity" (aka mental decease products) is overrated
Turn based JRPG are for weebs
They are for slow edgy kids that like bdsm
Hohenheim
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The console experience most often sucks ass compared to PC gaming in every way.
2D Mario games are a bit overrated.
Xbox Series X was the best console this "generation".
Gamers are often a bunch of miserable cunts who complain about everything.
Gaming was not "better in the good, old days".
Almost every year since the early 90's have been great in terms of gaming.
2D Mario games are a bit overrated.
Xbox Series X was the best console this "generation".
Gamers are often a bunch of miserable cunts who complain about everything.
Gaming was not "better in the good, old days".
Almost every year since the early 90's have been great in terms of gaming.
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Chiggs
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I'm pretty sure you need all the validation and encouragement you can get in life, and I'm happy to have helped.
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Insanemaelstrom
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Most people on social media who pretend to be gamers don't actually play games.
Putonahappyface
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I want game exclusivity back.
The Fartist
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Relax, dude, did you read the thread title?
San Dan Glokta
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Its an amazing game. Unfortunately too few people have experienced it to even have any opinion on it.
Schmendrick
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- Pokemon is for people with fried brains.
- Nintendo has largely been producing the same games for 30 years
- Losing competition in the console market will heavily backfire for consumers and people cheering the death of MS´s console presence are idiots who have slept through economics 101
- This is by far the worst gen when it comes to Sony`s first party output, ever.
- The Anti-Woke have become just as insufferably stupid as the woke.
- Any generic Indian soap opera has better writing than TLOU2
- Nintendo has largely been producing the same games for 30 years
- Losing competition in the console market will heavily backfire for consumers and people cheering the death of MS´s console presence are idiots who have slept through economics 101
- This is by far the worst gen when it comes to Sony`s first party output, ever.
- The Anti-Woke have become just as insufferably stupid as the woke.
- Any generic Indian soap opera has better writing than TLOU2
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Bernardougf
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1 - Last of Us 2 is the worst sequel of all time , pure cringe wokefest from a cuck feminist who thinks he is some genius
2 - Elden Ring is the worst souls games by far , boring open world with awful balance in gameplay, but it appeased to the bad players who couldn't play souls games before.
3 - Breath of the Wild is the most overrated game of all time and its sequel is even worse.
4 - Resident Evil 4 is dogshit and killed the original RE franchise at the time, in fact it shouldn't even be named Resident Evil .. action bang bang trash.. its the FF16 of the resident evil franchise
2 - Elden Ring is the worst souls games by far , boring open world with awful balance in gameplay, but it appeased to the bad players who couldn't play souls games before.
3 - Breath of the Wild is the most overrated game of all time and its sequel is even worse.
4 - Resident Evil 4 is dogshit and killed the original RE franchise at the time, in fact it shouldn't even be named Resident Evil .. action bang bang trash.. its the FF16 of the resident evil franchise
San Dan Glokta
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Kinda contrarian some might say but not hot takes at all, especially 1- and 3-
Insanemaelstrom
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Pc gaming sucks for the most part, mostly because windows is trash and should have been killed, with fire, when gates first stole the actual os from another company
Chiggs
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Sure did, and let me try this one out for size:
- Soulsbourne games are basically the new "Jay Leno asks morons on the street to point out obvious places on the globe, and then laughs as they can't," but only this time it's a person holding a controller dying to the same enemy 15x in a row and still somehow failing to make any adjustment whatsoever, bringing to mind the question, "is there something in the drinking water?"
Bernardougf
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Agreed.
TropicanaTwista
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Nintendo first party games have taken a pretty significant fall off. BoTW/ToTK aren't top 5 mainline Zelda games. Odyssey is worse than the Galaxy games. Even the latest entries in smash, Mario kart and Mario party are just solid but a step down.
They went from the highest tier of games to just slightly above average.
They went from the highest tier of games to just slightly above average.
The Fartist
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NeoIkaruGAF
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The Souls series has gotten progressively worse after Dark Souls 1 in regards to fun, fairness, and area design. Elden Ring beats DS3 in fun and area design, but it’s cheapest shit I’ve played in the longest time, easily beating Nintendo’s rubberbanding AI and basically forcing you to outcheap most of the challenges.
Oh we're doing hot takes?
- Final Fantasy 12 was the last great single player FF game.
- Square Enix has spent twenty five years doing everything it can to waste the goodwill it built on the SNES and PS1.
- Many of the games people want Sony to bring back, like Killzone, Infamous, and Resistance, would be completely forgotten if they weren't Sony exclusives during an especially weak time for the PS3
- Destiny 2's core gameplay is better than practically every other shooter on the market
Doom_master1122
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Hot takes? Oh man, here we go.
Zelda BoTW was a solid 7/10. Too much clashing with the game that makes it a very underwhelming experience. Fun to play once, no desire to return to the format. Which is why ToTK has only an hour worth of my time put into it. And now we're seeing left over remnants of the game's design flood into other games in the franchise like Echoes of wisdom. I would like a return to the classic Zelda format rather than this new "Skyrim'd" version we have now.
Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess were far better games than OoT and the best the series has done. WindWaker is a very close 3rd if you're talking about the original Non HD release as the Cell shading was entirely killed in the Remake.
Modern God of War titles are complete messes of games. Combat is a step down from the original games. Its way less fun, and the over the shoulder camera makes it feel worse. Forced RPG Mechanics that railroad the player in an "open world". Giving the illusion of open world when you're still taken on an linear path due to enemies being "too hard to kill cause my shirt isn't 2 points higher".
Which side note, Gear Score is fake difficulty, poor design mechanic as it gives an illusion of freedom and progress. Oh no, your hat is 3 points lower than the enemy, guess that means they take 50% less damage then if you DO have the hat EVEN IF the hat has nothing to do with damage. Its only made to rail road the player down certain avenues when the devs say so, and creates an illusion of difficulty by making enemies spongier because of an arbitrary number.
Doom 2016 > Doom Eternal. In fact I would put Doom Eternal near the bottom of the list. The gameplay in 2016 was more cohesive and flowed nicer than Doom Eternal. I would go as far and say that I enjoy Doom 3 far more than Eternal, even though the comparison isn't exactly fair to either game. Doom 3 was a much different experience.
RDR1 had better gameplay than the second game. I'm not talking functionally, the mechanics and attention to detail in the second game were far better, but the first game really shined with a far more of a fun game. It wasn't "Hey Arthur, lets ride 20 minutes south talking, get in a gun fight, then ride 20 minutes back to camp again." It felt far faster paced, as well as having actual fun activities to do in the game that didn't feel like a hinderance.
They took realism to such a high degree much of the game either felt like padding and fluff, or outright hinders the player.
Demon's souls is the best in the franchise, with Dark souls 1 a close second. The level design and boss mechanics were far more unique and a fun experience than the Same boss types we have gotten since the second game. This includes Elden ring. Gone are bosses with interesting mechanics, or puzzles. Hello bosses with overly exaggerated animations, held pauses before moment of impacts (With varying timings to throw the player off), and the "roll and parry to win" gameplay. I miss having the unique experiences I found in Demon's Souls and to some extent Dark souls 1. Much of what I enjoy about the series died in Dark souls 1, with glimmers of hope in Bloodborne and Sekiro with some of the ideas those games presented. The games... Lost their soul if you will.
*hides*
Zelda BoTW was a solid 7/10. Too much clashing with the game that makes it a very underwhelming experience. Fun to play once, no desire to return to the format. Which is why ToTK has only an hour worth of my time put into it. And now we're seeing left over remnants of the game's design flood into other games in the franchise like Echoes of wisdom. I would like a return to the classic Zelda format rather than this new "Skyrim'd" version we have now.
Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess were far better games than OoT and the best the series has done. WindWaker is a very close 3rd if you're talking about the original Non HD release as the Cell shading was entirely killed in the Remake.
Modern God of War titles are complete messes of games. Combat is a step down from the original games. Its way less fun, and the over the shoulder camera makes it feel worse. Forced RPG Mechanics that railroad the player in an "open world". Giving the illusion of open world when you're still taken on an linear path due to enemies being "too hard to kill cause my shirt isn't 2 points higher".
Which side note, Gear Score is fake difficulty, poor design mechanic as it gives an illusion of freedom and progress. Oh no, your hat is 3 points lower than the enemy, guess that means they take 50% less damage then if you DO have the hat EVEN IF the hat has nothing to do with damage. Its only made to rail road the player down certain avenues when the devs say so, and creates an illusion of difficulty by making enemies spongier because of an arbitrary number.
Doom 2016 > Doom Eternal. In fact I would put Doom Eternal near the bottom of the list. The gameplay in 2016 was more cohesive and flowed nicer than Doom Eternal. I would go as far and say that I enjoy Doom 3 far more than Eternal, even though the comparison isn't exactly fair to either game. Doom 3 was a much different experience.
RDR1 had better gameplay than the second game. I'm not talking functionally, the mechanics and attention to detail in the second game were far better, but the first game really shined with a far more of a fun game. It wasn't "Hey Arthur, lets ride 20 minutes south talking, get in a gun fight, then ride 20 minutes back to camp again." It felt far faster paced, as well as having actual fun activities to do in the game that didn't feel like a hinderance.
They took realism to such a high degree much of the game either felt like padding and fluff, or outright hinders the player.
Demon's souls is the best in the franchise, with Dark souls 1 a close second. The level design and boss mechanics were far more unique and a fun experience than the Same boss types we have gotten since the second game. This includes Elden ring. Gone are bosses with interesting mechanics, or puzzles. Hello bosses with overly exaggerated animations, held pauses before moment of impacts (With varying timings to throw the player off), and the "roll and parry to win" gameplay. I miss having the unique experiences I found in Demon's Souls and to some extent Dark souls 1. Much of what I enjoy about the series died in Dark souls 1, with glimmers of hope in Bloodborne and Sekiro with some of the ideas those games presented. The games... Lost their soul if you will.
*hides*
Viruz
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San Dan Glokta
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Now Thats a hot take.
I agree with this for a very certain type of games and very few IPS, given that the publishers will be under legally binding obligations to get fucked if they didn't deliver.
Example: One time purchase for fighting games for $100. They much increase the roster size by %25 within 3 years of release. No extra payments for DLC characters.
MiguelItUp
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I'm appreciating games that AREN'T open world more these days.
I've felt we've had way too many. Especially ones with the same formula.
I'm over games with the very standard/cliché anime art styles.
It's gotten to the point where we see SO many and the styles are all SO similar that you can't even distinguish them anymore. Why not try and focus on OTHER anime art styles? Like Robotech, Fist of the North Star, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Golgo 13, etc. Mullet Madjack is a good example of what I'm referring to. Not every character needs to have the same gigantic standard anime eyes, bright color hair, etc. I get there are fans, and I know anime is huge now, but come on man, lol.
I miss consoles having a ton of exclusives.
Some people say they don't want them, but I do. I grew up wanting all the systems because of all of their exclusives. I miss that want. Nowadays it almost doesn't even matter. Especially if it's for 1-5 exclusives per generation. I was gifted a PS5 and I'm BEYOND grateful for it, but TBH if that hadn't happened I probably wouldn't even buy one because I know that (especially now) in time everything is coming to PC. I can count on one hand the games I REALLY want for it. Then the Xbox seems pretty pointless if you have a PC. So, the only studio that's really carrying the whole exclusive thing is Nintendo. Even if their titles are hit or miss for me.
I wish the whole "culture war" thing would die off already.
Woke this, woke that, offensive this, offensive that, I hate it all. It feels like an infection that's plagued one of my favorite hobbies, and I absolutely hate it. All the stupid grifters (on all "sides") making money off of ludicrous posts, some not even factual, etc. I'm just tired of seeing it, and I'm tired of hearing about it. I just want to be excited about games, and good/great ones at that! If a game looks woke and you don't like it? Don't play it and don't pay attention to it. Give your attention to something else that's more your speed. Something offending you and you don't like it? Don't play it and don't pay attention to it. Give your attention to something else that's more your speed.
I want gory mature games.
As an 80's kid, the R/Mature rating would almost always come with expectations of insane gore. We had a period where a lot of games had gore. Gibs, destruction, etc. I feel like we see that less and less these days, which is really strange to me. Even on games that are rated "M". It makes you wonder how much of that is because studios want to tone down on violence, and how much of it is just, well, "developer laziness" so to speak.
A lot of games these days feel like they're missing something. Maybe they're lacking confidence? Or don't have enough people on the team that were passionate or loved it?
These days it feels like the only games made with passion are usually indie titles. Almost everything else feels lackluster in a way. So many new games from a popular IP, but the new game just doesn't feel as detailed, weighted, and loved as the original(s) from 15+ years ago. Is it tech related? Is it budget? What is it? Why does it keep happening? It just makes game development feel lazy in some cases. Especially when sequels should be adding MORE content, not taking expected game mechanics and details away.
I've felt we've had way too many. Especially ones with the same formula.
I'm over games with the very standard/cliché anime art styles.
It's gotten to the point where we see SO many and the styles are all SO similar that you can't even distinguish them anymore. Why not try and focus on OTHER anime art styles? Like Robotech, Fist of the North Star, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Golgo 13, etc. Mullet Madjack is a good example of what I'm referring to. Not every character needs to have the same gigantic standard anime eyes, bright color hair, etc. I get there are fans, and I know anime is huge now, but come on man, lol.
I miss consoles having a ton of exclusives.
Some people say they don't want them, but I do. I grew up wanting all the systems because of all of their exclusives. I miss that want. Nowadays it almost doesn't even matter. Especially if it's for 1-5 exclusives per generation. I was gifted a PS5 and I'm BEYOND grateful for it, but TBH if that hadn't happened I probably wouldn't even buy one because I know that (especially now) in time everything is coming to PC. I can count on one hand the games I REALLY want for it. Then the Xbox seems pretty pointless if you have a PC. So, the only studio that's really carrying the whole exclusive thing is Nintendo. Even if their titles are hit or miss for me.
I wish the whole "culture war" thing would die off already.
Woke this, woke that, offensive this, offensive that, I hate it all. It feels like an infection that's plagued one of my favorite hobbies, and I absolutely hate it. All the stupid grifters (on all "sides") making money off of ludicrous posts, some not even factual, etc. I'm just tired of seeing it, and I'm tired of hearing about it. I just want to be excited about games, and good/great ones at that! If a game looks woke and you don't like it? Don't play it and don't pay attention to it. Give your attention to something else that's more your speed. Something offending you and you don't like it? Don't play it and don't pay attention to it. Give your attention to something else that's more your speed.
I want gory mature games.
As an 80's kid, the R/Mature rating would almost always come with expectations of insane gore. We had a period where a lot of games had gore. Gibs, destruction, etc. I feel like we see that less and less these days, which is really strange to me. Even on games that are rated "M". It makes you wonder how much of that is because studios want to tone down on violence, and how much of it is just, well, "developer laziness" so to speak.
A lot of games these days feel like they're missing something. Maybe they're lacking confidence? Or don't have enough people on the team that were passionate or loved it?
These days it feels like the only games made with passion are usually indie titles. Almost everything else feels lackluster in a way. So many new games from a popular IP, but the new game just doesn't feel as detailed, weighted, and loved as the original(s) from 15+ years ago. Is it tech related? Is it budget? What is it? Why does it keep happening? It just makes game development feel lazy in some cases. Especially when sequels should be adding MORE content, not taking expected game mechanics and details away.
Illiterate Actual
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- Voice acting doesn't belong in video games
- Good multiplayer beats good single player every time
- Consoles are over, they're all just bad PCs with a corpo overlord telling you what you can and can't run on it.
- Titanfall was the best COD game.
- PUBG is still the best BR.
- R6 Siege is better than any of the old R6 games.
- Tank controls made for better games in many cases
- "They should use X engine instead of Y engine" is the lowest IQ video game take
Certinty
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The Last of Us Part II has one of the worst stories and characters in any game i’ve played.
The Souls games are boring as hell, why would I want to rinse and repeat again and again and again?
Both Horizon games are not good. Boring to say the very least. Outside of the visuals, nothing else is even above decent.
The Souls games are boring as hell, why would I want to rinse and repeat again and again and again?
Both Horizon games are not good. Boring to say the very least. Outside of the visuals, nothing else is even above decent.
San Dan Glokta
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Bernardougf
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Its a hot take thread.. not a " game facts" one mate.
Felessan
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Classics like Angband and Adom are golden
Modern are trash though
Bernardougf
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And we have a winner
sloppyjoe_gamer
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1. Zelda Majora's Mask is the worst game in the series
2. Multiplayer trophies should NEVER count towards a platinum
2. Multiplayer trophies should NEVER count towards a platinum
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Kacho
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Bernardougf
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Playing vailguard or concord is more fun than arguing about them ? No fcking way.
March Climber
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Hotter take: Only Demon's Souls had the best enemy/boss design decisions in mind, where nearly every boss and enemy had a special weakness or item you could use to bring a fight to your advantage and their health and attacks were balanced fairly as well to fit the theme of their lore.
The less they designed around this idea, the more rolling (and blocking to a lesser extent) became the defacto method of engagement in every fight. It became more and more jokingly ridiculous in each Dark Souls entry that people made memes of it.
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