honest gaming opinions thread

Obviously prefacing each of these statements with 'in my opinion'.

-None of the Bioshock games were particularly good. The first five minutes were interesting, but once you realise that death is meaningless it just becomes a chore. The powers are clunky, the enemies are either pathetic or bullet sponges and the ending was retarded; this goes for all three of them.

-Sunless Sea is pretentious as balls and whoever wrote it needs to be taught that pretentious ambiguity and intentionally obtuse verbosity does not equal good writing.

-New Vegas is not the best RPG to have ever been written, but it might be my favourite; in terms of balancing quality and accessibility, it is definitely the best.

-Borderlands as a series has always been terrible. The writing in the first two (as far as comedy went anyways) was acceptable, but at this stage Gearbox should've just made a text adventure or something.

-Everything about the gaming industry and community is utterly retarded.

-Starbound is good.

-Elite: Dangerous is good.

-Pillars of Eternity was a bit of a trainwreck, albeit enjoyable nonetheless.

-I still play Crazy Taxi from the original disk I got it on from a cereal box in like 2004.

-STALKER is unplayable. I cannot play more than five minutes of that game (any of them, take your pick).

-Subnautica is good.

-No Man's Sky is exactly what they said it would be.

-Dwarf Fortress is a tutorial and a decent tileset away from being the god-emperor of all past, present and future sandbox games.

-Undertale is good exclusively in the context of modern videogames, and people need to understand that. It's writing is simplistic, its gameplay is tedious and its novelty wears off (albeit slowly). Its value stands in the commentary it offers on the kind of games we play today.

-(not so much about video games specifically but) I hate this trend where games can either be dark and brooding or so fucking quirky they're about to shoot rainbows out their asses. I want a good old panto villain played straight again; I want a fun story, not a hilarious or dramatic one.




I'll probably post more as they come to mind.
 
Fallout: New Vegas is the best Fallout game ever made.

Mass Effect 3 wasn't that bad and Mass Effect is one of the most interesting fictional universes ever created in videogames.

Dragon Age: Origins is also one of the most interesting fictional universes, and was subsequently ruined by Dragon Age 2.

Bored-erlands is boring, repetitive, and shallow and is a missed opportunity for a great new post-apocalyptic role playing game in a new and original universe.

Fallout 4 is the biggest disaster in videogame history.

I've never been interested in Dark Souls.

No Man's Sky is more proof that you can make millions from a videogame based on E3 trailers and concept art alone.

Skyrim was extremely dumbed down and a terrible RPG with childish writing and boring characters, and Fallout 4 is a direct extension of Skyrim's design philosophy.

KOTOR I and II are as good as, and possibly better than the actual Star Wars films.
 
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I enjoy playing Daggerfall.

I love all of the Assassin's Creed games up to AC4.

Red Orchestra 2 is the most fun I've ever had playing a multiplayer shooter.

I think KOTOR 1 is overrated and that the KOTOR 2 is underrated.

I enjoyed SWTOR when it first came out.

I've tried to get into WoW 5 times and failed every time.

GTA IV is my favorite video game and it was released one day before my birthday (April 29)

I tried to get into Planescape Torment but failed, good writing but too clunky for me.

Couldn't get into Baldur's Gate 2 but was able to get into the first one but never properly finished it without cheating, tough game.

The best Generations of consoles are the Fifth and Seventh gens and I think the Sixth gen is kind of overrated.

I love Final Fantasy VI, VII and VIII.

The Final Fantasy series died for me at X.

MGS4 made me cry...

According to steam I have 1990 hours in the entire Fallout series combined! (FO4 not included)

My RL name is in the credits of Fallout 1.
 
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- I find GTA V overrated. Sure the world looks nice and Online can be fun at times, but it feels inferior to the likes of VC or SA.
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That's another thing, what's with the universal consensus of hatred towards GTA4? I loved it! I seriously can't find anything wrong with it. I saw people complaining that you are catapulted out the windshield when head-on colliding with another vehicle. How can anybody complain about that, I almost got a stiffy every time it happened!
I love that game!
 
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That's another thing, what's with the universal consensus of hatred towards GTA4? I loved it! I seriously can't find anything wrong with it. I saw people complaining that you are catapulted out the windshield when head-on colliding with another vehicle. How can anybody complain about that, I almost got a stiffy every time it happened!
I love that game!
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Their main issue with it from what I've read is that the missions are too boring with a "drive x, kill y" sorta deal, and that there's not much to do outside of the campaign. They ignore that in V there's only really gunrunning worth doing since property missions are pointless (they don't change whether you fail or complete them) and they use Online as a crutch whenever someone says V is boring.
 
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Their main issue with it from what I've read is that the missions are too boring with a "drive x, kill y" sorta deal, and that there's not much to do outside of the campaign. They ignore that in V there's only really gunrunning worth doing since property missions are pointless (they don't change whether you fail or complete them) and they use Online as a crutch whenever someone says V is boring.
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Maybe it's just another old-fart symptom, but I liked the lack of side-mission distractions in GTA4, I had allready felt a bit meh-ish about SA because of the magnitude of collection sub-missions and the "sims"-like approach (you get fat, you work out, etc)
Not that I hated it or anything, SA was an awesome game, but I thought there was a tad bit much of it. The "grittyness" was almost completely gone from the game world. In GTA4 the "no nonsense approach" returned with a vengeance, and I really liked it

Also - it invited back the "make your own fun"-ness of it. Not doing a particular mission? Bored? Shoot people. Run them over with your car. Make your own fun! :D
 
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I'm intrigued. Would you share more? At least some hint as initials, or department?
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Just to make it clear in case anyone got the wrong impression it's a complete coincidence. I was born the year it came out after all. For fear of getting personal info out on a forum I wont give initials but I'll say it was under ART specifically.
 
Minecraft, honestly, is incredibly boring. Seriously, like, the survival is boring, I feel limited in Creative Mode, and I couldn't get enjoyment out of it.

I'm no supporter of ROBLOX either. I used to play that, for quite awhile actually. I grew too fed up with that website, I mean, it's more hateful than this website, possibly one of the more cancerous games out there, the administration of it is incredibly greedy, and basically require the user-base and advertising for their events now. I have since quit ROBLOX.

Mobile strategy games are like Fallout 4 to RPGS -- They aren't.

And think about this: Nintendo will reuse basically the same Mario shit over and over, add a new power up, and be praised. SEGA will try something new with Sonic, and get bombarded with hate. While sure SEGA does sometimes pull out broken, unfinished, games, they are trying to innovate.

End of rant.
 
I was very underwhelmed by Baldur's Gate 2 and don't consider it a great game. It has its moments, but is very overrated in my opinion. The first game on the other hand is fantastic and will always remain one of my fondest gaming memories.

I actually enjoyed Dragon Age 2 a lot and don't think it's nearly has horrible as a lot of people do. The combat was pretty crappy and I didn't care for the reuse of levels throughout the entire game. But I felt it was very well written, liked a lot of the characters, liked Kirkwall as a whole and felt it was a nice breath of fresh air to have an rpg set in the same location for the entire game.
 
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I think Mass Effect is bad and hasn´t aged well at all.

Edit: And I think BoS is better than F4, solely on the terms that it caused less harm for being a spin off game
 
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Mr Fish said:
I think gamers are so spoiled with getting as many hours out of a game as possible that games are getting bloated with tediousness and repetitiveness as developers cater to that.
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Truth. While I do enjoy that some games last for a long time (ie The Witcher 3), I much prefer shorter games with a ton of replayability.
 
Another one.
I enjoyed Mass Effect but I am not a super fan, thus in my opinion the first Mass Effect is the one I just never replayed because of how clunky and generic it felt, even writting wise it felt like a bargain bin version of Star Trek as the Story was preventing a Space Chicken with Zero depth from killing all humans because he hates them and then Cthulhu happens. THe leveling system was also pretty bland, later Mass Effect games got farther and farther away from being RPGs, but I think it's better to not be an RPG rather than being a crappy RPG struggling to work with a crappy shooter. My other 2 Shepards I just created from a save editor and played from the second game on.
 
•Most games are shit
•No Man's Sky looks like a gigantic turd
•Mass Effect 1 was sort of decent
•Bioshock: Infinite sounded like some edgy teen trying to write some clever 2deep4me bullshit and fell flat on their ass and the game was the worst out of the shock series I've had the misfortune of playing let alone buying.
•Mass Effect 2 sounded like it was written by someone that hated Mass effect 1 and had no purpose being in the trilogy as the Reapers were replaced by human sized walking bugs thus temporarily wasting everyone's time instead of getting on with the Reaper plot.
•Mass Effect 3 tried way too hard and Kai Leng was a terrible excuse for a villain that survived on plot armor like at the gunship part even though in the second game Shepard ate those things for breakfast.
•Hated Borderlands 2 since it bored me to tears unless you were playing with friends and the writing was horrible.
•Oblivion and Skyrim suck and are terrible.

More opinions but I don't feel like typing them right now. Yes I have a super unpopular opinion.
 
I think people are stupid if they say/consider/think cRPGs are games like these:
  • STALKER
  • Fallout 4
  • Borderlands
  • Any MMO game of any kind including MMORPGs
  • Any other game where you might have objectives/quests and/or level up and/or Customization/upgrades that is not really a cRPG
I think people are stupid if they say they love RPGs but hate to read, hate "complicated" character systems and/or hate level caps/not be able to do and max everything.

I hate people (and game companies) who think rogue-like means any shit that is "totally random, unfair, unbalanced and/or procedurally generated".

I hate Pokemon games after Gold/Silver. They just added more and more stupid things and stupid pokemons to the game for no apparent reason... Candy bars for pokemons? Beauty contests? Other contests? Prize ribbons? Totally bullshit. We can see Nintendo is running out of ideas for new pokemons because most of the newer ones suck... Also if you're playing newer games you need almost twice or even more than twice by now HM's moves taught to your pokemons to reach the elite 4 (are there elite 4 still?). So we need to gimp our pokemons with many times useless moves if we want to advance in the game... And then they are HM moves which can't be unlearned (they might have changed that by now, I have no idea).

I think Pokemon GO is stupid and ridiculous, and I think it gets worst when really stupid people play it (anyone else still remembers the news of people crashing their cars because they were driving and playing Pokemon Go?).

From what I saw, I think the new Torment game will suck (I still hope at least the story will be good, so I will be able to play it and enjoy it whenever I can get that game and a machine to run it)... I also do not understand why using the name Torment if the game has nothing to do with the predecessor... While the first was happening in a Dungeons and Dragons planar world the new one will be in a very far future Earth (1 billion years or so in the future if I recall correctly). Sounds like using the name to build hype and sell like crazy...

I am getting tired of Post Apocalyptic games. Same goes for zombie games, sandbox games, construction/building minecraft-like games... and probably others I can't even think about at the moment.

I hate with a passion "indie" games that are "retro" and use "pixel art" for no damn good reason except to be lazy... Many "retro" style or "8-bit graphics" are only put in Indie games so much these days because of pure laziness and don't contribute anything to the game (in fact some games even suffer from it).

I think remastering games that are not even 15 years old is stupid.

I hate the success Angry Birds games got, when the game they ripped off never got any major recognition (the game they ripped off was a castle siege flash game IIRC).
Same goes for Flappy Bird. It ripped off a flash helicopter game that never got much success.

I hate the gaming industry as a whole. They are making it into a "fast food style" business. Games are rushed and pumped incomplete, then we have the cashier asking if we want fries with that and a coke (DLCs), people blindly throw money at games that are not even made and many times get burned (and still don't learn and go around and do it again). There used to be a job at game companies that was paid and was called "Software Tester", these days game companies get paid for users to test the games even before they game is released. I hate how companies know about bugs in their games and sometimes game breaking bugs, but still manage to get away with releasing the game in that state, and players gobble it up and feel happy they contributed by reporting the bug back... A bug that companies already knew it was there before releasing the game... The whole gaming industry is rotten to the core today.

I hate how people justify shitty DLC included in a season pass by saying "its a DLC, you don't need to play it".
I hate how people justify bad games and rage at consumers by saying "if you don't like it don't play it". Never mind that those consumers paid for the product and chances are they can't get a refund anymore... But they have no right to complain about the product because others like it.

I sometimes play free RPG Maker built games!

Fuck it's past 5pm already, I need to have brunch... I will end my rant post now.
 
My turn! :mrgreen:
~Fallout New Vegas is a cult classic. With a little bit of polish it could have been the greatest RPG of the decade.
~I enjoy the Kingdom Hearts series as it reminds me of a more simpler and innocent time when I was a kid and it pleases the kid in me.
~Bioshock 1 is one of my favorite games of all time but I hated Bioshock 2.
~The Witcher Series was hard for me to get into at first but with time I began to appreciate it as a RPG and appreciate the respect that CD Projekt Red have towards gamers and their intelligence and maturity.
~Turn based games are hard for me to get into but I find a way to look past that.
~I enjoy Sunless Sea and think it is one of the better exploration games to come out recently.
~I love the Batman Arkham games but I have not played Arkham Knight and probably won't play it at lest on PC.
~Still trying to improve myself with the Total War series.
~Call of Juarez Gunslinger was one of the best arcade shooters I have ever played.
~Despite its many flaws I enjoy Skyrim (with mods) but have many issues with it which I am vocal about.
~Undertale is a cute little game that proves that sometimes the best things are the most simple.
~I really need to play KOTOR 2.
~I enjoy The Sims 4.:hide:
~Neverwinter Nights 2 OC isn't as terrible as the Codex says but that doesn't make it good either.
~I hate using the words Overrated and Underrated to describe games.
~Bioware no longer make good video games but instead make over-glorified hentai dating sims.
~Mass Effect 3 ending was the worst ending ever written in human history.
~I can't wait to see the ass pull that Bioware is going to try to pull with Andromeda in regards to the POS ending of 3.
~The only good Borderlands game was the first. Anthony Burch ruined what was a promising series with his SJW politics and hatred for the average male gamer.
~Bioshock Infinite felt like its was written by a average Tumblr SJW.
~Devs need to stop trying please SJW's and radfems and as well as keep their politics in their pocket.
~Social justices politics and political correctness are killing video games as a art form.
~Devs need to stop treating female characters with kid gloves and as well as needing to stop writing them as passive aggressive Mary-Sues in order not to offend and appease radfems and SJW's.
~All games made by SJW's and radfems are fucking terrible garbage.
~Devs need to stop trying to make games for everyone and as well as stop focusing on fads. They just come out as a mess if you do. Case in point Fallout 4.
~I hate when game devs understatement and belittle their audiences intelligence. Again look at Fallout 4.
~Fallout 4 was a perfect example of how NOT to make a RPG.
~Not only was Fallout 4 a terrible Fallout game but it was also one of the worst RPG's in the past decade.
~The Dragonborn DLC was the biggest piece of garbage and the worst DLC I have ever played in my life.
~The Point Lookout and Dragonborn DLC should have been a red flag in that Bethesda does not give two shits about giving their players multiple choices and consequences in what is suppose to be a RPG!
~Bethesda is turning into the new EA.
 
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-Despite really enjoying it, I thought lots of the towns in Fallout 1 are too generic post-apoc. I mean a Scavenging town made of junk, a peaceful wasteland village and a trading city with crime circles are the kind of stuff you could see anywhere, and show no uniqueness. I think the more sensible areas of Fallout 2 such as The Den, Redding and Vault City handle this better.
-After seeing how much shit Dragon Age was put through to make it more like Mass Effect, I'm genuinely amazed that it hasn't lost all of its fans yet
-Mass Effect was an overrated action game with pseudo-choices right from the first installment. The fact that it took people until 3 to realise this amazes me.
-Skyrim is actually quite a good game.
-VTM Bloodlines is only really playable because of Wesp5's fixes.
-Planescape Torment's outfits for female NPCs are over the top and ridiculous. It seems a lot like they put fan service over realism. I expected better from the creators of Fallout.
-While we're talking about Planescape Torment, despite being grateful for all the dialogue options, I often think that they missed the obvious. Plus, Annah and Dak'kon didn't feel like real characters, but shallowly written cliches.
-Life is Strange shouldn't have to tell you every time your actions have consequences, its audience should have the common fucking sense to figure it out on there own.
-On the topic of Life Is Strange, they should not try and use slang or memes. They clearly are shoehorning it in, without understanding what they are saying.
-Wasteland is honestly impossible for me to get in to. It sounds like an incredible experience, yet unfortunately its too dated and clunky.
-Undertale was too easy. If you have enough healing items you can kill anyone.
-Zoo Tycoon 2 killed off the charm of Zoo Tycoon 1. The idea was that you were supposed to design the Zoo, and see your creation come to life, which Zoo Tycoon 2 exchanged for First Person Zookeeper mode.
-I refused to play Sims 3 after finding out that they reintroduced memories in to a DLC. Since it was a pretty big part of Sims 2, to sell it as a DLC sounded retarded.
-I enjoyed Spore, and thought it was perfectly playable and enjoyable even without Galactic Adventures.
-Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning is nowhere near popular enough supposing how good it was.
-Witcher 2 handled alternate endings better than Witcher 3.
-Baldur's Gate is too hard.
-Ark Survival Evolved tried too hard to be a big and modern game, it makes it slow and buggy.
-Dark Souls 1 was clearly designed soley for consoles. PCs seem like an afterthought for them, and the way that it is so badly implemented on PC seems like the developers are insulting my intelligence by thinking I'll tolerate it.
-Divinity: Original Sin is overrated.
-Mists of Pandaria was the best WOW expansion ever made.
-Fallout 1.5 Ressurection doesn't handle currency correctly(Prices of Fallout 2, Rewards of Fallout 1), and the vast majority of skills are only useful in certain parts of the game.
-The Telltale Games have poor writing, and are often misleading, as actions very rarely have major consequences.
-Despite being a great game, I have a feeling that Dust: An Elysian Tail would have never been anywhere near as popular if it wasn't for a huge furry following.
-I dislike things like E3 that try and establish a proffesional side to gaming. The only jobs that actually exist in the gaming industry are game developers, designers and writers. If you call yourself a "Game Critic" or "Gaming Journalist", you are a pretentious twat with a fake job.
-Games today take themselves too seriously. I miss games like Fallout 2 and Little Big Adventure, that constantly take the piss out of there own plots and break the 4th wall.
-Art Style > Good Graphics. Games these days don't understand this.
-Despite the rest of the game being good, the ending of KOTOR 2 was cancer.
-While I love Chris Avellone for the charm his games have, and for the philosophical debates he puts in his games, Tim Cain is far better at writing games.
-Brian Fargo has become a corporate dickhead ever since Wasteland 2's success.
-If a gaming Comic Artist references Fallout, and assumes they are only talking about the newer games, I immediately dismiss them as not being a real gamer.(Actually this goes for everyone)
-While most people see it as the future of gaming, I think that Virtual Reality will not work, purely because there are a limited number of games you can play with an immersive first person perspective. I think PC Gaming should be focused on more, as there is more variety of playable games such as Isometrics and other types of game.
 
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Actually Risewild, Pokemon games mostly added new mechanics to the battling system like individualized abilities, split the physical and special moves by attack instead of by type and inteoduced a lot of new moves that make strategies other than pure offense viable and have gradually shed the need for HMs with the new games even seemingly replacing them with key items. If something I would say the so widely beloved 1st and 2nd gens are the worst generations right now, with second Gen introducing some of the worst pokemon of the current 720, they introcuded so many shit pokemon that Gen 4 had to give several of them evolutions, and they still have the worst starters of the whole bunch.
 
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