Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Zuljaras i love the options that the shop provides in potrait of ruin. I played 1 or 2 of the other GBA games but I can only remember so much since they were not my first game and in general castlevania takes up a lot of memory on my brain drive. Lol.

I would have loved a shop to get those random card drops. One day I have to get back to SOTN. I unlocked it in the dracula x chronicles. I dislike said game much too difficult but it looks amazing, and several locations were well executed but the more durable character controls like a sack of bricks.

@thread topic. I dislike all platforming and minigame parts of viewtiful joe red hot rumble but I think the purely fighting parts are great and would love a sequel which added tons more of capcom characters and function more as a smash bros alternative.

How do you know when you NEVER played AAA western games? I get that your opinion is UNPOPULAR but do it also have to be crap?

@PlusUltra Play Aria of Sorrow (GBA) and Dawn of Sorrow(DS). Those are not difficult and Soma controls like butter (Alucard ).

@kkslider5552000 @jump Let's be clear: it was Blow who brought up the game design point, and even then, he's still making vast generalizations without any nuance. "I DON'T LIKE JAPANESE GAMES BECAUSE THEY ALL TELL YOU WHERE TO GO" is a dumber take than what I see in most youtube comment sections, lol. Blow looks for reasons to nitpick even when Japanese games aren't like that. Go watch him play Breath of the Wild, for example: his commentary is telling about his mindset.

Phil Fish is the dude who pretty much just cuts down a questioner and his culture for the crime of being... Japanese and asking a question... I guess. And then the entire panel just laughs at him. It's disgusting, and tells me everything I need to know about these people.

As to Rowling and Whedon: Rowling has made some questionable statements over the course of her very public twitter slapfight on this issue, but I'll remind everyone that her big crime was initially criticizing the use of the phrase "people who menstruate" as a trans-inclusive synonym for women, and then for saying "sex is real" and affects how women's lives are lived.

I think her real issue is that she's fallen way down on the progressive stack by virtue of being a white woman. Nobody is slapping her back for being a pro-gay liberal feminist anymore, and she's having a hard time dealing with how the culture has evolved. She went from being a progressive icon (in her mind, anyway) to a karen, and she can't deal with that.

As has been pointed out, a LOT of people worked on Whedon's shows. Phil Fish and Jonathan Blow's games are almost entirely created by them. So it's not comparable, really. Also, Fish's jerkery is very out in the open, whereas Whedon's is hidden, so we don't get the full story there, and it's harder to make a judgment call.

Martial Beat PS1 also looks way much fun than AAA Western games. It has DDR licensed songs on it.

@Anti-Matter Logging out just to see comments from ignored users again huh?

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@Zuljaras Remember we are all brothers and sisters, and being gamers it makes up close brothers.

@PlusUltra Nope

I actually really like RE5. I only played 2 of the campaigns in 6 before i moved onto something else. 4 is probably still the best, RE1 is hard to get back into for me these days. The revelations games aren't far behind 4 for me. I still need to play 2, 3, 7 and CV. I did play CV a long time ago but I don't believe I even came close to finishing it.

@Zuljaras Don't believe in your irritation Simon. Believe in the me that believes in you. Yours is the sympathy that will pierce the heavens. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann! 🔥💀😎

I think dancing games are one of the few types of games I like even less than your standard AAA Western blockbuster game, lol. @Anti-Matter Props on your dedication to them, though. Playing DDR well when blindfolded is insanely impressive.

@PlusUltra You made me google some anime Still, thank you for the encouraging meme words!

@NintendoByNature You will Love 7. I myself find Resident Evil 4 on the hard side. It was a fun game but the QTE were crap and some things were trial and error like shooting the stupid trucks coming right at you.

@Zuljaras unfortunately I don't have a ps4 anymore. I'm a switch only gamer. I know it's available in the cloud version in JP right? I really dislike the cloud versions. Control and hitman weren't playable for me, so oh well. Maybe Re7 will eventually come.

@NintendoByNature Yeah Cloud gaming is terrible. I doubt that Capcom will port those games but one can hope!

Also the remake of RE1 was superb! I get you might not enjoy the original but the remake is great!

@Zuljaras funnily enough the remake was my first RE experience on the cube aside from playing the original ps1 version for a little back in the day. I loved the remake when I first played it. But for some reason, today, I don't enjoy the limited amount of saves, and little ammunition. I love gunning down my zombies without a care in the world!

Edit: the remake was at that time, one of the best games I've played. Top 5 at that time.

I feel that Jim Ryan's actions as head of Playstation will eventually bring in a sizable dislike for AAA western blockbusters as people realize what kind of experiences are being cut in favour of nonstop AAA western blockbusters at $70 each. We've already seen the AAA blockbuster model for Ubisoft mostly break down with games like Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Watch Dogs Legion flopping (AC being the only one still successful).

@NintendoByNature " I love gunning down my zombies without a care in the world!" that doesn't sound like a survival Resident evil

But yeah they could have made a mode that does NOT require Ink Ribbons like they did with Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 7.

@Zuljaras I'm outspoken against cancel culture but as @Ralizah points out and as I was gonna say before I closed this tab by accident, she started her downfall by making a very sweeping statement about women. While there's nothing wrong socially and legally with telling reader 20 years after your book comes out that some random wizard was actually gay all along (and that we were dumb for not noticing), her comments are very strange and borderline sexist.

I'm not going to cancel her though, she is an incredible writer who's talent was a part of my childhood. The worlds she took us to were so vivid, so detailed and so lovable, and I will never forget what she's done for literature.

@Zuljaras. Reached, my goal was. In the voltron force, trust, I shall. Infinite, the power of the spiral🌀, is.

🔥🌌🐴 I suck at puzzles nor do I like them but can any potential anime fans figure this last one out. Hint: ICP

@Zuljaras that's why I love the later games, since it's more gunning down than running 😉

One of the issues I take with "japanese games being too instructive" critique (outside of gross generalization) is that it ignores the idea that somebody might benefit from those instructions. Nintendo, for instance, has tried to make their games accesible to a fault. Those of us on this forum don't need the tutorials, but we're not representative of the entire audience.

I like Resi 5 as a co-op game. Back when it first came out, it was that or Gears of War. I don't know if I ever played it solo.

Unpopular opinion (maybe): the whole "core vs casual" thing is absolute bunk. As if we all started as core gamers, and we always know what's good. I think the opinion of somebody who doesn't frequently play games has just as much merit as someone who does.