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Post by Talent Name on Apr 25, 2020 19:37:23 GMT -5
I don't know if it's unpopular but Shining Force needs a comeback
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Apr 25, 2020 19:47:55 GMT -5
Final Fantasy Tactics was the best Final Fantasy.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 25, 2020 20:01:34 GMT -5
Final Fantasy Tactics was the best Final Fantasy. I'm not gonna say best, but that is one damn good game
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2020 21:56:53 GMT -5
Fire Emblem Fates has a lot of great things going for it and while I don't think it's nearly as good as Awakening or Three Houses, I feel like it gets a lot more hate than it really warrants. It does a lot of things right and has some really great map design, and a lot of the usually cited issues like the pretty bad story and the absolute nonsense of the child mechanics don't really drag the experience down all that much for me.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Apr 25, 2020 22:03:13 GMT -5
The PS2 was the best console, not only due to its own great library of games, but also the compatibility with the PS1's own stacked roster. Street Fighter Alpha 3 is the best fighting game. Great fighting system, excellent music and a really varied roster. Dan Hibiki is the best fighting game character. Sakura is second. Going back to Mortal Kombat as it was originally and it really wasn't that good of a game, especially compared to its contemporary competition. FF9 is overrated. Has slow combat, annoying characters and the story doesn't really excite me. The Trance system is all kinds of bad as well. I don't think that's unpopular. I mean if it ain't the SNES, PS2 usually tops people's list as best system. The PS2 is the best-selling console of all time, including handhelds. It's not like a cult favorite by any stretch of the imagination.
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Post by Malcolm on Apr 25, 2020 22:22:25 GMT -5
The "entitled gamer" is little more than an excuse to shift blame and cause infighting between gamers and developers while the the real entitled ones(the impatient dumbf*** shareholders and the executives) rake in all the money and laugh.
These companies make billions of dollars and they still furlough developers because it's not enough. Think about that.
They fire employees because billions aren't enough. Billions.
The shareholder model of business needs to f***ing die.
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Post by xCompackx on Apr 25, 2020 22:39:52 GMT -5
The Metal Gear Solid franchise is pretentious crap. I think the biggest thing Death Stranding proved is that Kojima needs someone to slap him and tell him no. Kojima's work is a little frustrating as there's usually a really good concept masked behind these layers of "weird for the sake of weird" storytelling. I remember playing MGS4 for the first time and loving the gameplay and then the 30 minute cutscene starts and I'm thinking "But I was having fun!". MGSV was honestly kind of the last straw for me, to an extent. I love the gameplay, but even before the obvious corporate meddling to get the game done came in, the story was turning hard into crazy-ville. I haven't played Death Stranding, but I've heard it's pretty much the same.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Apr 25, 2020 22:55:18 GMT -5
I think the biggest thing Death Stranding proved is that Kojima needs someone to slap him and tell him no. Kojima's work is a little frustrating as there's usually a really good concept masked behind these layers of "weird for the sake of weird" storytelling. I remember playing MGS4 for the first time and loving the gameplay and then the 30 minute cutscene starts and I'm thinking "But I was having fun!". MGSV was honestly kind of the last straw for me, to an extent. I love the gameplay, but even before the obvious corporate meddling to get the game done came in, the story was turning hard into crazy-ville. I haven't played Death Stranding, but I've heard it's pretty much the same. More or less I describe it as Death Stranding is a really well crafted and polished game... that is completely lacking in anything even resembling fun in it... the cherry on top is of course Kojima being Kojima with his pseudo intellectualism babble all over it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2020 23:18:31 GMT -5
I know a lot of people interpret it solely as a father and son dynamic but pretty much every scene with Hank and Connor in Detroit I basically entirely read the characters' relationship as a romantic one, really to the point I'm convinced the actors were doing it on purpose. Especially the part where Connor winks at him. Like I really have no idea whatsoever how someone could read that relationship platonically.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Apr 25, 2020 23:37:56 GMT -5
Once you get over the nostalgia, you realize that Sonic Mania is one of the worst 2D Sonic games. I feel the same way but with Generations. I still don't think Generations is bad but anyone saying it's one of the best sonic games of all time has rose tented glasses on.
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Post by Gus Richlen: Ruffian on Apr 25, 2020 23:41:53 GMT -5
Age of Empires III is easily the weakest of the franchise, cheat unit of the giant bust of George Crushington notwithstanding.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2020 0:19:56 GMT -5
Not that either's very good, but I think Super Mario 3D World is worse than 3D Land.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Apr 26, 2020 1:08:21 GMT -5
Say it again.
The absolute best video game stories are only as good as mediocre tv shows.
Video Games that try so hard to be art only prove that they’re pretty far from it. Be fun. f*** that overwrought slow moving drama stuff.
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Post by J. Hova on Apr 26, 2020 1:13:27 GMT -5
The Medal of Honor series of video games was better than Call of Duty.
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Post by Raskovnik on Apr 26, 2020 1:31:50 GMT -5
Say it again. The absolute best video game stories are only as good as mediocre tv shows. Video Games that try so hard to be art only prove that they’re pretty far from it. Be fun. f*** that overwrought slow moving drama stuff. I actually agree with this to a large extent. Some of my favorite games, like Kentucky Route Zero, actually break that mold and tell incredible stories, but some people would also argue that KRZ is hardly a game which might be fair. But like nearly every first party third person action/adventure game by Sony that gets showered with praise and unanimous perfect scores are literally just okay movies/TV shows I've already seen, except I get to play them which somehow makes it better? The Last of Us and Uncharted are profoundly mediocre IMO. God of War also heavily leans into it but The Stranger made up for it by making every encounter DBZ-levels of cool shit going down.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Apr 26, 2020 1:57:25 GMT -5
not sure how unpopular this is but... David Cage is a hack and his stories have the subtlety of a brick to the face... he clearly wants to make movies but isn't a good enough writer to do that.
one that I know is unpopular and probably controversial... the Sonic games were never particularly great games... the first few were good but I don't know if I'd call any of them all time greats... and the games get boosted mainly for Sonic being the Icon of the company as well has having really good non game appearances, SATAM, most of the comics (especially the non Penders ones...), even the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog I found decent.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2020 2:21:33 GMT -5
not sure how unpopular this is but... David Cage is a hack and his stories have the subtlety of a brick to the face... he clearly wants to make movies but isn't a good enough writer to do that. The only one of his games I think is anything remotely resembling passable is Detroit and that basically has nothing to do with him and everything to do with Bryan Dechart and Clancy Brown having amazing chemistry and the game being very well put together on a technical / presentation level. Even then the writing's often very bad and very cliche, it keeps reusing some similar story beats over and over, it's absurdly on the nose with the metaphor, and there's very little good to be found in the Kara and Markus plots. Especially Kara and especially after the stupid Alice reveal.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Apr 26, 2020 4:31:22 GMT -5
The 3 NES Super Mario Bros. games are not the best video games ever although they are still good games.
Mainly due to the original versions lacking any way to save your progress, meaning that all three games in their NES form had to be beat in one sitting. This makes the third one a bit frustrating because you have to devote a large amount of time of the day to beat it.
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Post by Hurbster on Apr 26, 2020 5:53:07 GMT -5
I don't know if it's unpopular but Shining Force needs a comeback Need a remake and the other two parts of Shining Force 3 released in the UK.
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Post by Hurbster on Apr 26, 2020 5:55:04 GMT -5
not sure how unpopular this is but... David Cage is a hack and his stories have the subtlety of a brick to the face... he clearly wants to make movies but isn't a good enough writer to do that. one that I know is unpopular and probably controversial... the Sonic games were never particularly great games... the first few were good but I don't know if I'd call any of them all-time greats... and the games get boosted mainly for Sonic being the Icon of the company as well as had really good non-game appearances, SATAM, most of the comics (especially the non-Penders ones...), even the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog I found decent. I think it's pretty much an established fact that the David Cage games are terrible.
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