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What are controversial gaming opinions you have?

AKuz said:
My own opinion?

I really liked LP3.

I liked that the PC was just some working class Dad working at a resource extraction job out in the boonies to send money home to his family.

As someone from an area with a lot of people that did that it sorta hit home for me. Weather it be the oil sands, the mines, or a far off planet that particular narrative feels real for me.
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Yes. I can agree with the story aspects.

I suppose my soreness from LP3 was due to the gameplay and being denied a continuation of the snow pirates' story from where they left off.
 
Frankly I still want to stab the series to death for a PC port of LP1 that, when you got into a new vehicle, would pop up the controls.

The Xbox controls.
 
The Victorian said:
I too enjoyed these games (to the point where I felt compelled to write a prequel of sorts to Dragonfall) but I felt they had a number of weaknesses:

- Too many missions end up with your crew accomplishing your objective, and then no matter how stealthy you've been up to that point the alarm goes off and you end up having to fight your way out. In the tabletop game, setting off the alarm means you've failed, and you've got maybe thirty seconds before corporate security shows up and smears your brains all over the wall.
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That isn't how the game is designed or played. Maybe you just suck at combat, but the runners should be doing the smearing to anything PR3 and below straight out of chargen. PR4-5 are comfortably beatable for a well built team at chargen. The CRB quite clearly lays out that most corpsec is only there to delay serious intruders.

HTR teams are also not going to be arriving within thirty seconds anywhere. They don't just sit around in armour and with loaded weapons all day in every corporate facility in the world. In an AAA zone, expected response time is 1d6 minutes. There are also plenty of Runs that don't involve the kind of places that have HTR teams on site.
 
Aaron Fox said:
In the end, other developers come and go, but Nintendo will outlast them all despite what the haters say.
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Nintendo's okay. Sure it has some bass-ackward ways of doing things, and it's blatant violations of fair use law when it comes to YouTube is bullshit, but overall they're one of the least bad big names in the video game industry.

It's their fans I have a problem with. I swear, a lot of Nintendo fans feel so self-congratulatory, patting themselves and Nintendo on the back for every single accomplishment, no matter how small. It makes them seem rather insecure, to be honest. Fellating is a slightly strong word, but you get my meaning. I have never seen Microsoft or Sony fans with this kind of obsession. It has gotten to the point where I dread going into any of the Nintendo threads, and only stay there just long enough to see what other games or announcements are going on, and even then I will inevitably run into someone fellating Nintendo.

I'm pretty sure Nintendoomsayers are a very small minority.
 
thesevenwielder said:
Nintendo's okay. Sure it has some bass-ackward ways of doing things, and it's blatant violations of fair use law when it comes to YouTube is bullshit, but overall they're one of the least bad big names in the video game industry.
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Given that the company has been around for over a century, and most of it being a toy company... you can give them some slack.
It's their fans I have a problem with. I swear, a lot of Nintendo fans feel so self-congratulatory, patting themselves and Nintendo on the back for every single accomplishment, no matter how small. It makes them seem rather insecure, to be honest. Fellating is a slightly strong word, but you get my meaning. I have never seen Microsoft or Sony fans with this kind of obsession. It has gotten to the point where I dread going into any of the Nintendo threads, and only stay there just long enough to see what other games or announcements are going on, and even then I will inevitably run into someone fellating Nintendo.
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It's a morale thing when every other group wants them destroyed... essentially. Like most outsiders if you will.
I'm pretty sure Nintendoomsayers are a very small minority.
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From what I can tell, 'small' isn't one of them.
 
Aaron Fox said:
It's a morale thing when every other group wants them destroyed... essentially. Like most outsiders if you will.
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Speaking as a hardcore Nintendo, it really is only a subset of the other 'factions' that want us destroyed.

Like all other subsets on the internet they become quite loud if you enter their parts of the internet, but it is pretty easy to avoid those regions with a bit of work.

I wouldn't call it a very small subset though, just a small one. They seem to pop up inevitably when a Youtube video discusses anything Nintendo-related that isn't about a specific game (and sometimes even then).
 
Vindictus said:
Uh.

:Citation Needed: on every other group wanting them destroyed; I have never seen anything like that period.
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Company-wise others seem to love Nintendo because they try out new concepts for them at negligible loss (since if they bomb it isn't their money, if it works they can often swing more resources to bear).

Consumer-wise... it's nowhere near everyone, but there are a lot of people who want to see Nintendo crash and burn just enough that they must put their IP on more powerful consoles and drop the "gimmicks".
 
Mario is still gonna look and play like Mario regardless of what console it's on.
 
I'm genuinely disappointed that the dissonance between Mario and a stylistically discordant setting will be contained to New Donk City. It would be awesome if Mario Odeyssey lived up to its name and you explore strange new worlds.

I want a level where Mario is tiny jumping around the shitty apartment of an alcoholic 1930s detective and the entire level is intercut with his super serial Noir tough guy monologues.
 
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thesevenwielder said:
Nintendo's okay. Sure it has some bass-ackward ways of doing things, and it's blatant violations of fair use law when it comes to YouTube is bullshit, but overall they're one of the least bad big names in the video game industry.
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Is this actually true anymore? They've embraced the modern DLC model just as much as anyone else. They even have a Gatcha! Amiibos are advanced DLC!
 
As far as I'm aware they're still one of the least bad, but that's as much to do with just how bad so many game companies are as it is to do with the things they do well.
 
Mutton said:
I am actually having trouble thinking of anything worse than Amiibo DLC and their ruthless crushing of fanworks. Even Capcom is better there
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Warner Brothers and their "Free to Play shop mechanics in a $60 game" is quite high up that list.
Also Take-2 and them murdering GTAV mods while they could have easily resolved it by just normal people talking, and ended up actually doing that only after making everybody hate them.
 
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Atleast with Nintendo there's a degree of consumer friendliness even if their DLC is exploitative. Their DLC comes in the form of cool collectable toys! They cool and people love them!

Whereas with worse companies the message they seem to send is that they hold their customers in contempt.
 
Reveen said:
Atleast with Nintendo there's a degree of consumer friendliness even if their DLC is exploitative. Their DLC comes in the form of cool collectable toys! They cool and people love them!

Whereas with worse companies the message they seem to send is that they hold their customers in contempt.
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"It's DLC! But costs several times as much because we encased it in shitty plastic!" is not exactly consumer friendly. Consumer friendly would be offering them separately.
 
DestinyPlayer said:
Nah, handhelds will never be dead. Why? Because nobody plays at home in Japan, handhelds are the main and oftentimes the only way people play games there. It's the reason why PS Vita is the most popular console in Japan bar none.
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Could I get a source? As Wiki seems to suggest the Vita is... uh, lower in sales than the N64 and TurboGrafx-16, with only a third of the sales of the original PSP.
 
Drachyench said:
Could I get a source? As Wiki seems to suggest the Vita is... uh, lower in sales than the N64 and TurboGrafx-16, with only a third of the sales of the original PSP.
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I kinda overstated the sheer scale. It's not the biggest console ever, but it is the most popular one in Japan, at least these days. Actually scratch that, it's not the most popular, but it's the one that absolutely refuses to friggin' die off, and is still used.
I first found this out via Gaijin Goombah, but here's a Kotaku article saying basically the same thing.
 
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