PCGamer: What's the most unpopular gaming opinion you're willing to stand by? - Games

Video games are good.

HOw fucking dare you

Star Citizen will be a great game.

I share the same sentiment of this one from the article Phil Savage: Gaming is better now It's sad that this even counts as an unpopular opinion, but I think too many gaming hobbyists lionise the '80s and '90s as if it was some untouchable golden age of gaming. If you hang around in certain subreddits, subscribe to certain YouTubers or read certain webcomics, you might easily be fooled into thinking the past was an idyllic utopia that has been ruined by such modern concepts as DLC and day-one patches and microtransactions and accessibility and easier toolsets that open up development to more people than ever. The problem is that's rubbish. The past, frequently, sucked. Games were often broken. Hardware was often incompatible. Developers would often mistake complexity for depth. Today, broken games are more likely to be fixed, hardware is easier to understand, and gaming as a whole is more vast, experimental and interesting. 2018 is a better year to be a PC gamer than ever. By all means love the games of a bygone era, but let's not rose-tint the past in order to make cheap points against the annoyances of the present. At best it's dishonest, at worst it promotes a form of gatekeeping that actively hurts the hobby. Particularly PC gaming for the most part. We're getting ports of games that we thought would remain a console exclusive forever. Staple console franchises getting their brand new entries proudly announced coming to PC next to the usual PlayStation and X-Box logo. Games are better optimized nowadays than they were a decade ago, with even the most problematic cases being far and between certain games, and achieve at least the commonly desired 60fps being attainable for most, even on modest hardware. Like I acknowledge right now microtransactions and all the pre-order stuff, 'games as a service' and nickle and diming people for cosmetics is still bad, but if I had to take a 'necessary evil' I rather have non-gameplay important things paid like cosmetics, with maps and gameplay stuff being available to everyone to not split the community. Even in the modding scene, people have been discovering or unearthing new techniques and ways to tinker around with old games that weren't possible before. We're also in a era where emulation is getting better with faster progress, giving games that were lost or could be lost soon new life. Singleplayer games as a genre is coming back too in full force with exciting RPG titles and even solid linear FPS/shooters. It's a pretty amazing feeling for one getting excited for a game like Cyberpunk 2077, a AAA-title that is a singleplayer RPG at its core and gaining a lot of traction and hype. Local multiplayer is even getting some popularity again, with some neat ideas thrown in for co-op like the recent A Way Out. And whether you like the game or even series in general, the latest Call of Duty games for the past few years having native splitscreen on both PC & Console is a huge thing, especially after they started dying out during the last generation of consoles in favor of only having online multiplayer. Lots of bad nowadays for sure, and a lot of AAA-games have a lot of dirty tactics to fool people with compulsive spending to purchase virtual fun bucks. But some of the quality of life improvements in most things and the middleground in gaming/AA titles being able to shine through more feels a bit underrepresented and underappreciated.

vidya gaems rot your brain!!!1!!

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I don't know which one is the most unpopular, I get shit when I say any of those h-here i go: 2D Sonic is a flawed concept. 3D Sonic like in Generations and Unleashed works better at combining speed and platforming than 2D Sonic ever could. Crash Bandicoot is a badly designed game and people only like it because of nostalgia. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze has repetitive level design, but compensates with creative storytelling within the levels. DKC2 is miles better in terms of level design. I think all Kirby games' OSTs after 64 are boring and forgettable, or are inferior remixes. Mario 64 is still better than Sunshine and Odyssey, all things considered.

I never believed in 'greatest game of all time'. Newer games are almost always better than older games.

You have to release a game first.

Hence the "will".

I don't like that videogame you really like, yeah, that one.

Most older games are fun because they actually respect your intelligence and don't hold your hand.

I have so many bad opinions I got banned because of that once

RTS games are boring and for nerds

Wii and Wii U were the best consoles of Gen7 and Gen8 2DS shouldn't exist eSports are a farce PS2 and PS4 are mediocre (PS1 and PS3 are good, though) Tribes: Ascend blows Brawl is better than Melee (though this used to be the more popular opinion) Federation Force is a good game

Bubsy 1 was alright Half-Life 2 is incredibly boring after the first playthrough. Same with Episode 1. Daggefall is my favorite TES in terms of gameplay. I don't like the recent trend of cutting/heavily streamlining mechanics from established fighting game franchises. I don't mind new games like Dragon Ball FighterZ doing it.

Firefall was pretty baller and I don't normally like MMORPGs either (though it was also half-RPG-half-FPS). It's a shame what happened to it; here's hoping its spiritual successor EM.8ER ends up being just as good, but I'm gonna miss Firefall's world.

Classic wow was fucking boring and it looked terrible. the newer GTA games are overrated and pretty boring.

Half life 3 will release

speedruns are dumb

Probably gonna get a lot of flak for this but... Halo 1 and 3 (I never played 2 myself but I watched a friend play it) weren't that good. Halo 1 was extremely repetitive after the first few (admittedly pretty good) levels, with the latter half being full of the same copy+pasted rooms over and over, even having several instances where the same room was repeated multiple times in a row. Halo 3 I just found really dull and bland. I remember being pretty bored through most of it. Bonus unpopular Halo opinion: Reach was pretty alright.

Fallout 76 will be good. I'll take my cut now Todd.

I'll second this by saying that I still enjoy FO4 even if it's a shitty fallout game as it's quite a decent game on its own https://i.imgur.com/eqVWZ6F.png

Blighttown is the best level in dark souls.

Double bonus unpopular opinion. ODST is the best halo

I love New Vegas to death but after spending so many hours on it and finishing the main quest and DLCs so many times, even with the newer mods still coming out for it, I just can't go back to it anymore because FO4's gunplay mechanics, quality of life improvements and more polish (as far as Bethbryo games go) really spoiled me. It's a shame since I still get some yearning to replay NV again but after a few hours in I just can't really stand it anymore despite loving the world and characters better than FO4. Only way I can really see myself re-experiencing NV again is whenever the NV to FO4 mods release in my lifetime.

Hideo Kojima is overrated

I'll one up this to say Hideo Kojima is just a straight up terrible writer.

Sonic was never a good game and never truly about speed