Unpopular Opinions V5: "I still don't like Half Life 2." - General

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49241218]paying for any characters at all is still a rip off, but the $20 deal is [I]less[/I] of a rip off than anything league has to offer.[/QUOTE] Sorry, but how exactly do you think these businesses work? Is Smite worth less than $20, the cost of a game released in 2004? Paying for maps or weapon unlocks in a full-price AAA game is definitely complete bullshit, but paying the cost of two lunches to advance through the entire content library of a game that has been [i]given to you for free[/i] is a rip off? what the fuck F2P developers need people on their servers in order to keep their game healthy and encourage players to purchase cosmetic additions, because that's where they make their money. If you want to spend less time playing, the developers need some kind of compensation for that loss. How entitled can a person be?

Some people spend thousands on virtual items that they can't even afford and put themselves in debt. My personal rule is to never spend over 5 dollars on a virtual item and no more than 25 dollars in total per game. I've probably spent about 15 bucks in total on tf2 stuff and that's about it but some people don't know the value of money.

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49241218]paying for any characters at all is still a rip off, but the $20 deal is [I]less[/I] of a rip off than anything league has to offer.[/QUOTE] Well to be fair, in Smite's case, the gods are the only factor that change the gameplay in anyway. No runes or anything like that. It being $30 (That's the real price btw) for the god pack doesn't really seem all that different from it just being a retail game that costs $30 to buy. You can see it the F2P aspect of Smite as more of a trial that you can play forever and earn all the gods by playing and the god pack as a way of "buying" the game. Though in a perfect world, all F2P games would be like Dota 2 where everything but cosmetics is unlocked from the start and free. But the main reason it can get away with that is because Valve is making it, not all companies can afford to do that.

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49242505]Sorry, but how exactly do you think these businesses work? Is Smite worth less than $20, the cost of a game released in 2004? Paying for maps or weapon unlocks in a full-price AAA game is definitely complete bullshit, but paying the cost of two lunches to advance through the entire content library of a game that has been [I]given to you for free[/I] is a rip off? what the fuck F2P developers need people on their servers in order to keep their game healthy and encourage players to purchase cosmetic additions, because that's where they make their money. If you want to spend less time playing, the developers need some kind of compensation for that loss. How entitled can a person be?[/QUOTE] He's talking about playable characters as a monetization model. Dota 2 doesn't do that at all, for example. imo its not automatically bad but league does it esp. poorly, with characters being quite expensive (dice flip with 4800 and 6300 on each side). But when you take runes into account, it becomes fucking awful if you're a player who likes variety.

I don't get the point of paying extra for game soundtracks on steam, the music is already in the game files you can rip them out whenever you want. Is it just to show extra support to the creators?

[QUOTE=zupadupazupadude;49238770]Vice News is fucking shit Simon Ostrovsky and a few others like that Henry Langston guy who also covered Ukraine are the only good journalists there As a person under the age of 20 I always feel condescended to when looking at almost any article Vice posts [editline]3rd December 2015[/editline] actually I don't think this is a very unpopular opinion at all[/QUOTE] Vice as a whole seems to be hit and miss, even more-so lately. That said, when they hit, they really hit. Also don't forget Shane, any Vice documentary I've seen involving Shane has been thoroughly entertaining, if not downright hilarious.

[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;49243172]I don't get the point of paying extra for game soundtracks on steam, the music is already in the game files you can rip them out whenever you want. Is it just to show extra support to the creators?[/QUOTE] I've always been under the assumption it's so that the person that makes the music gets a bit more money. Plus, there's always the odd chance that you can get it in an uncompressed format that way

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49242505]Sorry, but how exactly do you think these businesses work? Is Smite worth less than $20, the cost of a game released in 2004? Paying for maps or weapon unlocks in a full-price AAA game is definitely complete bullshit, but paying the cost of two lunches to advance through the entire content library of a game that has been [i]given to you for free[/i] is a rip off? what the fuck F2P developers need people on their servers in order to keep their game healthy and encourage players to purchase cosmetic additions, because that's where they make their money. If you want to spend less time playing, the developers need some kind of compensation for that loss. How entitled can a person be?[/QUOTE] Perhaps, but the way Riot is doing it is incredibly greedy. I have about 1200 hours of League in total and have less than half the champions. This is a company that has nerfed IP gains quite a few times, and has made champions more and more expensive. They weren't always 7800 IP when they came out. They weren't always 6300 IP, either. Riot definitely has the infrastructure and the sustained [I]gargantuan[/I] cash flow to support giving all champions away for free. It didn't even have to be this way. League of Legends was developed and released on a shoestring budget and looked god-awful on release (and still did for many years). It really could have supported all champions being free from the beginning, it just chose not to.

Lane splitting is fine and drivers seem to be bigger dickheads than motorcyclists. I'm a motorcyclist and drivers seem to think when riders lane split, it's a dickhead move. Where I live, they made it legal because they did some research and found out that lane splitting actually helps improve traffic jams. Lane splitting is when all cars are either moving slowly or at a complete stop and a rider splits through the middle. This is totally fine as a bikes take off is faster than a car and as I said earlier, it improves jams. How is this dangerous or a dickhead move? I've seen drivers try to deliberately block me by trying take off fast in their cars so I wouldn't be in front of them .. now THAT is dangerous. When I lane split, I make sure there is enough room for me to fit, if I see two cars too close to each other, then I don't risk it. I'm a responsible rider, so I hate when drivers wanna be knobs and block me. One time I was at a red light and I split through the middle, the car next to me tried to take off so fast that his wheels spun. Seriously, what a moron ... there is no time difference if he took off normally and just allowed me to take off. I also watched a video of a truck not looking OR indicating when changing lanes and almost squashed a rider into a railing ... the comments in the video were full of "He shouldn't have been speeding" and "Biker deserved it, shouldn't have been an idiot" - This makes me believe drivers are bigger assholes. Apparently if someone changes lanes without looking and hits a rider, it was the riders fault. Also saw a video of a car that stopped in the middle of the road at a red light (which is illegal), the rider then takes off and just thinks he'll be fine splitting between the cars, but the driver deliberately moved slightly forward to block the rider, who then crashes and falls. And ofcourse the comments are full of people blaming the rider. People who don't ride bikes talk too much shit about bikes.

[QUOTE=PelPix123;49243167]...I kind of like Rusty100.[/QUOTE] He's a good moderator but he has nothing but truly unpopular opinions coursing through his veins. He'd be able to trump all of us in a heartbeat if he wanted to.

People are such whiners when it comes to biker's as a whole. If you can't move your car a few degrees to the left, chuck your driver's license and then your car - you don't deserve it as much as you think you're entitled to your precious road. Maddox makes a really good point too - bikers are just one less car in the road, and if everything was cars cars cars cars cars all the time, it would be LA except worse and everywhere.

[QUOTE=Zzztops;49243204]Vice as a whole seems to be hit and miss, even more-so lately. That said, when they hit, they really hit. Also don't forget Shane, any Vice documentary I've seen involving Shane has been thoroughly entertaining, if not downright hilarious.[/QUOTE] Ah yeah, of course! the docu about Korea is why I started looking at their stuff in the first place

[QUOTE=wauterboi;49244817]People are such whiners when it comes to biker's as a whole. If you can't move your car a few degrees to the left, chuck your driver's license and then your car - you don't deserve it as much as you think you're entitled to your precious road. Maddox makes a really good point too - bikers are just one less car in the road, and if everything was cars cars cars cars cars all the time, it would be LA except worse and everywhere.[/QUOTE] I feel bad for bikers. So many accidents they get into are because some soccer mom in her giant ford Explorer decided to not look and smothered them. There are some bad bikers ofc but even good ones that take precautions such as wearing reasonable colours and obeying laws are at the mercy of cars around them.

[QUOTE=ghghop;49236941]They don't make incestuous redneck jokes for nothing. Stereotypes and grains of salt blah blah[/QUOTE] asian women have sideways vaginas

while we're on the subject, I hate bikers with an insane passion. Yeah, yeah, I know, most bikers are normal human beings and only a few are shitty. I don't care. every time some tough-guy biker cunt with a wall-shaking muffler that sounds like a portal to the chainsaw universe does 50mph down my residential street at 3 in the morning, I fantasize about hearing him lose control and dash his nicotine-stained physical form against a telephone pole. The hell's angels are fucking cunts and Harley culture is for inbreds. I don't feel sorry for bikers at all, safety wise - if you make the decision to ride an internal-combustion bicycle on public roads, you do not get to complain about safety. If the motorcycle was invented today, in 2015, it would never be made road legal because it's an insane suicide vehicle.

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49246993]while we're on the subject, I hate bikers with an insane passion. Yeah, yeah, I know, most bikers are normal human beings and only a few are shitty. I don't care. every time some tough-guy biker cunt with a wall-shaking muffler that sounds like a portal to the chainsaw universe does 50mph down my residential street at 3 in the morning, I fantasize about hearing him lose control and dash his nicotine-stained physical form against a telephone pole. The hell's angels are fucking cunts and Harley culture is for inbreds.[/QUOTE] woah

In my country the hate car drivers and pedestrians alike have towards people on bycicles and motorcycles is of memetic proportions Those people share the same roads with everyone else but, on an average, they utterly REFUSE to follow ANY rule or law whatsoever about it: they never stops at the red light or at anything else really, if there are more than two of them at a time they spread horizontally through the whole street and won't allow anyone else to get past them and they often ride on sidewalks, sometimes even ringing their bells, demanding pedestrians to get the fuck out

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49246993]while we're on the subject, I hate bikers with an insane passion. Yeah, yeah, I know, most bikers are normal human beings and only a few are shitty. I don't care. every time some tough-guy biker cunt with a wall-shaking muffler that sounds like a portal to the chainsaw universe does 50mph down my residential street at 3 in the morning, I fantasize about hearing him lose control and dash his nicotine-stained physical form against a telephone pole. The hell's angels are fucking cunts and Harley culture is for inbreds. I don't feel sorry for bikers at all, safety wise - if you make the decision to ride an internal-combustion bicycle on public roads, you do not get to complain about safety. If the motorcycle was invented today, in 2015, it would never be made road legal because it's an insane suicide vehicle.[/QUOTE] You must be fun at parties.

Jersey Mike's has the best sub's I've ever had, even beating out the local places. Can't believe it's a fucking chain.

[QUOTE=bdd458;49248588]Jersey Mike's has the best sub's I've ever had, even beating out the local places. Can't believe it's a fucking chain.[/QUOTE] Jersey Mike's came to my school once and gave me a free sandwich and a bag of chips they cool in my books

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49248793]Jersey Mike's came to my school once and gave me a free sandwich and a bag of chips they cool in my books[/QUOTE] they slice their meat in house as you're ordering right in front of you, and this is a fucking chain sub place. like god damn it's so good.

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49246993]while we're on the subject, I hate bikers with an insane passion. Yeah, yeah, I know, most bikers are normal human beings and only a few are shitty. I don't care. every time some tough-guy biker cunt with a wall-shaking muffler that sounds like a portal to the chainsaw universe does 50mph down my residential street at 3 in the morning, I fantasize about hearing him lose control and dash his nicotine-stained physical form against a telephone pole. The hell's angels are fucking cunts and Harley culture is for inbreds. I don't feel sorry for bikers at all, safety wise - if you make the decision to ride an internal-combustion bicycle on public roads, you do not get to complain about safety. If the motorcycle was invented today, in 2015, it would never be made road legal because it's an insane suicide vehicle.[/QUOTE] I like bikes and i like your opinion

I love what most people would consider to be generic fantasy. In the wake of gritty fantasy shit like Game of Thrones, Skyrim, and Dark Souls, I find myself wanting that colorful, classic D&D style fantasy RPG shit instead. I prefer it that way. The gritty fantasy is kind of, eh, in a way. Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, whatever, pump me full of it. I'm getting pretty excited for this game by the Dead Island devs called Hellraid. [t]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/5294/2568941-hellraid6.jpg[/t] It's not exactly bright and colorful but it's the first game in a long time that I've seen embrace those fantasy things I love. Subtle things like the way rooms are structured, the [url=http://epn.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Hellraid.jpg]way the armor looks[/url], the subtle details make me feel that same feeling that 'classic' fantasy does. Call it generic and I really can't argue but I still want you to pump me full of that generic colorful high fantasy shit

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49250698]I love what most people would consider to be generic fantasy. In the wake of gritty fantasy shit like Game of Thrones, Skyrim, and Dark Souls, I find myself wanting that colorful, classic D&D style fantasy RPG shit instead. The gritty fantasy is kind of, eh, in a way. Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, whatever, pump me full of it. [/QUOTE] a lot of people shit on Oblivion for turning Cyrodil into whitebread Europe and maybe they're kind of right (in the lore Cyrodil is actually supposed to be a mix of Rome and Imperial China, covered in rice paddies, dense jungles, and marble ruins) but Oblivion was colorful and optimistic and engaging and frankly the Tolkienesque-DnD setting is a stereotype simply because it works so well. I'd hold out on the hellraid optimism tho. Dead Island was terrible.

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49250743]a lot of people shit on Oblivion for turning Cyrodil into whitebread Europe and maybe they're kind of right (in the lore Cyrodil is actually supposed to be a mix of Rome and Imperial China, covered in rice paddies, dense jungles, and marble ruins) but Oblivion was colorful and optimistic and engaging and frankly the Tolkienesque-DnD setting is a stereotype simply because it works so well. I'd hold out on the hellraid optimism tho. Dead Island was terrible.[/QUOTE] I too shit on Oblivion for not being the way it should have been because like, if you actually read the pocket guide to the empire the description for Cyrodiil was fucking awesome and easily could have matched Morrowind in how creative it was. That said, something about Oblivion in all of its generic European fantasy just captures that feeling of adventure so well, and it's just [I]so relaxing[/I] to play. It's like Nintendo and the Mario games. They keep making the same game over and over and over, and you know they shouldn't, but damn if it isn't fun and really enjoyable. Anyway, I'm optimistic about Hellraid but I won't be too disappointed if it sucks. I've been weaning myself off engaging in hype culture so I don't get as bothered anymore.

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49250743]Dead Island was terrible.[/QUOTE] But Dying Light wasn't.

Dead Island wasn't terrible, it was just bland. It was fun if you played it with friends, though. Dying Light was a significant improvement on their formula and their expansion to it looks like it's going to be even better. Techland is one of the few companies that seems to actually improve upon their work with each iteration rather than vomit out sequels.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49250698]I love what most people would consider to be generic fantasy. In the wake of gritty fantasy shit like Game of Thrones, Skyrim, and Dark Souls, I find myself wanting that colorful, classic D&D style fantasy RPG shit instead. I prefer it that way. The gritty fantasy is kind of, eh, in a way. Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, whatever, pump me full of it. I'm getting pretty excited for this game by the Dead Island devs called Hellraid. [t]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/5294/2568941-hellraid6.jpg[/t] It's not exactly bright and colorful but it's the first game in a long time that I've seen embrace those fantasy things I love. Subtle things like the way rooms are structured, the [url=http://epn.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Hellraid.jpg]way the armor looks[/url], the subtle details make me feel that same feeling that 'classic' fantasy does. Call it generic and I really can't argue but I still want you to pump me full of that generic colorful high fantasy shit[/QUOTE] relating to this, i seriously miss the trope of the hero and the villain having a rad sword fight at the end of the movie. seems like so few movies end on a strong confrontation now, i guess cos it's pretty discredited. i'm really hoping Episode VII will bring it back a little bit.

[QUOTE=Samiam22;49250815]But Dying Light wasn't.[/QUOTE] Tbh dying light is proof that techland is getting competent at making games. It's nice to see their progress truth be told.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49250698]I love what most people would consider to be generic fantasy. In the wake of gritty fantasy shit like Game of Thrones, Skyrim, and Dark Souls, I find myself wanting that colorful, classic D&D style fantasy RPG shit instead. I prefer it that way. The gritty fantasy is kind of, eh, in a way. Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, whatever, pump me full of it. I'm getting pretty excited for this game by the Dead Island devs called Hellraid. [t]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/5294/2568941-hellraid6.jpg[/t] It's not exactly bright and colorful but it's the first game in a long time that I've seen embrace those fantasy things I love. Subtle things like the way rooms are structured, the [url=http://epn.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Hellraid.jpg]way the armor looks[/url], the subtle details make me feel that same feeling that 'classic' fantasy does. Call it generic and I really can't argue but I still want you to pump me full of that generic colorful high fantasy shit[/QUOTE] i've always loved Dark Souls art direction because i feel like it embraces classical fantasy but with a darker twist