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

Fallout 3 better than Vegas

[QUOTE=Sector 7;49291521]I hate starcraft for this exact reason. It's like... if you actually ever stop to watch what's happening, you lose. There is literally always something you should be doing. 100% stress. [sp]I also think the starcraft universe is a stupid 40k knockoff that got too popular for its own good but that's just me[/sp][/QUOTE] Playing RTS multiplayer in general seems like an awful experience. There's almost always a very specific meta that comes down to how well you can micromanage and producing specific units in a specific order.

[QUOTE=REMBER;49291619]Fallout 3 better than Vegas[/QUOTE] Not going to flame you for your opinion, but why do you think that? I see this come up a few times and I just wonder what people have to say about it.

[QUOTE=Fapplejack;49287685]You don't need a whole explanation, but you do need a reason why your opinion should be considered valid. You can't say you dislike a game when you haven't even played it. People often forget this is a thing.[/QUOTE]When I did actually play it I felt worse, I didn't even get a couple hours in because I was just too disgusted by it. Basically my disappointment with Fallout 4 comes from a long, [B]long[/B] time of being disappointed by Bethesda and poking around in their games, their last honestly good and well put together game was Morrowind and every single one after that has had glaring faults that piss me off. Morrowind had a few of it's own, but they were design choices that just sort of bother me but aren't actually faults. Oblivion: Radiant AI was a total letdown Early troubles with the engine, clearly wasn't properly tested Sloppy world building, but it isn't as bad as other games Quest bugs up the ass Game-breaking bugs, pray you have multiple saves Horses were cool, but holy shit they suffered from the "everything is floating" syndrome that Oblivion had And of course the "everything is floating" shit, it felt like I was on the moon Fallout 3 and New Vegas: (basically two giant standalone Fallout-themed mods for Oblivion) Problems with the engine still, but less obvious Broken quests all over the place Tiny, cluttered world On occasion there are oddities with the physics engine Skyrim: Massive, MASSIVE number of bugs Dumbed down attribute system, "streamlining" Leveling is stupid, it's even worse than previous games This is the first game where Radiant AI lives up to what they were saying back when Oblivion was in development Lazy pathing for AI Lazy dragons, Dragonborn should have fixed that but instead it was just more laziness Magic system is very, very hit or miss, they clearly did not test this Very sloppily built open world Terrible optimization Really bad problems with the physics engine Horses definitely needed work A lot of stupid behind the scenes stuff, like the leaves in the Rift having textures that were big in filesize but low in resolution I mean that's just the stuff off the top of my head, I could sit down and think long and hard about it but what's the point? Everyone plays Bethesda games now expecting the modding community to "fix it" and it's clear that the developers started that when they saw that when they saw the community explode after Oblivion. I have been modding these games consistently for years and years, I've played every single Bethesda game they've ever released. Todd Howard and his merry gang have said so, so much shit and seeing people lap it up and then blindly defend them, ("they're the developers they know more than you!") makes me so fucking angry. Fact is Fallout 4 may have pushed the envelope in certain things but I didn't even have to look hard to find evidence that it's just a buggy piece of shit under the hood like everything else Bethesda shits out. I can tell you right now the settlement construction was added at the last possible minute, all it did was make me feel like I was playing somebody's Unity project. I half expected a link to a kickstarter to pop up in the middle of the menus, and the weapon modification system made me feel that way too. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea and I like the concept, but it had the same clunky feeling that the rest of the world had. All those boarded up houses were just this jarring reminder that I'm playing an unfinished AAA title that I thankfully didn't buy. (I didn't mind hijacking my friend's xbox to play it though) Is that a good enough reason for you?

I can't put any merit in your opinion of New Vegas if you think it's a "fallout-themed mod for Oblivion"

Legit, why does warframe run smooth as silk but I struggle to get 20 FPS on Fallout 4? On the lowest possible settings? Bethedsa can't make games.

[QUOTE=Samiam22;49292254]I can't put any merit in your opinion of New Vegas if you think it's a "fallout-themed mod for Oblivion"[/QUOTE] The engine wasn't very well suited for FPS gameplay. I remember stuff like not being able to shoot an enemy due to being out of range with a sniper rifle from not very far away. It just felt off because gamebryo kinda sucks.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49290783]I don't like when bacon is mixed with other things, especially not burgers. I like it just by itself.[/QUOTE] Bacon is one of the most overrated things on the Internet.

[QUOTE=Aldawolf;49292293]Legit, why does warframe run smooth as silk but I struggle to get 20 FPS on Fallout 4? On the lowest possible settings? Bethedsa can't make games.[/QUOTE] While Fallout 4 is stupidly unoptimised, it and Warframe are very different games that stress your system in different areas. In Fallout 4 you have to have the current cell you're in, as well as any adjacent cells, and all the NPCs, objects and triggers including physics for all those things and AI routines. In Warframe you just need one level, the NPCs, and a handful of drops for the players. Though as I said Fallout 4 is unoptimised as shit. I recommend downloading some mods to fix thexture issues to try to get some extra frames.

[QUOTE=Aldawolf;49292293]Legit, why does warframe run smooth as silk but I struggle to get 20 FPS on Fallout 4? On the lowest possible settings? Bethedsa can't make games.[/QUOTE] What kind of comparison is that even? One is a completely linear instanced shooter while another one is a huge open world with a ton of stuff happening all at once.

[QUOTE=simkas;49292954]What kind of comparison is that even? One is a completely linear instanced shooter while another one is a huge open world with a ton of stuff happening all at once.[/QUOTE] Not to mention the two year difference and how hard Fallout was pushing to be a real game changer.

And how ugly Warframe is anyway so I doubt it'd be that intensive.

[QUOTE=Luxuria;49293036]And how ugly Warframe is anyway so I doubt it'd be that intensive.[/QUOTE] have you ever actually played warframe? it's not battlefield but considering how small the dev team for it is, the graphical quality and optimization are amazing

[QUOTE=Bathtub;49293087]have you ever actually played warframe? it's not battlefield but considering how small the dev team for it is, the graphical quality and optimization are amazing[/QUOTE] I played it very briefly and thought it looked alright and was really boring.

This thread always comes back to people comparing overrated games to newer games. And yet people don't consider that technology is a VERY fast ageing kind of development thats constantly getting better and easier as seconds pass.

[QUOTE=greeley;49293302]This thread always comes back to people comparing overrated games to newer games. And yet people don't consider that technology is a VERY fast ageing kind of development thats constantly getting better and easier as seconds pass.[/QUOTE] You're partially right. Technology is getting better at an exponential rate, but developers are taking that as a free pass to have their optimizing team be composed of three overcooked hot dogs and a smelly toupee.

Even with the issues Metal Gear Solid V had (not sure what parts of it can be chalked up to parts of it apparently being rushed, which is a shame), I still feel as though the Metal Gear series is one of the only video games series that doesn't really have a single bad entry. Well, the Metal Gear untitled Snake's Revenge was a bit of a dud but since that game was apparently made without Hideo's consent I don't know if that can be counted. Even the Metal Gear Acid games were really well thought out.

I just saw 2001: A space odyssey for the first time. That film is actually pretty awful. It has virtually no plot and nothing in the film is ever explained, it has no character development, if indeed it has any main characters at all. It manages to successfully avoid any elements of story telling at all, having no humour, tragedy or romance. Beyond stunning special effects for the time period, I literally cannot fathom why that movie is considered one of the best ever made. I have to imagine that the only people who like it are as pretentious as the movie itself.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49291320]I don't like many competitive games at all. Especially not shooters. It's just so much fucking noise. Constant gunfire sounds, people constantly talking shit on each other, explosions, whatever. I don't put in enough time to be any good at them or whatever so the experience for me mostly involves dying over, and over, and over again, against people who do sink dozens and dozens of hours in to them and can shoot you with a sniper before their eyes have actually transmitted that you're there to their brains. It's just not fun for me, it literally induces headaches.[/QUOTE] Comp play breeds some of the cruelest of people. Only maybe a couple of groups are outright real cool doods, but the rest are so full of venom. Not to mention comp play is usually super stale, unless you're playing an Arena Shooter, which boils down to knowing where and when weapons spawn and actual aiming skill. There's typically a strict meta (see: broken mechanics people abuse and devs that wont fix it because "its a feature") that will get you a fuckton of flak for not using, and if you screw up once, you'll never hear the end of it. Way too much stress for something that should be fun, but I know there's gonna be someone arguing "but that /is/ fun for them hruheuhruheuhru". [QUOTE=Bathtub;49293087]have you ever actually played warframe? it's not battlefield but considering how small the dev team for it is, the graphical quality and optimization are amazing[/QUOTE] The game is great, but the dev team makes some odd gameplay changes. I haven't played in a long time so iunno how much the game changed from hardcore grinding with certain classes and Void shit.

I'm sure Witcher 3 is a great game and all, but I couldn't give a damn at the moment considering how often people tell me it's the best RPG ever, etc etc. Oh, and can I get a few opinions here. Is a t-shirt and jeans really a bad look, even for casual wear? I mean, it's the simplest thing you could wear when it comes to dressing casually, and I don't think it looks bad at all. Unless all you wear is baggy jeans and baggy band t-shirts, then there really shouldn't be an issue.

[QUOTE=TAU!;49294508]I'm sure Witcher 3 is a great game and all, but I couldn't give a damn at the moment considering how often people tell me it's the best RPG ever, etc etc. Oh, and can I get a few opinions here. Is a t-shirt and jeans really a bad look, even for casual wear? I mean, it's the simplest thing you could wear when it comes to dressing casually, and I don't think it looks bad at all. Unless all you wear is baggy jeans and baggy band t-shirts, then there really shouldn't be an issue.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't ever go as far to say The Witcher 3 is the best RPG ever. It [I]is[/I] however, really damn good, and definitely the best one to come out in a very long time. Also I see nothing wrong with t-shirt + jeans as casual wear. It's not particularly exciting, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I wear that most of the year, then when it starts getting cold switch over to long-sleeved shirts and jackets with jeans.

I seen some videos on witcher. I have to ssay it is rather good.

Witcher 3's probably the best game that I couldn't enjoy.

[QUOTE=The mouse;49294321]I just saw 2001: A space odyssey for the first time. That film is actually pretty awful. It has virtually no plot and nothing in the film is ever explained, it has no character development, if indeed it has any main characters at all. It manages to successfully avoid any elements of story telling at all, having no humour, tragedy or romance. Beyond stunning special effects for the time period, I literally cannot fathom why that movie is considered one of the best ever made. I have to imagine that the only people who like it are as pretentious as the movie itself.[/QUOTE] The fact that things aren't explained right away is kind of what makes the movie great. You can pick up things the more you think about it. At first I had no real thoughts about it and then I kind of figured out what the symbols mean just by looking at discussions and stuff about it too. The idea is human progression and basically [sp]and being monitored, accepted, and "reborn" by another much more advanced species[/sp].

[QUOTE=wauterboi;49294746]The fact that things aren't explained right away is kind of what makes the movie great. You can pick up things the more you think about it. At first I had no real thoughts about it and then I kind of figured out what the symbols mean just by looking at discussions and stuff about it too. The idea is human progression and basically [sp]and being monitored, accepted, and "reborn" by another much more advanced species[/sp].[/QUOTE] If that's the case then why is most of the film even relevant? All of stuff on the spaceship with Hal 9000 has nothing to do with that. As far as I can tell 90% of the film was just filler to a conclusion which made no sense, in fact most of the film was just slow motion slow shots of spaceships.

Gun skins are ugly as fuck. Unless I can give it something sensible like an olive drab or whatever, I never give it skins. CS:GO has some of the worst examples. The amount that people spend on certain skins in that game boggles my mind.

[QUOTE=TAU!;49294508]I'm sure Witcher 3 is a great game and all, but I couldn't give a damn at the moment considering how often people tell me it's the best RPG ever, etc etc. [/QUOTE] The real appeal of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is about the general feeling you get by playing it You constantly feel like every cent you gave for it was indeed well spent and that whoever made the thing you are playing did a fucking good job at crafting everything

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;49294857]2001 gets better every time I see it. I remembering finding it mind numbingly boring the first time I saw it, but I was also 14 years old. Now I see it as arguably the best science fiction film ever made. The movie itself is fantastic, but what makes it truly great is how much it makes you think about its themes hours, days, weeks, YEARS after you finish watching it. Any film that can have that power must be doing something right. [editline]11th December 2015[/editline] The fact that it's not even my favorite Kubrick film should say a lot about the director as well.[/QUOTE] I watched it for the first time as a fully-grown adult and found it to be one of the most boring experiences of my life. I understand other people enjoyed the film, but it's my personal opinion that 2001: A Space Odyssey may be the worst film of all time.

[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;49289097]this is the popular opinion[/QUOTE] oh. everyone I know thinks fallout 4 is the best

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;49295129]I watched it for the first time as a fully-grown adult and found it to be one of the most boring experiences of my life. I understand other people enjoyed the film, [B]but it's my personal opinion that 2001: A Space Odyssey may be the worst film of all time.[/B][/QUOTE] You haven't seen many films then.