Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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[QUOTE=The Jack;45154548]Because they make up a very large percentage of the population. Yet we're stuck with seven white guys (nearly half from the USA), one black and one guy who's probably Hispanic. I know if we had a realy proportionate team we'd have most of the team Chinese or indian but they could have at least thrown the VIP back in and made him korean.
I don't actualy care that much. The current characters are good and I know that it's pretty difficult to portray someone chinese,arabic, indian or African in a comical style without getting into trouble. I'm mostly responding because of how many agrees you got.
Back to opinions unpopular: Demo best character. Least interesting meet the team video, but still the best character.[/QUOTE]
Maybe it's because TF2 is based off old spy movies, and each character is an archetype and caricature rather than being some demographically 'realistic' politically correct crew of characters.
[QUOTE=The Jack;45154548]Because they make up a very large percentage of the population. Yet we're stuck with seven white guys (nearly half from the USA), one black and one guy who's probably Hispanic. I know if we had a realy proportionate team we'd have most of the team Chinese or indian but they could have at least thrown the VIP back in and made him korean.
I don't actualy care that much. The current characters are good and I know that it's pretty difficult to portray someone chinese,arabic, indian or African in a comical style without getting into trouble. I'm mostly responding because of how many agrees you got.
Back to opinions unpopular: Demo best character. Least interesting meet the team video, but still the best character.[/QUOTE]
media don't have to have casts based on world population proportions you know. Unless you want developers to keep a checklist and make sure all minorities are there.
r/dolan was just closed
rip in peace
[QUOTE=NoaJM;45153005]Maybe I have a different definition of such.[/QUOTE]
you can't really have a different definition of random though. if the soldier interrupted the spy by saying "i like cats", that'd have been random because it would've been completely unrelated to anything in the video. if the spy had said "the cat is out of the bag" before being interrupted by the soldier, then that wouldn't have been random. you could call it cheap or unfunny, but not random.
[QUOTE=acdc920605;45119225]Oblivion was better than skyrim.[/QUOTE]
Skyrim generally was shit and a huge disappointment.
Oblivion hit a sweet spot between arcady and traditional while skyrim just went full dumbed down piece of shit.
[QUOTE=Novangel;45155794]Maybe it's because TF2 is based off old spy movies, and each character is an archetype and caricature rather than being some demographically 'realistic' politically correct crew of characters.[/QUOTE]
Forgive my ignorance. I've never seen old spy movies that didn't had people who weren't American, English, Russian, french,German, Cuban or East Asian
Chivalry bores me.
[QUOTE=proch;45161027]
Oblivion hit a sweet spot between arcady and traditional while skyrim just went full dumbed down piece of shit.[/QUOTE]
Even though I do like Oblivion, it really hasn't aged well.
Those potatofaces and that horrible combat system are just so offputting.
I actually enjoy Grand Theft Auto Online and I don't think that it is a "Grind Simulator" like many people say.
I have heard people say that having growing communities and an audience (i.e. games, fandoms) isn't bad, but I can full heartily disagree.
This isn't a subject discussed much, but I hear positivity to large communities more often then not.
I still use Internet Explorer.
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[QUOTE=Sgt. Nikolai;45163022]I actually enjoy Grand Theft Auto Online and I don't think that it is a "Grind Simulator" like many people say.[/QUOTE]
I think it can be, but it depends on what you're trying to do.
Since I'm not buying 20 super cars like the majority of players seem to do, I personally don't find it to be a grind simulator.
[QUOTE=proch;45161027]Skyrim generally was shit and a huge disappointment.
Oblivion hit a sweet spot between arcady and traditional while skyrim just went full dumbed down piece of shit.[/QUOTE]
That's.... quite an exaggeration. Oblivion had tons of flaws, shitty graphics, awful voice acting (even fewer than skyrim I think), even worse combat than skyrim. Plus some of the simplifications were good, durability was garbage. Plus spell-casting was worse too imo.
I kind of had the same opinion until I tried out oblivion again.
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;45158879]you can't really have a different definition of random though. if the soldier interrupted the spy by saying "i like cats", that'd have been random because it would've been completely unrelated to anything in the video. if the spy had said "the cat is out of the bag" before being interrupted by the soldier, then that wouldn't have been random. you could call it cheap or unfunny, but not random.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I can't disagree with that. You make a good point.
[QUOTE=NoaJM;45163837]Yeah I can't disagree with that. You make a good point.[/QUOTE]
It's awesome when people can admit to being wrong in a way that isn't an over-the-top defense mechanism. Being wrong isn't synonymous with being bad. Kudos to you.
[QUOTE=proch;45161027]Skyrim generally was shit and a huge disappointment.
Oblivion hit a sweet spot between arcady and traditional while skyrim just went full dumbed down piece of shit.[/QUOTE]
While it was pretty fun when it first came out, if you can notice it's uninspired as fuck (It replaces a weird combination of the Roman empire with Asian dynasties, with a generic European fantasy land), the world has little depth, terrible combat and graphics, etc.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;45163717]That's.... quite an exaggeration. Oblivion had tons of flaws, shitty graphics, awful voice acting (even fewer than skyrim I think), even worse combat than skyrim. Plus some of the simplifications were good, durability was garbage. Plus spell-casting was worse too imo.
I kind of had the same opinion until I tried out oblivion again.[/QUOTE]
I thought Skyrim was better untill i tried Oblivion out again. Every now and again I return to Oblivion and then play it for some time, and every now and again i try giving skyrim another chances, and every time it fails to keep me entertained due to it's flaws.
I don't even own a copy of Oblivion, but based on what I've seen in comparison to Skyrim, Oblivion looks like it has better quests, storylines, and factions. Everything else, to me, looks better in Skyrim, although I won't know for sure until I get and play Oblivion.
Oblivion is one of my favourite games of all time, but you really need mods for some aspects of the game(the leveling and the combat mostly)
[QUOTE=Novangel;45164610](It replaces a weird combination of the Roman empire with Asian dynasties, with a generic European fantasy land)[/QUOTE]
That's most of why it's my least favorite of Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim. After the awesome setting that was Vvardenfell, they actually break lore to give you a generic shit fantasy forest. Boring as fuck.
Thank god they stepped it up for Shivering Isles
[QUOTE=proch;45164637]I thought Skyrim was better untill i tried Oblivion out again. Every now and again I return to Oblivion and then play it for some time, and every now and again i try giving skyrim another chances, and every time it fails to keep me entertained due to it's flaws.[/QUOTE]
With mods it could be fine but the game is too freaking crash happy. Especially if you want decent resolution textures since they insist 64-bit support was unnecessary. (Totally proven by the majority of mod related crashes being due to memory issues.)
[QUOTE=The golden;45166434]I feel sad knowing that there will never be another TES game which has the originality of Morrowind.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. Imo TES is pretty much dead. Beth got all AAA and commercialized, they're games are almost soulless now.
[QUOTE=proch;45167402]Yeah. Imo TES is pretty much dead. Beth got all AAA and commercialized, they're games are almost soulless now.[/QUOTE]
their*
also IDK what you're talking about, I have like 3 dozen soul gems in skyrim
Origin is not that great.
I get that monopolies are bad etc and Steam has been dropping the ball lately, but Origin is still run by EA, and still has a heap of shortcomings of its own. For instance, the pricing model on BF4 is absolutely shameful. $90 for the base game (NZ prices at work here, that's what it says in the store for me), then $25 for each individual expansion pack (which there are 5 of), then there's premium membership which is another $50, and then on top of that there's a heap of microtransaction nonsense.
For all the people praising its service, in the limited time I used Origin a few years ago, I was installing Battlefield 3 (about 18 gigs, and this was when i had a data cap of about 50gb) and it glitched and did not install past 99%, and when I contacted Origin's customer support, they told me to delete my Program Files folder and try again.
Dark Souls series are not THAT atmospheric
[QUOTE=proch;45167402]Yeah. Imo TES is pretty much dead. Beth got all AAA and commercialized, they're games are almost soulless now.[/QUOTE]
I kind of have mixed feelings about it. On one hand its kind of great to have these shorter more succinct quests that are better planned out, and with unique dungeons and such. On the other hand I really miss the depth and length of all the quests. A perfect example is the mages guild in skyrim versus oblivion. Basically cut it into a fifth of what it once was.
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I mean the AAA games are directed towards everyone, people like me (who have less free time) benefit from the shorter less expansive games. But on the cost of having way less content.
[QUOTE=Samiam22;45168919]Origin is not that great.
I get that monopolies are bad etc and Steam has been dropping the ball lately, but Origin is still run by EA, and still has a heap of shortcomings of its own. For instance, the pricing model on BF4 is absolutely shameful. $90 for the base game (NZ prices at work here, that's what it says in the store for me), then $25 for each individual expansion pack (which there are 5 of), then there's premium membership which is another $50, and then on top of that there's a heap of microtransaction nonsense.
For all the people praising its service, in the limited time I used Origin a few years ago, I was installing Battlefield 3 (about 18 gigs, and this was when i had a data cap of about 50gb) and it glitched and did not install past 99%, and when I contacted Origin's customer support, they told me to delete my Program Files folder and try again.[/QUOTE]
I honestly don't care for Origin in the slightest. The only reason I have it installed in the first place is so that I can launch Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3 as Steam shortcuts with the Origin overlay disabled and the Steam overlay enabled, but I still need to have Origin running in order to play those games.
The collapse of the Roman Empire was a good thing.
it was for Ireland
we laughed at the rest of Europe, our shitty weather saved us from the Dark Ages!
[QUOTE=ImpSnob;45178935]it was for Ireland
we laughed at the rest of Europe, our shitty weather saved us from the Dark Ages![/QUOTE]
It was even good for the Italians themselves. The Roman Empire was a bloated despotic hellhole run by autocratic lunatics that went on pointless wars and poured resources into wasteful projects.
Malnutrition actually decreased after the Empire fell. Most people back then were glad to see it gone (save for the aristocracy).
The first Ratchet & Clank was the only good one.
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