• Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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cannibal corpse are like world famous lol theyve sold millions of records. And who cares anyway like this is more of a place to vent than anything else (also hes right cos Fisher is not very good but Barnes is literally one of the worst dm vocalists) [editline]18th November 2014[/editline] plus we're on the internet where more obscure music is far more mainstream than in real life. I'm sure a lot of the people who look at this thread listen to metal.
[QUOTE=Captain Chalky;46517829]-snip-[/QUOTE] Cool video, and I understand their points, but I feel like one of their main points fall apart (what do they eat?). Lizard on a stick, squirrel bits, and noodle soup are available in Megaton and Rivet city, and [sp]fresh fruit and vegetables are grown in Dr. Li's lab, making it more viable.[/sp] Not to mention the trading caravans that visit both cities frequently. Super mutants have bags upon bags of gore bags, not to mention they probably hunt Yao Gui and mole rats like the scavengers do around the wastes. Super mutant behemoths could probably be satiated with a single Yao gui. I feel that Fallout 3 was much more player-focused and rewarded exploration much more than New Vegas did, which may be my main quip with it, not to mention the fact that the playable space in New Vegas feels so much smaller compared to Fo3. Walk for a while in one direction (something I like doing in FO3) in New Vegas and you'll either find a.) a place you've already known about because of how close together everything is or b.) a house with nothing of interest in it besides regular loot (ammo, caps, small guns). Fallout 3 has tons of little things just waiting to be discovered, like the teddy bear factory, the plunger room, the rube goldberg machine store, all of those silly little things really added to the experience for me and really helped feel like a unique experience, which is why I'm glad Obsidian isn't in charge of Fallout 4. Bear in mind I have no connection to Fallout 1 & 2 as I've never played them, but in comparison of just the two FPS Fallout games, I think Fo3 is a better experience overall with more replayability.
You can't support a city on trade alone, and Dr. Li's lab barely makes any food. What do they eat doesn't mean "What are the items they consume?" it means "How do they sustain a settlement?" In Fallout 3 there are no farms, there are no hunting parties, there are no gatherers, there's no system for getting water. In New Vegas there are farms at every major settlement, there's a water treatments station drawing water from the Colorado river, they even have the share cropper farms for high density farming. And even with that there's a ton of quests where the goal is to find better methods of growing food and there are entire groups dedicated to ending the food shortage. Fallout 3 has no farms and everyone lives fine. New Vegas has farms fucking everywhere and people are barely able to keep themselves fed.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;46518473]Doesn't FO3 contain a ton of un-looted hospitals and super markets? Isn't that how they sustain themselves? New Vegas isn't exactly crawling with supermarkets and hospitals. Hell, even in New Vegas, the only way the Follows have all the medicinal supplies that they do is from unlooted hospitals from other regions.[/QUOTE] How could there be unlooted supermarkets and hospitals [i]two hundred years[/i] after the bombs fell? Medicine in New Vegas is brought in from the NCR, and there's even more of a crippling shortage than there is a shortage of food. The medicine shortage is so bad the Followers need the distillery of a local brothel/casino and they need the Khans to make actual medicine because they know how to make drugs from local plants. These are real problems in New Vegas that have quests and solutions. In Fallout 3 these kinds of things are never even brought up. The closest they get to tackling the issue of "How do people live in this shit hole?" is the main quest to purify the river, and that doesn't even make sense.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;46518425]You can't support a city on trade alone, and Dr. Li's lab barely makes any food. What do they eat doesn't mean "What are the items they consume?" it means "How do they sustain a settlement?" In Fallout 3 there are no farms, there are no hunting parties, there are no gatherers, there's no system for getting water. In New Vegas there are farms at every major settlement, there's a water treatments station drawing water from the Colorado river, they even have the share cropper farms for high density farming. And even with that there's a ton of quests where the goal is to find better methods of growing food and there are entire groups dedicated to ending the food shortage. Fallout 3 has no farms and everyone lives fine. New Vegas has farms fucking everywhere and people are barely able to keep themselves fed.[/QUOTE] Where do you think lizard on a stick and squirrel bits come from? They obviously have some way of gathering food, megaton and rivet city both have means of pumping water to the city. Not to mention Fo3s cities are much less populated than new vegas' so its more plausible to sustain a city from less resources.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;46518637]Well they didn't leave vaults as soon as the bombs stopped, and the world population is VERY small, so I'd imagine leftovers from the pre-bombed world would be enough for a while. I mean DC is in pretty decent condition compared to New Vegas, it would have more "leftovers" (although due to console limitations, New Vegas would've been much bigger IIRC)[/QUOTE] Yes, decay isn't a thing. I'm sure all that food is perfectly fresh and edible. You would also be surprised how quickly people go through stored food when they have to live off it. The people of Megaton also talk about their grandparents building the place so it isn't exactly new.
The first Bioshock is the best of the series.
When the lead singer of a band leaves and they get a new one. They should change their band name. (especially if the new singer sounds nothing like the old one and the vocals are one of the main things of the band)
[QUOTE=coco911231;46518657]Where do you think lizard on a stick and squirrel bits come from? They obviously have some way of gathering food, megaton and rivet city both have means of pumping water to the city. Not to mention Fo3s cities are much less populated than new vegas' so its more plausible to sustain a city from less resources.[/QUOTE] Again. Not "What do they put into their mouths?" the question is "HOW do they get the food they eat?" Lizard on a stick, cool, where are the hunters who catch these lizards? Where are these lizards? Lizard on a stick was a thing in Fallout because a guy was making them, in Fallout 3 they just exist. Saying "Obviously they have some way of gathering food" is fucking stupid because the question was "HOW?!" They don't starve to death so obviously they can get food, how do they do it?
[QUOTE=hippowombat;46518762]The first Bioshock is the best of the series.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure that's the general consensus.
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;46517699]this isn't an unpopular opinion this is fact [editline]18th November 2014[/editline] i suppose this qualifies as unpopular opinion- i picked up Uncharted and Uncharted 2 for cheap yesterday and I started playing the first one. God the gunplay sucks. it feels like im using a peashooter. This shit's more floaty and less exciting than Call of Duty. Aware they are acclaimed games but I don't really want to play it again lol but I guess I'll power through, I'm only about 2 hours in.[/QUOTE] i picked up 2 and dropped it in an hour because it was just the most boring shit. ended up using the disk as a coaster
[QUOTE=hippowombat;46518762]The first Bioshock is the best of the series.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure this is a very popular opinion. Infinite comes in second place, though. I had a harder time getting into BioShock 2 and it's my least favorite of the series. Playing as a Big Daddy was wicked fun, but having to keep your drill fuel up and protecting Little Sisters while they gathered ADAM was piss annoying. And Sofia Lamb was a pretty shitty antagonist compared to the likes of Andrew Ryan and Zachary Comstock.
I remember buying Bioshock 2 at CeX a year or so ago and I got home and opened it up and it was another copy of Bioshock 1 smfh. But i didn't care enough to go get it changed cos it was like £2 and I heard 2 wasn't very good anyway. I hate Infinite personally, it's a game whose hype I straight up literally cannot wrap my head around. Terrible game. [editline]18th November 2014[/editline] Bioshock 1 is one of my all time favourite games tho so even if 2 and Infinite suck I look at the Bioshock label in a very positive light
In my opinion I actually like Google+ more than Twitter or Facebook.
People who claim to be "lazy but smart" have no place in the real world. If you say "School marks don't determine intelligence, they only determine obedience" like it excuses your horrible marks then you're probably not as smart as you think you are. Natural intelligence is a dime a dozen, hence why no employer in his right mind wants to hire a lazy but smart person. If you have a weak work ethic then you are useless as a worker, no matter how naturally intelligent you are. If any of these "lazy but smart" people were even half as intelligent as they claim to be, they'd be working the system to get A's and B's like it was the easiest thing in the world. A person who is truly lazy but smart would find an easy way to do the job, as opposed to just not doing it. I'll take 'dumb as shit, but motivated to improve' any day over smug guys who think they deserve the world on a plate because they are 'smart'. It's pure arrogance.
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;46517699]this isn't an unpopular opinion this is fact [editline]18th November 2014[/editline] i suppose this qualifies as unpopular opinion- i picked up Uncharted and Uncharted 2 for cheap yesterday and I started playing the first one. God the gunplay sucks. it feels like im using a peashooter. This shit's more floaty and less exciting than Call of Duty. Aware they are acclaimed games but I don't really want to play it again lol but I guess I'll power through, I'm only about 2 hours in.[/QUOTE] Uncharted 1 was a fun Indiana Jones type game, but yeah the gunplay isn't great. 2 is superior in every way and you'll probably enjoy a ton more (except for a couple useless characters but what can you do) and 3 is the most technologically impressive but a bit lackluster in comparison to 2, imo
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;46517966]cannibal corpse are like world famous lol theyve sold millions of records. And who cares anyway like this is more of a place to vent than anything else (also hes right cos Fisher is not very good but Barnes is literally one of the worst dm vocalists) [editline]18th November 2014[/editline] plus we're on the internet where more obscure music is far more mainstream than in real life. I'm sure a lot of the people who look at this thread listen to metal.[/QUOTE] oops, color me corrected.
I can't stand Downton Abbey. The pacing is so glacial that it all falls apart. Other glacial things tend not to bother me though.
I love Bioshock 2 was more than 1 and Infinite-- though I love all three of them, Bioshock 2 is my baby.
[QUOTE=fudge blood;46530713]I love Bioshock 2 was more than 1 and Infinite-- though I love all three of them, Bioshock 2 is my baby.[/QUOTE] It's the best of the 3 games in terms of the actual gameplay
[QUOTE=Hat-Wearing Man;46530761]It's the best of the 3 games in terms of the actual gameplay[/QUOTE] The only thing 2 did better than 1 is handling Plasmid and Weaponry.
[QUOTE=Widow Engie;46534625]The only thing 2 did better than 1 is handling Plasmid and Weaponry.[/QUOTE] So, the single most important part?
[QUOTE=Rakmon;46535349]So, the single most important part?[/QUOTE] Hardly. Story was utter trash in comparison. Lamb was a far, far worse villain than Ryan or Fontaine.
You also couldn't use stealth in Bioshock 2 so ambushing and setting traps was completely removed. It catered for only one style of gameplay.
Taylor Swift is a fucking dumbass with her recent PR BS, but her music is awesome and I blast it at home like every day.
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;46535687]You also couldn't use stealth in Bioshock 2 so ambushing and setting traps was completely removed. It catered for only one style of gameplay.[/QUOTE] Did you forget about gathering ADAM or any of the parts where you need to defend an area with chokepoints? Because the game has tons of those and encourages you to set up traps every time. Also you totally can play through the game with stealth. The same tonic that muffled your movement in the first game is in the second one too.
Capitalism is unsustainable and will collapse, leading to communism. Proof: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537132]Capitalism is unsustainable and will collapse, leading to communism. Proof: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures[/QUOTE] It's not like the USSR had a great ecological record: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea#Irrigation_canals[/url]
[QUOTE=Deng;46537165]It's not like the USSR had a great ecological record: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea#Irrigation_canals[/url][/QUOTE] This is more reflective of the backward conditions of Russia in the 20th century than the communist project as a whole, especially considering how reactionary and backwards Tsarist Russia was and the lack of technicians and scientists following the revolution (To be expected in such a massive peasant economy).
[QUOTE=TSUKASA_FAN2K;46537193]This is more reflective of the backward conditions of Russia in the 20th century than the communist project as a whole, especially considering how reactionary and backwards Tsarist Russia was and the lack of technicians and scientists following the revolution (To be expected in such a massive peasant economy).[/QUOTE] Russia actually began to industrialize in the 1890s. Plus the USSR continued draining the Aral Sea well into the 1990s. They also drilled oil and deforested areas, yet never recovered to 1913 levels of agriculture and were forced to import food partly because they ruined so much land.
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