Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@CJD87 PoP: Lost Crown was the best original game from Ubisoft since Immortals: Fenyx Rising. I got tired of Ubisoft Formula to be honest.

Such a great game! I recently replayed the trilogy and all three are so excellent. I can see your comment about Knight satisfying more as an open world game. When I replayed City I was surprised that it was much smaller than I remembered, closer to Asylum with a larger overworld than a true open world game. Not a complaint to me, just more of an observation.

And yes, Knight is probably my favorite-looking PS4 game! It's so stylized and the "neon gothic" aesthetic just rules. Plus, the Unreal Engine of the day always did "wet" very well, so setting the game at night in the rain was a pretty brilliant way to play to the engine's strengths instead of its weaknesses.

The PS3 Move games are better ideas than PSVR games in my opinion.

Won’t be my last post but I’ve contemplated saying something here just for the sheer heck of it so here goes. I’ll elaborate if asked about specific takes. A lot of these will be quick shots for brevity. Longer hot takes require a solo post.

• NES games are pretty well designed and most popular 2D retro games have pretty good design, even ones that don’t have a save function. They’re usually designed witn replays, something I feel gets unfairly bashed as if it’s an objectively inferior way to design a game when it really isn’t.
• Despite decently enjoying FF, I think Dragon Quest is better.
• Naruto gets unfair hate, and is much better than Hunter x Hunter imo (trust me, I’ve been an HxH fan longer than some of the fans have been alive, I watched the 90s movies first)
• as a non American, I find America’s 90s pop culture nostalgia to be pretty overrated, as someone who watched nicktoons and most 90s sitcoms when they were new, I don’t have that many fond memories of many American cartoons and sitcoms from the 90s. Sometimes they had a really ugly artstyle.
• if you’re a movie snob worth your salt, you have to see goodfellas at least once. (Donnie Brasco is also better, double hot take yay)
• I’ll please basically nobody with the next take; remake culture is pretty overrated, playing the original version isn’t that bad, but if a game has a remake announced, that’s also not an inherent negative either. Two versions of a good thing is not a bad thing.
• 90% of “jank” complaints are ill-informed
• inverted controls are awesome
• N64 > PS1
• watching anime is seldom better than reading the manga, it’s just more convenient due to availability and whatnot
• tv shows and movies should have a way to be easily bought and owned, they’re not disposable media.
• non-fiction books are far more interesting to read than fiction books like lotr or harry potter and are probably a better use of your time
• labyrinth zone isn’t hard
• NES rpgs were really damn fun and I genuinely miss the type of game design they had
• PC isn’t really complicated tbh and installing emulators and whatnot isn’t inconvenient at all
• Series is an awesome console
• Ray Liotta > entire godfather cast
• breaking bad is bad, Malcom in the middle is better
• don’t think I’ve liked any new sony ips from ps4 era and onwards
• time to once again please nobody; HZD, Days Gone and similar games all belong on Sony and have a place. They shouldn’t go away just because they seem like generic open world to you… on that note, I also don’t like them and never will and wish Sony would stop promoting these kinds of games because I’m tired of them. Uncharted 4 was kinda my last straw with this type of cinamatic gameplay.
• if you think momodora isn’t a soulslike you’re just wrong

If some of these takes sound pretty obscure feel free to ask for elaboration

@LN78 😪 oh that’s the result of my 4 am brain being both unable to sleep and unable to read hahaha
If I took an extra second to read and not type and I was definitely gonna leave out or separate the non gaming ones
The hot topic idea is a really great idea though

PS: once I’m back home I’ll edit my entire post to segregate the two, maybe
Sorry about your weekend

@LN78 oh Yeah I should also probably say I can’t really promise you an academic-level discussion and it’d be dishonest to imply as such, whatever I wrote there wasn’t really discrediting your body of work in a direct or malicious way, my a$$hat just watches too many movies sometimes, which ironically seems to be something that some famous film critics against. I’m quite literally pleasing no one hahaha

(Edit I sent this before seeing your second replay hahaaaa

@LN78 @Yousef- yeah, I don't think it's possible to appreciate good cinema, arthouse or even just drama and art as a whole and not appreciate Breaking Bad. That one threw me a little 😅

What I would say is that maybe 90% of Breaking Bad fans just like it for the wrong reason though, which is an interesting side note which maybe can justify your hot take, the "drugs and 'Heisenberg' being cool" crowd - very much miss the whole point of the show.

But when things get popular, it attracts everyone, same as GTA, in a way. Which is about way more than guns, cars and drugs being fun haha.

Oh yes, I smoothly managed to tie it back into gaming so the discussion can continue 😁

Also reading the Ray Liotta comment, the ending of Revolver is peak Ray Liotta. He should have done way more noir style stuff, and been given more roles overall, I think. Maybe there's some I'm not aware of, but I don't think he was that prolific in later 90's, 00's movies, which is a shame. But studios forgot how to make good movies in the 00's tbf.

@Ravix that’s a good way of looking it. I’m definitely a victim of false hype. Bought into it, finished it, thought it was mid, switched to sopranos (which was less talked about in my circles), never looked back.

@Jaz007 here you go 👊

@colonelkilgore Thanks!

I can only assume there was a post was deleted or something, as when it errored the other day the last post is not here anymore.

Just a bit of a balls up then, @HallowMoonshadow?

@JohnnyShoulder We don’t want those NintendoLife freeloading lazy riffraff over here. All they bring is trouble. They have to either start with Hookshot on Push Square from the beginning, or move over here in the acceptable way through creating an account and introducing themselves in the Intro thread. Secure our Push Square borders. 😜

@Th3solution Yeah we don't want these NL scallywags dirtying the waters with their talk of how well their exclusives sell.

@Th3solution @JohnnyShoulder If a character didn't make an appearance in Astro Bot, it is clearly meaningless to the gaming landscape.

Sonic in 3D now that’s an electrifying experience! The rush, the loops, the wild freedom to dive into vibrant worlds—it’s not just running, it’s living in the moment. But, with all that speed, could Sonic’s 3D adventures have reached even greater heights, or is there still a whole universe of untapped chaos waiting for its turn?

I know there are a few notable games for which my feelings go against the public consensus, but I was reminded of another. Okami.

I’ve not thought of that game in a long time. When I played it back on PS2 I had high hopes. I remember buying the game at release and it came with like a water color stylus and kit of some kind. As I played the game I tried to fabricate hype and enjoyment, but eventually after several hours I just had to admit to myself that I didn’t really like it that much. I never finished it.

It’s a much beloved game, often cited as one of the greatest games of all time. I just never quite understood the allure

I still have no idea why Astro Bot won GotY and why people like it so much

ZZZ is probably my GOTY. I feel like I am constantly talking myself out of it cause of the common criticisms like “its just a mindless gooner game” or “ew gacha is scummy” and so on and forth, but man, I’m hundreds of hours deep into this game and have enjoyed basically every second of it. The list of games I can say that about I can count on my hands.

They drop consistently massive patches for free, I love the world / story, the combat mechanics are refined to perfection (to the point where it has kinda ruined other action games for me, cause they never feel as crisp as ZZZ) and the excitement for a new character release is really unlike anything in gaming for me right now.

I get this is Hoyo, so maybe a time will come when ZZZ is power crept to hell and the gacha feels super predatory cause you are constantly chasing the meta team because it is meta or nothing, but right now the only pressure to purchase in ZZZ is self inflicted. They usually give out mountains of free currency every big patch, too.

I just can’t think of a game I had more consistent fun with in 2024. I keep feeling like I should give it to a more “conventional” choice like Infinite Wealth or something, because that feels more right somehow, but why when ZZZ is the best game I’ve played.

@Zuljaras It's the first new 3D Mario game since 2017. About time.