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FunkyNige said:
Unpopular opinion - Retro gaming is boring, the vast majority of games released before 1992 are tedious and repetitive.
Completely agree. My mind tells me i want to go back and play the old games. But then when, for example, i bought one of those official SNES modern emulaters with all the old games built in, I played it for all of 15 mins before giving it to my nephew.Unpopular opinion of my own: Half-Life is dull. I would state from the outset I have come to the Half-Life late on, only playing the original Half-Life a couple of years ago despite playing the original Doom / Doom II when they first came out the best part of 30 years ago. I can see the clear advantages Half-Life made from a technical point of view, but from a gameplay point of view, it just seems slow. I'm playing Half-Life 2 for the for time ever at the moment. The first 20-odd minutes reminded me of the first game: just boring wandering around without even a gun, in a FPS FFS! Give me Doom I/II every day of the week, I can replay those games indefinitely.
My unpopular opinion is that MW2 is the best call of duty game and also best game of all time..
Last of us I also found incredibly boring, stuck with it and completely roughly half of the game and gave up.
Uncharted 1 and 2 I thought were pretty good games at their time, not amazing but pretty good. I bought the official PlayStation magazine a fair few times and I s
t you not, crowned uncharted 2 as the greatest PlayStation game of all time, over such greats as Metal gear solid. Stopped buying it after that.
There hasn’t been a good battlefield game since Bad company 2, all subsequent games have just tried to emulate modern warfare in one way or another.
PT is the scariest “game” there has ever been
Grand theft auto games do nothing for me
Last of us I also found incredibly boring, stuck with it and completely roughly half of the game and gave up.
Uncharted 1 and 2 I thought were pretty good games at their time, not amazing but pretty good. I bought the official PlayStation magazine a fair few times and I s
t you not, crowned uncharted 2 as the greatest PlayStation game of all time, over such greats as Metal gear solid. Stopped buying it after that. There hasn’t been a good battlefield game since Bad company 2, all subsequent games have just tried to emulate modern warfare in one way or another.
PT is the scariest “game” there has ever been
Grand theft auto games do nothing for me
Making every game super hard is boring. I blame Dark Souls.
I get it, the rinse repeat til you get it right, but it doesn't need to be included in every damn game you buy now.
Gran Turismo has been a giant patch for every release after about 4.
Uncharted is the most over rated game on PS, just a patched up Tomb Raider.
I get it, the rinse repeat til you get it right, but it doesn't need to be included in every damn game you buy now.
Gran Turismo has been a giant patch for every release after about 4.
Uncharted is the most over rated game on PS, just a patched up Tomb Raider.
Don Roque said:
1) Resident Evil 4 is totally overrated. All the hard work of building atmosphere in the first third of the game is totally squandered by the time Leon gets to the castle. Things get even worse at the end when you end up on the island military base. Yet another case of the budget running out and the ending being budged, which kind of sounds like...
You're entitled to not liking one of the most highly regarded game ever made. Personally, I think it's perfection.It was the first RE game I ever played (on the Gamecube) and in fact it was the first survival / horror game I'd played since Aliens on the Spectrum. I've played through it countless times on subsequent systems and it never fails to impress.
The Island brings a much needed shift in tone and context and the Regenerators *still* give me the creeps. I find myself quoting the Merchant if my other half is browsing in a shop and the sub-games and additional quests simply add to the longevity.
If you want contentious; GTA 5 is a technical tour de force but nothing more.
Destiny 2 was a POS. I didn't play the first one.
I desperately wanted to like it, but OH.MY.GOD what is it that you have to sit in your spaceship to load an area every time you need to travel? And the fist level I play, is bugged so you couldn't progress. So the thought of redoing it all (I think all the cut scenes and crap to get to that first level was about an hour) just saw me uninstall it. Thankfully it was free
I desperately wanted to like it, but OH.MY.GOD what is it that you have to sit in your spaceship to load an area every time you need to travel? And the fist level I play, is bugged so you couldn't progress. So the thought of redoing it all (I think all the cut scenes and crap to get to that first level was about an hour) just saw me uninstall it. Thankfully it was free
Have to admit I adored D2, nearly 1000 hours into it, but not buying new expansion, deleting tons of content to enable new and still charging 30 quid for it? Sorry guys, that's not on.
But it kept me going all through lockdown, made some great mates and some of the stuff you ca do is beautifully thought out, it looks amazingly pretty, plays well and has many qualities, but like most games has drawbacks.
But it kept me going all through lockdown, made some great mates and some of the stuff you ca do is beautifully thought out, it looks amazingly pretty, plays well and has many qualities, but like most games has drawbacks.
bobbo89 said:
FunkyNige said:
Unpopular opinion - Retro gaming is boring, the vast majority of games released before 1992 are tedious and repetitive.
Depends on what you consider retro. N64 is retro to me and there's nothing boring about OG Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Super Mario 64! No doubt, if played now, would be awful
LukeBrown66 said:
Have to admit I adored D2, nearly 1000 hours into it, but not buying new expansion, deleting tons of content to enable new and still charging 30 quid for it? Sorry guys, that's not on.
But it kept me going all through lockdown, made some great mates and some of the stuff you ca do is beautifully thought out, it looks amazingly pretty, plays well and has many qualities, but like most games has drawbacks.
I loved it as a social shooter. Hated the price gouging and the load times were laughable. But it kept me going all through lockdown, made some great mates and some of the stuff you ca do is beautifully thought out, it looks amazingly pretty, plays well and has many qualities, but like most games has drawbacks.
bobbo89 said:
FunkyNige said:
Unpopular opinion - Retro gaming is boring, the vast majority of games released before 1992 are tedious and repetitive.
Depends on what you consider retro. N64 is retro to me and there's nothing boring about OG Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Super Mario 64! 1992 was an important year with several genre defining games being released such as Super Mario Kart, Wolfenstien 3D, Star Control 2 and Mortal Kombat.
But I disagree with his assertion, there were plenty of interesting story driven games released prior to 1992 such as 3 of the Super Mario Bros games, a lot of the Sierra adventure games like Kings Quest and Space Quest as well as Mean Streets and Sim City. It wasn't all Pong before 92.
I'd also say that repetitiveness isn't something that has gone away. Hence MMORPG's still exist.
The last, and the first, great FPS game was Doom. No FPS game since then has changed the idea enough to be considered its equal, IMO. As good as they are, and as elaborate as the stories behind them are, they have all been derivatives. None since have held my attention long enough for me to consider them a game I play apart from the original COD, which I really enjoyed online, and Dishonored where the interactions with other characters and the choices of how to act and move make it feel different enough, but I still don't consider either of those as equals of Doom - I suppose mostly for the impact it had on me. It completely changed gaming for me in a way that even Wolvenstein didn't quite manage.
I assume my opinion is that Eve Online is the greatest game ever created is also an unpopular one.
I assume my opinion is that Eve Online is the greatest game ever created is also an unpopular one.
Trustmeimadoctor said:
But surely doom is derivative of the first fps Wolfenstein 3d that started the way they are all structured
Mine leben!
Can't really call it derivative when it was made by the same people though. Doom was state of the art at the time (I begged my parents to get a PC...they eventually bought a low end 386 that couldn't run it) and plays like a completely different game. Aside from inventing the Deathmatch, it's pretty much FPS law that they all have to have a shotgun and BFG equivalent now.Mine leben!
Trustmeimadoctor said:
But surely doom is derivative of the first fps Wolfenstein 3d that started the way they are all structured
Mine leben!
Yeah I know Mine leben!
I won't claim there's much logic in my argument. Basically to me Wolvenstein 3D felt like a first attempt, a kind of proof that the idea can work, but they hadn't quite got it all to gel as a world changing gaming experience, and Doom was when they first got the concept and gameplay right. Or maybe it was the graphics and atmosphere. Or all of it.kiseca said:
Yeah I know I won't claim there's much logic in my argument. Basically to me Wolvenstein 3D felt like a first attempt, a kind of proof that the idea can work, but they hadn't quite got it all to gel as a world changing gaming experience, and Doom was when they first got the concept and gameplay right. Or maybe it was the graphics and atmosphere. Or all of it.
Doom was actually 3D so instead of just having flat corridors you could have changes in height - it added a massive extra dimension (geddit?) as you could have outdoor maps, stairs, lifts and all that carry on. I've played both in the last 10 years and Wolfenstein gets a bit dull after a while but Doom really does have replayability of a brilliantly made game. I won't claim there's much logic in my argument. Basically to me Wolvenstein 3D felt like a first attempt, a kind of proof that the idea can work, but they hadn't quite got it all to gel as a world changing gaming experience, and Doom was when they first got the concept and gameplay right. Or maybe it was the graphics and atmosphere. Or all of it.FunkyNige said:
Doom was actually 3D so instead of just having flat corridors you could have changes in height - it added a massive extra dimension (geddit?) as you could have outdoor maps, stairs, lifts and all that carry on. I've played both in the last 10 years and Wolfenstein gets a bit dull after a while but Doom really does have replayability of a brilliantly made game.
Wolf 3D has 3D graphics, but still played in 2D. Doom was the first game to have true 3D. One was built on the other which I'd call evolution rather than derivative. Doom was also the first FPS to have networked multiplayer. This was well and truly ahead of its time as we could never get networking working with Windows 3.11.
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