Post your unpopular video game opinions

[Richyvrlimited]

Chubbyross said:

Zelda is consistently the best franchise. BotW is probably the best video game ever made.

I couldn't get on with it, and looping back to the Switch hardware, it's really hard work to play as a mobile game, everything is tiny, not optimised that well.

[Steven_RW]

A Winner Is You said:

Playing something on the hardest difficulty does not make you any more of a "real" gamer than playing it on the easiest.

I agree with the sentiment but there are some games that just work better as the intended experience when on hard. Alien Isolation. Limited resources and a more challenging alien go hand in hand with the theme of the movies for example.

It doesn't mean all games need to be played on hard at all just some are better that way in my experience.

RW

[Steven_RW]

IamJacksContempt said:

vonuber said:

The Witcher 3 is over rated.

Agreed.

My unpopular opinion is that the vast majority of new games are overrated and not very fun to play. Especially narrative driven games such as Zero Dawn Horizon and God of War where you have very little freedom bore me to death.

Maybe it’s me losing interest.

I agree with this. If you want some challenge and gaming engagement, these sort of long drawn out story games are annoying as heck. I often lose interest before the actual gameplay starts. So on to the next one and never look back. Stuff like dark souls gives you a quick 2 min cinematic and then its up to you and your skills. Immediately challenging. Games with huge tutorials and cut scenes lose me before they hook me.

Skyrim was perfect - just as you worry the bit at the beginning is a little long, you get dumped into the world with the ability to go anywhere and do anything.

RW

[TallTom]

P-Jay said:

First Person Shooter games are moronic, simple, cheap to make games for ADHD ravaged teens on Red Bull to act our their violent fantasies without ever satisfying their impotent rage. At least Fortnite has the decency to strip away most of the bullst. I'm not against them, they serve an important purpose, before they arrived we gave those kids a Slinky, a Paddle Ball or in extreme circumstances a Drum Kit to try to stop them setting fire to the Village Hall or strangling the neighbours cat and then trying to mate with it.

People who don't like RDR2 skip all the cut scenes and they moan there's no story and that it's too slow. They should have bought COD 65 remastered and a can of Monster, or maybe a Drum Kit.

Gran Turismo is about as exciting as reading the boot capacity of a Vectra in What Car?

Most PC gamers only play one game, Frame Rate Top Trumps with their 'friends' online. Real gamers have consoles.

4K is the Emperor's new clothes. 4K won't make a bad Film good and HD won't make a good Film bad. Games are exactly the same, unless you only 'play' with a load of over-laid graphic stats to impress your 'friends' online - see above.

Oi.... I partially resemble that remark!...

I mean, defending FPS, PUBG was/is a great change to FPS, much like Borderlands 1 & 2.... to the whole RPG/FPS combo! The newer rehashed stuff has been pretty disappointing though (Warzone & Borderlands 3 etc), fortnite is the devil... its a building game not a FPS.... (third person?)

I gave up on the COD series past the MW3/Black Ops 2 part (stopped before the wall jumping rubbish)

RDR2, this is where in my opinion, they bought out a great game, but screwed it with mechanisms that forced the player to 'waste time', if you are picking something up for 30 mins, you dont want to spend 25 of that walking between places on a horse rather than fast travelling etc! Absolute pain & partly why I played it and then attention waned

[Mastodon2]

Leon R said:

Graphics don't matter if the gameplay is solid.

Is that an unpopular opinion? I thought everyone thought this.

[Steven_RW]

Mastodon2 said:

Leon R said:

Graphics don't matter if the gameplay is solid.

Is that an unpopular opinion? I thought everyone thought this.

Except game devs or the accountants and execs that hold the purse strings.

Unpopular opinion: If you haven't completed every Souls or Bloodborne type game several times over you are an Ultra Casul Scrub and not worthy of calling yourself a gamer. Retire

;-)

RW

[A Winner Is You]

Mastodon2 said:

Leon R said:

Graphics don't matter if the gameplay is solid.

Is that an unpopular opinion? I thought everyone thought this.

Pretty graphics will always sell games and systems though, and when it comes to framerate can make a big difference to the playability.

Although I learnt that lesson indirectly when my friend bought Rise of the Robots on release. That was a 1v1 fighter that for the time looked stunning, but had 1 character, no special moves, no throws, no combos, and if you jumped over your opponent you couldn't even turn round.

[paul99]

A Winner Is You said:

Although I learnt that lesson indirectly when my friend bought Rise of the Robots on release. That was a 1v1 fighter that for the time looked stunning, but had 1 character, no special moves, no throws, no combos, and if you jumped over your opponent you couldn't even turn round.

I also got stung by ROTR on the Amiga CD32 after following the hype. £35 was a lot of money to waste as a kid on such a crap game, Microcosm wasn't much better either!

[A Winner Is You]

paul99 said:

A Winner Is You said:

Although I learnt that lesson indirectly when my friend bought Rise of the Robots on release. That was a 1v1 fighter that for the time looked stunning, but had 1 character, no special moves, no throws, no combos, and if you jumped over your opponent you couldn't even turn round.

I also got stung by ROTR on the Amiga CD32 after following the hype. £35 was a lot of money to waste as a kid on such a crap game, Microcosm wasn't much better either!

I recall one review of Microcosm along the lines of "looks like footage of a probe being stuck up your arse and plays like it too"

[captain_cynic]

LukeBrown66 said:

Fallout 4 ruined the franchise

That was Fallout 76.

Fallout 4 is excellent once you add a few good mods to fix the broken UI.

Fallout was always a single player game, trying to turn it into a mummorperger ruins it.

Fallout is a game you need to play on PC, not just for mods and graphics... But the fact that Bethesda will never get around to fixing all the script bugs, console access is a must unless you like reloading from six hours ago. With FO 76 you can't do either.

[HappyClappy]

For the last few years the only game I have played is Everybody’s Golf on the PS4 everything else just bores the st out of me or just wants to rinse me of my money in worthless pay to play credits.

[captain_cynic]

Mastodon2 said:

Leon R said:

Graphics don't matter if the gameplay is solid.

Is that an unpopular opinion? I thought everyone thought this.

This...which is why it's a great time to be a part of the PCGMR.

EA/Ubisoft et al. Spend millions on huge graphics engines and pennies on gameplay or story and then tell us PC gaming is dying.

Meanwhile a "5 blokes in a shed" operation releases something with decent graphics but great gameplay on something like Unity and sells it for £15 on Steam.

[TEKNOPUG]

Battlefield 2 is by far the best game in the franchise.

[northwest monkey]

Don Roque said:

Crafty_ said:

Red Dead Redemption 2 is fantastically detailed graphically, sadly thats where the good news ends. There is no story, its just a collection of repeated "ride your horse to this place, shoot people, ride back to camp" with minor detail variations. There is no link between the missions, no progression in story or characters, they even ran out of ideas for the later bits of the game and resorted to making the player occasionally press a button to advance cut scenes.

There is being reductive and then there is posting something that is just false.

Whether or not you like RDR2, there is no denying that it has a story and a developing narrative. It might not be the most high brow of tales, but it's definitely story driven and does tackle some thematic and philosophical concepts by the end. It takes an interesting turn from a rolling-Western into an examination of fatalism and redemption, and whilst it makes no deep inspection of either theme, they're both there.

Even if you're not looking for deep subtext, the entertaining tale of the increasingly disastrous attempts of the gang to get back on an even keel is very entertaining. For a Rockstar open world game, I thought they did a very good job of keeping it on task over what is a really long story.

Maybe true, but fk me it feels slow to play. RDR was probably my favourite PS3 game, RDR2 just isn't getting me interested enough.

My unpopular view - having never played any of the Fallout games, I loved Fallout 4 & also enjoyed building settlements. If they do a Fallout 5, I hope they keep that bit of the game in.

[LukeBrown66]

cycnic could you praps suggest a few mods?

I found Fallout 4 very dull, I was finding very quickly that I was massively underpowered trying to kill stuff and the build section did not reward me much.

Maybe I just gave up too quick

I adored 3 and Vegas to a point, but 4 just didn't do it for me.

[Jasandjules]

LukeBrown66 said:

I found Fallout 4 very dull, I was finding very quickly that I was massively underpowered trying to kill stuff and the build section did not reward me much.

Maybe I just gave up too quick

That is just Fallout though? They are all the same in that you start the game unable to kill a flying bug etc and everyone and everything can be fatal, then several (and the rest) hours to level up to get enough firepower to actually survive engagements without having to run away half way through (In the SPECIAL Menu get the gun power increased as soon as so you can actually get a kill in VATS). It takes time to gather up stimpaks etc too or any aid... You just die a lot for a while......

[vonuber]

Bethseda games are unoptimised, buggy half complete messes and are generally only saved due to modding.

[anonymous-user]

vonuber said:

Bethseda games are unoptimised, buggy half complete messes and are generally only saved due to modding.

This is not an unpopular opinion.

[captain_cynic]

LukeBrown66 said:

cycnic could you praps suggest a few mods?

I found Fallout 4 very dull, I was finding very quickly that I was massively underpowered trying to kill stuff and the build section did not reward me much.

Maybe I just gave up too quick

I adored 3 and Vegas to a point, but 4 just didn't do it for me.

Of course... you just had to wait until I finished work.

First off, I think your criticisms are quite valid. FO4 is a different game to FO 3/NV in that you really need to embrace the crafting system when it comes to weapons. However like 3/NV, you also need to learn the map by trial and error, there are places you cant go without getting murdered (at least until you're level 15/25) in all 3 games, but all 3 games do have safe corridors to avoid these areas.

Here's a list of mods I recommend (found on Nexus Mods)

--- Interface Mods ---
Full Dialogue Interface (gets rid of that annoying wheel)
Improved Map with Visible Roads 2.0 (roads, they're awesome for navigation)
Faster Terminal Displays (20x) (does what it says, no more waiting for terminals)

--- Settlement Crafting ---
Clean Shacks
CS Beds
Better Junk Fences
CleanSettlement-Clean Warehouse Greenhouse and Barn

--- Weapons ---
CutWeaponMods (adds a whole bunch of new Weapon mods like a drum magazine for the combat rifle).
FN P90 (can be rechambered for .38 and 10mm, so a great late game SMG for that useless ammo you've got loads of)
Wattz Laser gun (because there weren't enough laser weapons)
Legendary Modification (add/remove/change legendary effects on weapons).

--- Graphics and models ---
Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer (CBBE - it makes people prettier)
CBBE Vanilla outfits (you'll have clipping issues without it using CBBE)
BodySlide and Outfit Studio (kind of part and parcel with CBBE)
LooksMenu (adds a lot of extra options to the character creation/customisation... also allows you to rid of the fivehead on the stock models)

--- Gameplay ---
Old Style Criticals (FO 3/NV style randomised crits, also works with companions).

If the base game weapons were your biggest problem, have a hunt around the weapons section of Nexus mods, just beware there are some stupidly OP weapons in there (like the M249, one of the few mods I have had to turn off mid game). Word to the wise, installing CBBE is a bit daunting the first time around, but read the instructions and you'll be fine.

Honestly, I think a lot of the criticism for FO4 are valid but easily overcome by the prolific modding scene. FO4 is the first FO game I really heavily modded and the only FO I'd say you can't play without mods. On 3/NV I really kept the modding to a minimum even 10+ years after release.

[dai1983]

Halo was ruined by the Flood, the Warthog race out of the ship at the end and the second half of the game is the first half but in reverse.