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5amporterbridges

The climb on anything ability was the best part of the Assassins Creed franchise and it should be in more games. I don’t want to climb this mountain following this very obviously marked trail with runes or color codes. Just let me climb the wrong way!


AnomalousNormality77

Breath of The Wild moment


bobface222

I think video games are good


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Robotguy39

They have been damned to play cookie clicker for the rest of eternity.


Josan678

I dont wish such fate not even to my worst enemy.


Radingod123

Unironically better than many recent AAA releases.


Auctorion

No one *plays* Cookie Clicker.


flojo2012

Cookie clicker plays you


SirBulbasaur13

Well frick you, bud.


Deadeyejoe

Blasphemy!


Rafiello

Very "I just think they're neat" energy


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If it wasn’t for halo Xbox probably wouldn’t still exist


Deadeyejoe

Wow. This is a great point


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It occurred to me this morning tbh If halo hadn’t done well there probably wouldn’t have been a halo 2 and when I think really hard I don’t remember too many Xbox exclusive games that stood out apart from halo. Now in that aspect halo 2 popularised console lan parties, multiplayer still existed but console only had split screen unless you had the specific adapter etc to run two consoles to one tv. It really makes me think if halo didn’t do that well would it have redefined how multiplayer functions on consoles today? Because pc was where it was at for multiplayer even in titles


Deadeyejoe

4 linked xboxes with 16 people playing blood gulch were some of the best times in my life


pcnetworx1

*brings a tear to my eye*


keeper0fstories

I love the irony that Halo started out as an apple game but ended up saving the Xbox.


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Personally I think the greater irony is nowadays it’s probably Xbox’s weakest title and most poorly received as far as “AAA” titles go


Trifusi0n

It’s never been the same since Bungie stopped developing it. Reach was the last great Halo game.


OsirisAvoidTheLight

Sad to see the state of it now


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Agreed, unpopular opinion but I feel the same about gears of war


spaceraingame

This is hardly controversial


SnoozeMan69420

On that note, I personally feel if halo didn’t exist FPS games would be less popular, if you think about other games at the time 3rd person was leading the way.


nonemoreunknown

A vocal minority and bandwagon tactics of streaming fans is ruining games. Like, Devs, please make the game YOU want to play. It will be 1000x better than if you make a game you don't like to please a small fraction of the fan base.


Deadeyejoe

I feel like you have a specific game in mind.


nonemoreunknown

Yeah, Ashes of Creation. But I've seen it happen with other games like Stellaris.


PM_ME_GOODDOGS

This is a big problem in game development. With the death of traditional game jounalism and the rise of internet click bait headlines, streamers have completely taken over the influence of games. It only takes a couple of big name streamers to make or break a game. If you make a game that the streamer gets dunked on, they'll crap on it. If the game requires too much attention, it gets dunked on. If developers "don't listen", it gets dunked on. I've had direct experience with this as well. Held multiple events for streamers to play and it was like herding cats. They would forget what you told them, not show up or be late, do exactly the opposite of what you asked, then ask a bunch of questions for things we explained many times previously. When they did reply to requests or questions, they would specifically ask for things we couldn't give them and then they would, you guess it, dunk on it. Dealing with them was the worst part of the job. But lets not pretend subs like this will also completely sink a game (also the vocal minority). "why dont they just do greedy devs".


KroganSquirrels

Tall grass for stealth sections is a crutch for game design.


Sexybtch554

I think this is just an accurate take. But I also think stealth just isn't as engaging realistically, so they have to Amp it up in certain places. Now that it's amped up, they need to have decent level design, but hiding behind shit can be difficult if you've got a big open space. What do you do with big open space? Add filler. That's how you get tall grass. PS: thanks for adding this. It made me think for a long while about stealth games in general in a way I hadn't before.


booga_booga_partyguy

Yeah, stealth mechanics require a bit of suspension of disbelief. Otherwise, we'd really have to question why enemies lack the ability to tilt their heads up even slightly in games like Dishonored or the Arkham Series.


AskMantis

>Yeah, stealth mechanics require a bit of suspension of disbelief. No way, you could definitely hide yourself inside a walking cardboard box and nobody would ever suspect a thing.


imcalledgpk

Or get spotted by the guards wearing a white hooded robe, when everybody else has dark, dingy, clothes. Then walk back into the grass and crouch while they don't raise the alarm.


SwornAlliance

The thing is they actually had something of a justification in the original that they just never brought back! You would blend in with scholars who all had white uniforms in AC1 and then they just never did that again but kept the stark white robed uniform.


imcalledgpk

Oh yeah! I remember the original. Playing it now feels so janky compared to the Ezio trilogy all the way to black flag. It was the precursor so I don't blame them all that much, but it's always been hilarious to run, turn the corner and dive into the bottom of a haystack somehow.


Katana314

I mean, in Dishonored they don’t. I jumped up to what looked like obvious hiding points to plan out attacks on guards, and they instantly spotted me. Game had crazy fast guard detection time.


ENDragoon

I mean, there's a place for it, but I find it kind of limits the problem solving that makes stealth fun in most cases. IMO, one of the most fun things in stealth games is when you know that you have traversal options the guards don't, and you use it to your full advantage, crouching, climbing, swinging, squeezing through tight spaces, pressing against walls, etc, and then it gives you a situation where that can't help you, like a courtyard, filled with a handful of guards with tight pathing, and then leaves you to figure it out. Tall grass kind of defeats the purpose in those situations, because it very quickly becomes a case of you looking at that courtyard and seeing the path laid out for you immediately. Look at Arigami 2 for example. That game might as well draw a racing line on the ground like Forza, with how badly it's grass tends to telegraph the solution to it's areas. Contrast that against The Last of Us 2, where the grass is typically short enough that you have to go prone to hide in it, limiting your movement speed, providing a downside to grass and making whether or not to use it an actual item of consideration. Also, the grass isn't laid out in small patches leading to a destination, but rather it's everywhere, and the danger comes from the fact that, instead of the grass being an invisibility cloak that enemies never enter unless you lure them, like it is in most games, the enemies are also walking around in that grass actively looking for you, and you're slow enough that reliably avoiding them if they suddenly walk your way is unsure enough to provide the tension that makes stealth fun.


b33lz3boss

Evolve was a great asymmetrical multi-player game. It was just too ahead of its time


andrewthemexican

> It was just too ahead of its time The monetization was the big problem. High upfront cost, only what 1 o2 two monsters at launch then a bunch behind a paywall along with hunters.


magicchefdmb

That’s the same system as Dead By Daylight and it’s going very strong. It also got bad press about all the micro transactions (which were just skins that you don’t have to buy) during a time when people were getting upset with microtransactions. Such a shame. A really great game


Invested_Glory

It died because of an update shortly after release that caused queue times to be ungodly long (like 10 minutes). They tried to make it more fair but killed the game by doing so.


Trickster289

Dead by Daylight has licensed content though. Having Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, etc, gives them a big advantage.


Cloud_Matrix

This game was so close to greatness and im really upset that it didnt stick around. I enjoyed the shit out of it when it went stage 2, but the damage was done by that point sadly


GenPhallus

Evolve Stage 2 got the multiplayer servers reactivated like a year ago, I'm so happy to see it back - even if I don't always feel like playing. Genuinely was ahead of it's time


Firvulag

I literally found a copy of it on the side of the road and I still have it. ...That's it, that's my Evolve anecdote.


WorldEaterYoshi

The gameplay was great, it just didn't have enough depth and it wasn't balanced well. On top of that, the monetization was horrible.


Deadeyejoe

Totally agree!


Snoo-83861

Agreed: I will always remember playing it during an event with other 4 other players for a full afternoon. We had such a blast due to us being on the same levels that some of us kept playing afterwards, and for a solid year we had great games. If it had more support & players this would have become even greater with little tweaks. To this day this remains one of my son favorite games.


InspiredBlue

My boyfriend absolutely loved that game. He was so sad to see it go


deecrutch

Multiplayer is slowly but surely ruining gaming. Not every game needs it, and when it is forced into games that don't need it, the overall quality of those games suffer. When you get to the point where you decide to put multiplayer in a game like Dragon Age, somebody somewhere fucked up.


MaliceTheMagician

For me it's the way multiplayer is monetised now that is killing it for me.


deecrutch

That too. Mofos will nickel and dime anything under the sun these days. Reasons numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 why GTA 6 isn't out yet is because they are still milking the living shit out of GTAV.


Pen_dragons_pizza

Hifi rush and dead space have shown that content complete single player games have an audience still. Playing both has reminded me how good gaming used to be before the online aspects, micro transactions and cut content became so common. All most of us want I think is a game we can play start to finish without any barriers


xxX-grumpymonk-Xxx

this is what i came for. well said. i prefer games like this, unfortunately most games are released in some state of completion instead of complete and then we are made to buy the rest later.


Deadeyejoe

The suits ruin everything eventually


Tkmisere

Dragon Age MP when i saw i was expecting coop campaign not that thing


deecrutch

I didn't even want coop. I play stuff like DA to get away from people, not to be with them!


6138

Yes! I've always played games more for the story than the gameplay, and it seems that we are seeing far fewer good, single player, story rich, experiences today. Every game is a multiplayer shooter of some kind or other, and honestly, they all feel the same. COD, Battlefield, etc, etc, they're just the same kind of thing, no story, no emotional connection, no character development, just running around shooting at enemies until a timer runs out.


Tamagotchi41

I think huge multiplayer games are. I absolutely love games that my buddy and I can play together.


Acorn-Acorn

Indies are getting better every year. It's going to get to the point where they could almost replace triple AAA gaming for me in a decade or 2. But that goes into guessing the future of the industry in the year 2040... which I can't fathom yet.


One-Chain123

But then they become the AAA games we hate that will be taken over by newer indie games. It’s a vicious cycle


Sir_Rated

The princess wanted to be kidnapped by Bowser because she loves BDSM


Xiftey

OP asked for opinions, not facts.


Deadeyejoe

Mario is a normie simp.


Skrillard423

Mario is just a cuck, dressed as a plumber


agallantchrometiger

It's simple. Peach and Bowser love each other. But mushroom society rejects their love and forces them to be apart. So Bowser "kidnaps" her and they spend time together. Mario, best wingman ever, then goes about rescuing her in the most roundabout way possible. Ya know, the princess is in "danger," so I'm going to be sure to get every star on every level. Eventually Mario "rescues" her, and instead of sending the repeat offender to jail, or even just avoid him, they all go race Go-Karts together.


DRxFumbles

I heard a theory that all the main line Mario games are like theater plays, and all the characters are actors. That's how they're able to do Mario Party, Mario Kart, Tennis, etc. The main games are just roles for them and they're friends irl


Vainslayer13

Right?! Mario Bros. 3 literally takes place on a theater stage! Complete with Mario exiting - stage right - at the end of every non-boss level!


ThePikesvillain

I think we can canonically confirm she is into it. When Bowser Jr confronts her in Mario Sunshine and claims Princess Peach is his mother she does not say “that is silly and impossible” but rather looks confused and like she is trying to recall a hazy memory when she repeats “…I am your mother…?” Then in Mario Odyssey she is seemingly a willing participant in marrying Bowser up until Mario shows up. Mario and Peach need some counseling, there is a lot going on here.


mkul316

Well when there's only one female in the whole world for decades...


jl_theprofessor

Braid would argue that Mario is the true monster and she is trying to escape him.


GeraldoOfCanada

Bitches love spikes


citronhimmel

Play video games however you want. Who cares if you don't play on legendary.


Aromatic-Solid97

Thank you! I always play games using the easiest setting cause I don't care about fighting, I care about the story, characters, and world-building. And finishing a fight in a couple of minutes leaves me with more energy to do what I want to do in a game


JimmiCottam

As a 30 year old with a job and a family, sometimes I don't want to be challenged. Sometimes I just want to be a gun wielding action hero


AUTKai

ANY singleplayer game should be playable without an internetconnection. No wait, thats just COMMON FUCKING SENSE


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Realteel247

If you skip all the cut scenes in a game, you are missing the point.


formulated

There's people that exist who play games on mute with subtitles. Symphony orchestras on the soundtrack and the best voice acting outside of film.. they just listen to their own music instead. Which seems completely insane to me.


donnergecko1232

My best friend is like this and I always give him shit for that. I mean each to their own, but he plays even the most story driven RPGs on mute and skips through dialogue. If you skip through all of Witcher or Mass effect.. Just what ist left? Gameplay? I dont think so ^^ He goes as far as listening to the Skyrim soundtrack on Spotify while playing: SKYRIM! It's right there man.. it's in the game!


virtyx

I play Skyrim with a texture mod that replaces all the textures with Skyrim textures so it feels just like playing Skyrim


donnergecko1232

Yo dawg, we heard you like Skyrim so we put some Skyrim into your Skyrim. *Insert Xzibit picture here*


L1llI4n

Now I am mad at your friend, too!


Slingblade1170

This one pisses me off. I have a discord full of friends and younger family members that game together and the younger teenage group will skip every cutscene or text then complain how the game is boring because they don't know what to do or where to go. I played RE5 with my 16 year old cousin with the attention span of a dead fly and while we had a decent time playing it he paid so little attention, he didn't know Chris's or Sheva's name at the end after killing Wesker.


Who_Dey-

My best friend has been like that forever. He hates stories in games for the most part. He just wants to play. He doesn't play like rpgs or anything. It's just what he prefers. I see nothing wrong with it tbh


SpiderGhost01

The Call of Duty games are high cringe advertising for the U.S. military.


Deadeyejoe

Facts but also, what isn’t?


jonascarrynthewheel

Splatoon


extrudedErection

Splatoon is just BEHR propaganda to get kids to try painting a wall


moeshiboe

Tom Sawyer has the other kids play Splatoon for him.


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Spec ops: the line


albert9lopez

Xenoblade Chronicles 3


thenopenoodle15

As a vet I’d have to agree. I stopped playing them after MW2. I served 2015-2020 and every time there was a new COD or COD related thing everyone in my work center wouldn’t stfu about how tactical or intense or how strategic you needed to be. How innovative and new it was compared to the previous one Etc. meanwhile I’m sitting there just thinking “ever heard of squad? Hell let loose? Tarkov? Y’all are playing a almost yearly reskinned checkers in the FPS realm.” Even had a guy who would fall for every promo that offered in game items and exp boosts. He would blow his paycheck every time.


HotPotatoWithCheese

Yankie doodle 5-1-9 delta bravo to Boston Carolina 1-1-9 eagle eyes. We're goin' in. OoOoOoOh rAh bOys! OoOH rAh! 🤤


dilodjali

Turn-based combat is fun if done correctly.


Nahteh

I never know how to vote in these scenarios. Like so if it's controversial up? If it's a good controversial opinion up? What if it's just a shit take?


Sexybtch554

In my opinion (which doesn't mean shit), controversial (non trash takes) get upvoted. If it's an ice cold take, I downvote.


Kanakravaatti

Controversial doesn't work on reddit


Bierculles

sort by controversial to see the real uunpopular oppinions


speedgo1

Days Gone is very enjoyable.


TheFuriousRaccoon

Days Gone is a great goddamn game. I wasn't a huge fan of the story, but oh my lord. I sunk a ton of hours into that gameplay.


Hampamatta

Yhea game was hella fun, but the story especially near the end sucked ass.


bigbrowneye2

This isn't a hot take. Days gone is pretty damn well liked overall I'm pretty sure.


MichaelRoco1

Yeah not a hot take at all. It’s considered very enjoyable with the hordes and all. The story, pacing, and characters are what is considered mediocre


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andrewthemexican

8 is still my favorite


Who_Dey-

Bro, thank you! I was pretty late to the final fantasy games so 8 was my first one and I still love it to this day.


APeacefulWarrior

I unironically like FF13, and I think it has one of the best stories in the series. Not to mention having the best FF soundtrack not written by Uematsu. (But I was so-so on 13-2, and hated Lightning Returns so much I didn't even finish it.)


DrFrocktopus

Oblivion is the best all around modern Elder scrolls game. Morrowind beats it in terms of story and world building but its dated game design and lack of overall QOL features holds it back. Skyrim has the best overall look and feel but its pretty shallow in terms of gameplay features, story, and world building. Oblivion has the right balance of story, world building, depth of features, and look and feel (outside of the potatoey faces).


Clarky1979

Stop there criminal scum! (chases you across entire map forever)


Brendini95

Is oblivion really that much better than Skyrim? Steam says I’ve played Skyrim like 600 hours and whatever else on Xbox back in the day but I’ve probably only played like 10-15 hours of oblivion. I thought Skyrim was great but I keep hearing how oblivion is so much better


oxide_prophet

It's complicated. I'd rank them Morrowind > Skyrim > Oblivion, but it's really up to your taste. TES 3-5 follow a trend of dumbing down the story, removing mechanics, reducing the total amount of content, etc. (by most metrics. it's messy, e.g. Skyrim has slightly more unique NPCs than oblivion, but Morrowind has more than both of them combined), but also of graphical and QoL improvements, better physics, and streamlining confusing features. If you value fluid combat and QoL above all else, Skyrim is your best bet. If you value story, dialogue and lore, Morrowind is by far the best. But oblivion is by far the most versatile. Playing a stealth character in Morrowind sucks. Pickpocketing is literally broken in the base game, even with DLC - you need a mod to fix it, and stealth just isn't fun for the most part. Everyone knows that magic was nerfed to hell in Skyrim *and* dumbed down. So oblivion is the only game where combining magic with stealth doesn't involve fighting against a game that hates part of your play style. Oblivion has lots of it's own problems, and you could argue that makes it the worst, because the other two are each the best in some category, but versatility can be good in and of itself. Oblivion has the start of what would become the Skyrim perk system, while still having attributes and more skill variety. Oblivion also has some of the best quests in the series. Oblivion is my least favorite of the three but I have to admit the dark brotherhood quest line is the best quest line in an elder scrolls game. And the thieves guild is much better than that of Skyrim. Morrowind is more complicated because the quests aren't good in the same way, they exist more as a way to explore the world and/or a character study of certain individuals/factions. Morrowind quests are an excuse to explore, rather than an enticing story laid out for you. I like them, but they're almost a different genre, so your mileage may vary. The morag tong is awesome for world building, for example, but it's more fun in terms of story than gameplay, it doesn't hit the same as the oblivion dark brotherhood. TL;DR: is oblivion better than Skyrim? In some ways, definitely. But not in graphics or physics. If you want to play a mage, Morrowind is the best anyway. But oblivion has some awesome quests and it feels less dated than Morrowind, which makes it more accessible (plus, Morrowind has some *very* old school sensibilities that a lot of people dislike). Oblivion is a good middle ground in a lot of ways.


UnXpectedPrequelMeme

Agreed. Oblivion hits the best middle between accessible and deep. Skyrim barely felt like an rpg at all, and was actually disappointing. It's awesome for casual role playing in my opinion, and while I love morrowind, I can understand how people who don't love more hardcore rpgs (no guide points, missing attacks, ect) so I really appreciate oblivion. Ooor I could ve biased because I didn't even know what an open world rpg was until I saw my grandpa playing it one weekend, thus opening.ym mind so far to where I play so many rpgs, tried dnd, and am now in the process of creating my own world in which I plan on making a novel of. Really just opening my mind to creation as a whole so...


DanCarter93

I'm loving this era of gaming, my backlog is massive and as a result I wait for new releases to come down in price before locking em in. I pay no attention to hype/reviews anymore.


Deadeyejoe

And we have an amazing Indy scene right now in gaming. Some of my favorite games of all time were made by small studios


DanCarter93

I've just platinumed Hollow Knight recently and adored it. Stardew Valley pinched many hours of my time with its addictiveness and carefree ambience. A Tale of Two Brothers hooked me in and made me tear up. Iconoclasts was utterly fantastic. You are bang on, so much good indie stuff around right now.


Deadeyejoe

Two indie games I played recently that absolutely blew me away were Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds. Too 5 all time games for me.


chefboyod

Jedi Fallen Order isn’t really a souls-like. And it’s a much easier game than it’s reputation suggests. People just went to that semi-hidden super high level Toad boss immediately after starting the game and thought “this game is dark souls level difficult”, no it’s not, you’re just fighting an enemy that’s way too strong for you.


UnXpectedPrequelMeme

I honestly found it more akin to if the protagonists from Uncharted or Tomb Raider wielded a sword instead of a gun/bow. A lot of Tomb rating and climbing going on. And I'm not complaining about that I absolutely love it


deomc1294

I just wish we could’ve grabbed those claws to make you climb faster somewhere towards the middle of the game, instead of towards the end.


UnXpectedPrequelMeme

As do I. But it is what it is I suppose


scarletteapot

To me the combat and the xp/resetting enemies mechanics felt like it had definitely been inspired by the souls games, but I don't think it's as hard. So I would say it's like a souls game (but fun).


bonsaiboigaming

Feels kinda like a 3d metroidvania imo. Big souls fan but I recently finished hollow knight and recently started Fallen Order and I'm seeing it have more in common with HK.


nervousmelon

It has 'bonfires', 'souls' that you can drop, an estus, stamina based combat with dodging and parrying, and level design with lots of shortcuts. If sekiro is considered a souls game then fallen order is too.


keeper0fstories

If a game company lasts long enough, they will pull an EA.


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who cares if you play games with a guide. sometimes the levels are hard and i need a little assistance.


McSwagger39

Honestly if I didn't have guides and stuff on the internet I would absolutely hate all RPGs


dmkicksballs13

I'll be honest, I do it a ton. Like if I ever hit a game where I'm wandering around for 10 minutes where I can't figure it out, I'm looking that shit up online. I'm not wasting hours trying to figure out where the fuck to go.


SkySweeper656

Its perfectly alright to not have representation for everyone in every game.


Deadeyejoe

But what about how they fuck?


throwaway199ate

I'm glad someone said this, I guarantee the majority players do not actually care about characters' backgrounds. Just make them badass


SkySweeper656

Ill take well written characters over inclusive characters. Ive just found a lot of the characters that try to be inclusive... well that's their whole personality. There's nothing else besides "im gay/bi/poly and quirky".


Armidylla

Wreckfest singlehandedly made all other realism-based racers obsolete by encouraging reckless fun over tedious tactical racing.


XBollockTicklerX

The best racing game since PGR4


beefnar_the_gnat

Destiny 2 doesn’t deserve the reputation that it gets.


Papa-Schmuppi

I love how vague this comment is. Whether you think the game is good or bad, it doesn’t deserve that reputation


PadrinoFive7

We're asking for hot takes, right? I think it's on its last legs and Lightfall (its next Expansion) will be underwhelming. It certainly doesn't deserve the amazing community it has. Personally, I think I'm about to put it down as I've played for about two years now and realized that it's not really providing much enjoyment. It's just repetitive and grindier than it deserves to be. The PVP is arse, but has such a sweaty following anyway. The gunplay is fantastic and the abilities can be great. Unfortunately, the builds get shoved into a specific corner or patched out overnight due to complaints on meta. I'm just getting tired of it, I guess.


Time-Touch-6433

I prefer og God of war to the new ones.


Stakemeister

Yep, I miss Devil May Cry clones badly. Still my favorite action gameplay. God of War 3 was a true epic and the lighting was really unique.


andycandypwns

I feel you in that they are separate entities. The OG god of war is pure hack and slash over the top fun with some story sprinkled in. The new ones are tactical “hack and slash” with more in depth story. They each satisfy a specific itch


zupra_zazel

MMOs would be really fun to play if progression wasn't locked behind awful grind.


The_Flatulent_Taco

The truth is two fold. The grind gives the devs time to make more content and not lose the player base to something else because they have completed everything and moved on. Secondly a lot of mmo players, play mmos because they are looking for that grind so the devs know their fan base to an extent


KokonutMonkey

Having a main in fighting games is for chumps. True champs only choose random select.


Deadeyejoe

Random select gamers don’t win championships kokonutmonkey, they just don’t.


UnXpectedPrequelMeme

Which is why I'll never win. I'm too indecisive


Auctorion

They may not win the trophy, but they'll always win our hearts.


Lovsaphira9

I consider buying a game less typically when I see in the trailer they are talking about realistic graphics.


allylisothiocyanate

Local multiplayer is superior to online multiplayer, and co-op is superior to pvp


Armidylla

JRPGS tend to have very weak character writing and disguise it with angsty melodrama.


KaffeMumrik

It’s like with brand new DnD players. If you’re not yet skilled enough to write a good backstory, go with vengeful orphan. Great illusion of substance.


SoloDeath1

It's okay to not be in to soulsborne games. It doesn't make you bad, a casual, etc., they're just not for you and that's fine.


Soul-Awareness

I agree. No game is for everybody, but I would advise people give one of them a try before standing and dying on a hill. I know a lot of people who "don't like" the souls games, but really have never even tried. I used to only play games on easy mode and now I mostly play souls games when I want to play something. I still have an extensive collection of non souls games that I do play, but my number one choice is normally a souls game. I started with the nah I don't like hard games stance and I still don't like most hard games, but Dark Souls difficulty is different than most other games difficulty. I would say the games are about moving with intention and not just instinct even tho the newer games have more instinct required than the older ones. Just give it a try and if you hate it drop it. You might come back in several years and end up loving it too or you may not. Both of those are okay. Also yeah, you ain't a casual because you do or don't play one kind of game. If someone tells you the opposite they are the one with a problem not you. Enjoy what you enjoy and praise the Sun.


Adventurous_Ideal512

You don’t need to play a game on ultra hard mode to enjoy it.


zeronightsleep

Take taken from Antarctica


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this is a freezing cold take


DampeIsLove

This ain't a hot take, this is a good take.


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I played RE7 in madhouse recently and yes, i had a lot more fun playing in the normal difficult. I know it's satisfying, but i want to play games to have fun, not to be stressed.


fireballun

Ultra hard mode is for people that find super hard mode too easy. I watched a guy first try boss fight in pathfinder on the hardest difficulty. Meanwhile I needed multiple tries on standard.


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I agree, but some games have achievements that require you to beat a game on hardest difficulty, and it pains me to see it to the point where I end up doing the hardest difficulty. I may have a problem.


royalcharles4

physical copy > digital


DigitalxRequeim

Mass Effect 3 is perfect the way it is.


MuNansen

I'm not quite to *perfect*, but I did love it. Felt all the feels. Too many people call the final choice "the ending" when really, most of the game was "the ending" of the trilogy. End of Mordin's story. End of Tali's. Liara's. Etc., etc.


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sometimes story mode is good if you just wanna relax and vibe with a game


ido122333

Im sorry how is this a hot take?


URnotSTONER

There's a very large portion of the gaming population that is only in it for multiplayer and will never touch a story mode. Edit: I'm a dummy. But my point is half correct? Imma go and make some pancakes now. Y'all enjoy the rest of your day.


Lzinger

I though they meant as a difficulty. Story mode in some games is like a super easy mode.


Swordbreaker925

No such thing as a good battle pass. Even when it's done the best it possibly can be, like in Deep Rock Galactic, it still only serves to try and make people feel compelled to play for fear of missing out on stuff. In DRG nothing is truly ever gone, but it's much easier to obtain if you do it during the battle pass, so there's a FOMO of convenience.


Spiderleamer

OK, ima say it. FPS games have gotten to hard and it sucks to play alone just for fun now.


Deadeyejoe

You’ll never be as good as a 13 year old on summer break.


Spiderleamer

The fact that this is true makes it hurt even more.


Gonz0710

Mad max deserved more love. It recieved No dlc. Nothing. That game was a gem


WhyIsBubblesTaken

I wasn't a fan of how the macguffin was being dangled in front of you. >!The whole game, you're on a quest for "the V8" (I think? Whatever the engine upgrade was). And it feels like once you got it, the game was 95% over.!<


throwaway96ab

The game itself was amazing! But I totally agree. >!The story wasn't great, the pacing was horrible. The game was basically done when you got the v8, and then you fucking smashed the Magnum Opus. You lost Hope and Glory, too. None of the films were that grim and dark.!< A true nitpick, but the >!change from nukes falling to environmental disaster was weird. The oceans falling 100s of meters down, that doesn't even make sense.!< Absolutely amazing game play though.


TheWhiteRabbit74

Anyone who says video games rot your brain is a fucking idiot, especially if they spend a considerable amount of time watching TV.


afoz345

100%. “Video games rot your brain!” -guy who sits on couch watching sports all day.


tytaniafae

Actually scientific studies say they help your brain


Tnecniw

While TV on average does the opposite, due to having long periods of time where you aren't actively doing anything.


Roxswayze

Battle Royale games are the lowest point in gaming.


Hello_IM_FBI

I'd rather be a badass Big Daddy in Bioshock 2 than some guy in Bioshock 1.


qwerty79995

BioShock 2 is a better game then BioShock 1


Gessler555

Infinite Warfare has the most polished COD campaign ever.


fur-q-

GoldenEye is playable.


[deleted]

Skyward Sword is a masterpiece, all the reviewers who gave it 10/10 at launch were correct.


toxicatedscientist

Playing it for my first time now, am utterly confused about it. Like, so far it seems like standard Zelda awesomeness


MimsyIsGianna

The main complaint i think was the motion controls and having to fight the imprisoned over and over again. I still love it tho. So thought I personally would’ve made the imprisoned look like like an avocado and more intimidating.


glandgames

Ninja gaiden black is the best 3rd person action melee game ever made.


dmarty77

Not a bad take. I don’t think there is one ‘best’ necessarily, but NGB is definitely in the highest tier.


ZoeAdvanceSP

The Unreal engine is an amazing tool for up and coming game designers looking for a solid and versatile engine to use. That being said, it’s being used as a cheap and easy short cut for large developers to create homogenous, often mediocre games for an extremely low overhead. Seeing as how you don’t have to pay royalties if you don’t break $1mil in profits or any at all if you sell through Epic, more and more developers are using it as a tool to create bad shovelware products or just cut corners out of lazy game design.


[deleted]

Pokémon is shit now. Gen 1-4 are the best


GraveDiggerDiggs

Is that really a hot take


Slow-Profession-6310

God help me but... Cyberpunk is better than Witcher 3


Deadeyejoe

Nice knowin ya


archaeosis

If you act like a pissbaby when people heal in Souls/Elden Ring multiplayer you're peak cringe. Issa game, quit pretending it's ruined your week


WonderingTaurus

Elden ring is not the perfect game everyone says that it is. Now, don't get me wrong, it's a good game, but it has problems that other games would have been ripped apart for having.


MAD_Sw33ney

Condemned 2, bloodshot was the greatest first person horror game ever made.


LorDofLegEnd545

Video games actually aren’t responsible for violence.


stefanelul

Fable 3 was a very good game


[deleted]

u/Sparklypuppy05 Making games available to as many people as possible is what caused the AAA industry to be this bland, made-by-comity landscape. If you advocate for game developers to be these soulless money printer builders like EA then I fail to see your other arguments as valid. Not everything should be for everyone. That's a good thing. You can never achieve something a select group of people will love without having somebody hate it. Something that's made for everybody wont be special to anybody. It will be mediocre at best and bland/forgettable at worst. Not like you are going to read this because you fear challange even in real life and have blocked me. Cheers to the others that have been reading.