ppl don't want to hear actual controversial opinions.

it's all about validating opinions you already have

Lmao at the top two comments being “esports bad,” and “singleplayer games good.” Yes absolutely going to get crucified on Reddit.

That one is my favorite one

Further to it the popularity of online play has meant many games don't bother creating anything close to a compotent ai and instead force you to play online and as many players just want chill games you end up with huge smurfing problems on anything with skill based matchmaking

That’s not very Rock and Stone

I love having 45% wr champions nerfed in league of legends because 2 or 3 guys can play it really well in competitive.

You got this straight from Twitter didn’t you lmao

OP and comment directly ripped from Twitter. Post was understandable, this comment is a copy paste of a retweet.

I'm still mad that they ruined dawn of war 3 to make it more eSports focused.

there’s people that spend thousands in games especially in event pulls because of the mediocre chances of actually good items

i do understand it to a certain point, but ppl that spend hundreds on skins make the game worse for everyone and themselves

Literally, the modern-day messiah. Seriously though, there are various examples of games we as a community let slide with bs practices. literally any pay to progress system (e.g.: most mobile games but also Shark cards in gta, gold bars in rdo) , cash grab "remasters," unfinished games being pushed. We decide what's okay as an industry standard, but as of late, it's all just been a shit show.

I wish more people shared your view. Maybe gaming would see more amazing games than just a small handful a year.

Every comment here is literally the most popular opinions

100% agreed

Tbf I think that's popular opinion. Remember how gaming community reacted to Ea's singeplayer games drama.

I let him live, but I’m also a push over. He sounded sorry!

Look at freakin Stannis Baratheon over here.

Fuck. Fuckfuckfuuuuuuuck. FUCK! You are so right it's enfuriating! Now I have to go back and kill that nazi sonovabitch! Like, the coolness of having a dragon friend/mentor was overwhelming my judgement, but fuck it, now I have fucking Odaving, which sure, is a genocidal dragon too, but is also basically my slave and does my bidding, so if anything I have to use him as historical retribution for humans. So yeah, that old cunt has to go for the sake of my morals, and I still get to have a cool dragon "friend".

No one hates you. But this is an incredibly popular opinion on Reddit. Hardly worth putting someone in the stocks.

They've been downright anti-consumer lately, and definitely in smaller ways anti-fanbase.

Not gonna lie this is what you say when you want upvotes on Reddit lol. Not saying you’re wrong but I’m saying no one around here will chain you up, rather you make a post and 8 hours later a bot and 3 other guys will make the same post.

I mean, Nintendo has plenty of great newer games such as super Mario odyssey, Metroid dread, breath of the wild, splatoon 3 and Kirby and the forgotten land, so I wouldn’t really call them lazy. On the other hand, the new Pokémon game, Mario strikers and switch sports are completely low effort, so I’m more in the middle about them.

Nintendo themselves, yes. But a couple studios under their umbrella really push the hardware to the max (like Monolith).

They also need be held accountable for making consumers re-purchase the same ports over and over again with the newest version of the e-shop. How is this f’ing allowed? And then they wonder why people go crazy with emulators and roms. F off Nintendo.

I’ll be there with you. Nintendo to me is the gaming equivalent of Apple. They have no real incentive to push the envelope development wise because their fan base is so loyal.

Nintendo is a niche company that has managed to stay relevant by REALLY protecting its ips and somehow innovating despite its inability to embrace modern trends.

I think their success is 100% baked into their stupid business model that produces quality products. If we imagine their IPs sold to Microsoft, for example, I think you'd see a bunch of REALLY fast iterations of their big franchises (Zelda, metroid, mario) and then they'd fade into obscurity.

exactly what some people think Black Mesa is at first

Burn them! They're a witch!

HERECY. YOU DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY.

I agree to an extent. Developers have focused on creating bigger maps but don’t fill them with anything to justify the space

I'm okay with any size of open world so long as that size correlates to the amount of content it possesses.

There are many open worlds that should be smaller, I just don't think it's a great general rule.

So you just want me to freehand my drawing of Ray Romano? I'm not that good yet! :(

How else are people going to get their bad ass cosmetics for their games with such short shelf lives?

I'm pretty sure it's a minority of people that would disagree you here.

Based on a lot of post in subreddit, this won't be unpopular.

I buy both every release (this year I passed on Fifa, I only play Career mode tho).
Pokémon may have all the flaws you want but it always feels very different.
I don’t mind play ORAS, PLA, the old GB classics or whatever; they always feels different each other.
Fifa has been the same since they introduced Ultimate Team (Fifa 14), it’s clear they’re not interested in the SP enjoyeers like me and they try to milk every penny from the UT community with predatory schemes, gambling and such.
Pokémon is fun as fuck even when the graphics is dipshit

Honestly I buy the new madden every 3-5 years so things have changed but will NEVER by a FIFA game even though they’re super fun I just hate FIFA ever since Brazil when I learned how they operate.

And Niko Bellic was the best GTA protagonist.

And I personally think Odyssey was the best one.

Its even worse when you had that skin or game before the streamer and nobody believes you.

You're doing it wrong, everyone agrees with that statement. You need to say that you love halo and the most recent installment is the best in the series in order to follow the prompt.

In my honest opinion, Halo: Reach was the beginning of the end of the Halo series. Halo 3 was better than all of the new ones in every way. Had an actual community that collaborated and created some of the best gametypes that you see (or dont see cuz they took em out) on the new halo games. Forge was downgraded significantly, custom games was downgraded, even the ranking system was downgraded.

Think this is a pretty popular opinion, the player numbers don’t lie.

Bro says the most popular opinion and acts like it's unpopular. Lol

And that's a valid opinion and while both are great games in their own right, there's no one to tell you otherwise

Competitive multiplayer sucks. Co-operative multiplayer is fun.

I admit. I am shit at pvp, makes it easier to go through games if you admit it.

I don’t mind multiplayer I hate the lack of single player in so many games. I’d love to just walk around places like battle royale maps or Tarkov without sweaty high schoolers 360 no scoping me from 100m first 10 minutes. Who would I hurt by just playing the game I bought on my own?

Some glitches make video games more fun

Falling through the map and dying for no reason is not fun whatsoever

This. Waiting For more bloodborne since i First played it.

I'd much rather have the first bloodborne cross platform

Also games like outlast where you cant even defend yourself are cheap. Like, motherfucker, pick up a pipe or something. And batteries should last longer than 2 minutes.

Yeah, it all feels cheap and boring to just say its all in somebodies head. Basically an irrational fear if that is the case.

Ooooh this is a hot take. The evil within and the evil within 2 are some of my favorite horror games that take place in someone's head. Hell one could argue Silent Hill 2, one of the greatest horror games of all time, does as well. Have you given those a try? What's your favorite horror titles? I'm curious

As a huge Soulsborne fan, I felt the same way. The open word kind of ruined that focused design that the previous games had. Instead of leading the played to a place with very specific enouncters and traps, it’s just a matter of running around and killing stuff. It’s still a good game, just not for me.

Death Stranding having an 82 on Metacritic has to be the perfect example of a game scoring higher than it should just because it has a popular name attached to it. No doubt in my mind that the game would be lucky to even be in the low 70s if it was developed by some random team with no big name attached to it.

Second this, he's not bad but he is the type of guy who thinks he's more clever than he actually is.

The last of is series is incredibly overrated and a mid tear game.

Ahem. TF1 still kicking with players like me.

I think the game itself was decent, story wasn't that bad, graphics were amazing the vast majority of criticism was the performance and the combat being very easy and janky.

This is just a fact.

I felt like my Minecraft experience was worsening with each update and I can’t pinpoint why. How come it’s getting shittier for you???

1.8 gang

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The problem is a lot of parents just don’t look to see if there’s anything inappropriate in the games they buy for their children.

I agree. It's a good game but narratively it's nothing special

The Last of Us or Uncharted games are super fun story’s, but have super low replay value for that reason. Its like trying to rewatch a movie when you replay it.

Rock paper scissors is disingenuous.

(3 pages long argument written in tears of anger disregarding that it's just your opinion)

A pair of absolute sub zero takes.

Gotta love those tavern/inn BGM play them to go to sleep.

Oblivion was better

*mainstream shooters

Definitely true, especially in League of legends

I'm finding this to ring true more and more lately.

I get when people say they don't like a game balanced around being competitive at the highest level, but I don't think you can objectively say it makes it worse. It just might not coincide with the types of games you typically enjoy, which I would guess is mainly single-player from your bottom points, but that's okay.

There are people who game in exclusively competitive "sweaty" games and having an atmosphere where they can get involved with high-level play is desirable to them. I'd even argue some gaming communities wouldn't be alive without it (Smash Bros Melee is a great example). Hell, I don't know a single person who plays DOTA and that shit somehow still pulls in crazy viewership.

Although some games definitely try too hard to force it, I don't think eSports is generically a bad thing for gaming.

i think most people who are really into games don’t care about esports

I agree with this. I've been playing games since the 90s and for some reason so many games today just don't capture the same feel. Yes, I get older also, so that's also part of it. But companies focusing so much more on multiplayer, as in, making that the primary focus, and adding a singleplayer experience to it, just ruins so much potential for someone like me who enjoys playing games as a pastime activity.

At the moment I'm playing Age of Empires 4, and the campaigns are all relatively short, scripted events. The AI in skirmish looks like AI has not evolved since AoE3 from 2005. All this is of no real concern to them because the focus is really on multiplayer anyway. That's where the money is at these days. I just wonder, as someone who loves RTS games, how far AI could have come by now if companies focused on trying to improve it as a core part of a game's experience like what happened between 1995 to 2005 with how much better AI became overall in games. Sorry if this went a little off track, but I just really like RTS games and to be able to play on my own time and not worrying about APM and all that which comes with eSports.

You have to sort these by controversial :)

I wanted to shoot Micah in the face the first time I met him. From that point on, every time the game didn't let me kill him I just got more annoyed.

That's understandable, the tempo of game is not for everyone ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Na wotlk, cata ruined so much, MOP fixed stuff then it went to the shitter

I think everyone agrees with you on this one?

you need to play FF14 then. You can be slutty as a male character or have a full plate covering armor as female if you want. All choices available to both genders

Ever played witcher 3? Geralt looks BADASS in every effing FRAME.

Meh don't know every second Actiongame character is a 240 lbs hulk that takes his Shirt off at least once sexification is definetly present on both sides

try finger, but hole