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For something that's supposed to put all things together and make it more convenient of the user, it's needlessly complicated to configure. I tried to mess with it twice and quickly went back to standalone emulators.

If anyone I ever see manages to deal with Retroarch properly, then more power to them, I guess. It just isn't for me. 🙃
 
there's no such thing at golden/bronze/silver age in entertainment

but I do like SF6
 
SF6 is far from a bad game, but the time they take to release stuff and some changes are a bit concerning. I'm not sure nowadays but Drive Impacts were just way too much early on. And seeing a bunch of high level people start resorting to the SFV throw loops (which did get removed after a very long time) is quite the red flag.
 
We are NOT in a golden age of fighting games.

The MVC Collection is unreasonably overpriced, SF6 is back with the throw loops (because everyone liked that about SFV), Tekken 8 exists, Garou is still up in the air but KOF has been the same game for at least three games in a row, MK1 for every attempt of balancing the game they end up making something else more broken, not to mention Khaos Reigns was a disappointment. And oh yeah, once the novelty of the MVCI mod wore off, everyone dropped the game again.

And this is coming from someone who loves fighting games to this day. Sure KOF 14 was ugly and SFV was the dark ages, but it's inaccurate to call this a "golden age" when the bar is already set so low anyway.
Agreed. The 90s was the golden age. The 00s was the silver age. And we've gone down ever since.

Numerous series have died, including popular ones, which doesn't happen as often with any other popular genre. Fans demand more Darkstalkers and Soul Calibur, but we get nothing. Retro games get rereleased with no updates that couldn't be done through an emulator yet cost full or near-full price. Even current running series are missing tons of characters from previous entries, whereas in the past they'd have got most of them back on day one or at least the next big update.

To add to some individual games: MK went from being visually funny to being disgusting (and full of cameos instead of, you know, MK characters). MVC went from being a fun mismash to a cynical marketing ploy for Gisnep. SNK feels defiled even when they do well now. Capcom does there "hey guys, remember this" act, then gives us at most one character from the game they reminded us they won't make more of. Sega talks about doing more, but has yet to commit to anything but a new Virtua Fighter.

Side note: Every time I heard that MK title, I can't help but think of this:
 
Bizhawk & RALibretro have way better UX, if anyone absolutely needs a multisystem emulator. they feel like using actual Computer Software rather than running an emulator inside another emulator.
 
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Therein lies the problem, you can count emulators that work on handhelds with your fingers because not everyone can play comfortably on PC. Thus RetroArch is pretty often your only option to play them unless you have something like Steam Deck.
steamdeck is too heavy to carry thus it doesn't fit in our pocket and also it is waste to emulate aged console
 
For something that's supposed to put all things together and make it more convenient of the user, it's needlessly complicated to configure. I tried to mess with it twice and quickly went back to standalone emulators.

If anyone I ever see manages to deal with Retroarch properly, then more power to them, I guess. It just isn't for me. 🙃
While I agree that it's complicated to configure with so many things in one, I think the strong points (netplay, library of emulators, performance) make up for it. Except performance past ps1, it's shitty lmao
 
I hate really HATE, when I go to a Chinese restaurant, and while they make everything on the plate is made there in the restaurant, (the main entree, the rice, dumplings, etc.) the egg rolls are the frozen type you buy at the grocery store, deep fried. Feel "cheated" abit that while everything else tastes good, store bought egg roll. Come on, make you guys own, be amazing, don't be lazy. DAMN...
 

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I have a few that I know are pretty big ones for people, so I'll just stick to two:

First, the easy one.​
Believe it or not, I don’t care for Undertale.​
Kinda just this. I have a lot of problems with this game in general, particularly with its combat. I think the combat really hurts the game and what it wants to try to do with encouraging you to not genocide everything. Dealing with enemies is often very annoying without a guide, because you pretty much just have to constantly guess at what will make them go away if you want to be peaceful. Once you know though, then combat with that enemy ill be the same every time with no variation ever, which on its own wouldn't be an issue, but having to go through a series of menus and dialogue options just to work on getting an enemy to leave you alone sure is just annoying. Coupled with how annoying (and occasionally actually unfair) some of the enemy combinations are when avoiding their attacks in the bullet hell portion of combat, and you just get a made me groan any time I found a random encounter. Doing the opposite and killing everything is, quite frankly, much simpler, less annoying, and more fun, but the problem is that since the game wants you to get attached to everything in it, it also wants to make you feel bad for playing that way and treat you like a monster the whole time. And if you choose to go all the way and really commit to that playthrough, then you're forever tainted now (unless you edit your steam files). The only saving graces in this game are a small, small handful of its characters and the music.

My second opinion though I know is the hotter take, but I need to stress this before I say anything else, I absolutely think this game is a good game. I just don't personally enjoy it.

I don't like Chrono Trigger. It's actually really close to something I could find myself enjoying, but every time I found something I liked, it got balanced by something I didn't (outside of its plot and characters, which I have no gripes with and think are good). I think the combat is way too easy for how interesting it could be. Characters having group attacks is awesome, but when the majority of them hit specific angles in a game where none of your characters can move mid-combat, it makes me wish it was real-time instead of turn based so I could actually take advantage of it. I think partially to compensate, a lot of the best moves hit everything on screen so positioning doesn't matter, but then those are often the best moves to use, and you end up with the usual "just spam your strongest move" problem that a lot of games have. I think battles transitioning smoothly from interacting with enemies in the world is neat, but why do so many of them have to be psychic and force encounters that you otherwise perfectly avoided? At that point why not just have random battles where the enemies come in from off-screen or something? The time travel is a neat aspect of the game, but I really don't like that there's just not much that's done with it in the side content, at least, not in a substantial way. I think overall the best way to really describe what I mean is, I just find the game kinda... tedious, I think would be the right word.​
 
-The last of us is unoriginal and shitty.

- Skirym gives me diarrhea

- Final Fantasy since 13 deserve death.
 
Persona 4 is not the best Persona game and I will stand by that.
 
Resident Evil has not really advanced as a series in a long time. RE7 and 8 were markedly better than what came immediately before, but they're way less interesting as games. The remakes are fun, but they're basically just redoing what RE4/5 achieved.

Fire Emblem has gotten, maybe not "worse," but way less interesting. As soon as they abandoned the original formula it basically became a bog-standard JRPG with dating sim elements, and none of the resource management/survival that made the games so replayable and addictive.
 
Not opening my wallet is always morally justified, I'm not going to pay unless I'm forced to by shit like Denuvo.

For every romsite striked I go one more year without buying a game, for every use of denuvo I go 10 more years
 
Resident Evil has not really advanced as a series in a long time. RE7 and 8 were markedly better than what came immediately before, but they're way less interesting as games. The remakes are fun, but they're basically just redoing what RE4/5 achieved.

Fire Emblem has gotten, maybe not "worse," but way less interesting. As soon as they abandoned the original formula it basically became a bog-standard JRPG with dating sim elements, and none of the resource management/survival that made the games so replayable and addictive.

RE Village felt like a former alcoholic returning to his bad habits. 7 had to ignore a bunch of previous stuff and make the stakes somewhat smaller, and for the most part, it worked. 7 did A LOT of the heavy lifting when it came to the gameplay of the series after all that transpired in the identity crisis the series had ever since OG RE4, which dare I say is repeating itself now that they redid nearly every classic game so it played like RE4. Might as well get a re-re-remake of RE1 at this point, lol.

Not to mention the Bakers were sooooo much better as villains than the Four Lords. Also Miranda might be up there with Simmons as the dumbest villain the series has ever had, and we're talking about Resident Evil, so think of the ground that covers. ::lol
 
Welp, It's all in the title ya see. Share some downright horrid takes and opinions.
I'll start...Errm...Uhhhh...
Marvel VS Capcom 2 is one of the most overrated Capcom fighting games; let alone for the genre.
While the mechanics can be enjoyable, I personally just don't enjoy the flashy, over the top sky launching combos of the VS series in general. And although the slight brokenness of the game is fun for most, I personally find it more tedious than anything.
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I feel this in my soul. Would have been happy to shave a large portion of the roster if it meant we could have new hand drawn sprites and a proper 6 Button layout. The first MvC was much better in my opinion
 
My hottest take, quite possibly the hottest take ever written on the internet! Spoiler warning, as it might be too spicy for some!

I don't care what media or entertainment people on the internet like or dislike. I don't think anyone is lesser or stupid for liking something I don't enjoy, nor do I feel hostility towards someone who's taste doesn't align with my own. If you like something I don't get, I'm genuinely happy that you found something in it I could not. If you dislike something I like, I wish you could feel what I feel, but I understand not everything is for everyone. I'm pretty firmly in the "Let people like what they like" camp, and have no desire to shit on someone's good time.

I try my best to use language like "I do not care for this" or "I personally felt" as opposed to using hard "it sucks" kind of language. I really don't care if it sounds too soft. Media means different things to different people, and who am I to step on that?
 
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I try my best to use language like "I do not care for this" or "I personally felt" as opposed to using hard "it sucks" kind of language. I really don't care if it sounds too soft. Media means different things to different people, and who am I to step on that?
Maybe it depends on education but I am used to get told that if I dislike something I should say "I don't like" because I used to say things such as "it's trash/bad/awful" even for things I've never tried.

The issue is that on the internet, with anonymity (so people would get less socially restrained) they wouldn't mind going far (almost as implying that people liking something are idiots or don't have a "proper taste").

Of course, if something is legitimately harmful towards people I would say it's bad and not just that I dislike it, it goes without saying.
 

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