Hot takes

[Iraito]

Escape from monkey island is on par with the first 2 games in the series (just a bit below) and better than curse.
I have been thinking this since 2002

 

[bjork]

Megaman 2 is a huge stankin' piece of shit, and people love it for all the wrong reasons

"IMO"

if being better than all the other megaman games is wrong, I don't wanna be right!~

 

[χKai]

If you don't use commas

if being better than all the other megaman games is wrong, I don't wanna be right!~

If being better is being 100% ass, then I don't want to have a good game
I'd rather take my garbage like Megaman 3 where the game is extended longer and E tanks actuallly carry over, as well as a game that's fair and well put-together unlike the mess that is Rockman 2. I'm surprised the series even got another entry with that piece of shit coming after the masterpiece original. Early game or not, they knew they were onto something with the rock-paper-scissors style boss weakness patterns, and Rockman 2 completely fucked off the idea. The whole thing is jank and unbalanced as fuck and the bosses aren't balanced so that you can easily go into any stage to start with, unlike practically every good game in the entire franchise; there was always appeal in player freedom to have options which stage to beat, but here it's just go for Metalman as soon as you can so you can beat everything in the game. No effort, you're rewarded by beating Metalman who's the easiest boss in the entire franchise. Nothing about that fight feels good or rewarding other than a needlessly overpowered, unbalanced weap9n that breaks the entire game wide open. Poorly planned out, poorly thought out.

 

[bjork]

If being better is being 100% ass, then I don't want to have a good game
I'd rather take my garbage like Megaman 3 where the game is extended longer and E tanks actuallly carry over, as well as a game that's fair and well put-together unlike the mess that is Rockman 2. I'm surprised the series even got another entry with that piece of shit coming after the masterpiece original. Early game or not, they knew they were onto something with the rock-paper-scissors style boss weakness patterns, and Rockman 2 completely fucked off the idea. The whole thing is jank and unbalanced as fuck and the bosses aren't balanced so that you can easily go into any stage to start with, unlike practically every good game in the entire franchise; there was always appeal in player freedom to have options which stage to beat, but here it's just go for Metalman as soon as you can so you can beat everything in the game. No effort, you're rewarded by beating Metalman who's the easiest boss in the entire franchise. Nothing about that fight feels good or rewarding other than a needlessly overpowered, unbalanced weap9n that breaks the entire game wide open. Poorly planned out, poorly thought out.

Nobody makes you got for metal man first, that's a personal choice...? I mean, I was goofing with my reply, but: without the success that Mega Man 2 was, none of the other ones happen. So it must've done something right.

 

[χKai]

Nobody makes you got for metal man first, that's a personal choice...? I mean, I was goofing with my reply, but: without the success that Mega Man 2 was, none of the other ones happen. So it must've done something right.

Aside from being the most unfairly favored game in the franchise; not really!

 

[bjork]

Aside from being the most unfairly favored game in the franchise; not really!

The other lesser games are just jealous

 

[Ikagura]

As for Wind Waker, even though it did well at the time, there were people (be they insecure Nintendo fans or legit haters of anything Nintendo) who were hating on it for not looking "realistic/mature enough" and too "cartoony". I held no interest in a majority of zelda games but I never hated WW. It's a good game but people went into the other direction to defend it, because there was so much blind hatred and insecurity from the western side to begin with.

I partly blame the Spaceworld 2000 tech demo for making a part of the fanbase believe they've announced a sequel to Majora's Mask

A tech demo =/= a trailer though, even if some may become real they're still what they're meant to be: a demo.

Fast-forward a decade later and people also expected a Twilight Princess sequel on the Wii U:

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Megaman 2 is a huge stankin' piece of shit, and people love it for all the wrong reasons

"IMO"

Mega Man 2 was a massive jump from the first but I can agree that 3, 4, 5 and 6 had vastly improved upon the formula.

Like, there's 0 reason to go back to The World Warriors when Super Turbo exists in Street Fighter (outside of history).

I genuinely can't stand any of the Sonic Advance games. Both their framerate and music are far too crunchy for my liking.

The framerate doesn't feel laggy.

The music is a hit and miss on the GBA but Sega managed to make it good (especially Hideaki Kobayashi for the third episode).

I do wish they made a proper remaster with less screen crunching and easier ways to get to the special stages though.

 

[BrawlMan]

I will take Shadows of the Damned and RE3R over og RE4 any day of the week. That includes RE and RE8 as well. Deal with it.

 

[χKai]

Mega Man 2 was a massive jump from the first but I can agree that 3, 4, 5 and 6 had vastly improved upon the formula.

Massive jump, more like a failed pole vault across a skyscraper rooftop

Rockman 2 didn't improve upon  shit; it actually achieved the opposite, failing to be as good a game as the first entry. What exactly improved?

Nothing; that's just another bullshit answer the internet likes to parrot-squawk at anyone who calls the game out on it's flaws.

 

[bjork]

Intenti

Massive jump, more like a failed pole vault across a skyscraper rooftop

Rockman 2 didn't improve upon  shit; it actually achieved the opposite, failing to be as good a game as the first entry. What exactly improved?

Nothing; that's just another bullshit answer the internet likes to parrot-squawk at anyone who calls the game out on it's flaws.

monster design, level design, music, etc etc

It's all personal taste, for me it was over once the charge shot came in. 2 is my sweet spot because it's just fun to pick up and play.

 

[BrawlMan]

I find Mega Man 7 to be the least fun and least re-playable of the classic games. Yes, 6 is more fun than 7. MM7 feels way too slow paced, and the sprites are too big for my liking. 3 is my personal favorite, but it's not hard to see why 2 is most people's personal favorite. I've played both back to back without issue.

Rushing Beat X is literally the best game in the franchise. There is not much reason to go back to the first game. The sequels, kinda, but only if you really care about the story, characters, and lore, and there is nothing wrong with that. I do prefer Ran over Shura, even though the third entry is more polished than the first two entries, but i dislike half the roster in Shura. Only two of the new playable characters are fun, plus Rick, if you manage to unlock him.

I am so glad WET never got a sequel. Cuz fuck Rubi, who is an even less sympathetic Revy (a character I do not like much either), and comes off as a female version of 50 Cent (Blood in the Sand). The developers seems to agree with me, because even they did not know what to do as they later canceled the sequel. The only way a sequel could work for me is that they, one, get rid of the QTEs, because they sucked. Two: You play as completely different protagonist and Rubi gets killed off by the person you're playing or that she dies at some point. Preferably, she'd be the villain the player would have to kill off. Also, I consider it one of the least interesting games that came out during the Tarantino Grindhouse trend/phase a lot of AAA & AA gaming were doing around that era. It was by that point the trend was wearing thin and was on its last legs.

I don't find the South Park rpg games appealing; especially now that I don't even bother watching the show anymore. I have not touched the show since 2016.

Samurai Showdown (2019) is the best old school style fighting game, and the best SamSho game.

I honestly don't like any of the 3D Contra games. Even the supposed good ones. Shattered Soldier and Neo suffered a problem of high rank requirements to even get the true ending. And while Neo Contra is easier, it gets repetitive for me after playing the game once. Shattered Soldier is just ridiculously difficult. Contra 4 is the best game in the series.

I find everything about TLOUS universe boring and uninteresting. What's the point in being invested to terrible people doing terribly unnecessary things to each other only for the sake of cheap thrills, "dark and edgy", or for the sake of "art"? If that's the case, I might was well thrown in every fictional sociopathtic villain. The whole grizzled older guy/DILF combined with guiding a young girl/boy/kid/son or daughter figure in a dead world or apocalypse is nothing new and should not be treated as such or some grand revelation.

Gaming did it at least twice in the HD era before 2013 with Enslaved and Nier. Funny how critics were praising the former to high heaven, only to forget about it when the next best thing comes along. Ironic, because the only time critics bring that game up is in relation to DmC (2013). Another game done by Ninja Theory that had a way worse story (which most critics seem to love only to bash the OG series and its characters) than Enslaved. Enslaved actually tried and I like its story. Gameplay is another issue though, but that's getting off topic. Most of these plunkers only over-hype these types of games claiming a false sense of maturity or too insecure to share the things they like to non-gamers. Trying to impress those that hate or look down on the medium and would not bother otherwise.

Newsflash, Joel is not the worst father/father figure in gaming history, but he's certainly ain't the best nor in my top spot. You know something is wrong when an assassin like Travis Touchdown or a sociopathic man-child like Kratos became better fathers than Joel. Dante is a better father than Joel, and he don't even have kids. Asura, Adam Hunter, Harry Mason, Mike Haggar, and Sebastain Castellanos are the best daddies in gaming.

Nero should have gotten DmC's Demon Evade and brought it into DMC5. Would have made him even more fun, along with having a more unique dodge.

 

[saturnsh2x2]

Megaman 2 is a huge stankin' piece of shit, and people love it for all the wrong reasons

"IMO"

It's a good game, and an important game at that, but anyone who actually thinks the classic series peaked with it must be wearing heavy-duty nostalgia goggles. I sympathize with younger Mega Man fans having to deal with 20-30 somethings on the internet convincing them it was the best game in the series before actually forming their own opinions (I should know, I'm one of them).

 

[bjork]

It's a good game, and an important game at that, but anyone who actually thinks the classic series peaked with it must be wearing heavy-duty nostalgia goggles. I sympathize with younger Mega Man fans having to deal with 20-30 somethings on the internet convincing them it was the best game in the series before actually forming their own opinions (I should know, I'm one of them).

It could be equally as possible that it scratches the exact itch someone is after, and entries after that complicated the process. Everyone is different, after all.

 

[χKai]

Intenti

monster design, level design, music, etc etc

It's all personal taste, for me it was over once the charge shot came in. 2 is my sweet spot because it's just fun to pick up and play.

Exactly, some people prefer garbage
Personally I thought sliding and charge shots enhanced the game in several aspects, making it more open for not only better and more interesting level design, but player freedom to play the levels how you want, often giving multiple branching pathways which with slide (or the weap9ns as with every Megaman)

Have fun with your stupid floating platforms in Heat Man's Stage and getting hit by every platform in Air Man's Stage

The only argument people have about Megaman 2 being good in any regard extends no further than "I like it", or "but it's important because the other games wouldn't be there without it" to which I say bullshit, they would have made one after awhile because enough people had niche interest in it, and also it probably would have been better than the half-assed, half-good piece of garbage they ended up making the sequel. I often wonder how things would have turned out if they had put the nice graphics from Wood Man or Air Man's stage in a better game, but perhaps we'll never know.

It's a good game, and an important game at that, but anyone who actually thinks the classic series peaked with it must be wearing heavy-duty nostalgia goggles. I sympathize with younger Mega Man fans having to deal with 20-30 somethings on the internet convincing them it was the best game in the series before actually forming their own opinions (I should know, I'm one of them).

No it isn't, that's that fucking parrot-speak that all sounds like it came from some AI trying to formulate an opinion based on the overall average public opinion collected from research data. You're almost right;
People who think the game is good in any regard have some seriously askewed vision from uncleaned nostalgia glasses; but people who think the series peaked at 2 are just downright mentally handicapped.

 

[bjork]

No it isn't, that's that fucking parrot-speak that all sounds like it came from some AI trying to formulate an opinion based on the overall average public opinion collected from research data. You're almost right;
People who think the game is good in any regard have some seriously askewed vision from uncleaned nostalgia glasses; but people who think the series peaked at 2 are just downright mentally handicapped.

Slow down there, chief. I think you're alright, but you're taking this a little too seriously. No sense in being shitty like that about it.

 

[BrawlMan]

It could be equally as possible that it scratches the exact itch someone is after, and entries after that complicated the process. Everyone is different, after all.

Still doesn't excuse acting like an ass hat to those of the younger generation, or for having different opinions and actually thinking for themselves.

nostalgia glasses; but people who think the series peaked at 2 are just downright mentally handicapped.

Yeah, let's not use mentally handicapped as an insult. Especially to those who are actually mentally handicapped in the world. Fine, if you don't agree with other opinions, but that's getting way below the belt there and unnecessary.

Also Streets of Rage peaked at the second game for nearly 30 years until the fourth mainline entry in 2020.

Also, for some Mega Man X fans, say that series peaked at either X1 or X4. Everyone has their options and opinions and there is nothing wrong with that.

 

[χKai]

Still doesn't excuse acting like an ass hat to those of the younger generation, or for having different opinions and actually thinking for themselves.

Yeah, let's not used mentally handicapped as an insult. Especially to those who are actually mentally handicapped in the world. Fine, if you don't agree with other opinions, but that's getting way below the belt there and unnecessary.

Also Streets of Rage peaked at the second game for nearly 30 years until the fourth mainline entry in 2020.

Also, for some Mega Man X fans, that series peaked at either X1 or X4. Everyone has their options and opinions and there is nothing wrong with that.

I'm sorry
I meant to say "brain missing"

 

[bjork]

Still doesn't excuse acting like an ass hat to those of the younger generation, or for having different opinions and actually thinking for themselves.

Wasn't saying it does. I think people can like what they like.

 

[χKai]

Most defended games of all time:

Ocarina of Time
Final Fantasy VII
Earthbound
Megaman 2

 

[BrawlMan]

I'm sorry
I meant to say "brain missing"

Somewhat better.

Wasn't saying it does. I think people can like what they like.

Glad we're clear on it.

I prefer Street Fighter Alpha 3 over Alpha 2, but I can see why most American player for the latter over the former. Mainly Alpha 2 Gold.

 

[χKai]

Wasn't saying it does. I think people can like what they like.

It's fine to like something but why do people talk everything up so much without any substance as to what it is they like about it?

Somewhat better.

Exactly; there's no nice way to say it
The level I'm referring to is such that they would not be capable of operating a conputing device or form sentences, let alone read
That is the level of brain-absentness I am talking about
Not high-functioning, barely autistic adults.

 

[bjork]

Glad we're clear on it.

?????
I was replying to a bold in someone else's post, did I miss something?

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It's fine to like something but why do people talk everything up so much without any substance as to what it is they like about it?

Why do they have to? To convince you that it's okay for them to like a thing? So they don't get called a bunch of names? Wasted energy imo

 

[BrawlMan]

I was replying to a bold in someone else's post, did I miss something?

You did quote before hand, unless you got me by accident.

 

[bjork]

You did quote before hand, unless you got me by accident.

I don't understand what you mean, but ok I guess.

 

[χKai]

Why do they have to? To convince you that it's okay for them to like a thing? So they don't get called a bunch of names? Wasted energy imo

I'm talking more specifically about the people that shove it in everyone's face claiming it's good when it's not actually all that impressive and doesn't bring a whole lot of new stuff to the table, not the people trying to sit quietly and enjoy their favorite game and not go around telling people that all the other ones suck and that this one is just inexplicably better "because they like it".