Hot takes

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Soul Calibur Broken Destiny is the worst game in the series. Yeah I know Kratos is playable character but can’t fill all the things this game is lacking.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Hentris would like a Word with you XD

I'm removing the image, but LOL.

 

[OWG]

Soul Calibur Broken Destiny is the worst game in the series. Yeah I know Kratos is playable character but can’t fill all the things this game is lacking.

i dont think that anyone is particularly enthusiastic about that game for this to be a "hot take" to begin with

 

[Zerpina]

I'm removing the image, but LOL.

Sorry, thought it was safe, my bad

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Hentris would like a Word with you XD

That’s not just an eye candy it’s an eye popper (lol).

 

[dropsmegamega]

Even at their most ambitious, most stories in gaming are at the very best sporadically average by the standards of just about any other storytelling medium.

I used to think this, but only because nobody had forced me to watch the average netflix films

 

[WolfOfPersia]

I'm here for more unpopular takes
assassin's creed games are not good, all of them are garbage at worst and average at best, combat is shallow, platforming (parkour) is clunky and stiff, story is subpar, characters are boring (yes even Ezio), the best game in the series is black flag and even that shit is 70% tailing mission, people swear by AC2 but the missions are annoying, the only game with a decent combat is syndicate and that one is the shitty copy of arkham combat, can't believe we lost 3 memorable franchises that were legendary in their genres (prince of Persia, Rayman, splinter cell) just for more boring open world slops like assassin's creed, far cry or watch dogs and to this day I don't understand why people even buy this games

 

[Zerpina]

<If you know you know>

 

[Gorse]

I don't understand why people even buy this games

There are a non-insignificant amount of people in this world who just play the “standard Ubisoft game” — the third-person action-adventure go-up-towers unlock-this follow-that upgrade-your-skills template — and not anything else. If this genre gets you, you can just keep playing the annually-released Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry games forever, because they’ll never stop making them, and you’ll stay loyal to the Ubisoft brand in the same way some people are loyal to Nintendo or Sony.

 

[SkunkyBeaumont]

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Here's one: crafting is BS in about 95% of the games that have it.

I can believe Joel the smuggler would know his way around weapons, but most other protagonists don't strike me as capable of pulling that off.

 

[dropsmegamega]

modern nintendo games are boring and overly safe, series like pokemon are as soulless as the usual open world ubi game that everyone loves to complain about

 

[RustySK]

modern nintendo games are boring and overly safe, series like pokemon are as soulless as the usual open world ubi game that everyone loves to complain about

I still like plenty of their other series, but when it comes to their overall design choices and Pokemon in specific I'll one hundred percent agree with you. Enthusiastically even.

 

[Gorse]

series like pokemon are as soulless as the usual open world ubi game that everyone loves to complain about

Here’s a hot take for you: the Pokemon franchise in its entirety has sucked horribly since it went 3D with X/Y, even without a certain sausage-sucker making music for them. I consider B2/W2 the informal finale of the series. Even the spinoffs aren’t good, anymore, and every new monster design in the past decade has been atrocious. Outside of fanaticism, I have no idea why people still buy these games.

Outside of Zelda and Mario, I agree with you on all other Nintendo franchises, too. I have not liked the Switch era at all… ?

 

[rosemarymenace]

Doom 2016 is better than Doom Eternal but neither are really Doom games and feel more like Quake spinoffs imo

 

[Gorse]

Doom 2016 is better than Doom Eternal but neither are really Doom games and feel more like Quake spinoffs imo

I feel this way about Doom 3, too. Not that any of these games are bad, but Quake has clearly set the precedent for all id games past 1995.

 

[SkunkyBeaumont]

 

[rosemarymenace]

Also Need for Speed Unbound is better than most of the Black Box Need for Speed games (not Most Wanted or Carbon tho) and all of the pre-Black Box games, also that game's soundtrack is way better than people say it is and even if I don't personally enjoy most of the music in the game due to my genre preferences it still fits the game as perfectly as anything in Most Wanted fits that game

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I

Mega Man 5 is one of the worst Mega Man games to ever exist and Mega Man 6 is better than it in every single way.

Here, I said it.

i respectfully disagree. 5 is awesome and I’ll always defend it x.x
Agree 6 is great and underrated

 

[Maylanr]

Saw a take on Pokemon and wanted to share my takes as well, Pokemon SoulSilver and HeartGold aren't just shit pokemon games, they're shit games period. Johto as a region sucks, the gyms still sucks (most gym leaders use Kanto pokemon), level curve still sucks, pokemon distribution per route kinda got better but it's still just @ss. Whoever lead the remakes didn't make enough meaningful changes to the game and the fact that people keep putting it as one of the goat pokemon games is a joke (also Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are the best pokemon remakes)

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

That game you throughly enjoy was made as a technical showcase for the studio that developed it first and foremost, and that has been the case for several years at this point.

 

[The Hectamancer]

I really dislike Sony's modern direction.

As someone who loved and played the Playstation since the beginning, I couldn't care less to play any of their modern games other the Astrobot, which is a Mario style 3D platformer.

They have ruined Insomniac, Sucker Punch and Naughty Dog. The closure of Japan Studios is unforgiveable.

And on the subject of Naughty Dog, none of games after Jak 3 deserve to be called Naughty Dog games.

Give me Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter over any of that movie game guff.

Sorry, more ranty then originally was expected?

 

[Tbest25]

final fantasy 7 is bad
gameplay - boring
story - nonsense
world - forgettable
characters - unrelatable
artstyle - incoherent
sound - jarring
music - infantile
no redeeming qualities, better watch advent children

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I don't like the dating aspects of the new fire emblem. I've always thought it was weird a game about wars in a medieval setting have a dating mechanic. Fortunately it's optional, but it's still a weird feature to add to this kind of game.
Also, the plot of the Dmc reboot with the emo Dante sucks, but the rest of the game(combat, platforming, weapons) are pretty good, maybe one of the best of the franchise, at least at the top 3.

 

[AncientBehemoth]

he last good one wasn't even made by Nintendo.

Are you perhaps talking about Zelda Faces of Evil?

 

[beefbowl]

I don't get the hype behind using real hardware. It's just old tech. Why are you paying so much to upscale N64 games on modern tvs. Just emulate them and slap a crt filter on it. I guess people have too much money on their hands.