Hot takes

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Listen, I don't like Nintendo's practices as a company. They're a company of blunders since the Famicom days, and while I obviously enjoy their games, they're backwards in almost every other aspect.
And I'm a big Emulation advocate. I'm not against a Switch emulator. I approve of the concept, actually. But making an emulator for a CURRENT gen console is suicide. It happened with PSX and Bleem, and I think it happened to an early 64 emulator. And then came all the clout chasing "forks". The fact that we lost Citra when it was finally getting decent is a massive shame.

There's a difference between genuinely wanting preservation (which is good, I cannot play Virtual Boy games sur as Wario Land without paying too much money from second hand) and doing unambiguous piracy.

At least old console emulators could still claim they're for homebrewing (which is sometimes true) to let some ambiguity about their primary use (since you cannot really afford to claim that you could run games that are still sold in stores) so this is why Nintendo hasn't shut down Dolphin despite being the most proficient Nintendo console emulator that had a bigger popularity thanks to the fact you could run mods such as Project M/Project Plus.

This is also why for safety the PlayStation emulators are requiring a Bios file (you could extract from your own console via a tutorial) to even be able to run the games.

It should be common knowledge that you're supposed to extract the game files from your own cartridges or CDs and not getting them online even if you own those games to be legit.

They really has fumbled hard by showing unreleased games and made some builds locked behind a paywall.



In the end of the day I'm all for preservation but I think that for something to be preserved there should be a "buffering time".

 

[Michael Frank]

Co-op makes RE5 and 6 a MUCH better experience. That being said, RE6 solo is nowhere near as rough as RE5 solo.

Yes, but it's not something I would criticize. It's not like Resident Evil ever had a good story.

See? These guys get it, people treat RE story as if it was something serious, and i mean it has serious touches on it, but i like to think of it as more like Night of the Living Dead or Army of Darkness, there's splashes of seriousness on it, but at the end we have to be honest, "Gill Sandwich", "No thanks, bro", the campiness will always be part of it, the remake of 4 swayed me off because it turned an action game into a Linkin Park fanboy fantasy, the edginess bleeds off in RE4 Remake.

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Fighting games are boring. I think to myself "I rather play anything else besides this shit"
Fighting game stories are equally pathetic.

Honestly if you don't like fighting games i don't blame you, like i said earlier, it's an adquired taste, like being a Survivor fan, you have to like it to enjoy it.

 

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I said somewhere what's probably great about FF9 while i prefer 8 too for the reasons you mentioned such as a more complex story , we gotta give 9 credit where it's due.

If you played the first 6 FF games you will know why 9 is so special from the PS1 trilogy as 7/8 deviated from the usual FF setting that was middle ages by adding technology and with 7 simplifying the pieces of gear you had to equip like 6 having 5 while 7 you only equipped weapon some bracer and an accessory.

With 8 it was even more simplified by swapping armor with durability and accessory merged with special abilities like magic increased by 40% (you gotta have rinoa with this)

While 7/8 were deviating from the roots 9 went back to the roots , a setting more akin to the older games along with gear becoming 5 slots now bringing back ability to equip gloves along with the traditional jobs like knight/theif and the return of white/black mages.

Along with music brought back from older titles and the return of the start of final fantasy battle music the "bass" i think it's called , tracks like castle pandemonium remade for FF9 , the return of the dwarves , and the story line containing the crystal and the four fiends of elements , so many throwbacks to older titles along with a deviant version of FF8 abilities system and an artstyle and animations similar to FF7 being quite cartoony compared to FF8 which square went absolutely nuts with animations , all in all FF9 felt like the devs honoring their history while utilizing PS1 technology to create a traditional Final Fantasy game taking elements from all previous installments.

It also does help that series creator has FF9 as his favorite game.

To me 7,8, and 9 all have that same level of quality but all feel completely different from each other. I enjoy all 3 of those. 1-6 is traditional style which i also love. 10 has it's ups and downs. 10-2 is good gameplaywise for sure!

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

To me 7,8, and 9 all have that same level of quality but all feel completely different from each other. I enjoy all 3 of those. 1-6 is traditional style which i also love. 10 has it's ups and downs. 10-2 is good gameplaywise for sure!

I found 7 to be the best most well refined , well balanced and well thought out FF game i played so far from the 10 games i played (1-9 tactics included) , i haven't tried any PS2 era FF yet but seeing how amazing the first 9 installments were (aside from 2 and 3) I'm expecting these next installments to be well made just like the previous games.

 

[Lokgamer]

See? These guys get it, people treat RE story as if it was something serious, and i mean it has serious touches on it, but i like to think of it as more like Night of the Living Dead or Army of Darkness, there's splashes of seriousness on it, but at the end we have to be honest, "Gill Sandwich", "No thanks, bro", the campiness will always be part of it, the remake of 4 swayed me off because it turned an action game into a Linkin Park fanboy fantasy, the edginess bleeds off in RE4 Remake.

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Honestly if you don't like fighting games i don't blame you, like i said earlier, it's an adquired taste, like being a Survivor fan, you have to like it to enjoy it.

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

 

[χKai]

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

Village looked scary

 

[Bakuma1997]

2D Mortal Kombat was bad, Mortal Kombat 1 and 3 was as guilty of all the salt is thrown at ii regarding AI cheapness, 4 and Deadly Alliance are somewhat decent experiments, but for me it wasn't until Deception (Ironic title) where they found their ground

 

[Segadude113]

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

Code Veronica's plot is WEIRD

 

[Lokgamer]

Village looked scary

You said it "it looks", but it doesn't mean it is. Resident Evil Village was the real return to the roots (action and campiness).

 

[Faust03]

Yeah, I never understood why people defend Resident Evil plots like they were something serious or even a narrative masterpiece, when they're basic and campy as fuck. Same with "horror"; Resident Evil does not have the atmosphere of a horror game. Is the kind of game that pretends being a horror game just for showing a monster on screen and added to the campiness, it ends up being a joke, a very funny and entertained joke, but a joke at the end. The only Resident Evil that is horror game is RE7.

I hope requiem continues the campiness, that's when these games are at their best

 

[Lokgamer]

I hope requiem continues the campiness, that's when these games are at their best

I hope so.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

PopCap's pre-PVZ games are shovelware

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

Yes they actually quite were. I loved each of them as there own respects tones of gameplay. The Fireworks dragon game, the Bookworm, the fuzzy balls one, the Dinosaur egg one, the diamond matching ones and the iconic PvZ itself.

 

[Leo-Dash]

Persona 3, 4 & 5 got milked to death, got overexposured and have Obnoxious fanbases

 

[The Prince of Misery]

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Well, I can say that Megami Tensei always has a terrible fanbase.

and yes, atlus should release new games, instead of re-releasing old games with almost always its new terrible content and its practices against the consumer such as full price and dlc.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Well, I can say that Megami Tensei always has a terrible fanbase.

I kinda disagree, SMT has a more niche fanbase.

Persona has a different one.

and yes, atlus should release new games, instead of re-releasing old games with almost always its new terrible content and its practices against the consumer such as full price and dlc.

SMT 1&2 (and If...) getting a proper english localised remaster would still be nice. Same with the first two (three if you count the two Persona 2) Persona games.

 

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Persona 3, 4 & 5 got milked to death, got overexposured and have Obnoxious fanbases
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The way i see it, P5 was current and P4 and P3 were fan favorites. They are now getting the attention they deserved back then. But i gotta wonder what will P6 be like?

 

[The Prince of Misery]

I kinda disagree, SMT has a more niche fanbase.

Persona has a different one.
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SMT 1&2 (and If...) getting a proper english localised remaster would still be nice. Same with the first two (three if you count the two Persona 2) Persona games.

Well, I think they are both on different levels of Elitism.

Persona:
- Persona fans are for the most part, functionally illiterate, especially the one of 4.

- They also never actually played the games and have no opinion of their own.

- And yes, a large part of the children of succubus are excited, addicted to sexualizing minors.

- And yes, most of them hate characters, for silly reasons and misinterpretation.

It becomes a disgrace to talk to them because of these reasons.

and as for Megami Tensei:

- please, they are not that difficult games as for your fame suggests and it just requires more strategy than most other franchises mainstream.

- there from them are few from them that really have good writing: Nocturne,Strange journey, Devil survivor 1 and Main games of the 90's era games.

- The fandom is also very immature. It may not be at the persona level but there's no denying that they can also be equally annoying.


- That's why I prefer not to interact with any of them, so it saves me from headaches.

 

[Michael Frank]

Call of Duty's regenerating health and overall gameplay ("running" speed being more slow than how regular humans walk, not even dismemberment like SoF, or even cool guns) were never good, and since DOOM 2016 and DUSK, first person shooters are REALLY evolving now instead of being utter dogshit.

 

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I think 4v4 is a bad idea for Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls. It's too many. Also the name kind of sucks.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Call of Duty's regenerating health and overall gameplay ("running" speed being more slow than how regular humans walk, not even dismemberment like SoF, or even cool guns) were never good, and since DOOM 2016 and DUSK, first person shooters are REALLY evolving now instead of being utter dogshit.

Whoever though only two guns was good for the sake of "Realism" also needs a swift slap with a wet leather glove

 

[Geocide]

Ohhhhh, I've got a LOOOOOOOT of hot takes, that's for sure.

I'll start off with a pretty tepid one, though:
The FGC (fighting game community) has completely RUINED ALL fighting games.
-I have had a lot of beef with the FGC (and especially the subhumans over at SRK (shoryuuken) for nearly 20 years now. Their idea of "competitive" fighters has utterly ruined fighting games because now all developers and publishers think that all people want are competitive fighters. The last truly FUN fg I've played was Melty Blood Act Cadenza verB (I don't like Current Code, and I especially don't like Type Lumina). Tekken is a tryhard's dream because once you've gotten your opponent in the air, it's game over because juggling until death is the norm in Tekken.

I could probably rant for literal days about how much I despise the FGC with how they've ruined fighting games forever.

 

[Lokgamer]

Ohhhhh, I've got a LOOOOOOOT of hot takes, that's for sure.

I'll start off with a pretty tepid one, though:
The FGC (fighting game community) has completely RUINED ALL fighting games.
-I have had a lot of beef with the FGC (and especially the subhumans over at SRK (shoryuuken) for nearly 20 years now. Their idea of "competitive" fighters has utterly ruined fighting games because now all developers and publishers think that all people want are competitive fighters. The last truly FUN fg I've played was Melty Blood Act Cadenza verB (I don't like Current Code, and I especially don't like Type Lumina). Tekken is a tryhard's dream because once you've gotten your opponent in the air, it's game over because juggling until death is the norm in Tekken.

I could probably rant for literal days about how much I despise the FGC with how they've ruined fighting games forever.

Absolutely true.

 

[A man on a computer]

Anything that lacks primary colors, and how (generically) special the MCs are is an instant red flag.

 

[Segadude113]

Ohhhhh, I've got a LOOOOOOOT of hot takes, that's for sure.

I'll start off with a pretty tepid one, though:
The FGC (fighting game community) has completely RUINED ALL fighting games.
-I have had a lot of beef with the FGC (and especially the subhumans over at SRK (shoryuuken) for nearly 20 years now. Their idea of "competitive" fighters has utterly ruined fighting games because now all developers and publishers think that all people want are competitive fighters. The last truly FUN fg I've played was Melty Blood Act Cadenza verB (I don't like Current Code, and I especially don't like Type Lumina). Tekken is a tryhard's dream because once you've gotten your opponent in the air, it's game over because juggling until death is the norm in Tekken.

I could probably rant for literal days about how much I despise the FGC with how they've ruined fighting games forever.

I like the FGC for keeping games alive and bringing some back like Virtua Fighter. What I don't like is the elitism when it comes to online matches. I do like how they make tutorial videos though. I don't like how they complain when they complain about fighters going in a different direction like with Marvel. We need to refresh every so often. Otherwise you get people who played the same game for 20+ years air juggling newbies. The newbies quit because they can't get a hit in and the old heads quit because they keep getting paired against newbies. Add that to how the FGC hypes up new fighting games with tons of DLC that has multiple packs released every year that not everyone can afford, on top of forcing the game to constantly rebalance itself with updates that make it play completely different every single year. Fighting games should be complete and untouched upon release, dammit!