Hot takes

[Lokgamer]

Chilla's art games is soulless

And are not scary at all.

Post automatically merged: Jul 8, 2025

Oceanhorn is probably one of the best Zelda clone out there!
The game feels like The Wind Waker at some point and the fact that Nintendo didn’t file any copyright infringement on this one makes it great. And also Nobuo Uematsu’s Dog Ear Production is the one who did the music for this game.View attachment 88106View attachment 88107

Actually, this is the best zelda clone
https://retrogametalk.com/repo/psx-iso/community-pom-jpn/

 

[akumajobelmont]

'Cozy' games set in nature scream "made by city-folk who wouldn't be caught dead in nature". Many an Indie Direct, or Wholesome Gaming Direct (or whatever it's called) has proven my assumptions correct :P

 

[Blueskunky]

I'm tired of earthbound-likes or rouge-likes deck building games. No i will not play your game that has the same copy and pasted tropes
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Not all of them suck, a lot of them do and it’s also getting pretty stale at this point

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

Omori is easily one of the most pretentious rpgs I've ever experienced, everything wrong with the "So QUirKY!!!" Earthbound inspired indie rpg wave that Undertale and Deltarune spawned and I'm sick of seeing the characters from it everywhere.

Also the creator is a creep who needs to be put on a watchlist.

As for a positive take, Blazing Chrome is amazing and is IMO the TRUE follow-up to Contra 3 and Hard Corps, more people need to talk about that game and how perfectly crafted it is.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Deltarune is/will be better than Undertale

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It's good to pirate indie games aswell

 

[Morgan Katarn]

Early access is not as bad as people make it to be and I honestly trust early access games more than AAA games. Yes sure I had 2-3 games that´s been abandon.
But thanks to early acess I played bangers such as.
BG3
Subnautica
Palworld
SoulMask
Dawn of Defiance
Necesse
Terraria

So many good games has come from it.


Maybe that´s not a hot take but honestly I think Early access is better than people make it out to be. We just need to right caring companies that rely wanna make a good game.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Hollow Knight did nothing for me.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I always find it funny when people get mad at the Transformers movies when they inevitably turn into giant destruction derbies.

They are about giant robots, what do they expect them to do? Get certified at the DMV (which, ironically enough, WOULD cover the entire runtime of the movies)? XD

 

[MasterEn]

I always find it funny when people get mad at the Transformers movies when they inevitably turn into giant destruction derbies.

They are about giant robots, what do they expect them to do? Get certified at the DMV (which, ironically enough, WOULD cover the entire runtime of the movies)? XD

yes, because that is realistic, and that is apparently all that matters in a movie according to people who seem to hate fun. realism is the most important thing in a movie with giant robots from another planet using earth as a battlefield; having the proper licenses and registration paperwork to travel the roads.

 

[bjork]

Having a rule clearly explained to you, you apologize and then continue purposely not abiding by it is kind of a bad look

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Vicarious Visions handled crash bandicoot better than radical entertainment

 

[Leo-Dash]

Tetsuya Nomura is the George Lucas of Videogame directors (Derogatory)

 

[merzbun]

i like to smile and play toys and have fun

 

[Lokgamer]

Fixed camera and tank controls doesn't make a good horror game, what actually makes a good horror game is the atmosphere. Thinking your game is scary just for add shitty camera and shitty controls only makes a shitty game.

 

[username_]

i think ridge racer(the entire series) sucks and is vastly overrated, the 90s titles handle like a turd and dont have an understanding on why driving cars is fun in the first place(which is to say dynamicism, something these games lack) and in my eyes are easily overshadowed by sega's 90s arcade racing games which have actually aged well due to how well they drive(especially sega rally). the 2000s titles are simply boring to me with the now easy and understandable driving(unlike previously where for the life of me i cant get a consistent drift to work and it feels so weird and on rails) feeling as flat as before but now easier coupled with very boring racing as this series never invested its time in developing actually challenging ai of any sort. i also feel that the presentation(outside of the 1st game) is lame but i feel like thats just because i dont like these games in the first place

The cars in Sega Rally control like bars of soap. I mean, it could be I just suck at SR (that's more than likely), but I found Ridge Racer to be more more fun. I would describe the handling in RR to be like controlling a slot car (when drifting). You can be facing the complete opposite direction and still make the turn flawlessly because you're on auto-pilot while drifting. I though it was weird at first, but I ended up having a lot of fun with it after a while.

 

[Ikagura]

Fixed camera and tank controls doesn't make a good horror game, what actually makes a good horror game is the atmosphere. Thinking your game is scary just for add shitty camera and shitty controls only makes a shitty game.

Tank controls =/= bad controls tho.

 

[Lokgamer]

Tank controls =/= bad controls tho.

Wrong, tank controls are actually bad.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Finally you blokes resurrected the best thread

 

[moonbits]

AHHH! AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M FREEE
IT'S TIME FOR MORE RAGE INDUCING OPINIONS

 

[KaiserMk7]

Fixed camera and tank controls doesn't make a good horror game, what actually makes a good horror game is the atmosphere. Thinking your game is scary just for add shitty camera and shitty controls only makes a shitty game.

what about first person or third person fixed directly behind the player and tank controls?

 

[Ikagura]

Wrong, tank controls are actually bad.

No, you just don't get the intent behind it.

This was also a way to make your character having the same direction regardless of the camera angle.

Turning RE into a behind the shoulder third person game also broke some of the enemies and made some less about horror.

 

[moonbits]

there was no intent, it was the best they could do; a limitation.

 

[jakedylangc]

I can't stand the ATB system, I basically can't enjoy any games that use it, I thought I just didn't enjoy Final Fantasy until I played and loved Final Fantasy X. I much rather a traditional turn based system like the one used in Dragon Quest.

Post automatically merged: Jul 30, 2025

mother 3 is boring

That actually hurt

Post automatically merged: Jul 30, 2025

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?

I really wish Sony wouldn't ignore the awesome IPs it has under it's belt. I would love to see new Ape Escape and Twisted Metal games. When they closed down Sony Japan Studio it was all over, at least we got Astrobot out of that ordeal, that game IS amazing.

Post automatically merged: Jul 30, 2025

Online multiplayer rots brains like meth. Couch multiplayer could have saved a generation of incels. Also Sonic was always bad.

We were all good until you said Sonic was always bad

 

[Ikagura]

there was no intent, it was the best they could do; a limitation.

And then Code Veronica wasn't limited yet kept it.

Resident Evil since 4 made your character too powerful to the point they had to put more enemies to make it viable.

Tank controls are meant to make you not able to just dodge everything and you get used to it eventually.

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I still think astro bot didn't deserve to win game of the year , no i didn't try it but it still doesn't deserve that award other games that were nominated deserved it more.