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Message: [QUOTE="Kestrel, post: 27319, member: 110694"] My hottest retro-gaming hot take would probably be my tendency to draw a line in the sand between the SNES and [I]all prior platforms[/I] as a boundary line between "modern games" and "premodern games," owing to a number of factors (most notably the capacity for saving, sufficient memory to tell more complex narratives, and the ability to render far more colorful images). Related: this is the biggest factor in why I think most NES and older games simply do not hold up to modern scrutiny. My hottest take, a little more specifically, for a video game series in general, would be that the Sonic games are not good, and have [I]never[/I] been good. My hottest take for an individual game would be that Ace Combat Zero's story is pretty bad, actually, despite playing with some cool ideas and moments. My hottest take, down to the most granular level of specific game systems and mechanics.... is that HP and MP are ultimately redundant concepts, as both are meant to quantifying the same abstract concept of "life energy" (or chi or ki or mana or chakra or what have you). And that I think this redundancy is often to the detriment of the games that use these systems, as combining the two creates an interesting risk/reward dynamic that otherwise would not be exist. If every attack, or at least every special attack, in an RPG came with some disadvantage like losing HP, it'd make combat a lot more tense and force players to think a *lot* more strategically. [/QUOTE]

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