Let's hear them.

>Watch Dogs 1 was a diamond in the rough like Asscreed 1, and deserved a WD2 that actually stuck to its guns and perfected the formula
>Dragons Dogma 2 is fun, you all just dreamt up a game in your heads that couldn't exist and fell for marketing hype
>PlayStation has never done me wrong, I've loved them all even PS5, you used to buy a PlayStation for exclusives, now you buy a PlayStation to play every game that matters Day 1 for $400 once every 6-8 years

90% of game devs dont understand what makes their games good

Skyrim > Oblivion > Morriwnd

>>712676175
True. And it's not an uncommon problem that players "liked the wrong thing" and the dev makes a sequel to spite fans of the first game.

>>712676752
Only disingenuous tryhard psychopaths find anything inflammatory about this statement.

>>712674368 (OP)
>>Dragons Dogma 2 is fun
'being fun' is a low bar for a $70 game. it doesnt make sense for it to fail to improve (or sometimes even get worse) in the worst aspects of its decade-old predecessor

>>712674368 (OP)
>Xenoblade 3 sucked, everything about it was generic and took the path of least resistance in making a successor to 1 and 2
>Umineko ep 8 sucks and is a bad conclusion that conveys the message badly
>SH2 is boring pretentious slop, SH1 is a fine game on it’s own
>Furukawa is the blight on Nintendo, everything since 2020 has been dumbed down, soulless products that market to kids and tendies who will buy anything.
I can come up with more, but that’s what I got

>>712677620
>'being fun' is a low bar for a $70 game
I bought it at $70 because I buy 1 game at $70 once every few years, otherwise I pay $10 when games go on sale years after release. I would've bought DD2 for $70 even if it was a certified 1/10 because it was just one of those games where I had to play it for myself. Personally I don't think the best games I've ever played are worth more than $20 to anyone. So I just judge DD2 off how much fun I had with it and I had 120+ hours of fun and plan to replay it in the near future, still holding off to see if DLC drops or not.

In comparison to DD1, to me it's more like a reimagining than a remake or a sequel. It does some things way better, some things way worse. Neither game invalidates the other, they both have reasons to reply them.

The tedious bits of Dark Souls 1 greatly enhanced the experience and the series suffered heavily from boss bonfires, checkpoints outside of the door, fast travel from the start, and being able to increase your base estus (I didn't particularly enjoy this even in dark souls 1, 5 felt perfect). This also lead to a ton of terrible design decisions when removed/ 'solved' by the devs.

Starfield is a really good game.

My Chemical Romance was one of the best bands of recent times. The Lives of the Killjoys was just was good as The Black Parade.

>>712678089
I feel like the only person in the world who played Dark Souls 1 and said "Yep, that was refreshing, that was fun, I like what you did there" and I had my fill for life and had no desire to ever play any of the sequels or Demons Souls or anything in that genre ever again.

>>712678287
Hmmm, I'll give it a listen now because I'm drunk and I have fond memories of being an angsty teenager and listening to them circa Black Parade.

I started enjoying gaming again when I started pirating games.
If companies REALLY wanted to prevent piracy, then they would have continued creating physical games, but they didn't which means they don't care about piracy.

>Watch Dogs 1 was a diamond in the rough like Asscreed 1
>you used to buy a PlayStation for exclusives

bait thread

>>712674368 (OP)
Hollow Knight is NOT a Metroidvania. It's an overrated 2D Souls game with shitty mechanics.

>>712678923
watch dogs 1 was great i agree

>>712674368 (OP)
>star fox adventures is the best star fox game because it isn't a star fox game
>gen 6 is the only good pokemon generation after gen 4 and the last time pokemon felt like pokemon

>>712679127
How much of it have you played?

If it has a good soundtrack, its a good game. Even if its shit.

>>712679127
out of curiosity, what defines a souls game to you

>>712678287
is this the fags or the techno? I keep mixing up the name of Chemical Brothers and Chemical Romance

>>712674368 (OP)
>Watch Dogs 1 was a diamond in the rough like Asscreed 1, and deserved a WD2 that actually stuck to its guns and perfected the formula
what idiot would disagree with this?

>>712678923
>Watch Dogs 1:
A really big step up in terms of character animations, Aiden would be blown over if he was near car explosions and there were so many melee-range gun-kata kills depending on your positioning, even now it puts a lot of games to shame in sheer natural fluidity and just making the player FEEL like "oh shit, I'm a person with weight and mass and I'm throwing it around this environment". Not to mention things like the convoy side missions, the whole hacking gimmick, it's really a game that tried to push the boundaries in a lot of ways and deserved a more polished sequel.

PlayStation:
I mean yea, PS1 was a success because of it's 3rd party exclusives. Nintendo pissed everyone off, they all ran off to PlayStation. This continued and peaked with the PS2. PS3 and PS4 were about experimenting with digital and HD and laid the groundwork for the PS5. The PS5 costs you next to nothing, plays all the latest games, has huge backwards compatibility support for PS1-PS4 games (and yeah, it's nowhere near complete and has glaring missing games/series) but FUCK ME MAN, for what you pay for a PS5 and what you get NOTHING else on the market can compete with that.

Sure, your PC runs everything at 200fps and 8k, it also costs 5x as much as a PS5 and your parts won't last you 8+ years like the PS5 will be supported for. The PS4 is STILL getting games and that came out in fucking 2014.

>>712678247
Goddamn it I'm supposed to say that first in hot take threads

>>712679302
I beat the 3 dreamers and the Hollow Knight after 60 ish hours on PS4. It just meanders and loses its urgency after a while. I like the music, the Mantis Lords fight theme in particular, but every time I try to replay HK I get pissed and feel like I'm wasting my time. Would much rather play something like Metroid Dread, Super Metroid, Blasphemous, or a pre-2013 Tomb Raider title.

Gorb and the Dung Defender were kind of cool.

>>712679458
Shitty death mechanic and complicated boss fights you die to over and over again.

>>712679237
I'd say Gen 5 was the last time, but I haven't played beyond that point to be fair.

>>712679624
Nice to come across another Starfield fan.

>>712679437
It HAS to be at least unoffensively bad, like FFXV that has bad gameplay but gives you a DLC weapon that lets you one-hit-kill 99% of enemies and speedrun through the game to enjoy the good bits like the music and character interactions and all that other stuff.

these sort of "5/10 shovelware sloppa" games from the 7th gen are genuinely better and more fun than any of the critically acclaimed 9/10 game of the year nominees made today, and I'm not even attached to them by nostalgia

>>712674368 (OP)
-DS2>DS3>DS1
-Humankind now after all the patches and DLCs is a 8/10 I'd recommend on steam sale.
-If you are a FF7 fan who hates rebirth you have both depression and autism.

>>712679624
>>712678247
EXPLAIN NOW.

For context, I think Todd's games are severely overrated and I played Skyrim for 100 hours recently and it was "ok I guess".

>>712674368 (OP)
The vast majority of console warring is from thirdies. A couple hundred bucks every 6 years is just not a lot of money, and a couple grand on a pc every 10 years or so is also not a lot of money.

>>712676752
>>712676175
>>712677620
True
>>712678089
>>712678287
>>712679127
False, but I can respect the opinion
>>712678392
WTF? You NEED to play Eldenring.
>>712678816
False

>>712679963
I think the 7th gen is remembered so poorly primarily because the jump to HD dropped framerates back to N64 levels. The advent of remasters and remakes and even just emulation makes me look a lot more kindly on these kinds of games now that they run at a playable framerate.

>>712680241
I am right.

>>712679963
I always think it's hard being a 4x and jrpg fan but I guess you FPS fag's have it way worse. Though at least you have GAAS as bad as it is.

>>712680240
>The vast majority of console warring is from thirdies
True. I own a PS5, Switch 1 and gaming PC. I just prefer my PS5 by and large, that's just what I gravitate to. I grew up on Nintendo, so it's not like I'm a fanboy, they all have their pros and cons. But the seething hatred you see on /v/ this last decade especially is almost 1:1 with the spread of internet and smart phones in 3rd world nations.

>>712679508
fags

>>712680475
Remember v before gamergate, I member.

>>712680260
Could be the case
I dunno I was never there cause I didn't have a rig to run these when they came out, but now I do and they play pretty nicely
>>712680407
Even though high budget AAA shooters are nonexistent today, the indie shooter scene is thriving so I'm not that mad

>>712680578
Barely, I'm getting fucking old man. I'll be 35 soon.

asscreed 2 is worse than 1 and marked the downfall of ubi

Counter Strike is anti fun
Kojima is a bad writer, a bad executive, and a bad game designer.
GTA is shit and Rockstar has made 1 good game (Midnight Club Street Racing). They are easily the most overrated developer ever.
Super Paper Mario is a great game
Mario 64 is great except for the camera and controls which make it unplayable.
The Horizon games are fun.
DMC3 is the only worthwhile game in the series.
Fallen Order/Survivor is the only good rollslop
I don't care if games are woke as long as they're fun and well made/written.

>>712681746
>asscreed 2 is worse than 1
I can get this if you enjoyed the time period/aesthetics/vibe/flow of AC1 more but AC2 is objectively a better video game by every metric. AC1 is ROUGH, it was rough in 2006 and it's rough now.

>>712674368 (OP)
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are a return to form, graphics and optimization aside.
The designs are much better than anything since gen 4. The story is interesting. The Kitakami dlc feels like original pokemon.

>>712674368 (OP)
I liked Cyberpunk but it isn't good at anything it does, not even the writing which is the selling point (have not played PL)

>>712681775
>Kojima is a bad writer, a bad executive, and a bad game designer.
Yes BUT he's entertaining in the same way Quentin Tarantino is. He makes slop but it's a bran of slop I love and I love him for existing and being the twat he is because at least it's refreshing and honest and he's not pretending to be something he isn't.

>>712682015
Did you just mainline the main story or do any side stuff? The writing beat to beat very rarely blows me away but watching the credits roll I felt like "Y'know what, that was some good fucking shit". One thing I'll give huge props to is the open world design/visuals/aesthetics. A LOT of effort went into that city, you can just tell, people actually cared and tried to make it feel like a real place and not just some procedurally generated slop expected to be there.

>>712674368 (OP)
>>Dragons Dogma 2 is fun, you all just dreamt up a game in your heads that couldn't exist and fell for marketing hype
As far as I feel, most people didn't deny it was fun, but that it suffered the exact same fate of DD1, being woefully incomplete and blueballing the fuck out of you in a few ways.
The reason it failed to become a cult classic like DD1 however, is that its incompleteness was worse, with fewer vocations, a truly dogshit story with few threads getting a satisfactory ending, and a repeat of the monster variety and spawn.

I will not talk about loot because DD1 was the same pre dark arisen.
Its like Capcom built the most solid and majestic building foundation for the greatest tower in the world, then said yeah job done see ya

>>712681775
>GTA is shit and Rockstar has made 1 good game (Midnight Club Street Racing). They are easily the most overrated developer ever.
I really enjoyed Red Dead Redemption 1. I think that was their best attempt at the GTA formula and the last time they made a video game and not a cinematic experience that resented the player.

>>712681775
You win the thread for worst opinions. Right on about Kojima though. 7/9.

>>712678247
Fuck you

>>712682280
Itsuno said he went to Capcom and said "I'm done, I'm gone, fuck you" and they said "NO NO NO NO NO NO WAIT WE'LL GIVE YOU WHATEVER YOU WANT PLEASE STAY" and he said "I wanna do DMCV and then I wanna do DD2" and I guess by the time DD2 was well into development Itsuno was so fucking done with Capcoms shit and Capcom management had shifted to the point they were like "Yeah....ok fuck off now Itsuno" and we got DD2 in the state it's in.

>>712682263
I did all the side stuff but I didn't really explore the city, had a similar feeling at the end it's just in retrospect I can look at it differently, it's cool that it's still being supported so it can only get better from here

>>712674368 (OP)
Skyrim is shit

>>712679597
You can't say a 2010s game is good when it has nintendo 64 tier physics

>>712682689
The DLC is a big step up in terms of polish and expanding on the concept so I have humble hopes for Cyberpunk 2, they admitted their ego went to their heads after Witcher 3 and they're knuckling down again to put out a great game. But we'll see I guess.

If you ever have a spare evening, just hop on a bike or even have a walk around Night City and look for the little things, it's worth your time just to go "ohhh that's cool" at all the shit they didn't have to put in but did.

>>712674368 (OP)
Lostprophets was better with the baby rapist.

>>712683045
Just wait till you play an actual good game.

>>712683178
Like?

>>712683045
This nigga thinks Reds are ever going to release any good game now

There’s nothing wrong with parrying or rolling.

>>712683156
kek

What's their best album? I've never listened to them.

>>712683350
Hey, they engoodened Cyberpunk, I'm a true believer now. If they can take launch day Cyberpunk and turn it into what it is now, they can make a good sequel.

>>712683339
Games with actual detailed worlds and physics simulation.
Peggle is a good example.

>>712683381
No, but I'm sick of 9 out of every 10 new action games being souls clones and the entire gimmick being BROOOOOOOOOOO IT'S SO HARD AND YOU PARRY AND ROLL AND IT'S SO BALLBUSTINGLY HARD BROOOOOOOOOO.

>>712683445
>Peggle is a good example.
Name a game in roughly the same genre as CP2077.

>>712683581
So Oblivion? Crysis?

>>712674368 (OP)
>Fan service in games is good. It cannot save a bad game but it always makes a good game better
>The Witcher 3 is a good game
>Elden Ring is a good game
>Stellar Blade is a good game
>FFXIII is a good game
>Clair Obscur is a good game
>The plot twist in Star Ocean 3 is well done
>2D HD "remasters" almost always look worse than the original games from 25 years ago
>PS2 and earlier games look better on a CRT tv or with a filter that looks like one
>Western video games are largely dogshit

>>712683427
Fake Sound of Progress

>>712679706
I'm not a fan of gen 5, the vibe was completely different, didn't feel at all like the previous gens, everything just felt off, still mogs gen 8 and 9 any day of the week though

>>712674368 (OP)
Serious Sam 2 is the best in the series. It's a little less frantic, but it's more structured.

>>712683045
I'm waiting to see what 2.3 offers I'll be eating good for awhile

>>712683753
this is the most boring /v/ approved opinion I have eer seen

>>712681878
>ROUGH
not too sure about that, especially since you mentioned the:
>flow of AC1
I'll elaborate on this
the sandboxy structure got tossed out of the window with 2
in 2 you have a very linear sequence of guided missions and you never need to interact with the block of side objectives if you don't want to
compare this to the pick-and-choose your missions system in 1 during intel gathering, where you can decide what's optional outside the targets
I valued that kind of freedom, where I can play these 3 fun objectives, or rush these 3 quick and easy ones, or do all of them in the district, and then take on the target however I want, not to mention not having a failstate saying DESYNCHRONIZED NIGGA FOR ARBITRARY REASON LEL
playthroughs of 1 can be very different, compared to playthroughs of 2 where events are almost always the same, differentiated only by deciding to do some optional shit
economy system and shops are pure bloat too, adds nothing to the assassin sim aspect
social stealth got dumbed down to nonsense level, you can just hide among any 4 random people and blend in
melee combat got a downgrade, can feel it especially when fighting elites and how they deflect every attack, having you rely on counters as your main offense after those guys are introduced

tombs, new tools and new assassination moves are nice tho, I give ac2 those as good additions, and I liked Italy, especially the green fields and towers of Toscana
but nah they went for more story linearity instead of more sandbox, and doubled down on it with brohood introducting 100% synch criteria, then reaching fuck you levels of no player expression with ac3's multiple 100% synch objectives

>>712674368 (OP)
Nintendo is the only AAA publisher still making good games

>>712674368 (OP)
>now you buy a PlayStation to play every game that matters Day 1 for $400 once every 6-8 years
This is a gigantic cope, not having exclusives makes it useless when a PC has more games and runs them all better.
Yeah it's like $1000 more but like you said, once every 6-8 years it's absolutely nothing money, which is saved anyway by the games being cheaper and not paying for online. It just doesn't make any sense to buy a something like the PS5, much less the PS5 Pro.

>>712685425
I haven't played a Nintendo game in more than 2 decades but I think you're right

MGSurvive was a good game.

>>712676175
That's because they don't need to, what they need to know is what makes their games sell, unfortunately. Most American developers have no idea how to make a good game, but they can put together some UE5 assets and make a generic open world slop that will sell a few millions, and at the end of the day that's all that matters.

>>712679963
>legendary
based

>>712685501
>not having exclusives makes it useless when a PC has more games and runs them all better.
Yeah but a PC costs 3x-5x more, doesn't get the games Day 1, often gets shitty ports etc.

Like in a perfect world where you have infinity money and no responsibilities yeah PC is the objective best choice, but in real terms if you drop $400 on a PS5 you can essentially turn your brain off and just enjoy video games for the next decade. A PC is the best possible experience, but a PS5 is the closest thing yet to a PC and it's pretty much just plug'n'play.

>>712678247
Yeah I had fun with it, I don't get why people hate it so much. I would agree it could have more content though.

>>712685573
I had fun with it but mostly enjoyed the multiplayer even if it was a bit jank.

>>712685817
>ports

>>712685937
PC is a port machine. The last time PC was a serious competitor was the late 90's/early 00's. Nowadays PC gets all the major games later and yeah you might run them the best but you DO get them later.

>>712685817
PC gets most games day 1 these days and the "ports" are much less ports because the consoles use PC hardware too. PCs are also fairly plug and play these days

>>712686216
Like the other guy said consoles have been regular computers for the past 14 years or so

>>712686282
It's better than it was in the 2000's and 2010's but PC is still a tertiary concern in the minds of devs. Even GTAVI isn't launching on PC. If all you care about is playing the latest, biggest games day 1 then your only real choice is PS5. PS5 is the only system that you could play all 10 GOTY nominees on in 2024.

Picrel is not that fun and is hard carried by the freedom of movement and the power fantasy / cool factor and is only good for occasionally booting up to slaughter crowds in crazy ways and parkour around
>campaign missions are not well designed
>side stuff is pointless bloat
>combat is dogshit when you get staggered by everything and get stunlocked by hunters, muscle guys or rocket launchers / tanks
>boss fights are beyond bad
>only like 4 moves are viable in a legit challenging combat encounter (throwing trash with muscle mass, blade air slash, long range whip attack, using vehicles)
>most of your tech is locked behind absurd amounts of evolution points and 80% of it is worthless but you can't know that till you get it
>infiltrating bases towards the endgame is literally impossible without detection
>the way web of intrigue targets' spawning works and how they love dying 1 second after spawning in
It's still one of my favorite games though.

Enemy design/layout > defensive options > offensive options
Order of importance for action games.

>>712679963
For me, it's Binary Domain.

>Bloodborne isn't a good game.
>Assassin's Creed was never good
>nier automata is a terrible game(the music is incredible though)
>Kurohyou is the best Yakuza game by a mile

>>712684090
You and I are enemies now.

>>712687116
>>Bloodborne isn't a good game.
Bloodborne is good, it was simply overrated for a long time because of its style and because it was an unreachable white whale stuck on Playstation. Now that PCfags can play it via emulation everyone realizes it's OK but nothing special.

>>712685573
I fucking love the way MGSV feels to play, so I probably would've checked it out at some point, but I'm not buying an always online game. I don't buy media with expiration dates.

>>712674368 (OP)
Outside of the obvious shit cash grabs that you autists and predditors trot out as a "nuh uh", gacha games are outperforming the west in almost every facet. Not my fault you queers lose self-control when you see a shop page.
When even degenerate hentai games like Demons Roots are blowing the AAA industry the fuck up in quality and entertainment value you know things are dire.
The obvious increase in butthurt here when stellar blade released should tell those of you not from preddit that you're surrounded by fags who need to gb2 somethingawful and r/games before they hurt themselves.
Now reply to me so I know how many of you I triggered.

>>712686539
>Even GTAVI isn't launching on PC.
If you think this is some kind of argument ender, then you're on the wrong site.

>>712674368 (OP)
oddly enough, I liked watch dogs 2 despite the nigger and woke shit
because it's set in california and it somehow fits, like a game set in california without niggers and woke shit would be weird, if you get what I'm saying
plus the multiplayer was kinda fun, especially that hide and seek game mode

>>712687363
There are no gacha games with good gameplay.

>>712684090
I'm biased towards ss2 too cause that was the first shooter I got
It's a very comfy game with crazy amounts of visual variety

>>712679683
>id rather replay blasphemous
i cant mentally comprehend htis one part

>>712674368 (OP)
Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 are good games but they pale in comparison to 64, Sunshine and Odyssey imo, barring the soundtrack. I might even put 3D World over them, but I can't because I resented it for a while because it wasn't the 3D Mario I wanted at the time (I do like it ofc)

>Dragons Dogma 2 is great. I will admit that 1 is still superior, but it's not a bad game and doesn't deserve it's negative rating.
>Monster Hunter Wilds is also great. Though I will admit it's visuals and performance issues definitely makes it deserve it's negative rating and it annoys me that Capcom are willing to accept this bullshit when they clearly know how bad it is but clearly don't care
>The Nioh Series is the greatest Action RPG series. And it has easily surpassed FROM. Even if their story world is bland in comparison, the gameplay more than makes up for it.

>>712687367
It's just a statement of fact. For all intents and purposes, the biggest game of all time, is a PS5 exclusive for 6-18 months after it launches.

>>712687729
One of the least controversial statements possible.

>>712686943
FUCK YES, big bo is my man
it was not shovelware tier though, I'm pretty sure people called it a good game

Bideo games are a waste of your God given time. It would be better spent reading literature.
There's not a single game that even comes close to the artistic value of a single great novel

>>712674368 (OP)
Nearly every post-processing effect can improve the graphics of a game.
>chromatic aberration
If used sparingly, in certain situations, it looks good. Like how in Crysis it only activates when your suit feels power fluctuations or alien signatures nearby. It's a good active effect. Of course if a game just passively aberrates everything nonstop then yeah turn that shit off.
>film grain
Certain games have an artstyle or textures that can result in a plasticky look that lacks grit. Film grain can offset this in the correct amounts.
>motion blur
Per object motion blur is great. It's exactly how we percieve fast moving objects near us IRL. However heavy constant camera motion blur is an acquired taste and I'd rarely ever use it.
>vignette
Sometimes the visual presentation is just more pleasing and easy on the eyes if the the barrier between screen and monitor bezel is gradual instead of sudden. Vignette used as an effect can also be cool, like adding a red haze around the edges of the screen when you're under the effect of a red powerup.

People love to just turn all of this off because they feel like it's getting in the way of the game simulation. But there are games when having post-processing effects on is the intended look, and you get something flat-looking without them.

>>712687849
Oh, I'm not saying that. But it still easily falls into that camp of forgotten 7th gen games, shooters in particular.

>>712687939
Forgot to add depth of field. Again, context-dependent. Constant depth of field during normal gameplay is a bad idea, but depth of field when you're locked in dialogue with an NPC during an important conversation makes sense.

>>712687768
>the biggest game of all time
It's going to suck

I love niggers

>>712688175
I don't play GTA and I won't buy GTAVI, but it IS the biggest game of all time.

>>712674368 (OP)
/v/'s opinions are worth dog shit & this board is a circlejerk of narratives

>>712688265
Biggest in what way?

>>712688413
Total sales, money, industry coverage, whatever metric you choose GTA VI will break the limiters.

>>712674368 (OP)
Neverwinter Nights > Baldur's Gate.
Oblivion is the best Elder Scrolls.
Victoria Revolutions is one of Paradox's best games.
The Nancy Drew games are fun and worth playing.
People who argue about Fallout 3 vs New Vegas are stupid and should play Tale of Two Wastelands. In fact everyone should play Tale of Two Wastelands instead of the original games.
The God of War series was never good, the action was repetitive button mashing and the story was full of eye rollingly edgy dogshit and soap opera tier bathos.
The original Last of Us is the best zombie movie of all time. I say this without insult, there's a 6 hour edit with gameplay and cutscenes on youtube and it's genuinely a great watch.
Advance Wars > Fire Emblem
Fallout 4 and Skyrim are boring.
The only good ending of Catherine is the one where Vincent becomes king of hell.
Greg Bear's Forerunner trilogy is the best thing to come out of Halo.
KOTOR and Matthew Stover's Revenge of the Sith novelization are the best things to come out of Star Wars, the movies are pretty trash and most of the popularity of the series comes from nostalgia.
Mass Effect is the most overrated scifi game series of all time.
MGS3 is the best Metal Gear.
Night In The Woods could've been a decent VN, just get rid of the annoying gay friends and boomer cult.
RE4 is the best Resident Evil.
Dead Space 2's story is as stupid as any hollywood blockbuster and Isaac acts like a retarded action hero. The gameplay is great but all three games are fun to play, the problem is the story goes seriously off the rails starting with DS2 and DS3 just builds on the stupidity.

artifact would've been good with an expansion or two.

>>712674368 (OP)
>MMOs have all always been bad. Even back in their heyday they were shit. Tab targeted combat and "dodge the red circle" bossfight "mechanics" have always been shit, it was just more acceptable to be that shit 20 years ago
>Games with "seasonal" content, like MMOs but also Diablo, Destiny and TCGs are objectively trying to sell you the same experience multiple times. They are the video game equivalent of fake throwing the ball for your dog, and you're the dog if you fall for it
>I have no moral issue with AI. I only care if something is good. If the picture, game or video is of good quality, then I don't care if it was made with AI. Most AI generated stuff is shit quality.
>The mere existence of a nigger or a faggot in a video game does not make it workeslop. If the game suffers because of their presence, then that makes it wokeslop. Trannies, however, always make something wokeslop

>>712676752
Specifically, Daggerfall>Skyrim=Oblivion>Morrowind>Arena

>>712689050
MMOs used to be good because the culture was better. Now everyone is an asshole

>>712678089

Retail WoW is more fun than any other version of WoW.
Also there was nothing wrong with Beamdog's enhanced editions of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2.

>>712674368 (OP)
sleeping dogs deserves a sequel. and I didn't even play through a majority of it

>>712681775
he is a bad writer and executive but he's actually a pretty good game designer. which is pretty ironic considering how badly he'd rather be making movies

>>712687296
It has a pretty substantial single player campaign

>>712681775
>Super Paper Mario is a great game
nice story doesn't make it a good game imo

>>712676752
SPBP

There's a reason Skyrim is remembered as the one to return to while Oblivion is only remembered for its "memes and jokes" since it's a jank fucking mess. However I'd honestly place Morrowind above Oblivion if only because it did what it was trying to do better than Oblivion.

Stellar Blade is a great game. I actually got more immersed finishing the levels and side quests and probably never fapping to it once. No, Vindictus Defying Fate was that game instead.
The sound design, music, and levels especially Matrix 11, make the game fun to play. The enemy encounters and types also constantly vary and even similar looking enemies progressively get newer moves so fights never get stale. Such a shame that discourse of this game got buried by coom posting. Well at least that doesnt take away my personal enjoyment of it.

>>712688701
>mass effect the most overrated
Considering there's a severe lack of story heavy Sci fi games, I'll take it
>dead space 2
Iirc, didn't the devs say that the mystery was kinda gone after the first so they kinda just went FUCK IT with 2 and 3? Remember hearing somewhere or maybe memory is fucking with me

>>712674368 (OP)
Having exclusives matters little to me when it comes to buying a console or not.
In fact, it was not something I ever gave much thought before coming to this forsaken shithole.

>>712677971
>Furukawa is the blight on Nintendo, everything since 2020 has been dumbed down, soulless products that market to kids and tendies who will buy anything.
Came to say something along these lines.

>>712691338
The coom posting honestly makes me not want to try it. Same shit with the new vindictus which is a shame since I enjoyed it when it was just lann, Fiona, and evie.

>>712678089
Based. Game developers are far too afraid to ever inconvenience players now and it makes every game feel boring.

The Souls style of gameplay is boring and frustrating.

>>712674368 (OP)
>The Yakuza RPGs are fun
>Devil May Cry 5 is the best game in the series solely by virtue of having no bullshit puzzles or platforming sections
>A game needs to have a passable story for me to be invested in it. I’m not asking for a lot like I loved Titanfall 2 and that game was pretty basic
>God of War III is one of the most replayable games of all time
>I enjoy playing “woke” games as long as it doesn’t feel like the team’s HR department wrote the story

>>712678089
I completely agree. Worrying about a nearly broken weapon while stranded down some fucking cursed sleus drain was THE dark souls experience. It’s not a great journey if you can quick warp back to the starting zone with no grief.

Similarly, the roll counter duel style bosses should never have been the majority of encounters. Give me more weird flaily monsters, puzzle enemies, creatures. It robs the significance of battling an equal if every single encounter is a ninja flipping sword duelist.

>>712674368 (OP)
Nightreign is better than Elden Ring because it trims the open world fat and focuses on the only thing that matters, the gameplay.

he's one of the greatest video game antagonists of all time and the Ulysses/Elijah arc across the DLCs elevates New Vegas from a 10/10 to an 11/10

>>712692418
It's really annoying because not only does it become bait threads, it actively drowns out posts about people actually wanting to talk about the game and you know how /v/ operates.

>>712694224
Yeah the coomers are also shitting up the rune factory threads but thankfully it's not too bad

If a game needs more than 2 buttons to play, it's shit. If it uses more than 2 buttons that's ok, but if it cannot be simplified to a 2 button control scheme without ruining the game then the game is shit.

>>712694357
I see 8 buttons on that controller

>>712694759
Movement and even camera controls are excluded. Feel free to have twin stick controls, start/select/home, etc. but if you need more than 2 action buttons it's shit. Four face buttons + four triggers + L3/R3 + back paddles is atrocious.

>>712679683
>>712679127
Play ender lillies.

>>712695072
That would limit games really hard, in fact I think there are barely any games made since 1990's that don't use more than 2 buttons

>>712694357
True. Balan wonderworld is the best game in the past 20 years although mobages come close

>>712676752
Morrowind > Daggerfall = Skyrim > Oblivion > Arena