I can't think of another series that's simultaneously so ridiculous and also taken so seriously by its creators, critics, and fanbase.
Kingdom Hearts
I personally love the series and have always considered it an autistic military anime that's fun to enjoy. Like others said it's more the strange amount of people who take it very seriously and the high as a kite pedestal Kojima has been put on and how he's treated as some genius creator, when he's just a weirdo westaboo who's a discount Tom Clancy when it comes to writing on his own without any help.
The vast majority of people who play games prefer GTA V and Skyrim.
This isn't even getting into how GTA V literally lets you skip entire sections of missions if you fail them more than 3(?) times in a row.
This is why I think MGS1 was great for making it the stealth nuke and not REX itself that was important.
I'd say I more just really don't like Kojima and the cult of personality he has created around himself. I could go on and on about how great MGS 1 is while every other game has only gotten progressively worse and worse because Kojima kept forgetting that he is making a game and not a shitty anime movie, but I feel like we've all already said that enough.
normies, you mean
Yes, which are the vast majority of people who play games.
It's kinda hard to draw clear distinctions between the two now that games have become so mainstream.
Actually if you want a really good game that fucks with you, try Anna.Eternal Darkness is overrated trash and has aged terribly. People love to gush over how "amazing" this game was just because it trolled you (in a very unconvincing way) that the game was fucking with you with by pretending to turn down your TV's volume and making your character's head explode, which I'm sure was "innovative" 20 years ago but now the game is just a mediocre pile of jank.
Also Denis Dyack is a fucking hack who likes to think of himself as the Canadian Kojima when the only actually decent game he ever made was the Legacy of Kain. Let's not forget that Silicon Knights also shitted out Too Human and X-Men Destiny, the latter game was so fucking terrible that it helped bankrupt the company amidst an ongoing lawsuit. Not to mention Dyack actually thought that Too Human would actually sell enough copies to make a trilogy, lol lmao even.
And then he tried to make a spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness that failed not one but two fucking Kickstarter campaigns, because people loved Eternal Darkness so much but yet no one wanted to pay to fund anther one
Yeah REX was the delivery system and it was designed just to be able to overwhelm any opposition that was able to find where it was.
That isn't unpopular. They shit them out before they're bug tested since they know they can fix it a few months down the line with a patch.
Arsenal Gear makes the least sense.
I'm always surprised by people posting screenshots of their time played in Stardew Valley and Terraria.
I've never been as high on MGS as other people, the gameplay is pretty good...but holy shit the storyline is Kojima sniffing his own ass and telling us how great it smells.
I figure I could be considered a hardcore gamer despite not actually playing that many anymore because I love to learn about how they work, and I just drink up shit like TCRF and developer interviews and things. Who's a bigger fan of Goldeneye: a person who spends a thousand hours clearing every level on 00 Agent and unlocking every cheat, or someone who loved playing it and watched this speech several times over?
