Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

I dont know if this is an unpopular opinion. Though it might be with ancient Otaku but after playing Sakura Wars V and Thousand Arms I find the way Red does romance very off putting. Now at first I thought it was the localization as Gungrave kicked ass, but Thousand Arms and Sakura Wars V were done by different companies like what 15 years apart. And then I got to thinking

In Sakura Wars V your options are a fucking lunatic, a cripple, a man trying to pass off as a woman (oh I'm sorry an androgynous person who probably has a "surprise" dick), and actual child and a nigger. Like damn.

Now the follow up was better but iirc it wasnt made by Red and im not jonesin to play other older Sakura Wars games to find out if I fuck dudes, kids or black chicks. Or is it because it takes place in America and we are the land of cripples and black chicks.

Whatever, outside of that the dialogue and situations were cringe too and Thousand Arms shared that. I didn't play far enough in that to see if I could fuck cripples tho
 
I don’t get it. What did I say?

007 games haven’t been great since 007: Agent Under Fire.
nightfire, everything or nothing and from russia with love all came out after and were all great. Then we got to the 7th generation where all games are bad so its a redundant statement after that. Thats when every game copied cod, the most regressive degenerative thing to ever happen to gamimg.

Suddenly every game forced you to stop and ads to turn on your auto-aim mode, now movement and positioning no longer mattered it was just a matter of who hit the aim+shoot button combo faster.
 
nightfire, everything or nothing and from russia with love all came out after and were all great. Then we got to the 7th generation where all games are bad so it’s a redundant statement after that.
When Activision had the license, their 007 games were practically CoD knockoffs. People are enjoying the new 007 game, but calling it the best since GoldenEye 007 is a stretch to say the least.
 
It's almost like they WANT females to be ugly. But WHY? What is the end goal?
Plain and simple:
FAGS.
The article inside is a strained and mincing document filled with speculation that gay-male social life is entangled with the power structure of Silicon Valley. Anonymous sources express suspicion that gay guys are getting opportunities that straight ones are not.
One answer is emblazoned on the February cover of Wired: an image of two men standing hip to hip, shaking hands that shoot out of unzipped pants where another appendage should be. Text reads MEMBERS ONLY and INSIDE THE GAY TECH MAFIA. The backdrop is hazmat yellow, and in a touch that’s as subtle as a propaganda poster, one wrist sports a smartwatch displaying the rainbow flag.
It's been obvious for a long, long time now that Hollywood was filled with fags. They stopped tolerating everyone else a little while ago, hence why they WANT females to be ugly in movies. Same story is happening with video games but with that 3x internet degenerate multiplier. These are intentional decisions by the people making this media, which is we we got shit like this:
pop culture made LGBTQ people into aspirational figures. Netflix’s 2018 Queer Eye reboot saw queer men giving normies makeovers that in many cases amounted to a monetary infusion in the form of a home renovation or a nice haircut. In the same decade, pop stars such as Miley Cyrus and Sam Smith embraced queer identity, the millionaire Caitlyn Jenner became the most famous trans person in the country, and Pete Buttigieg emerged as the first viable presidential candidate to be openly gay. To many adults who’d grown up in a world in which LGBTQ people were stigmatized and sidelined, this visibility felt groundbreaking. To many of the kids who were just coming online then, gay acceptance was simply a mainstream norm—and queer people were affiliated with success.
They took over. If you watch and play and read and listen to media from before the mid 2010s to during and afterwards the difference is extremely noticeable. Again, they've done all this intentionally (with a healthy dose of incompetency mixed in). Women being manipulated into thinking that male sexuality is evil on a baseline level helped with these changes. And your results?
There's a reason porn is free nowadays, and it's not out of MindGeek's generosity. It doesn't help that the average person is vastly less attractive (physical health is shitty from starbucks goyslop, mannerisms & socialization destroyed by isolation, pandemic and helicopter parenting) than in prior days. If you go outside it's also obvious that the majority of clothing people are wearing is effectively not sexually dimorphic anymore, with the exception of leggings, goddamned leggings. They show off the ass, the one body part shown most in porn, and "coincidentally" the one body part both men & women have. our society has degenerated so far from what it used to be.
Now if you wanna get deeper into the how & why, this thread does quite a good job of showing how the ROT expanded. It's basically that one meme of "the writer's barely disguised fetish" but applied on an industry-wide level. https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-tumblr-files-official-thread.202872/
And why was it applied on an industry-wide level? How did people get so fucked up that they ruined media this bad? The best explanations are a bit schizo.
If anyone remembers the mutual antagonism between "moral" authorities (often intertwined with schools) & children, popular culture, and the desires of the average person that occurred in the last third or so of the 20th century and the very first years of the 21st, that is exactly what I have been talking about. The ridiculous desire of the "authorities" to walk according to flesh and force unnecessarily strict rules, religious or otherwise, upon the youth have left them rootless and spiritually dead. An example would be how they treated any popular expression of normal, human heterosexuality the same as rank homosexuality or adultery, or treated smoking or playing violent video games as sins of mortal danger. You can the effects of idiotic standards like this with the more degenerate, left leaning millennials, who were chewed up and spit out by that dynamic which either insidiously resisted or corrupted and degenerated any progress we made as a society. They have, in turn, internalized and copied it, spitting it out on themselves and the younger generations in the form of "modern" "feminism" which has destroyed relations between the sexes. This will, in turn, make the problem worse as whenever you repress normal heterosexual relations, people will inevitably exhaust their human nature in genuinely worse pursuits, such as homosexuality or autogynephilic masturbation (which leads to transsexualism). We can already see this with sexless incels, the loneliness crisis, puritanical attitudes, and unseen levels of sexual degeneracy coexisting.
And now the effects of that today:
You know how some women online will post opinions along the lines of "If men didn't exist, I could dress as revealing as I wanted! I wish my clothes and body weren't sexualized!" Well, they got what they asked for. As a man walking around in 2026, there are plenty of practically naked women all over the place (but that doesn't necessarily make them attractive, although that's a discussion for another time). Obviously you can't approach them so you have 2 options:
1. Walk around like a gooner, drooling, staring, fetishizing specific parts and waiting to get home so you can beat off
2. Ignore women, desensitize yourself to the sexual impulse, and eventually feel nothing when you look at attractive women-in other words, the goal of the quote above
Number 2 is the most functional, and the one followed by most normal people. It's probably a 25/75 mix between mindset #1 and mindset #2, respectively, although that can constantly change as urges are fluid (no pun intended). You can connect examples like this, indicative of a larger problem, as reasons why Zoomers seem to be prude and have less real life sex while simultaneously being possibly the most perverted generation in recent history. However, things were not always this way; Listen to the stories of Gen X and older, and look at popular media up to the early 2010s, and you'll see a far healthier view of sexuality was commonplace. Obviously it wasn't perfect, anyone can see that, but things were clearly far better than the hell on earth we have now. It seems that today, you're either doomed to monk mode or given all the tools to go on your personal solo, screen assisted Eyes Wide Shut gooner rampage. We know who controls fashion and we know who got rid of third spaces, who jacked up the prices of everything, who made the dating apps, who throttles selected social media posts, who distributes hardcore pornography for free to children, and who propped up feminism. For everything they prop up there is always a controlled opposition, but if you consider all the factors around today, and how all these factors foster both inceldom and extreme sexual degeneracy with no middle ground, you can pretty plainly tell that whoever orchestrated these factors (you don't seriously think that "who" has just made all these coincidences?) knows how they would psychologically affect the population. They have the studies, they know how the brain's reward system works. It's one big club, and you ain't in it.
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Would it be nice if a lot of older games somehow came preconfigured with the necessary configs and mods to run on modern systems ? Sure.

But regardless of that, I am sorry but if you can't or won't get even slightly involved with your PC, learn how to install mods/patches/whatever, are unable to even use Google for 5 min and get discouraged by false positive virus alerts you are an idiot and PC as a platform is simply not for you.

Yes, trying to get some older game to work can be tedious and a hassle but pretending like you need a PhD for a lot of basic tasks is just false.
A lot of people are just lazy and dumb and the moment they have to put in the slightest amount of work they get discouraged and look for a solution that doesn't really need to exist in the first place (Remakes and Remaster in a lot of cases).
Games are supposed to be fun.

If I have to spend an hour I could be having fun being frustrated even trying to have fun, while opening myself up to viruses I don't need to, why shouldn't I just spend five bucks and get a hassle free experience instead?

It's not that I can't, it's that it's counter productive to the point of wanting to play a game in the first place.

I put in my time in the trenches. I've made boot disks, I've fought with IRQ hardware conflicts, I've done the driver update carousel, I've done the driver reversion dance, I've sworn blood oaths to networking hardware trying to get a game to work over LAN back in the day.

Now I'm a middle aged man and I just want to have fun sometimes and I like not being forced to do that shit anymore. I'm stuck fixing bullshit software and hardware problems enough with my servers, and those I have to do.
 
that was the plague of qtes, regenerating health, overanimated movement that took 30 frames to turn around, load times that were way too long, tutorial tips on the screen constantly and respawning 10 seconds from where you died.

It's genuinely hard for me to list any good games from that era. On the xbox you had bayonetta, tenchu z and ninja gaiden black ironically japanese games on the most western appealing console there was. Then on ps3 you had dmc4, mgs4, god of war 3 and uncharted that's about it.
 
that was the plague of qtes, regenerating health, overanimated movement that took 30 frames to turn around, load times that were way too long, tutorial tips on the screen constantly and respawning 10 seconds from where you died.
I remember when Unreal Engine 3 would have horrible pop-in, excessive glare and muddy, brown textures. Some games from the 7th gen would go into darker directions for no reason. Example, Bomberman Zero.
 
Women do not want to play your nerd game with you because it's gay nerd shit. Adding an ugly bitch protagonist won't change that and won't make women impressed by how much you respect them.
Might have said this before but parts of the industry haven't figured this out but i wanna add something in. It's the same with race because i grew up around black people that played some video games not black gamers (they are a little rarer than most people wanna think.) and the type of people they want to make these games appeal to do play these types of games. They generally play really basic normies stuff like sports simulators or any multiplayer game similar to CoD what you probably won't see them playing is Dragon Age especially the newer one.
 
Paying $20 a year for Nintendo Online isn't nearly as bad as naysayers cry about it being. Would you prefer it by the month, like everything, so you can bitch about paying for one more thing a month?

Nintendo reserves its right to protect its IPs. You didn't make Mario, Link, Pikachu/Pokemon .etc so get the fuck over it. Palworld is just some unimaginative piece of shit thought by assholes who still live off of dumb high school ideas such as giving pokemon-like creatures the ability to wield guns.

Whether you're not selling your fan game is not the point, it comes down to infringing on a copyright you knowingly did not make. Copyright Infringement is violating a copyright without the permission of the holder, such as Nintendo's. Armchair lawyers on the internet believe "uhhhhhhh ackshully, as long as I'm not making money, I can have Samus Aran eating out Princess Daisy in my shitty porn visual novel I'm making!"

The Steam Machine, once its out, will be an overpriced box of junk that'll grow obsolete within a few months to a year. Valve fanboys will fall over themselves buying it anyways to pledge their loyalty to Gaben as they do buying Steam games they won't ever play (nor will getting a Steam Machine will help with that, they'll still play the same 3 shitty games).
 
This is more of a rant than a singular opinion but I know Kojima is a mega famous video game guy thanks to Metal Gear, but the more I hear about him, the more he just sounds like a total fucking baby that got lucky with one series.

He got so mad that he didn't win an award for once that he ghosted Geoff Keighley (who by the way is acting like a desperate kid begging for attention) then he promoted AI, which I don't mind, and then just decided to switch teams because it's making him look bad.
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Can't even stand for something unpopular.
 
This is more of a rant than a singular opinion but I know Kojima is a mega famous video game guy thanks to Metal Gear, but the more I hear about him, the more he just sounds like a total fucking baby that got lucky with one series.

He got so mad that he didn't win an award for once that he ghosted Geoff Keighley (who by the way is acting like a desperate kid begging for attention) then he promoted AI, which I don't mind, and then just decided to switch teams because it's making him look bad.
The big thing with Kojima is that the best moments of MGS were always made by someone else, he for sure knows a thing or 2, but the general impression I get is that he's a brainlet and a half who has the talent to pull people who know what they are doing out of a hat. Still better than any of the other directors running around Triple A.
 
The big thing with Kojima is that the best moments of MGS were always made by someone else, he for sure knows a thing or 2, but the general impression I get is that he's a brainlet and a half who has the talent to pull people who know what they are doing out of a hat.
I never thought of it before now, but maybe Kojima is really the Japanese George Lucas of video games.
 
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