Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

that said i do not think 2077 writing is particularily bad
It is. It's not only bad, but it's bad in really peculiar ways you don't see in other bad writing. The constant dropping of pronouns and the subject of sentences (you can do this occasionally in English in certain contexts, but when you do it all the time it sounds incredibly awkward) was such a strange decision that I feel like the developers being Polish must've had something to do with it.

How do you spend $300 million on a game and never get a single native English speaker to give the script a once-over and say "uh guys, this sounds really, really dumb?"
 
The death of physical games is the fault of gamers, even moreso than corporate greed.

It started with Steam. Steam becoming huge killed physical PC games. People praising Valve as "pro-consumer" didn't help. Then, it continued to Playstation and Xbox becoming majority digital platforms.

Nintendo fans are statistically the ONLY gamers who buy majority physical games (although even they are moving towards digital because of Game Key Cards).

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Cyberpunk was so weird and lifeless it felt like it was trying to be an engram of night city itself but I think that was why people really hated it and thought it was half baked.
I think a major aspect of this is that damn near every character in the game has the same aloof, standoffish edgelord personality. It's hard to make a world feel lively when everyone acts and talks the same.
 
The thing that did it for me was every single store you went into had the same events happening inside of them every single time you went in even when it was for a story mission
 
Nintendo fans are statistically the ONLY gamers who buy majority physical games (although even they are moving towards digital because of Game Key Cards).
I assume nintendo will do one more generation of physical games and then after that theyll phase them out. Like switch 3, whatever thats called, will have them but then switch 4 will have the digbital only console version.
 
People blaming Steam for video games transitioning to digital only are retarded. PC gaming exists as an open platform. You can rip, archive and compile software with computers. That is not afforded with consoles.

You could freely emulate thousands of games and store them indefinitely on a hard drive to access whenever. Buying games from PSN or Xbox Live means those purchases are tied to an account. If you lose access to the account for whatever reason, you lose those licenses.
 
You can rip, archive and compile software with computers. That is not afforded with consoles.
Yeah, I can always take a game's files, save them somewhere else, share them with others, and reverse-engineer them. I can play with my filesystem however I want, and run any software I want. Consoles can't.
 
Yeah, I can always take a game's files, save them somewhere else, share them with others, and reverse-engineer them. I can play with my filesystem however I want, and run any software I want. Consoles can't.
Not without manipulating the closed ecosystem of the console itself, e.g. Xbox 360 with RGHs or homebrew software. Hell, you NEED a PC to do that stuff.

I'm playing semantics, but that's the whole point. A PC is able to natively do that if you know what you're doing.
 
The idea that AIs "behind" a firewall (a firewall isn't a physical wall for fuck's sake) are about to be unleashed upon the world and kill everyone is where my brain short-circuited the hardest. There are so many ways to make 50-year-old viruses a nonfactor, especially if they are supposedly an existential threat... which, give me a break, they won't be. Only someone who fundamentally doesn't understand computers could have written this. Since the entire setting circles back to this it is virtually impossible to take anything seriously.
Many Japanese anime/video game plots have similar premises or story beats of ancient forgotten technology or even old computer viruses that somehow still work and wreak havoc. The cyberpunk genre is heavily Japan-inspired. This should not surprise you.
 
People blaming Steam for video games transitioning to digital only are retarded. PC gaming exists as an open platform. You can rip, archive and compile software with computers. That is not afforded with consoles.

You could freely emulate thousands of games and store them indefinitely on a hard drive to access whenever. Buying games from PSN or Xbox Live means those purchases are tied to an account. If you lose access to the account for whatever reason, you lose those licenses.
I think it's purely nostalgia, I used to own a tower of 80 Xbox 360 games that took up a bit of space. 360 games (Especially the spines) had a lot of character.

Look up an ancient redneck Youtuber called BoogerBoyMeister, watch his older videos from 2007-2009 where he goes over his game collections and you'll see how big those towers can get if you play a shit ton of games.

Another advantage to PC gaming is if you can always pirate your games back if you lose them or your account for whatever reason. I did indeed lose access to my Xbox Live account from my 360 days.
 
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Many Japanese anime/video game plots have similar premises or story beats of ancient forgotten technology or even old computer viruses that somehow still work and wreak havoc. The cyberpunk genre is heavily Japan-inspired. This should not surprise you.
they're talking about ai's that exist entirely untethered from a physical computer like they live in the blockchain, the architecture of such a thing doesn't really exist in the real world. It's science fiction

I can completely believe that in a world where that is a normal part of "the internet" that leaving the functional equivalent of your civilization's ports open will get you raped by a script kiddie that exists entirely as a self contained program to fuck ports. If you connected to the internet in 2010 with an internet explorer 5.0 pc running windows xp with no firewall was a very similar experience, I reckon. You got torn apart by shit that didn't even register as a threat on a modern antivirus
 
I just live by the principle of never buying anything that the seller will take back if they find out I said the nigger word. Makes life much simpler.
This is why I don't play multiplayer games with voice chat/text chat on anymore or use the steam discussion threads these days.

It makes life easier if you just avoid it completely and there is no one worth a shit to talk to online in most spaces.
 
I just live by the principle of never buying anything that the seller will take back if they find out I said the nigger word. Makes life much simpler.
I uphold the principle that such behavior, while sometimes entertaining, is socially unacceptable and disruptive. That said, the bigger concern from such moderation, especially with PSN/XBL, is having your digital purchases outright revoked if enforcement is applied to your account. Especially if there's little recourse for appeal.
 
Posting this here because not sure where else to do so. While the image and opinion itself may be bait, I wonder if this scenario has ever actually happened? CEOs and higher ups being backed against a corner by devs who are so brainwashed that they force gay shit into video games.
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Many Japanese anime/video game plots have similar premises or story beats of ancient forgotten technology or even old computer viruses that somehow still work and wreak havoc. The cyberpunk genre is heavily Japan-inspired. This should not surprise you.
Except they don't? Hard to find a NES/SNES jrpg without some kind of floating city full of ancient robotech seemingly out of place in a heroic fantasy setting, but that's because of Studio Ghibli's Laputa Castle in the Sky being their Star Trek. CP is inspired by 80s American-Japanese aesthetics and contemporary ideas of Japan becoming a tech giant ruling the world. The idea of an 50 years old ai/virus being a threat is as absurd as an idea that the antediluvian FRODO LIVES virus could be any threat. It wouldn't even be able to work because the hardware and pc architectures it used to work on haven't been in use in decades.
 
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