Unpopular Opinions: Vidya Game Edition

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yakuza 0 and kiwami have terrible combat

Yeah. I'm very slowly playing Yakuza 0, and even very early on it feels repetitive.

[TooB]

yakuza 0 and kiwami have terrible combat

Definitely unpopular, and wrong

[Nyerp]

wow u mash square and then press triangle to activate a cutscene
wow u mash square but the enemy has decided to start blocking in the middle of your combo and you can't do anything
wow it's a boss fight who has shitloads of health and blocks or dodges all of your attacks so you have to just brute force it with healing items

literally the only satisfying thing is mowing through a group of thugs with beast style

[TooB]

wow u mash square and then press triangle to activate a cutscene
wow u mash square but the enemy has decided to start blocking in the middle of your combo and you can't do anything
wow it's a boss fight who has shitloads of health and blocks or dodges all of your attacks so you have to just brute force it with healing items

literally the only satisfying thing is mowing through a group of thugs with beast style

 

[ClassicTyler]

After playing the Dragon Quest Builders series games, I can never go back to Minecraft because Minecraft will feel empty and have absolutely no character.

[Samus Aran]

wow u mash square and then press triangle to activate a cutscene
wow u mash square but the enemy has decided to start blocking in the middle of your combo and you can't do anything
wow it's a boss fight who has shitloads of health and blocks or dodges all of your attacks so you have to just brute force it with healing items

literally the only satisfying thing is mowing through a group of thugs with beast style

i don't entirely disagree, it IS very repetitive and i wish there was more variance in heat actions

but you can definitely mix it up a lot more than you're describing. sometimes switching between styles on the fly is actually a lot more effective than staying in one. and you also didn't mention weapons at all which have their own movesets and heat actions and actually make bosses way easier.

but yeah, combat in brawler games is always pretty repetitive for sure

[TooB]

Now I kind of want a Yakuza arcade-style beat em up

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Chad-tier opinions:

subspace emissary >>>>>>>>>>> world of light. fuck the haters

smash works far better with platforming than it does with rpg/gacha bullshit

wholeheartedly agreed, nyerp

world of light is nigh unplayable

[Kalahari Inkantation]

in a game like smash bros., there's no real way to "standardize" the construction of a level. because every character you can play as is completely different. so as a result you get this boring generic stuff that just sort of fits every character.

This is a h*cka good analysis.

kaz, why don't you review video games again

[Kalahari Inkantation]

objective markers is a game "mechanic" that was born out of sheer lack of creativity and its usage is usually a good indicator that the devs didn't give a fuck about designing an interesting world

HOT TAKE:

I may be doomed without objective markers.

And I agree.

[Nyerp]

i dont even remember posting that

what was i even mad at there, i barely play games with objective markers anyway

[Kalahari Inkantation]

On a related note, it's surprising to me that there isn't any clear influence of Zelda in Elder Scrolls.

i don't remember posting this either

and i cannot believe nobody disputed it lol

I mean, it is factually correct, to be sure.

but it would be so easy to challenge lol

[Nyerp]

oh i think i was playing the witcher 3 around that time. yeah the strength of that game is story content/graphics/vibes, the open world is just kind of there lol. i do really like witcher 3 tho

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i was gonna say lol

the witcher 3 may have decent writing but that doesn't save the game from being more boring follow-dotted-lines-and-inspect-map-icons tripe. i'm so fucking sick of this type of game and it baffles me that it and all of its clones still get glowing reviews.

honestly, it sounds like you (and everyone else) have open-world fatigue lol

[Nyerp]

playing the dlc later on elevated my opinion of it i think. along with red dead redemption 2 being the most boring open world game ever, which made witcher shine in comparison lmao

too bad i don't trust cdpr with anything after cyberpunk 2077 tho

here's an unpopular opinion: they could release a dozen more studio trigger anime adaptations and cp2077 will still never be anything but mediocre