games that are made to "mimic" ps1 graphics are made by people who only grew up on silent hill and resident evil, or they just don't play ps1 games at all. in fact they don't do a good job emulating it, they also just slap a tacky vhs filter on top and call it a day.
Best regards
At 5/18/25 10:21 AM, tkhurka wrote:
Give us your own HOT TAKES on a Video Game Franchis
I was in doubt whether to talk about Touhou or Mother. But I'm going to go with Mothe
It's beautiful. A franchise with three games. Mother 1, despite its problems, should be played mor
Mother 2 is amazing, but people overestimate it sometime
And Mother 3 is Peak.
Clair Obscur is a good game, but it it far from being an elite title like a lot of people says it is. It hasn't been out for long and the gameplay is practically dates itself with mechanics from the 90's, with a wonky dodge/parry mechanic. I'd give it a another month or two before the hype dies down, and maybe a more objective view comes out. (Also, it's awkward that B and C list developers was trying to ride off its coattails, almost an admittentence that they are hacks)
Debates about styles of graphics is simply dumb because it seems like there is only one acceptable opinion based off of standards made in the mid 2000's, and people don't want to move off of it because some bad actors go one way to an unreasonable degree. That, and some of the reasoning hardly makes my sense anyway, which probably means they never played them regardless.
I don't understand the appeal of visual novels, especially when they either go on longer than they should with their "tell, don't show" appearance, or are simply poorly written but tries to cover it with pretty artwork and occasional brilliance by their standards. It seems like only recently is gamers finally wising up to the VN glut of low effort and hokey nonsense, but there is still some holdouts.
Just stop worrying, and love the bomb.
At 5/20/25 03:20 PM, orangebomb wrote:I don't understand the appeal of visual novels, especially when they either go on longer than they should with their "tell, don't show" appearance, or are simply poorly written but tries to cover it with pretty artwork and occasional brilliance by their standards. It seems like only recently is gamers finally wising up to the VN glut of low effort and hokey nonsense, but there is still some holdouts.
Im glad someone else has this opinion, visual novels just bore me a lot.
I don’t even know what it is about them but after a while I want some other source of entertainment.
I really really didn't like any of the Switch's core exclusives and I especially hate these modern Zelda games. I don't really enjoy 3D Zelda anymore which saddens me because I have great memories of them, but as an adult, I just find them...boring now. Zelda has great vibes but the 3D games just don't really have anything that entices me to replay them. If I want to experience them I just put up no commentary playthroughs while I draw or listen to certain songs. Playing them is a chore and unstimulating.
I think I have simply outgrown Nintendo.
At 5/20/25 10:51 PM, AM-ZYNK wrote:At 5/20/25 03:20 PM, orangebomb wrote:I don't understand the appeal of visual novels, especially when they either go on longer than they should with their "tell, don't show" appearance, or are simply poorly written but tries to cover it with pretty artwork and occasional brilliance by their standards. It seems like only recently is gamers finally wising up to the VN glut of low effort and hokey nonsense, but there is still some holdouts.
Im glad someone else has this opinion, visual novels just bore me a lot.
I don’t even know what it is about them but after a while I want some other source of entertainment.
if the fact that TV tropes puts visual novels in separate folders from the other videogames is anything to go by, i seriously doubt our opinions on visual novels are hot takes. the genre could really benefit from being more dynamic, from the decisions the player makes making an actual difference instead of being there just for the show. the appeal is that you'd have a game with a plot where the only skills needed to beat it are reading and decision making, but visual novels with less than 3 different endings aren't games, they're just glorified slideshows (if your decision doesn't matter in a decision-driven game).
but now to an actual hot take:
needing a manual to play a game only makes the game bad if it doesn't have a manual.
Most games released in the past 15 years are mediocre or bad... including games like Doom (2016), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Fallout 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2... I think the averaged score of every game released since PS4/Xbox One/Nintendo Switch generation is a 7/10 while PS3/Xbox 360, PS2/Xbox/GameCube and PS1/N64 are all each averaged down to at least a 9/10... I understand graphics, power and budgets blow past generation's budgets by 10 times over, but I feel like they lack that stroke of genius and creativity... older games feel like they were forged by Gods... I feel like even retro arcade games like Tetris and Pac-Man have 100 times more creativity and originality than modern games... and it's not nostalgia because over 20,000 games released across all those platforms and I still regularly play new titles I never even heard of.
At 5/22/25 01:03 AM, SuperAmauri wrote:Most games released in the past 15 years are mediocre or bad...
People who think that most modern games are mediocre or bad, would've given up gaming completely if they grew up on that 100% all-natural mid-2000s garbage.
For every retro game that was seemingly forged by the gods, there were a dozen titles "based on the hit movie/TV show" made on a shoestring budget that got completely memoryholed by history.
At 5/22/25 01:03 AM, SuperAmauri wrote:Most games released in the past 15 years are mediocre or bad... including games like Doom (2016), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Fallout 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2... I think the averaged score of every game released since PS4/Xbox One/Nintendo Switch generation is a 7/10 while PS3/Xbox 360, PS2/Xbox/GameCube and PS1/N64 are all each averaged down to at least a 9/10...
Clearly, I take it that you have not played these games if you would rate Doom (2016) or RDR2 7/10, unless you have extremely high standards, or most likely, you weren't into shooters.
I understand graphics, power and budgets blow past generation's budgets by 10 times over, but I feel like they lack that stroke of genius and creativity...
Oh you sweet summer naive child.
There has been plenty of trendhopping game clones since the 80's, and most of them weren't even that creative or memorable even within nostalgic circles. Plus, things like creativity and innovation was (and still is) subjective and generally rooted in behaviors rooted in that time period.
On paper, game design does look more "creative" in 80's/90's/00's, but the reality is that they were mostly surface level at best, and more often than not, often felt like either a lesser version, or was a game that was cashing in on trends. That doesn't automatically make them bad per se, but they were far from being creative originals that stood the test of time.
The money argument is frankly irrelevent to me, because companies like EA, Activision, Nintendo and so forth were around since the 80's, and they were publicly traded companies not long afterwards. (Mostly penny stocks then, but not the point) Publishers/developers weren't making games out of charity even then, they only difference is the scale.
Just stop worrying, and love the bomb.
At 5/22/25 03:43 PM, orangebomb wrote:At 5/22/25 01:03 AM, SuperAmauri wrote:Most games released in the past 15 years are mediocre or bad... including games like Doom (2016), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Fallout 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2... I think the averaged score of every game released since PS4/Xbox One/Nintendo Switch generation is a 7/10 while PS3/Xbox 360, PS2/Xbox/GameCube and PS1/N64 are all each averaged down to at least a 9/10...
Clearly, I take it that you have not played these games if you would rate Doom (2016) or RDR2 7/10, unless you have extremely high standards, or most likely, you weren't into shooters.
I understand graphics, power and budgets blow past generation's budgets by 10 times over, but I feel like they lack that stroke of genius and creativity...
Oh you sweet summer naive child.
There has been plenty of trendhopping game clones since the 80's, and most of them weren't even that creative or memorable even within nostalgic circles. Plus, things like creativity and innovation was (and still is) subjective and generally rooted in behaviors rooted in that time period.
On paper, game design does look more "creative" in 80's/90's/00's, but the reality is that they were mostly surface level at best, and more often than not, often felt like either a lesser version, or was a game that was cashing in on trends. That doesn't automatically make them bad per se, but they were far from being creative originals that stood the test of time.
The money argument is frankly irrelevent to me, because companies like EA, Activision, Nintendo and so forth were around since the 80's, and they were publicly traded companies not long afterwards. (Mostly penny stocks then, but not the point) Publishers/developers weren't making games out of charity even then, they only difference is the scale.
I primarily play first-person shooters and third-person shooters; I played about the first 5 hours of Doom (2016) singleplayer before quitting because it was a flat, mediocre experience... The online multiplayer portion of Doom (2016) was also mediocre, but I found enjoyment from it for about 50 to 80 hours before it got completely stale... Doom Eternal and Dark Ages also look about 7.5/10 to me but don't plan to play them... I didn't play Red Dead Redemption 2, but the creative direction of the writing and missions didn't look good to me the slightest bit based on the around 10 hours' worth of videos and reviews I watched on the game before deciding not to make the purchase... I played the original Red Dead Redemption, and I found it a very boring 8/10 but Undead Nightmare was a perfect 10/10 masterpiece, I loved it... I played the new Uncharted games on PS4 and found the visuals and cutscenes beautiful and the shooting is some of the best for a 3rd person shooter but everything else was bland and I thought the games were about a 7/10... I played the Ratchet and Clank for PS4 thought it was a brutal 7/10... The newest one also looks like a 7/10... Borderlands 3 had great gameplay, but the writing was too painful and quit after like 30 hours played... I played the first, maybe, 10 hours of Mafia 2 when it came out, didn't even bother beating it because it was an average experience...
I just find most of these modern games from the past 15 years very mediocre... these are some of the best games from those times... The Last of Us does looks like an 9/10 and it's on my Steam Wishlist... A few of the games I consider 10/10 are Grand Theft Auto 5, Duck Game, The Sims 3, Halo: Master Chief Collection, Ravenfield, Counterstrike: Global-Offensive, Super Mario World, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports and Call of Duty: Black Ops... Most people who know me do consider my standards very high but really, they're just normal standards; not just video games but art in general should blow your mind every moment and change your entire life and world views... none of these new games do that for me like retro games; especially from the years 2000 to 2012... I owned over 1,000 video games and completed about 250 and I think retro games are better than modern ones; new games are just a lot flashier... I think retro games are like a Kung-Fu movie with expert combat movements with perfect form and the greatest techniques in the world, masterful writing but using ancient tech for video editing and recordings while new games have 8k resolution, big name actors, million dollar budgets for helicopters, mansion being exploded, all the fighting movements have fierce sound design with fancy air whipping visual effects, with dark lighting settings and camera close-ups to hide the poor fighting chorography and you cannot actually see the extensions of the arms and legs or exactly how the combatants connected attacks or were able to maneuver out of harm's way... sorry, I know opinions like these can be rage inducing but they're my genuine opinions.
Side scrolling beat em up are GARBAGE!!!!except for a few exceptions
I love all of the games in the cowabunga collection
Crash Bandicoot and Tank Dempsey should have been in SSBU as DLC characters.
At 5/23/25 02:19 PM, ComedyBro88 wrote:Crash Bandicoot and Tank Dempsey should have been in SSBU.
That Has Nothing To Do With Games
At 5/23/25 02:20 PM, tkhurka wrote:At 5/23/25 02:19 PM, ComedyBro88 wrote:Crash Bandicoot and Tank Dempsey should have been in SSBU.
That Has Nothing To Do With Games
Wait... isn't Super Smash Bros a game?
At 5/22/25 06:56 AM, TURBOSALT wrote:tekken™ is a bad video game
I used to feel the same way too... Then I realized it was just cheesy... and I like cheese.
I think Battle Royales have to be the most boring-ass genre of video games to ever exist. I am not saying this as an objective fact of course, but they have always been just sleep-inducing to me.
I was looking at New Tales From The Borderlands yesterday but I wasn't going to pay 30 dollards, so I added it to my wishlist instead. Then I upgraded my PSN subscription and somehow it bought NTFTB too by accident.
At 5/20/25 04:50 AM, Notakin wrote:games that are made to "mimic" ps1 graphics are made by people who only grew up on silent hill and resident evil, or they just don't play ps1 games at all. in fact they don't do a good job emulating it, they also just slap a tacky vhs filter on top and call it a day.
Eh.... Idk I think Puppet Combo does a pretty good job at mimicking PS1 Games as horror in my opinion
At 5/23/25 02:26 PM, ComedyBro88 wrote:At 5/22/25 06:56 AM, TURBOSALT wrote:tekken™ is a bad video game
I used to feel the same way too... Then I realized it was just cheesy... and I like cheese.
Imma be real though I love absolutely everything about tekken from the atmosphere, story, characters, just
get kinda frustrated any time play them long enough against AI vs just having fun with a friend.
soul calibur though, now thats game I can fuck up just dont get me started on 3 that game was just diabolical.
At 5/23/25 04:19 PM, tkhurka wrote:At 5/20/25 04:50 AM, Notakin wrote:games that are made to "mimic" ps1 graphics are made by people who only grew up on silent hill and resident evil, or they just don't play ps1 games at all. in fact they don't do a good job emulating it, they also just slap a tacky vhs filter on top and call it a day.
Eh.... Idk I think Puppet Combo does a pretty good job at mimicking PS1 Games as horror in my opinion
it's cool at first but once people keep doing it gets boring, really fast.
"oooh look at this horror game with fake retro effects and hardware inaccurate graphical quirks, ooooo pay more attention to this tacky faux vhs filter to mask its graphical flaws just so people don't see this as a low effort cashgrab made in 4 months"
Best regards
it's cool at first but once people keep doing it gets boring, really fast.
"oooh look at this horror game with fake retro effects and hardware inaccurate graphical quirks, ooooo pay more attention to this tacky faux vhs filter to mask its graphical flaws just so people don't see this as a low effort cashgrab made in 4 months"
I mean yeah, but atleast those kinds of games are better then Mascot Horror like BanBan
At 5/23/25 04:27 PM, tkhurka wrote:it's cool at first but once people keep doing it gets boring, really fast.
"oooh look at this horror game with fake retro effects and hardware inaccurate graphical quirks, ooooo pay more attention to this tacky faux vhs filter to mask its graphical flaws just so people don't see this as a low effort cashgrab made in 4 months"
I mean yeah, but atleast those kinds of games are better then Mascot Horror like BanBan
you know what, fair.
Best regards
you know what, fair.
PS1-style characters may be overused, but at least they are scarier and have a more unique design than just GREN SLOP MONSTER GO OGGA BOOGA
At 5/23/25 04:20 PM, TURBOSALT wrote:At 5/23/25 02:26 PM, ComedyBro88 wrote:At 5/22/25 06:56 AM, TURBOSALT wrote:tekken™ is a bad video game
I used to feel the same way too... Then I realized it was just cheesy... and I like cheese.
Imma be real though I love absolutely everything about tekken from the atmosphere, story, characters, just
get kinda frustrated any time play them long enough against AI vs just having fun with a friend.
soul calibur though, now thats game I can fuck up just dont get me started on 3 that game was just diabolical.
I like SoulCalibur too. Mostly cause you can make your own characters.
(DISCLAIMER: I'm just venting about it, this is NOT directed at anybody specific)
Allowing the player to be evil just for the sake of preaching about how being evil is bad is a horrible design choice. If you genuinely think your audience is too dumb to tell right from wrong, don't bother to waste your time and energy making the evil path. OR make your entire game revolve around preaching about why being evil is bad instead of pretending this isn't what you're doing. I would seriously appreciate a game that is subtle about their intent of making the player feel bad about being evil instead of rubbing on the player's face as if everyone in the entire planet was an idiot.
Digital game distribution ISN'T an issue but the invasive DRM is, and proper consumer laws are required to resolve the ownership issue, not hoarding physical copies (especially the older/rarer ones that get more expensive with demand/hype)
At 5/21/25 02:02 PM, OnixDark wrote:At 5/20/25 10:51 PM, AM-ZYNK wrote:At 5/20/25 03:20 PM, orangebomb wrote:I don't understand the appeal of visual novels, especially when they either go on longer than they should with their "tell, don't show" appearance, or are simply poorly written but tries to cover it with pretty artwork and occasional brilliance by their standards. It seems like only recently is gamers finally wising up to the VN glut of low effort and hokey nonsense, but there is still some holdouts.
Im glad someone else has this opinion, visual novels just bore me a lot.
I don’t even know what it is about them but after a while I want some other source of entertainment.
if the fact that TV tropes puts visual novels in separate folders from the other videogames is anything to go by, i seriously doubt our opinions on visual novels are hot takes. the genre could really benefit from being more dynamic, from the decisions the player makes making an actual difference instead of being there just for the show. the appeal is that you'd have a game with a plot where the only skills needed to beat it are reading and decision making, but visual novels with less than 3 different endings aren't games, they're just glorified slideshows (if your decision doesn't matter in a decision-driven game).
but now to an actual hot take:
needing a manual to play a game only makes the game bad if it doesn't have a manual.
Personally I chalk these up to cultural differences as in terms of gaming proper, Japanese prefer playing on portable consoles, and the great majority of VNs are PC exclusive, whether it's an old PC-88 or a modern Steam. Of course they focus more on story, and the "glorified slideshows" actually have a term known as "kinetic novels".
As someone with no dev skills and particularly inability to comprehend coding, I could give a shot at making a kinetic novel.
At 5/22/25 01:03 AM, SuperAmauri wrote:Most games released in the past 15 years are mediocre or bad... including games like Doom (2016), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Fallout 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2... I think the averaged score of every game released since PS4/Xbox One/Nintendo Switch generation is a 7/10 while PS3/Xbox 360, PS2/Xbox/GameCube and PS1/N64 are all each averaged down to at least a 9/10... I understand graphics, power and budgets blow past generation's budgets by 10 times over, but I feel like they lack that stroke of genius and creativity... older games feel like they were forged by Gods... I feel like even retro arcade games like Tetris and Pac-Man have 100 times more creativity and originality than modern games... and it's not nostalgia because over 20,000 games released across all those platforms and I still regularly play new titles I never even heard of.
I don't remember where I mentioned that before, but the older games aren't immune from the issues either. Hell, one time it caused an entire US gaming market to crash.
Even ignoring that, you'd still have to deal with shovelware, terrible localizations (especially the ones that completely mask the games Japanese origins), a lot of PC games being lost media because no one gave a damn about the games in question, entire consoles like Jaguar and Casio Loopy failing to sell at all etc. Not to mention AVGN trashing the games of the old.
And of course, if we're just talking strictly popular franchises, we got stuff like Mega Man X7 and Shadow the Game which weren't the most well-received games at the time.
I've had a PS1 during my childhood, and I had to deal with a fair share of bad apples like Hulk Pantheon Saga and Wild Rapids.
