Games shouldn't be 80+$.

THAT'S NOT A HOT TAKE, THAT'S A FACT, Fuck Nintendo making shit decisions, except Bananza that's peak

I keep getting pricked for this one so let's try sizing it up

I think SMW is superior to SMB3 and not because it's a newer game

does NOT mean it's without its faults, it's just superior in comparison

I have a couple of possibly controversial opinions, for example:

Ryan Drummond is my least favorite Sonic VA (nothing against him, I just don't like his portrayal as Sonic)

Super Mario Sunshine, while enjoyable, is kind of overrated

DOOM's 4th episode isn't even that bad, it's just that some maps were placed in the wrong order

FNAF lore has always been convoluted since the beginning (though that's probably why I'm so interested in it)

Rachel Amber is one of the worst video game characters ever, it's a wonder that so many people like her

Chris Redfield punching a boulder in RE5 was cool as hell and nobody can tell me otherwise

I actually like Henry Townshend from SH4, don't know why a lot of SH fans dislike him

Maybe because she in the same series that give us Chloe Price. Seriously, what's with Life is Strange having some of the worst written characters in all of fiction?

At least in the first LiS, you played as Max Caulfield who was a genuinely good person and endearing in that 'nerdy' kind of way. Ironically enough, my least favorite character in that game was Chloe and I'm surprised it took me until my latest playthrough to realize she's kind of an ass (I was only 15 when I first played the game, so my media literacy wasn't the best). Despite that, I still loved the first game and consider it one of my favorite video games, mostly due to the story, art-style, soundtrack, and down-to-earth characters.

As for Before the Storm, that's a different story. Most of the characters ranged from forgettable to downright insufferable. The choices you made had little-to-no impact on the story, the pacing was all over the place, and as a whole, the story feels like a glorified fanfiction, and this is coming from someone who writes fanfics. I don't think BtS is a bad game, but it certainly is a disappointing follow-up. Though, one thing I find hilarious is that the devs behind this game really wanted the players to like Rachel, so much so, that most of the time, you can't even call her out on her bullshit. I don't know why, but I lot of media I've recently experienced seem to have that one character the creators desperately want the audience to fall in love with, when said character ends up ruining the whole experience.

I honestly do not like dark souls, like I don't get the appeal of having to repeat the same fight over and over for little progress. And I cannot play metroidvannias, I get too lost to easily.

Idk if this one's a hot take but people are just scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to looking for things to hate Nintendo over. Some guys in Russia managed to get their hands on Switch 2 units ahead of release. But tough shit, apparently they're just a brick until an official day 1 patch drops. For some reason people are upset about this. Did gamers really think that after years of openly discussing Switch 1 piracy, that Nintendo would just be cool with that happening again? Come on now.

I'm not one to throw around cringe phrases like "This destroys my faith in humanity", but the hatewagon for Nintendo reeks of desperation. Folks need to just stick to raging over those $80 first party games because everything else has just been nothing but a bunch of yapping little dickheads getting angry for the sake of making noise.

So Nintendo Haters are pretty much just your average social media addict who complains for the sake of complain, while doing nothing to somewhat fix the issue or do something more productive with their time on internet?

Makes me wonder how folks in Russia were able to get a Switch 2 legally in spite of all of the sanctions. (and I'll leave it at that)

That aside, it makes all the sense in the world that Nintendo would be very protective of their new console before it even launched, considering their control freak policies against piracy.

The way I see it, Nintendo is an easy target because they are percived as a company behind on the times, and tend to be overzealous with the protection of their IPs. The former is mostly dubious logic, but not without a little merit (sometimes at least) while the latter is just so obvious, what else is new?

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have their foibles as well, and most of them tend to be exaggerated by dopes, not realizing the console wars are long over outside of the terminally online.

We shouldn't have consoles anymore. The idea that you need to own multiple machines that are all just computers at this point is asinine.

Consoles are great because for all intents & purposes, console games are just plug and play. No annoying configurations or mods or patches needed to get that backwards compatible running. But then that's like a double edged sword, because if the game works, then it works. But if there's a game breaking bug in a console game, then the only fix is to just deal with it and hope that the devs will one day get around to fixing it.

I miss consoles having a swathe of exclusives... I miss crazy gimmicks & features that made deciding between a console truly worthwhile. Nowadays, the only difference between the Xbox and Playstation is the color of the UI.

Home PC and maybe a handheld if you travel. It's all you need these days.

That's not even true, though. Day one of console ownership involves about as much time downloading and installing software and firmware updates as it would to install a PC operating system, the "physical" games you buy are just auth keys for a 60+GB download, the last time something just worked out of the box was the fucking PS2.

Even if they were plug & play, what you're buying is just a locked-up computer that doesn't do half the shit it could do. The Switch will never have something as simple and no-brainer as a Netflix app. Why not? I dunno, fuck you, that's why. Don't act like your consoles belong to you anymore; if you break EULA on a modern Nintendo machine, they'll just brick it remotely. The customer relationship with console manufacturers is pathetic. The leash they have their fans on just keeps getting tighter and they're too conditioned to complain.

The last console of sorts I bought was a Retron-3 (basically, it plays NES, SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive cartridges on modern TVs), and it is utterly shocking how complicated consoles have gotten since the days of "put cartridge in hole and game just work, somehow." As someone who didn't grow up with these 8 and 16-bit consoles (unfortunately), it actually freaks me out that Super Mario Bros (NES) just STARTS, without even the fancy-pants console intros of the GameCube/PS2/OG Xbox era, let alone warnings about extremely long, unskippable updates ensuring that your limited free time to just play, I dunno, Marvel Rivals for 30 minutes is thoroughly wasted simply watching a loading bar gradually go up multiple times. And it turns out the massive 3-hour update was just for some vague edge-case "bug fixes," not that your console was having problems before the update.

Honestly, I think how insanely complicated owning a Switch 2 sounds (even the Switch 1 after a recent update adding a ton of extra stuff for that bonkers-sounding "Wireless Game Share" thingy) is what convinced me ultimately not to buy it near launch, or at least not until it (hopefully) gets some permanent discount to less-loyal fans, similar to what happened to the 3DS. Like, if I'm going to get some overly-complex handheld PC, why don't I just stick with my Steam Deck? At least with PCs, you're rewarded for digging into complicated concepts like modding and installing games from other storefronts besides Steam. I can use Blender 3D on my Steam Deck via Desktop Mode, how cool is that?! Can the Switch 1 or Switch 2 do that--at least through means that Nintendo deems "legal?"

That's what I'm on about. The deck and Switch 2 are mostly separated by operating system, not construction. One lets you do whatever you want because it's a PC, the other will self destruct if you take a step outside its closed ecosystem because it's a PC that calls itself a "console", and I guarantee it doesn't have the tradeoff of being simpler to set up. You're gonna need a Nintendo account, you're gonna have to sit there entering personal info and juggling codes between your phone and your S2, all definitely not for your benefit. They just want to know who they're nuking from orbit because, again, you don't own anything that Nintendo sells you.

Undertale isn't that good. When I played it, it was a 6.5/10 for me instead of a 10/10 from what I heard.

Undertale was always an overrated game and it was baffling on how it was treated as a sacred cow for weird reasons.

That aside, here's another hot take that really shouldn't be. I'm sick and tired of all of these souls-like clones, and I wish developers would stop making them. It should be telling that even Miyazaki and FromSoftware are getting tired of them, but they are too pigeonholed to stop.

Never made sense to me why the same dumbasses showing how to mod your Switch 1 and actively discussing that they want to buy a Switch 2 just to pirate it and are now surprised they're allowed to brick your Switch. It's like stealing from a store and then expecting nothing to happen. No shit, you got arrested.

I also hate, "If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing," it is so fucking overused nowadays. Console players say this like their console is digital only but 95% of the games are physical while the 5% are physical copies to download the game. PC gamers have games for super cheap on Steam and can buy games for fractions of the price on third party websites, a $70 game after a week or two can go down to maybe around $60-$50, on those key websites. Unless the console is really old, or you seriously can't afford the games, I don't see any valid reason to pirate. If you say this apparently you support corporate greed and suck the companies dick.