I'm sorry but I feel that anyone who has a problem with the story of the last of us, is probably detached from their emotions, at least when it comes to game characters. I can understand gameplay because it's just the typical third person shooter there, but the characters of the game, minus a few who only show up for a scene or two, are some of the best I have ever seen, and they make playing through the typical 3PS worth it.
I don't care how good a story game has if it makes me bored with its gameplay. The characters are... eh. The story was nice, and the only reason I even bought the game, but it wasn't anything super exciting. I was especially disappointed by the end where they wouldn't even let you choose.
(05-01-2015, 03:55 AM)RepentantSky Wrote: [ -> ]I'm sorry but I feel that anyone who has a problem with the story of the last of us, is probably detached from their emotions, at least when it comes to game characters. I can understand gameplay because it's just the typical third person shooter there, but the characters of the game, minus a few who only show up for a scene or two, are some of the best I have ever seen, and they make playing through the typical 3PS worth it.
People disliked it due to how it seemingly copied a book called The Road and some movie, and due to this wasn't original.
Don't quote me on that, I thought the story was good, but that's what I've heard.
(05-01-2015, 04:20 AM)Mass Distraction Wrote: [ -> ]I don't care how good a story game has if it makes me bored with its gameplay.
About 90% of the games if I made one of these lists. There are way too many games that people like that I can't play due to how boring they really are.
Kind of how I couldn't bear playing Spec Ops: The Line despite people telling me how godlike the story was. The gameplay was just soooooooooo boring.
(05-01-2015, 10:01 AM)retrolinkx Wrote: [ -> ] (05-01-2015, 03:55 AM)RepentantSky Wrote: [ -> ]I'm sorry but I feel that anyone who has a problem with the story of the last of us, is probably detached from their emotions, at least when it comes to game characters. I can understand gameplay because it's just the typical third person shooter there, but the characters of the game, minus a few who only show up for a scene or two, are some of the best I have ever seen, and they make playing through the typical 3PS worth it.
People disliked it due to how it seemingly copied a book called The Road and some movie, and due to this wasn't original.
Don't quote me on that, I thought the story was good, but that's what I've heard.
Yeah, I've heard that but I personally don't care. I haven't read the road, and I don't know what movie their talking about. Besides, I hate to say it, but if even one of those people who say are fans of war films or Call of Duty games, that claim has no ground to stand on. Those have almost always been the same thing and with the exception of a few rare gems, are exactly the same as one another, and yet those kinds of films and games still sell well and are still made often, if not yearly. If they can get away with it, so can the last of us.
I think I posted on here years ago when I was still dripping in high school brand edginess™ so imma just update my picks with my new worldly knowledge.
#1: Shovel Knight
Shovel Knight's a pretty good platformer that pretty much just grabbed elements from other platformers and put them into one game. It's good, it's not the holy fucking grail of indie games or master difficulty curve or any of that shit. So many people praise this game for being something beyond what it is and that shit gets old. Pretty much everything the game does has been done before and done better.
#2: Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario's just sorta better, and this game hasn't aged as well as people think it has. Still a good game though.
#3: Majora's Mask
This one's more just personal preference but Majora's Mask just doesn't do it for me. I never played it as a kid, which is probably a big part of my feelings, but the time limit on an exploration based game reeeeealy turns me off here, and this game has some of the shittiest dungeon designs in Zelda history. Still a good game and I can respect the changes and innovations it created, but it's just not my cup of tea.
#4: Dark Souls
It's just Monster Hunter but with a bunch of bullshit thrown in. This might be slightly warped since I've only played the PC port which is notoriously awful, but I hear praises for the game and figure I'll reinstall and give it the old college try about once or twice a year, and every time I just fucking hate this game. The level design in the second part of the game is so laughably bad that I can't believe people actually enjoy this. It's not "ooooh arjahn you don't get it it's really hard cuz it's supposed to be really hard BUT IT'S FAIR!!!", it's off screen enemies throwing fucking firebombs at you and not telegraphing attacks. Monster Hunter is hard but fair, this shit's just poorly made.
#5: Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door onward.
The original Paper Mario is my favorite game, I mean, ever. It's perfect, it's aged beautifully, it's probably the only "funny" videogame that ever actually made me laugh, the combat's super enjoyable, the characters are memorable, the exploration and badge systems are great, just a wonderful little game.
Now then,
Every sequel has sucked enormous donkey dingle.
TTYD gets a lot of praise, and admiteddly it's not as bad as the others, but holy shiiiit the backtracking in this game. Go play it again now and you'll see that the game has so much fucking walking. Even the good levels have egregious amounts of walking. Oh you want to look around the wrestling arena? Better walk alllllllllllllll the way around and allllllllllllllll the way back then talk to one dude and proceed to walk allllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to the start. There's one level where you seriously have to take a 5 minute walking path 3 or 4 times in a row. It's just so fucking tedious. I also really didn't like any of the characters, which is weird because, like I said, I loved or could at least tolerate most of them in the original.
Then we get to Super Paper Mario where they decided to turn their successful turn based RPG franchise into a shitty platformer... ok.
Then we get to Sticker Star where fucking Jumping on enemies requires very limited resources so you're encouraged by the game's mechanics not to fight anything to learn the game's mechanics...ok.
*re-reads the whole thread*
The fact that Call of Duty was mentioned pretty much everywhere when it comes to overrated games is simply beyond my understanding. Like, you mean the same COD that gets bashed pretty much everywhere besides the mainstream? (and who cares about what normies think anyway?). The same COD that gets bashed for being the same filth each year with little to no changes? (they aren't wrong). That one?
If so, then why was COD mentioned pretty much everywhere? That doens't look like a overrated game to me.
Like I said, this is beyond my understanding.
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The thread was made in 2013, at the height of Cod's decline (that makes sense right?) and when everyone thought it was cool to hate on CoD then, these days no one gives a shit.
(09-01-2017, 11:00 PM)retrolinkx Wrote: [ -> ]The thread was made in 2013, at the height of Cod's decline (that makes sense right?) and when everyone thought it was cool to hate on CoD then, these days no one gives a shit.
So, in other words:
"Everyone else was doing it, so I ran along with it because I just wanted to be popular. I don't have a personality of my own, you know?" - The users bashing COD
EDIT: Really now? Did nobody understood the Futurama reference?
(09-02-2017, 04:07 PM)ZpaceJ0ck0 Wrote: [ -> ] (09-01-2017, 11:00 PM)retrolinkx Wrote: [ -> ]The thread was made in 2013, at the height of Cod's decline (that makes sense right?) and when everyone thought it was cool to hate on CoD then, these days no one gives a shit.
So, in other words:
"Everyone did it. I just wanted to be popular. I don't have a personality of my own." - The users bashing COD
I wouldn't say that. Its more a matter of it being a common opinion. People were just sick of it for the most part with Black Ops and MW2 being the best iterations in a lot of peoples' minds. Just because the opinion is common doesn't make it invalid as an opinion. Personally, my favorite was the first Modern Warfare, but I never played its multiplayer. It just had pretty satisfying gunplay for the time period it came out.
(09-02-2017, 05:17 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]I wouldn't say that. Its more a matter of it being a common opinion. People were just sick of it for the most part with Black Ops and MW2 being the best iterations in a lot of peoples' minds. Just because the opinion is common doesn't make it invalid as an opinion.
Oh, I never said that an opinion being too common meant that said opinion was invalid (who on Earth thinks like that anyway?). I said that people were bashing COD (not all of them, obviously) because it was considered cool. You know, kinda like following trends just because rather than actually liking said trending thing.
EDIT: look, what I am trying to say is that some people just jumped into a bandwagon. Got it?
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Yeah, that's about right. There was good reason to hate on CoD so everyone went along with it, no one really defended it because there was no real point.
It's like how people hate Bethesda and Xbox, there is good reason to and everyone else does it so there is no point in defending it.
It works the other way as well, people will defend Sony to the death because they think it's the right thing to do.
(09-02-2017, 05:23 PM)ZpaceJ0ck0 Wrote: [ -> ] (09-02-2017, 05:17 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]I wouldn't say that. Its more a matter of it being a common opinion. People were just sick of it for the most part with Black Ops and MW2 being the best iterations in a lot of peoples' minds. Just because the opinion is common doesn't make it invalid as an opinion.
Oh, I never said that an opinion being too common meant that said opinion was invalid. I said that people were bashing COD (not all of them, obviously) because it was considered cool. You know, kinda like following trends just because rather than actually liking said trending thing.
Honestly if I said anything about CoD I meant it. That series was bland back in 2011.
COD is still around, while it does have fans. There are gamers(as well possibly some who are against activision) who still dislike COD since its just the same game over and over again. Its become the staple of what every FPS should be. Yeah, while there are other FPS games that are far superior to COD. There will be those who will try to push developers to make a shooter like COD. After all. Too much of the same thing can be boring.
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