Opinion that is Unpopular

[AliceShiki]

@AliceShiki is the most positive person around here, only seconded by @Nahrenne and I still feel like the same shit after being irradiated by their positivity.

Most of the things you say I really can't relate. Maybe it's just me. I don't know.

*pat pat pat pat pat* Ganbatte Ben-kun! ^^)/

 

[Nahrenne]

@AliceShiki is the most positive person around here, only seconded by @Nahrenne

'o'
You think I'm positive?
*huggles BenBen*
\(^o^)/

I still feel like the same shit after being irradiated by their positivity.

QwQ
BenBen...
*...huggles...?*

X

 

[Discount_Blade]

Nah, because too many things went under public or mainstream eye and either caught or became complete and utter shit. Fallout, for example. 4 and 76. Then it's DnD, where they're considering removing fucking Orcs and variants of Elves because they don't want "evil races" anymore due to racism (??????)

It's easy to say that I want my favourite thing to be popular and liked by many, but this is real life we're talking about here. Not everyone has the same taste, and just as I could find a guy that likes it as much as I do, I could also find another guy that wants to burn it to the ground and stomp on its charred corpse like it's a pinata from Cinco de Mayo.

So no, I'll keep enjoying my stuff in secret, and probably join the fandom because ironically enough, the echo chamber does more to let me enjoy stuff than sharing it to the world like gospel. When has Jehovah's Witnesses ever convinced you anything anyway?


@AliceShiki is the most positive person around here, only seconded by @Nahrenne and I still feel like the same shit after being irradiated by their positivity.

Most of the things you say I really can't relate. Maybe it's just me. I don't know.


I find solace with a generally negative guy. It makes the positive moments standout even more and memorable. In a way, the guy doesn't shy away from the fact that the world we live in fucking sucks, which makes all the good stuff he decides to talk about all the more comfy. It's through all the bad stuff that we, or at least I, can find comfort within the sparingly found good shit. I'd rather not live in a world blanketed by sunshine and rainbows, but to live the world as shitty as it is, and enjoy the truly great things that come along once in a while.


Those guys? Who keep on a happy face all the time and wants you to be as happy as them? Fuck off, mate. All I want to do is sock 'em under the chin. If there's any troupe I hate in this world more than self-righteous Christians and social activists, it's positive people who actively pursue mopey looking people like me to be happy with. You're not helping. All you're doing is making the contrast look more apparent.

Like I said, the world is filled with different manners of people. I'm one of those people who are perfectly okay with being generally negative and enjoying good stuff by themselves. That doesn't mean I wish bad upon everyone. If it's the rant posting you take issue with, then you're always welcomed to just ignore me and scroll past.

Oh man I just saw this post with Fallout 4 and 76. Fucking heresy/blasphemy. If I could cleanse the world of those two games with horrible hellfire, I would. No questions asked no hesitation needed. I even tried the Mod community for fallout 4 thing and all I found that made it slightly better was the mods that lewded the hell out of it. And that brought me enjoyment for maybe a few more days and then it was back to being a dumpster dive.

 

[Ace_Arriande]

Oh man I just saw this post with Fallout 4 and 76. Fucking heresy/blasphemy. If I could cleanse the world of those two games with horrible hellfire, I would. No questions asked no hesitation needed. I even tried the Mod community for fallout 4 thing and all I found that made it slightly better was the mods that lewded the hell out of it. And that brought me enjoyment for maybe a few more days and then it was back to being a dumpster dive.

Is there even a point in playing any modern Bethesda games if you're not installing hundreds of R18+ mods?

 

[Discount_Blade]

Is there even a point in playing any modern Bethesda games if you're not installing hundreds of R18+ mods?

You know, if you had said this with Fallout 3 was new, I would have gathered the mob with pitchforks and all of that and tried to hunt you down. To me, back then, Bethesda could do no wrong. I still play Fallout 3 over and over and I have last time I checked, 14 full completions with DLC, plus a few more without DLC. I was a fanatic for that game. New Vegas was awesome too, but I only completeld it and the DLC 4 times. To me, 3 is the pinnacle.



However the Bethesda of now?



Bethesda needs killing.....

 

[Discount_Blade]

Oh man...question, what is you take on Skyrim?

I liked Skyrim, but to me Witcher 3 did everything better. I'm actually genuinely upset they they have kept the lore about who won the Stomrcloak war vague and every game upcoming is always based BEFORE that conflict so they don't have to pick an ending. It's lazy and disingenuous. Knowing who won won't change anything for me or most more or less well-balanced fans of the lore so....why the bullshit cop out?

I even believe if they made a game based afterwards, it would be so far ahead in the timeline, so they could justify their cop out for avoiding picking an ending that is canon. Like a thousands years ahead of time so they could bullshit their way out of it with something like...."the records describe a great conflict but the outcome has been lost to time"....or something of the like.

 

[Ace_Arriande]

You know, if you had said this with Fallout 3 was new, I would have gathered the mob with pitchforks and all of that and tried to hunt you down. To me, back then, Bethesda could do no wrong. I still play Fallout 3 over and over and I have last time I checked, 14 full completions with DLC, plus a few more without DLC. I was a fanatic for that game. New Vegas was awesome too, but I only completeld it and the DLC 4 times. To me, 3 is the pinnacle.



However the Bethesda of now?



Bethesda needs killing.....

New Vegas is definitely the best to me, but it's not even developed by Bethesda. Fallout 3 is great. I don't actually think I've ever beaten the game even after all these years, but it was always a fun and enjoyable game both with and without mods whenever I did play it. The new games are just trash. The only positive thing I can say about either of them is in Fallout 4 when the giant blimp thing arrives. That moment was pretty badass, imho. But everything else sucked.

Oh man...question, what is you take on Skyrim?

I liked Skyrim, but to me Witcher 3 did everything better. I'm actually genuinely upset they they have kept the lore about who won the Stomrcloak war vague and every game upcoming is always based BEFORE that conflict so they don't have to pick an ending. It's lazy and disingenuous. Knowing who won won't change anything for me or most more or less well-balanced fans of the lore so....why the bullshit cop out?

I even believe if they made a game based afterwards, it would be so far ahead in the timeline, so they could justify their cop out for avoiding picking an ending that is canon.

Basically the same, except I don't think I've ever even made it halfway through Skyrim's main story just because I always lose interest before then. I've spent more hours trying to get mods working than actually playing the game, and I can't play the game vanilla. Now, every time in like... the last 5 years I've been interested in trying to play it again, I'll spend like an entire day getting 150+ mods working, start the game, play for 5 minutes, then stop and not try again for a year. I think it's a good example of why something being open-world with multiple potential endings isn't always a good idea, though. It always complicates things for whenever you make a game that takes place after it unless you rely on a copout or put significantly more work into making sure that every possible choice has its own potential outcome in the future, which only snowballs more and more the more games you end up making that take place after it. I'll honestly take some more linear RPGs with only a single ending now before getting interested in any more open-world games with different story choices.

 

[Discount_Blade]

New Vegas is definitely the best to me, but it's not even developed by Bethesda. Fallout 3 is great. I don't actually think I've ever beaten the game even after all these years, but it was always a fun and enjoyable game both with and without mods whenever I did play it. The new games are just trash. The only positive thing I can say about either of them is in Fallout 4 when the giant blimp thing arrives. That moment was pretty badass, imho. But everything else sucked.


Basically the same, except I don't think I've ever even made it halfway through Skyrim's main story just because I always lose interest before then. I've spent more hours trying to get mods working than actually playing the game, and I can't play the game vanilla. Now, every time in like... the last 5 years I've been interested in trying to play it again, I'll spend like an entire day getting 150+ mods working, start the game, play for 5 minutes, then stop and not try again for a year. I think it's a good example of why something being open-world with multiple potential endings isn't always a good idea, though. It always complicates things for whenever you make a game that takes place after it unless you rely on a copout or put significantly more work into making sure that every possible choice has its own potential outcome in the future, which only snowballs more and more the more games you end up making that take place after it. I'll honestly take some more linear RPGs with only a single ending now before getting interested in any more open-world games with different story choices.

I have many gripes with Fallout 4, but perhaps my most rage-inducing is the abysmal rate at which enemies respawned in areas after you cleared them out. In 3 and New Vegas, 3 in-game days passed and everyone respawned. In 4? 30 fucking days. So basically, the majority of the map is almost completely empty once you go around shooting things. They even addressed this and said that it was to encourage exploration....and thats nice and all except for 2 things.

1), if you've beaten the game, than you just basically killed any replay value because once you beat it, you'll have established favorite areas...and won't go through the entire map ALL OVER agin because you've seen it. You'll congregate only in the areas you enjoyed fighting in the most. Welp...Fallout 4 killed that little joyful bit with the shit respawning cycles.

and 2)....Fallout 4's map is smaller than both 3 and New Vegas. I've researched it, they even have youtube videos showing it. The world is smaller.....but you basically force us to explore all of it....and then take away the reason to come back to places already seen by destroying the respawning process? I don't understand what Bethesda was getting at here?

Only game I've gotten into recently was Bannerlord 2....but its become so laggy and with the last period of patches and updates, it crashes too much. So I basically spent 60 bucks on a game I can maybe play once in a while when they figure out how they destroyed it the next time around. And while yes, its an open beta....its still 60 bucks I spent for a game they can't seem to keep running at least halfway decent for any length of time.

 

[BenJepheneT]

Oh man...question, what is you take on Skyrim?

I liked Skyrim, but to me Witcher 3 did everything better. I'm actually genuinely upset they they have kept the lore about who won the Stomrcloak war vague and every game upcoming is always based BEFORE that conflict so they don't have to pick an ending. It's lazy and disingenuous. Knowing who won won't change anything for me or most more or less well-balanced fans of the lore so....why the bullshit cop out?

I even believe if they made a game based afterwards, it would be so far ahead in the timeline, so they could justify their cop out for avoiding picking an ending that is canon. Like a thousands years ahead of time so they could bullshit their way out of it with something like...."the records describe a great conflict but the outcome has been lost to time"....or something of the like.

As I've always said to others, Bethesda is great at making RPG templates. The shooting, for an Action RPG, is top notch. Their world design is one of the best if not THE FUCKING BEST in the industry second to those Sony exclusives. Yet again, this is open world we're talking about, with heavy and detailed crafting systems and location rethreads. If we're talking about visual world building as a whole, there's nothing quite like Bethesda's work.

That said, Bethesda has no idea how to construct a game. Everything they do storywise just ends up being a cookie cutter of a cookie cutter. Diverging plot lines are as diverging as doing the same exact shit under a different flag. New Vegas had you assassinating the President, disabling Mr. House, having a one-on-one with a redneck gladiator while having the option to talk him out of it by convincing him he's standing on the wrong side of the dam, literally. All three examples only one of them isn't mutually exclusive to just one faction. Even the companions had their own missions, despite being only a handful, plus DLCs.

In 4, you blow up the same shit for 2 factions. It's literally just "you blew this up, whether it's for Brotherhood or Railroad or Settlement Distress Call dispenser, we thank you". There's more companions but who in the Jesus fuck remembers McReary with affection? He's literally there to remind you of the 3rd game. There's only like 4 missions for all the companions in the game. The romance is weak as fuck, like it's tacked on in the last minute by a programmer writing codes with one hand while looking at the character models on another monitor.

Bottom line is, Bethesda knows how to execute great ideas and the little moments, but their games are like a shitty compilation of a band's Greatest Hits. It's engaging as hell, but it's also shallow and disorienting.

Skyrim to The Witcher 3 is like junk food to a 3 course meal. One has you pecking the button for corn, while the others rewards your engagement with a well-crafted experience. If you're the type to like instant rewards and big numbers on your weapons, by all means go for it, but if you really get down to it, there's only so much of Skyrim you could engage in besides digits on a magic staff.

This video explains everything better. It's 20 minutes but trust me, you'll be grateful you've spent those 20 minutes.

Is there even a point in playing any modern Bethesda games if you're not installing hundreds of R18+ mods?

If I want to coom, I'd watch porn. I suppose you're the type to play in third-person with a one-handed controller, huh.

 

[Discount_Blade]

As I've always said to others, Bethesda is great at making RPG templates. The shooting, for an Action RPG, is top notch. Their world design is one of the best if not THE FUCKING BEST in the industry second to those Sony exclusives. Yet again, this is open world we're talking about, with heavy and detailed crafting systems and location rethreads. If we're talking about visual world building as a whole, there's nothing quite like Bethesda's work.

That said, Bethesda has no idea how to construct a game. Everything they do storywise just ends up being a cookie cutter of a cookie cutter. Diverging plot lines are as diverging as doing the same exact shit under a different flag. New Vegas had you assassinating the President, disabling Mr. House, having a one-on-one with a redneck gladiator while having the option to talk him out of it by convincing him he's standing on the wrong side of the dam, literally. All three examples only one of them isn't mutually exclusive to just one faction. Even the companions had their own missions, despite being only a handful, plus DLCs.

In 4, you blow up the same shit for 2 factions. It's literally just "you blew this up, whether it's for Brotherhood or Railroad or Settlement Distress Call dispenser, we thank you". There's more companions but who in the Jesus fuck remembers McReary with affection? He's literally there to remind you of the 3rd game. There's only like 4 missions for all the companions in the game. The romance is weak as fuck, like it's tacked on in the last minute by a programmer writing codes with one hand while looking at the character models on another monitor.

Bottom line is, Bethesda knows how to execute great ideas and the little moments, but their games are like a shitty compilation of a band's Greatest Hits. It's engaging as hell, but it's also shallow and disorienting.

Skyrim to The Witcher 3 is like junk food to a 3 course meal. One has you pecking the button for corn, while the others rewards your engagement with a well-crafted experience. If you're the type to like instant rewards and big numbers on your weapons, by all means go for it, but if you really get down to it, there's only so much of Skyrim you could engage in besides digits on a magic staff.

This video explains everything better. It's 20 minutes but trust me, you'll be grateful you've spent those 20 minutes.

If I want to coom, I'd watch porn. I suppose you're the type to play in third-person with a one-handed controller, huh.

Skyrim had some awesome lewded mods. And well I'd be a liar if I said I didn't look up skyrim related porn. But eh...I'm terrible so anyways...

 

[BenJepheneT]

Skyrim had some awesome lewded mods. And well I'd be a liar if I said I didn't look up skyrim related porn. But eh...I'm terrible so anyways...

There's a YouTube channel solely dedicated for that. Of course, it does other cool mods as well but if we're talking about the hook, you know what it does.

 

[Ace_Arriande]

If I want to coom, I'd watch porn. I suppose you're the type to play in third-person with a one-handed controller, huh.

implying i'd play with a controller

they call it "sticky keys" for a reason

 

[BenJepheneT]

implying i'd play with a controller

they call it "sticky keys" for a reason

I doubt you even play the game. I bet you just boot up the game and spam the jump button.

 

[Ace_Arriande]

I doubt you even play the game. I bet you just boot up the game and spam the jump button.

how else am i gonna see that helicoptering action

 

[ForestDweller]

Oh man...question, what is you take on Skyrim?

I liked Skyrim, but to me Witcher 3 did everything better. I'm actually genuinely upset they they have kept the lore about who won the Stomrcloak war vague and every game upcoming is always based BEFORE that conflict so they don't have to pick an ending. It's lazy and disingenuous. Knowing who won won't change anything for me or most more or less well-balanced fans of the lore so....why the bullshit cop out?

I even believe if they made a game based afterwards, it would be so far ahead in the timeline, so they could justify their cop out for avoiding picking an ending that is canon. Like a thousands years ahead of time so they could bullshit their way out of it with something like...."the records describe a great conflict but the outcome has been lost to time"....or something of the like.

Witcher 3 really feels like a game where you just go around and talk to people. I got bored by it. The combat isn't great either.

 

[BenJepheneT]

Witcher 3 really feels like a game where you just go around and talk to people. I got bored by it. The combat isn't great either.

In all honesty, it's sort of a game that really only needs one click. If it does click, it's the best thing you'll ever experience in your life. If it doesn't, then it'll never click. Admittedly, yes, the combat is floaty as fuck and at times the game feels like it's trying to be an action RPG but then it remembers it's a pseudo immersive sim and now you have this flashy but punishing as hell combat that feels like an inbred child of Dark souls and Devil May Cry.

But like I said, it's the sort of thing that clicks. If you can see the threads connecting the whole game together, it's gonna be a wild ride for you.

 

[ForestDweller]

In all honesty, it's sort of a game that really only needs one click. If it does click, it's the best thing you'll ever experience in your life. If it doesn't, then it'll never click. Admittedly, yes, the combat is floaty as fuck and at times the game feels like it's trying to be an action RPG but then it remembers it's a pseudo immersive sim and now you have this flashy but punishing as hell combat that feels like an inbred child of Dark souls and Devil May Cry.

But like I said, it's the sort of thing that clicks. If you can see the threads connecting the whole game together, it's gonna be a wild ride for you.

I guess it's a series you have be in the mood for to enjoy. I did enjoy Witcher 1 and 2. But I never got to finish 3 because I just got bored by the non-gameplay.

I guess the plot hasn't captivated me either. Still just looking for Siri.

 

[Moonpearl]

I like author's notes. Don't understand the people who hate them at all.

Sure, the SH ones are a bit gaudy in their design, but isn't the joy of web fiction having the author around while you read?

I love them so much that it makes my day when people translating novels also translate the author's notes.