I don't drink coffee because I think it's pretty useless. You only need it if you get addicted to it! :3
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Rather an unpopular fact, but let's put it here anyway.
Choices are always to be made, and if you don't choose for yourself, someone or something else will.
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Another post, i'm using this as a vent.
I think that Valkyria Chronicles is pretty overrated. Aside from the usual japanese stuff (hypercompetent teen heroes, overuse of eastern tropes, teh power of friendship!1! and so on), VC relies on the player being overwhelmed by enemy units rather than using a decent AI and fair balance for both sides. There's hardly any tactical stuff to do other than just spend all your points into advancing scouts (wasting turns if you want your slower units to keep up with them) and tank support (which can obliterate other tanks and heavy units).
I think that having 60 fps is nice and all when possible, but not essential into enjoying games: i don't see why someone shoud skip some great games just because they're capped at 30 fps. We always played at 30 fps most of the time until recently, i don't get why it should be an issue now.
While NFS Underground and its sequel are probably the most beloved of the entire franchise, i think that it's mostly because of nostalgia filter rather than the quality of the game itself. Criterion's Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted are really fun to play, full of great cars (i can't really say the same for Underground's shopping carts), they're fast, mindless racing games for easy pick up and play. Most Wanted 2005 still remains my favourite though.
I also think that games don't really age, as if a game isn't really fun to play now probably it had the same issues when it got published before. Aside from the usual technical limits (graphics, loadings, etc), if a game hasn't aged well because of shitty controls or camera then probably controls and camera were shitty even 20 years ago. Resident Evil 1, while i still like it, is a pain in the ass to play nowadays, but it was pretty much the same in 1996.
Exclusives, for whatever platform, are a cancer that should die quickly. I want to be free to pick a console not for their exclusive library, but for their capabilities (gamepad, features, resolution, framerate, appearance, online network, portability and so on). You can buy a DVD and play it on whatever DVD player you bought, i don't see why it should be different for videogames. Microsoft has already made a step towards this, leaving players the choice of playing their games on Xbox or PC, i hope that Sony and Nintendo will follow soon (and sadly won't happen).
Older games are not necessarily better than whatever devs produce today, it's mostly nostalgia filter. I'm still discovering and playing lots of new games that are great, countless gems come out every year. The NES or Atari 2600 libraries were really full of shit just like happens today with PSN or Steam. It just that, yesterday like today, you have to know where to look - Sturgeon's Law at its finest. This is also valid for books, movies, music and art.
Non-gaming related stuff:
Volkswagen cars, despite selling extremely well worldwide, are not really that better than other brands. The Golf in particular is expensive as fuck despite being just another mediocre car outclassed by other lesser known models.
Cars again: i think that hybrids, electric and self-driving cars will be the future, and thank god for that. People are bad drivers and most of accidents that happen every day are because of the driver's fault, not the car. Also nobody is forcing you to buy a self-driving or electric car, so quit whining. If you want the pleasure to drive a RWD petrol car (as i do, in fact) you can still do it.
Millennials aren't killing shit, It the industry that has to adapt to millennials lifestyle. I can't buy a fucking diamond or a house with my underpaid retail job, even if i wanted to. Baby boomers destroyed the economy with their politics, so stop blaming millenials and X-gens.
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I would argue that the VW Gold has a few advantages that make it stand out. It is a hatchback when hatchbacks are relatively scarce (at least in the US), it is available as a wagon when wagons are very scarce, and it has one of the roomiest back seats of any similar compact car in its class - which is of particular benefit for parents that need to fit a car seat(s) in the back. Also, the GTI is pretty awesome, and deservedly so.
Also, games age as expectations with regard to games change over time. I loved Final Fantasy 1, and played it from start to finish at least 3 times, but I couldn't stand to play through it today. And you're absolutely right that the issues we have with old games were always present, we just didn't realize it at the time. When every game is Nintendo-hard, taken from the arcade school of design that purposefully kills the player over and over to extract more quarters, we just think it's normal. Now we look back and realize that it was actually poor design, we just didn't know any better at the time.
I do totally agree that the whole "Millennials are killing X" thing is just market shifts as tastes change, and the market struggling to adapt. I know I won't personally miss mediocre chain restaurants going away, or if "Jeweler's Row" drops from 12 stores down to 2. Blaming Millennials for it is kind of silly. You don't see them saying "Millennials are killing Tabacco", even though that's as true as of any other industry that's now out of favor.
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In Italy, hatchbacks are plenty and everywhere. You can get, for the same price of a middle-equipped Golf 1.5 TSI 150 HP, a full optional Ford Focus ST Line 1.5 Ecoboost, Mazda 3 Exceed 165 HP, Toyota Auris Hybrid Active (which admittedly isn't full optional, but it's hybrid) or a Peugeot 308 Allure EAT6. On the sports side there are plenty of options: Focus RS, Civic Type R, Leon Cupra, 308 GTI, AR Giulietta Veloce. I know that the situation in the US is very different from european countries, where diesel engines are really widespread and people prefer compact cars with high fuel efficiency rather than powerful muscle cars and giant pick-ups - mostly because there isn't much space within the cities to move and park a 5-meter monster with a V8 engine.
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Yeah, in the US, on the economy side, it's mostly the VW Golf, Mazda 3, Ford Focus, and the Golf has the largest back seat out of any of them. The Focus backseat is tiny, and if you have a car seat you're limited to putting it in the middle. Forget about putting 2 or more car seats back there. The Mazda 3 is slightly better, but far worse than the Golf.
On the sport side, the VW GTI competes with the Focus ST - which is a great car, but the backseat is tiny as mentioned above, and the race spec seats have the world's worst headrests that push your head forward if you're actually sitting in the car as opposed to reclining. The Focus RS is awesome, but relatively new, and 25% more expensive.
As far as good wagons, there's the Golf Wagon, the Acura Wagon (automatic only), and... I can't think of another good wagon available in the US. Which is why I have a VW JSW TDI - diesel power!
Europe is certainly different, and the VW cars in Europe are way better. The US VW cars lag 2-5 years behind the European couterparts, and BMW offers hatchbacks and wagons in Europe, where neither is available in the US anymore. It's really disappointing.
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You should compare the Focus RS with the Golf R, not the GTI. That way the Ford's price makes sense, especially when considering that it has launch control, modular AWD and a different body - unlike the R which looks pretty much the same aside for a few details.
On the other hand, if you need room in the back for car seats and kids you probably shouldn't get a hatchback: get an MPV. I don't know if VW sells it in the US, but there is a bigger variant of the Golf called Golf Sportsvan, which may fit better for your needs.
Speaking about spacious cars, SWs were really popular before (mostly because almost every brand was getting their SW), but now are getting phased out in favour of SUVs, which people apparently love. I sure as hell don't.
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The Golf Sportsvan isn't available in the US.
And you're not alone in not loving SUVs. Alas, wagons, hatchbacks, and even stick shifts seem to be dying out in the US.
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Visual novels aren't games (and they aren't interesting either). Call of Duty killed FPS games.
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Steam is in no way better than EA. They are also greedy and lazy in every way. CS:GO is a gambling machine for minors. They don't care for their customers. Also the people who buy CS:GO skins are not smart. How can you pay hard earned money to some random pixels in a game which have no real value outside of steam. Let alone the community market. i just made a simple calculation which is in no way accurate but explains the ultimate money printing ability of steam without doing anything besides making some little cards to craft badges or some skins for cs:go, dota2, tf2 or the general transactions fee. They make millions of dollars every single day without doing anything and we all encourage this sadly.
I think steam and gaben get to much praise for so little to nothing. Why do they even get any praise? Some people call him even our god or saviour.
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Yes, it was great at first when Steam was gaining popularity because you could buy PC games for really cheap and manage your library and friend list with ease. But now - just like every company that gets the lead in the industry ez. google, facebook, apple and so on - they fucked up, making changes that are detrimental to the users while still generating tons of money. Let's face it, i can understand their reasoning: why they should waste time and effort in making HL3 and other games when they could just rack up more money in a month with market and microtransaction profits?
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It has an obvious advantage over origin, in that if the industry was divided like that i would need an account for every major studio.
Also valve as a lesser risk of going bankrupt, people like to think their games are secured but once another company gets a hold of their service all the previous agreements go down the drain.
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Also, surviving a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge isn't too outlandish when jumping out of an airplane and into a mountain with nothing but an inflatable life raft doesn't get you killed either.
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I think the second is the worst Indiana Jones, tjough 4 isnt much better
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'The last of us' is not that good. The overly cliched plot wouldn't even pass as a half -decent TV show, let alone as a movie. It's not even fun to play as a game, being pretty generic third person action. I think it was overhyped as the last 'big' game on the PS3, and all the console fan boys wanted some amazing as a 'last goodbye', and being as it was the best available, it became the 'best ever' of the entire system. Bah.
Batman arkham knight is actually a really good game. Better than asylum for me, and not far behind city. I only got it after the patch though, so maybe that means my opinion isn't coloured by the launch issues.
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Yeah exactly! Its only got one path it wants you to go on, and it only trusts you with minor choices along the way. I get that they had their story they wanted to tell, but making choices that impact that story in bigger ways make it feel more personal. And the action needed to feel like more than just a distraction before the next cut scene or plot point.
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mob psycho is horribly underrated.
dragon ball super is horribly overrated (and i bet even the current arc will have a stupid ending like the evil goku one).
although thanks to him europe has avoided turning red, mussolini was kind of a cuck. had he not fucked things up in greece with the english and forcing germany to displace the libstandarte division (one, if not even the best ss division) in the balkan campaign to solve the situation, it could have been fully operative and available since the start of operation barbarossa, potencially changing the course of ww2. he also paid for his excessive indulgence toward partizans and antifascist scum. had he treated the internal and external dissindents like stalin treated his, they would have not interposed between rsi loyalist/german troops and american/canadian invaders causing a civil war. that way he could have even avoided his sorry end.
the pact of steel represented the last chance for europe to be an independent military, economic and industrial superpower worthy of rivaling with the other international blocks.
yu gi oh > magic
gta iv > gta v
etherosexuality is the one and only existing sexual orientation in the world.
if people were aware of tolkien and lovecraft political views, their works would be a lot less popular (and you wont be seeing cthulhu jokes so easily).
jojo past season 4 is absolute trash.
with countless movies and books, donation, paid hosting for talks, and all the business surrounding concentration camps, the holocaust® is one of the most profitable brands ever created in human history.
the holocaust remembrance day is zionist propaganda and must be abolished worldwide.
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I didn't even got to play Half Life 2, because i was discouraged by 1st game which i couldn't finish due to weird level design (got stuck on a mission). And because i don't like FPS genre. And archaic visuals. And platform puzzles. And hype.
For the same reasons (except level design is Ok) i don't like original Deus Ex, and am rather enjoying Deus Ex 2 which has like 30% less favorable reviews.
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Hey guys,
I consider Half-Life 2 to be a very bad game. It is uninspired, doesn't offer enough variety and is generally more of a hassle rather than an enjoyment due to its vehicle sections.
What's your unpopular opinion?
All the best
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