Unpopular gaming opinions SECOND IMPACT

[Shinkuu_Tatsumaki]

And I like Tales games for a lot of reasons, but the fighting is one of the big draws for me. I love the real time battle systems, and the Tales games have a better one than Star Ocean (from Symphonia on, anyway), which I also really like.

I like Tales games too. And yeah, the battle system is also what draws me into the game as well. Phantasia was my first, Symphonia my second.

[Spoonman]

Here is mine

The Xbox360 seems to be a worthy succesor in terms of approaching the library variety of a PS2… anyone who thinks its just a sports and FPS machine is stuck in late 2005 to mid 2006 or is just carrying some sort of stigma from the first Xbox. And this is coming from someone who owns a PS2 with lots of games and never gave two shits about the first Xbox. PS3 is well into its second year and still has a lot to prove for me to shell out the bucks (no…I don’t go hell bent for Metal Gear), unlike many I don’t think its going to be good just because the PS2 was good…I still don’t see that at least in real life outside of the internet (i.e. stores).

[EvilSamurai]

Ok I just reinstalled AOE2 for the first time in about 5 years and have to say that StarCraft and War 2 hold up much better.

I dislike shooting games very much.

I love FF games, all of them from 7 on. 6 wasn’t that great.

I actually like EA’s games. I especially liked the EA Big series of games. The first NBA Street, and all of the SSX games were fantastic.

NBA Street was on almost an NBA Jam level of fun.

[System_1]

Here is mine

The Xbox360 seems to be a worthy succesor in terms of approaching the library variety of a PS2… anyone who thinks its just a sports and FPS machine is stuck in late 2005 to mid 2006 or is just carrying some sort of stigma from the first Xbox. And this is coming from someone who owns a PS2 with lots of games and never gave two shits about the first Xbox. PS3 is well into its second year and still has a lot to prove for me to shell out the bucks (no…I don’t go hell bent for Metal Gear), unlike many I don’t think its going to be good just because the PS2 was good…I still don’t see that at least in real life outside of the internet (i.e. stores).

Name a few 360-exclusive titles worth buying please?

[System_1]

Name a few 360-exclusive titles worth buying please?

Mass Effect is the only one I can think of.

[ViciousSLASH]

Ok I just reinstalled AOE2 for the first time in about 5 years and have to say that StarCraft and War 2 hold up much better.

NBA Street was on almost an NBA Jam level of fun.

NBA Street was a god tier game.

I have no idea how they took NBA Street 1 and got to where they are now.

They just fucked it all up. It all went down hill when they took the fun announcer away and replaced her with rap bullshit.

Rap always fucks up everything, schools, kids attitudes, and now our damn vidja games.

I mean Bobbito? Fucking seriously? BOBBITO?!?

SERVIN’ IT UP! DINNERS SERVED!

SSX 3 was an amazing game. It’s like they were totally forgotten about because EA made them.

I know my white pal big poppa lays loved SSX 3, he always knows whats up.

[InfiniDragon]

Mass Effect is the only one I can think of.

And there’s my unpopular opinion. I couldn’t possibly, remotely care less than I already do/did about Mass Effect. Or any Bioware RPG for that matter.

And yeah, Tales is good. Cliche stuff is pretty much everywhere; it’s all in how it’s packaged. And if that package happens to include my all time favorite battle system in an RPG…well yeah.

[Jamerson]

*Did not like FFX. At all.
*Do not like the SNK fighter “engines” of KOF, SVC, etc–felt too “sticky” if that makes sense

On a side note, to many of you who said you didn’t like FF6, or whatever game for that matter, did you first play (and finish) those games when they **FIRST **came out? I ask because when a game came out and when one first plays the game makes a HUGE difference in your reaction to it (e.g. playing Zelda 1 for the first time NOW may seem like pulling teeth to a random 13 year old used to the more advanced gameplay and next-gen graphics).

[Darkstalker]

On a side note, to many of you who said you didn’t like FF6, or whatever game for that matter, did you first play (and finish) those games when they **FIRST **came out? I ask because when a game came out and when one first plays the game makes a HUGE difference in your reaction to it (e.g. playing Zelda 1 for the first time NOW may seem like pulling teeth to a random 13 year old used to the more advanced gameplay and next-gen graphics).

Yes.

It still sucks.

And you also recognise that games now play and look better so…I don’t see how this is defending it.

[FatalFuryD]

Star Ocean 3 is the greatest 3-D Action RPG of all time.

It’s pretty close…“X game is the greatest Y of all time” is an opinion that is bound to have a disagreement down the road, personally my pick would be Elder Scrolls IV. Good thing about Tri-Ace is that they try to evaluate good part of JRPG and WRPG and mix them up. In Tri-Ace games they put in semi-complex(combo only lol) Fighting game-based system, but then they have pretty good ROLE FUKKEN PLAYAN aspects(private actions, etc) and item creations just like WRPGs do. They need to work on script check so that they don’t contrast their games any more(for instance, when did Star Ocean 1 really start?, Who is Hrist?), and they need to work on character customizations. I mean shit, in SO games they already built polygons of all their gears that can be displayed in-game, why not give us the ability to change character appearances? Oh and Speaking of Star Ocean, this series really, really needs multiplayer setting.

[TheSix]

BioWare are gods.

Neverwinter Nights is the greatest PC DnD RPG of all time.

No game has as many mods or as much reply value. It was way ahead of it’s time.

…And before I forget Crysis(the game that PC fagboys suck off for no reason) is a useless piece of shit because it makes your normal PC explode. And for what it is, a game that demonstrates the new and improved “CryEngine 2” it actually serves to illustrate how utterly useless the engine is in a REAL world situation with hardware design flaws and limitations are abound. All that unjustified cocksucking and MGS4 STILL looks better than you Crysis…Why?

In other words - I just fail at life because I didn’t read the system requirements and the game didn’t run on my entry level dell.

[Septimus_Prime]

Name a few 360-exclusive titles worth buying please?

There aren’t any.

[System_1]

Exactly my point.

[the_hurricane]

xbox and xbox 360 controllers are some of the worst controllers for fighting games ever invented by man, that shit makes you wanna throw it against the wall

mk2 was the best mortal kombat

killer instinct 1 shits on killer instinct 2

ddr type of games are wack as fuck

using wii fit, ddr, etc. as a replacment for actual exercise is wack as fuck too, lazy asses

true bisons psycho crusher in alpha 3 was cheap as fuck

and toe jam & earl was fuckin tight

[System_1]

And there’s my unpopular opinion. I couldn’t possibly, remotely care less than I already do/did about Mass Effect. Or any Bioware RPG for that matter.

And yeah, Tales is good. Cliche stuff is pretty much everywhere; it’s all in how it’s packaged. And if that package happens to include my all time favorite battle system in an RPG…well yeah.

Lmao, can’t take you seriously when you say you don’t care for ANY bioware rpg AND then go on to say Tales of series is good and it doesn’t matter that it’s cliche-engineered from the ground up

BTW I take back Mass effect, I forgot it’s out on the PC.360 is trash yo, worst fucking system this gen, i got mine for free back in 06 and haven’t played it in months.

[System_1]

NBA Street was a god tier game.

I have no idea how they took NBA Street 1 and got to where they are now.

They just fucked it all up. It all went down hill when they took the fun announcer away and replaced her with rap bullshit.

Rap always fucks up everything, schools, kids attitudes, and now our damn vidja games.

I mean Bobbito? Fucking seriously? BOBBITO?!?

SERVIN’ IT UP! DINNERS SERVED!

SSX 3 was an amazing game. It’s like they were totally forgotten about because EA made them.

I know my white pal big poppa lays loved SSX 3, he always knows whats up.

:tup: SSX series was the shit back in the day, also Fight Night is another great EA series.They are my two favorites.NBA street 1 & 2 were excellent games, you’d never think they spawned that piece of shit V3.

[Biolink]

Tales of the Abyss was ass.

The battle system was cool I guess. The story sucked though for me. By the time Luke “Came to his senses” it was already to late for me.

And strangely enough Fatal, I still haven’t even played Elder Scrolls IV. Should get around to that soon.

[Hatred_Edge]

To the guy that hates Guily Gear: Since when was Pot considered in the same level as Test/Eddie/Slayer? I always thought that those three were their own tier, and Pot was around the same level as Baiken, Jam, and possibly May and Millia.

Then again, these were the tiers from Dustloop (don’t know how old they are):

S: Testament, Eddie, Slayer
A: Baiken, Potemkin, Jam, May, Millia
B: Axl, A.B.A, Zappa, Robo-Ky, Order-Sol, Faust, Venom
C: Sol, Ky, Dizzy, Chipp, I-no
D: Anji, Bridget, Johnny

First of all I don’t hate GG. If I did I would quit playing it. OF course Potemkin isn’t on the same level as Slayer/Testament/Eddie.

No fucking way Millia and Pot are on the same level. Pot does pretty damn good against Millia . I haven’t seen enough Baiken vs Pot but May isn’t that big a deal for him nor Jam. From what I’ve seen/read Potemkin is just under S tier. Like A+. He’s really fucking good. For such a HUGE target he seems not to be having much trouble beating people like Venom, Dizzy, Faust, Axl, Bridget. Potemkin is just under Slayer because Slayer has no trouble with anyone besides Eddie and Testament. Pot is a hard fight for Slayer because of Pot Buster. The stupid move grabs limbs. That’s 140 damage out of 420 from one move. That means some 90% of Slayer’s ground pokes are high risk. It’s just that Pot players tend to go for walk up Pot Buster and Pot Buster setups far more often. Pot has weaknesses but his strengths are such overpowered bullshit that it’s as if it doesn’t even matter what weaknesses he has.

I don’t like the Tales games because the battling is kind of boring and simple.
EDIT: About the cliche, I don’t think the cliche itself is inherently bad (depends on the narrative). However, the writing in Tales is not particularly good, which hurts the story overall.

Same here. I got into the Tales series because I liked RPGs. But low and behold, nearly the same combat system in every installment. If that wasn’t bad enough everytime something important happened like a character dying, it was passed off as some piss poor attempt to create tragedy. I played Abyss. The combat seems the same as Symphonia and Legendia. And it does have bad writing. That’s why I’m passing on the latest Tales installment. I’ve had enough. It’s gonna take more than pretty graphics and the same stale combat system to win me over.

[System_1]

While DMC4 is a lot of fun, I think DMC3 is still better personally. It seemed more strategic to me, with you having to pick styles and weapons; some of the bosses actually require different strategies depending upon your choices.

[Wellman]

Name a few 360-exclusive titles worth buying please?

Don’t know your taste but personally, good 360 exclusives include the following,

Gears of War
Dead Rising
BioShock (for now)
Mass Effect
Lost Odyssey.

Although Spoonman is probably talking about the following RPGs being announced for release on the console later as to why it should be the successor for the PS2 fanbase (at least the RPG fans).

Tales of Vesperia
Star Ocean: Last Hope (4)
Infinite Undiscovery
Too Human