Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

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-The Order: 1886 is a top ten PS4 game for me.
-I like Evil West more than God of War: Ragnarok (but not as much as God of War 2018).
-I prefer Greek-era God of War to the Norse saga (but the new ones are still outstanding!).
-I like the Batmobile in Arkham Knight. One of the few vehicles I like in any game.

@BuddhaBabboo I’m also a big fan of The Order 1886. I’m not sure if it would crack my top 10, but I still think it’s a great game.

Sounds like I might need to try Evil West. I haven’t played it and it’s really not a game that’s even on my radar.

@Th3solution Glad to meet another fan! I so wish we had gotten a sequel to The Order.

Evil West is great! Very combat-driven, like a blend of modern God of War and modern Doom. The story is largely negligible, but the vibes are fun: vampires and werewolves in the old American west!

@BuddhaBabboo That’s a pretty useful comparison. It really has my interest now. For some reason I can’t differentiate Weird West and Evil West in my mind — both games came out around the same time, are smaller AA types of games, have very similar titles, are set in supernatural old West backdrops, both were fairly well received, and both came to PS+. Weird West is the one that look more like a crpg or Diablo type of game, which interests me less, so it’s Evil West that I need to check out of its like Doom meets GoW.

I’ve yet to play Ragnarok, but very much enjoyed GoW and Doom 2016 also. And the whole historical fiction setting sounds intriguing (kind of like The Order). Since I have Evil West in my library because of PS+ I need to add it to my backlog list.

@Th3solution Can't blame you, I don't think the names helped either game stand out from a marketing perspective.

When you get around to Evil West, I hope you enjoy it!

Yup. And just overall, Arkham Knight was actually awesome to me. Asylum is still my favorite, but Knight is a very close second. Really satisfied me as an open world experience in a way that City never did.

Also kinda blows me away how good it still looks on PS4.

GTA i dont get whats good about it

assassins creed has never been good its everything wrong with open world gaming

Romancing in video games? just get lost sod off.

While I see a lot of people is choosing FFVII Rebirth as their GOTY so far. I don't think it's even close and I find the game has a lot of issues when it comes to story pace and unbalanced mini-games. It's fun game though but it's solid 8 for me.

@Khwarezm89 I'd back you on that - I've not yet played Rebirth, but I hear it still prevails in advocating a lot of the issues I experienced with Remake (long 'corridor' sections, tedious side-quests etc).

This year is a strange one for me in terms of GOTY.... previous years I've always been convicted about my 'personal choice', but so far I've yet to be blown away. I've really enjoyed the like of Balatro, Shadow of the Erdtree, Hades 2, Tekken 8 - and especially the new Prince of Persia - but none have wow'd me like previous years.

For reference, 2021 for me was Returnal (runner up Metroid Dread), 2022 was Elden Ring (runner up Immortality) and 2023 Baldurs 3 (runner up Lies of P / Mario Wonder).

I kinda hope Astro-bot wins 2024, or even the new Zelda perhaps... but its a pretty open playing field I think

Honestly, this has been a weird year for gaming in general. I feel like they frontloaded the first three or so months and its basically been almost a complete wasteland ever since, save for the odd indie or games that probably got more conversation than they would have if it was a more normal year (Wukong, etc).

It looks like some potential bangers are coming in the last three months of the year too, but I dunno what happened during the middle six or so months, there. Not really sure why publishers can't plan out their releases better, like the last couple of years where every publisher seemed to decide to release their flagship title for that year in February. Like come on everyone, spread your releases out.

My game of the year is probably Infinite Wealth, and that's crazy to me cause I am pretty sure I finished that at the end of January.

@Pizzamorg I agree pretty much. I think I only have four games in the last third of 2024 that are gonna save the year for me.

@CJD87 I didn't even mention how bad is the side quests in FFVII Rebirth . So far for me this year I think Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth surprised me and it was pretty awesome that it has became my first Yakuza title that I got a Platinum on. I started Astro Bot recently and I can see it as a GOTY contender. I hope Dragon Age The Veilguard as well will live to my expectations as a big DA fan.

@Khwarezm89 Yeah I wasn't a fan of the minigames generally - and the game was a bit of a slog during the Costa del Sol part especially due to this. And I can understand criticism about the story pacing, although I was enjoying myself too much to care.

Ultimately though the highs were just too high for this not to be my game of the year. Heck, I think it's my favourite Final Fantasy full stop. The world, the characters, the combat...I just don't feel anything else I've played in the series comes close.

Yeah to this day I dunno why Elden Ring and Breath of the Wild are held in such high regard by the same people who spit on an AC Odyssey or whatever. Both ER and especially BOTW still borrow heavily from the Ubisoft formula, but just have a lot less structure. And people seem to see that as a good thing, but I just feel like it makes you experience aimless. I think TOTK was better, but BOTW is just a lot of meandering through empty fields. ER is also a lot of meandering through empty fields, only you get one shot by an enemy off screen too. This isn't an upgrade to the Ubisoft Formula to me, its a poor imitation.

@Buizel The gameplay and characters were a top notch indeed and that's what kept me playing the game till the end.

I've to admit that this was my 3rd entry in the series. I only played the FFVII Remake and FF16 and enjoyed both of them too.

@Khwarezm89 I have tempered expectations for Veilguard, but I genuinely hope it lands well + I do think it has the 'potential' to be really solid.....

Although not my personal GOTYs, I would like to see AstroBot or LAD Infinite Wealth win - as I think this sends a fat better 'message' to the industry in general... that there still exists an appetite for single-player well curated games, with a sense of identity and a clear vision of what 'they are' etc. (as opposed to more derivative titles, remakes and more Soulslikes etc)

Sad that PoP: Lost Crown isn't getting more love, genuinely enjoyed it and would love to see UbiSoft step away more from their tried&tested open-world formula

Astro Bot can kiss my ass 😂

I mean, it's a great game, made really nicely and all that. But platform games, when they punish tiny mistakes for being slightly crap, just do my head in 💀 it's mostly the challenge levels, and mostly because I am not a lover of runbacks, and that is what those levels are, just like the challenges in Jedi Survivor. You have to be a special kind of sick to enjoy them 😂😂😂

I don't crack the challenge and think, oh yes, what a lovely feeling. I beat it, and say "thank f*** I don't have to do that again" 😅

@Ravix you should give Astro bot tiny little boxing globes and duke it out

@Yousef- as long as they look like frogs and go "boing"

Bring it on 🥊🐙🥊