The unpopular opinions thread (Hawaiian pizza is great)

I'm afraid to agree with this.

Oh Bowie was absolute guff. Weird voice and style over substance. Even then, style is a sketchy term to use.

Beatles are shit, too.

Are we talking some kind of horrible take on Boston baked beans here or just Heinz abuse?

I'm hardly a Dark Souls cheerleader, but it absolutely did provide a sense of learning through failure that was unique and new*. Not a single death felt cheap.



*to an Xbox player who'd missed Demons Souls

I've played every From game since the first Dark Souls, excluding DS2.

I'd say every death in those is cheap. From cheap enemy placements behind walls to groups of enemies attacking you at once, to the sluggish input response and poor framerates. From games aren't the meticulously programmed games their fans think they are

Only Sekiro comes close to being fair.

Games involving balls are merely ballgames.

You can avoid death in any game. No game is designed to be unbeatable. Doesn't mean games aren't designed with cheap difficulty.

From was a more interesting studio when they weren't The Souls Studio.

If you are going to have more than 2 weapons you should have to drag a cart behind you to hold all your shit in

Exactly, the games aren't technically proficent enough to claim you never die because of the game. Lock on breaks all the time, the jumping is terrible, the bow controls are a whole load of what the fuck (Nioh managed bows no problem)

Broiling down the Souls games into simple soundbites of all the niggling stuff is sort of missing the bigger picture of what makes them so appealing.

Yes, there are myriad little things that are wrong with them, but learning how not to die, exploring every nook and cranny, meeting npcs who you don't know whether to trust, overcoming a hostile world while piecing together the story, having epic boss fights, everything is so good.

And while it can be cheap, you do learn. If some guy jumps out at you from round a corner, go around every subsequent corner with your shield up. It's an easy lesson 😉

D&P the song is bollocks, but I love the album. Give me Thunder and Gett Off over Purple Rain and When Doves Cry any day.

70s Bowie (Inc Ziggy, obviously) was incredible. 80s Bowie largely a bit shit but gets a pass because it was of its time. 90s pretty average really. But I can forgive all that because of the 70s.

This probably won't change your opinion (which is fine), but those things were in the game for a reason.

Consoles didn't really do the quicksave/quickload thing that PC games did. So the recharging shields (not health, your health doesn't recharge) made it so that, if you barely got to a checkpoint with low health, you wouldn't automatically screw yourself for the next battle by being so fragile that you'd die in one hit. Like when you reloaded, you would always have some survival capability, which is important in a game with levels as long as Halo's are.

And yeah you could just have health pickups everywhere I guess, but the recharging thing suits the combat of that particular game more.

The 2 weapon thing was more them trying to figure out how to do weapon swapping when you don't have a bunch of number keys. I thought it was pretty elegant tbh, at least in the first game before everything got complicated.

Anyway, it's fine if you don't care for it. The more annoying thing for me was that so many games copied the health recharging thing, even when they weren't designed around it like Halo was.