The unpopular opinions thread (Hawaiian pizza is great)

I don’t disagree (not really a metal guy).
But the “WHAT DID YOU SAY?” bit was too easy to pass up.

If Pantera had stayed together and Daryl hadn't been murdered, far fewer people would give a rat's ass about them.

Walk sounds like someone farted into a distortion pedal and put that on an endless loop

Thinking of metal, my unpopular opinion is that Kerry King's solos in Slayer are rubbish. Audio equivalent of "random bullshit go!"

Same here, don't think that's unpopular, any Slayer fan worth his salt would tell you Hanneman was far, far, far better than KK...

My unpopular metal opinion caused one of my friends, an absolutely mssive fan of Nightwish, to stop talking to me for over a year when I said they were just Celine Dion for people who wear black top hats.

Shitepish

What if you don't pull it

Oh, the PJ Harvey argument

Gameplay isn't anything special but the story and characters were/are top notch. Still has the best soundtrack and sound design of all the MGS games too.

If you think the dialogue is shit don't try any of the sequels!

There's that whole bit in 2 with the bomb disposal guy that goes on forever along with a lengthy explanation for what turns out to be 'walk up to things that flash on the radar and hold X to disarm'. Most games would maybe pop a small two sentence tutorial on the screen and it would be fine. The explanation probably takes longer than the actual job and I don't think it's ever used again after that

TBH, maybe my comment here belongs in the “game mechanics you hate” thread (though it’s design more than mechanic but whatever).
But that’s something I hate about writing in Japanese video games. The over explanation of everything.
It’s one of (many) factors that kept me from getting into Gran Turismo 7.
“Ahh I see you’re driving the Mini Cooper! Built in the UK, with its blahblahblah and blahblahblah it’s capable of blahblahblah blahblah. It’s no exaggeration to say it’s blahblahblahblah.”

2 is incredibly self-absorbed and pretentious, even by Kojima's standards but actually does have some interesting themes and things to say. But it's also incredibly dopey at times and has some utterly irrelevant bits.

1 is good but the thing that takes the edge off is the incessant back tracking. That fucking key in particular, but other bits too.

3 is the best game, of those three, more focused, and the cut scenes were used more intelligently- most are fairly short except for a few key moments, it feels like you spend more time playing than watching. Which is the exact opposite to 4.


I think 5 is genuinely one of my favourite sandbox games in terms of how it plays and how the tools it gives you can be used in different ways. Story is awful and unfinished though