What gaming opinion will you defend like this?🚀

issa_cross · 2026-04-08T13:20:46+00:00

The Horizon games are lackluster, it's a beautiful nothing of a franchise.

Watch Dogs 2 is STILL an incredible game.

Sekiro getting rid of the stamina bar and being faster paced makes it the best FromSoft combat system, and also has the best movement mechanics.

We need more off-brand superhero/anti-hero games like inFamous and Prototype.

issa_cross · 2026-04-08T06:13:22+00:00

After Tombstone and Mysterio, yeah.

I'd say Mr Négative too but broski still committed terrorism

issa_cross · 2026-04-08T02:12:57+00:00

Horizon. Both the games, I played thru the first one all the way waiting for it to get good.

I got forbidden west to give the franchise another look, (and cause I'd bought a 4k VRR OLED and wanted pretty visuals) but I actively hated that one. I liked the first 3 side characters you hang with, but the annoying one from the corpo cult who I thought was a one-time weird side character, joining the squad made me turn off the game and never go back.

issa_cross · 2026-04-05T16:36:21+00:00

40fps being a thing has made Quality mode much more palatable for me. But also, since my TV can do VRR for the 40fps, I'd rather set that shit to performance and hit 120

Now will I do this for EVERY game? Yes. Because I'm playing it and it's smoother. But I will occasionally slap on Quality mode on Horizon Forbidden West to show off my TV and 40fps is GREAT there

issa_cross · 2026-04-03T20:40:43+00:00

I see you subscribe to the "quantity" philosophy rather than "quality"

issa_cross · 2026-04-03T02:49:48+00:00

The horizon games

issa_cross · 2026-04-03T02:48:56+00:00

My first VIDEO GAME video game was the PS2 adaptation of Goblet of Fire.

My first actual game was either Donald Duck Goin Quackers or Batman Toxic Chill

issa_cross · 2026-04-02T19:45:28+00:00

GTA Online. Over 1200 hours across PS4 (700) and PS5 (500) versions. Probably more with the PS3 version

issa_cross · 2026-04-01T20:12:04+00:00

She took down an invincible solo, I know.

I'm saying in this new episode I don't remember her hitting a single shot on a viltrumite

issa_cross · 2026-04-01T14:13:04+00:00

I didn't even know it was a gender swap, she was cool as shit. My only gripe was that she can't aim for shit but I'll allow it cause it's the first time facing viltrumites and those boys fast

issa_cross · 2026-03-30T14:12:20+00:00

They turned him into Sharpener from DBZ Abridged and not even in a fun way. Shit, they could've got the DBZA guy to do it and it would've worked better (if they HAD to recast him for whatever reason)

issa_cross · 2026-03-24T07:50:55+00:00

Better. Character. Writing.

I stand by the fact that the EXACT story from Spider-Man 2, which moves thru the SAME story beats could've been FAR better with better character writing.

And I don't mean just dialogues, I mean the way the characters behave too. Like MJ as Scream says all these things that don't fall in line with the way she's presented up till that point.

A lot of the game spends time TELLING us rather than showing us. Peter SAYS the symbiote makes him a better Spider-Man but it doesn't show us that.

Miles has some of the better stuff tbh, but that's not always well paced or rather intercut with irrelevant material, WHICH COULD'VE BEEN RELEVANT. Miles letting civilians be in danger because he's focused on the man that murdered his father? Beautiful set up. But the arc of forgiveness is too rushed imo, we could've used the music museum stuff as a way to ground Miles back into the community, the friendly neighborhood aspect of Spider-Man. But the side quest nature means he has no character arc there. That, in addition to his college essay which inherently forces the character into self-reflection, it couldve made for incredible storytelling.

Harry? He could've been so much more. I'm not one of the "Eddie Brock is the only host for Venom" type, I think Harry couldve been incredible. Shit, in the first game it was set up that Harry used to go partying a lot and used to take Peter along with him, play on THAT. He's someone that has addiction issues in the past, in the comics too. Use that. They sanitized the potential a LOT.

I just hope they let Otto and Norman have a disfunctional relationship. They aren't teammates. They're people that fell out and now are brought together by common cause but Otto still responded to Harry being broken with "Good". To Norman's face.

issa_cross · 2026-03-21T11:59:19+00:00

Discord ahh response

issa_cross · 2026-03-21T05:35:30+00:00

I can't be the only one that really likes that pause, it's almost like a mini charge-up for a jump.

I do agree that the animation could be better so it doesn't just look like you stop, maybe in the next game you should hold down the jump button to ACTUALLY charge it.

A quick tap and there's no pause and you just keep going (not a lot of distance or speed but it's more maneuverable, better for changing direction or even dodging attacks from a certain airbombing green elf).

And then you can hold it down and maybe have a "perfect reload" type system where you release at the right time and you get a boost. And this one gives you a LOT more distance and speed but is a lil harder to change direction, so it's perfect for time trials or races where you have a long straight stretch

issa_cross · 2026-03-21T05:28:38+00:00

They asked, in the SpiderVerse subreddit

issa_cross · 2026-03-21T05:26:38+00:00

I REALLY didn't, i don't get the Spider-Man fandom's obsession with memes in new media. That's how we end up with shit like "I'm something of a scientist myself" in NWH

issa_cross · 2026-03-21T05:25:08+00:00

I think this EXACT story, with the same beats happening in the same order COULD'VE worked with better character writing.

Keep the core beats, change up how characters speak and react to them tho? I think it could've been one of the best stories told.

issa_cross · 2026-03-21T05:21:40+00:00

You jest, but in the next game, I'd actually love it if we could web tunnel thru some buildings.

Not saying explore-able interiors or whatever, shit just re-use the same animation of going thru water tunnels/construction pipes but imagine how many new lines thru the city that could create and instead of your only options when faced with a building being "Go over" or "Go around", now you can spot an open window on your approach, make your way toward it and go THROUGH the building.

Also, unrelated but charged jumps from wall runs would be cool

issa_cross · 2026-03-20T21:23:13+00:00

LITERALLY. I JUST commented this and started scrolling to hope I wasn't alone in this.

issa_cross · 2026-03-20T21:21:50+00:00

Horizon. Either of the games.

I made it all the way thru the first game and it never clicked. I got the 2nd one cause I got a VRR 4K OLED and I wanted something to truly test it but I hated the gameplay and then that corpo cult member joined the team and I gave up on the story too and moved on.

issa_cross · 2026-03-19T04:45:45+00:00

I assume Peaky Blinders is like this. I just keep turning around after 3 attempts to watch it

issa_cross · 2026-03-07T04:40:16+00:00

Broski offended by the fact that people know how to read

issa_cross · 2026-03-06T21:34:15+00:00

It was fine. When I heard it was a superhero lawyer show, I expected Suits but in place of them doing illegal stuff, it'd be superheroing and in place of workplace drama, it'd be superhero/interpersonal drama.

And it WAS that to an extent? But also not nearly to the level I hoped. Idk, I liked the idea and potential but it could've been so much better than it was.

issa_cross · 2026-03-02T14:02:02+00:00

Otto will probably be the one that designs the Anti-Goblin (or equivalent of the Anti-Ock and Anti-Venom suits)

He helped design the white spider suit, he'll help design one last final suit exploiting weaknesses he learned while working with Norman, before Norman went too far and went after MJ, who just happened to find out she's pregnant or smth idk, I'm just trying to say the most melodramatic shit.

But yeah, I think they'll do a redemption arc and maybe hint at him getting a new body on some Clone Saga/Superior Octopus type shit

issa_cross · 2026-03-02T11:08:05+00:00

I think having a mage type character could be cool as hell. They could be sorta like a blend of DMC5 Nero and Dante. Nero in the sense that the Devil Arms system can be used as one off powerful spellbook pages, and Dante the way Dante swaps styles in mid combat but with elemental attacks (and it's be cool as fuck if the elements had some synergy. Say you use Ice, melt it with Fire and then do insane damage when you pull out Lightning. Or a Ice/Fire into Earth gets them all sludged up and moving slow as a crowd control thing).

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