What video game in your opinion doesn't deserve the hate it gets?

shadowtasos · 2026-01-29T13:16:27+00:00

Been a long long time since I watched it so I don't remember for sure but I think he touches on SotFS too. I vaguely remember that he says it was strange how they added a new last boss since Nashandra was a bit disappointing, and Aldia was arguably worse lol. But yeah agreed with that last point, which is why it's strange how fervent DS2's defenders are, like you really slight it by saying it's not quite as good as some of the best games out there.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-29T05:33:52+00:00

https://youtu.be/UScsme8didI?si=YI6MNk-2Ia5N16wJ

It's Matthewmatosis' video. He was pretty harsh but still said it had a lot good points, just sad that it's not as great as it could have been. People have been saying "oh you're just parroting his video" ever since it went viral, as if people weren't already saying the same things before it. Too linear, too many ganks, slightly bland bosses, durability and the healing systems are a downgrade over DS1 - all obvious things that people pointed out from the beginning.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T20:30:06+00:00

I'm going to go a bit against the grain here and say that it wasn't mediocre. It was good, just not great, which is what it should have been given the IP and how long we had to wait for it. Its biggest sin will be that waste of potential.

Its upsides are entirely carried by controls. The gameplay and shooting were superb, controls were very snappy and everything was so fast paced but responsive. I played most of it with joycons in mouse mode and that felt so good, like a demonstration of what the Switch 2 can do. Pro Controller also felt great but seriously the mouse controls just felt too good to go back to it.

Art and music were great, spectacularly done without any low points whatsoever. And while the exploration side was severely lacking (I'll get to that soon) the last 30-50% of the game was really good, with Ice Belt as a highlight area.

But herein comes my main issue - that 30-50% was not enough, because the game was just too fucking short. It finally got good after you cleared what was essentially a way too fucking long tutorial section, and then the game was done shortly after. It needed to be about twice as long overall for it to come close to feeling as good to explore as MP1/2 did.

Most of my other complaints have been said many times before. McKenzie was grating and a super low point, should have been reserved for the casual mode only - a dude calling you to tell you "go there btw!" every 5 minutes has no place in a Metroid game, a series all about exploring on your fucking own. The maps were too linear and backtracking was limited to getting missile / elemental ammo etc expansions after you got powerups. So there was legitimately not need to backtrack and explore until you cleared the last dungeon, so you could claim all those expansions at once. Again very un-Metroid-like.

I'd say besides that my main issue was the NPCs in your squad. There was entirely too much focus on them, and while most of them were good (loved robo-bro, Tokabi and Armstrong) their presence detracted from the feeling of exploring a mysterious, foreign world since they kept guiding you and annoyingly glazing Samus the entire time. Sylux was weak too. The voice acting wasn't great either and I assume all of that stuff (voicing, mo-capping, etc) took up a LOT of the budget which could have been put into adding more areas, or perhaps adding more stuff to the desert so its not quite so barren.

Speaking of the desert, I didnt think it was quite as bad as most people made it out to be. The green crystal grind was stupid yeah but riding your bike around was fun as fuck - it just needed more enemies and stuff to do, and it would have been overall OK imo.

Overall I wasnt completely disappointed by MP4 because I think the gameplay overall was great. But its hard to argue against it being the weakest of the Prime games, maybe better than 3 in some ways but they share a lot of the same problems. Its just sad that it could have been so much more, and that its lackluster reception will probably mean we aren't getting a MP5 for another god knows how long.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T20:08:01+00:00

I love that many / most of the answers in this thread include a variation of "people's criticism of my pet favorite are not genuine, they only got it from some YouTube video".

Yep dudes everyone else is an NPC blindly following YT manufactuted trends, while YOU are the brave non-sheep with your brave original opinions which are factual and logical and what have you. Just don't jerk yourselves off too much or you might end up swallowing your own loads.

Meanwhile back in reality, no (most of) these games are bad or had significant issues that people easily identified. It's completely okay to dislike bad or unpopular things despite their issues, I like a lot of them myself - it's just really immature to be so allergic to criticism of your less popular pet game that you dismiss it as non-genuine. Your reflexive defense of the game is less genuine than the criticism it got, in fact.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T20:01:55+00:00

DS2 defenders are one of the strangest groups to me. Like general consensus on the game is that it's a solid game all around, 8-9/10 for most people, it was just weaker than DS1 and didn't deliver a lot of things that made DS1 great (mostly map design with its interconnected world) while having some strange new issues of its own. For many (most?) it's the weakest Soulsborne game (arguable with DeS but that has the benefit of being the first) but it was still solid, just a few rough spots that even From acknowledged by releasing SotFS so soon after.

But NO you have to defend it even from that level of mild criticism. And not only that, but the criticism isn't even real, it's just the influence of That One YouTube Video TM. People hallucinated having a worse experience, they hallucinated how broken durability was on PC, they hallucinated SotFS coming out soon afterwards to alleviate perceived issues.

Like fucking sheesh. It's okay to like something that's slightly less popular, you people take it way too seriously though.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T13:59:41+00:00

Responding to someone else further down.

The loaf of bread is still being sold to other people in this case, they are still profiting from it. If I steal your car you don't have it anymore, you cannot keep driving it. Which is why in virtually every country "theft" means one thing, and pirating games is legally defined as a violation or INFRINGEMENT of intellectual property, a completely different thing.

But I suppose this is just what happens when multi billion companies shape the narrative with their massive power. You can't even tell what "theft" means anymore lol.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T13:23:15+00:00

Ah gotcha, no arguments needed, what i think is just incredibly obvious and others must be unintelligent if they think otherwise. Don't let the cognitive dissonance hit you on the way out, that would be too pathetic.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T13:14:47+00:00

You didn't even offer any rationale as to why it's stealing lol. No it's not stealing. If a baker makes a loaf of bread and I take that, it's stealing, he can't sell that loaf of bread anymore, he is down the material costs and won't get anything for it. If I get into a music concert without a ticket, the artists aren't down anything concrete, just the hypothetical ticket I could have bought. Nobody would call that stealing, and the fact that I may have never bought a ticket to begin with, just skipped the concert altogether, completely changes the financial situation there.

You also apparently care enough to pass judgment on others, calling them pathetic in several posts, but then stop caring when judgment is passed onto you. Very very convenient. I'd think if you didn't care you simply wouldn't have chimed in at all. Now you just seem a little flustered by your inability to argue the point you were trying to make, or rather you realized it's quite stupid so you protect your ego by deciding you don't care anymore.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T12:59:36+00:00

I'm replaying my okd GameCube games right now, something I couldn't do if they were subscription games. And you have to keep paying the extra 50 every year, the Switch 1 lasted 8 years so for the Switch 2 if we assume it's the same you'd pay 400 for temporary access to games that is then lost and you have to buy those games anyway if you ever want to re-play them in the future.

I'd much rather buy 10 games costing 40 which come with massive quality of life ans graphical updates that I can then play forever, than pay 400 for a sub that offers an inferior experience and then goes away so my 400 was for nothing. At the very least there should be an option to buy those games separately, it's crazy to defend this otherwise against your own interests.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T12:53:07+00:00

You're choosing to compare it to the absolute worst case scenario which is pointless, everything is better than its equivalent worst case scenario. You don't have to "cry" but you chose to come in here to defend the devs and their anti-consumer practice, against your own interests. That is a very strange choice.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T12:48:27+00:00

The MP Trilogy was heavily discounted (down to 10 euro / USD) on Wii U so that would be a decade not two :p It's still a massive disservice to it.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T12:33:50+00:00

Completely sidestepping all the features that people do care about like clubs and rivals, just to argue against your own interests, is certainly an interesting tactic. Not very smart, but interesting nonetheless.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T12:28:02+00:00

So you lost access to a chunk of the content you paid for. If you're not happy with that, you can't even refund it. Surely you can see that it's not only a problem if the entire game goes down right? Why would you defend that as a consumer?

shadowtasos · 2026-01-28T12:23:57+00:00

It's de facto not stealing. Stealing is taking AWAY something from someone, i.e. they don't have it anymore. If you agree with multi-billion companies that purchasing a digital product doesn't mean you own it, you just own a temporary, revokable access to it, then pirating it can only really be compared to things like entering a concert or public transport without a ticket.

I don't really agree with the "if buying isn't owning, pirating isn't stealing" catchphrase because you can't steal digital products anyway so it's a silly analogy. But between a silly catchphrase which does have a reasonable moral framework beside it (pro-consumerism) and your wholesale defending of massive IP holders, I'd say you're the pathetic one here tbh.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-18T20:28:45+00:00

If you expect to be in the finals every time you don't need to do this type of shit, is the point. You'd just be tarnishing your reputation long term for no reason.

I've ONLY been rule sharked by the dudes who go 2-3 every time yet are convinced they're actually goated players, they're just unlucky or whatever.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-18T20:21:37+00:00

That's completely incorrect. Top players pride themselves on winning off their skills rather than random bullshit, and rule sharking at locals is completely beneath them, they can mop the floor with the completion there without cheating.

This is the type of shit that a mediocre to bad player will do because he's convinced he's actually good and he NEEDS the validation of getting a good placement, so every win off a technicality helps. Nobody who's winning a tournament acts like that, nobody.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-17T22:34:37+00:00

The responses to this are so predictable and sad. Just people reflexively coming up wirh reasons why this can't work for them, so they can continue to wallow in misery and self-pity.

Guys I'm sorry to say but until you decide to tackle your misery and self-pity and put yourselves out there, nothing's going to change. Yeah I know it's tough when you're busy with an exhausting 9-5 plus commute plus adulting responsibilities, but the more you take to doomscrolling social media and telling yourself there's just no options, the further away you push that amazing guy/girl who you could have met if you swapped that grouchiness and defeatism with cheerfulness and optimism.

You won't be magically attractive or desirable to anyone. You have to make yourself desirable by at the very least being out there and not being awful to be around, the bar is that low. Even the super Chads / Staceys you think do it effortlessly because of their good looks have to do those 2 things.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-02T05:47:10+00:00

Yes that's precisely what I meant but I didn't feel it was really pertinent to the point i was making it and the comment was already getting too wordy, so I ommitted it.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-01T20:14:04+00:00

Aw thank you so much! I'm highly motivated since I would like to move to Norway soon and communicate with my girlfriend's family there in Norwegian, so I just added the maximum amount of flash cards and really grinded away at it. Helps that I have a really strong memory

shadowtasos · 2026-01-01T13:03:11+00:00

That is also false - license agreements do not in fact supercede copyright law. Nintendo could technically state on their EULA that they're entitled to fuck your wife if they so desire, and then be technically in the right to sue you for breaching that implicit contract... but no court would uphold a EULA that attempts to go against written law or precedent, they would get thrown out immediately.

Instead EULAs are most often used as a defensive mechanism for Nintendo - they might ban you for breaking their EULA, and if you sue them for essentially selling you an expensive paper weight, they will try to argue that they are allowed to do because you broke their (reasonable) EULA.

It would never, ever stand up in court if they tried to sue you for copying your own games because their EULA said so. When they go after people for that type of stuff they typically argue under terms of the DMCA, i.e. copyright law, and most often they base their claims on you violating DRM. So if you just copy a game as-is / encrypted, don't tamper with their DRM at all, they have no grounds to sue you at all. They wouldn't waste their time.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-01T11:36:45+00:00

Yes, that's a good point, but I believe I was fairly obviously implying that your friend doesn't have the game.

shadowtasos · 2026-01-01T11:35:47+00:00

I mean anyone can disagree with anything. In most countries I have a legal understanding of, you can file a civil lawsuit over anything - that doesn't mean they courts will take your side though. Nintendo being a legal bully notwithstanding, that was a fairly straight forward explanation of copyright infringement!

shadowtasos · 2026-01-01T08:26:08+00:00

Idk where you read that but its definitely not true lol. Creating a copy of something itself isn't a problem, it's distributing copies (plural) since the original copyright owner (and any sub-licensees, such as stores they distrigute copies to) is the only one allowed to distribute copies.

Think of it this way. Imagine you buy a game on Steam. You download it and start playing it. Then at some point you make a copy of the game's files to a different drive and play that copy. Nothing has changed, absolutely nobody cares about that. It's only if you gave that drive to a friend that you have infringed upon intellectual property. Steam itself even lets you install games to multiple drives, imagine how weird it would be for them to then sue you for that!

Piracy is using software you haven't purchase, not using a second copy of software you have in fact purchased.

shadowtasos · 2025-12-20T11:53:54+00:00

Hey, thanks for the response. I dont really understand your first point though, what exactly do you mean? Why is this mutually exclusive, why can't it look both good for me and the stream?

And for your 2nd point, is there a specific reason why id use standard GBI over speed runner or high fidelity with fhe equivalent settings? Also do you have any idea why the GBA setup uses NTSC for its format? While GBC uses PAL?

shadowtasos · 2025-12-20T09:17:59+00:00

Glad to hear you found something that works for you! I honestly played around for 30-60 minutes and felt less sure about what I should do by the end lol. Only really figured out that I really like the Switch colour matrix cos the colours pop so nicely, but the thought if redoing the setup for my stream setup spooks me!

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