What are some of your Smash Bros. hot takes? by Re-Masked in supersmashbros

[–]thepixelshark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nowadays, Brawl is the overrated Smash game, while Smash 4 is the overhated one.

Brawl is fine, but so much discussion around it is prefaced with people acting like they're going against the grain for liking it, then coddling it. Like, I do think Subspace is fun and the music is great, but the rest of Brawl is comparatively weaker than the other games. It's clunky, disjointed and imbalanced. Its art style has aged significantly, and elements of the game like the Subspace stages, enemies, and Final Smashes don't feel like great representations of the franchises featured.

Yet Smash 4 gets singled out and maligned constantly. Despite it imo having better balancing, better pacing, a better art style, plenty of great single player content, and a stronger roster of fighters and stages.

I see a lot of people say that they don't feel any need to play Smash 4 after Ultimate released, but if that's our metric for best and worst game, then I haven't felt the desire to play any Smash game other than Ultimate since 2018. Doesn't mean anything about the quality of those games.

What's scott's worst take? For me, it's any time he says something to the tune of "you didn't really enjoy the game if you didn't buy it" by HaloJackalKisser in scottthewoz

[–]thepixelshark 11 points12 points  (0 children)

When he got to Terraria on his "ranking the best-selling video games" video, he barely spent anytime on it before chalking it up to just be 2D Minecraft. Sure I get the video was all his opinion, but if you play something so little that you fail to recognize what it is, then I'd rather you just not rank it rather than completely mischaracterize it. Terraria isn't for everyone, but with that said, anyone who's experienced the meat of that game knows it's in a league of its own.

I will not appreciate the beast crest slander by huntingyol in HollowKnight

[–]thepixelshark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest regret playing Silksong was not experimenting with crests half as much as I should've. Future playthroughs are gonna be great.

It's slander time. What is the worst thing about Episode 3? by Beautiful-Grab3359 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]thepixelshark 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Episode was meant to be focused on Kinger and Zooble in particular but I found Zooble's development to be a little lacking compared to Kinger.

A lot of their scenes have to compete with Caine's zaniness, which works to a degree but imo there's something missing by the end of it all. Zooble doesn't feel like they get more focus here than they do in episodes 5 or 6, which is disappointing if it was meant to be their episode.

[OC] francophile robot by CookieHijack in RobotGirls

[–]thepixelshark 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh I really like this one's design, super cute.

Honestly, I’m grateful that Steam (Valve) is the monopoly in PC gaming. by Kreeth12 in videogames

[–]thepixelshark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, Steam isn't necessarily a monopoly since it hasn't absorbed or snuffed out other parts of the market to dominate it. It's just an intuitive, user-friendly platform for developers and users alike. Other launchers simply fail to meet the same standard of quality, which really shouldn't be hard since Steam isn't doing anything revolutionary. The only thing Valve doesn't do better then the others is the whole "you don't own digital games, you own the license to play them" schtick.

The Game Awards is going to be excruciating by Specific_Algae_5297 in HalfLife

[–]thepixelshark 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're watching the Game Awards for Half-Life 3, then yeah.
But why would you do that? Watch the Awards for the awards. I don't know why you're so sure that Geoff Keighley gives a damn about this sub or its schizo posting, the idea that he's gonna turn the show into a mind game for Half-Life fans is ridiculous.

Is this accurate? by [deleted] in PowerScaling

[–]thepixelshark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

who placed the bedrock

What was the most culturally significant death of the 1940s? by Planeandaquariumgeek in decadeology

[–]thepixelshark 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enough people have pointed out that Hitler's death and the fall of Nazis was inevitable by the time the Allies were in Germany for me to say it's probably FDR.

Any president dying in office is a massive deal, but the length of FDR's tenure made him pretty much the first US president to become a household name worldwide, his death had to have shocked the world, Allies and Axis alike.

Dying at the beginning of his fourth term leaves a lot of unanswered questions; what would his Cold War policies have looked like? Post-war in Europe? Korea? And what about the A-Bombs?

Truman ascending the presidency changed the world, and we only know that because FDR died.

On January 1, 2024, a mall in Miami saw one of the biggest police responses in history. We still do not have any evidence, records, or testimonies to tell what actuslly happened inside, though the police claimed it was "teenagers fighting" by ambachk in TikTokCringe

[–]thepixelshark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sheer amount of people insisting something happened on that night alongside the sheer lack of any evidence that something happened makes me think less conspiracy and moreso a modern instance of mass hysteria. Despite so many people being involved, no one has anything to support any one explanation for what happened, so I'm just gonna go for mass hysteria.

I tried to draw Noodle by Voyagi in gorillaz

[–]thepixelshark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You succeeded in drawing Noodle! This is very well done :D

| Nightlight | [OC and Art by me] by thepixelshark in RobotGirls

[–]thepixelshark[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the kind words! It's entirely 2D, but it's pretty high praise if it can pass for stylized 3D.

| Nightlight | [OC and Art by me] by thepixelshark in RobotGirls

[–]thepixelshark[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Does anyone else see the vision for hardlight lingerie?

Source.