Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[Exhuminator]

I'm a big fan of Ace Combat.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Unpopular Gaming Opinion:

LucasArts adventure games are designed poorly.

[Ack]

Well, the weirdest thing I've ever done is have my Super NES get knocked down while playing Lufia II, and it didn't stop playing. Instead, it glitched out some stats, making some of the characters Level 99. It also made saving and loading take forever. I wish I still had that save, I'll never be able to recreate that.

I'm not sure what counts as my most impressive... but the feeling of elation I got with Battletoads and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! is right up there.

I had a buddy who accidentally pulled off the 99 items glitch in Final Fantasy VI one time. He made sure to save it so he could prove it to everyone. All characters, dual wielding Illuminas with X-Fight...disgusting.

[Sarge]

I had a buddy who accidentally pulled off the 99 items glitch in Final Fantasy VI one time. He made sure to save it so he could prove it to everyone. All characters, dual wielding Illuminas with X-Fight...disgusting.

I remember doing that on purpose. Of course, you have to be really careful with it, you can wipe out certain items... like Edgar's Chainsaw. Ugh. That's awesome that he managed to do it by accident.

[Gunstar Green]

Unpopular Gaming Opinion:

LucasArts adventure games are designed poorly.

Some more than others. I love the old Sierra ones, they're some of my favorite childhood games, but design wise but they're even worse.

That was the point though I guess. You could afford to get stuck at a part for days because you had nothing better to do.

[Tanooki]

I'd agree with that especially on the Sierra stuff, and the only one I ever bothered to like enough/tolerate enough to finish was Kings Quest 5 which I had on a CD at some point, NES too but it was far worse. Lucas though is hit and miss, more miss than hit unless you just happen to have weird leaps of logic and odd ideas how things should work like a Lucasarts designer. I've finished Indy Fate of Atlantis and also once only Sam & Max, but other than that I never got far into much of any of them and skipped some too due to things I learned from others. I never did play Grim Fandango, one day though, last time it was on a 75% off GoG sale for a few bucks I snapped it up.

I just wish in games like thiose or even fire emblem/advance wars/ogre battle style games you could have a lot more free range of thought how to tackle a level (also RTS starcraft/post starcraft too.) You basically just need to fail and die a lot over stupid stuff or just be stuck for hours not having fun getting annoyed at it because even though your way should work given the environment/problem, the game wasn't coded that way to accept more than one perceived way to a problem which sucks.

[Reprise]

I never had a problem with any of the old Lucasarts games I played, but can see that by modern standards, they have some poor design work. Also agree about Sierra. Isn't it possible to just plain break some of those old adventure games if you fuck up the order? I seem to remember there was one I played (a Sierra game, I'm sure), where I got near the end and then couldn't complete it or progress any further, because I'd messed up something. That would be unforgivable in this day and age (and the occasions where a player can 'break' a game, are patched out).

I remember the same occurring in the original Broken Sword too though, where you could fuck up the game if you went to one place before another or something.

[noiseredux]

I remember the same occurring in the original Broken Sword too though, where you could fuck up the game if you went to one place before another or something.

this is why I never finished Broken Sword.

[Stark]

I remember the same occurring in the original Broken Sword too though, where you could fuck up the game if you went to one place before another or something.

this is why I never finished Broken Sword.

Hmm, I've never encountered that and I've played through BS a couple of times. Bummer! I wonder if it is fixed on later versions? Last one I played was the remaster one.

[noiseredux]

we played it years ago for TR. I played the GBA port back then. And yeah, hit the bug and rage-quitted.