Controversial videogame statements.

[Master of 7s]

I firmly believe that video games(or at least some kind of video game-like virtual environments) will one day be equally popular with females as they are with males, with old people as they are with young people.

Ok, that's just crazy talk.

[Port]

FFVII was fucking awful.

Halo is an average FPS at best.

EA can actually make good games from time to time.

[Salsashark]

The AD&D ruleset is shitty for videogames and there's absolutely no reason to use it outside of the branding.

This is true.

I like Will Wright but he makes boring games. The Sims is boring after a couple hours and Spore looks even worse.

Videogames are inherently inferior as an art form to movies because of the required interactivity. (But the combo can be interesting and has untapped potential to be sure.)

Interactive movies/comics can be cool.

[Shadow Not Shade]

Sonic 3 is a great game. Sonic & Knuckles is not. Combining them doesn't change this.

Also! The Gamecube fucking sucked.

[Sqoon]

bbobb, CD-I games don't even count.

Yes they do. Even then:

Twilight Princess is the worst Zelda game. It's fucking terrible.

[Rumpy]

Who was that dumb ass here that said surround sound in videogames confused him and made games worse? I hope his ears fell off.

[Calliander]

Nintendo is for kids.

Playstation is for the same people who buy useless crap like spinning rims for the wheels. (In other words, the systems have more features than they need.)

X-Box is for nerds and fanboys.

People who play videogames enough to care about the success or failure of a console don't get laid.

[Shadow Not Shade]

Wow, that's two people who think the new Zelda is terrible. I'm morbidly curious as to why they'd think such a thing, but maybe I'll ask after I finish it to prevent souring my enjoyment. :x

I have a hard time believing anything could be worse than the suffering OoT's Hyrule field/Water Temple caused me, though.

[AaronChance]

I actually enjoyed ET.

ET is still my favorite 2600 game.

Nintendo publish the most boring games on the planet.
Sony stumbles onto success like a drunken whore at a coke party.

[bVork]

Games that try to focus on plot never rise above the level of cheesy pulp novels and generally fall well below that standard. This is what happens when you get a bunch of computer-oriented geeks to write your stories.

Steve Meretzky's work was good enough to get him inducted into the SFWA. Go play A Mind Forever Voyaging.

This includes Final Fantasy VI.

FF6 is a typical good-vs-evil rebel-vs-empire story. It's the videogame equivalent of Star Wars. Fun, but nothing deep or significant.

And Planescape: Torment.

I think Planescape is the finest modern-day RPG, due to the actual role-playing (as opposed to stats-focussed) gameplay. Keep the same gameplay style and swap out the story with something else, and I'll still say this.

2D fighters are dying because they disappeared so far up their own asses that nobody outside of the hardcore could bring themselves to care any more.

Konami's music games are in danger of going this way as well.

Add 2D shooters to this list, despite them being one of my favourite genres. Over the past decade, they've focussed more and more upon super hardcore gameplay mechanics that just confuse and annoy all but the most dedicated. Ikaruga could have revived mainstream shooters. Instead, it created a flood of gimmick-based shooters that everyone but hardcore shooter players ignore. Shin'en and Moss are the only two developers doing shooters that cater to people other than the hardcore, who tend to dislike their efforts.

The AD&D ruleset is shitty for videogames and there's absolutely no reason to use it outside of the branding.

D&D (no A anymore) is pretty awkward as a tabletop game. Games like Runequest have much more elegant systems. There's simply too much stats crunching in D&D. In addition to that basic flaw, accurate PC translations inherit combat systems and other designs that bear little resemblance to what they're intended to depict, because of the limitations forced by hand-calculating results. So, the quality of a D&D (or d20) based videogame depends on how far developers go with it. KOTOR uses a modified d20 system but you can't really tell.