ITT we post shit games some people pretend to like just for the sake of being contrarians.
>>3478391
>>3478435No, people who like this game, genuinely like it.
>>3478391Darklands
>>3478391>>3478394>>3478435>>3478441>>3478454>>3478466So this is just a good games general then?
>>3478470it looks live a /v/tard thread, as usual
>>3478470That, and games that people can't get into because they didn't play them when they came out.
>>3478470Arcanum is pure jank and is a meme at this point. No better way to tell that someone's a newfag than namedropping Arcanum into a conversation about 'good rpg vidya'.
>>3478481I'm playing it right now for the first time and having a lot of fun. Like 10hs in
>>3478477How can someone not get into playing Shattered Lands? Do they have Down Syndrome?>>3478481It is a good RPG. How is it jank?
>>3478486imagine spending time in 2024 on copy pasted textures and a vidya that your creepy uncle would be playing in 2002 because he was getting no bitches lmao
>>3478489Better than morrowind for sure
>>3478481to me the key component of a newfag post is calling someone else a newfag at all. if youve been here a good while you will stop giving a fuck about defending your brittle anon ego so vehemently. it comes from a place of not being used to zero accountability posting. you dont have an account that other users can look up to check how often you are owned you are just another drop in the piss ocean.
>>3478489Are you talking about Arcanum, or Palworld?Also, this post sounds very similar to how a leftard tankie commie would type. Now I'm wondering what politics are involved in Arcanum that triggers you so hard that your baby butt gets flabbergasted over it.
>>3478391Nobody liked it back in the day and nobody like it for 20 years. Only recently the most retarded contrarians pretend it's a masterpiece.
>>3478749The ahistorical revisionists have arrived.
>>3478391OP is based and correct about "le cum and get it" dosbox slop, but everyone else ITT just took the opportunity to be contrarian haters. Realistically, the only other game like that is ToEE. And no, I refuse to even acknowledge the retards who shill CK3 and MnB on /vrpg/ as even being contrarians - they are just stupid.
>>3478470>So this is just a good games general then?Xenogears is not a good game. It's a bad game with a good story and people like it for the story. It's neither a contrarian pick nor a good game.
>>3478481Somehow I can smell your gnomish stench across the internet.
>>3478391>people pretend to like just for the sake of being contrariansthis makes zero sense unless it's taken as projection
>>3478731I think it's the fact that Gnomes are a very clear stand-in for Jews.Or maybe that Orcs are blacks.
>>3479044Looks like we've got an Orcish Gnome on our hands, boys.
>>3479044No, Ogres are blacks (this is why gnomes want to cross-breed them with humans). Orcs are irish or slavs or italians or some other violent drunks.
>>3478391Shattered Lands is good and OP is a faggot.
>>3478435the first disc is fucking fantastic.we don't talk about disc 2.
>>3478391True>>3478394Contrarian >>3478435Never saw anyone praise this game, even people that like it for the story and characters admit the gameplay is shit>>3478454Contrarian >>3478466True>>3478749True
>>3480848BTW I'm a tranny and I LOOOOVE sucking big black dongus, uwu
>>3479044>Gnomes are a stand-in for JewsElaborate>Orcs are blacksNo, they are supposed to be turkic/mongoloid. Blacks were never really part of European history or folklore. However a Turk, Iranian, a non-Slav Russian, or a gypsy (aka North Indian/Afghan) would be very repulsive and be seen as an invasive, brute, dumb species to North Europeans
>>3480848Thoughts on ToEE?
>>3480872>ElaborateGreedy, weak, big noses, secretive, control finances, are behind racemixing, do unspeakable things.
>>3481259Wait, the gnomes are anglos?!
>>3481166I have never seen anyone praise it or shit on it before so I wouldn't call it a contrarian game
>>3481164Bf:bc2 was the peak of the series. By 5 we were at “if you don’t like it, don’t buy it” territory
didn't play the weebshit one, not my cup of teabut every other game mentioned here I personally find to be enjoyable and was posting about them (mostly in /vr/) since like 2010
>>3480872The Gnomes are definitely a stand in for Jews but the game in general tackles Victorian era racism/stereotypes. It's not like the game itself is going out of its way to hate on specific groups of people. It's basically just saying "this is how it was and people thought this way back then."
>>3478391>Yet another thread seething about Dark SunImagine being mindbroken by a 30 year old rpg
>>3481454It's not shit but one or two people have been hyping it for years on this board. It has a ton of problems/bugs/jank even for the time. When I played it, I got softlocked because I accidentally sequence broke the game so a quest item didn't spawn.
>>3481470What item?
>>3481470The thing is, it's been well regarded everywhere for decades. One or two people loving the game here is fairly poor representation and surely not a case of pretending to like something for contrarianism.
>>3481471I don't remember which item because I played it many many years ago. I think it was because I killed some people that I wasn't supposed to. I do remember not being able to progress and when I looked it up online, people were saying that it was a common bug. I should try replaying the game again.
>>3481478I was just curious because I've never heard of that, usually it's Wake of the Ravager with the showstoppers, and I want to avoid doing it myself if I replay it some time.
>>3481470>I got softlockedbrah I feel for you, but you have to let it godarksun is a pretty good game and worth the play if you are interested in crpgs of that era
>>3478749fuck off, many people loved it, it was baldurs gate without fat
>>3481743>many people loved itOnly the ones with enough brain damage to appreciate AD&D for the raw combat.
>>3478391>>3478394>>3478435>>3478441>>3478454>>3478466>>3478749>>3481164Look at that, now I know what my top 8 favorite games are, thanks /vrpg/.
>>3481899a game is more than just the systemIWD offers nice world/levels to explore, an interesting backstory, and a feeling of true adventure
>>3481979>an interesting backstoryAre you for real?
>>3482808>there's a demon doing demon shit and you need to go kill itLet me guess, you need more?
>>3478752Not really. Aside from its forgettable sequel it was the worst received out of the infinity engine games.
>>3482808>inb4 muh no story idiotspicrel. Yes I'm for real, it's pretty goodhow far into the game have you progressed?backstory is doing that morrowind thing where you learn about ancient stories that affect game events and I love that shit, severed hand is probably among my top gaming sections/levels evar for this aloneit also helps that the sidequests are often directly related to the main plot, not just some random "save my puppy" fetch shit
>>3478391Dark Sun always looked so cool to me but it was before my time, I was hoping someone made a private server for the original online version but it seems no one has.I downloaded the files and used a program to check out all the cool sprites and stuff though.
>>3481979It felt like a filler game to me but that was fine such I was such a huge fan of BG1 and 2. IWD is pretty alright but way too linear.
>>3483369>private server for the original online versionAs one of a handful of people who played it, it wasn't very good, specifically because it didn't really do the whole serve" thing and instead functioned on peer-to-peer where your machine would do the work and could easily be hacked.
>>3483423*server
>>3478391Bg3 should be the posterchild of this thread then
>>3483431BG3 fans are contra-contrarians. Normally they would be le ebin hipsters who hate everything you like, but in this case, they are the slop-enjoyers, and will defend it against your criticism in order to be contrarians against your criticism of the game. Meta-contrarians, if you will.It's a symptom of terminal-stage irony poisoning, I think.
>>3478394>>3478454These are just mainstream games, not sure what's contrarians about liking either.
>>3482821>worst received>87/100 on Metacritic>"Worst received"
>>3484754>Aside from its forgettable sequel it was the worst received out of the infinity engine gamesthat's true with an 87. what's more telling is that it was well received enough to get an almost immediate expansion and a sequel.
>>3484764The point isn't whether or not it was the "worst received", the point is that saying it was the "worst received", and people "hated it", is fucking retarded, when people generally loved it, but didn't love it "as much" as the other titles.
>>3484771yes, anon, and the best way to point that out is to say it got an expansion and a sequel, not bring up metacritic scores like a retard.
>>3478394fpwp
/vrpg/ shilled this.
Arcanum is the most glaring example and honestly the only one that people have posted ITT that really qualifies. It's so fucking broken, unfinished and just half assed that it has nothing going for it. The writing that people make a big deal about is not only mediocre, there's barely any of it. The setting is also shit and lackluster due to how barely none of its potential is realized. Even with the unofficial patch it's shit.
>>3488246How is that contrarianism though? It's herd mentality and cult status from people who genuinely liked it despite its flaws being transferred down to secondaries. The whole concept of the OP is utterly retarded and anyone giving an answer to it is similarly idiotic.
>>3478489Todd, i know people are starting to see through the paid review fest that Fallout show marketing was, but this is getting ridiculous. Come on, Tim Cain even endorsed it, stop shitting on his titles.