Controversial opinions on metal

[Vegard Pompey]

Are you basing your judgment of the series on Oblivion/Skyrim? Because Morrowind is the Summoning of Western RPGs.

 

[Phylactery]

Are you basing your judgment of the series on Oblivion/Skyrim? Because Morrowind is the Summoning of Western RPGs.

This comparison will not help your case where HamburgerBoy is concerned.

Anyway I really like Skyrim. The combat is definitely shitty (it's just very superficial and lacking in depth. The attacks from weapons don't feel very visceral or like they connect half the time), but everything else about it is pretty great.

I definitely need to spend more time with Morrowind, though.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I'm aware HBB doesn't like Summoning but I assume he'll recognize it's a far cry from A7X.

 

[Mort Divine]

he probably would like avenged sevenfold more than summoning

at least they have riffs

/s

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm half-shitposting tbh. I've only played Arena, Daggerfall, and Skyrim to any extent, and didn't beat any of them. No way anything related to that series qualifies as in-crowd though, Morrowind was already a big breakthrough for them and they've expanded their normie audience with every successive game. The level-scaling bullshit is what really puts me off, but I'm not a fan of the open-world, a-hundred-identical-dungeons-to-explore style in general.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

he probably would like avenged sevenfold more than summoning

at least they have riffs

/s

Why the sarcasm tag? That's exactly how I feel.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Morrowind was a success because it was a milestone in the open-world RPG genre, but it's extremely normie-unfriendly from a modern perspective. I don't think something being popular in the past disqualifies it from being an in-crowd darling in the present, but whatever, you're the one who insists on using this bullshit term anyway.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Are you basing your judgment of the series on Oblivion/Skyrim? Because Morrowind is the Summoning of Western RPGs.

In other words, you do the exact same thing over and over for years?

 

[Vilden]

How does Roller Coaster Tycoon fare on the in-crowd scale? x)

 

[Phylactery]

I tried Elder Scrolls Online while it was in Beta, and yeah it was fucking awful.

For my video game in-crowd you have to consider Dark Souls to be pretty much the best game of the past 10 years.

 

[Phylactery]

Dark Souls? Best game of the past ten years? In what perverse, Hideo Kojima wet dream world?

It's just a reality I'm afraid. It captured nearly everything I'm looking for in a video game and caught me by surprise.

 

[Phylactery]

I'm not going to make a claim that it's objectively the best video game of the past 10 years, although it's certainly my favourite. Since I'm apparently in-crowd as fuck, that means it should also be high on the in-crowd's video game list.

I don't really know what you were talking about with your Hideo Kojima comment.

 

[no country for old wainds]

what are some of your favourite games HP?

edit: respond to this in the gamers thread i guess

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I haven't played a minute of Dark Souls, but everything I've seen about it pisses me off. I almost want to play it just because I know I'll absolutely hate it and it will earn me out-crowd points, but I'd probably break something. Every other minute seems to be some mini-boss or boss with a slow, repetitive attack cycle and a big, fat HP bar. What sets it apart from any other hack and slash? idgi at all.

Alpha Centauri is the obvious true patrician's choice in computer game btw.

EDIT: Or STALKER for the last ten years.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I'd say Demon's Souls is the true in-crowd gaming choice. It's my least favourite souls game other than maybe Dark Souls 2. Bloodborne and DS3 are head and shoulders above the rest imo.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Demons Souls is without a doubt the most respected and "feared" game of the series.

 

[CiG]

In other words, you do the exact same thing over and over for years?

This isn't quite true since their earliest stuff is less epic and more standard black metal and over the years they've released instrumental records.

 

[CiG]

Pentagram is stoner rock, not doom or metal. Trouble is 80's metal NOT doom as they're so erroneously labeled. The Obsessed and Vitus are the same band and both suck. Never heard Revelation but I'm sure they're in the same Black Sabbath worship, stoner/rock, power/doom field like so many others.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

He's not entirely wrong. Maybe 30% right.

 

[-CC-]

I've just played Demon Souls and Dark Souls but yeah, it's definitely not your average hack-n-slash @HBB. Can't say either place in my top 10 of favorite games but they are definitely special. They basically take you on an emotional roller coaster of rage, satisfaction, hatred, joy, despair, accomplishment, existential crisis, and finally nihilism.

EDIT: Thought I was in the gamer's thread?

Controversial opinion: Now that I'm relistening to 1996 albums, I feel more and more like Immolation are kind of hit-and-miss. They have too much fluff in many of their records. Definitely a band that's better heard live than on CD.