>The game I like became popular.
>Don't like it anymore.
>>341857142
Dark souls
There should have been just one game.
>Love OoT
>Extremely popular, considered best game my many
>Only like it all the more
>The game I like became popular.
>Still like it but can't discuss it anymore because the fanbase went to shit
>>341857208
So.. Demon's Souls then.
fucking PC faggot.
maybe try not being such a hipster contrarian faggot. like what you like and fuck everyone else.
>>341857247
>OoT
>Better than Link's Awakening
>Game I like becomes popular
>Still like it because I'm not a contrarian faggot
>>341857142
So /v/ in a nutshell thread?
>>341857142
>2016
>Nobody is playing Zone of the Enders saga.
Unless you're talking about a multiplayer game where the community directly affects the game's quality, that just means you never really liked the game in the first place. You just liked feeling like a special snowflake
>niche weeb game you like
>it suddenly becomes popular with the worst possible userbase
>gets memed to death
>if you like the franchise you are seen as an epic memer
>devs and publisher start pandering to the meme audience
>>341857208
I don't blame people for saying the Souls community is cancer, it is. It's just a shame you can't really talk about it without meme spouters ruining everything.
>Series you like is quite popular
>Sells decently
>Another franchise by the same developer suddenly massively takes off in popularity
>The series you like never gets another game because the dev is busy milking the big hit
Armored Core, Advance Wars, it keeps fucking happening.
Fuck Waifu Emblem.
>>341857261
Yup, that's the way it is
>>341857142
>person A likes game
>person B doesn't like game
>person A: "I like game"
>game becomes popular
>person B: "I don't like game"
>person C: "OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE FLIP FLOPPING FUCKING HIPSTER"
>>341857339
Seriously, why Link's Awakening of all games? Aside form its storytelling, the Oracles are better than it.
>>341857420
Or maybe you liked the comfy threads, the nice and helpful community, the non meme reputation the game had?
Tell me why should you be happy when everytime you go online to talk about your favourite game it's full of memes and shitposting?
>b-but it doesn't affect the game!!11
It does affect your experience of the game overall, especially in this day and age when internet is omnipresent in people's lives. Also if the meme audience latches onto a series it affects the sequels, look at what happened with Dark Souls II, the game is "hard" for sake of being hard.
>>341857545
I feel this way about the entirety of the internet.
>game I like becomes popular on /v/
>imagine strangling all these fuckers to death
>>341857142
>The game I like became popular
>They made unnecessary sequels, each moving farther and farther away from the spirit of the first, trying to reach broader audiences
>It is now a fragment of what it used to be
Or,
>The entertainment medium I like became popular
>The market power of the vast majority is shaping the medium into something I don't like
>All I can do is watch the change and lament
>>341857934
It's just a game that manages to feel so much bigger than the sum of it's parts, and it's the only Zelda game I can keep coming back to. It's a weird word to use, but I feel like it's a very efficient Zelda game, if you can understand that.
Oracles are great too.
>>341857451
Neptunia was already a meme series.
>>341857142
Is it bad that I start to dislike something, just cause all discussions about it devolved into solely being about internet memes?
>Be an oldfag
>Watched Minecraft grow from a niche game that got people on /v/ excited about the possibilities, then slowly spiral out of control
I'm glad I got bored of it before it fell apart.
>>341857142
>game i like is unpopular
>be made aware of all the flaws i somehow managed to overlook
>can't ignore flaws anymore
>don't like it anymore
>>341857451
NEPU NEPU DESU DESU DESU
>>341857262
No, Dark Souls.
>>341857142
Dragon Age was literally this for me. Origins was great albeit a bit rough around the edges, 2 was casualised and rushed to shit, making it so bad I lost all interest in the franchise. Didn't play 3 but it looked like more of the same.
>>341858274
oh this is a good one. Yeah I remember when it first popped up too. /v/ was all about it, now you even mention minecraft and you better be ready for the entire American Psychiatric Association of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to come crashing down on you. It is insane to see what happened to that game BECAUSE of its fanbase
>>341858436
>Didn't play 3 but it looked like more of the same.
I'm playing DA:I right now and I'm here to tell you, it's absolutelya solid 7/10 game. Give it a chance.
>game gets a PC port
>didn't like it anyway
>>341857208
this, ds2 was a mistake. pure cancer made only to get money to bandai namco
>>341857934
Oracle games are fucking incredible.
That and Links Awakening. Actually all those games used an engine from this also awesome game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTSNX_4itPY
>>341858693
That hurts.
3's bullshots are also quite painful to compare.
>>341858521
If you're serious anon you might have actually just given me some hope. Did they bring back the good dialog options, picking your race and good skills/inventory system etc?
>>341858786
Yeah man, it's actually pretty good. Not GREAT but worth playing at least once. Hell, even the shoddier stuff like animations, and some of the story are fun to guffaw at.
>>341858950
I'll keep an eye out for when its fairly cheap. Thanks for the tip anon.
>>341858763
ds3 downgrade is nothing compared to ds2 downgrade
i didnt even noticed ds3 downgrade since i didnt looked much, the only thing i noticed is that the lighting changed
>>341858786
I'm totally serious. I actually plays and feels like a next-gen continuation of O. Tac Cam is fantastic, the OST is great, skill and class diversity and viability is at least on par with O. You get a full range of party members, love interests, classes and genders.
The worst thing about the game is its console optimization: it's unplayable on PS3 and presumable 360, and runs well but with lots of small bugs on PS4.
Other than that some of the voice acting is spotty.
>>341858950 =/= >>341858950 btw
If you own a PS4, it's on sale right now for $6.
>>341857965
that hit hard
>The game is popular
>Have no idea why
Actually, I do know, it's because of "hard" meme marketing. Except most fans of these games don't know what hard is and never played Ikaruga or, hell, have never even at least seen second level of Pacman.
>>341859425
neither the first nor second level of pac man are hard in any sense of the word you shit
>>341859201
I picked up a copy free but havent bothered to play it yet, does it get off to a decently quick start? I think DAO is a pretty good game and I like the concept of the origins, but in practice it means anytime you want to start a new game you have to go through the whole origin story (which are all p good to be fair) and THEN you have to go through the whole royal camp thing and THEN you have to go through the town after the battle, and by the time you're actually free to start doing anything interesting you're like six hours into the game. KOTOR games had this problem as well, does Inquisition?
>>341859616
They are harder than Dark Souls at any point.
>>341859080
right on man, I've seen it on sale numerous times
>>341859425
the meme marking was not made by the game publishers, it was made by bandai namco, demon's souls and bloodborne didn't had this hard bazinga memes because namco was not involved and the fanbase is a million times better.
>>341859746
no, they actually aren't
you get three lives and the ghosts are slow as shit
>>341859676
You get thrown right into it immediately after character creation. The main story has it's strong points and its weak points the only thing I didn't like too much was how scattershot a lot of the questing is. You'll see once your are introduced to the war room.
>>341859847
We got this instead.
>>341859945
KEK
also, miyazaki said that would be the last souls, if not, bandai namco would never stop making dark souls for money and there would be like one dark souls per year and remakes like soft sold as new games
>>341859676
Actually it might pick up even slower than O, heh. Depends on your playstyle I guess. The game gives you a lot of freedom right out of the gate, but I'm 25 hours in and haven't left the "beginning" yet. Although it's possible to blast through it much much faster than I am. I'm on Nightmare so I'm having to pace myself.
>>341860098
Who cares, Miyazaki should be wishing he made Dragon's Dogma instead.
>>341857142
Undertale, the latest victim of "if tumblr likes it, i'm obligated to hate it".
>>341860098
>there would be like one dark souls per year and remakes like soft sold as new games
I wouldn't even hate this idea if games weren't $70-100.
>>341860357
>wanting unoriginal money grabbers soulless games
>>341859945
>People had to pretend to be excited about something you could make in a school shop in about three minutes with almost no experience.
Honestly the worth piece of toot ever offered. I know we're not in the era of cloth maps and I don't fucking expect collector editions to give us hotglue-worthy models and jetpacks, but this was an unacceptable farce. It doesn't look like the thing, it isn't even hollow, which would have been something, its something bunged in an injection moulder for $00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.001 and sold at an outrageous markup.
Nah just kidding its an amazing buttplug.
>>341857142
Yakuza, it was so much better when only few people knew about it
>>341860357
Remaking the same shit every year is bad on an aesthetic level over and above being a cheap shitty way for lazy suits to print themselves money. If people don't devote thought and effort to the games they make, what they make will not be worth devoting thought and effort to playing.
>>341859863
>No they aren't
>Yes they are
>No they aren't
>Yes they are
This is what this is turning into and you didn't even think to stop that they are different genres.
What I meant is that marketing was memetic and it sold the idea that you are hardcore if you play Dark Souls, when Dark Souls is not even hard. And these idiots go around proud of themselves "gee golly wiz, I'll never be able to look at Assassin's Creed again! I am hardcore now!" and they've never experienced Stygian Abyss or something, they've never experienced the roots of gaming.
>>341857142
Well if you can't mention a game without being associated with an autistic fandom it kind of ruins your perception of the game.
>>341860557
it's not turning into that just because you ignored why I said it's easy
if you haven't played pac man then don't talk about it like you have
>enjoyed the fuck out of operation: flashpoint
>enjoyed the fuck out of ArmA
>had the time of my life with friends I'd been playing with for years in ArmA2
>DayZ comes along
>everyone playing ArmA now, but only for RPGs and Wasteland servers
>friends play the standalone DayZ pretty much all the time
>group has been shut down
>join another group to get those same feelings back
>it's just not the same
No matter how hard I try I just can't enjoy these survival/crafting games; maybe I'm the problem.
>>341859425
>Ikaruga
Now there's a fucking meme game. My First Shmup.
>>341860627
Uh, ok, sure buddy, whatever you say if you feel better about it.
>>341860519
I agree.
I wouldn't mind if Souls games had a continuation like Final Fantasy, though. It would be better than never getting another Souls game.
>>341860708
I didn't even call Dark Souls a meme game.
>>341860610
>can't separate a product from its fans
Autism
>>341858089
First part is KH definitely. The first game was mesmerizing but with every sequel/prequel/half sequel it just goes to trash. Why are Goofy and Donald even in it still?
>>341857954
The "Dark Souls 2 is hard" is a meme. So the "connectivity" of Dark Souls 1.
>>341860778
>It would be better than never getting another Souls game.
Would it really be? I can't hold up Final Fantasy as a great poster child for stretching series out forever, besides being rpgs the games have broadly nothing to do with each other and a great number of them are absolute rubbish papering over a poorly designed game with millions of dollars of production budget. About the only good thing you can say about the franchise at this point is that some degree of actual care goes into the construction of their art assets, that to me is about all that separates it from yearly shovelwares like CoD and Madden. If Souls games went that way I would not buy or play more of them. I would much rather see Fromsoft take several years off from the concept of a dungeon crawling arpg and come back in like 2020 with something new in a different but related direction that takes full advantage of the technology available at that time. Something that bears the same relation to Dark Souls 3/Bloodborne as Demon's Souls did to Shadow Tower Abyss.
>>341857142
>Didn't like SFV
>Bought it and loved it
>Now its unpopular
How did this even happen?
>>341857142
>Minecraft became popular
>Still like it, still play it
>>341857142
>refuse to play OP character
>OP character gets nerfed
>starts to main the previously OP character
>>341857142
Yeah I had a cousin who was a hipster faggot too.
Seriously vincent what the fuck?
>>341857954
>the game is "hard" for sake of being hard.
this is exactly what bandai namco wanted to b team make
>>341857954
>Or maybe you liked the comfy threads, the nice and helpful community, the non meme reputation the game had?
So... yes? You didn't liked the game, you just liked being special snowflake.
I've never stopped liking something because it became popular. I think something is wrong with you if you react like that.
>niche game series
>comfy community and threads
>suddenly one of the games gets a PC port
>threads filled with shitposting and memesDanganronpa on steam was a mistake
>>341857142
>The game I like becomes popular
>It's still a great game
>Suddenly, it is overrun by hordes of 12 year old tumors straight from 9gag
>Game updates break things that were >Previously great about it to pander to the lowest common denominator
>Don't like it anymore.
