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Any weird/controversial opinions? I'll start. Before the remake, the best version of Resident Evil 4 was the Wii version. The Wiimote controls old Resi's tank controls better than any other controller at the time. The PC version had a bunch of little bugs and detractors that the Wii version just doesn't have.

I'll extend this by saying that the Wiimote is actually pretty damn good for shooters, and particularly good for accessibility. Not having to cramp up my hands to press buttons is awesome for having arthritis. Aiming with the Wiimote and moving with the nunchuck just feel really natural, you barely have to move your fingers for anything.

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[–] tables@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My true hot take is that despite all the moaning in gaming communities about the death of gaming, we're in pretty much the golden age of gaming. There's so many good games constantly coming out that I haven't been able to play nearly as much of them as I'd like to and my backlog keeps growing.

Sometimes I'll notice that I keep postponing some indie game that I put on my list because it looked like a lot of fun over some newer indie and realize that I'll maybe never end up reaching that far down in my backlog that I'll actually play it.

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

IMO the industry overall is in a truly horrible place, but only the AAA and part of the AA space. Indies have been and continue to hold up the industry by themselves.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven’t seen what you’re talking about, so I can’t even fathom what “death of gaming” could possibly mean. It’s dumb enough that music genres get declared “dead” just for being less popular than they used to be, and it seems even dumber to say it about a hobby that, as far as I understand, is more popular than its ever been.

[–] tables@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just following the wrong communities, but every time a new AAA game has a horrible launch I see the same discourse over and over of how gaming isn't what it used to be, all games suck nowadays, etc etc.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, that shit has been going on for decades and is always overblown. I never consider any of those kinds of comments to be in good faith.

[–] Goronmon@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One if the comments under the main post is about gaming having died a decade ago and now we are just in the age of decline.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And I have no desire to take that comment seriously.

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

IMO the industry overall is in a truly horrible place, but only the AAA and part of the AA space. Indies have been and continue to hold up the industry by themselves.

[–] TheTechNerd789@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with this