“I hate crafting”: Redditors share their controversial gaming opinions
Gamers have taken to Reddit to share their controversial gaming opinions and it seems almost everyone hates crafting.
Taking to the gaming subreddit, OfficialDampSquid asked their fellow gamers what their controversial opinions were. “Personally, I’m sick of the ‘scattered lore notes’ technique. I don’t wanna keep halting the pace of the game to read pages of backstory,” they added, kicking things off.
More than 1500 replies followed in the next few hours. “90 per cent of games with crafting systems would be better without them,” is currently the most-liked comment, with more than 1300 upvotes.
“God I hate how crafting has been tacked on to every other game these days. It rarely belongs and doesn’t add any joy or immersion,” added another fan. “I hate crafting in games. I want to blast some goblins with a fireball, not play Farmville,” wrote a third.
“I like crafting, I don’t like that it encourages hoarding of random crap that encumbered my movement,” added one gamer. “Crafting systems often feel like a way to inflate playtime,” said another, with The Last Of Us and Metro Exodus praised as examples of games doing crafting the right way.
Elsewhere in the thread, players shared their desire for the return of cheat codes in single-player games, admitted they liked the controversial Fable 3 and hit out at limited saving mechanisms. “I’m fine with auto saving as a backup but please let me save at any point and anytime and come back right to that moment. It’s a video game,” wrote one fan.
“We don’t need better graphics anymore,” explained one high-voted comment. “The more detailed games become, the more they cost to make, the less likely companies will take risks. It’s a never-ending cycle of games becoming more generic and boring. We just need good games.”
“I can’t stand video games that try so hard to be movies,” said another.
Another hated feature of video games seems to be exclusivity. “Making your game exclusive to one console will not convince me to buy the console. I am not made of money, it will just make me miss most games you put out,” wrote one gamer. “If anything, it will annoy me to the point of not wanting to buy your games at all,” added another.
Earlier this year, it was reported a lot of previously exclusive Xbox games would be coming to PlayStation 5 and the Nintendo Switch 2 with boss Phil Spencer explaining that Microsoft’s strategy is to “allow our games to be available.”
“To keep games off of other platforms, that’s not a path for us. It doesn’t work for us what we’re doing now,” he added.
In other news, Xbox fans aren’t impressed with plans for a new handheld console to rival the Switch 2.
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