Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I mostly agree, yeah. Especially that stupid excessive grinding thing. Jeeeez. I stopped playing after finding out that I need to do countless replays of missions to get my characters to their full potential.

I do think that it's a step forward for the series, however, especially for appealing to more players. I keep coming back to the game for some reason, not to grind like a 40 year old man playing WoW, but to play through the story again and see how far I can level my units before I reach the "you can't make them any stronger unless you grind DLC" line. I'd love to see more strategy in the following games.

Resident Evil 4 is the only Resident Evil that succeeds, at least out of the main numbered releases. Resident Evil isn't scary but it can be suspenseful. But only RE4 combined fun with that suspense, whereas everything before tried to be scary and is just embarrassing now and everything after is a pathetic action game that has no idea why RE4 worked.

Resident Evil 4 is fun, but where's the suspense? I played a lot and don't remember ever feeling like I was playing anything other than a pure action game...

And Resident Evil 1 and 2 are fun, as adventure games with suspenseful encounters that give you the feeling of vulnerability.

Well suspense in the sense that the gameplay is intentionally slow and awkward enough to give you a challenge and to be constantly worried about dying (though admittedly the gameplay style being more common and replaying the game might take away from some of that...) but isn't so awkward that you don't enjoy playing it. Early Resident Evil, intentionally or not, was way more awkward to control and play to make it more scary, but it isn't scary so it's bad game design instead.

I think the "which system has the better graphics" war did take a break in the 5th and 6th generations, which is why people say that it's gotten worse.

I found it scary, even when I played it a few years ago and knew what was coming. It has very good atmosphere and once the harder zombies appeared, I was pretty much hyper-alert the entire rest of the game. Maybe it isn't quite as scary as Silent Hill (which I'd argue is a far worse game overall) or Clock Tower (well, the SFC version, which I'd hold is about as scary as I'm willing to put up with), but it was effective at what it was trying to do, IMO.

The fifth Gen in took a break because it wasn't even a question back then. The question was, "Playstation won. Is it worth keeping the N64 on life support while the Saturn goes out in the back and commits seppuku?"

It was totally there in the 6th gen, though. It's just that it went back to the normal "everybody pretends to care too much about graphics when the silent majority still buys whatever they think will be fun to play", thus resulting in the graphical powerhouses not doing as well.

Pre-rendered backgrounds need to make a comeback on consoles, even if just in smaller download games.

I still can't forget how gorgeous the backgrounds looked in FFX. They've largely moved on to portable devices these days (with Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword & Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale having beautiful looking hand drawn backgrounds), but I'd like to see how many detailed they could be on a modern home console.

Far Cry 2 is the best game in the series. MY opinion. It doesn't have to be yours.

People who say link can't be a female are dumb. Link has as much personality as the protagonists of Fable (well expect III) and Gordan Freeman. Bioware is able to successfully make games with two Genders and they're protagnists tend to be active ones who can talk and emote. Also comparing him to Master Chief is stupid since Chief is an actual charcter throughout the games while the Links are good different puppets you play throughtout time.

That's kinda the point of the thread.

The pokemon games need to come back to having a deep story

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Im happy none of ubisoft broken games are on the Wii U(I dont know of this is a unpopular opinion)

You seem to think that to have a personality you need to be able to speak.

To have an identifiable personality that can't be easily replaced with a robot? Yes, very much so.

Link has a personality, but he doesn't have any gender-specific personality traits. Being a girl would give him boobs and slightly more narrow shoulders, that's about it.

_{It's been like 2 pages, time for this debate again.}

Just reiterating it so that the trolls and FC3 won't be nipping at my heels.

• Lysandre is the best villain of the main series Pokemon games
• I would rather a game have a great automatic camera without free camera control than a game have a garbage automatic camera with free camera control.
• The 3D Zelda games are several times better than the 2D ones.

Exclusive anything is often ridiculous, and it's a spit in the face at the free market most of the time. Let's say I want a Sony Xperia phone. I't exclusive to Verizon. To get it, I'd have to switch to Verizon, not because they are offering me a better service, but because some higher ups made a deal to limit my choices

Nintendo's one of the few companies that does exclusivity right, leveraging it to create products that are only possible as exclusives.

A&B is the worst two-button row on the 3DS (XL) short of A&Y or X&B. X&Y, meanwhile, works surprisingly well. I wish I could change the Game Boy VC button mapping to that. (A&X on NES VC works fine for me, but really all the VCs should have button mapping options like Game Gear VC.)

I agree.

There are very few good fighting games, and the Street Fighter games aren't among them