Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Baby steps.

I like Microsoft Points more than real money for Xbox transactions.

Hero mode isn't a "hard mode". It's a "punishing mode" basically designed as something like the Zelda self-imposed challenges.

And on the subject of self-imposed challenges, I think most of them are stupid. They may add challenge or other values to the game, but they completely rob the game of other components. 3-heart runs in Zelda completely ruin the fun of exploration. Nuzlockes rob the game of the fun of hunting down pokemon in the grass.

They are really only enjoyable when they exclusively add to a game. Making a rule that you won't use items in-battle in Pokemon is an example.

Or it's a way to artifically extend play time, 8-Bit style. Either way, it's still dumb to force people to unlock higher modes when most people wouldn't really see it as a reward, anyways...

@Grumblevolcano: Me too, if only because, for example, you could buy a 800 points card for less than the sum of its (official) cost therefore the games were technically cheaper. I also much, much prefer the three tier system of 400 points for the little bite-size games, 800 for somewhere in between and 1200 for the big - and oft funded by Microsoft themselves - indie games.

I know the developers choose the price (rather than the publishers) nowadays, but I kind of wish there was a 'system' of sorts in regards to a category of pricing for those indie games; $4.99, $9.99 and $14.99 is better than all these odd and all-over-the-place price tags.

Oh well!

@Zelkardaim: Did you use to go under a different name?

I don't think it's an unpopular opinion to say Sony fans are the worst, because they kind of are. You are pretty much right on the money when you say that the worst of them are insufferable because they eat up the rubbish Sony feeds them, and they think that PS is the only worthwhile console and they hate on everything Mario/Halo/Zelda/Forza despite not playing those great games. They almost always bring up the '1000000th Mario game' comment on any Mario article, whilst continuing to buy Uncharted 4, Uncharted Collection, God of War 3 remastered, Little Big Planet 3 and Gran Turismo whatever, all relatively new series that have been completely milked to death already despite not changing much since their inception, and they are the main supporters of the 3rd party rubbish, buying COD, Destiny and Batman, and STILL bringing up the '100000th Mario game' comments, whilst they are blind to how hypocritical they are by buying that Arkham rubbish which has the nerve to charge £87 for the complete edition, despite only being slightly bigger and prettier than the one released years ago. They constantly bring the current sales figures into every debate, thus redering it pointless to argue with them, and even that is stupid as they ignore the fact that the majority of the 20 whatever mill PS4 owners are just COD/FIFA casuals, and they convinientley don't remember how embarrassing the PS3's sales were, having to be bundled with vacuums and micro-waves here in the UK for a couple of years because no one would buy the system that they all knew was a rip-off. In summary/TL;DR, they constantly bash Nintendo & Microsoft for lack of innovation, rehashing and more with one hand whilst accepting that very same (if not worse) stuff from Sony with the other. There are probably several other examples of how irritating they are that I can't recall ATM but I find it undeniable how obvious it is.

_{Please, not here.-Morpheel}

It looked like you were on my "block list" but apparently it was just a mistake. 'S all good.

@SuperMalleo: Spiderman is my favorite video game series

I guess I fall under this category because I like Sony as well?

This is stereotyping and I've never even heard about these stereotypes before. It's not nice. There are plenty of people who aren't casuals who like the PlayStation. Even if there are many casual gamers on the PS4, why is that a bad thing? Should they not be allowed to play video games? Just because they have a different taste in games than you do?

There are many people who play on the PlayStation 4 for many reasons. Some people buy the PS4 for fighting games. Some people buy the PS4 for it's region-free play. Some people buy the PS4 for it's exclusives that I think are pretty good. If they are redundant, they're just as redundant as Nintendo games, so you can't hate on them for that.

There is nothing wrong with playing on the PlayStation and there is nothing wrong with being a PlayStation fan. These stereotypes are untrue.

Guys please, let's be nice.

@TylerTheCreator: alright fine, I'll take that point back. Being a male teenager in the UK, I've bought several CODs and FIFAs over the years for my PS and Xboxs, but the point was that if/when Nintendo, Microsoft or some other company make a console in which Activision and EA can spurt their nonsense more freely, these casuals will have no hesitation in abandoning Sony in a moment's notice, which is why I say the numbers are very ineffective, millions of PS4 owners owned a 360 and not a PS3 3/4 years ago, and you don't need a degree in rocket science or even gaming journalism to understand why. So that's the point, it's really, REALLY stretching the point to say that Sony have 24 million fans ATM, just as it was plainly obvious that there were not 100 million Nintendo fans last gen, despite the Wii's success. But I can't deny you have a point, we can enjoy what we want on the things, so you could say at a stretch that there are 24 million (and increasing) Sony fans. For now. But I won't take back the other points, it's happened AGAIN today, apparently it's Nintendo fans' fault Project Cars Wii U has been cancelled because of, wait for it, WE'RE ALL TOO BUSY BUYING MARIO GAMES!!!!!!! Haha, can you believe it? A couple of days ago I said (after reding dozens of articles this year) that Sony fans have an obsession with hating on Mario and lo and behold today's article. Insufferable doesn't do it justice. No way was it Slightly Mad Studios' fault for joining the 'lying greedy b****** 3rd party devs' crew, it's the Nintendo fans' fault. Of course. And Mario.

Everything seems bigger under the magnifying glass of the Internet.

SSB Brawl is too underrated

@Smah4382: I agree. There's a hefty amount of amazing content in Brawl. But I guess the people who like Melee more aren't really concerned with that as much as the physics of the game. I guess that's fine. Though, I really liked playing Brawl.

Me too

Subspace Emissary rocked! It was one of my favorite parts of Brawl, if not my favorite, and I am very disappointed something similar didn't return in SSB Wii U.

The 2017 reboot is a Sony production. Both Amy Pascal (Sony) and Kevin Feige (Marvel) are serving as producers though.

Press release

Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.

Personally, I'm a little worried about the creative team. It's being written by John Francis Daley (of uh... Horrible Bosses fame) and directed by John Watts (who?). Really too bad Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (Jump Street, LEGO Movie) weren't tapped for the project. They would have been perfect. The actors they have attached to Peter and Aunt May are fantastic actors though, so that's reassuring.

Same here, I loved it. A real shame Sakurai took it out because the cutscenes were being put on YouTube. What a dumb reason.