Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

If Mario started using a gun to appeal to the COD/GTA audience it would fall flat on it's face and rightfully so. What dark content in Mario games are you going on about?

@arronishere: Thousand year door in the Japanese version has blood spilled in a certain room and it was removed in the NA version.
The Japanese version of Super Mario World allows dolphins to be swallowed by Yoshi unlike in the NA version. I can go on here.....

Actually the original Super Mario Bros was going to use a gun but that got scrapped. Again, like I said, if Nintendo wants to see how that content ends up for the matured audience, Nintendo has every right to expose that art and see how it goes.

I don't think Virtual Console would work as a subscription. The only ways I can see it actually working are if the list of available VC titles keeps changing, not just adding new ones but subtracting old ones making each month or week exciting as to what you can play. Legend of Zelda is available on VC this week, hurry up and play it before it gets removed, type of a thing. Or if the VC subscription is Nintendo's version of PS Plus or Xbox Live. You are paying for online services and what not but you also get access to hundreds of VC titles. It really won't work if future systems have multiple subscriptions. (one for VC and one for online services)

But I don't think it will work because people like to have collections. I like having the Donkey Kong Country Trilogy ready and waiting for me when I am ready to play it. I like opening my NES folder and having to scroll to see all my games. I like knowing that I "own" these games and they can't be taken away from me. Subscription models take a lot of that away.

@DefHalan: I agree, but if Nintendo were to have a subscription based VC on the NX without any other option for playing VC games, we'd still pay and play, right? I really don't think Nintendo would loose costumers over turning VC into a subscription service, it might actually work out the other way around seeing how almost everything is turning subscription based these days.

I don't see a problem with a subscription being an option

I would prefer a subscription service for virtual console. Not entirely sure if that's an unpopular idea though.

@GamecubeMan Yeah I agree with you, but it'd have to contain a large library, and games up to and including the gamecube.

@Santa: Now we are talkin!

My ex was like that with trophies. We replayed everything forever until we got every trophy, and because I was better than him at a lot of stuff he'd make me get his trophies sometime omg. I played Little Big Planet 2 and Prince of Persia more than I ever thought I would. Talk about taking the fun out of playing a game.
Poo on Trophy/Achievement collectors who can't just have fun and turn it into an angry thing.

@AlliMeadow: I wouldn't subscribe unless it was bundled in with other features I wanted like Online Play and Party Chat. When i wanted to play VC I would sub for a single month, play and then cancel it since I don't get to play often.

"Guns and darkness = EDGY" came from old men who love money and only money sitting in meetings all day trying to sound "cool".
Edit: That Idea came about because most of these old men think older kids and teens want something that is "adult", but instead of actually making an "adult" game, they make a game that has the looks "adult".

Why is turn-based RPG combat considered archaic? This isn't just about AAA publishers refusing to make new turn-based RPGs. There a lot of people saying turn based combat in RPGs is "archaic" and "stagnated". Why? It's been around as long as 2D platforming, 1-on-1 fighting, shooting, and several other types of game-play, but only turn-based RPG combat gets that accusation.

Because it doesn't appeal to the majority of people now who have exceedingly short attention spans and need highly stimulative experiences. Now we're seeing a lot more active-time battle systems or even more MMO based RPG mechanics because the classic JRPG turn-based gameplay is considered too slow for some reason. I'm not really sure where developers got this in their head, because I still like turn-based battles.

It's similar to the way modern horror games feel the need to include third-person shooting, or should I say the way third-person shooters try to include survival horror elements.

@MrMario02: well it depends on who you ask. All of those could be considered tired and 'archaic' by this point, Sony/Microsoft fans have supposedly 'outgrown' the tired 2D platforming games that were only cool when you were growing up in the 80s/90s, Square-Enix would have you believe that ATB combat is tired and boring just so they can hype up new 'innovative' combat in every new Final Fantasy game and I know that I'm not alone in thinking that 1 on 1 2D fighting games stagnated in the last gen in particular thanks in no part to the many Street Fighter and Capcom Vs releases, I sure as heck ain't getting excited for Street Fighter 5 that's for sure. And shooting games are in a unique camp where they ain't going anywhere anytime soon regardless of who the people who've become bored of them think.

There are others too that you don't mention, survival horror is no longer a viable genre if you ask Capcom and big budget puzzle games are a no-go as the recent more action heavy Tomb Raider games have 'proven'. In the end, it's mainly just rhetoric splurged out by AAA companies as part of the hype train of their latest money-making scheme. We all have as fans our likes/dislikes though and there will be very few people who think that all those genres I've mentioned are still fresh and fun but acting like it's an undeniable fact? Nah Square-Enix, spout your nonsense to someone else you've never made a better game in my eyes than Chrono Trigger and its combat in particular remains to this day a significant reason why I'll always consider it timeless.

@TheLastLugia Oh, Okay. I agree with a lot of what you said there except for your feelings on fighting games and this statement:

Microsoft says that, but not Sony (at least as long as they make more LittleBigPlanet or turn "The Puppeteer" into a massive franchise).

EDIT: Also, I've never played Chrono Trigger.

Stop whining about GameStop. They only push used games because they only get 10% of the revenue from new games. Meaning for every $60 purchase a customer makes, they get $6.

Also, if they're so evil, why do so many publishers partner with them for pre-order bonuses?

Is anyone really complaining about Gamestop lately?

Gamestop killed my parents and stole my wife.

@DarthNocturnal: I mean, since so many AAA publishers are so cheap, why would they support a store that primarily sells used games, which several AAA developers hate (Lookin' at you, EA and Microsoft). Microsoft, after all, wanted to prevent used games on XBOX ONE, and yet gamestop still carried Halo 5 and Halo Master Chief Collection Pre-order bonuses.

I don't get how gambling is illegal but having microtransactions are legal.

When you think about it, kids are forced to use real money to get in app items that offer nothing but make the game progress easier or are simply there to just make the player be fooled that he is getting something by paying real money when he's not. and its an addiction kinda like gambling.