Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I once made a review stating that Super Princess Peach was sexist (though fun and I would highly recommend it for fans of Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi). I now retract that statement in the face of the current state of the toxic, misandrist, and very unfeminine "feminist" movement.

It seems that most female heroes nowadays have little discernible femininity beyond the protrusion from their chests. It's perfectly fine to be a dainty hero, Princess; in fact, it's better than fine. Compassion, warmth, and selflessness are far more admirable qualities in women than attempting to emulate the brashness and vulgarity of certain types of assertive men. I now realise that I had been wrong about you. It is a crying shame that the current sociopolitical climate would not permit the likes of a rerelease (which would explain why it was never released as Wii U VC) or a sequel, which shows just how the masses have been brainwashed into a particular ideology in the 13 years since its original release.

I wonder if it might have something to do with (Tose), none of the Starfy games ever got rereleased on VC either.
EDIT Replace Toei with Tose, guess DB was on the brain LOL

Of course you mean Tose, and I see where you're coming from, but many of their Game Boy and Game Boy Color games were released via 3DS VC, and I very strongly doubt that Tose would have any say as to what Nintendo does with the properties as Nintendo would most likely be considered the authors for the purposes of copyright (as the statement often appears in end credits) and would ultimately call the shots. It would be foolish of Nintendo to commission a game that uses their IP while allowing another party dictate what they can and can't do with it.

It is very strange though that the Starfy games hadn't been rereleased in Japan, including The Legendary Starfy which is the only game in the series to date that has been released internationally (I managed to nab two sealed copies at AU$5 a pop back in the day!). And assuming that it was a commercial failure (hence no new Starfy games since) one would think that Nintendo would want to make the best of a bad situation by salvaging the brand with a digital-only rerelease via the Wii U eShop.

Anyway, I think we're going a little off-topic here. Back to unpopular opinions.

I haven't played Super Princess Peach and I don't know what parts of the feminist movement you consider to be toxic, but from what I know about the game I agree with you. There's nothing wrong with more 'macho' female protagonists like Samus Aran and Lara Croft, but at the same time it's perfectly fine for girls and women to like stereotypically feminine things and behave in a stereotypically feminine way, like Peach does. I think you're exaggerating a little about how people would react these days though; you may get a vocal minority who would be opposed to Peach's portrayal but I doubt the masses would bat an eyelid.

lol I remember people getting on me when I called Super Princess Peach sexist. There's no getting around it. You have to manipulate her extreme emotional mood swings in order to get through levels.

It's a shame, really, because I think it's one of the more creative games Nintendo has released.

I mean I can definitely see why people would say it's sexist, and it is in a way, but I don't think it's that bad really. Again, I haven't played it though, so I can't say for sure.

I'd say the vibe scepter is also a pretty questionable decision

I'd much rather play SOTN with the new PSP dub nowadays than the original.
"Die monster" has been repeated and memed so many times it feels like I'm looking at some very tired and ran into the ground joke like "the cake is a lie xDDDDDDD".

Other than those 'funneh' lines, I don't feel like the original english dub is that good at all.

It took me some courage to type all this. I fear for my life.

Die monster you don't deserve to live in this world !

Anyway, the original dub isn't that good anyway. Less cheesy and so bad it's good and just bad and cringe worthy.

I HATE Resident Evil 4.

The thing I hate the most about it is right there at the start.
This is supposed to be IT. The final show down with Umbrella.
The finale the series as a whole had been working towards too since 1996.
Umbrella is going down !

And then,
and then,
Umbrella is taken down OFF SCREEN in the opening movie ?!
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

...Things kinda went down hill for me after that.
That is such a kick in the teeth that the game never recovered for me.
As far as I am concerned it's a huge middle finger to everything Resident Evil.
It's basically this to me

And almost as bad is that half of the damn thing is a escort mission.
And Ashley's AI is braindead and useless and she is utterly annoying.

I have no idea why people like this game.

Sounds like you came into the game with a very linear expectation of what the game was and/or should be; that paled the rest of the proceedings. A shame since this game reinvented what Resident Evil was about with an attempt to subvert or defy prior notions. For the time and what we had to look forward to in terms of the series this was truly an astonishing game, a masterclass in design in terms of how other developers came to view their own techniques. I believe Dead Space was basically originated by this game as well as numerous other titles.

I made it very clear why I dislike Resident Evil 4
Kindly don't put words in my mouth.

It's not the showdown with Umbrella that was teased from the beginning.
Instead Umbrella was killed int he first 30 opening seconds like an after thought.
And that is where the game lost me as well as with Ashley.

It's a game that's about half made up out of an escort mission, to lead a brain dead annoying useless trope of a "character" around.

Even Capcom seemed to have to reconsiderd that killing Umbrella like that, was a bad idea.
What with Neo Umbrella in 6.
And the Umbrella logo in 7.

But hey silly me for daring to hope that the showdown with Umbrella that had been teased since the ending of Resident Evil 1 would actually take place huh ?

@RedderRugfish I agree with you. In Brawl and Melee me and my buds most of time played with items off. The chance of a Pokemon killing you was indeed really low

In Smash 4 I/we also played with items off. But we had no ‘real’ reason for it.

In Smash Ultimate, where me and a friend often play 1 vs.1 with no items on “legal” stages, I mostly play 3-stock or 7-stock. And those matches go fast. Note that I think that I am VERY GOOD at this game. I have like lost 10 times in total too him since Smash 4.

However last week he suggested for the first time since the release of the game that we should put on all items. I think we had set it on low or medium.

Right at that moment I made a ruleset with 15 lives and he said “THAT much?!” I said that he will see.

Fast forward and I deleted him from the game. The fact that I am already better then him + these OP Pokémon and assist trophies and Final Smashes. The game takes like 5 minutes. Almost every assist trophy/Pokémon takes 1 full stock and the blower item does not even let you recover. Let alone the fact that can have multiple items active at the same time.

It is supposed to be fun but in this game you can win even with items only and it does not even take a little bit of skill.

I truly love the Smash series and it is really one of my favorite games and most played games ever but the items in this installment are really broken and not fun to play against or sometimes even with.

A shame.

imagine thinking the story in Resident Evil is worth caring about lmao

@KitsuneNight "I made it very clear why I dislike Resident Evil 4" Did you really? The opening wasn't some set up to a big fight(a fight that already happened), it was a recap for new players. So i truly don't understand how you thought it was setting up a fight with umbrella lmao.

I can agree with the Ashley part, she ruins the game for new players. But, everything else still holds tremendously well.

I think cutting the Pokedex and moving toward a system of rotation new and old Pokemon was the correct choice for the series.

I'm conflicted on RE4. It's a groundbreaking action title with some amazing (at the time) setpieces and tank controls that still somehow manage to feel fluid and satisfying. The plot is incredibly dumb, but the B-movie vibe it gives off is fun.

Unfortunately, its success also meant that Resident Evil fundamentally changed as a series for more than a generation, and it prefigured the horrible trend last gen of Japanese developers attempting to design their titles as more bombastic, American-oriented action titles.

I guess I feel about it the same way some Nintendo fans feel about BotW. Amazing, ambitious game, but I thought, and still think, it was a horrible turn for the series.

I prefer talk a lot about niche games but suitable for me rather than talk about popular games by other peoples but not for me. Niche games are not always bad or lame. They are hidden gems for me somehow.

@Luigi-number1
Peoples called some games are niche due to less appealing for them, but for me it could a rare treasure. Not every "niche games" i like are really bad. Some of them peoples have never paid attention, some of them were used to be popular but not anymore. Btw, how can i like some niche games ? Depend on the genre and the chemistry between me and the games.

Btw, to clarify what is niche games definition for me, the niche here are the games i really have interest about, not really bad games or possibly Perfect games for me but alas not everyone have same enthusiast as me about those niche games. Some "niche" games peoples have mentioned such as DDR, Cooking Mama, Animal Boxing DS, Monster Rancher 4, Yonder the Cloud Catcher Chronicles, Miitopia, Para Para Paradise, etc. Some peoples might have ever heard about the games i have mentioned but they have less interest about and called them not popular (niche) games, some peoples might have never heard / knew before and they thought those were strange games that not guarantee they will like.

I didn't force myself to play bad games just to show how different i am. If i have some odd game choices because i have genuine interest with those specific games (i really have interest about), even peoples called me weirdo or odd or niche gamer. For example, i have genuine interest with Girlie games so games like Cooking Mama, Princess games by Japanese developers, Fashion games like Style Savvy, etc will definetely in my radar and i can enjoy those games even other peoples will react so weird toward me to see how could a grown up man enjoy girlie games for kids. They just never expect a people can enjoy unusual games that they have less appeal but for me i can enjoy it very much.

@Ralizah I also had mixed feeling about RE4 at the time. The combat is probably the greatest and most satisfying of any game out there, baring maybe Doom, but it’s not a survival horror game. The ammo is plentiful and the knife is also really powerful, so I rarely felt I didn’t have the tools necessary to comfortably kills all the enemies. In that sense it doesn’t really share the same lineage of the previous game in the series, which had I loved for the horror elements and feeling of helplessness and desperation.

Seeing the direction of RE5 & 6, had me worried and wanting the survival horror aspects to make a return.

No complaints now since 7 and the 2 Remake definitely put the series back on track. Now people who like the more action oriented games can go back and play them at their leisure, while survival horror fans are getting some of the best with these new RE releases.

I did sort of think the RE 2 Remake was a bit too safe of a choice compared to the craziness of 7, but it was still a brilliant reimagining.

Added: I’m not sure traditional Zelda are “out the window” at this point either. Link’s Awakening style small Zelda are sure to be around forever I’m sure. A big mainline traditional Zelda though... yeah probably not. I say it’s for the best though, because there are like 20 good traditional Zelda games I can go back to if I want to play that style. There is also no indication that BOTW 2 won’t marry the open-ended and traditional together. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a bit more linearity to the new game, the team likely seeing some of the strengths of that approach.