Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Link-Hero It's refreshing to hear someone else share my opinion on that topic. So many people act like starting a family is the whole point of life. 7+ billion people on Earth. Humanity is doing fine.

@Link-Hero I don't have to read up to know that much.

In my opinion, both Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Portal Knights are far better than Minecraft.

Unpopular opinion, I am okay with full price ports of last gen games on Switch. Like, I do understand why people think the games should be cheaper, I hear what they say. It just doesn't really bother me - especially when the ports come with all the previous DLC content included.

@Anti-Matter Is that really an unpopular opinion? Minecraft is certainly more well known and popular but I don't think I've ever heard people arguing that it's better than than those games. But know you really like those titles so you're probably around people talking about them a lot more than I am.

@TheLightSpirit lol yeah but Sonic 06 is an extremely low bar to beat. - Not disagreeing with you though, I do think Sonic Boom on Wii U is better than 06. But my point is that that really isn't saying much.

@Heavyarms55
Even Japanese gamers nowadays favor Minecraft than both Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Portal Knights.
I don't understand the logic of favoring all cubic characters on Minecraft compared with mixture of cube blocks and actual objects / peoples on both Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Portal Knights.
I knew both of those games have their fans but it seems still not so many peoples recognize Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Portal Knights, even on here. It feels like the better games become underdog titles.
When talking about Cubic world sandbox game, peoples mostly think about Minecraft, not DQB2, not Portal Knights.

@Anti-Matter Personally I wouldn't consider either better than the other. The games are quite different. Minecraft is open world and open ended with no story to follow, but DQ Builders has a more traditional structure and story. They have similarities sure but I think the differences are too much to treat them as the same kind of game.

Minecraft is too open ended for me personally, but I view it as an essential game nonetheless. It’s like a virtual LEGO set that you can build and show off to your friends. It’s crude boxey graphics are instantly recognizable, expressive and ensure it can played on everything from your high end PC, to your kitchen toaster. It also makes modding a cinch because asset creation is so simple.

It might be the most ingenious video game idea since Tetris.

As a big fan of their consoles and arcade classics it pains me to say this, but Sega really blows. They are an uninnovative company that latches onto certain franchises and milks them until they start sucking and nobody wants to buy them anymore.

I’ve played some Yakuza games this year, which are a lot of fun, but it’s only a matter of time till that one goes to the dogs too.

If someone from M2 is reading this though, please more Sega Ages stuff. I’ll take that.

@NotTelevision I'm in the same boat there mate. There was a time when I sided with SEGA more than Nintendo. (Please hold fire with your pitchforks and torches people. I was young and impressionable to a blue hedgehog haha).
I loved my Dreamcast and GameGear not to mention the older systems that I used to play with my Dad.

What on earth happened to such an innovative and creative company. For years now I have picked up the latest instalment of Sonic knowing that I'm going to regret it but still do just for that tiny glimmer of hope that they may have found the magic again.

@NotTelevision

Yeah Yakuza is a really good series, I'm interested to see how good the new one is. As it looks like it's an RPG with a party system. It feels like Sega have down sized in recent years. If feels like they don't release anywhere near as many games as they used to.

@TheLightSpirit A lot of people had big hopes for that game and I think that's why people rip it to shreds these days. Their hopes were crushed.

@JoeM103 Yeah the Dreamcast was great. In an alternate reality where the DC sold as much as it really should have, Sega still might be making a lot great games. But two consoles with mediocre sales, in addition to the decline of arcade coin-op revenue must’ve changed the company’s philosophy and had them alter their standards on quality. I wouldn’t be surprised if the developers ask for more money and time but then are told to “wrap it up, and get it done.”

@Wargoose Like a Dragon does look like a lot of fun. I’m interested in playing a Yakuza RPG. I really like the humor in these games and how they try to make a fun semi-open world, instead of opting for realism and making them drab affairs.

But yeah they definitely downsized and have fallen into financial trouble. But that’s after years of mismanagement and bland games.

I have one that may ruffle a few feathers; a fair few of Sony’s most popular 1st Party titles or those they helped fund for PS3/4 are rather dull and unimaginative; at least that’s how I feel they’ve become.

Uncharted has become cookie-cutter samey for multiple games and the stories only became more boring in the 4th game where all fantastical fiction elements were removed entirely. They had all those resources to what amounted to a family reunion road trip.

God of War was about one maniacal mad SoB whose sole purpose in life seemed to be to ensure he held the world record for body counts for doing just about anything, like he needed to rip someone’s jaw off to use as a bottle opener. Jaw dropping, but entertaining. God of 4War sees the guy become the equivalent of a scout master with some somewhat enhanced hunting skills. I can only hope this is all part of a master plan to have him snap in a future title and allow you to commence a session of entrail redecoration.

Can’t comment too much on Horizon Zero Dawn as I’ve only played a few hours but it did fail to draw me in. I mean this one had the most promise cos robot dinosaurs. But it just didn’t work out for me. Maybe it was the stealth; I love exploring virtual safaris but preferable one where I don’t have to slide through tall grass when just passing through. Or maybe being a safari of unreleased Zoid prototypes rather than organic animals made it all a bit samey. Some variety in robotic colours would have been nice. Maybe this is explained later in the story. I really should pick it up again in the near future and give it a shot again. Maybe with some upgrades I can drop the stealth and start body slamming robot ponies in due time.

The Last Of Us....oh boy. I’ll forever hold Naughty Dog in contempt for not allowing me to rearrange my escort quest NPC’s face into something resembling the aftermath of a calzone stuffed with a fire cracker. Having to spend all those hours with depressed Al Borlyn and the world’s most annoying piece of shark bait for the equivalent pay off of a plate of beans on toast without the beans. A game to this day I fail to understand the appeal unless we have gotten to a point where imagination and wonder is considered beneath people’s ideas of entertainment and they just want to feel for people being dragged through the mud and feel like crap.

I’m sure there are several games people will list off to counter this. Ratchet & Clank and Shadow of the Colossus springs to mind but those originated on the PS2, back in an era where game designers still had to inject their games with colour and imagination as the non-HD graphics prevented them from reaching optimum mid and gravel filter optimisation. Sure there must be some but doesn’t feel like they are talked about half as much.

This all seems like a rant, probably been on this too long. Well I already put off emptying the dishwasher long enough and I’m sure as heck not deleting this now. Maybe I need to find a game where I play as an exploding nerf gun wielding red panda out to save his island home from an invading race of troll dolls or something. And his friends are secretly part of a super sentries team. And the whole game is a metaphor on the impact of plastic waste in today’s oceans. And it makes fun of how everyone expects games to have themes and meaning. And I need to remember where this baking tray goes.

@FX102A

The ones that stood out to me were

Demon Souls, Journey, The Last Guardian, and Detroit.

I second Demon Souls (never played it but I’m sure I’d love it), Journey, and the Last Guardian. Bloodborne and Persona 5 are also games I got really into to this gen.

Though it’s a sort of a shame Bloodborne got locked into a PS4 exclusive deal and didn’t get a PC port. I realize Sony spent a lot of money getting the game made, but it runs pretty poorly on the platform. It’s entirely playable but there are times when the framerate really chugs. BOTW had Korok Forest, but Bloodborne has multiple sections when enemies fill the screen and it drops well below the target.

On SEGA:

Basically all their problems internally seem to come from rushed development. The fluctuating quality of Sonic games where the common trend seems to be rushed development (also wondering about, but know nothing about if they have much worker turnover). Yakuza is pretty much a well oiled machine that knows how to repackage and reuse assets between installments while seemingly adding enough new content and scenarios to make each game worth playing (wouldn't know from experience though). That said, their publishing job and PC ports have been on point for the most part. They are very dependent on regular entries in their core series at this point though.

@FX102A I'm very much of the same mind on Sony, but think that they deserve a bit more credit. Most promoted exclusives are big, safe, crowdpleasers. Naughty Dog has spent the past two generations producing or producing sequels to cover shooter series with action-adventure movie or grimy zombie apocalypse theming. The major games of this generation include a Spider-man themed open-world Arkham-esque, inFamous: Second Son (which I've never heard an opinion on and whose existence I had forgotten about for maybe 3 years until this moment), and Horizon, which, from watching my roommate play it, looks like a solid open world title with some potentially interesting/unique enemy design/mechanics. And what's the next big game to look forward to? An open world samurai movie homage. Open world has taken the mantle as the go to trend of this gen, as far as I can tell. A good chunk of their big name published exclusives, trendchasers or comfortably familiar/generic to the average gamer/consumer.

That said, some of their less prevalent/successful games were more ambitious. I've heard mixed-to-positive things on Gravity Rush, but mechanically, they're interesting games. Last gen, Sony supported From Software in designing Demon's Souls. They supported Team Ico through the development of The Last Guardian. There are experimental, risky games published by Sony. None that I can think of in the past year or two, although I don't follow what's happening on the PS4 much at all. I'd say that in the less prominent, forgotten portions of Sony's catalogue, there are some unique, ambitious games. At the same time, their emphasis on story and filmic qualities/experiences across their major games creates a lot of that sense. That said, being deeply submerged in Nintendo's mascot-oriented approach to series and heavy animation-influences probably also contributes to that perception.

Looking quickly through their games list on Wikipedia, Sony still have some interesting things. But they've clearly stuck with a format for their major titles, for better or worse.

It's a bit like how Nintendo put out plenty of quality games for Wii, but stuff like Wii Play and NSMB Wii outsold most of them. It's not quite the same, but I was SUPER defensive of how hard people railed against Wii for thinking bad casual games and Mario were the only games on it, so I'd be a hypocrite to not defend Sony at least a little on this. But that being said, Sony needs to stop being Ubisoft in terms of obsessively using the same formula.

In my humble opinion The Nintendo Switch Lite is the best handheld system ever. It’s everything the previously released systems should have ever been.

@Atomic77 But it should not be named "Switch" because it mean nothing if you can't connect it to a TV.

Right now it is Nintendo Lite.

Also the quality of the "joycons" in the Lite is quite poor and they are too fragile.

But now I see why you post that in Unpopular opinions

I don't think Switch in general is the best ever exactly, but I also see why its incredibly easy to justify it being so. Objectively, it has or will have the most amount of high quality games of any Nintendo system ever, from the widest variety of sources. And if you have the original, you can play practically all of them, on a tv or as a handheld.

In theory it also has some of both Wii and DS specific capabilities, but unfortunately in more compromised ways (especially with the limitations of touch screen controls on it).