Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Pacman World 2 is a good game, I'm still surprised how many people really love it. It feels like the definition of a solid, 7/10 game. Even as someone who grew up with it, there were many better and more exciting games around that time, I just don't think its that remarkable. Maybe its just because Ps2 was hoarding so many of the best games of the genre at that time, so you had more limited options on GCN and Xbox, but of all games, Pacman World 2? Probably wouldn't bring it up because who cares, but I did see some people try to undersell how good games like Pacman Championship Edition are by comparison, which I can't fathom how anyone remotely into Pacman wouldn't adore Championship Edition.

Part of me also wants to put Battle for Bikini Bottom in the same boat, but I at least get the hype for that in the context of being a licensed game that's actually worth playing (and I actually bothered to finish that one back in the day, and it has more memorable levels).

I dunno. Like I have a fondness for games like Glover, and I feel it has some genuinely great parts to it, but I'm fully aware its not some masterpiece either. (another 3d platformer that was also a lot more interesting (for better or worse) tbh)

@Kairu They don’t because not all developers know how to do it right, even then they might want there game to be played by a group of people who like such and such games, be it easy, hard, it’s nice when it’s there, doesn’t need to be.

Or when they just turn the combat to Sponge the game, so annoying.

Yeah I would also like it if they made them feel different.

I think pirating old games can be a good thing.

@Kermit1 Emulating and such and such is fine if there is no way for you to buy said game. It you can’t play Mario galaxy 2, because you cant find a wii, or a copy of galaxy, the. Emulate all the way. If you wanted (before they announced it) play golden eye, and you don’t have a n64, then emulate.

Race with Ryan was actually pretty good in term of drifting and using items as it felt exactly same as Mario Kart rules.
Mario Kart games, beware !

@Snatcher Yes exactly! I am an ethical emulator so either games I own or games I can’t get. also if it gets rereleased I will buy it because I want to support the devs cough cough mother 3

@Eagly
ACNH is my best Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch as I can keep my villagers forever + terraforming is one of the best feature to shape my island.

Also, one of my favorite open world game was Yonder the Cloud Catcher Chronicles on PS4 & Switch.

"SOME Nintendo fans have a tendency to view many non Nintendo games as soulless."

This behavior I oftenly see from Nintendo fans as they only want to play Nintendo 1st party games but refuse to play 3rd party games just because some of them have similarities but with their own contents.

Night Vision: See In The Dark is a good game. @ me.

Vroom in the night sky is a good game
Jk

After comparing Mario's voice from video games and the 2023 movie, for some reasons I prefer Chris Pratt voice than Charles Martinet voice.

Not strictly gaming related, but I still think it's too early to judge Chris Pratt as Mario. The more I watch the trailer, the more I think that little accent he has during his last line sounds like it could work.

It just feels like the internet was pre-conditioned against him as soon as he was cast and anything he does that isn't completely up to level will be nitpicked to high heaven.

The disappointment that they didn't use the games' voice actors is the dumbest thing ever too, IMO. Hollywood has been using big screen actors in their animated efforts for decades (rather than "professional voice actors") & it's never been something I've ever seen anyone complain about before (at least before the Sonic movie. This seems like a brand new "issue" that arose with that). Heck, I could maybe understand it if Mario characters talked as much as Sonic ones do, but no one in the series has a spoken vocabulary consisting of more than 10 words, so I don't understand what people are feeling like they're missing out on.

@RR529 I had an entire heated argument with a friend the other day, where the guy said that Chris wasn't speaking in any accent, and that it was just his normal talking voice, when I was sure I heard a slight accent. He refused to actually believe me, and when I brought up how a Brooklyn accent worked due to the lore, accused me of defending Pratt, before going on to say "No one cares about Mario lore", then proceeding to mock me for it.

1. You should look harder, people have been complaining about that for ages now.
2. The issue is that Hollywood will spend more to get bigger names that then are not as good at voice acting because they don't voice act as much as actual voice actors. It's stupid to imply that any person who does regular acting will immediately fit well into voice acting, when they are different talents (not to mention the times where someone is brought in to be a celebrity, regardless of if they make any sense for the role). (I've been watching What If? btw, which is a perfect example, as its pretty clear some of the actors translated to voice acting better than others)

Now granted I'm not as immediately down on Chris Pratt because he was already the main character in a widely beloved animated movie, the Lego Movie. So the guy can do this sort of thing, its whether he makes sense in this role or (equally as likely) will be given the best voice direction for it remains to be seen.

Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire are (and always have been) a brilliant set of entries to the Pokemon series.

Now I want to preface all of this with one giant asterisk: I have not played Ruby, Sapphire or Emerald. I started with BW and thus never had the chance to play Gen 3 before ORAS' release. That being said however....these games are absolutely phenomenal. Brilliant re-imaginings of 16-bit sprites from all the way back in the early 2000's between character designs and locales, a beautifully scored soundtrack that either keeps or adds onto those classic RSE melodies, wasn't afraid to change story beats up to both fit with the new time period and introduce Megas into Hoenn (which in it of themselves were fantastic) and one of the most engaging and interesting post-games we've ever had in a Pokemon game between both the enhanced DexNav and Delta Episode.

I'm not going to say there aren't problems with it (like how it just gives you both a Latios/as midway through the story and a Primal-capable box legendary or the sheer abundance of HM's) but ORAS are the definitive way to play through Gen 6, bar NONE. I remember playing through X for the very first time on Christmas 2014 and, while I definitely liked it, it never felt as though it reached the highs of my first game Black (a sentiment that has only grown stronger within me with the passage of time). However, I soldiered on and grabbed Alpha Sapphire a few months later and let me tell you: any grievances I had with Gen 6 went completely out the window once I played that game. It's probably the game that kept me attached to the franchise and led to it shaping my entire personality to this day. Is this opinion heavily biased? Most likely. But I just wanted to get my thoughts out about a game that I love that has been getting a battering across some internet circles over the past few years.

Unpopular opinion: Using emulation to preserve games that are otherwise impossible to legally obtain (services that shut down) is a perfectly valid way to play them.

1. Animal Crossing: Wild World did not age well compare to other titles. but, it did what it can do for a DS game. i liked the game years ago, but after the titles the came out after it. just can't go back to Wild World. However, i can go back to the original Animal Crossing and have a blast with it. (even though all Animal Crossing games after the original does things better than it. like having a storage to put all items in then just 4 items.)
2. I actually like Ape Escape more than 3D Mario Games. i enjoy both for what they are. but something about Ape Escape clicks me more compare to Mario.

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@VoidofLight they really said you were “Defending Pratt”? Bruh people can like the dudes voice if they want, we haven’t even heard a lot of it yet Lmao. I just kinda find the accusation stilly.

@Snatcher I don't even really like what I heard. I just picked up the accent, and the guy kept saying Pratt was just speaking in his normal voice, which wasn't true.