Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

In the spirit of the current state of this thread:

I don't think lego games are lego games, because while they do feature lego, it is digital lego and not real lego, so therefore they are not lego games. If you would like, I have prepared a 10-thousand-word document which outlines my convoluted rules for qualifying what is a lego game or not.

Thank you all in advance for accepting my opinion on this.

What, was that the first time there's been a legitimately unpopular opinion on the unpopular opinion thread?

@Pizzamorg Yeah, if you could please publish your 10k word essay that would help people a lot.

A lego manager with light lego mechanics is my chosen parlance.

There is only Lego

On a more serious note, and an actual proper one:

After replaying God of War (2018), I am still baffled by how highly regarded this is, given it does a lot of things that other games have come under heavy criticism for.

You take Skill Up's deconstruction of Godfall's combat, and it can be applied to God of War, verbatim. The camera is too tight, the telegraphs are not consistent, and the enemies/combat and environments are not designed well for a game where camera means the majority of whatever you are fighting is always outside of the frame.

There is too much input delay when it comes to cancelling animations, Kratos gets interrupted by basically everything and for far too long and he just feels too slow.

It is also in complete disconnect with the cutscenes too. Kratos is Goku in cutscenes, but a sheet of paper in lead shoes in combat. It sucks.

Both non boss encounters, and puzzle sections, are insanely repetitious, like there is just a small handful of them, and they are repeated over and over again, making huge chunks of the game feel like a complete copy paste. I can't tell you just how much of a slog that middle third becomes when you are doing these same, boring, puzzles over and over while Atreus just shouts the solutions at you every time, like he is also so bored he just wants you to get through these sections as fast as possible. Just a brutal pacing mechanism to bring the games momentum to a crawl.

And it features one of the most egregiously tacked on loot systems I have played in a game in recent memory.

Like you can love the story or love the new direction or whatever else - I actually agree, especially early and late in the game, there are some really cool moments. But that doesn't mean you need to pretend like there is a perfect videogame between those moments.

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Page 573, the Konami's number.
My unpopular opinion, I'm very disappointed to see a lot of peoples here don't even know or show some interest about Dance Dance Revolution, one of big franchise by Konami that still selling until today.

@Anti-Matter Is there a VR edition of DDR out yet?

@Tounushi
How do you even play DDR with VR when literally your main focus is stepping the arrows on dancing pad ?
Not to mention when the DDR songs become too crazy with tons of arrows to step, you will not even thinking to use VR to clear the song.

@Anti-Matter There's a very good reason why people here aren't talking about DDR as much as you do. This is a Nintendo forum and the last console release was on Wii over 10 years ago. As for arcade, most people don't live next to one. Your country may still have plenty of arcades but most countries don't. I doubt there's even a single DDR machine in 150 km radius from where I live.

There are tracking sensors you can strap on your feet. And you can have a greater diversity of environments when it's all virtual.

I'm not sure how unpopular an opinion this is, but I realize I'd rather a game be really good 100% of the time then better than really good but only 70% of the time, if the other 30% is mediocre to bad. I saw someone arguing about Sonic Unleashed being better than Generations, and I fundamentally can't agree because it doesn't even matter if the Sonic stages are better in Unleashed or not, because much of that game is a mediocre action game.

Same reason I prefer Paper Mario to its sequel, definitely why I prefer Xenoblade to its sequel, because I'd just rather reliably enjoy a game all the time then get higher highs and so much lower lows. And I bring up Xenoblade 2 often, but it really is the best example of this. It likely would've been close to being as good as the original (maybe better if the writers and voice actors actually had some more time to improve things) had the game not kept throwing infuriating, time wasting nonsense that make the side content a complete drag to play through. Putting more underwhelming content in your game is not a good idea just because it adds more to do in the game.

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@Krull Arceus is a mainline game though. Gamefreak considers it one, so regardless of opinion it's mainline.

this has less to do with amount of content or whether it takes a while to get good and more the game revolving heavily on and/or requiring you to spend good portions of it not doing the things that make the game good. So my opinion on how much I'm enjoying Xenoblade 2 at the time depended heavily on whether the last cutscene was interesting drama or bad comedy and whether the last major sidequest was paced well or had several nonsensical barriers to completing it that aren't fun to deal with. Even with my last time I was playing it, my memories are a mix of a fairly underwhelming blade quest and really fun combat challenges.

@VoidofLight There you are! I knew someone would bite. This is the unpopular opinions thread - I wasn’t stating a fact. And, I will add, consumers of art are allowed to disagree and find alternate interpretations to the creators. In this instance, I don’t care what GameFreak says - it’s a company line issued to sell games, not stone tablets from heaven.

If Nintendo tried to convince you that Super Mario Run was a mainline Super Mario title, I wouldn’t try to shout you down for not wanting to accept it.

Imagine if CD-i games were counted as mainline Mario titles...
Not that they existed, mind you. I'm saying that hypothetically if they ever did.

@Krull I mean, you can continue to not accept it, but you're pretty much going against what's factually stated. Legends is stated to be a mainline game, therefore it is. Saying it isn't is denying an official statement made by the creators of the game in favor for your own headcanon or ideas.

@kkslider5552000 I feel called out lol, granted I don’t like one more over the other. I like generations just as much as unleashed.

So I guess my unpopular opinion, is that I think unleashes combat isn’t nearly as bad as people say it is, it has problems sure, but there was so many combos you could do that I didn’t even attempted, if I had I’m sure they would had been even better. Not all of them were great, but I feel like a great majority was.

Oh and generations took every5ing we knew and loved about him, and made it great again.

I think us videogame fans are greedy and partly responsible for crunch.