Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Grumblevolcano Super Circuit is great. Its just that it's two main gimmicks (being portable and including classic tracks) are pretty meaningless these days. It was fantastic at the time, but I don't blame anyone for not revisiting it these days.

Super Metroid is an extremely overrated video game with poorly-placed and annoying enemies (especially ones that can catch you off-guard, can't be defeated with some weapons, and ones with annoying attacks), finicky and complicated controls (turning takes a few frames, the Space Jump doesn't always work, and selecting items such as Super Missiles and Power Bombs for example), roadblocks that don't give you subtle clues (such as having to use Power Bombs to break a tube that isn't cracked at all), an obnoxious sound effect that plays everytime you lose health, an unskippable intro, and poorly-made and obnoxious bosses (most of them, at least like both encounters with Ridley, Kraid, Crocomire, the one in the abandoned ship, Draygon, Mother Brain (first phase), and almost all the mini-bosses/sub-bosses).

I actually thought it was alright the first couple of times, but the more I experienced the game's glaring flaws (especially the obnoxious sound effect that plays everytime you lose health and most of the bosses), the more I wanted to stop playing or rage-quit the game (and I later did, for good).

Now it's actually one of my least-favourite/worst video games of all-time.

Super Mario Kart is awful

@HotGoomba

While I wouldn't go as far as to call it 'awful' myself, I definitely think it's the weakest entry by a country mile. Even 64 (a game I have PLENTY of issues with) is far more enjoyable than Super IMO.

My unpopular opinion: Rusty's Real Deal Baseball with its 10 games bought will become a 3DS hidden gem.

As for the Paper Mario discussion, this is something I want to add/ask, and I've been meaning to do it for a while: What makes Paper Mario be Paper Mario? Is it the paper aesthetics? The RPG gameplay? The unique characters? The writing? Or all of the above?

I played through The Thousand-Year Door, Super, Sticker Star and The Origami King, currently in the last stretch of Color Splash (yeah, haven't played the N64 game).
I liked SS, but I can see why so many dismiss it. If I had dismissed it, I probably would've dismissed CS and TOK as well, and I'm glad I didn't. Otherwise I would've missed on their golden writing.
TTYD at times made feel like calling it quits, particularly during the second half of the game.
I agree SS is the weakest game in the series, though.

@Dev9417 Is this unpopular? I thought it was one of the most appreciated games in the series. Personally I remember loving it, although I don't remember many specifics.

@HotGoomba I wouldn't say Super Mario Kart is awful...it was truly revolutionary at the same, and I personally find it kinda fun today. But it was outdated as soon as Mario Kart 64 arrived...and Nintendo have outdone it an additional 6 or so additional times since then. Even moreso than Super Circuit, there's not much reason to go back to it.

While the unlock requirements are very difficult (though easier than unlocking the AX Cup in F-Zero GX), Super Circuit did include all Super Mario Kart tracks as unlockables.

BEMANI rhythm games by Konami are still way much better to play than Just Dance.

@the_blue_lobster I have to agree that I don't really get the appeal of Super. I don't think it's a bad game by any means, but it does have a few aspects that put me off, the controls being among them.

I'll continue the Metroid theme and say, as a non-speedrunner, I think the Wii versions of Prime and Echoes are better than the GameCube ones.

It's morally ok to emulate games you cannot access. Just don't tell Joey.

I assume it’s unpopular since the game gets nothing but praise everywhere I looked, but Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was a pretty big disappointment. As a series conclusion it doesn’t feel fitting at all, the characters and story constantly allude to a greater depth but in the end there isn’t much, and what depth there is is either rushed or a pretty big letdown compared to the previous two. The game brings so many interesting ideas and scenes and then does absolutely nothing with them to any satisfactory degree. The gameplay is serviceable but I failed to see much excitement in it, though the tutorials were better handled than 2, I still preferred two’s approach to combat more. As a standalone game, I would’ve probably not minded as much, but the fact it claimed to be the series conclusion and brought so many landmarks and characters back just to, in the end, not really do much of anything interesting with them… it just felt like it shouldn’t have bothered and just stuck to its own guns. That wouldn’t have saved the game’s plot of gameplay but I wouldn’t feel the need to be harsh on it.

You can like it, you can love it, but I really thought I would’ve been singing the same praises but walked away utterly disappointed.

The Xenoblade games make up three of the top five most played games on my Switch. The other two are FE3H and BotW.

I would say Xenoblade is probably Nintendo's best franchise that hasn't been around for literally multiple decades.

Splatoon would be somewhat close if 3 ever becomes a stable online experience.

Rhythm Heaven would be on the same level if I thought the series wasn't dead.

Pushmo is quietly the 4th option in this specific discussion, and deserves more love. (also likely dead it seems)

This isn’t even really unpopular, but deep rock galactic isn’t talked about enough, I don’t even play it often, but whenever I do I just have a great time, no bp items I need to worry about, no money to spend, it’s just a fun time! I love it!

I can picture it crying in a corner along with BOXBOY.

Boxboy at least got a Switch game.

New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe on Switch is worse than the Wii U version by a lot.

Still plowing through Xenoblade Chronicles X (only 25h in) on the Wii U and it's my first Xeno game, period. Feels like a single-player MMORPG. After that I'll jump on the proper trilogy. My choice of play order is deliberate, since I expect there to be much more continuity within the trilogy than with X vis a vis the other titles of the trilogy.
I hope Nintendo gets the rights to bring Xenogears and the Xenosaga trilogy to their consoles, even if they won't make it to Switch. Hell, I'd be fine if someone brings them over to Steam. I'll just play them with the Pro controller.

Is it an unpopular opinion to say that this console generation (X/PS5) feels like a failure already? (at least in terms of the goals they set).

I left console gaming behind for PC a few years back, as while the upfront costs of PCs is higher, the performance boost I would get over the existing consoles at that time was simply night and day.

Then the X and PS5 came around and I got really excited. They made it seem like 30fps was a thing of the past and players would be given far more granular options on how they want to play their games, more in line with what a PC offers. The convenience of a console, with truly modern performance? I'm in.

Yet, twoish years later, I feel like outside of a couple of games on the systems, literally none of this has been true so far. We're a couple of years in the life cycle now, and they are charging us extra for the "PS5" version of a game or whatever, but we still have to settle for 1080p dynamic resolution if we want 60 fps. Couldn't we already do that on PS4 pro when games were cheaper?

Even if you go for the 30 fps option, it seems like very few games run in actual native 4K, and instead it is some kind of upscaled dynamic resolution 4K target for that 30 fps performance. I swear midranged PCs from like a decade ago could run circles around these apparently more powerful machines, and sure, maybe games 10 years ago weren't as demanding as games today, but I still wonder what exactly the PS5 or Series X are offering over their previous models, given they are charging you extra for the "privilege" of playing on these systems over their old ones?

All the gym leaders, Team Star characters design from Pokemon Scarlet / Violet are horrible, especially Iono that I hate her looking with stupid shark tooth, stupid oversized outfits, stupid over confident personality. Glad I have kick her butt last Sunday. The Team Stars grunts and their leader design are literally S-T-U-P-I-D or STUPID.