Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

For me, the shrines were alright in concept, but it felt like they made too many of them while running out of concepts for puzzles. Most of the shrines are either combat or blessing shrines, with no puzzles being required. Another thing I wasn't a fan of was how sterile and samey all the shrines looked, along with the dungeons being the same way. I hope that if they bring back the shrine format, they look more unique, and that the dungeons aren't all the same look either.

I'm not a huge fan of the storybook part of Super Mario Galaxy.

Like people bring up "oh some more story and you can experience it optionally, on your own, that's cool", and none of that's wrong, but I can't imagine a worse way to make me like the story. Making it a storybook being read, in chapters, is the most boring way this story could've been presented and it feels like the game has immediately stopped altogether for literal reading.

I think its more obvious now, when you look at indie platformers that can actually tell stories in their games in ways that feel remotely natural and don't make it feel like the game has abruptly stopped. I get why Miyamoto would be against it, because if it was required, I would be disappointed at how it was told. There's a reason optional story stuff in games is often actually directly from characters or maybe some subtle environmental details instead of "here's my backstory except I'm not gonna say its my back story, I'm just going to read a book".

But to be fair, I also often get bored of the books in Elder Scrolls games too.

Maybe he'll see the light and we'll get Super Mario Gris sometime? 😃

I get the impression that he'd rather that his games had no story at all, and left everything to the player's imagination like in the NES days.

The hype of newest zelda game was too overrated in my opinion.

I’m more pumped to see Ganondorf in the new Zelda trailer than anyone or anything else.

@kkslider5552000 good thing you put that in this forum or else I would have to argue with you

@Diogmites Xenoblade 2's story is good at the end, but it's really bogged down by it's humor and the campy generic anime stuff. 1 and 3 have stories which are taken more seriously, and are actually pretty good.

@Diogmites I'm with you on OoT. I think it's a fine game, I just don't really like it that much. Don't hate it, don't love it, it's just right down the middle for me.

For me, I love Super Mario Galaxy for its level design and music. This game, especially in the latter half, has some of the most fun 3D Mario levels out there. I'll give you that the first few aren't great, I personally like Good Egg Galaxy but never really cared for Honeyhive Galaxy, which is the bee section you mentioned. I love the entire game, but everything from World 3 (the kitchen) onwards is absolutely phenomenal in my opinion. Also, the soundtrack is just out of this world. Still my favorite video game soundtrack of all time. But I'm fine with you not liking it, as the other 3D Mario games definitely have some great stuff going for them as well.

Gonna try to avoid using the term "overrated" since the internet basically degraded that term into something incredibly condescending, but:

• I can never get into Assassin's Creed, I've tried the games multiple times, including the franchise's golden boys ACII and Black Flag, but they could never click for me. Though it really doesn't help that I dislike Ubisoft's design philosophy for their AAA games
• I really like CoD, they're a fun series, but I don't play the series for the MP, like at all, the main attraction for me has always been the campaigns, and with CoD at the very least I can usually expect a fun time(not always a slam dunk, BlOps 3 tries too hard to mindf*** you, WWII plays it very safe and Ghosts is just kinda bad), but when they nail it, damn do they nail it(CoD4, Black Ops 1, Infinite Warfare)
• Metal Gear peaked with MGS3, with Rising being the only game after to reach the heights of the series at it's best despite not being a "true Metal Gear". While the other games that came after MGS3 definitely aren't bad(though I couldn't recommend Peace Walker on a good conscience) hell MGS4 and V far surpass the original games in terms of gameplay, but the main appeals of the franchise, the story, fall flat on some the games that came after, especially MGSV
• Apart from Zelda which is probably my second favorite franchise ever, I prefer Nintendo's more niche, smaller franchises like Metroid, Starfox, F-Zero, Golden Sun over the likes of Mario, Pokemon, Kirby, Splatoon, etc. Like obviously they aren't bad franchises, but there are certain franchises we don't see enough of that I just think could use more love, like I see all the spin offs and even the main titles for the latter and go, "cool", like you know, that's great but I kinda expect that, but the smaller stuff I find more appealing and if I see a new Metroid, F-Zero, Starfox(assuming it's not another remake of 64), and I'm bound to get a bigger reaction
• I get Sonic is usually in a rough patch but Sega really shouldn't be listening to "professional critics" who constantly trash the franchise and it's characters. Like you know, I get a lot of games have a lot of problems but it often gets to the point that people really just like to use the franchise as a punching bag. Like we get it, Sonic 06 isn't good and has a lot of weird things in it, but you don't need to constantly bring it up every time Sonic is mentioned, just say you hate the franchise, at least you'd be telling us we shouldn't give your takes any merit
• Even if they're better games, FFIX and VI are on the lower end of my FF rankings while the likes of VIII and X would be on the top. FFX probably isn't that unpopular, VIII definitely would cause heads to turn. Maybe it's just bias because it was my first game, but it's very special to me, I love the characters and the world, despite the story's issues. IX I struggle to get going in the beginning every time I replay it, but VIII I can always go back to easily

@Dev9417

Same, i even go a step further by seeking out spoilers for stuff I want to see. Whether it be games or movies.

Spoilers only bug me if it's something recent and something I'm invested in, and especially if people only do it to be dicks. After a certain point in time though spoilers do little to bother me even if it's something I'm invested in if that thing is old. Like at this point everyone knows something like "Darth Vader is Luke's father", ESB is a 40 year old movie, and honestly you'd have to be living under a rock to not know about it

However I know it's not the same for everyone, as an example of my carelessness I once accidentally spoiled a pivotal moment in Transformers Beast Wars for someone. The show is nearing 30 years old, and obviously I didn't spoil it to ruin it, but the person was clearly upset about it

For what it's worth, the combat in Skyrim is a massive improvement over Morrowind. The latter is notoriously floaty, with success being pretty much entirely down to your stats and random chance, while Skyrim comes close to the action RPG ideal of player skill determining where your blows land and the stats just determining how much damage it does.

That's not to say that there wouldn't be other things you'd dislike about it, but if combat was your only gripe with Morrowind, it might be worth another look.

I loved the weapon durability in BOTW

@Owl1
It’s annoying at the start of the game, but once you get some quality weapons I didn’t mind weapon durability. Once I have the tools to kill lynel’s, I basically have a full inventory of Savage Lynel swords anyway.

A lot of elden ring bosses feel like bloodborne combat with a dark souls character. Also I don’t think the endgame for elden ring is all that great, I’m on the last boss, and I gotta be honest, I’m loving here last two fights but the ones before, not so much.

However this game is still amazing, it just loses a point for the bosses.

@blindsquarel plus the feeling of throwing a sword and it breaking is very satisfying to me... Weirdly...

@Owl1
I hate weapons durability and that was the reason I sold my botw.

@Anti-Matter it's not for everyone. I'm just one of the few that really liked it.

@Owl1 The weapon durability in BotW really added to that survival aspect and also made you use different weapons which is nice.

I just learned how to fight all the enemies with remote bombs. You'll never run out of those.

Urbosa's Fury and the Master Sword come in handy too when you get them.