Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@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.

@Matt_Barber
Not gonna lie, the only time I really used bombs was during the first part of Trial of the Sword.

@Owl1 People talk about the weapon durability, and wile it’s not my favorite I don’t hate it as much as other people do, I just wish it was limited to some weapons, like the more rare ones, or at least have a more reliable way to get said special weapons, however, I agree with you, it’s so freaking satisfying to throw that thing at a goblin and watch it break.

One of my favorite things to do in the game was just collect weapons, I still haven’t finished it, I think I just had the castle left. I should return to it honestly, as I feel like my opinions would be a little a different, and overall more positive.

Playing Persona 3 (Portable) for the first time, and I think I actually prefer the visual novel style presentation. During gameplay, it makes navigation quicker in a game where you’re mostly using quick travel anyway. In cutscenes, the 2D drawings have aged a lot better than the 3D character models and environments have.

Inking your home base in the Splatoon games is very important for the Turf War mode. I don't know whether it's people trying to play Splatoon as if it was CoD or something else but a load of normal Splatfest matches (not Tricolor) consist of me spending about half the match inking the home base while the rest of the team barely touch the home base.

@Grumblevolcano Thank you! I say this all the time! It really can make a difference, the amount of matches one because we inked our home base and the other team didn’t is crazy! This shouldn’t even be an unpopular opinion, this needs to be standard.

While I think the gameplay is slightly better in P3P, the lack of animated cutscenes ruins it imo. When experiencing a story, I actually want to watch things happen, instead of being told what goes on, at least if it's a story that's in a medium that heavily relies on visual story-telling. It doesn't bug me when it's a visual novel that was made to be a visual novel, but Persona 3 itself just doesn't work as a visual novel, as it makes it feel like you're moreso getting an incomplete experience over anything.