Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@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.

Not so much gaming related, but related to the Super Mario movie. I really disagree with the idea that the Super Mario movie "saved" animation. Saved it from what? Most animated movies are a success AFAIK. Super Mario is a great movie, and that is a popular opinion. Being an animation fan, I don't think it "saved" animation just for dethroning Disney's top spot. I do see it as an accomplishment.

Maybe an unpopular opinion because I've seen some on YouTube push this idea. I'd say this and the Sonic movies did more favors to video game based movies.

New Mario games with Chris Pratt voice sounds better for me than Charles Martinet.
I'm already tired with high pitched voice of Mario that sounds being forced.
Mario voice by Chris Pratt sounds very soft spoken and brotherly in my opinion.

@Sunsy, it seemed like it was taking animated films' box office performance a bit longer to recover than other genres post COVID, so I think there was this big feeling that parents had by and large decided that they could wait for streaming instead of taking their kids to the theatre.

Disney had two of their biggest bombs ever last year in Lightyear & Strange World, and even other studios had underperformers (bombs?) in DC League of Supersets & Legend of Hank (and 2021 was probably worse. Encanto had a pretty muted theatrical run, and only took off after it's Disney+ release).

That said, Mario isn't the only post pandemic animated film to do well (though it's looking to be the biggest). Minions: Rise of Gru almost hit $1 billion last summer, and I think Puss in Boots 2 legged out to over $500 mil as well.

NSO makes more sense retro game wise than Virtual Console. I’m not defending the whole paying money monthly just to play Nintendo switch games online. Just the retro game aspect. Now, both services have their issues, Virtual Console isn’t God’s Blessing. You can see in older Reddit and forum threads that people during that time weren’t a huge fan of paying around 7-8 dollars for a single NES game. I understand why people don’t necessarily want to play obscure games like Journey to Silus and Mappy Land. But for the NSO, you get a lot of bang for your buck. Whereas you would pay around 7-8 dollars roughly for a single retro game, you play double that for over 100 NSO games in the base subscription alone for a year subscription. One retro game vs a lot more, be it the random obscure games and the popular and good games. It also saves you money. The expansion pack, I would only recommend this to people who really like Genesis, N64 and GBA games. And Mario Kart and Animal Crossing Dlc. That expansion saves you money on DLC you would otherwise have spent around 20 something dollars for. The retro games included are also of much higher quality than the NES and Game Boy games. That is up to you.

This is for all the people who say “aw, the NSO sucks! I want the VC back!” Which is a lot of people.

@RR529 Ok, I see what you mean. For a moment I thought it was more "I don't like those other animated movies, I love this one, so animation is saved" kind of thoughts. I do get it now. Puss In Boots and Minions Rise of Gru were successful, and saw the former in theater. Coincidentally enough Trolls World Tour made a lot via rental sales, that's the only example I could think of during the pandemic.

FWIW, I did get to see Trolls World Tour twice in a theater, but it's mostly shown during family friendly events smaller theaters do. Not many showed up to the first showing I went to, but a lot did to the second one, so maybe there's hope with other upcoming animated movies.

@TheBigBlue Honestly, I also like the NSO classics online. The idea of paying annually for classics as a service is fine. My only real issue is paying for online multiplayer. Being a PC gamer and a Nintendo fan who played online for free, I do not like the idea of having to pay to access something in a game I already paid for.

NSO Classics on the other hand, never had an issue with it. Just wish I could buy individual games in event I might need to cancel due to budget reasons (I renewed earlier this year, so I'm good until fall 2024).

@Sunsy are people really saying it saved animation? Please tell me it was a typo and was saved illumination ):

There’s merit to both, but being able to own a copy of the game (which is good as long as you can turn your console on) is worth a lot. If NSO goes offline or one of the games is removed from the service for whatever reason (not profitable, copyright issues, the woke mob decides that it’s problematic for whatever reason and they take it down) I can’t play it anymore. If I own a copy of the game, that doesn’t happen.

@Snatcher Not everyone, but some are, I saw a video the other day of someone reviewing the movie, claiming it saved animation and will destroy Disney. It's a great movie, but I don't think it "saved animation" in the way this YouTuber is thinking. @RR529's post makes a lot more sense given families weren't taking their kids to the theaters, even when they reopened.

Personally, I still don't think Illumination makes bad movies, I've enjoyed most of them.

@Sunsy in terms of animation Disney is falling behind, not graphic wise of course but everything else has just been ok in my opinion, however saved animation? That’s an insane claim, if anyone would want to make the argument maybe spiderverse? But I dont feel like anything was wrong with it in the first place lol.

I feel like I haven’t enjoyed many of them over dreamworks movies, but visually I enjoy them so much.

@Snatcher That I can agree with. I loved Encanto and Luca, but didn't care much for Lightyear and waited for it to come to Disney+. I haven't seen Spiderverse, personally not being into Spiderman is why, but hearing what others say, I believe that more than the Super Mario movie. Me niether, animation always felt fine to me, and I watch a lot of it.

That's fine. I like DreamWorks more, but I really liked Secret Life of Pets and their adaptation of The Grinch a lot. I did enjoy Minions: The Rise of Gru, and I'll add the Super Mario Movie to that list as well.

Like I said before, I feel the Super Mario movie and the Sonic movies done more for video game based movies. It felt on par with other animated movies in recent years.

@Snatcher, as I mentioned to @Sunsy, the people taking about Mario "saving" animation are often talking about the medium's box office appeal post pandemic, not the overall quality of animated films.

There was a real worry that after the public got used to streaming only (or day & date streaming) releases during the pandemic, that they would no longer see animated films as something important enough to see in theatres (Encanto only taking off once it was on Disney+ after a lukewarm box office performance, many Pixar titles skipping theatres entirely, Lightyear/Strange World bombing, DC League of Superpets & Legend of Hank underperforming/bombing).

If anything it was Minions: the Rise of Gru that "saved" animation's box office fortunes last summer (it made almost $1 billion), but there were worries that it could have been a fluke (teens went to see it en masse as a meme, rather than a large family turnout), so with Puss in Boots 2 showing good BO performance & Mario absolutely smashing all expectations, there's now repeated signs that the medium is still viable theatrically.

Well also that Netflix and HBO Max have been on a mass murdering spree of animation on the services that would make Judge Doom blush.

Your reasoning makes more sense than the video I saw. It was a review on the Super Mario movie, but the YouTuber treated the movie as "saving animation" and to "destroy" Disney. One of those kind of opinions, which is different than what you talk about, honestly I get it in the context you pointed out.

I am happy to know several movies like Minions: The Rise of Gru, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, and this shows there's still interest in animated movies in theaters.

Last year I went to see Howl's Moving Castle, and the theater was even packed. If it's worth anything, I went to a special Christmas season showing of Illumination's The Grinch... it was a sold out showing.

Considering they didn't cancel Love Death & Robots, a phenomenally intelligent and well crafted show which attracts undeniable talent like David Fincher from outside of cartoons, and it was mostly cancelling the sweary adult cartoons one of the most tired and played out genres going is that so bad? The best way to save animation is by getting rid of the crud and keeping the good stuff, like it’s better by subtraction or reverse watering down.

Now if they would just do the same to anime so there isn't so many disposable underage cleavage shows!