Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I don't like Warriors games. The only one I have is Hyrule Warriors on the Wii U, I've played a good chunk of it back then, and I just did not care for it at all. Not only do the missions seem to take a very long time to finish, but I found myself constantly pressing the attack button throughout the entire time I was playing it. It's rather draining and mind-numbing on me, honestly. I've also played the demo of Age of Calamity just to see if it was any different gameplay-wise, and yeah... same thing, I still don't like it. Never played any of the Fire Emblem Warriors games and I'm not interested in those as a result.

HD ports for more recent Nintendo games than others (21st century) are better than remakes and sometimes even remasters for them in my opinion, for different reasons. If a game like Wind Waker for example still looks phenomenal today and has aged quite well, all it needs is some control updates, higher resolution (HD of course) and some small quality of life features sprinkled in. I’m not saying we should get absolutely no remakes of games from this century, but this shouldn’t be commonplace. Having a few remasters and remakes sprinkled around here and there never hurt anyone, the Metroid Prime remaster was very well done after all. But there are so many people asking for remakes from games that hold up perfect fine today. Pikmin 1 and 2 for example. They have aged quite well. All they needed were HD, some minor fixes (pikmin plucking is automatic now, in similar fashion to 3 and 4 which is great), and modern controls to match the console’s new controllers. No need to remake them.

Older games that are still beloved but maybe haven’t really aged terribly well graphics wise like Super Mario RPG. Very good choice for a remake. Not as widely available and is quite old. Would be great for a new generation of Mario fans (maybe even the next step towards a potential Geno appearance in the next smash…)

@TheBigBlue I think it depends on the game, if it has aged that poorly, a remake can do it good, but your examples are perfect as these are all games that just don’t need remakes, they are perfect just the way they are, I mean I’m happy blue point did the remake for demon souls, but they did change a lot of stuff and a HD port like or a remaster like the dark souls games would have worked just fine.

Normally I'd prefer a remake to be really different from the original. Because if not, I'll just play the original, I don't care about paying more for graphics. Great games are still great with worse graphics, and more poorly aged games lose whatever appeal they have when you try to modernize only the look and sound of them.

Lately Nintendo is trying way too hard to prove me wrong though (though part of that is that I know Nintendo is probably never making another Advance Wars or Mario RPG unless those remakes sell well).

@TheBigBlue Adding onto what you're saying, I personally think remakes should only be made if:

• 1. There's room for expansion within the source material
• 2. The source material in question has some issues purely brought about by being a product of it's time
• 3. The game being remade is an important part of the gaming landscape

I think the Kirby remakes we've had so far are an excellent example of all three: the remakes of Adventure (Nightmare in Dreamland), Super Star (Ultra) and Return to Dreamland (Deluxe) add entirely new modes/content to the original games (Meta Knightmare, Revenge of the King and Magolor Epilogue respectively), fix annoying issues present in those original games (slowdown in Adventure, forced partners in Super Star and Extra Mode in Return to Dreamland) and all three are some of the most important entries in the Kirby series (Adventure added Copy Abilities, Super Star introduced the standard style of Kirby gameplay and Return to Dreamland saved the series from potential death). Hell; you could even argue the pseudo-remake of the first Dream Land game in Super Star's Spring Breeze counts here since it added Copy Abilities to that original romp.

I'm totally fine with remasters myself as a quick and easy way to get the game in question to more people (my most anticipated release of the year is a remaster for goodness sake!) and there are certainly remakes that don't fit this criteria that I absolutely love. However, a remake is pushed from great to incredible if it manages to hit all three for me, which the Kirby ones achieve with flying colours imo.

Uh, I guess this was true with some 3rd parties at the time but people have been complaining about how Gamecube games are stuck on GCN for ages. Like off the top of my head, there have only been like 10 1st party GCN games actually put onto another platform. There's still Eternal Darkness, Wave Race: Blue Storm, 1080 Avalanche, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Kart: Double Dash, F Zero GX, Kirby Air Ride, Animal Crossing, Doshin the Giant, Custom Robo, Odama, the Donkey Konga series, Battalion Wars, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Star Fox Adventures, Star Fox Assault, Geist, Four Swords Adventures, Wario World, Warioware Mega Party Games, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Pokemon Channel, two Pokemon RPGs, three different Mario sports games and four different Mario Parties that have never been released on anything else. Also Chibi Robo was only ported to Wii in Japan AFAIK.

If GCN lacked exclusives its mostly because most things were on all three consoles at the time to a degree that hasn't really happened before or since (at least from major companies).

The thing about the GameCube games is that they didn't really need to be released on anything else. You could still pop the discs into a Wii, after all, and even the Wii U could be persuaded to run them natively with only a spot of modding.

It's only now that we're into the Switch era that we've finally got to the point where there are people wanting to play the games who no longer have, or never have had, the hardware to run them on.

So, for example, would you say that the original Super Mario Bros. should have never been released on anything beyond the NES? No Mario All Stars on SNES, Deluxe on GBC, Virtual Console, or NSO releases.

If so, that is certainly an unpopular opinion.

Most peoples here : Everybody 1-2-Switch is a crap, the game that nobody asked, I choose zelda games over this shovelware.

Me : Everybody 1-2-Switch is one of my GOTY 2023 candidate and I choose this game over than the zelda games.

@Anti-Matter how do you like it out of a 0/10 score?

@OwlHighway1Revisited
Some peoples here just jealous / too cool with underrated game like Everybody 1-2-Switch.
They are considering that game as 0/10, but for me it is 10/10, a GOTY 2023 candidate.

@Anti-Matter get Geoff on the phone! We have a winner!

@Anti-Matter How do you think it will compare to the new Warioware game? People like family party games in general, the reviewers just didn't seem to think this particular game was as polished or fun as it could be. Headbangers (the pigeon game) is coming out this year too, so there will be a lot of new motion-contol family-friendly party games on Switch this year.

As for Game of the Year, I don't think it has ever been one of my top games and it's usually a game I've never played. 😝 Those awards almost always seem to go to a particular style of game that is definitely not everyone's preferred genre.

@FishyS
Everybody 1-2-Switch to be honest is a 6/10 game, but the reason I suddenly boosted into 10/10 GOTY candidate because the gameplay potential and I'm tired to see peoples keep hating on this game so in my defence, I claimed Everybody 1-2-Switch is one of my GOTY 2023 candidate.
I said candidate that means other games during year 2023 will have potential to dethrone Everybody 1-2-Switch if I found another GOTY material.
Headbangers Rhythm Royale possibly will be my new GOTY material when I see the actual gameplay and all the mini games.
Wario mini games ? Nah... Never fan of Wario whatsoever.

Tears of the Kingdom is an alright game, but I don't think I'll ever have the urge to go back to it unless it gets DLC. I get it's a sequel, but it just feels like it lacks a punch that BotW carried because a ton of it's content is reused from BotW.

@VoidofLight that is a respectable take. I already played BOTW extensively, so a lot of the overworld scenery looked familiar. They added lots of new stuff to the game to justify it being a new game, at least. It may not have the same impact, but it doesn’t feel like you are playing BOTW with extra steps, it feels like it’s own entity thankfully.

(I was going to buy TOTK anyways because I’m a sucker for Ganondorf content, admittedly)

@TheBigBlue Yeah, it isn't a bad game. I enjoyed my time with it. It's just that it feels like it's in a weird spot with me right now. I think most of the things they did with the game are a massive step up from BotW, like how the dungeons are and the final boss in particular. It's just that the feeling of exploration doesn't hold as much weight as it did in the last game, so when you finish the Shrines and content that was added, it feels like there isn't much else there.

I understand those who consider TOTK to be too similar to BOTW, as it's a fair criticism, but I've also found it to be really captivating and rewarding precisely because of those callbacks to the first game, and I thought that they were really clever in how they managed to substantially expand the world in spite of it being seemingly indistinguishable on the surface (pun intended).

If anything, I've been mostly disappointed with the depths, which doesn't have much to offer despite being almost as large as what's on the surface. It would have been fun to at least see some settlements down there and some new monster types (beyond the Frox and Little Frox), but as it stands, it's just kind of... there, perhaps as a means of deflecting criticism for recycling too much from the last game. It's painfully ironic that the depths are rather lacking in figurative depth.

@JONOFTHEJONS
Also, I like the 3D Things Summon from Sticker Stars, looks like Final Fantasy summon.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are not bad remakes.

They are the weakest Pokémon remakes admittedly, but that by no means makes these two bad games. If you liked the originals, than you will like these, because that’s exactly what they are. There are a handful of new features like the Grand Underground, but even down to the art style, this is basically just the modernized DS originals.