Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Slim_in_Blue never played any persona before p5, but yeah I watch anime myself and they always do that there. But in Persona 5 I just found it BS regarding Ann.
Kinda weird having that in P3.

The confidant system is great and I have nothing to complain about that. It really was only the romance options in the game with the ladies that made me go what the?

What gets me about Persona 5 is that the game makes Kamoshida out to be a villain because he is a creep towards teenage girls, and is dating them, then you later can have Joker date his teacher and other fully grown adult women. It just feels off having the main protagonist have the ability to do something which the game tries to make a point in saying is bad. It's why I hope Persona 6 has some sort of adult cast, so that dating adult characters won't be as weird.

I'd say that all the female adult confident relationships in P5 come across as highly suspect. If Joker isn't romancing his teacher's kinky side hustle, he's either playing guinea pig for a maverick rogue doctor's drug experiments, getting flat out scammed by a fortune teller or hanging out with a sozzled journalist at a seedy bar. Sae seems to be the only adult in the game who knows the meaning of the word boundaries.

Still, these are all such well worn wish-fulfillment tropes in Japanese media that they're scarcely worth batting an eyelid over, unless you're making an out-of-genre recommendation for the game.

I really hate code in box practice for some upcoming Switch games and moreover the already released games.
I mean why waste the plastic just for empty case and no cartridge at all ?
Is the cartridge cost still expensive for some developers and they cheat out by sell the games by code in box or the popularity of Nintendo Switch really turned some developers become greedy and choose code in box to minimize the expenses and gain more profit ?
Code in box is a legit scam practice in my opinion.
I hate to see when popularity really blinded peoples into greedy.
That means being popular (too much) is a bad thing.
This is the reason I started to have less interest with Switch games when code in box still swarming around.

I posted here since my unpopular opinion considered as trolling by some peoples here.
Geez...
I didn't troll.
Peoples need to chill out with my completely different opinion.
I have different opinion about Charles Martinet departure as I don't have that much attachment with him in term of his voice for Mario.
Will I miss him? Not really, I can moving on with different voice actor.
Also, I didn't grew up by N64 and GameCube games during my teenhood so I have less attachment with Mario voice by Charles Martinet and personally I'm already tired with his signature Italian accent catchphrases.
It doesn't mean his voice acting is bad, it just I have less interest with his Italian accent all the time.
It was quite cringey to say any words with that accent for a whole time in my opinion.
I prefer character who can talk in full sentences like Ratchet from Ratchet & Clank games than silent character like Mario / Link as I grew up with the voice acting standard from 3rd party games.
So when Charles Martinet departured, I didn't feel sad or happy, I just being neutral (or maybe a little bit indifferent) considering I have less attachment with him. I felt sad when the original voice actor / actress of The Sims 1 PC passed away long time ago because I grew up by their Simlish language from The Sims 1 games on PC and PS2.

@Anti-Matter I get why the do the code in a box - visibility on store shelves without the cost of the physical cart - but during a time when plastic waste and environmental issues are such a hot topic it does seem like a ridiculous concept to manufacture the case/insert and ship it halfway across the world with nothing but a code inside. Even more ridiculous when you consider that online retailers also sell code in a box games, so effectively shipping the empty box a second time.

To be fair, this isn't only an issue with Switch games - PS5 and Xbox Series games don't run from the disc either anymore as they need the data transfer rates of their internal storage - the disc isn't fast enough - so they are essentially just an installer with the disc being used as a licence key once the game has been installed. I guess with the disc you are still able to sell it on/trade/loan it to a friend etc unlike the code in a box though.

@dmcc0 That isn't how PS5 or Xbox Series X discs work. With a Digital code, you have until the server goes down to redeem it and use it. You can only get access to the game through the digital storefront on the console, and once that goes down the game becomes useless unless you already have it downloaded onto the console itself. With a game disc, you can play the game without an internet connection, so long as the game itself doesn't need the internet to download. Sure, you won't have access to the updates, but you'll still have access to the core of the game itself. The game needs the disc to run if you have a physical copy, and it works like how installing a game on a computer used to work before we got rid of disc drives on computers.

@VoidofLight Wasn't really commenting on whether you needed an internet connection to install. What I meant was you're not actually playing the game from the disc anymore like say PS1/PS2 - once it's installed on the console the disc is little more than a physical licence key. The optical drive definitely isn't fast enough to run a Series X game - they only run from the internal SSD (or the expansion card). I guess the PS5 is the same but don't have one, so can't check for sure. There are more and more games that are just a small installer on the disc and require an initial download though (not just the inevitable day one patch) - there a recent CoD game that had less than 100MB on the disc if I remember correctly.

@dmcc0 I mean, there are some games that don't put the full game on the disc, but for the most part, most of them do. It's pretty much no different from the era of computers having you install your games before you play them. With PCs, the games weren't run off the disc itself. You still needed the disc in the computer to play the game, but the game had to be installed.

@VoidofLight that's exactly what I'm saying, the disc is an installer and a licence key - just like it was on PCs back in the day. Makes sense that the disc based consoles are like this given they are essentially PCs (or using off the shelf PC parts at least).

As the games get bigger, less chance they'll have the full game on there too. XBox Smart Delivery games usually don't even have the Series Version on the disc (just the XBox 1 version) and require a download. Sure, you can play it from the disc, but you'll be playing the previous gen version.

Mario is an interesting case because he doesn't talk much but still has a personality. Link, on the other hand, doesn't talk at all and barely has any personality. Which is one of the reasons I want to play as Zelda instead; Link is just kinda dull. I think Pokemon games (especially Arceus) can also be hurt by the refusal to give a personality to the main character.

I've never played Ratchet and Clank, but in terms of platformers I kinda hate it when Sonic talks. They gave him full sentences and a personality, but in my opinion they gave him a semi bad personality and horrible dialogue. 😝 In Sonic's case I would much prefer him stay mostly silent. For more rpg-ish games I definitely prefer some personality and dialogue.

@FishyS
Maybe it still a different situation for some gamers.
Take one example of 3rd party game 3D platformer Kao the Kangaroo.
That 3D platformer game have voice acting, the main character talk in full sentences and have personality, the game has CGI, the game has solid 3D platformer gameplay, I became like the game after watching the gameplay from Youtube.

About Sonic talking and having personality, actually I prefer him talk and have some personality rather than being silent.
SEGA can working again with better dialogue lines for Sonic.
Maybe I have different preference as I grew up by 3rd party games standard so when I see 1st party Nintendo games are still stagnant with old fashioned way, I have less impression with them.

@Anti-Matter I agree Kao is a good game. And I do like the plot and dialogue in that game.

@FishyS Link has a personality, although it's hard to pick up on because he's silent. There's many moments through many games where Link gives reactions, or is a bit strange at times. I'd much rather play as Link than Zelda, because his silence is pretty much a trademark of his character.

Mario and Link are both similar in that they can have a ton of personality but more often than not do not.

I can’t stand the Last of Us. It’s story telling us basic and there is so much better stuff out there storytelling wise, than that series. And yes I am talking about the first game and not just the second game.

@Themagusx1 Same. I don't get why people think it's the pinnacle of gaming. It's just basically a zombie movie if you added interaction to it.

@VoidofLight Exactly. And there are just many many games with better stories out there. The games story is basic, and the characters are not far from one dimensional.

@WaveBoy The thing with Resident Evil it tries to evoke fear, where as the Last of Us tried to be emotional and it tried way too hard to humanize heir characters, but they were bland. Joel losing his daughter was a cheap way to make him into a surrogate father to Ellie. Everything in that ***** game was cheap.

@WaveBoy I don’t mind myself personally a game evoking emotion, it just has to do it well, and I know ,any games that are not Triple As that do it well. But I get your point and I agree that many games hollywoodized and bloated hand holding.