Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Sunsy GameCube emulation is really good these days. The Dolphin emulator will play practically the entire library, with the only exceptions being obscure games that few people would care for. Mind you, this is the sort of forum where those few might hang out. 😉

You can get a lot of benefits through emulation such as HD upscaling, widescreen, and 60fps on many games that never originally supported them. Plus there are mods to improve texture quality and sometimes even add extra content to the more popular games.

You need a moderately decent PC to run it well, particularly if you want the upscaling. I can still play a lot of games on my GPD Win and 2015 vintage craptop, mind you, so it's not like running Cemu or RPCS3 where you'll need something very modern. Better hardware will still give better results though.

Also, you'll need a modded GameCube or Wii to rip the discs with. Other sources of games may exist, but I'm saying nothing. 🤐

@Jalex__64
My consoles I have such as Wii, PS2 Fat, PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim, etc have longer lifespan than my PC before I replaced my PC with laptop for more convenient working style.
My Wii is 17 years old, PS2 Slim = 16 years old, PS2 Fat = 18 years old, PS3 Slim = 13 years old and they are still working well until today.
My PC got busted oftenly when I have The Sims 3 PC, I could enjoy the game not more than 2 years. After I got more original games and video game machines, I completely stopped playing PC games in year 2014.
I don't even care with PC gaming anymore since then.

@Anti-Matter Yes but you are a sample of one. There is an entire world of people out there with differing experiences. You only need to look at how many retro gamers are maintaining PC's from the nineties or earlier on Youtube to see this. Alternatively, look at the number of articles about failing Wii U's.

Whether YOU care for PC gaming or not does not alter the reality.

Lots of retro gamers maintain consoles from the 80s or earlier, and it goes without saying that many PCs from the 2010s are lemons or otherwise failing.

@Euler I mentioned the 90's because that's when PC gaming really caught fire. The period holds a lot of nostalgia for people, which is exemplified by the amount of 90's retro systems being built and maintained right now.

Whether your claim about 2010's PCs failing is true or not (and I severely doubt it, as 90's PCs were far more vulnerable to static and other hazards compared to modern systems) the point still stands. A well built PC today has as good a chance of achieving a decent life as a modern console.

Each platform has had its quality control shifted over the decades, so it's impossible to vouch for either being the overall winner in this regard.

@Jalex__64
But I personally prefer consoles and handhelds over than PC gaming for easy to play and longer lifespan than PC.
I don't even value any benefit from PC gaming.
This is my statement, I will not change my opinion whether you disagree or not.

I'd think that the key word there is 'maintain.'

Neither consoles nor PCs are built to last more than about ten years. Getting twenty to thirty out of them isn't particularly unusual, although you can expect them to become somewhat less reliable toward the end of that period.

Anything from the 80s, well, you should have the power supply professionally tested or just buy a brand new replacement. All the capacitors should be inspected and replaced if necessary, along with any batteries it uses. You should also consider getting replacement ports and connectors, as well as mods to give it modern mass storage and video output. That's aside from any cosmetic stuff you might want to do for the ageing plastics.

I've recently done this to a C64C (around 1986 vintage) myself and, while it was a fun exercise to keep up my electronics skills, I wouldn't recommend it to the uninitiated. There are people who'll do a restoration job for you for a fee though.

That's not to say that there aren't still people using unmodified devices of this age. They are, however, running a risk of destroying them whenever they turn them on, as well as a not insignificant chance of shocking themselves and/or starting a fire. It's much the same with any electrical device, mind you; I don't think I'd recommend a 40 year old toaster either.

@Matt_Barber This is why the more I think about it, PC games last. I have old box copies of Half-Life 2 (with CS: Source), Half-Life 2: Episode One, and Counter-Strike Condition Zero from my old desktop days. They all carried over to my previous laptop, and my current gaming PC, all playable. I've had them for 18 years.

Same with GOG games on my previous laptop, they came over to my new PC. Plus being DRM-free, I can install from backups without being online or logged into GOG.

I'm not taking a dig at consoles, I love playing games on my Switch and Wii U. I can see why PC is better for longevity, I can still keep playing games I bought years ago.

I don't really need "Proper dungeons" in TotK. I was satisfied with the shrines, and yeah, the beasts were terrible, but the puzzles were good. Fix the problems with the beasts and I'll be happy. And nothing against dungeons (Halfway through Links Awakening and I love the puzzles) but if dungeons aren't there in TotK, I'll be one of the few people for whom this doesn't ruin the game.

@sunny63 this makes sense. There are a hell of a lot of shrines in BOTW too. Over 100 of them. In your average Zelda title, I’d say there is about 3-5 core dungeons, not including the overworld and final boss areas. You’ll get more bang for your buck with more Shrines.

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

I'm not obsessed about avoiding spoilers, like some people seem to be with the new Zelda. Yeah, I can understand the feeling of discovering something for the first time in a video game or any other media for that matter, but it's not the worst thing ever if I stumble upon something on the Internet. Annoying? Sure. The game is ruined for me? Nah. It can even just happen in a split second and I didn't get a good look to begin with, so it might not be what I thought anyway. I can avoid spoilers if I want since I do still care about it to some degree, but more often than not, I actually want to learn more about a game I'm interested in even if I'm going to buy it.