Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I mean, while you're bringing that up, I played the demo of Sonic Adventure 2's port on PS3 a few years ago and was disappointed at how it controlled, as someone who mostly loved it growing up on Gamecube. I'm unsure if that's just me getting back into the game for the first time in years and years combined with people not loving those Sonic Adventure port specifically or if the game doesn't hold up but I kinda don't want to risk my nostalgia on finding out.

That being said, I can't imagine anything in Sonic Adventure 2 (outside of Mad Space) is as bad as that rail canyon level from Sonic Heroes, a game where you have to play every level 4 times to complete it.

Speak of the devil, Rail Canyon is one of my favorite levels. The rails have jank aplenty, but knowing the skips and methods to gain speed makes it fun for me.
Now Bingo Highway on the other hand...

@shiftbarackyeaugh Sonic Heroes is actually my least favorite Sonic game. I found that game very frustrating and unfun. Shame too, it had really good things about it, like the soundtrack, simple story, and decent graphics and art style. Took me 3 YEARS of slowly playing that game before I completely beat it. Of course, I did play it on ps2, so that probably had something to do with it. It's also been years since I last played it. Maybe I'll revisit on gamecube one day. Still, I enjoyed Sonic 06 and Rise of Lyric more than that game. I hope that rumored re-release is a remake and that's good.

Although, TBH, Secret Rings comes really close to least favorite. REALLY don't like that game. And if I can say that as a Sonic fan, that's bad. Black Knight is much better.

I didn't find Rail Canyon that bad since you can beat most of the stage without even switching rails (I know that's just a bandaid on a greater issue, but at least it makes the level easy to beat). Bullet Station with those cannon segments was the real difficulty wall for me, at least until I got better at the game. Heroes has a lot of issues but I've always found it pretty fun in spite of the jank. It dips pretty hard with the casino and rail canyon areas, but most of the best stages in the game are after that part.

I felt that Heroes had a big difficulty spike for Hang Castle and Mystic Mansion (I didn't beat the latter). Considering the speed at which games are being ported to modern systems and that SEGA's forcing Sonic to be an annual franchise, I figure I'm better off waiting for a Switch/Switch 2 port/remaster/remake than trying to find working Xbox 360 controllers.

Sonic Heroes, like many Sonic games, is a fun time but very flawed. I think the game had a lot of potential and, for the longest time, I considered it one of the best Sonic games.

But on my recent replay? Yeah, it's mostly held back by a series of frustrating levels. Seasill Hill and Ocean Palace are about as perfect as 3D Sonic levels get - I think they really showcase the Heroes concept well, and they're always a blast to run through. 10/10 stuff. Similar for Grand Metropolis and Power Plant. But it's at Casino Park that the game jumps off a cliff...and only really recovers somewhat at Frog Forest up until Mystic Mansion. Rail Canyon / Bullet Station and Egg Fleet / Final Fortress are fine I guess, but I can't say I enjoy them.

I also don't think the game has a single boss that I enjoy?

The repetition never bothered me too much tbh as Sonic games generally lend themselves to replays (although I would happily never do the Chaotix missions again). Tbh on replays I'm not that keen on seeing the game through to the end - I don't think the final story adds much gameplay-wise.

@konicstar While the game is definitely flawed, the PS2 version is considered the worst, with long loading times, worse graphics/frame rate, and many more glitches. SEGA just couldn't use RenderWare good enough. I personally recommend the GCN or XBOX versions (the PC version is abandonware but you can disable attack voice clips by entering "Charmy_Shutup 1" into the game code)

Never understood the appeal of collecting every game for a specific console. Like dude come on, you really gonna have the time to play every single game on that system? Not to mention the shovelware or certain genres of games you might not even like or have no desire of playing, but you have to get it to get to complete the collection and have bragging rights.

I mean... there are 14,000 games on Switch so I think the collect all games idea is long dead. At best, people could choose to collect all games from specific franchises or publishers.

I've always had a soft spot for Sonic Heroes despite its flaws. I do like some of its levels and it's got some awesome music... though I will admit that some levels feel like they drag on for so long. I remember Mystic Mansion and the enemy gauntlet bosses in particular feeling like an eternity to finish. The controls could use some work too, it can feel like you're on ice while using a speed character. Not the best game in the Sonic series, but at the very least, I do like quite a few parts of it... it might've helped that I played it in my early 10s, as well. I was huge into Sonic at that time.

Now if we're talking about least favorite Sonic games, mine would probably be Sonic 4. As a fan of the Genesis/Mega Drive Sonic games, I was looking forward to playing it when it was first announced, but man... what a disappointment that game was. It just doesn't feel good to play, with how badly Sonic controls. I still remember missing the special stages quite a few times, because of the controls alone. Heck, even its music was mediocre at best. Now granted, I only played episode 1, and I did hear that episode 2 was a little better, but I never played that.

I don't really know if this is unpopular but OoT has aged HORIBBLY

Here's my opinion - Concord is the absolute best game of all time. It's just so ahead of it's time that none of us could comprehend it's greatness.

I personally not interested to deal with peoples who only have interest with Zelda / splatoon / smash bros stuffs too much.
Those games are uninteresting for me and some of those peoples don't have that much interest with other games from 3rd party games.
When I heard those peoples keep talking about those games too much, I felt alienated.
I mean... I don't care with a lot of popularity.

@SlamDunk22 I'm interested to hear why you think that. Is it the controls, camera, story, gameplay, etc? I usually play through it every couple years and can't think of a single reason how it's aged. Holds up extremely well. Still the best n64 game imo.

@Lightsiyd brave. stunning.

@NintendoByNature I guess I should have worded that better, the game itself is amazing but the graphics are very blocky imo

@SlamDunk22 I mean, I kinda get that. Alot of n64 games were just blocky. But even so, I think it holds up remarkably well even with the chunkier graphics. And when the gameplay is so good, it's easy for me to look past it.

@NintendoByNature I'd actually be inclined to agree with @SlamDunk22 .... OoT hasn't aged that well IMO.

However - I recently played the Steam/Linux port "Ship of Harkinian".... which absolutely brings the classic game 'back to life'. Higher FPS, texture packs, re-mappable controls... and best of all, right stick is an actual free-form camera. It feels totally modern, kind of reminds me of the Metroid Prime Remaster - in terms of maintaining the classic feel, but just giving it a ton of QoL features

@PorkChopExpress How did you like EoW? BotW isn't my least favorite, but I wasn't a big fan and it also made me not try TotK. EoW, even though it has some similarities, is one of my very favorite Zeldas.

Echoes of Wisdom is my least favorite 2D Zelda and Tears of the Kingdom is my least favorite 3D zelda.