Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I've never turned against it at all, but it is a game that I thought was an all timer for its first 15 hours and then realized it did not have that level of wildly fun, creative ideas for the parts where you aren't focused on going through its main quest. Which for some games would be a non-issue (like Xenoblade Chronicles is one of my favorite games, and most of its sidequests are really mid, and I don't care too much about that issue) but stands out more for a 3D Mario game.

But it didn't help that I decided to go through all the levels three times when attempting to do (the vast majority of) its content, which in hindsight was a giant mistake because its obviously meant for just main game and post game and not some arbitrary third time.

But the people who are overly harsh on it are very weird.

@Novamii For Wonder the fact that I beat it in one weekend kind of made me not want to replay it immediately. Granted I only played it that fast because I was addicted... When I came back a year later to play it as couch co-op it felt totally fresh and very different in that mode. In another year I plan to play it a bit speed-run-ish and I suspect it will feel fresh again because I can just skip Wonder Effects which makes the levels feel different.

I do wish they had added DLC with new modes. The badges actually add a ton of potential replayability but there is no structure which really rewards you for actually using them. If they had added modes which forces you to play normal levels with difficult badges it would have been interesting.

@Novamii What’s strange to me is that I actually want to go back and revisit Forgotten Land, given how much I enjoyed it. The amount of content and aesthetic/gameplay of that game held my interest far more than Wonder.

Also yeah, the Wonder Seeds were a cool thing when I first played Wonder, but sorta got boring towards the end when I realized a ton of them repeat in some way or another. Can’t imagine the surprise factor is really there after beating the game and replaying it again.

I feel like I’m the only person on earth that actually genuinely isn’t excited for Xenoblade X being ported. I genuinely hate that game, and I hate that there’s potential of it selling well and becoming the series future. I hate the focus on sidequests over the main story, and I genuinely dislike the music of that game aside from like 2 tracks. The setting also felt bland to me the first time I played it, and I didn’t enjoy how it’s just pure sci-fi unlike Xenogears, and mainline Xenoblade.

Everyone seems to love the game, but I just could never enjoy it- and I’ve yet to find anyone who even remotely feels the same about the topic. The game almost pushed me away from trying the mainline games, so if X is the future of the series, Xenoblade will become yet another Nintendo series I dislike I guess.

@VoidofLight
I totally understand where you're coming from and I agree with all your points.
However, I don't think the X-series will become the main focus. They might try a sequel for it, but I'm pretty sure Monolith understands characters and story are big sellers for this franchise.

@valtianeea There’s speculation that 3 ends with Mira being created, so that’s my largest fear at the current.

I also just rather them make a new IP or a mainline sequel instead of X-2.

Anything popular or widely praised usually gets the "uhm actually this game sucks and has never been good" treatment and Odyssey is only one of many games like that. I'm sure there will be people in 4 months saying that Echoes of Wisdom actually is awful and that Nintendo should be ashamed of themselves.

@ShonenJump121 I personally don’t like Echoes of Wisdom, but not because I want to be contrarian. I just didn’t enjoy it.

My GOTY 2024 is Barbie: Project Friendship PS5.

I don't even care with whichever games that won the Game Award because I will never agree with the game that won.

@Anti-Matter can you explain to me why it's so good?

I'm gonna say it, digital games, when they are DRM-free, is games preservation and ownership.

When it comes to PC games, I buy from GOG and all their games are DRM-free. As a result, every game I've bought I backed up, and can install and play them without Internet. Let's say a game gets delisted from GOG or GOG were to close down, I can still play those games as I backed them up. I also own them as in GOG can't take away my game since I have it downloaded and backed up to external memory (like a USB stick, or CD-Rs and DVD-Rs when I'm feeling old school).

I even have games GOG had to delist because of licensing, and I can still install and play them with no problem thanks to the ability to back up and play without Internet.

Unpopular because I know many don't like digital because of the lack of ownership. It is possible on PC.

wonder isnt the savior of the series. its ugly looking (the psuedo 3d look since new smb doesnt compare to classic pixel art), its corny: talking flowers to hold ur hand, the uncreative one liners ppl say: gonna have a wonderful weekend playing this! the random elephant crap doesnt feel like it belongs in the mario universe. its too easy etc... feels like nintendo had a crisis w the series being bland so any pivot to something weird would win over the masses bc they were that desperate. but it doesnt feel genuine. played for 10 min at a friends and shut it off. never would pay $60 for it, maybe $5 lol. yoshi and nabbit being handicapped also ticked me off.

@BASEDSAKRI wait... what do you mean by too easy when you only played for 10 minutes? 😆 The first 10 minutes of almost every Mario game are insanely easy. Overall I feel like the difficulty was pretty typical for Mario games — mostly pretty easy but with some semi challenging parts and a bit of true difficulty in the post-game. Neither the hardest nor easiest Mario game. I agree the talking flowers are dumb; I turned them off almost instantly.

@BASEDSAKRI The game is pretty hard later on in. This is like saying a game like persona 5 is bad just based off playing the first hour of the game.

@RubyCarbuncle As a former Sonic fan/powerscaler, I can tell you that opinion was nowhere NEAR unpopular.

Man I love this thread, even if I barely participate

@shiftbarackyeaugh is right. Every time I play Smash Bros. Sonic always beats the flip outta me specifically whenever I play Mario.

@BASEDSAKRI I can accept if you simply don't like Wonder. I know a lot of people who don't care for some of the specific choices made in that game, but claiming the developers made those choices out of desperation is just wrong.

@N00BiSH Don't even get me started on Quickplay Sonics. One word describes them: "TIME!" It's made worse by the fact most of the characters I play have poor mobility.

@FishyS most of the reviews Ive seen say its too easy, plus same friend I mentioned even said and hes not really what Id call a 'hardcore' gamer.