Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

It's similar to BotW... most people love it but it has its detractors. For both Odyssey and BotW, I personally don't quite sync with the 'big empty spaces' vibe. I don't hate them, but they're far from my favorite of their respective series.

In terms of opinions, its a minority opinion but a ton of people played Odyssey and therefore the minority which didn't like it also has a ton of people. And there are some 'standard' reasons someone might dislike it so they will naturally be more common 'unpopular' opinions.

I would believe that. They also made almost all the other 3D Mario games. Plus Captain Toad. They're an amazing team regardless of whether someone likes any particular game.

Which is perfectly valid, of course.

Different circles, I suppose.

Additionally, as someone who loves Odyssey, I've never vibed with those two takes myself. I don't want any direct sequels to 3D Mario games of any kind, be it Odyssey 2 or Galaxy 3. And in regards to Bananza, excited as I am for that, one should be prepared for the possibility that it won't live up to the promise being made(though everything I've seen and played has me feeling more confident in it).

Pokémon Gen 9 is my favorite Pokémon Gen, and it's not even recency bias. I can explain why, If anyone wants to hear about it.

Yoshi's Story is the best Yoshi game.

While I don't agree with this at all, a version of Yoshi's Story that was closer in structure and length and played a little more like Yoshi's Island could've maybe have been the best Yoshi game. Which is still incredibly high praise for Yoshi's Story compared to what most people will say, since making a game as good as Yoshi's Island is incredibly difficult.

Yeah, I will say that the Yoshi series, while consisting of a bunch of good to great games, are a bit too stuck to the foundation that the first game built, just with more babies or yarn or crafts or whatever New Island was trying to do. A game that actually tries to shake up the formula a little bit more, maybe even leaning further into 2.5D platforming like Crafted and Story could be a nice change of pace.

Yoshi's Crafted World is the only Yoshi game where I can stomach the OST. The rest have pretty awful OSTs.

Not sure whether unpopular but I wish the BCP on the 3DS side of track selection focused on courses with underwater segments taking into consideration that World doesn't have underwater driving:

• Cheep Cheep Cape instead of Toad Circuit
• Wario's Galleon instead of Alpine Pass
• Bowser's Castle instead of Rainbow Road

The World remake of Wario's Galleon is different enough from the MK7 original that it would still feel fresh in World even if the original came to MK8 Deluxe.

@VoidofLight
That is one of the few actual unpopular opinions I have seen on this thread. I like Crafted’s OST a fair amount more than most people but to say the original’s iconic tunes or Wooly World’s relaxing vibes are awful is crazy. Fair on everything else though (bar a few good songs in Story)

@Grumblevolcano
That might be the first time I’ve ever seen Cheep Cheep Lagoon/Cape (had to look up my regional variant, that’s how forgettable it is) picked in favor of anything before, but given the wet fart that Toad’s Circuit was in the BCP, I can’t say I disagree.

@JakedaArbok I meant Wooly actually, Crafted has a bad OST. Got the names mixed up for some reason.

I prefer gen 8 purely because of Arceus. I guess the new Legends game will be gen 9 so we'll see.

For S/V, great plot and fun exploration and movement abilities and great new Pokemon but the sandwiches were not exciting, the towns were bland, the clothing options were kinda ugly, the school part was a bit scuffed, the performance was pretty darn bad on Switch 1, and the lack of sane level scaling was hilarious but also not great game design.

For me, overall, I liked the game because the good aspects were very good, but I would put it middle of the pack overall.

@FishyS, Gen 8 was also awesome! I loved Pokémon Shield and HOME (which I still use for Violet) and I like what I've seen of Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl and Arceus! Still undecided on whether I'm getting those games someday, since I'm already going to be busy with others, including the upcoming Z-A! I'm just a massive Pokémon fan in general.

Unpopular Pokemon Opinions:

• I really dislike Eevee. Everyone I know loves the Eeveelutions and Eevee- but I just think all the designs aside from Sylveon are bland.
• I like Charizard and really like the forms it got.
• I hate Mega Evolution because it feels like it takes away from pokemon getting actual evolutions or permanent forms in return for temporary forms that only exist to be flashy and nothing else.
• I think Sinnoh is the most bland region in the series- with very little variation in terms of areas. It feels like all of the region is just forest with the occasional mountain and swamp.
• PLA is a decent game, but I much prefer Scarlet and Violet in gameplay to it.

@VoidofLight you break my heart with the eevee hate 💔 charizard i feel like is a popular opinion tho! also love the new pfp!

Pikmin 2 is the best Pikmin game. It’s definitely not gonna be everyone’s favorite, but to me, I love the insane challenge the game provides, as well as the amount of freedom. The game pretty much lets you loose shortly after starting, just telling you to collect 10000 Pokos. There’s so many moments that are some of my favorite moments in any game, like finding Waterwraith, getting bulbmin, credits roll and you get to be President in a new, even harder area, etc.

It's still so frustrating that Pikmin 4 felt like it refused to end. I had the exact same issue with Skyward Sword, take out 5 hours of content out of my (nearly) 100% run out of literally any of the less interesting content and its an immediately better game. But the game felt like it just refused to end. Like take out a couple of dandori levels and most of the final level, even though none of it was worse, I would've enjoyed the game more. And because I had decided to do a...well maybe 100% but close to 100% run and only in the last 1/4 of the game was it a problem, it didn't feel right to just rush to the end. Fix that and one or two other things, almost certainly my favorite Pikmin game.

People understate the problems of too much of a good thing. Most single player games were not meant for 40 hour playthroughs, especially when ignoring RPGs.

Still the most frustrating one was Arkham Knight. The answer to "What if Arkham City had twice as much content?" is that it would be a worse video game, which was so unnecessary since the Arkham games already have a side mode if you want your game to refuse to end, instead it was required to run every potentially interesting sidequest into the ground so you get the true ending. I didn't want that, leave me out of it!

This is why I don't 100% games. I tried with Spiderman PS4, and I didn't 100% it fully. I just got tired of playing it and tired of trying to get everything. Especially when someone I knew at the time was forcing me into doing it. The guy also was a backseat gamer the entire time- and told me what suit I could and couldn't wear.

@kkslider5552000 I've just finished a replay of Pikmin 4...and tbh I couldn't disagree more.

What I love about Pikmin 4 is its abundance and diversity of content. And it's all great.

I do understand criticisms about a game being too long - but I reserve that for games that space out the good content with mediocre content. That is simply not that case with Pikmin 4 IMO. With Pikmin 4 you can readily stop at any point - e.g. when you get the first ending after rescuing Olimar. There is no need to 100% things, but it massively adds to the game if you choose to do so.

@Buizel
I agree with you. Pikmin 4 is one of those games, which make me feel rewarded for 100%ing it. Just good content all around. Even the item descriptions were fun to read.

Even so, I can understand, that it might be too much content for many players.