Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Anti-Matter I think on comfortableness or not, you'll have to try it out before really commenting on it. Putting the joycons in 2 feels safer though for me personally, it didn't feel like it'll break or anything-like, feels more solid than when I clicked the joycon 1 (even if the switch 1 has better noise when you put the controller on the machine)

On the magnet itself, Switch 2 used Neodymium magnet according to this article: https://www.wsj.com/world/china/nintendos-use-of-a-rare-earth...

https://sg.rs-online.com/web/content/discovery/ideas-and-advi...
And will last a long time, which is around losing 5% every 100 years. You'll die first before it'll lose power, unless you expose it to 80C or higher temperature... which is an issue if the place you store it is burnt down. Otherwise, it will work out though.

NdFeB magnets are sensitive to high temperatures and will lose their charge if exposed to these for a significant period. They have a comparatively low Curie temperature - approximately 80℃. However, without exposure to high temperatures, neodymium magnets will retain their charge for a very long time, losing as little as 5% every 100 years.

Opinion - There should always be female option for main character, with female being the default when no character creation is possible due to story.

For everyone to feel comfortable, of course.

Opinion: Waluigi doesn't need to be a fighter in Smash. Geno would be cool though.

@ShieldHero i agree with this a lot waluigi always gives me the creeps! i dont know why nintendo hates geno, mario rpg needs more rep

@OctolingKing13, I am holding out hope that the existence of the Super Mario RPG remake means Geno becomes a fighter in the next Smash.

Couldn’t be bothered about Waluigi, but on the opposite end of the unpopular opinion spectrum, the Geno fandom never made much sense to me. All this time I hear about Geno, “Oh, he’s this super complicated character with such a cool backstory!” And then I play the game and it’s just every “is secretly a deity” character in an RPG. Mallow is a far more interesting and fleshed-out character and would make for a more compelling Smash fighter as well as opposed to just another zoner.

@JakedaArbok, I actually wouldn't mind Mallow being a fighter either! 😃

@JakedaArbok I don't get the love for Geno either - he just feels so bland to me in terms of both character and design. Then again I never grew up with Super Mario RPG so I don't have the love for it that many have.

On that note - and while we're here - I'll say that Super Mario RPG is probably my least favourite of the recent 3 Mario RPGs. Paper Mario TTYD wins by a landslide though - hell, it's a contender for best Gamecube game in my eyes.

@Buizel, the Thousand-Year Door Remake is cool, I certainly want to play it someday! Now that I think about it, Vivian or perhaps one of the other party members for Smash sounds like fun!

@ShieldHero
I personally prefer Sticker Star for the 64 Summon Things stickers that looks like Final Fantasy Summon spells.

@ShieldHero True

I would personally opt for Raichu - a bulkier, slower Pikachu with more oomph. I just want Raichu to get more love

I've been playing Mario and Luigi: Brothership, and I was waiting until I finished it in case I changed my mind on something I've thought for awhile. Well, I just beat it, and I don't really know a better way to put all my thoughts into one seemingly unpopular opinion other than this: people really take this fun hobby of ours way too seriously.

Brothership was a great game. Does it reach the heights of the first three games in the series? Probably not, but it's still a lot of fun. When I bought it and showed my son who is really only into Minecraft, Pokemon, and Undertale/Deltarune, even he said how awful he's heard it is. Why does anything that doesn't live up to the pinnacle of the medium automatically become bad?

And somehow even on a Nintendo-centric site like this one, so much has become about graphics and the like. All the talk with Switch 2 (which I don't have yet) has been how much it improves previously horribly performing games, notably Link's Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom. I never had a single issue with either of those games. I never had a single issue with the Tales of Symphonia remaster (although I didn't play it at launch, only after the updates, so maybe it was as bad as people claim originally). When I got the Zelda edition OLED, I had my whole family try it out to make sure I wasn't crazy or have horrendous vision. But nope, none of us see any greatly noticeable difference from the original Switch. It's like any minor stutter or frame rate drop makes a game unplayable to people.

There are so many people on here that I read through the forums and honestly wonder why you even play video games. I am a pretty cynical person who focuses on negatives more than positives because those are the things that need changed, so I understand if other people are the same way. But, geez, I don't come on here and post every negative thought I've ever had about every game I've ever played like so many people seem to do. I don't even know how everyone has the time to play all of these games, let alone to ALSO come write so many forum posts about them. Just enjoy the hobby, and if it leads you to question and criticize everything about it, maybe it's time to listen to the message of Brothership and get off the screens for a while and enjoy some community that's not on message boards.

Nintendo should reintroduce analog triggers in their modern controllers, and while it would be kind of an annoying "rediscovering the wheel" moment, they should introduce it during the inevitable Switch 2 mid-gen refresh, and be the first major company to have analog triggers on a handheld for Switch 2 Lite. Make a cutesy Welcome Tour type app for people who don't know the difference, "The harder you press the trigger, the harder you 'press' the 'acceleration'! Try to reach this speed now" -increasingly large and specific MpH values that you use the analog triggers to reach-

^ Eh N did the rounds talking about the power of the machine, I don't see how discussing it is anti-fun somehow. I also find it funny that that's the message of Brotherhood, yet the game's defenders also say you have to play at least 20 hours to enjoy it. Geez, 20 hours I could have spent outside huh?

@Xyphon22 As for the graphics, I don't notice the difference with Echoes of Wisdom, but for a lot of other games (especially third party games) it's pretty shocking how much nicer some games run and how much less loading times lag etc there is. This includes some games I had no issue with on Switch and am shocked how much better the experience is in a way I didn't even think about before. If people are used to PS5 or a gaming PC or whatever and were already spoiled like I am now by Switch 2, I can understand getting a little frustrated by Switch 1 performance. It may be hard to go back tbh.

@Xyphon22 the pinnacle of “no think, just consume product,” and “just shut up and enjoy things!!!!”

How dare people enjoy mediums different from you? How dare they criticize things you like- or say things are bad/good when you think differently? How dare they react in ways that may be more negative?

As for brothership- a few people were disappointed in it, despite being huge fans of the series. Mainly because it didn’t live up to the other entries for them. These people went into the game wanting to like it, only to be shown something that was worse in quality to everything that came before it. That doesn’t mean they hate video games- or that they don’t enjoy playing them. It means they were left disappointed by one game in particular and don’t enjoy playing it.

@Xyphon22 can't help but feel this take is kinda directed towards me, given how vocal I've been about my dissatisfaction towards Brothership.

But yeah, like @VoidofLight said, you can't really expect folks to limp over and be complacent with everything. People are going to take issue with things and that's fine as long as they're not obnoxious about it.

I think this is a relatively unpopular take, but I hate how our society is trending more towards media being something you aren’t supposed to “think deeply about,” or criticize. That you’re meant to blindly enjoy anything you experience- and if you don’t then you’re just a “hater.” Even though takes can be so more nuanced than just that.

A guy I knew in real life would often complain that I “couldn’t just enjoy things,” given that I would criticize and pick apart anything that I played, watched, or read- even if I enjoyed it. Mainly because it’s part of my enjoyment to think about what I had just experienced- as well as me knowing that even the stuff I love or hold dearly to me isn’t above criticism, and definitely isn’t perfect. It just sorta pisses me off that we’re starting to get to a point where it’s frowned upon just to criticize and actively engage with things you disliked or liked.

I do agree, but I also blame part of it on weirdos online that make miserable complaints that are some degree of absurd or unfair. My Bioshock Infinite hot take was about that where its really important for some people to remind you, to this day, all of the worst part of that game's story that doesn't hold up at all, and the DLC for that same game already retconned it because the people who made it also regret how it was handled. But even though that DLC retcon is MORE THAN A DECADE OLD NOW, it still totally invalidated every single thing the game did somehow! It's not like it tried way harder than most AAA games to try to be about something, or anything cool like that, clearly this is the problem in a world of safe, overly monetized slop.

But yeah, lazily disregarding all criticism and doing nothing to think about fiction...sucks. (also a good Bioshock Infinite example, since why was it given so many 10/10s at launch? It has clear issues guys!) Not only because stuff getting criticized is often how you get newer, better things from it, but also because there's plenty of deeper things to appreciate about great or even flawed games that shouldn't be lazily ignored either.

@VoidofLight I feel it is rather a counter reaction (opting out) to the way discussions are conducted on the web / social media these days and how people tangle up their sense of identity with certain issues. It‘s seldom nuanced or with even an attempt at being objective. Just a ping pong match of differing viewpoints picked up somewhere on the web that often gets pretty intense, heated and full of vitriol fairly quickly, which has become very tiring. I loved the discourse about all types of media back in the day – heck I studied literature, culture and media at university pre 2010 – but most discussions on the web just feel toxic now and I tend to avoid most of it. NL is an exception for it being rather civil in the forums / comments.

Edit: e.g. just look at user reviews for movies or games, it‘s either 10/10 or 1/10, nothing in between. So why even engage? Just looked at some Bananza reviews: 1/10 because it gave me motion sickness just under 10/10 best game I ever played …

If I feel the need to criticize media in any specific way, then I will. I like thinking about and comparing the media I experience as well, actually. Even Zelda Ocarina of Time, as awesome and 10/10 as it is, can still be improved in my opinion. If someone will ever call me a "hater" simply because I criticize something once... so be it. I can handle being called names, because I'm not a manbaby.