Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@kkslider5552000 also I think game freak deliberately doesn't want to go AAA game, but AA... Which is also priced the same as other AAA stuff. (Atelier, stuff like Crymachina too for example)

Overall I personally love ZA though and it feels so good. The story gets better the further you get (I just finished Rank D -> C fight yesterday and it was awesome!) too.

Nintendo Switch OLED is the best Nintendo thing that was ever made.

Looking at Pokemon legends Z-A Switch 1 version with worse fps outselling switch 2 version, I just smh to see that choice.
I'm not really a Pokemon fan, I couldn't care less with their sales currently as I do agree with other opinion about people will buy Pokemon games regardless of their quality, even they are worse than other games which have better quality. It just made me sad to see popularity can blinded people into blind loyalty without critical thinking and common sense.
Pokemon franchise itself I admitted it is cute franchise, but their popularity kinda bothering me at some point and it made me think the underrated similar franchise like Yokai Watch looked more appealing for me than Pokemon.
I'm glad I don't follow certain popularity so I know which is better for me.

Also, I personally choose PAW PATROL Rescue Wheels Championship on PS5 over than new Kirby racing game on Switch 2.

I couldn't care less with the hype of new Kirby racing game, even the gameplay trailer I had ever watched before was too fuzzy.
Oh, well.
I feel better by considering unpopular stuffs than the too popular stuffs.

I mean there's like 15 times as many people who own a Switch 1 compared to Switch 2. Of course it's going to sell better on Switch 1.

And it's worth remembering that most people who play these games do not care about framerate. They'll notice it if it's really bad (which, in Legends Z-A on Switch 1, it isn't, at least based on the little bit I've played so far) but the majority of Pokemon's audience would probably look at you blankly if you asked them how many frames per second they expect a game to run at. Honestly I'm pretty much the same - I don't really think about framerate unless it's either noticeably bad or it's in the context of a conversation on websites like this one. I don't think that's a lack of 'critical thinking', people just have different priorities for what they want from a game.

@Anti-Matter it's perfectly fine to like popular things. It's even fine to like unpopular things. But acting like unpopular things are better simply because they're unpopular is with all due respect, a pretty limiting and petty mindset.

@Dogorilla
But I have higher standard and better taste.
I do care with better fps considering this is not 20 years ago when the games mostly struggled getting better fps.
And that's why my hype with Switch 1 gradually decreased as PS5 with 60 fps for 3rd party kids games I played set the bar really really high.
I simply don't want to play games with worse fps when I can play the same games on the other version with better fps.
It's just wasting my money and really worthless purchase for me.

@Anti-Matter I don’t really understand how you don’t like popular things, but love Animal Crossing, Paw Patrol, and other very popular franchises.

That being said, I don’t care about frame rate in games as long as it runs well.

I personally thinking Pokemon Battle Card both physical cards and digital games are not interesting at all.
Instead, I thought my own Boxing Battle cards that I designed by myself looked more interesting to play and easier to understand.
Even my students like my Boxing Battle cards gameplay.
I don't say I hate Pokemon franchise, but certain of their games franchise didn't look interesting to me.

If a game just so happens to be 30 FPS, I'm perfectly OK with it. I've played a lot of games that ran at that frame rate and it didn't affect my enjoyment of the game, or how I play it. I really only have a problem if the frame rate is especially poor, if the game I'm playing is buggy, or if I'm just not having fun with it. Heck, even with the Link's Awakening remake and Echoes of Wisdom going from 30 to 60 (or vice versa) on Switch 1, as noticeable as they were, they still didn't turn me away and I still liked them.

Better frame rate until 60 fps is really does matter for me.
Not just only makes the games look better but also makes my purchase worthier especially for newer gen machines.
And the reason I keep avoiding a lot of 3rd party Switch 1 games when I knew the PS4 / PS5 version have better fps.
Paying with same money as PS4 / PS5 version but I got 30 fps for Switch 1 version is definitely not a worthy purchase.

Since we're now talking about fps, I'll toss my two-sense into the ring.

For me, 30 fps is completely fine. 60 fps is lovely too, though if a game isn't 60 fps, I won't complain.

Personally, I just want a mostly stable frame rate that doesn't stutter every other second. Though sometimes, in games that people complain about there being frame rate drops, I never notice them. I never noticed frame rate drops in Link's Awakening (2019) on my Switch 1 back when I first played it in 2019 nor when I replayed it in 2024. As for Pokémon Violet, I did experience some minor stuttering in the swampy area of the Indigo Disk dlc, but other then that, I experienced no other problems with the game except a few minor glitches here and there that actually caused me to laugh.

I have no intention to argue with anyone who likes 60 fps and despises 30 fps, I'm just tossing out my two-sense 🤣.

My opinion is its bad to pretend most people aren't perfectly fine with 30 FPS but also questionable why I even need a game to look so graphically impressive that it can't reach 60 FPS on all current gen consoles. If zero video games looked technically better than Mario Kart 8, a game that was at 60 FPS on the Wii U, would I care? For the most part, no.

Or at the very least, I would never need to experience more than a game or two a year that is more graphically impressive than Mario Kart 8. If I do, ok, if I don't, also ok, if I already have a bare minimum amount of games that look impressive, it makes no difference to me if I have more. (especially since most of the games with interesting art styles are not that level of technically high quality graphics)

@ShieldHero
Oh, here is my standard about fps.
I also judged from the machine power and their generations.
PS1, PS2, PS3, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, NDS, 3DS machines are hardly get 60 fps so I still understand for a lot of games being 30 fps.
But from PS4 & PS5 era, I expect the games can deliver 60 fps by more than 80% for PS4, 99% for PS5 (I counted the kids games only since these games don't need ultra power to deliver 60 fps), so when the Switch version can't deliver 60 fps for small size GB games, that frame rate is unacceptable for me.
I have ever played games with 30 fps, but they are retro games that mostly 30 fps or unstable, I have experienced with bad frame rate games so for stronger consoles, I expect more 60 fps than 30 fps.
No room for excuse and lazy optimization.

I'll never understand why people who want 60 FPS or 120 FPS, still insist on playing games on consoles, and don't make the jump to PC. Consoles are always limited in terms of hardware, PC isn't. Unless you have a gaming laptop, PCs are upgradable. I'm on an older gaming laptop, and games always play at 60FPS. I even have some games on Switch and PC, and PC always performs better.

Possibly unpopular since I've seen people here wanting 60FPS, but still play on consoles instead of considering going to PC.

Also, sticking with the FPS talk here.

Edit: Since I see Wii U mentioned, I remember quite a few Wii U games did play at 60 FPS. Mario Kart 8, Sonic Lost World, Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, Smash Bros, even the ports of Call of Duty. Always had a smooth experience when playing them on my Wii U.

Honestly Mario Kart 8 is the reason I even actively prefer 60 FPS and care enough about it. Before that it was not something I thought too much about and I don't think I even knew what FPS was before that decade. But it really made a difference for 8 both gameplay-wise and even visually, and is one of two games that didn't have to use the gamepad in innovative ways for me to feel like I was experiencing a next gen game on Wii U (in that it impressed me compared to Xbox 360 games instead of just compared to Wii games), which is super impressive for Wii U(the other of course being Bayonetta 2).

I think people forget because Wii U ultimately failed, but there was a real online sentiment in 2014 that Wii U was the best next gen console, because of its better games compared to a kinda bad year 1 from the competition and I have to believe Mario Kart 8 and Bayonetta 2 looking as good as they did, at the FPS they were at, did a lot to make it seem like you weren't missing out if you didn't have PS4 or Xbox One.

I have reached that point in Donkey Kong character design discourse where whenever someone says the redesign "radically changed his personality" My eyes roll hard into the back of my skull. No, the redesign didn't "change his personality." If anything it only reaffirms what was already true about the character and the fact that so many people think otherwise has me no one paying attention to anything regarding this ape or they just haven't actually played the games.

I love Mega Man X7

@Sunsy This is basically where I landed. I buy consoles for the exclusives, but anything multi plat, I am always playing it on my Rig because I know I will get the best experience there in terms of framerate, resolution, visuals etc I just accept the compromises on consoles for exclusives because I'd rather play them than not play them at all and struggle too much with fomo to wait the multiple years for them to make it onto PC (or never in the case of Switch games).