Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Nep-Nep-Freak That's nice, I play games to chill as well. It's been some time since I last played an RPG... I might come back to Xenoblade Chronicles at some point, though I remember some bosses being pretty difficult, so I might have to tone it down to casual mode.

I like playing Animal Crossing as well, it's a perfect game to relax with. Recently, my cousin and I played it online, and we even did voice chat. We both had fun.

I've probably said this multiple times but exclusives are good, and people who are anti-exclusive are weird. Maybe it would've made sense in the past at some point, but it took an entire decade+ of incompetence and slowly throwing away the concept of exclusives for Xbox to have even the slightest risk of not getting multi-console games. Like you could've had an Xbox One and still had the craziest lineup of games if you actually knew what to look for, and its only Xbox incompetence that prevented it from being a good system for exclusives, especially by the time you got to the Series X/S.

Otherwise, every console has an endless supply of quality games so the idea of "missing out" is ridiculous and insignificant and there's still clear value in gaming for exclusives, especially for each system having an actual identity. It's not like the late 90s where if you weren't PS1 you were genuinely missing out more often than not, its a non-issue nowadays. And Nintendo knowing what they're doing has proven the endless profit of being one of the big 3 so they have all the reason, or at least ability, to help give money to projects that could use it. And maybe if that money's spent well on developers that know how to release games before the heat death of the universe, we could get a solid selection of more notable games per console like we used to have.

Like obviously I wouldn't expect the biggest games outside of actual first party titles to be exclusive, but it would be an excellent way to expand on AA games, because those are the games companies will often refuse to make otherwise (and would also be the games presumably more likely to have sane dev cycles). Playstation has no games wouldn't be a meme if Sony was smart about this at all, and Switch 2 disappointing people would be at least less likely among the non-stupid online commentators if Nintendo had even a tiny handful of worthwhile exclusives other than first party.

I do think there's a good chance it would be good for various companies, in that consoles would get more exclusives and also certain AA games could grab an audience via exclusivity (the HD-2D games being the reliable success of SE's smaller games nowadays and usually being temporary exclusives that get major Nintendo Direct focus comes to mind), but I also just want it to happen regardless. People argue against a thing happening purely because it wouldn't be the best business move and that's cringe(especially when often it is based on just assuming that because its the norm that every company is making the best financial decisions currently, which is obviously untrue). I think it is a good thing to happen and I would want it to happen regardless of the business sense of doing it.

We need to ditch physical by now. Digital is more convenient, takes waaaay less room, and lets you take all your games anywhere. VGCs are the worst way to do digital though, bringing the worst thing (no multi-device sharing) to Switch

@Matt_Barber

Nice

@Agent_P
I'm the physical games collector here.
I have a lot of physical games displayed on my shelf, still played and take care of them.
I hate the convenience of digital games.
I would rather swapping my cartridge or disc onto video game machines than tapping the digital games app.
I hate the future like that.

The next 3d Mario should not be open world

Good job at putting an actual unpopular opinion here 😆 I 100% agree with all the positives of digital, although it's ignoring the pretty big positives of physical of being able to sell games, easily lend games to friends, even borrow games for free from libraries. I'm mostly a digital person as well nowadays but I wouldn't want all the benefits of physical to go away for people who want them.

@Anti-Matter The problem with AAA games for me is the lack of variety. It seems every AAA company is so hyper focused on realism and trends, that marketability comes first. Thinking about games like Concord, it followed the trend of hero shooters, when people are tired of hero shooters and live service games. Throw in the fact the Concord cost money, while similar games like it were free-to-play. That game was shut down two weeks after release because of how poor it did.

Will also add, deals AAA companies do. Know the Madden games? Only football (American football) game right now. This is due to EA having the exclusive license to the NFL. Years ago, there was NFL GameDay, NFL Blitz, and NFL 2K. There use to be options for football fans, and now there's only one. I say this as someone who isn't into football.

All because of how AAA companies are.

@D-Star92 Nope, I'm with you on this one. When I want to play games, I want to relax. I play a lot of my games on the easy difficulty setting when the option is there. I have tried Doom's first episode on Ultra-Violence difficulty, beyond that I usually play games on easier settings because I want to relax.

To add to this, I hate the whole "easy mode just hand holds you" mindset. I'm playing X-COM: UFO Defense on beginner difficulty, even though I'm playing on an easier difficulty, the game still provides challenge.

@Agent_P I buy both physical and digital, I do feel that more people might be ok with digital if it was more like physical. When you buy a game, you actually own it. I also play on PC, and I buy games from GOG, DRM-free. Meaning once I buy it, I have the games forever provided I back them up. I just wish people who say "you don't own digital," stop ignoring DRM, because DRM is the reason why people don't own digital games. This is why when a game I like is on PC, DRM-free, I'll always gravitate towards it. Give me the file, and let me keep it, install it, and play it forever.

@Agent_P I love the convenience of digital gaming, but I have one major issue with it, in that once you reach the data storage limit, it suddenly becomes a lot more inconvenient than physical. Whenever I have run out of digital storage space on a system, it just becomes extremely tedious to have to delete games just to play new games (or even old games I want to replay if I deleted them). The only real solution is buying a bigger MicroSD card, but those can be pretty expensive, especially for Switch 2 with its MicroSD Express requirement.

Because of this, I sort of operate on a system where I'll only really buy a game digitally if its a game without a physical (or a more expensive physical) or if it's a game that I expect to return to frequently, like Mario Kart. Single-player games that I'm unlikely to return to outside of repeat playthroughs I'll usually buy physically when possible.

I wouldn't mind a cool overworld map where you can do things but, yeah, it's hard to imagine how a fully open world mario would even work. Like Bowser's Fury but far larger doesn't actually sound good.