Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I hate when people say they "hate" Pac Man's Ghostly Adventures design and hail the Pac Man World design. The only worthwhile difference are their eyes! It:s one thing to have a preference. A complete other to say it's "garbage". Or something along those lines. I even remember one idiot saying the Ghostly Adventures design makes him look like a pedophile! I'm not sure how Pac Man can resemble a pedophile, but some people are really stuck up to think that.

I have no issue with IGN's reviews. They're just differing opinions that are typically justified in one way or another. What should change is people:s outlooks on video game reviews. It shouldn't be an article to satisfy fans to buy a game they already pre ordered. It's just a summary of what to expect.

Wait? I never knew I could use my DS to make money. I just used it to play games!

Yup, you got it right exactly. DS was marketed towards a new, casual audience of course, but it was also made to appeal to Nintendo's core market as well. Iwata's "blue ocean" strategy was all about that. Retaining their loyal fanbase while expanding their audience into a huge, untapped market.

To be more broad, pretty much every 100 million+ seller has done this. The PS2 was a phenomenal success as well for a lot of the same reasons that the Wii and DS were. Huge audience retention from previous machine, plus marketing specifically directed at people who didn't typically buy consoles. Soccer moms were buying the Wii to play bowling. 5 years earlier, they were buying PS2s to watch DVDs.

When did I ever say that you hate 3rd parties? I never said that at all. But still, I get your point. The Ds had some seriously hardcore games (now that I think about it, what even is a hardcore game?).

@SpookyMeths: I'd argue that if the PS2 didn't have DVD, it wouldn't sell that huge compared to the DS. Same can be said about the DS that it didn't have internet until DSI showed up.

I feel as though many mistake graphics and visuals. Graphics is more like rendering the visuals and visuals is how the game looks. You can't blame poor graphics when the game looks good and likewise for the opposite.

In my opinion I believe the Playstation 4 + Xbox One are over-generalised overrated set top boxes with a software library too thin to warrant a $400-$500 purchase; If I were to purchase either or both, It would be for Bloodborne + Horizon: Zero Dawn, and/or Sunset Overdrive + Scalebound, & even then I'd only pay up to a hundred bucks for either console.

Most worthless console generation right now from the major parties, the way I see it.

Those two look more like softcore.

A lot of popular review sites have started to follow this generic way of reviewing games. They talk about the flaws and the good things about a game and then slap a number on it. It comes off as if they are writing a list. Very uncreative and unexpressive which betrays everything writing should be about.

@Artwark: You know? I hadn't thought about it before. PS2 had the DVD feature wich I'm pretty sure it helped to move some units, whereas the DS was only a gaming machine. That's very impressive.

DS took off with sales with the release of Brain Age, which was a smartphone game before smartphone games were a thing.

@Freeon-Leon: Which is why I want it to beat the PS2 sales because many claim that handheld game consoles are the same as game consoles when they are not. If it beated PS2, my fanboy life would be fulfilled..... but I know that can't happen....can it?

It starts as softcore but after some tapping and rubbing ends up hardcore.

Still a game.

It's a game that my 58 year old mother who never bought a console before has.

Nintendo's handhelds usually have better libraries than their consoles.

The PS2 was available for a longer time than the NDS. So for a video game system, Sales Per Year, NDS is the most successful system. Also between the NDS and the Wii, during that timeframe Nintendo sold more video game hardware than anyone else has in the same amount of time. Nintendo did this all without being able to play physical movies as well. The PS2 wouldn't be the best selling video game system by total sales without the DVD player.

Going back to the Gameboy / GBA days I'd find it difficult to agree with you, but I've found as the handhelds have becoming more powerful this is increasingly becoming the case. Personally I think the DS and Wii have fairly equal libraries (ignoring backwards compatibility and virtual console), whereas the 3DS has a far stronger library than the Wii U.

Maybe tied with Galaxy for myself...but I think both are leagues above Mario 64. My really unpopular opinion is that Mario 64 felt a bit dated the second Sunshine came out =/