Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Wow, a Sega vs. Nintendo argument. Never seen that before

I find that I'm a Sega fan by accident more times than not now. I'll pick up a game that I wasn't aware they had a hand in, although even that's rare now that I'm looking these things up Although maybe more time has passed than I'm aware of, I think the last thing I saw their name stamped in that I didn't know they had production in was Bayonetta, because I didn't pay attention until a few months before Nintendo announced they were picking it up, and then even there Nintendo is steering that ship completely now.

Beginning wasn't really out of their way though as it was already localized since the Nes days just unreleased til now.

I said it in quotations, obviously I didn't mean it directly. The point of what I said was, is now is the time they're putting out Earthbound things. They're not going to skip one game during their massive highlight at this point.

Nintendo fanboys aren't exactly open-minded . What they are is defensive. Any time any slight claim that remotely sounds like an attack, they completely lose it with you (though not all fans of Nintendo are like this).

All I did was remove words and yet this still applies.
But yeah, all fandoms have problems; some far more glaring than others. A while back I would of told you Sonic fans were the worst, but I've honestly learned that any fan base can be just as bad and those that are tend to be the minority in large group.
FE's fandom is pretty much a mess atm, some of MegaTen fans act like Persona is the devil for making the series popular like it was designed to, Zelda fans consistently argue over which of the games they prefer is the best, and need I bring up the Smash Bros Community?

@Socar: Can you and anyone on here tell me what Nintendo has done right this year? Or better yet this generation? Anyone? Hell i'll take anything. Not the 3DS tho. Cause that's what alot of Nintendo fans always bring up.

@TwilightOniAngel: For Starters, they still support Local Multiplayer....something which neither Sony nor Microsoft care that much.

Then there's free internet unlike those two where you need to pay a fee to play online.

Oh and Backwards Compatibility? It took those two like a year and a half to make and update to that and its still worse than what the Wii U did.

The only downside that you can say for Nintendo this gen is the region lock and the lack of promises for the Wii U alone which I understand fairly. And no, I'm not gonna say Amiibo is bad as well because its nowhere as horrendous as Capcom's on disc DLC.

@MrMario02 most of the defense is valid like the Amiibo argument, the lack of third party support for 3DS which isn't true at all and more so, that Nintendo remains the only few companies out there that understand the value that IPs have.

"Tell me what Nintendo has done good but not the 3DS" okay so basically you just want someone to agree with your opinion that the WiiU is a disaster and that everything else they're doing doesn't make sense right?

It depends on what you mean by right. Do you mean something that sold great or something of high quality? If it is the latter I would say:

Wii U
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
Super Mario 3D World
Pikmin 3
Super Mario Maker
Mario Kart 8
Super Smash Bros.
Yoshi's Woolly World
Splatoon
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
NES Remix
NES Remix 2
Making Metroid Prime Trilogy downloadable.

3DS
Zelda remakes.
A Link Between Worlds
Fire Emblem Awakening
Pokémon XY
Pokémon Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire
Super Smash Bros.
Super Mario 3D Land
Mario Kart 7
Luigi's Mansion 2
Kid Icarus: Upprising

I'm sure I forgot something, but Nintendo have been doing quite well this generation. Not in terms of sales though.

^Does a Metroid Prime Trilogy download really count as a great success? Don't get me wrong as I bought and enjoyed it but it's far from a "omg!" moment. If they keep up 3rd party VC/DS/3DS releases (and update RE4 so it's plays off screen!) then I'd be more impressed.

I wouldn't say great success, but that wasn't the argument. What I said was right, and Nintendo definitely did something right when the released Metroid Prime Trilogy for the eShop. It was quite hard finding the game before, and it was too expensive. This way Nintendo earn money and fans get a cheap and easy way to get it.

@Socar: Couch Co op,free online and backwards compatibility? Alright i'll give you that companies can't even get true backwards compatibility on their console and couch co op is long gone now and Nintendo is keeping it alive.

@Dankykong: Eggxactly!

Kylo Ren is everything wrong with the gaming community. No, really. He romanticizes a "Golden Age" (the reign of Vader) and if anyone dare suggest that the so-called "Golden Age" wasn't perfect, he'll blindly attack, even if they're opponent is right. He also gets into huge bouts of rage whenever things don't go exactly the way he wants things to go. I have to ask, who does that sound like to you?

Anyone who the mods don't take care of over an extended period of time on any video game forum? Or is it someone who admin gave mod power to that they shouldn't have?
No... no.... maybe it's neither. Maybe I'm just thinking of here and the other couple of sites that are similar to this one.

Can I have the 'unpopular opinion' that Nintendo are not perfect (obviously they aren't) but that they also are nowhere near as bad as "not doing anything right this generation"? Why does everything have to be so dramatic? Life or death? Unquestionable success or failure? Does that count as an unpopular opinion, because I'm sick to death of comments like the one above.

In all fairness, @Darth_Vader is pretty wizard.

Video game community. "They didn't do perfect, so they're dead to us now"
Tbh I really think they're doing much better than this doom enthusiastic website talks about. 3DS > DS. The DS graphics were always bleck to me, they really pulled that system back together, blah blah blah, we all know the 3DS success story at this point. Sure the N3DS is lagging, but the updates they gave it are a much better upgrade from 3DS to New 3DS, than the upgrade from DS to DSi was.
The WiiU has (imo) a lot of better first party titles than the Wii did, even the handful of third party things we've gotten are better than their Wii predecessors. The controls are 1000 times better than the Wii, even the GamePad is more enjoyable than having a Nunchuck with cord laying across me. The WiiU Pro, though awkwardly like an Xbox controller, is less weird than the round classic controller I have for Wii. They're late to the party on selling loads of DLC the way they are now, but now that they're doing it, I feel like nobody is talking about any DLC except Nintendo's now. Like it or hate it, Amiibo are very popular. Not an original idea, but they've done it and it's working out.

It's funny how people come in here talking doom and gloom over Nintendo because of the WiiU and whatever and claim they're right, this HAS to be the end. But you children must not have been around when people were saying the exact same thing over the GameCube and then the DS when it launched. Everyone was jumping off of bridges and turning the gun on themselves, but in hindsight it all ended up just fine, and everyone worships everything they plopped out on the table for them, and if you come on here or a lot of forums and decide to bash the GCN then people lose their temper and talk about how "YEAH IT DIDN'T SELL WELL BUT IT HAD A LOT OF GREAT GAMES OK". The WiiU generation will just be the same as that, just maybe 10% smaller in the end. Pfft, or maybe roughly the same by the time the WiiU is discontinued, minus third party support since console sales are catching up to lifetime GCN sales. I'm sure someone will type out an angry little paragraph in disagreement but you really can't speak for this until we're at the end of the NX generation and you've got time to see how the end years go, then the afterlife for the WiiU. How well do things sell up after? The Wii's afterlife was grand, still sells units, games still come out, etc etc. WiiU = ?. Remember the Virtual Boy has a big following and that was the worst seller of them all.
PS
But of course everyone knows they blew it on big third party support, they were arrogant by just putting the systems out there and basically going "Now it's your turn to support it" instead of doing things to help themselves get support. But you can't deny their biggest outreach ever for Indies.
Also blew it on the system specs, even though that's not something I care about because I think the WiiU's graphics are really nice at times. But it obviously hindered it's ability to sell and get games.

@Dankykong: Yet the same thing applies for Sony and Microsoft only much more depressing than Nintendo.

Halo 5 generated half a million dollars through microtransactions is really scary because the concept of having microtransactions on a console game is a nightmare.

Speaking of which, I feel that people need to stop thinking that DLC and Microtransactions are the same thing which is a cash grab thing.

Microtransactions are cash grab, not DLC. DLC is more of the fact that if you want more content, then pay more, simple as that.

I don't care if Fates has this brand new way of buying both games because neither game sounds like they have a true ending. Putting DLC as aditional story and content all of a sudden feels like a cash grab? Both games have the same length which is 30 hours? Seriously, even if its 20 hrs, the fact that its a lot of content there for just getting one game alone proves my point.