Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@CreamyDream, glad to hear I'm not alone, lol.

Normally I would agree, that's why I skipped it at launch. But it looks like the coolest Kirby game since Return to Dreamland (which is...one of only 6 Kirby games that I really like. And two of the others are drastic departures from the standard formula, btw)

If they made a 3D HD Kirby game I think I would need at least 3 pairs of underpants to cope with the visual overload.

5 pairs of underpants if they made it a Kirby/Yoshi crossover.

Planet Robobot is a ton of fun. Probably the most fun I've ever had with a Kirby game, to be honest.

Oh I have an actual new one!!!

Star Fox Zero is better than either Sin and Punishment game.

Sin and Punishment 2 I couldn't get into. The Star Fox series is better than the Sin and Punishment series. I think each Star Fox game is better than each Sin and Punishment game.

That said, I still enjoyed Sin and Punishment 1 and want to give Star Successor another chance

I never finished 2 but I partially loved Sin and Punishment 1's story, just because it was so ridiculous that it was kinda fun. But the gameplay, while fun, just didn't do a lot for me other than "this is a fun enough video game I guess!"

Also, this is purely a guess, but I do wonder if playing the original on VC with a GCN controller was a mistake. One of the problems I had with that is that it never felt quite right playing it that way. I kinda assume it must've played better on an N64 controller.

I played it on the Classic Controller and it felt pretty good

I never played the first one, but I loved Sin and Punishment 2. Yes, it was incredibly silly, but it was just so exciting, action-packed and insane that I could easily forgive it. Also, the controls were very tight, and the difficulty was just perfect. All of these areas are problems I have with star fox zero, where I just don't find it that exciting at all (especially that accursed gyrocopter level), the controls are a mess, and the difficulty just feels artificial.

"Lacked variety" and "few reasons to revisit the game" are the last complains I would leverage at Sin & Punishment. The harder difficulties are practically different games entirely, there's collectables (sort of, I don't remember what they actually did), and they had some of the most ecclectic boss fights I've ever seen. The stages themselves didn't reinvent the wheel the way Star Fox does, but honestly, most Rail Shooters usually stick to one style for their stages. Star Fox is the exception rather than the norm. S&P is more like a super-advanced Space Harrier rather than a Star Fox clone, so in that light, I think it does a pretty great job of keeping things interesting between bosses.

It's those controls in the N64 version that I hate. Plus, it kinda throws way too much at you all at once. "Bad story presentation" is putting it mildly. It's practically the second half of a recap episode of a TV series that never existed, and the audience is never even given a moment to process it. S&P2 is even worse in this regard, because even as a sequel, it makes no freakin' sense!

@CanisWolfred Oh yeah, it makes absolutely no sense at all - I didn't even play the first game so you can imagine how confused I was! - but Sin and Punishment 2 was just so much insane fun that it's one of the few games where I'm almost oblivious to its flaws, I just have such a great time playing it

Oh, so you played through the entire game on Hard first time through? I'm impressed.

Because that's the only way you'd see everything. I'm not kidding, those harder modes actually change a lot and introduce things that don't show up on lower difficulties. It's also one of those games where you only get the true end on higher difficulties, IIRC. Same with S&P2.

Yeah, I was being a little sarcastic at that part. But easy vs. normal vs. hard changes more than just health and enemy spawns, there were whole new sections of levels, IIRC, and bosses ususally had extra forms. I remember playing through on Normal, then switched to easy to find levels were shorter - not faster, shorter, and of course I've watched people play on hard (I can't beat that one meteor boss on Normal, I've tried at least a dozen times, and it's hard enough just to get to him), and...let's just say my complaints about that Meteor Boss on normal are nothing compared to it's hard mode form. @_@

1) The best song on the UnderTale OST is Battle Against a True Hero.
2) Pikmin's soundtrack is underrated.
3) Sonic CD's soundtrack is overrated.

I don't care about video game soundtracks.

I mean, I like some of the vocal tracks that open or close a game (such as Simple & Clean, Snake Eater, or Live & Learn), but the music that plays during gameplay is something I've never ever given a single thought to.

Maybe it's because I always had to keep the volume mute as a kid (especially on the Game Boy), but I've just been conditioned to ignore the soundtrack (when I first started visiting forums, seeing people talk about video game OST's, I was pretty much like huh, I never really noticed).

I prefer the squishyness of the master system directional pad over the slightly stiff nes directional pad.

@MrMario02 Ooh, I'm gonna have to disagree about number 1 there. I do think it's a brilliant track (like the entirety of the undertake soundtrack), but I don't think it's as good as a number of other tracks, like CORE, death by glamour, megalovania, hopes and dreams, SAVE the world, spider dance and Undertale. Still, I can understand how you would love Battle against a true hero, it's just not to my tastes entirely. Just out of interest, did you play the genocide route in Undertale?

@BranJ0 I got to the Sans and after 50 or so tries, I asked myself "Why exactly am I doing this again?" and gave up.

I remember people complaining about the DS Life's D-pad being too "mushy", but it's one of my favorite d-pads. I like the softness of it.

People weren't being too harsh about Sunshine when it came out. The game has a lot of flaws.

The difference is that Sunshine was actually fun. Sticker Star is trash.