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SuperWeird

The home button on the XBoxOne controller is at the top, far away from the joysticks. I have no problems with that controller (or the Wii U or Switch Pro controllers). The PS4 controller's home button is at the bottom, protruding up, right between the joysticks. My thumb accidentally hits that button constantly, which pops me out of the game and into the console home menus. I've lost so many EA UFC 2 fights on the PS4 because of this. I eventually re-bought that game for my XBoxOne and have been enjoying it there with no problems every since. I'm even putting off buying Horizon Zero Dawn because I dread using the PS4 controller for that many hours again. I mostly stick to my XBO and Switch because the PS4 controller sucks so bad. That's my unpopular opinion. @Buizel

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Haruki_NLI

I dont like the PS4 controller for many reasons, namely using micro-USB that can disconnect with use, the Options and Share buttons being surprsingly harder to hit than youd think, that useless light bar and touch pad, and the triggers activating if i put the thing down.

Its comfortable, and better than the PS3 by miles, but that battery life. Once Youve ised a joycon, Wii U or Switch Pro Controller, you dont go back to seeing that message over and over easily.

Want an unpopular opinion?

I think the PS4 is boring. Not bad. Not a poorly crafted machine. Just...boring. lifeless. What made the PS, PS2 and PS3 when affordable so fun to me was the experience and the games.

I sat through the Wii U with droughts and the games that did show up being fun at a minimum and interesting to me. I would rather that than a machine that gets games by the bucketload and very few if any interest me.

PlayStation feels very much like a shell to me. Maybe I never grew up? Maybe I want my childhood back? Who knows right?

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Xyphon22

I've still got a ways to go, but right now I don't think the Elder Scrolls is very good. I played Morrowind for a little bit years ago and never got into it. I'm playing Oblivion for the first time now and am underwhelmed. I am a Warrior class but still can't do much when fighting. I tend to eventually default to just running for my life whenever possible, I just had to get some dust from a Will-o-Wisp and sat there watching an NPC take it out for no apparent reason because I couldn't touch it. Now I have to kill 5 vampires in a cave to move on and I can't even make a scratch in the first one before it kills me, even though I only have to be level 2 to do the mission and I am at level 3. I'm still looking forward to trying Skyrim on Switch if I can beat Oblivion in time, but I'm having a hard time figuring out why everyone thinks this series is so good.

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NaviAndMii

If a games average review score is 7/10 - it's a good game!

A lot of people seem to lose their minds if a game that they we're hyped for ends up coming in at 7/10ish, which just makes no sense to me..! If a reviewer uses a 10 point scale to 'score' a game, there are 10 variables - ranging from 10 (Masterpiece) to 1 (Unplayable trash) ..on this scale, 5-6 is average - anything above 6 is, by definition, above average/good!

Take some N64 Metacritic scores:

There are the very best (9-10) - Perfect Dark, Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye, Mario 64 ..masterpieces!

Then there are really great games (8-8.9) - Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Extreme G, Mario Party, F-Zero X ..are they great? YES ..are they everyone's idea of absolute perfection? Probably not.

Then there are the 6's and 7's - Super Smash Bros., Mario Party, Quake, Yoshi's Story, Duke Nukem 64, Mission:Impossible ..these games are far from being trash! Smash was great...if you like that sort of thing! Mario Party was a great, fun party game...just not quite 'gaming perfection'! Yoshi's Story was a lot of fun...but maybe not challenging enough for some! Quake wasn't everyone's cup of tea...but many rate it as the best shooter ever! I had a lot of fun with Mission:Impossible and Duke Nukem too - but they perhaps didn't have the lasting appeal of a Perfect Dark/GoldenEye..

Quake is a great example - Metascore: only 74 ...why? It's not for everyone! My sister wouldn't play it...I have friends who didn't really like it...but there are those of us that absolutely love it - and revere the developers as demi-God's! There's brutality, there's gore - Trent Resnor did the score...these are things that aren't to everyone's tastes - but if they are to your tastes - you'd probably rate the game closer to an 8 or a 9 (maybe even a 10) youself! ..you are the guy/girl that the developers were targeting! I personally prefer Quake to the much-better-reviewed Rayman 2 (Metascore: 90) - Rayman might be a more well rounded game, but I'm, personally, more of a Quake fan..!

Don't dismiss games because of a perceived 'average' review - read the criticism, watch some gameplay, find a reviewer who likes the things you like and see what they think - make up your own mind! ..a 9/10 is a game that you probably can't go too far wrong with - but you might just find a 6-8/10 game that is more suited to your individual tastes!

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@NaviAndMii I guess the backlash against games hovering around the 7 mark is a bit like the snobby adage, "life's too short for average wine" (or whatever the actual version is).

Games are a luxury for a lot of people who have limited time and funds to spend on them (though apparently enough time to talk about them on the internet). As such, I think many people are only willing to invest the time and money if the product is deemed to be not just 'decent', but 'excellent'. So they turn their nose up at anything under 8. I'm probably as guilty of this as anyone.

However, it's a compelling list of games you've come up with, and there are definitely titles there I'm glad not to have missed out on. I think you've got a point, basically. And I think people are too obsessed with scores to begin with. Metacritic is the primary ammunition in this generation's console wars, and it's a bit sad to watch people get so angry over the numbers.

And I'm not even sure about 9 rated games being ones you "can't go wrong with". In fact, I think a good chunk of the 'unpopular opinions' here are from people who've played 9s and didn't come away feeling like their world had been set alight. If anything, you're likely to feel more disappointed from not loving a 9 than you are if you found a 7 'surprisingly decent fun'.

But that's basically just proving your wider point; it basically comes down to the individual, and things shouldn't be overlooked just because they're not universally held up as beacons of crastsmanship.

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@BLP_Software 100% agree about the DualShock 4. Every point you brought up about it good and bad mirrors my own. Nicely done! I also agree about PS4, but I'd walk that back to PS3 as well. PS1, PS2 had life and personality. PS3 never actually did. Maybe at the beginning, year one or maybe the first two years it did. Not as much as 2. And then it became lifeless after that. PS4 continued the lifelessness and doubled down on it. It's a tiny PC now. It plays PC games, as an invisible black box. There's nothing about the hardware that's exciting. I think starting with PS3 and the BD push Sony wanted to ALSO sell it as home theater equipment not just a games console. So they had to change the approach and feel to match their BD players, receivers, and Betamax decks. It had to become boring and invisible.

OTOH, if PS4 is boring, then what do we call the XBone? It has even less personality. It actually IS a Windows PC, complete with Windows 10 interface.

@NaviAndMii I think the hype machine is the reason. I thing the problem is the public tends to believe the marketing and then feels betrayed every time they find out the marketing hyperbole wasn't an absolute. Every hyped game, people are told it's the thing you've been waiting for, the thing that will change the way you view games, the one that will take everything you liked before and do all of it more and better than anything that has come before. It's going to be the cool one, the popular one the one that everyone talks about, the one game that you absolutely can't miss, it's the one that must be seen! And then it releases, gets a 7/10 and that dream of a transcendental experience is revealed as just another game with all the usual ups and downs, nothing revolutionary. It probably doesn't help that a lot of the world of gaming has a lot of young people who are generally naieve and stupid and since they haven't experienced much before then assume the marketeers are actually oracles divining unrevealed truth, rather than knowing they're just sleazy marketeers promoting average things as amazing

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NaviAndMii

@Maxz Yeah, I'd agree with that One example of a 9-ish game that didn't particularly set my world alight - perhaps controversially - was Majora's Mask...I totally get why it's so widely loved and admired - I certainly don't think it's terrible - but I, personally, don't like any sense of urgency in that type of game! ...luckily, I borrowed the game from a friend, so it didn't cost me anything to find out - had it, though, I probably would have slightly regretted not spending my pocket money on a less critically acclaimed game that was more to my particular tastes!

On iMDB, for example, it's pretty rare for a horror movie to score above a 6 or 7/10 - but, to fans of the genre, those same movies could be 9's and 10's ..you like what you like - and you'll only know for sure if you give it a try

That's why I suggest that people should watch some gameplay video's for games: if it looks like your kind of game - and you liked the hour-or-so of footage you've seen - chances are, unless the game takes a sudden and dramatic turn for the worst, you'll be glad you trusted your instinct over the words and scores of some random gaming journalists - the majority of which you probably have little in common with!

@NEStalgia Absolutely! ..like with No Man's Sky last year - it got super-hyped, then panned, then there was almost universal consternation! ..some of the haters had valid criticisms of course - but the disappointment people felt was certainly, in part, down to the insane levels of hype surrounding the game! I played it and I liked it (a lot) - but I had realistic expectations for which it easily surpassed! ..people building it up to be some kind of life-defining game were bound to be disappointed if it turned out to be any other type of grail than the Holy one!

...keep your glass half-empty at all times I say!

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Wii was great depending on the game
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diwdiws

@Xyphon22 seriously its not a hard game, im sorry but i find very difficult to understand why you find oblivion hard. The complaint of most people in oblivion and skyrim is how easy it is to be overpowered. Especially in oblivion.

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NaviAndMii

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On the subject of Nintendo's controllers ... N64 was terrible

How very dare you! This right here...

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...is the best controller of all time!

Magnifique!

(EDIT: Well, maybe not the best...but I have a real soft spot for it! Hold it one way and you have a D-Pad, hold it another and you have an analog stick - genius!)

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Xyphon22

@diwdiws On the contrary, I have been shocked at how easy it is to just run and survive, and how far I am in the game already even though I haven't played that much. It is why this one guy I can't beat has frustrated me. And when I looked up online to see if I was missing something, the best FAQ I saw also said how strange they found it that this first vampire was so difficult to defeat.

@DarthNocturnal Yes, I slept to level up both times the game told me to. Honestly, my biggest problem is probably that I have not really taken the time to learn all of the intricacies of the game, but considering I am level 3 and only have to be level 2 to try this mission, I thought I should be able to do it easily. But I bought a PS3 just for games I have missed, which so far include this, Bioshock, Ni No Kuni, and the Mass Effect Trilogy, and this is the first one I am playing. Plus I still own and haven't played XCX. So I am purposefully not really taking my time so I can get to some of these other games. But I don't really want to spend as much time studying the manual and the game menus to learn all of these things about skill leveling and such as I do playing the actual game, and the fact that it seems like you have to is yet another reason that I don't think this game is as good as everyone makes it out to be.

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Xyphon22

@DarthNocturnal Yeah, I can do that, and I might have to. But as I said above, I really was just trying to go as fast as possible to move on to other games. Plus, what do I do? More "evidence" for my unpopular opinion that the game isn't that great: I have found literally nothing to do moving through the world other than kill the random rat or crab, so I have fast travelled whenever possible. I will probably have to stop that in order to engage more battles and level up my skills, but I have found that very boring in this game, unlike in, say, Xenoblade Chronicles where I had a ton of quests I could go do to grind or even just random enemies in the world were a lot more interesting than in this game. And how many rats and crabs will I have to kill in order to level up my fighting skills enough to be able to kill five vampires? I'm assuming a whole heck of a lot.

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shaneoh

DarthNocturnal wrote:

Did you sleep to level up? Oblivion's level scaling is a tad... well, awkward.

Just a bit. I maxed out my stats, hit level 40 and had to mod in some stronger equipment because goblins were taking 15 minutes each to kill.

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Xyphon22

@DarthNocturnal First, I'm not really trying to speedrun it or anything. I do want to enjoy it, I'm just not doing to do a lot of extra stuff that I know is completely off the beaten trail. Second, this is part of the main questline. Martin has said there are 4 things I need to open a gate to Paradise, and the first is a daedric something or other, which I will get by beating these vampires. I know online it says there are 15 of them and any of them will do even though the game pushes the player towards this particular one, but only one other one does not require you to be like level 10 at least, so I'm just doing the one that I know about.

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Xyphon22

Yeah, it's funny because everywhere I've seen online says this artifact is one of the best ones in the game so you do not want to use it for this quest requirement because you want to keep it for yourself, but that means I would have to go do a second quest and I don't think I want to put in the time and effort. And I'm sure that this is a game that I would probably enjoy a lot more if I took the time to really get to know all the systems, but honestly, that just seems like too much work to play a video game (maybe another unpopular opinion, I felt the same way about whichever Batman game came out near the launch of Wii U. I gave up and sold it because there were like 500 pages of in-game tutorials to read to learn how to do all of his moves). I have a couple of things I want to try next time I play, and if none of them work, I may just resort to lowering the difficulty
(which I didn't even know you could do and I'll have to figure out how) and really searching for FAQs, although none I've looked at so far seem to say anything other than "defeat the vampires."

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TuVictus

My unpopular opinion is that breath of the wild is nowhere near as earth shattering as people make it out to be and to be honest does open world only marginally better than its competition. And I'm disappointed that this is the formula they're sticking with. The weapon durability is awful, and can be vastly improved without doing away with it. The story is so Barebones, there is alot less to do than people would have me believe in this giant world, and to be honest I'd rather have another game like skyward sword just to get the motion controls back instead of this mindless button mashing until your weapon breaks and you have to switch to another.

If you get mad at me, you lose the game of the thread.

Disclosure: I still liked it, it's just my least favorite 3D Zelda.

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shaneoh

@Xyphon22
You can always use console commands, or duplication glitches to get another copy of the reward. It is a very useful reward if you enchant a lot of things or use magical weapons.

Edit: I believe fire weapons will help you with your little vampire problem.

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diwdiws

@Operative2-0 i actually agree. I mean its a good game, i just dont find how its better than any other good games i played this year.

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96OopAmgems

My unpopular Opinion is that I think Ocarina of Time really did not age well and that it sucks now. I loved it back when it was new but I replayed it on the 3DS and I actually did not like it. In fact replaying it got rid of my love for that game. By todays standarts it is just boring to me.

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