Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Mobile gaming is trash and a cancer that is watering down and hurting the industry as a whole. It is promoting lowest common denominator game development and a horde of low quality, badly developed games. Not to mention countless blatant clones and rip offs. The trend of free to play - pay to play more - games preys on those with a tendency to get addicted to things. Furthermore the gatcha random lootbox type systems popularized by it specifically prey on those vulnerable to gambling addictions.

Also touch screen gaming is low quality, hard to control, imprecise and unintuitive

My name is Lz and I am addicted to Fire Emblem Heroes.

Some games really work on the smartphone level too- like Mystic Messenger when I last played it, really follows the time and stuff from your phone, and I really liked the phone-like-interface.

There's some games that will never work out in other platforms, because they are built with the smartphone idea in mind. (And while a lot of mobile games are bad, some of them are good too!)

Someone needs to read some Atari and NES history. There were hordes of bad games then.

As someone whose been slowly going through the NES' library, yeah bad games are nothing new. And mediocre at best games no one should've ever paid full price for even more so.

I agree, but more than anything I hate so much touch screen controls, I can't even find the words to express how much I hate it. I know it seems the less bad thing amongst those and probably is the less bad in fact (it is not implemented with a malevolent will to abuse customers) but I hate it so much anyway, I hate it more than anything else.

More than kidnappers?

Been there, done that. You literally sound like a PC gamer from the mid-90s angry at console games and gamers for turning their beloved hobby into a shallow farce. You make me so nostalgic of my youth❤
Because of course there weren't bad games before mobile games. There weren't thousands of clones of Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Tetris, Super Mario, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Mario Kart, Doom, Tomb Raider...

And of course, if it weren't for mobile games, our beloved "industry❤" wouldn't prey on those with a tendency to get addicted to things with pre-oders, collector's editions, limited runs, toys, cardboard, collectibles, games that are not complete yet but will be completed via free updates in the years to come but you buy them anyway on day-one because you're addicted to buying games, games that you buy twice, three, four, five times because the company wouldn't go into the minimal effort of making the 25 years old .rom you purchased compatible with the new hardware, games that are more expensive in digital form than in physical form although the digital form costs way less, games that are overhyped through false advertising to preys on people's addiction to have the latest and greatest game etcetera etcetera.

Oh and of course no discussion on mobile games would be complete without calling the controls "unintuitive" because yeah, in the early days they were, but none of the "critics" has bothered to play a decent mobile game released after 2014 apparently.

But I mean, it's very funny how console gamers look down on mobile gaming exactly like PC gamers used to look down on console gaming. As a mobile gamer, I feel I need to find somebody to look down on. I heard the tamagotchi scene is quite evil.

(Slowly puts his tamagotchi back into his pocket)

@spizzamarozzi pc gamers look down on console gaming and console gamers look down on pc gamers as well, because both console gaming ad PC gaming always had their strenghts and their downsides so each one always could feel superior than the other part. One usually see the strong points of his choice and don't see the downsides because if you choose something you probably are not bothered by its downsides that much. I am a console gamer and don't like PC gaming and honestly I never felt like anybody was in the position to look down on me, I hear sometimes people talking about how inferior consoles are, I know that they probably don't even know what they are missing and I just feel sorry for them.

Since I got everyone on this site incredibly triggered by defending Sega I'm going to do it again and I don't care.

Rare was never bad and it is just a mostly biased opinion spread by Nintendo fans and those afraid of change. Also, Sea of Thieves looks down right excellent(not sure how unpopular that is but just wanted to say it).

Everyone is biased to some extent.

Got Nuts and Bolts. Had no idea (haven’t played BK) what it was, but it lost me. Was one of those games that just bored me.

The problem with post-Nintendo Rare is that most of the people who made Goldeneye, Donkey Kong Country etc left to create their own companies and put out some excellent titles like Timesplitters 2, it's completely accurate to say Rare wasn't the same as it wasn't the same people doing the games.

Also the head of Xbox publicly complained Rare weren't as good as they use to be since taking them over.

After coming to terms that we'd never get a classic style BK again, Nuts and Bolts was great fun. Music was especially great, too

@jump Here it begins folks. Exactly what I was talking about.

This is an example of the I'm afraid of change approach. 'The old guard wasn't there and did something else so it all has to be bad'

Where did I say it was bad? I highlighted how Microsoft were disapointed by Rare and there was a noticeable change in Rare, you're askewing it to mean bad.

@jump Is this the quote you are referring to from when they laid off staff? "At Xbox, our goal is to constantly create new fun, social and interactive entertainment experiences. As part of Rare's commitment to this goal, we have made a decision to change our development process and methodology at Rare to best support our future projects, this has led to us reviewing the skills and the makeup of our development teams in our business." Cause that hardly is saying that....

That was PR speak for Kinetic is flop. But I was mentioning about from Pete Moore talking about how Rare couldn't recreate the glory years;

https://kotaku.com/5050970/peter-moore-on-rare-skills-not-app...

@jump the problem with post Nintendo Rare is that even when they worked with Nintendo they weren't that good. Donkey Kong Country SNes games are probably the most overrated platformers ever made. Thank heavens we have Retro studios now. I think that Metroid prime 2 and expecially Metroid prime 3 are extremely overrated and bland compared to Metroid prime 1 and Tropical freeze is a little less perfect than Donkey Kong Country Returns but anyway Retro Studios is still far better than Rare have ever been and their games are far better than Rare games were.

@jump So you mean Pete Moore does what he always does. Leaves one company and talks trash about the previous job he had.