Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Yeah I am extremely excited to try FFXII actually. The combat looks pretty good, and if it's like some altered version of Xenoblade's combat (at least from what I heard), I'm all for it. If it hits me on a gameplay level, it can easily be my favorite Final Fantasy.

@Ralizah Finally, you are making sense. Tifa is the best in FFVII :^]

@Bunkerneath Octopath almost got it perfectly. Trash mobs were a joy to fight. But there was little exploration and a lot of "bee-line through a few paths to a boss"....that's the style of that team...they do the same with Bravely....and I dislike it, but at least it's their style. I would still have loved it but the boss battles took forever with the regenerating damage sponge bosses and it's tendency to move in waves of "attack the grunts, attack the boss, store up and recover, repeat". Brevity in boss battles would have made the game beautifully paced but I grew tired of girding for those fights into chapter 3 and lost interest in favor of WoFF, depressingly enough.

@Ralizah The cape looks odd, but it's actually very functional. The gliding, and lift/flying abilities. Especially once you start opening Switches and thus filling in dotted lines to form ramps for vertical wall runs etc....the cape is pretty utilitarian and expands the gameplay. I just missed "furry" Mario versus boring cape guy at first.

Chrono Trigger.
True. But 'dat Dragon Tank.....

FFXII: Yeah, I haven't played through tons of it, but the gameplay definitely feels more on target. FFXIII gameplay is excellent though. IT gets overlooked because the story is so bad, the characters so annoying, and the early game so boring. But the battle system is arguably fantastic. Much as I've hated 13 until recently, I always gave it credit for the battle system.

Aerith: LOL! I never thought cloud x Tifa, it was always Aerith in my mind. And the producer's That reminds me of an old meme about "Tifa did it". I also just learned not to ever, ever google "tifa" and "aerith" in the same search.

I always lean on my healers in every RPG. I learned the habit with Peach in SMRPG.

@NEStalgia 13's battle system is probably my favorite in terms of all the FF's (next to being allowed to swap out party members in X). The paradigms really made you think on your toes alot of the time, which is why I find it hilarious that people insist that "the game plays itself".

@NEStalgia Since apparently I love things that are bad :^[ looks like eventually I'll have to plop down some money for FFXIII on Steam to see what you're talking about. A friend of mine also said the same thing actually, so maybe there is truth to it all.

Also Peach in Mario RPG is literally the most disgusting party member I have ever seen in an RPG. With her on your team, you will never die. It's literally an impossibility to die with her in your team.

@EvilLucario They made some pretty huge changes to the license board system in The Zodiac Age, so I'm excited to see how it'll impact the gameplay. Considering the eventual depth of the gambit system and the cool monster hunting side-quests, I could definitely see you enjoying FFXII more than other games in the series.

And yeah, Tifa is a great character. People like to overemphasize her... um... natural assets, but she's also a fantastic fighter (really dig her final limit break) and a dedicated friend. She saw Cloud through situations that Aerith wouldn't even be able to comprehend!

Also, her slap-off with Scarlett is the best thing ever. <3

@PikPi Yeah, I think the "you can beat the game by pressing A" thinking comes from people that played just long enough until they broke their displays trying to punch Hope in the face....so about the first 5+ hours, before finally giving up and screaming. For that first section the game basically forces you to just mash Auto-Battle non-stop and do little else. Most people probably quit by then and never got to the actual high tension, fast paced battles and never found out the battles get really good.

@EvilLucario LOL! I think that's a must Yeah battles are fantastic, it's just tied together by a dismal story and pacing with annoying characters. It's worth noting that XIII-2 and Lightening returns are actually very good. 2 Fixes most of the pacing problems, and 3 has an all new battle system that's more actiony but still ATB and very good...everyone just hates them and never tried them because of their (justified) hatred of XIII

Peach: So? I don't play RPGs to "make them difficult as possible", I play to use the available systems to make it easy as possible. That's why you're a hero, you're more powerful than the enemy...that's the point of leveling up and gaining godly powers! Artificially avoiding using the abilities the game makes you earn to make it harder for nor reason but to punish yourself doesn't make sense...the whole point of the RPG is to get strong

@Ralizah: Tifa: otherwise known as "Aerith's replacement"

Tifa was there before Aerith.

So she's the original Aerith.

@NEStalgia Well as apparently a masochist, I do love challenge runs. I enjoyed my time doing a level 1 Crono run of Chrono Trigger (but I couldn't be bothered for FF) and will eventually try Dark Souls/Bloodborne at level 1/4 respectively, but yeah. RPGs can be fun both having a power trip and limiting yourself.

@ReaderRagfihs The problem with Gau is that you can grind the Veldt for hours bothering to learn the proper Rage and get the right equipment... or just easily grind Economizers/Souls of Thamasa and just spam dual-cast Ultima spells. Gau CAN be way more OP than the rest, but you need to put in a lot more effort and understand how the Veldt works. Not exactly the case with Ultima spam. Or Quick. Or just raise your Magic block to 128. Or whatever.

Granted Gau does have easy Rages like the Stray Cat, but for other good Rages you need to really grind.

@NEStalgia Aerith tried to muscle in on Tifa's territory and got a sword through the gut for her trouble.

She was there before Aerith, and she was there after. Aerith was a passing part of Cloud's life. Tifa is there for the long haul.

FE/Hyrule Warriors are not as good as other licensed Musō games.

to be fair, neither does Ocarina of Time since it was surpassed basically every time Nintendo made a 3D Zelda. :V

@kkslider5552000 If I could give a thumps up strong enough to show how much I agree with this, my thumbs would break away from my hands and end up flying directly to the sun.

FFVII, despite its niggles, was a true blockbuster. It showed that JRPGs could do huge numbers outside of Japan and, more broadly, demonstrated to a huge worldwide audience the potential of video games to tell ambitious, intelligent, complex, and emotional stories. To this day, it's a unique and ambitious video game whose unique cocktail of elements has never been successfully replicated.

OoT was huge at the time, and is rightfully acclaimed, but several sequels to it have iterated and improved upon almost every aspect of its game design.

Mario 64 is severely overrated. Don't @ me.

@ReaderRagfihs BotW to be completely honest with you. I generally do not like Zelda, and it's very telling of my tastes that my two favorite Zelda games ever are BotW and Zelda II, with OoT as a fairly distant #3 and everything else really lumped into one group of meh.

I honestly can't tell you why since by all accounts I should like Zelda, but I just don't. I tried LttP but I got bored after 6 dungeons in the Dark World and never finished. I tried Wind Waker HD but could barely beat the Temple of the Gods before getting bored. Admittedly I never tried Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, or the Oracle games so I can't really say. I despised Zelda 1... Majora's Mask, Link's Awakening, Minish Cap, and Link Between Worlds similarly didn't exactly grab my attention... something about Zelda couldn't grab me until BotW where suddenly I enjoyed that game so much. It's not in my top 5 games of 2017, but it's still damn good enough to captivate me, a non-Zelda fan.

I tried multiple times before AND after Zelda II and BotW and even OoT (because I at least did enjoy that game a bit) to try getting into Zelda and it just never clicks and it makes me confused because on paper I SHOULD love Zelda due to what it offers, but I just don't.

@ReaderRagfihs Soul Reaver, Okami and Okamiden
Zelda like, not actual Zelda games but I think those were better and Soul Reaver came just a year after Ocarina of Time with superb narrative and voice acting.

Wind Waker is my personal favourite. Right now I'm playing Majora's Mask for the first time and I'm liking it more than Ocarina already. Don't get me wrong, I do like Ocarina but it simply feels basic in comparison to the other 3D entries, and it's nomal that it does since it's the first 3D entry. I think Twilight Princess might be the weakest 3D entry though... It might have been my hype but I found that game to be a chore at many times and not live up to all the waiting.

@ReaderRagfihs So far, I would say Wind Waker HD, with Breath of the Wild not too far off. Love the sense of adventure in both games. Funny you mentioned it because I just played Twilight Princess HD recently.

As for my unpopular opinion, although I'm a huge Nintendo fan, I don't like Pokemon that much. Not the biggest fan of Animal Crossing either.

I once played Paper Mario with a 5 HP limit on max health.

It was fun.

I don’t know if this is extremely gaming related, but the Super Mario Bros. Super Show is somehow unironically funny.

@ReaderRagfihs Some of them are real classics, such as Star Koopa, Raiders of The Lost Mushroom, Robo Koopa, and other ones I forgot about since I haven’t seen them in a year.