Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Gunpei Yokoi thought that a game has to be essentially competitive and didn't understand the appeal of RPGs. Now THERE is an unpopular opinion!

@NEStalgia I think my main problem with Yoshi's Island was the pacing when playing longer sessions. I didn't marathon it exactly, but I did tend to play multiple levels in hour-long sessions or so.

Overall it's a decent game that clearly had a lot of TLC put into it. That said, parts of World 5 had me seizing at different points (Sooo much falling. It's like dealing with Moldorm in LoZ). Plus, I think Baby Mario is an effective tool for Mushroom Kingdom Parenting 101. 🤪

I believe Yoshi’s island is meant to give you a bit of freedom, you decide how much you want to do in every level.

If you decide to go and scrutinize every level to find every secret, then yes, it will be a slow frustrating slog. But you can also just play the levels at you own pace.

I just find the game a little bit slippery or floaty. I often end up scrambling to stay on a platform after a jump.

Negative:
-Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum are the worst Main Games in the Series
-Yoshi's Woolly World & Yoshi's Crafted World are rather mediocre
-The New 3DS XL is the worst out of all Modells in the 3DS Family
-A Link to the Past isn't even in my Top 10 Zelda Games

Positive:
-The Minish Cap ist my favorite Zelda Game
-The very first Nintendo DS Modell has the best feeling Controls in the DS Family
-Brawl is better than Melee
-Super Mario Land 2 is my favorite 2D Mario Game

@Nagi I am really curious why you rank the New 3DS XL below the original 3DS XL or the 2DS XL. I would assume if one didn't like the XL model, they wouldn't like any of them.

Blasphemy @Woomy_NNYes this is the Unpopular Gaming Opinions Forum but you go to far my friend.

Smash Bros. current online rules approach is far better than For Fun vs. For Glory.

I think the reason it seems like most people dislike it is because the people complaining are the people who always played For Glory, because I'm not sure they understood how much For Fun SUCKED. I'm not a hardcore Smash Bros player, but I do like for my games to have SOME level of skill involved. Winning an all-items on with frequent spawning 4-player 2 minute timed battle on Wily's Castle isn't fun. It feels like winning a coin flip.

I much prefer being able to enjoy Smash online with rules that preserve the fun without becoming completely arbitrary.

I'm not disagreeing with the idea that CTR is better since I haven't played it, but its absurd how anyone could play Mario Kart 8 and even imply its imprecise or sluggish. Doubly so since I remember how the early Mario Karts play by comparison.

I smell a supporter of Activision’s surprise microtransactions!

Thought of some more of my unpopular opinions...

Thinking about the game last night, Shadow the Hedgehog still had its fun moments, even if it was dark for a Sonic series game. Kind of in the mood to play it again.

I sometimes enjoy spin-off games more than the mainline games in any series I like. Like Mario Kart over something like Super Mario Odyssey, for lack of a better example.

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is really one underrated/overlooked Wii U game, and I enjoy it every time I play it.

Here's an unpopular opinion: I actually have a real fondness for Gex: Enter the Gecko and Gex: Deep Cover Gecko, despite their many flaws. We actually discussed this on my podcast this week. The gameplay has some serious problems and I hate the way collectibles were handled in DCG, but the one-liners still crack me up (even though they're outdated) and I love the playful, tongue-in-cheek theme and art design. I would kill for a modern sequel or remaster.

DDR is far better than Rhythm Heaven or Taiko no Tatsujin.
I can get addicted to play DDR all day long.

I enjoyed Brawl much more than Melee and Smash4. Ultimate finally dethroned Brawl.
Shadow The Hedgehog was fun for its time.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was a MAJOR letdown. I went in expecting to get hooked like the original on the Wii but nope, it drags on and on. Lets not even get started on the horrible character designs and cheesy dialogue.
I'm hoping they rerelease the original with HD touchups on the Switch someday.

its been ages so i went to see what i originally wrote in this thread. i was pretty brutal, i even shocked myself

this is the best thing i've ever written lol

though to actually try to add to the thread, people mad about the new pokemon should try the many RPGs that actually care about story instead. As much as I like Pokemon, I feel less and less that "you can catch monsters to fight for you" is reason alone to play it over other games in the genre.

I bought Sonic Forces last year on Switch and enjoyed it.

Bloodstained could be my top game of this year game is so freaking good!!!!

Same here. I even enjoyed the music and since I didn't played Banjo because I was that child that rarely try new things, I see DK 64 music as a Mario 64 case, where they put new music since it was a 3D game instead of a 2D one.

As for the unpopular opinion (which I almost forgot 😅), I like Spyro more than Crash. I finally played Crash Trilogy (Switch) a month ago thanks to a causing who brought Crash so we could both play. While I like the challenges and that the characters are funny, I still like Spyro more despite barely playing their games since I only played on the PS1 of another familiar and they rarely let me play it.

Chibi form, Cute looking, Colorful graphics and Appropriate for Kids / Teens are my criterias for Instant Buy games.

The first 2 Saints Row games are better than any GTA game

I loved that game as a kid! Not a game that springs to mind when I think about games I've played in the past though.

Unpopular opinion, hmmm, I guess the fact I don't care much for any of the Metroid games, but do love quite a few games inspired by it (and therefore think those are [much] better). In Metroid's defence, I've never played any of the games all that much except for Metroid Prime 3 (I think), but I have tried many and never felt "hooked".