Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@DannyBoi I'm not going to disagree that the quality has slipped. Mine has been pretty good, but if you add up all the problems my friends have seen, things get weird. Overheating, drift right out of the box, connectivity issues... As a concept, I love the Switch, but it's got a few problems.

I do kinda miss how indestructible the older hardware was. I know that the 3DS is less complicated, but still, that thing is so durable. Mine's 6 and a half and has been used a ton (and dropped a few times), and it still works great.

Unpopular gaming opinions, eh? Some of these might not be unpopular, but a lot of them might be strange.

Wii shovelware has a certain amount of charm to it.

Link's Awakening is probably my favorite video game of all time. It fluctuates, but I kinda keep coming back to it after playing the remake all the way through twice last year. In my opinion, it has a really nice balance of challenge and accessibility, with clever puzzles, fun characters, and a really good twist. It really gets you thinking WAY more than you'd expect such a tiny game to do.

Sora in Smash seems to be somewhat of a tricky character to implement. Kingdom Hearts is so much a Disney thing that I wonder how far they'd have to go and how much they'd have to work to get it approved. He would be a good fit, though, so who knows?

Wario was completely ruined when his character became nothing more than a bunch of fart jokes.

I'm really tired of Bowser kidnapping Peach.

Here's kind of a doozy: Kirby isn't a platformer series. It's a beat em' up with some 2D adventure components. There is literally no challenge offered by the platforming aspect of Kirby. The games aren't exactly known to be hard of course, but if you do die, it's due to taking damage from enemies, who you normally dispatch with pretty complex and robust combos.

That is outrageous, and I disagree completely. Your favourite video game of all time is actually, er, Minesweeper.

TBH, Link's Awakening isn't my favourite video game of all time, or even my favourite Zelda, but it's definitely the best 2D Zelda I've played - which puts it pretty high on my list!

Mario Tennis Aces was pretty disappointing in my opinion.
I think Hot Shot Tennis on PS2 / PSP or Tennis from Bomberman Battles PS2 are more interesting than Mario Tennis Aces.

I guess this is an unpopular opinion... I like Super Mario Odyssey more than Breath of the Wild. BotW's still great though, I just had more fun with Odyssey

I've heard people compare Dark Souls and Zelda, saying DS is what Zelda would be in a darker, more realistic environment. I'm sure this will go over well, but to me Dark Souls is what you get if you take Zelda and strip away all the charm and magic. And I also felt it didn't respect my time. I really tried to like it and put in over 20 hours. I was to the point where I "got it" and understood what the game was, but I ultimately wasn't enjoying myself and stopped playing.

@DarthNocturnal both Minesweeper and Voltorb Flip are excellent games. I wouldn't be surprised if the latter made up half of my HGSS play time.

Not an opinion per se, but I find Sonic games to be weirdly difficult.

In terms of the classic games, it took the addition of a save function in a PS2 Sonic collection for me to be able to clear Sonic 2 & 3D Blast. Even with the aid of saving I've never beat Sonic 1, Sonic 3, or Knuckles.

In terms of newer games, I was only able to clear team Amy's route in Heroes, and gave up on Secret Rings early on due to it's odd progression system.

Don't think I've played a Sonic game since.

A game doesn't necessarily need to start with a bang. Slow starts are fine.

I remember really enjoying living as Link in Ordon Village at the start of Twilight Princess and I know most people really hated the slow start in that game. They wanted to see action. Meanwhile I was thinking I'd gladly play a game where Link is just living his ordinary life. I got the game quite late, after I'd already played Skyward Sword, and I knew next to nothing about the game. When I first started playing, I thought it looked bit ugly by then but I stopped paying attention to the muddy visuals as soon as I got to explore the village and meet up with its inhabitants. Something about that village was just special. I would've liked to live there in real life. I ended up really enjoying the rest of the game as well and it became my favorite Zelda game.

Then there's Kingdom Hearts II. I don't think too many people are fond of the beginning with Roxas. It's slow. You are just doing some mundane tasks from one day to another. Yet, I kind of liked it too... Last time I started playing KH2 again, I played the beginning with Roxas and then I stopped as soon as I got to play as Sora. Not sure why.

Now I'm starting to think that I just want to play a game where the hero is on a vacation or something. Something relaxing. Maybe something that starts with an A and comes out next month...

@Buizel I would've stayed at the Game Corner in HG/SS just for the music alone but I'm glad it was accompanied by a fun minigame.

@Late this reminds me of the Tomb Raider games. It was quite nice that the tutorial (Lara's Mansion) was more relaxed and bit of a playground...especially considering how brutal some of the games could be. More games should do tutorials like that.

Has anyone seen the maintence on March 9th for the Eshop? There are 4 sets of maintence all for the Eshop. On the same day.

I love Dark Souls, but this is a pretty reasonable take. Especially the wasting time part.

"Hey guys Dark Souls is all about rewarding difficulty!"
Dark Souls proceeds to waste your time going through easy enemies for the 20th time in order to hopefully spend more than 30 seconds against the boss

I also never liked the Zelda comparisons. I mean, I guess it's like Zelda if you only played Zelda 2 and the darkest parts of the N64 games.

Dark Souls games feel incomplete to me. Like the level design people and the character/enemy design people did their jobs right, but the people in charge of worldbuilding/dialogue/plot/scenario building just pretended to be working and, when the time came for the thing to be assembled into something that would resemble an actual commercial product, proceeded to freak out and hurriedly insert the little bits of work they did into various item descriptions and snippets of mostly inscrutable dialogue from the two or three NPCs the player would encounter through the rest of the game.

That's kinda true, but as I've made clear recently, I prefer the overly minimal storytelling over something like hours of cutscenes, that may or may not be compelling. Like Zelda voice acting, I want nothing over something done poorly.

Some people like the vague lore, I'm indifferent, I just like the atmosphere it creates for the gameplay. The intro cutscene was basically all I really needed.

Here I come:

-Piracy is ironically the best way to preserve games and other media. And sometimes, they offer a better experience than the legal versions (cough*noDRM*cough).

-I really don't care if the game in question is physical or digital. As long as it's playable offline, then I'm fine.

-I believe cloud gaming will just coexist with both consoles and PC.

-I think Nintendo overprotects their IPs when it comes to fanmade content (not just games, but art, music, fiction, etc.). I think they're fine as long as they're free.

Man HGSS had some killer tracks. I boogied hard to that game corner jam.

Switch has the best OS of any Nintendo console. Having your most recently played games as most accessible just makes sense, and seeing your wider collection in alphabetical order is the easiest way to find thing.

It does the job so that minimal time is spent on the menu, and maximal time is spent playing games.

1. Evoland 1 & 2 from Evoland Legendary Edition are much much much better than FF VII and FF VII remake.

2. I prefer Super Princess Peach DS than Super Mario Bros series.

On that topic, I go one level further. IP is a concept that was created as a favor to creators to encourage them to make content. It's utilization nowadays is a bastardization of it's original intent.

I think that fan games should even be able to charge. I think the Pokemon series is a perfect example of this. The fan games end up doing far more interesting things than the main series has been doing, and have actively worked to make the games more enjoyable to older fans. I'm not planning on giving TPC my money any time soon, because the only interesting things they've done with the series in decades have been Pokemon Colloseum and Pokemon Go. But given that fans are producing content I WANT to play, I'd much rather give them my money.

I believe that once you publish a product, you have sacrificed the "ownership" of the ideas that are transmitted in that work. While I think the original producer should still be credited, the fact of the matter is that I know what Pikachu looks like off the top of my head. I can probably draw it to some mild degree of accuracy, and I can probably describe certain personality traits from my interpretation of the character. That doesn't belong to TPC. It's my own thought, even if it was influenced by a game I have played.