Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Cool, just thought that might be why you were having difficulty with it, @BabyYoshi12 .... I've played some single=player games with shooting but that is somewhat different from most of them & I don't like the multiplayer ones

@Anti-Matter I salute you sir. For the most part, I don't care for guns or glorified killing in my games. I'm a 32 year old dude who will happily play animal crossing all day. I worked at gamestop about 10 to 12 years ago during the xbox 360/ps3/wii generation. It was tough being a Nintendo guy in that environment.

@BruceCM I’m pretty good at the multiplayer (imagine this in the least bragging way possible) just not at the Story Mode. My point is, the game is fun, I just wouldn’t say it’s the best game on the Switch, or even in the Top 5.

I ranked it #7 on my website, but it probably wouldn’t be in my Top 10 if I had more than 24 games. 😉

Mario Party 10: Everybody says ‘oh, this game is bad and nobody remembers it’. Well, imo, it’s the best Mario Party ever. I own 3 or 4 others on 3DS and they all suck in comparison to 10. I love playing as bowser against my family, admittedly.

lol low bar

I can see why you would think mario party 10 is the best entry when you’ve only ever played the 3ds entries

@1UP_MARIO @kkslider5552000 Still, the 3DS ones are worse. We all agree on that. So why aren’t they ‘horrible, forgotten games’ but 9 and 10 are?

@BabyYoshi12 9, 10, island tour star rush. They were all bad but that’s only my opinion

@Link-Hero I can’t tell if this is angled at Anti and me or not, but if it is, a game won’t be fun if you don’t like it. I don’t like shooters, so I won’t enjoy a shooter game so it won’t be my favourite game ever.

That depends, @Link-Hero .... There's some genres that have grown on me, including 3rd person shooters but those are good for single-player content, like Mass Effect Doesn't mean I'd get on as well with multi-player versions of them, let alone something like CoD, since I generally don't like 1st person much
The 1st person games I do manage aren't shooters (Cyberpunk 2077 will have plenty of options for how you deal with things & what weapons you use, if those are your choice)

I have Pikmin 3 on the WiiU, and tbh I don't like it that much....

@Link-Hero Assuming I'm part of "others", let me clarify: shooters are fine if thats your thing. They're not my thing. Jumping online and figuratively shooting others in the face just doesn't do it for me. I've been there, I've done that, I unlocked the achievement. I don't care for it anymore. If a game doesn't inspire me in some sort of creative way then it will never be a favorite game of mine and, to me, first person shooters are the starch of video games.

I love that description! XD
to add on to the point, I think there's something good to be said about consuming starch. Still, I think everyone must agree that most innovations in gaming do not necessarily come from these genres. For example, there is a increasing trend (I mean, it's practically predominant) to include RPG elements in pretty much everything. Shooters I great, but there's a reason they are mainly popular franchises that contains similar games with a fresh coat of paint. Which is not to say there aren't some absolutely AMAZING shooters, but I don't think any of them shine truly because of their online component (Maybe except Destiny? I'm not sure, honestly not that familiar with the genre besides Bioshock, Borderlands, Doom)

Maybe because this is a Nintendo forum, saying you don’t like shooters isn’t an unpopular opinion here. I’m fairly ambivalent, personally. I’ve played and enjoyed plenty, but they’re never near the top of my shopping list. Never played a CoD. I thought Bioshock was amazing, but it’s an immersive sim as much as an FPS. I’m interested in Borderlands and Metro, but I’ll probably pick up something like Obra Dinn before getting either of those. Maybe if this was a PC forum, there’d be more people pulling the trigger when someone says they don’t like shooters.

Unpopular opinion? Mario Kart is played out. The series is stale, and I’m not surprised there’s no Mario Kart 9, because Nintendo needs to offer more than new tracks or a new type of shell.

It’s not like the game needs more complexity - the simplicity is what makes it successful - but it needs something different while staying accessible and fresh. We need the Breath of the Wild of Mario Karts. What that means, I don’t know. Open world racing? Perhaps a massively multiplayer online open world? Maybe not - I hate online requirements for games - but the whole series needs turning on its head, or the only thing to bring people in is a slightly different combination of corners and prettier graphics.

@Dusk True. I think FPS' have become oversaturated in the last 10 to 15 years, and there's a limit to what you can do in that type of game architecture. The last few years it's been sandbox style games. 25 years ago it would have been 2D platformers that were everywhere and the FPS was new and innovative. The more things change the more they stay the same.

I dig Bioshock and Doom. I guess it comes down to the atmosphere. Racking up kills to win is a meaningless objective to me. Putting me in an outlandish situation where I have to explore and survive gives me more to engage with.

@Krull Yeah it's not really an unpopular opinion here - but I am really happy about that. I guess I went off on a tangent.

Yes, let’s all just play the games we want! We don’t need to criticize anybody!

The hate for FPS games enthralls me to this forum. Must because of people have played poorly made shooters. Or barely played any at all.

Eh, I know all I want to know about FPS'.

But what you mentioned may be the reason I don't like fighting games. Never good at them, never cared to "git gud". To fighting games I say "git accessible".

In recent years FPS games have had an increasingly poor reputation mainly because of lackluster COD campaigns, Battlefield’s lack of innovation, and the crappiness of games like Homefront: The Revolution.

But the recent Wolfensteins, Dooms, and Titanfall 2 prove that their is still life in single player FPS campaigns.

It’s kind of a dying breed though.