Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@jump You make my point for me. Not a lot of notable names that aren’t already in Smash Ultimate, so we have to get more and more obscure. And Waluigi is to the Mario franchise what Duffy is to Mickey Mouse.

@Euler I'd say Wailuigi is to Mario what Horace Horsecollar is to Mickey.

Waluigi is like ten times more attractive tho

Guess it depends on who you ask, this being the internet and all

@Eel Nah. Pauline, DK Jr, or Stanley the Bugman would probably fill that role (obscure character from the very early era).

@Euler Pauline would fit that role if she wasn't present in Odyssey. I'd say she's a pretty popular character now, or at the very least drastically more popular than her early days.

@Apportal Yeah, pre-2017 Pauline.

Horace is pretty much still in use, in minor Disney shows that need an extended cast. Though he was often used as a rival for Goofy, not sure if that's still part of his character.

So kinda like a Waluigi in that regard. It's got less to do with age, and more with the use. Daffy duck is not even part of Disney. (Yet!)

The George Lucas of video games is surely George Lucas.

He did, after all, own a video games company - LucasArts - for thirty years before selling it to Disney alongside the rest of LucasFilm.

Silly, I was talking about Duffy the Disney Bear. Who didn't appear in any of the classic cartoons, but was randomly created by corporate Disney in 2010 because they needed a new character so they could sell more merchandise. Sounds like someone else...

Oh sounds like it's a theme park exclusive thing.

A bit more obscure than even Waluigi. Perhaps that bear is a bit more similar to the fairies from 3D world. Cute marketable characters confined to one aspect of the franchise, but rarely appearing outside of that.

Though I'm sure there's some other obscure character that could fit better. Perhaps something that was made exclusively for complimentary media.

Now we need to see Waluigi dressed as a sailor though.

I think Duffy's decently popular enough in Asia, I know I've seen pictures of him with an entourage of stuffed animal OCs., Guess that would make Duffy the Mario equivalent of the Radio Hosts from All Night Nippon.

I mean, he never got too directly involved AFAIK and let talented people make good games more than 3 times, so that's not true.

@kkslider5552000 Sure, he was considerably more willing to take a back seat with games than with films - and the results were arguably better for it - but at the end of the day it's the same guy.

Oh boy, theres a thread for this? I'm gonna bookmark this, it'll surely be fun.

@Matt_Barber it’s the same guy but his contribution to film and games are vastly different making the comparison of the George Lucas games and George Lucas movies meaningless.

Steven Spielberg directly worked on video games a few times but it doesn’t make his games the equivalent of his films. Like Boom Box, a decent but shovelware-ish Wii game is not the Jaws or Schindler's List of games.

Time for my unpopular opinion:
Nintendo does the right thing spacing their games out as much as they do. That way they don't oversaturate the market and it always remains a big deal when a new main instalment from their popular franchises arrives. It also gives them time to be creative and avoid the franchises becoming stale.

@jump I wouldn't expect people to make similar contributions as they're very different media. For what it's worth, most of the video games people who've tried to make films have either been terrible at it or taken a back seat while those with more relevant skills got on with the job.

So far as Spielberg goes, there are couple of games that have very strong parallels with his filmmaking though in the shape of The Dig - a LucasArts point-and-cluck adventure where he wrote the story, and Medal of Honor which is basically the opening montage from Saving Private Ryan turned into a game.

Sure, not all his games have turned out so well, but he's also made some pretty bad films alongside all the classics. I'd much sooner spend an afternoon playing Boom Blox than watch Hook again, that's for sure.

Unpopular Opinion:

I like the NSMB series. It’s not original, but it’s not supposed to be. It’s just some fun platforming. Nothing more, nothing less.

I think this is fairly unpopular based on what I've heard about the game, but I just finished up Night in the Woods, and all I can say is I'm sure glad I got it as part of that BLM io.com games bundle and didn't spend $20 on that. I guess I can't say it was the worst game I've ever played since I actually stuck it out to the end, but it was pretty bad. I'm sure part of it is that I don't relate to any of the characters, and if you do it is probably better, but I didn't relate to Celeste at all either and still thought that was a great game. Especially at the end of the game, every direction the game ended up going I thought was the wrong one and would have chosen something different. The only two redeeming qualities I can think of are its good portrayal of the church and the pastor and Gregg's crazy noodle arms.