Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I don’t understand why smash bros is popular.

I keep getting caught up in hype when new one is released, get excited about characters being announced, etc.

Then I try to play it, and I don’t get why it’s popular at all.

There are many games I hate, I hate most FPS games (for example), but I do understand why other people like them. With smash, outside the hype, I have no idea.

@Clammy
I think it was from the gene, DNA structure that built the brain cell neurons.
Some peoples were born with brain cells that translate FPS games / Smash Bros games as something interesting while for some other peoples with different brain neurons translate those games as something Blah.
It was about geometric shapes, color compositions, melodic compositions and people's personality.

Also, i never like Smash Bros games in the slightest anyway.

@Anti-Matter That is one of the most ridiculous things I have seen on this forum You can't be serious!

@Clammy Smash Bros it's really simple, its the ultimate cross over where 4 people pick their favourite character and try and smash each other into oblivion. There's an amazing level of detail in the way characters move and attack which makes it feel completely legit. You can answer playground questions of who would win, sonic or Mario, cloud or Link and do it in hilarious ways. Cloud wins he hit him with hammer, after jigglypuff put him to sleep with a lullaby.

@Zuljaras Anti-Matter is ALWAYS serious, as far as I can tell.

@faint I'm not sure there's much of a reason to own an Xbox One/Series X is you have a decent PC.

@Anti-Matter : ah, see I don’t like FPS games, but I understand what people like about them. I’ve played a hell of a lot of FPS games to figure out what makes a good one or a bad one. If I was given one to review in a vacuum, I’d guarantee any objective review from me on said FPS, would align with a fans thoughts.

But smash, I just don’t get.. I understand appeal of characters, and hype.

But the gameplay leaves me scratching my head as to why it’s popular...

I know this is unpopular opinion, but isn’t that point of thread?

@Clammy @Anti-Matter I can see why you wouldn't like smash bros actually, i have one friend who, although i think i tried everything never got into the series and well there are several different reasons for that. Thinking about it, the only reasons i love smash are:

1. It being a great party game
2. It having an awesome story mode which i can play together with friends(only brawl)
3. It being my competition game with my besty
4. Online fights
   So, well out of those 2 falls out for ultimate and 1 only very occassionally works (especially now). for online you gotta get nintendo online and live with lags and very frustrating fights. That leaves 3. which is my only reason to play the game at all these days.

So personally, it makes a lot of sense why you wouldn't want to like smash very much. I am curious now if you are into fighting games at all though?

Honestly he almost has a point. Some people are not hardwired to enjoy certain things because of X and Y factors. I actually know people who can't deal with fast paced first person games for that matter, like it actually makes them feel uncomfortable. Or like how some people just can't deal with VR games.

I'm assuming he means that in that way, and not in an inherently negative way.

Most people don't have decent PCs though, at least compared to the recommended standards of modern AAA games.

Xbox also has a nice ecosystem with things like backwards compatibility and GamePass. Sure you can go out and buy all your games again for PC or PS4/5 but if you already have stacks of the from the original Xbox and 360 eras, that's pretty handy.

@korosanbo I am with you on that one. Shantae games look very boring and they are indeed oversexualised just to cater to specific gamers.

@Matt_Barber

I'm not saying there's no reason for anyone to own an Xbox. I'm saying that, for a lot of people, there's no real reason to own an Xbox, because the console has no exclusive features or games that you'll miss out on otherwise. Thus I'm disagreeing with the notion that "every modern console ... is worth owning for one reason or another."

@Ralizah I'm one of those people. I own a Switch and a gaming laptop and I'm pretty happy with them right now, plus I just never got an Xbox One/Series X. Not only that, but stuff like Halo: TMCC, Ori and the Blind Forest, and Cuphead are also on Steam. The one exclusive that interests me is Rare Replay, but I don't really feel like getting an Xbox just for that. lol

I think the character reveals and presentations, and their reactions, are significantly better than the game in Ultimate's case. Ultimate in my opinion has the least content variety in the series, but by far the best character roster and stage selection. Once I get a few hours out of a new character, if that, I shelve the game again until the next. It needed more than fighting and home run contest, and be like the rest of the series in variety.

Actually I have an unpopular opinion for that unpopular opinion.

Melee is the only great single player Smash game, if taken out of context of being obviously a multiplayer game that just happens to have single player (which to be fair, is 90% of the genre). The mix of great variety in the single player was never matched, despite some efforts. Smash Bros 64 is nothing, Brawl had a single player not worth playing twice, too many of 4's modes are not especially compelling (its take on Classic should've been more hated than it was), and Ultimate depends largely on how much you vibe with its spirit system. So to me Ultimate is still 2nd best, cause at least there was a lot to that single player mode I'll likely never touch again, unlike Brawl's take. (and Spirits are a good enough distraction, would still be a high tier single player mode by Smash 4 standards).

Fittingly Melee and Ultimate are also the only two games worth caring that much in multiplayer by comparison (as Ultimate is just better 4 in a lot of ways). I mean, I'd still rather play those other Smash games compared to a lot of games, but I do really think there's a huge gap in terms of what you get in those two games compared to others.

Who says I don’t want to like it? I would love to like it, I would love to love it - and get as much pleasure out of it as everyone else. It’s why I keep buying it each generation, and why I keep feeling disappointed

I haven’t felt this left out of the fun as when I tried to like Halo games, and failed miserably

Ooh... This could be fun. Even more fun if I just say them without bothering to justify it.

Brawl is the best Smash Bros
Breath of the Wild is just okay
Halo 5 is better than Halo 4
Arkham Origins is better than Arkham Knight
Arkham Asylum is better than Arkham City
Nuts and Bolts is actually a good game
Geno isn't an interesting character
Super Mario RPG isn't as good as the better Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi games
Resident Evil shouldn't be classified as horror games, B-movie comedy fits better
The Last of Us is a good game, but nothing that spectacular
Samus Returns is the best version of Metroid 2
Persona 4 is better than Persona 5
The Five Night's at Freddy's games (at least 1-3 and Sister Location) are fun
Mass Effect Andromeda is better than Mass Effect 1

There you go, just a few off the top of my head.

@AnnoyingFrenzy Does anyone actually think Metroid 2 is better than Samus Returns? That would be a more controversial statement, surely!

Totally agree about Arkham Asylum. Arkham City is a very fine game, but Asylum is tighter, more focused and overall more memorable. More isn’t always better. (Plus Asylum has the Scarecrow = winner.)

Going by this forum sometimes, defending Breath of the Wild is more unpopular than knocking it. Sigh... Best game of the generation, IMO - but each to their own!

Resident Evil scares the bejeebers out of me - or at least makes me incredibly tense. Having wacky elements doesn’t make it not horror. Have you played Corpse Party? Got some seriously bizarre humour in it, but it is still without doubt a horror game.

My unpopular opinion? 2021 is too soon for a Switch Pro. More to the point, any time is too soon for a Switch Pro. I don’t want a mid-generation upgrade at all. Much better to wait for technology to reach a point where we can get a proper Switch 2 which is at least as powerful as PS4 and XBONE. Don’t care how long it takes - the only other factor is that it HAS to be backwards compatible with OG Switch, and Nintendo MUST allow consumers to carry over their digital libraries to the next system.

@Krull on metroid I believe he is comparing with AM2R that many say is the better version (although not an official one)

@Balta666 Thanks for that - I had genuinely never even heard of that! Looks cool. No stereoscopic 3D, though - point to Samus Returns!

Botw is overrated (maybe not so unpopular).
Metroid zero mission is the best one in the series.
2d Mario kind of sucks, 3d Mario is the best thing in gaming.
FF XIII is actually a pretty good game (and better than XII).
Fire emblem would be way better if you had a chance to grind for leveling up your characters and therefore choose your own difficulty.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has better characters and story than the first one (this is the one I will die in front of the pitchforks lol)