Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Krull you describe it perfectly! Especially the "one more battle part and then i'll shut off" to then just mindlessly grind for another 30m, love that feeling haha. But yeah, you hit the nail on the head on all fronts.

@Cissero The Disgaea games are perfect for you if you want to spend forever grinding in a good way.

@jump thanks! I tried it before but couldnt really get into them. I own disgea 5 and I'll make sure to give it another shot. I love the artstyle so

Hideo Kojima is a genius and his games have all predicted the future.

Spending more time with it tonight, I'm enjoying the Balan Wonderworld demo. Exploring around, and figuring out ways to collect Balan statues coincides with my love of exploring levels, and it felt rewarding as it unlocked two more worlds to play in. Figuring out which costumes to use to reach these areas added a puzzle-like element to it.

Filing this as a definite unpopular opinion given most seem to dislike the demo. Honestly, I'm still looking forward to this game.

Is me liking sonic unleashed count?

Maybe it's not unpopular but I really don't like the 10 out of 10 review system which is commonly used with games, I much prefer the 5 out of 5 from movies.

Even at time when games are getting broken day one releases its so rare to see something get 0-5 so whats the point of having those scores. Plus people are so programmed to ignore anything that is below a 7 and only games that get 9s or 10s are worth playing make it worthless too.

Well, you'd probably have the same problem with a scale of 1-5, @jump .... Where hardly anything gets a 1 or 2 & people ignore those, so almost everything gets 4+, anyway

@jump I always assumed that the reason you rarely see anything in the range 0-5 is (i) no-one pays attention to poorer games, (ii) these lower quality games are less likely to be reviewed at all.

I think with how big the market is right now, it's quite understandable that people ignore anything below a 7 - there's simply too much choice out there to take the risk. Personally, my "threshold" is probably dependent on the type of game - for something long like a JRPG, I'll probably only go for the best of the best (8, 9, 10) unless it's something that personally appeals to me, because of the time commitment. I'm a lot more lenient with platformers, however, and would probably give a fair few C-tier platformers a shot.

@timleon @BruceCM

Thing is the reaction to a game that gets 2 and different game that gets 4 is exactly the same despite it being two ranks higher whilst a two or even one rank higher in a 5 star system means something so the 0-5/10 is just a weird blur of the same that lacks definition to me. Like a 5 which is the middle point isn't considered an average game, 7 is average for most people for some reason which askews the whole thing too. Or perhaps if the overall quality of games is getting better a revaluation of what an average game is nowadays needs to happen maybe.

A nice straight forward 5 star system like below would be great to me.

5 Stars, those great games that will forever appear in the best ever lists
4 Stars, excellent game
3 Stars, a mixed bag or good but unremarkable game
2 Stars, poor games or with heavy flaws
1 Stars, rubbish games or broken unplayable messes.

Playing DDR, Beatmania IIDX, Pop'n Music, Drummania, Para Para Paradise and Keyboardmania on PS2 with actual peripherals are more joyful than playing AAA games.

Yeah, I just doubt it'd make any real difference, @jump .... At least with proper reviews, there should be a bit of writing/ video about the game, which is the part I like If you can persuade most review sites to adopt your system, I don't mind, though

I don't get what people like so much in the Persona games. Anyone care to explain as when I tried to watch videos of it they all look as cringey anime crap.

@BruceCM That's why I need your help! I'm planning on running a campaign to change things for the better. If you could just give even a small donation it would help pay for the lawyers, advertising and all that which is needed to tackle the politics involved. Let's Make Reviews Great Again!

@Zuljaras To be honest I thought you had an anime avatar and found it weird you keep posting about how you don't like anime in here til I realised it's something not anime related.

Lol, sure, @jump ..... Have a picture of cash!
https://www.tellermate.com/us/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2020...

@jump Phew! Thanks! Not that I am against anime but most of it is dramatic cringey stuff. Like The World Ends with You.

So there we go another unpopular opinion is that The World Ends With You is just terrible

@jump That is true, and I do get your point (I always found the upwards skew quite baffling myself) but it would require the whole gaming media to jump onto the same standards.

I think functionally we already have your scale somewhat covered:
5 Stars, those great games that will forever appear in the best ever lists - 9s and 10s
4 Stars, excellent game 8
3 Stars, a mixed bag or good but unremarkable game 7
2 Stars, poor games or with heavy flaws 5s and 6s
1 Stars, rubbish games or broken unplayable messes. 4 and lower

How a reviewer tells the difference between a 4 and a 1 though? I have no clue.

@Zuljaras I found The World Ends with You great myself, the combat was really fun. Having an engaging combat system is something that is missing from most turn based RPGs I find, theres so many times I will just press the same attack over and over without thinking.

Tbh your avatar isn't even that different to the demons you find in Persona/SMT, there's loads but I randomly linked a few below;

https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/eirikr/lists/the-smt-demoni...

@jump I don't see the images.

@Zuljaras I saw after posting it and I've edited it now. It's a shame there's not a preview post thing on this site as this forum is so funny with posting pics at times.