Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@jump Those look quite nice but I never saw them in the videos!

Also my image is not anime or at least I hope!

@Zuljaras There's a fair amount of that for sure. I think it has to so with game design. You progress through a calender year as a student and that naturally imposes a limitation on what you're able to do in the game (hang out with person a or b, dungeon crawl or work a part time job). That's a large portion of the content. Another area of significance is the combat. You fight demons, and the demons have personalities and can be persuaded to join you. Piss em off and they'll keep fighting back. Demons you have acquired can be fused to create new ones. The designs are really creative and usually have some basis in myth or fantasy lore.

Tldr: it's pokemon for adults (jk 😝)

They are creative... ;p

@jump i was hoping somebody would post mara (Im a ludite and dont know how to post images)

@Losermagnet You just need to copy the image address and then put it in between these [ img ] [ /img ] but take over the spaces between the brackets and "img". Now you can post all the penis demons you want!

@Losermagnet @jump So you are telling me that the game is deep with mythology and that the anime cringe is only on the front. Hmmmm I have to research it some more. I was quite turned off by the whole "high school student, codenamed Joker" ...

Also I am assuming that the game is loved by so much as it is one of the top rated games for the PS Vita and because many gamers cry why Persona 5 (I think) is NOT on the Switch.

@Zuljaras You'd be better off from trying Shin Megami Tensei rather than Persona (Persona is a spin off from SMT) as it's got a darker look and feel comapred to Persona I think you may like, both are great though. However Hitler is a bad guy in one of the Pesona games and is yet to apear in SMT so maybe Persona wins out.

People are talking about Persona 5 specificly as it's the game that has really broken through into the mainstream compared to the other games.

@jump ah, thanks. Im at work now so I'll have to see what I can conjure up later.

@Zuljaras Hm....yes and no. It's still basically a role playing emulation of a high school student who defeats evil with the bonds of friendship. It runs a bit deeper than that but you get the idea. It benefits greatly from being part of the long-running Shin Megami series. As @jump put it, they lean more towards supernatural/horror RPGs and all of the games seem to reuse designs and themes from older games. Persona just "scooby doo-efies" them by like 30%.

• 15 years later, Metroid Prime Hunters is still the best game to come from the Metroid Series. (Happy 15 year Anniversary)
• Since Wii Fit Trainer is a playable character in Smash, I do think Ring Fit Trainer should be one of the last two characters for Fighters Pass 2 if it really is the last batch of DLC for Ultimate.
• Super Mario Sunshine will always be up there with the best of Super Mario due to its world building.

@jump I’m with you. I prefer the 5* rating system too. A 7/10 game to me is a 4* game but to most people it’s a 3* game which is just silly.

And that leads me on to my unpopular opinion.

Breath of the Wild is my least favourite 3D Zelda. Coming in at 7 or 8/10 or 4* if you will.

@jump
I prefer using 100 rating for scoring my games. With 100 as maximum score, i can interpret some games quality in specific reasons.
For example, i rated Portal Knights PS4 = 92/100, The Sims 4 PS4 = 95/100, Dragon Quest Builders 2 PS4 = 96/100, BOTW = 60/100, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 = 65/100, Ratchet & Clank a Crack in Time PS3 = 80/100, etc.
But if i really love the game so much and really exceeding my expectations, i can give more than 100 scores.

Surely the rating is just meant to be the TL;DR at the end of the review?

If you want to know what caveats there are to any recommendations you get, there's no substitute to reading the review. And while we're at it, reviews shouldn't just be dry breakdowns of how the game fares against a bunch of criteria; I want to read strong opinions, and if the writers can put these forward in an engaging fashion with a narrative that runs the length of the review, a heck of a lot less people would just skip to the scores at the end of them.

Sorting games by review scores, particularly aggregated ones like on Metacritic, seems particularly egregious to me. I'll usually just go on there and read the ones that give it the lowest scores to see if they've got a convincing argument as to why I shouldn't get the game. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes not. Surviving that test is generally going to tell you far more about a game than a swathe of 90%, 5/5, and triple thumbs up scores.

@Anti-Matter you’re actually demonstrating why I dislike how scoring is done in 10/10 just on a bigger scale. You’ve given both Galaxy games 65/100 when there’s literally 99 other options they could have been. They can’t both be exactly 65 as there’s differences between them like Galaxy 1s hub world and Rosalina side story not having an equivalent in Galaxy 2 as well as examples that work the other way. So rather than carefully weighing them up to give an accurate scoring you just lumped both as exactly 65 like how most reviewers also do it. So if it’s not gonna be given careful consideration of using the full scale then just use a simpler scoring method of out of 5 so it’s easier to place.

Just allow decimals. That way everyone wins lol.

@jump I've tried rating games in the past and doing it on a 1-100 scale is absolutely awful. Only way to make that particular system work even marginally well is if that score is an average. I find myself using a 1-5 scale a lot in my life, and that seems to work much better than the traditional video game 1-10 scale.

@Matt_Barber I do the same, strangely. I never thought it was a normal thing to do but I'm glad you do as well, it allows for fascinating points of view. I watch reviews of games I've already beaten but I do look at Metacritic and actively look for criticism. Death Stranding is such a polarising game and I watched and read many reviews for it. I came to the consensus that these reviewers didn't play the entire game, in fact they probably played through less than 20%. It highlights the shortcomings of game journalism.

I don't use it much as a platform to convince myself whether I should get a game or not. Having said that there aren't many games I've had to be truly sold on lately, because of how many ports, sequels remakes, and remasters there are nowadays. Last one I had to extensively research, was, you guessed it, Death Stranding.

@Anti-Matter You aren't the first to dislike Breath of the Wild; Jim Sterling gave it a seven out of ten. Just how bad is that game for you? And... doesn't you giving some games scores over 100 defeat the purpose of a 1-100 scale?

@TheJGG
I neglected my BOTW for 4 years due to being clueless in open world, easily get killed by Bokoblin, breakable weapons, etc. I was still at the beginning part, after get out from the cave.
I realized BOTW wasn't the right game for me since i tend to play casual games.
I still keep the game despite i don't play it anymore.

Btw, if Dance Dance Revolution A20+ get ported to Nintendo Switch with all songs from Arcade including the previous version or Animal Crossing in Dragon Quest Builders 2 style, it will be instant more than 100 score. (200/100)😍😍😍

Percentages in theory give you a greater flexibility to rank the scores of similar games but invariably everything ends up compressed in the 60-90 range with only a very small number of outliers.

Also, if you're going to go down that route, why not just maintain a ranked list of every game you've ever played so people can see where it slots in?

All this talk on reviews, I guess I side with this unpopular opinion about game reviews too. I can't count how many times a critic hated a game, and I ended up pretty much loving it in the end. I stopped really looking at reviews years ago because I didn't find them useful as actually playing games for myself.

Nowadays, I will peek at a review's text if there's particular information I need, but I don't use it as the overall "truth" (for lack of a better phrase) about whether a game is good or not, I leave that up to me if I find it good or not.

Always consider this unpopular because I still see people go to reviews to prove whether a game is good or not, most of the time it's usually people who haven't played said game.

I think scores are meant to be a visual shorthand for summarizing one's experience with a game, and less about categorizing all video games on this one identical scale. Even most reviewers will tell you that the score is a largely meaningless flourish. But it's satisfying to slap on at the end.

Reviews are opinion pieces, but the best ones will discuss the game in enough depth that they help you decide whether it's worth picking up or not. At the end of the day, that's the primary value of a review: helping the customer to make an educated choice when deciding to purchase or not to purchase a product.

I rate games in my head, but I'd never in a million years want to use too specific a grading for a game. Also, I'd probably rate games lower than in my head, because I'm not insulting people's intelligence by saying even the worst Zelda game is still a 7/10.