@Anti-Matter A joke. They gave me the impression they were emo anime nightgown villains but after two hours I feel like they weree mo anime nightgown villains. I can't tell at times if they're patronising, evil, or friendly to Sora. God.
@Wargoose To be fair, the only reason Organization 13 and the keyblade masters even exist is so the games can have a story at all due to Disney's ridiculously strict policies.
Yeah that could be one of the issues, I know Disney can be crazy protective. Just look at what they did to Marvel vs Capcom.
I think Square-Enix should have leveraged their own IP more. If Organisation XIII was made up of a whose who of Square Enix Heroes and Villains. I would have been a lot more interested.
I don't think It would have fixed the story's issues, but I might have been distracted enough, not to care.
Highly likely a topic already discussed, but I feel more and more that an unpopulair gaming opinion is that I really love a good grind in a game. Especially one where I can steadily get in a rhytm and train my muscle memory to the point of watching a series/movie next to the grind. Best example to explain it is: Runescape, Yu-gi-oh money grinding and card unlocking, Digimon Cybersleuth levelling or grinding a shiny on Pokemon. I love to just grind the experience and prepare for the next main story part or unlock something. It's very calming to me for some reason. I have heard a lot of people describe it as poor game design, however for me it can truely add something to a game when done well.
(on that topic, if you have suggestions for a grind game like that on the switch, don't hesitate to let me know!)
@Cissero You’re right: grinding gets a bad rap. There is something very satisfying about trawling for metal slimes in Dragon Quest, or just doing battles in any traditional RPG series really, watching your numbers go up. I’m a sucker for the “just one more battle, then I’ll switch off”.
I also understand why people don’t like it - when being underlevelled is a progress stopper, that can be maddening. Especially for games reviewers who are just trying to rush through the campaign to put up a review in good time.
For casual players, though, why hurry? This is why something like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 can be largely more popular with its player base than with critics.
@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.
A proud Switch owner that's always working on the impossible mission of clearing his backlog.
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.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
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.
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.
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