Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@VoidofLight Pokemon battles needs to have "equal footing" battles though even within the game's story and with the competitive meta game when playing with other people, which is actually my favourite part of Pokemon.

@jump I mostly just play through the story, so that's probably why I find the battles to be more sluggish and outdated than anything else. I heard Legends might have a different battle system, due to the slideshow leaks, so I'll probably end up enjoying the combat more in that game.

@VoidofLight Yeah the story sucks, I would have lost interest in Pokemon by now if I'm playing it just for the story mode. I've always wanted a split in the mainline games, something like staduim for the meta game and something like Let's Go for the kids so both sets of fans can be happy.

@jump I feel like Legend's Arceus will be more for the players who don't care about competitive, but at the same time aren't children, with Let's Go being for the children, and the main games taking more of an approach for everyone, especially competitive players.

@Snaplocket Other than the world looking a bit barren, the game looks better than whatever the heck Gen 7 and Gen 8 were.

@Snaplocket I'm not saying I'm personally excited, nor am I saying it's going to be good, but I'm also not saying it'll be bad. I'm just going to wait and see. The game has a year until it actually releases, so I feel like performance issues will most likely be fixed. The main complaint I have is mostly the barren looking world, and the fact that it seems like there's not much to do other than explore that barren world.. but then again, they could be using a early build of the game as to not spoil stuff, as they've done many times before.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the game, and I'm glad Gamefreak is actually trying something new at least, instead of making another mediocre pokemon game with linear halls for a world, and nothing to do outside of the main story.

Gamefreak in the past seem far from the tech wizards to pull off an AAA type game and I don't expect Legends to rival Skyrim, Witcher or BOTW either but they have shown an ambition with this game that has been missing from the Pokemon for a long while. So I am choosing to view the glass half full for now and enjoy the anticipation until I play it and claim it's horrible over hyped rubbish that ruined my childhood ;p

@jump But my God why does it look so empty?

Looks like Lavender town (Get it?) I know its really early but Is it really going to look that much better in another year?

I want to be excited for Pokemon Legends, but in my heart, I know it'll be terrible.

Still, a single-player focused, ambitious Pokemon game sound exactly like my sort of thing, so I'm just going to hope it's not a disaster. It probably helps that I'm not expecting much with the open world gameplay.

@Snaplocket That's not irony ;p

Honestly though, I’ve been slowly drifting out from pokemon. There’s just so many other good jrpg’s that I prefer to play over it now.

I still not really interested with cookie cutter story plot of Pokemon games (10 years old kid sent into journey to become Pokemon trainer, left from Mom's house, meet the Professor, meet their rival, meet the team villains, meet the legendary Pokemons, get challenged by peoples on the street and Gym).
For me that adventure looks like a fake adventure / scripted adventure. Real cold blooded villains will not hesitate to kill 10 years kid for against them.

@Anti-Matter That's a surprising take from you since you often complain about wanting games to be nicer so the inclusion of real threats and murders is a complete turn around.

@Anti-Matter Second. Who's hacked you?

@jump
That was really happened into Pokemon movie when Ash became a stone statue.

@Anti-Matter We have very different ideas on what realistic children murder is. ;p

@TheJGG
I'm still me, not get hacked. 😉
Right now i am in my bedroom.
I still have interest with Pokemon games but to be honest if i compared with other Monster breeding games such as Monster Rancher or Yokai Watch, the journey of Pokemon games looks like cookie cutter stories.
I can tell exactly what is the order of the plot from beginning until the end.

@Snaplocket but judging off the very first trailer is pointless, especially when the game isn’t even due to be out this year.

Alright, here's my unpopular opinion: I think smash ultimate is the worst smash game. It's not an objectively bad game or anything and the concept is great, but I found myself being very disappointed by it.

The size of the roster seems to be the selling point for a lot of people. However, I think because of how big it is, smash ultimate ended up dropping so many cool modes the previous entries had. My brother and I used to love doing all-star together but in ultimate it's just another multi-man smash mode. A new boss battles mode like the one from brawl would've been a lot of fun; ultimate does have a good amount of new bosses. It could've been an unlockable mode after beating world of light or something. Classic mode is still enjoyable, but I would've liked to see board the platforms or target smash make a return. World of Light was actually pretty cool to me at first. Getting all the spirits and seeing all the references was amazing but it eventually turned into hold f-smash until the CPU walks into it. Subspace had a co-op option which made it a lot more enjoyable to me. My brother and I completed it to 100% quite a few times lol. With World of Light, I had to force myself to complete it and I don't think I'd do it again lol. I also think echo fighters should've just been alts like alph is for olimar rather than being counted as an official character. It sort of feels like they're only counted to increase the size of the roster.

Since I found the single-player content lackluster, the only other option would be to play online. I know smash bros hasn't ever had amazing online before, but it isn't the occasional laggy player that bothers me. Quickplay itself just wasn't really that great. Having to leave the opponent to switch your character isn't something I'm a fan of. Also, I do prefer the separation of for fun and for glory from smash 4. There are days where I wanted to have fun and there were days where I wanted to be competitive. Getting a crazy ruleset when being one match away from elite smash was painful. I don't even use the character online anymore once I get them to elite smash lol. Doing co-op doubles is also painful online since there's no way to turn on team attack. Of course, the obvious answer would be to go to arenas but you can't do local co-op in arenas. Even when I did arenas alone, it sucked having to wait for a while only to get kicked after the match ended lol.

I'm not saying I hate the game entirely. It was actually the only reason why I got a switch, and it's always fun locally with friends. But since the single-player content and online both suck I ended up dropping the game after a year. The only reason why I'm typing this now is because I got back into it once Pyra got added. But after a couple of weeks playing as her, I started to remember why I fell off of the game lol.

Edit: I forgot to add the fact that you have to watch the entire replay just for a short clip is kind of annoying. I don't understand why they couldn't at least allow you to skip to the part you wanted to record.

I don't really like smash. It kind of seems over-hyped for what it is honestly. I especially dislike it when Smash is the only thing Nintendo focuses on, like how E3 2018 was just a smash direct effectively.