Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Galaxy is plenty good enough on its native hardware. Not sure about the 3D All Stars version.

@Euler The only good thing about the 3D All Stars version is how pretty it is.

@VoidofLight agree, 1st party support is pretty weak this gen. for me it was XBC2 and Mario Odyssey that made to the list of worthwhile titles (and BOTW, but technically it was a Wii U game for me).
All in all, I'm waiting for something meaningful, but I'm afraid it'll only come at the end of a Switch lifecycle(

I'm surprised so many people are complaining about the Switch's games to be honest. Even without BOTW and Odyssey (or even Xenoblade, Animal Crossing or Monster Hunter which I have no interest in) there's enough top tier games for me to warrant buying a Switch as well as some nice departures from the norm.

I do feel that this forum is too obessed with release schedules and Nintendo's big games rather than the actual games out. Like people can't have fun with Valkyria Chronicles 4, DOOM and Catherine because it's not Nintendo or Luigi's Mansion 3, ARMS and Cadence of Hyrule as they are the lessers of Mario and Zelda.

@jump I mentioned first party games exclusively. There are some pretty good third party games, but I rarely play any that aren’t exclusives on the switch itself. I have a ps4, so I’d rather have the better graphics for things like Persona 5 Strikers or Digimon Cyber Sleuth.

@VoidofLight My comment wasn't aimed at you exclusively, I would have @ you otherwise ;p

@jump ah. I was just giving better reason to why I feel the way I do, even though you meant in general.

Lots of people get games for another platform as well as the Switch, so the cross-platform ones are going to be considerably less interesting too. I'd usually buy them on PC unless the ability to play handheld is worth the trade-off in graphics and performance.

Still, I get that the Switch also has lots of relatively low-key exclusives as well as the big first party games. I've had a lot of Urban Flow lately after picking it up in the sale with for some gold points.

So many people in this thread don't acknowledge any games besides Mario and Zelda's. There are so many first-party games, and you guys are ignoring them. Why do you only recognize 2017 games?

@ok1 Yeah, people's heads just go to Zelda and Mario when folk think of big AAA Nintendo games but I feel Ninty have done have done some really cool games this gen like Luigi's Mansion 3, Snipperclips, Splatoon 2, ARMS, Cadence of Hyrule, etc and I can appreciate some of the other efforts even if there's mixed results like Astral Chain, Daemon X Machina, LABO, Mario Kart Live, Ring Fit Adventure, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 etc.

@jump Exactly.

I guess I single out BotW and Odyssey because I would confidently recommend them to anyone. While there are other awesome games on the system, I feel like maybe they have a limited appeal (relative to BotW and Odyssey). I love Hollow Knight, but I couldn't suggest it's for everyone.

@ok1 Some of my unpopular opinions acknowledge games like Sonic Boom and Balan Wonderworld. I always thought people like Mario and Zelda never considered them unpopular unless it's something like "I don't enjoy the Zelda games" (using this as an example as I do enjoy the series). Personally, I do enjoy other Nintendo published games like Kirby, Splatoon, Tokyo Mirage Sessions just to name a few.

@Losermagnet Not to be contrarian but I would say Mario Kart and Smash Bros are more universal recommendations.

Whilst Zelda and Mario are great, if say my missus' brother who's not played games since college or a younger teen asked about a game I'd go for those two since they are instantly gratifying games and even "hardcore" gamers like them. I've actualy got two teenage baby brothers and both of them complained about Zelda being boring. Smash and Mario Kart are common ground for us to play as I'm not keen of their preferred games of FIFA, Fotnite and Overwatch. I can't even get those little scallywags to play Borderlands or DOOM with me despite them loving fps Overwatch.

Although if a gamer did ask for recommendations I'd probably skip Mario and Zelda since I'd assume they would know Zelda and Mario are good any way.

@jump those are the two games that I flip-flop on whether they're "must owns" or not. Mostly because they're more multiplayer focused. But I prefer single player games so that's my bias I s'pose.

I mentioned this in some other thread recently, but I think the strength of the Switch is amazing variety. It makes me feel a bit silly when I'm ruminating over what the best games are because our lists are probably very personalized. My favorite games on my Switch aren't games I would likely recommend to anyone unless I knew it suited their tastes.

I guess in other words I don't feel like I'm stuck in 2017 but that, 4 years later, the system has so much to offer it's asanine to narrow it down to 5 or 10 games that might be liked by most. The fun of the Switch for me has been digging through dozens of games to find one that really suits me.

Personally, I'm not stuck in 2017, but I can't say there's many switch games I felt good about playing, or that I really liked. They just feel sort of weak in comparison to the 3Ds library.

@Losermagnet Whilst both Smash Bros and Mario Kart excel as multiplayer games I reckon both offer as much single player content as the next game, especially Smash which is kinda insane how much is in that game.

But yeah, there’s a lot of variety on the Switch. Something I don’t think people actively give Ninty enough credit for is publishing games across genres, there are genre gaps sure but they treat so many non-FPS/adventure/action as AAA games which I don’t see that often with other publishers.

People don't appreciate that Nintendo is a company that releases big budget games for more than 3 genres. Like I was thinking of what big company besides Nintendo would release a strategy game as a major console title, and the 2nd name that came to mind was Ubisoft...who made a Nintendo game with the idea (the first was SE, though their new strategy game is the first major one in a while). And I'm not even a huge strategy game fan but its like...so many companies would never do this.

@kkslider5552000 I think the thing is even if they are varied in terms of genre, the larger games that occupy a more familiar style are always bound to get more attraction

Like Microsoft and Sony have also done this to an extent with stuff like Halo Wars, Gears Tactics, Concrete Genie, Tearaway and some other examples, but in the case of Microsoft, I don't think those games would've gotten nearly as much traction without the Gears or Halo branding, and with Sony those games just go under the radar compared to your God of Wars and your Uncharteds and Last of Uses

I don't think that it's that people don't want to acknowledge these companies do more things, it's that not as many people really care.