Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Modern Drill Dozer would be amazing. It could be even better in 3D, and using the same visual style as Splatoon.

Is it a hot take to consider Splatoon as one of Nintendo's best franchises? Cause honestly I don't know at this point.

Splatoon 2 form what I played kinda sucked, Its about painting but the player base is just mean, taunting 24/7, cheese strats and more.

But all I played was the free demo and i'm still going to pick up 3.

The Splatoon playerbase is no saint, not gonna doubt that, but the matchmaking system at least for me worked pretty well in separating the super competitive players from the casual ones. When Splatoon 3 comes around I would wait a bit for the tryhards to unlock ranked mode and then it will at least be better.

As for the cheese strats....yeah that's just a multiplayer staple, I don't know what to say about that.

@GilbertXI Sadly I think it sucked at doing this to as I always found tryhard's in both modes. They need to have Matchmaking based on skill, amount of wins, kill, paint, and so on, and not based on rank as anyone could have cheesed it.

But matchmaking based of of kills, paint and skill would kind of go against the point of the game. The whole point in the weapon design is that there are some weapons that are simply better at killing and some that are better at painting. Matchmaking based off of either of those will just confine the game to a single meta and wouldn't solve the issue. And given Splatoon being a game about painting AND killing, skill based matchmaking as in stuff games like COD does with K/D would fall into the same issues of the first two.

And I thought amount of wins was something it did already, although I think that should be introduced to turf war mode as well if that's what you mean.

It's 2 games so no, but also if there were more games, not until they fix a few major issues or change certain things.

Thank you all for your responses, I genuinely didn't know, and was just curious. I also want to say that I am not saying the games are anywhere near the realm of perfection, this was purely subjective, but I'd be happy to debate about them if you so wish.

Id personally rank Splatoon pretty high on my Ninty franchise list and it’s sales are very strong to support the argument too.

It’s created a game lore, the game oozes personality, it’s very playable and it’s unique. I’d like a bigger solo player mode and a better voice chats options but I’m excited for Splatoon as much as I am for Mario, Pokemon etc.

@GilbertXI @jump I agree with both of you, again I can't really give a opinion on agame I played for like 10 hours, So I have no time to actually learn how to play the game, I waited bc I knew three was going to be on the way, and I was right.

@Snatcher even ignoring it as a game as a franchise it’s had managed to pop up in Mario Kart & Smash, has its own toy line, a manga and they have even done their own gigs. As a franchise that’s pretty strong.

@jump As a franchise for me, Its really made a breakthrough, and as a good nintendo franchise its great, I have read the lore and its amazing, The music is great, the characters look great, the game looks great,

Splatoon is just great alright.

Look I know people think pyra/mythra is busted in SSBU, and for the most part I agree, But I really don't get the smash community sometimes, "Pyra/Mythra are no skill characters, Oh look Steve is to hard to play I don't like him" Thats the thing about smash bros, There is going to be a character that people like , people hate, I feel like It was great to get pyra/mythra After the so called "Hard to pick up steve" But I do understand how they feel, I really do think there OP, but they have to think about how the hell they would nerff them.

Bc Solo they suck, if pyra was just pyra she would be to slow to actually get any kills, Mythra doesn't have the kill power even with her speed, And this is one thing I hate, you can hate a character and you know what, there are some characters that really are annoying, But do you really hear anything about it now? the hype went down and Maybe (Probably) people found them boring, OOOOOOOOR, all the hate just scared them off form playing the character.

Like playing bayonetta in smash 4 was really going to get you hated, I mean she had a combo that didn't even allow you to move, you could do that thing at 0%,

But what about the other's? Pyra and mythra get hate bc there a so called No skill character, that Can kill hella early, and has speed at the same time, I wouldn't say its the same as doing a stupid combo at 0% that didn't even get you a chance to play,

And for the most part I do indeed agree with all this, pyra and mythra, sonic, Bayonetta, and so on, But I think the smash community can get a little hostel some times, Like me, I have been a sonic and pokemon trainer main for a long time (my main, main being pokemon trainer) But I stopped playing sonic, bc you were hated for just playing him, and you can hate sonic, but don't hate the player, its not there fault, Sonic just has a bad design, Pyra and mythra kinda has the same issue, as Nerfing or buffing them wont really fix them.

But i'm not a game dev, so idk or will never, have any idea on how hard it would be to do this ( I guess I could but I wont),

I would have liked it if I wasn't basically kick out bc I wanted to play sonic, But luckily, I was mainly a pokemon trainer main, still i'm, 2nd being steve, 3rd Inkling 4th Pyra and Mythra, But now I guess I'm going to have to drop them, bc you will get no respect for playing a "No skill character" even tho MKleo over here was playing them its fine, Oh and still lost matches Gee I wonder why.

This is mainly a rant, and this is not well thought out at all, and bc of this it can be shifted, It wouldn't be hard, But if you did read this to the end, thank you, I might also put this in the smash thread, but I felt like this was unpopular.

@Snaplocket Have you played through it in its entirety? I finished the demo last night and really enjoyed what I played...but do wonder if it all comes together to justify the £35 price tag. What did you particularly enjoy about the game?

I know this is a dumb one, in recent years I kind of grew to like password saving in older games. Thinking about older Game Boy games where the save battery is dead and the game no longer holds a save, at least that password some games generate lets me continue playing those games.

I know in-game saving is preferred, but at least passwords do have their advantage looking back at some of the older games I have that no longer save.

Unless Megaman 10 changes my mind, I'm ready to declare Megaman 8 to be the most compelling post-NES game in the classic Megaman series. It's not as good as the better X games, but it is easily my favorite of this style of Megaman beyond 2-5. Even with the very, very bad jump and slide sections.

Megaman 1 is obviously not the best and Megaman 6 I just never got into, partially because of its soundtrack. 7 and 11 are good games, but never feel right compared to the classics, they're always just a bit off despite their best efforts. 9 is halfway great and the other half are the same problem from 7 and 11 (well better in some places, maybe worse in others). Also the lack of charge beam and slide is just awkward, but that might just be me. But with 8, most of what it does comes together for me. It feels like if Megaman skipped the 16 bit era and they brought back on PS1/Saturn as a throwback almost, but still one that plays like a 2d game from that era. The shooter sections are also just a nice change of pace that fit fairly well.

also they tried, but I'm not super into how 11 looks. Maybe all the sprite based games beyond 8 bit spoiled me, but it reminds me most of when Nintendo would make a good enough, bland-ish 3dtake on their 2d games on 3DS or the like. It's not NSMB levels of boring, but its well made enough in the least interesting way they could get away with. And 8 in particular is so much better looking to me. That game is gorgeous, I wish more games looked like it honestly. I dunno how anyone could not think of 11 as a step backwards when 8 exists.

I think it's cringeworthy when the day's featured article on Wikipedia is a video game.

Recent articles: Discovery of Nuclear Fission, The Thankful Poor, Pisco Sour

Today's article: Sonic the Hedgehog

One of these things is not like the others.

@Losermagnet I'd be willing to forgive Wikipedia because today's Sonic's 30th anniversary and all.

@TheJGG I'm sure it says more about me that I dont like it. But i can't help but feel like it's so inconsequential compared to the other topics (even when it's just a drink). It would be better suited for the 'Did You Know?' section I think.

@Losermagnet When you put it that way you may have a point honestly. Even so it would probably fit in either category, because it’s an important pop culture event. To hold it in the same esteem as nuclear fission though? Questionable.