Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@CactusMan It's funny you bring up Asterix & Obelix, as I read up more, I found out the same developer developed Smurfs: Mission Vileaf. I was surprised when I saw the bonus edition of the game, I didn't think a cartoon tie-in would have that.

I don't know if it's relevant to the console release, pre-ordering on GOG gave me some costumes for Hefty, Brainy, Chef and Smurfette as a bonus. Do not know if this is console, or a PC only thing since PC has a digital only release.

@Buizel Alrighty, I plan to eventually get this for Switch, I'll double dip on a handheld version.

With the Christmas season coming soon, I plan to wait on buying most games. Only because knowing my family, they'll get me a game or two.

I agree, I never knew how easy it was to slip up in Tetris until I used the D-Pad.

Don't know how common this is, but I will never try Kingdom Hearts in a million years, mainly because it's mostly Disney. I don't really like Disney, and grew out of it a long time ago, so the game just seems awful in my eyes. I also heard it was extremely convoluted, and that the writing is repetitive, yet everyone holds it as if it's this huge masterpiece of a series.

@VoidofLight Well I think, It really is a, experience yourself type of thing, As I don't really think the writing is but, you know, Opinions.
But If you Don't like Disney like you said, Ya, your not gonna like this game.

@chapu2006 It's ok to be wrong.

@Zuljaras I don't hate them, I'm just bad at them

As a fan of the series, I'll agree the stories are convoluted, at best, @VoidofLight .... Not sure even those who like the games can exactly disagree with that

Skyrim is the most overrated game of all time.

@BruceCM LMAO, Have to agree.

Mario Party 9 is not only good but great.

Yeah, I don't personally strain my brain trying to actually follow KH stories or make much sense out of them, @Snatcher .... They work well enough for the purpose as far as I'm concerned, though Not to say I don't also like games with stories I can follow without too much difficulty or even that do need some thinking to understand but I can't believe anyone manages to make much sense out of KH

@HotGoomba OK, hear me out...

I just feel like there's not that much skill or competitivity involved. There are only 2 corners on which you can gain time, the only obstacles are grass and mud and there's literally no way to gain on someone on a straight because of how easy it is to trick.

In fairness though, the track is a nice tribute to the original.

@chapu2006 Fair point. Still one of my personal favorites, but I can see it's downfalls.

@BruceCM Starting with were the hell is his mom?

@Zuljaras Dr Mario is Crap, There I said it!

I do think the ME3 ending hate is a bit over the top at least once they got a better version of it out after release. I think Mass Effect 3 is when I realized that even when the internet should be outraged about something, they'll still make it hyperbolic. To this day I'm undecided if its still bad or if its secretly at least partially good or if I should just appreciate that they found a decent compromise between whatever vision they had for the ending and what almost literally everyone playing it would want (instead of the nothing ending it had at launch).

That being said, I've seen a bunch of defenses for ME3's ending, and I just can't get there. Even having a good idea of what they were going for, it still utterly fails to fit in with what Mass Effect was trying to be as a trilogy and doesn't understand what would be satisfying or even particularly compelling for what Mass Effect is. Bioshock Infinite has some similarities in what ME3 was trying to do with its intentionally semi-hopeless ending, but it would still suck if they used Bioshock Infinite's ending for Mass Effect 3. And Bioshock Infinite's ending is LEAGUES better, regardless. The whole big mission before the ending also obviously should've been far more dynamic and interesting and affected by choices...regardless.

Bioshock Infinite had an awesome, thematically appropriate ending. I deeply respect when developers have the cojones to end something in a way that feels artistically right to them, even if it risks upsetting some of the emotionally underdeveloped people in their audience.

Sometimes, the audience SHOULDN'T get what they want or expected.

Having nope'd out of the ME trilogy after the second game, though, I have no opinion on the original ending to ME3 itself, although the idea of a developer releasing an alternative ending to appease angry fans irritates me to no end. I hate cowardice.

I think the saddest part about ME3, is that 99% of that game is the ME formula perfected and one of the best games of all time, but all people ever do is talk about that ending. Even if you didn't like the ending and thought it was bad, taking away everything else that game achieved, just really sucks man.

Also man, the Bioshock twist and the Bioshock Infinite ending genuinely really changed me as a person, I went from a passive gamer who just sorta consumed and discarded, to just falling in love with the craftsmanship in the way I do with other mediums. Bioshock is my favourite game of all time, and one of my favourite pieces of media of all time - I have two movie tattoos, amongst other things but Bioshock is my only game tattoo.

The point I've always argued for is that they DECIDED to make the ending they did and then they DECIDED to change it. While I don't know who decided what necessarily (and I've not personally looked into that aspect of it), I don't immediately assume it is any less of a valid artistic intent to change one's mind. Certainly plenty of times where I could think something and then when I look at other people's reactions, I agree that my previous opinion was dumb. Makes sense to me that writing would work the same way.

But I do agree if it was purely because of backlash rather than an earnest re-write, that it is cowardly. But that cowardice only proves to me that Mass Effect 3 is a corporate product made by EA, which was already obvious before that change. And it gets weird because of how its come out before that sometimes people at EA would make decisions and then the developer would have to pretend THEY made the decision, and also IIRC the main writer changed for 3, so this was not likely the intent of the writer of the previous two games this was building towards (especially since much of the foreshadowing to justify it takes place only in 3). But whatever happened, what I got from it in hindsight was a version of that ending that didn't contradict what it was inherently going for in the first place but just made a bit more sense for a Mass Effect conclusion, so it seemed like an earnest creative decision.

They made the dev team crunch like crazy to come up with a new ending, because people cried on the internet. Just an absolute sorry state of affairs.

I hope you wrote that to contradict my point based on actual things confirmed to have happened and not because you ignored my post for no reason lol.

I mean, if they actually did, **** EA on that one. Keep the ending being complete **** if the alternative is EA crunching you to appeal angry people on the internet.

https://kotaku.com/after-backlash-mass-effect-3-devs-say-team...

I mean, unfortunate crunch aside, I don't think that answers things that clearly. I mostly wanted to know if the writers (particularly the head writer) wanted it changed or agreed at all with the criticisms towards it, and all this seems to say is that people at Bioware were split on the issue. So it could be one of those cases where enough important creative people wanted to change it, and thus people lower on the team who just wanted to take a break of some sort could not. That is one of the things that has regularly lead to crunch, people having to crunch because some people on the team wanted to do some more work and guilt over going home early while co-workers were still hard at work.

They shouldn't have crunched regardless, but if the writers wanted to change it, I don't see an issue outside of that.

There is a nearly half hour video in there, which presumably has a lot more than the article, so I might watch that.