Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

It might end up as one of those "Then why did you ask for it" moments, because of course it might not be the perfect little boy you thought it was 4 years ago.

This is a bit of a half-hearted opinion but may as well say it anyways:
Shovelware is a necessary evil in video games since it makes the good stuff even better.

@Fizza Shhh, don't mention the S word in these forums.. you'll summon him..

@VoidofLight

Ah, the Twilight Princess problem.

@VoidofLight I think it might already be to late.

@kkslider5552000 Eh, I'm also in that camp of people that think it's the worst 3D Zelda game to date (with the possible exception of Skyward Sword, which I still haven't played). Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but I totally get why it's not quite as celebrated as other entries in the series these days. The fact that I played the first four hours or so in one session, sat it down, and didn't pick it back up for three years says everything, really.

I played some Shovelware games such as Imagine series on NDS and 3DS, My Universe series on PS4, Animal Boxing on NDS, Cooking Mama games, Motionsports Adrenaline PS3, Hannah Montana games on PS3 + PSP + NDS, Power Punch Wii, Barbie games on PS2 & Wii, Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival Wii U, Dual Pen Sports 3DS, etc. They are not really bad games after all as they are my alternative choices since I don't have interest with mainstream games such as Zelda games, Metroid games, Xenoblade games, Just Dance games, Smash Bros games, etc.

Wow, the Anti-Matter summoning spell really works!

@Anti-Matter And that's completely fine.

I love seeing people find joy in things I usually write off without giving them a chance and honestly, it makes talking about games far more interesting when, like you said, it's not just mainstream games hogging all the limelight. Besides, I have a few games that I would consider 'shovelware' that I've greatly enjoyed in the past (some 3DS Lego games, a Thomas the Tank Engine game on DS that I really enjoyed, and a Phineas and Ferb DS game that is unironically one of my favourite platformers ever, just to name a few).

@Ralizah Why of course it worked. Its a totally legit spell that you can use to summon him, Hint, one of the key words is I don't like shovelware

@VoidofLight
That’s exactly what I’m saying. People have such high hopes for this game they will see it as a disappointment no matter how good it is.

@Snatcher
That and boxing/ kickboxing.

I like Donkey Kong Country Returns over Diddy's Kong Quest.

@Drmarioland Same. I like both of the Retro-developed DKC over any of Rare's SNES trilogy, actually.

I can't speak for Tropical Freeze as I haven't played it, but Country Returns was fantastic and I definitely prefer it over the original trilogy. I did hear that TF is better in every way than CR from a lot of people.

Yeah, I am really interested in how BOTW2 lands. The first BOTW, while a great game, still might be one of the most overhyped games ever made. I'm sorry but anyone throwing around things like 'it is the evolution of the open world!' or whatever like... stop huffing that glue, brother! Now all these years later, with the Switch basically struggling to run everything, in a year of open world games like Elden Ring and the new Horizon sequel, like I just can't imagine BOTW2 landing well unless it does something truly unique and innovative. I mean I am sure it'll score some bonus points because of the Zelda and Nintendo brands, but if people try to push this again as 'THE NEXT STEP IN OPEN WORLD GAMING, A TRUE EVOLUTION OF VIDEOGAMES', I just don't think that ***** flies this time.

I think for the time it was a fairly good game, and did things not many other games attempted doing. You could say "Well, Horizon exists", and it does, but they're two different beasts... and even now, looking at reviews for the new Horizon game, I still think they're two separate beasts. The first Horizon game didn't really have a world that was completely and totally open like the first BotW, and the physics in Horizon truly paled in comparison to how they function in BotW itself. Like for example, take a fire arrow within both BotW 1 and Horizon Zero Dawn. In BotW, if it starts to rain, or if the fire arrow touches water, it extinguishes, but in Horizon, the arrows are still lit when hitting water.

BotW itself also had the ability to climb any mountain or cliff, where as Horizon forced you to climb specific ones that the game allowed for you to do, and it's sequel, while having more of these climbing areas, still limits you on where you can climb within the game's world.

I know that Forbidden West has some new mechanics as well, like the ability to swim underwater, but from what I've heard those are very specific instances, and there's no water combat at all. The reviews mostly just make it out as a hidden loading screen type thing, as well as a way to get away from robots.

That being said however, I don't think BotW itself is completely perfect either. The game itself still has it's own issues, like the lack of enemy variety, all of the dungeons being almost exactly the same, and the fact that shrines become repetitive after a while. I sort of see the complaints about the world being empty, but that's a thing with most open-world games, even the ones that people praise to the heavens.

As for BotW 2, I'm sure that it'll be good as long as Nintendo adjusts things that were complained about within the original, as well as focus on making the world itself a bit more interesting. Anyone who's expecting it to be innovative is truly delusional, given that it won't happen. It's reusing the same world, and probably most of the same mechanics of the first game, along with a couple of new ones. I will say though, the new mechanics are interesting going off the patents. The way that Link can go through ceilings to get to buildings that are locked, or get into places you can't ordinarily reach seems pretty interesting. The skydiving mechanics also seem pretty good as well.

(Also, this is coming from someone who's played both Horizon and BotW, but I have to say, Horizon doesn't really stick with me. It probably would have if I attempted to play it before I touched BotW, but now it just doesn't cling. Got to the one town where Alloy has to prove herself, and I just sorta dropped it. The stealth gameplay isn't my thing really, and while I liked the concept of a world that this game paints, it just feels meh to me.)

This is all very confusing, I regularly read in this thread BOTW was the worst Zelda game ever made but now as it's the greatest Zelda game ever made the sequel won’t live up to the hype.

Well this is the unpopular opinion thread, it is the only safe space for someone to share that BOTW isn't as good as everyone says it is.