Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Ralizah In the name of stience I decided to do a test. I entered in google and searched for overrated Witcher 3, then overrated Skyrim and lastly overrated Breath Of The Wild to see how many results came up. In 3rd place was Witcher 3 with "About 174,000 results", 2nd was Skyrim with "About 429,000 results" and finally the winner was Breath of the Wild with "About 586,000 results".

So I conclude people call BOTW overrated more than other open world games which are often called the game best ever.

I feel like people will naturally call the new benchmark for a genre/series 'overrated' simply because it's the first of it's kind.

The original Zelda on the NES was a groundbreaking title that more or less kickstarted the free roam adventure game. It is also far and away one of the worst games I've ever played with no sense of where on earth to go or what on earth to do unless you have a guide clutched to you as if it were the bible. It's a game I would absolutely call 'overrated'.

Now, I may not have actually played it yet, but BOTW seems from an outsider's perspective (aka me) far and away superior to the original Zelda whilst still retaining the whole 'free roam adventure' aspect but on a much grander scale. However, even though it's only 5 years old whereas the og Zelda is over 30, it seems to be far more critically analysed comparatively. This could probably just be the climate that we're in nowadays, where modern games are far more bashed on than the older games due to being compared to similar games that came out at a similar time (Horizon Zero Dawn is a perfect example of this).

To summarise, I don't think whether a game is overrated or underrated will greatly affect the broad consensus on it. If a game is known to be good or bad, the public perception will almost always stay that way for the rest of the game's existence.

God, I'm going to get @ hard for this one.

Soooo I was looking at switch sports, and we all know the fact that they aren't really talking about the mii's let alone acting like there not there, sucks.

But! I...Kinda...Sorta....Maybe...Think...there not that bad?? Don't get me wrong, it sucks there not making a bigger deal out of the mii's. But there in the game, and at the same time we have these new guys, They sorta look like tho Xbox 360 avatars, but... well.. better?

And You can boot up the beta, can't play it, but boot it up, they the characters actually look really cool! I really do like there design, and I kinda hope they can live along side mii's, and have there own name and all. And there probably not going to replace the miis ever, (Thank goodness) and again, I don't want them to replace miis, not at all (Maybe a little tiny very tiny bit, so small a microscope can't see it), I want the miis to kinda be along side them as I said.

I know I'm just kinda going on here, but till I can see them in action, I can't be to sure if they will even touch the OG sports game, with mii's and all. And a name, I really think these little guys need a name. Please don't wreck me ):

@Snatcher
You can try other similar games like Wii Sports on XBOX 360 such as Kinect Sports 1 / 2, Big League Sports, Kinect Adventures, Deca Sports Freedom, etc. With Mii or not, doesn't really matter for me as long i can use custom avatar to represent myself. I already have the games but not having the machine yet.

The Big 3 (Nintendo Sony & Microsoft) should release their big new consoles earlier in the year (Feb, Mar, Apr), instead of the holiday season (Oct, Nov, Dec).

Sorry to @jump and those involved in my gladitorial shenanigans the other day. I don't normally try to derail a thread, but we got into a serious thing, and then I didn't know how to end it.

@NintendoByNature I've upgraded our match to a TLC match, so while you may have the 3D - jump and I have the conchairto! Eeeeeeuuuuugh what a rush.

@bimmy-lee it may be breaking kayfabe but I think they seem pretty tasty too. Fried up on a bed of rice. I've got a source on the dark web that says that polka dot part comes off like a hat so you may be able to spare their lives even.

Unpopular opinion? Cloud is a horrible protagonist. Especially in the remake. He's such a moody baby. Here's how he handles everything in the remake:

Random guy: "hey Cloud, how about we do something fun?"
Cloud: no, I dont wanna [pouts, crosses arms, puts on headphones and listens to Slipknot]

Yuffie is such a better character and the Intermission DLC really makes how boring Cloud is noticeable. But he was so cool when I was 14!

BOTW2: Look I just wanna say that this game has me simultaneously excited and worried. It's taking them MORE than 5 years for a SEQUEL (not a brand new zelda) which is already a ludicrous amount of time to develop a game as it is. Let's just say I'm expecting to see a lot of new stuff in this game.

@AstralRedStar705 Not really as 3-5 years is the norm for making the avergae modern AAA game, let alone one with a massive map like BOTW.

@Losermagnet No worries but I disagee, our tag finisher should the The Doomsday Device!

@Snatcher I see no problem with the "new guys" actually I think they look great, much much better than the crummy mii's, and I hope, but also doubt they will completely replace mii's.

@jump Yea but like I said, BOTW2 is a sequel NOT a completely new game and its taking just as long or longer than the original which I find ridiculous. The next trailer for the game will probably have to blow me away to get me interested to be honest. Also I feel like new games are taking way too long to make. I really hope new games can start coming out a little sooner because I don't like this new trend. Surely I'm not the only one who thinks that?

@AstralRedStar705 It's that kind of thinking from players which leads to crunch time and really in this day in age that kind of horrible work culture shouldn't happen.

@jump I completely agree with you, I guess I'm just saying that I don't like how long it takes for new games to come out nowadays, it bothers me I guess.

@Losermagnet To be fair, I think he was harden to be that way, as when he was younger, he was much happier.

I have to assume a huge part of BOTW 2's development cycle "delay" has been down to the optimisation. The weird irony of how weak the Switch is, is that it probably makes it more complicated to develop for, rather than less so. You're trying to make an open world title which competes in 2022, on hardware that is probably weaker than a base PS4, which came out almost a decade ago.

Huh, it was only 1st announced in 2019, @AstralRedStar705 .... Although the basic ideas might come from while working on the original game, it doesn't mean the whole team started working full-time on the sequel as soon as the 1st was out, even

@Pizzamorg Nintendo Switch is roughly 1/3 to 1/2 as capable as the base Xbox One, which itself was noticeably less capable than base PS4, so saying it's weaker than the base PS4 is putting it lightly.

There's probably a fairly hard limit atm in terms of how capable they can even make a hybrid platform in terms of viable on-paper specs. Just look at the battery life woes of the Steam Deck when running AAA games at 60fps.

I hope Nintendo is looking hard at various upscaling techniques and potentially other creative solutions to overcome the hard gap in specs they'll be looking at with their next-gen hardware.

Wow! I knew the Switch was weaker hardware, but I didn't realise it was that weak. It is funny, because like you say, in terms of a true Hybrid which can deliver home console worthy titles on the go, the Switch is probably the first console to try and truly do that properly, which makes it probably the strongest step forward we've taken in that regard. So it manages to be in some ways cutting edge while also running on decade old hardware at this point.

I do agree that DLSS and other similar technology really is the future of gaming, in general. At least on PC, the fidelity loss is usually so minor it would take the most anal of us to notice a difference, but you can go from struggling to run a game at a solid 60 fps, to running it in the hundreds just by flipping on DLSS. The day of having to turn all your settings down are over.

You really have to assume that this kind of technology will be vital to the future of the Nintendo's console offerings if they really want to stick it out for the long haul. A native 1080p handheld display targeting 60 fps with the capabilities of being upscaled to 4K when docked, while still running in the native resolution of the handheld mode.

@Losermagnet - This will be an experiment for science. We have no idea what will happen, but someone has to be the first to do it. We just need a bite of his head/the thing sitting on his head, so it would be great if the little fella could just cooperate and make it easy. We don’t know what will happen. Will he be as delicious as he looks? Will we need our stomachs pumped? Will we be transported to the Rainbow Road? Who knows, but somebody once looked at a crab and decided to eat it, so we should be as brave.

Super Mario Bros 2 is my favorite 8bit SMB game. I know NL has done polls on this and a few people agree with me, but for the most part; this is probably fairly unpopular. It has my favorite music, unique gameplay for the series, I love picking the right character for the job, and I love some of the characters it sort of accidentally introduced, like Birdo; one of my favorite SMB villains. I understand it’s not a Mario game, but it is, and I love it.

@Pizzamorg Yeah, you have to admire how some companies are able to "optimize" the hell out of certain games in order to get them running well on Switch. This is a big reason why so many Switch ports happen months after-the-fact.

Even with the limitations of mobile gaming tech, I think the future still looks pretty good for Nintendo. The generational gap in games keeps shrinking with every successive set of machines, meaning the console makers will increasingly be looking at sideways evolutionary steps to distinguish newer devices from older ones. And, yeah, a lot of technologies exist now to help bridge the divide in raw pixel output in weaker platforms.

This is assuming Nintendo doesn't do something stupid that nukes their own momentum with a largely uncontested hardware model, which is always possible.

Mario 64 is the worst 3D Mario game. It is purely nostalgia based.