Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

The Last Stand said:
It would've been a delight to see the Rabbids (or at least Rayman) in Smash Ultimate.
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Its weird that there's trophies and spirit things for Rayman in Smash but no actual representation from his series in the roster, or even as a stage or assist. Even Bomberman and a few others get an assist and costume but Rayman just exists in this limbo where it feels like he's there but he isn't.
 
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The Gangster Computer said:
Its weird that there's trophies and spirit things for Rayman in Smash but no actual representation from his series in the roster, or even as a stage or assist. Even Bomberman and a few others get an assist and costume but Rayman just exists in this limbo where it feels like he's there but he isn't.
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I assume Ubisoft was stingy with the rights?
 
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This probably isn't an unpopular opinion these days but BioWare have basically been making the same game over and over and are complete hacks.

I've been playing through Mass Effect 2 recently and you can tell even at that point they were completely bereft of ideas. Its not a bad game but its basically a watered down third person shooter with RPG elements and extremely derivative of all their other efforts. It was lauded for the story and writing at the time but playing it now, its mediocre at best and downright garbage in some places. Filled with cringe dialogue and weird coomer shit. I don't remember Mass Effect 1 being this bad in the writing department, and certainly not the older CRPGS. Did everyone in gaming have a collective brain haemorrhage when it came out? Its a good game but I wouldn't call it one of the best, not even close.

Maybe it was all younger people who have no frame of reference? I remember something similar happening when Dragon Age Origins came out. Everyone in the mainstream gaming press was creaming their pants over how amazing and revolutionary it was. Anyone who ever played a CRPG saw it for what it was though - a decent RPG with a modern face lift, nothing special.
 
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L.A.Noire
Great game, but it takes the 1st prize for the most useless and unnecessary open world. What's that? Collect 95 cars that are look almost similar and drive like shit similar? Yeah, fuck off, you're behind the wheel, I need to go over the case notes.
 
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Podliva said:
L.A.Noire
Great game, but it takes the 1st prize for the most useless and unnecessary open world. What's that? Collect 95 cars that are look almost similar and drive like shit similar? Yeah, fuck off, you're behind the wheel, I need to go over the case notes.
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It would've worked better as a hub world.
 
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ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday said:
I genuinely don't get MMOs and I think all the supposed "comradery" you see people talk about with it is artificial. Why would I pay 10-15 dollars a month to do fetch quest, wait in queues, and read a generic story that does nothing that new or interesting?
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Basically GTA Online. If your online game is more playable solo, there's a problem with your design.
 
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sasazuka said:
I had a similar idea for sports games, you buy the game once per console but pay for a subscription if you want continually updated rosters.
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I would want competition back in that genre. But a subscription would be the next best thing. Especially with all this Ultimate Team crap.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Jak 2 is an overrated game. Its open world is barren, basically a glorified hub world. Difficulty is unforgiving. Guns lack weight to them, especially compared to Ratchet and Clank.
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I'll one-up you: the entire Jak trilogy is the most overrated series of PS2 games that exists. It's, as far as I know, once of the first series of truly awful games that nobody at the time noticed was bad due to the graphics.

Jak 1 is the best game in the series, but it's a glorified Banjo-Kazooie clone, and when the best game is a brainless collect-a-thon, you know we're in for a treat.
Jak 2 takes the ending of Jak 1 and just kind of ignores it, pivots to a new story on a non sequitur, and gives you an okay platformer broken up with bad shooting and even worse driving.
Jak 3 decides that apparently Jak 2 didn't do enough to ruin the coherence of the story and setting, throws the whole thing into the garbage again, launches off in a new direction that requires you basically to forget the first two games, and once again has bad shooting, mediocre platforming...and surprisingly decent driving. Really, the driving is pretty fun. The trilogy then ends with cheap sight gag instead of any kind of satisfying payoff.

Also, Daxter isn't funny.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Jak 1 is the best game in the series, but it's a glorified Banjo-Kazooie clone, and when the best game is a brainless collect-a-thon, you know we're in for a treat.
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Jak 1's innovation in the collectathon genre is the lack of loading screens. The world is connected. Props to Naughty Dog for that.

However, combat was iffy and the main character was practically a puppet. It feels like Daxter was intended to be the main character since Jak is a flat, mute character. That and I don't like collectathons.

I won't lie, they toned down Jak in The Lost Frontier, even if it was technically a spinoff. That was a much needed choice, although he reminded me of Nathan Drake.
 
Pissmaster said:
so I guess if Kain from FF4 got in, he'd exterminate the Fire Emblem menace
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This is probably more about me being an oldfag but it'd be way more interesting to see someone like Kain than Cloud and Sephiroth. He has a cool design and a cool moveset, but I also happen to think that VII is a horribly overrated average at best game so there you go.
 
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The Last Stand said:
I would want competition back in that genre. But a subscription would be the next best thing. Especially with all this Ultimate Team crap.
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The only sports games I want to play have as little of the sport in them as possible.
Mutant Leauge Football/Hockey. Blitz the League.

If I'm not shattering spinal cords every time I touch a guy, I'll just go outside and play.
 
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Local Degenerate said:
The only sports games I want to play have as little of the sport in them as possible.
Mutant Leauge Football/Hockey. Blitz the League.

If I'm not shattering spinal cords every time I touch a guy, I'll just go outside and play.
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According to a few, sports games won't sell without their respective licenses. If true, I find it ridiculous. If you like the sport and the game is enjoyable (at least), what would the license do?

Blitz: The League isn't licensed, but it offers a dark twist on professional football and the arcade subgenre.
 
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Agent Abe Caprine said:
CERO is also really strict. Recently found out the Way of the Samurai games are rated Z(basically their AO rating) because you can attack normal civilians. This explains a lot about Japanese open world games. Always wondered why I couldn't beat random people up in most of them. Already figured the blood settings in so many modern M rated Japanese games were due to CERO.
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Maybe that's why WoTS never got huge. What a shame.
 
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