Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[thegooddoctor]

The Nintendo GameCube had overall better games than the PS2 or Xbox, yes it didn’t sell well at all but the overall quality of titles far exceeded the quality of PS2 or Xbox games, I mean of course the Ps2 had some fantastic games, some of my favourite to this day, and Xbox had the brilliant first 2 Halos but overall there was so much more shovelware crap thrown onto the PS2 and even Xbox at times, whilst The GameCube had the highest quantity of first party games on it despite its more limited library.

While yes there was crap occasionally but just look at the huge amount of random shitty PS2 games were made such as Shitty shooters like GUN, Bikini ninja slayers, Shitty ports of old Dreamcast shooters, Terrible music games, High School Musical sing It! American Idol, Family game Dance Party, and the Sea floor Plummeting Level of Quality that was Phoenix Games entire Library of Absolute Shite. When compared to GameCube, The overall quality Is way more consistent generally.

 

[thegooddoctor]

Also, (and I know I’ll be lambasted for this) Majoras Mask is Probably the One of the Most Overrated Games of all time, Not just Zelda Games. Certainly Not a Bad Game, But one that just pales in Comparison to all the Hype surrounding It.

 

[The Last Stand]

Although the Wii sold like hotcakes, I consider the GameCube to be Nintendo's best home console yet.

It was more powerful than the PS2, but shame Nintendo's optical drive limited space for games. It had renowned classics like Metroid Prime, Melee and Super Mario Sunshine. It was a gaming console first and foremost, which is taken for granted. And it knew its audience.

The Wii relied on the motion control gimmick which made the Wii shovelware material.

The Wii U was just a HD Wii with the gamepad as a selling point. It was also barely on par with the PS3 and Xbox 360, especially at the tail end of that generation.

The Switch is a great concept of handheld gaming and home console usage. And Nintendo's lax censorship does make it a great sell for those interested in that. But it IS underpowered and does have a couple design flaws.

Nintendo should stop focusing on competing with Sony and Microsoft and do its own niche product while giving developers wiggle room to support it b

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Although the Wii sold like hotcakes, I consider the GameCube to be Nintendo's best home console yet.

It was more powerful than the PS2, but shame Nintendo's optical drive limited space for games. It had renowned classics like Metroid Prime, Melee and Super Mario Sunshine. It was a gaming console first and foremost, which is taken for granted. And it knew its audience.

The Wii relied on the motion control gimmick which made the Wii shovelware material.

The Wii U was just a HD Wii with the gamepad as a selling point. It was also barely on par with the PS3 and Xbox 360, especially at the tail end of that generation.

The Switch is a great concept of handheld gaming and home console usage. And Nintendo's lax censorship does make it a great sell for those interested in that. But it IS underpowered and does have a couple design flaws.

Nintendo should stop focusing on competing with Sony and Microsoft and do its own niche product while giving developers wiggle room to support it b

You praised the Gamecube for being competitive with the PS2, complained about the last three Nintendo products for being too underpowered and gimmicky, and then completely contradicted everything you said by concluding that Nintendo needs to stop trying to compete on power and lean into the gimmicks.

Are you high?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Are you high?

No just a retard spouting verbal bowl movements, it is a common "thread" among people who blindly hate nintendo shit.

"The X system is under powered"
*3 Generations later*
"X System was great and underrated it had lots of great games."

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

Why the fuck is anyone mentioning sales when it comes to their opinions on shit? Nobody above the age of twelve's gonna make a worthwhile argument about liking something because of sales.

Also I don't really think saying GameCube's a great console's unpopular by any stretch of the imagination. Saying that's unpopular's like saying that Star Trek is better than Star Wars is a unpopular opinion. It might be in terms of sheer numbers considering Star Wars has always been more popular and has many casual fans, but generally trekkies tend to be the more hardcore group of the two. Same shit applies to GameCube, sure it sold less than the other consoles, but it clearly has a much more devote fanbase considering how often you hear of it when talking about "underrated" consoles.

The Wii U was just a HD Wii with the gamepad as a selling point. It was also barely on par with the PS3 and Xbox 360, especially at the tail end of that generation.

It was pretty firmly on the level, if not a tad better, it didn't have as good of a CPU so it couldn't deal with shit like AI as well as a PS3 could, but the GPU was much better graphical end of things and on the whole could beat a PS3 relatively easily. The problem just comes down to the hardware being weird, and of course with nobody except Nintendo (and given how quickly they bailed on it even they didn't really want to) wanting to make any games for the damn thing nobody put effort into making sure they made optimal use of the hardware.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

As far as Nintendo goes, I think people seem to give them a free pass because they make really good games, but as a company they make pretty stupid choices. Every console they've made since the gamecube has had a gimmick as it's major selling point (Motion control on the Wii, "3D" on the 3ds, portability with the switch, etc) which is fine in theory but it makes their consoles basically garbage as far as the actual games go.

Like I'm sure the Switch is a great console, but there are only like 3 exclusives on it that anybody cares about (Mario Odyssey, Animal Crossing and Breath of The Wild). Even though I've been dying to play breath of the wild I really just can't justify the 500$ investment in the switch itself.

On PS4 I have tons of great exclusive games like God of War, Yakuza 0, MGSV, Journey, The last of us, the Uncharted games, Persona 5, etc. And what does the switch have in comparison, 3 really good games and portability? Just seems like a huge waste of money especially because nobody over the age of like 12 cares about portability.

 

[vertexwindi]

On PS4 I have tons of great exclusive games like God of War, Yakuza 0, MGSV, Journey, The last of us, the Uncharted games, Persona 5, etc. And what does the switch have in comparison, 3 really good games and portability? Just seems like a huge waste of money especially because nobody over the age of like 12 cares about portability.

>yakuza 0
>mgsv
>exclusive
huh what

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

>yakuza 0
>mgsv
>exclusive
huh what

I don't really play video games that much anymore and tbh just assumed they were exclusive

 

[Beautiful Loser]

The driving physics in GTA4 wasn't that bad.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

I'll never understand the appeal of playing the Sims.

Every so often I'll be boredly browsing a torrent site and find the latest version of the latest Sims repacked with everything and I'll decide to download it, install it, play it, and then... uninstall within a day because holy shit is it boring. I mean, I guess I get the appeal of the general concept of living a virtual life but the *actual* game itself is tedium incarnate.

The gameplay consists mostly of clicking on something, waiting for your sim to walk over to it, starting an activity there, and then just waiting for progression meter to fill. Repeat until you either quit the game or quit life.

Interactions between sims is nonsensical and essentially just:

 

[thegooddoctor]

Also, (and I know I’ll be lambasted for this) Majoras Mask is Probably the One of the Most Overrated Games of all time, Not just Zelda Games. Certainly Not a Bad Game, But one that just pales in Comparison to all the Hype surrounding It.

What I mean by this is that the game while having it’s brilliant moments, Is nowhere near as good as Ocarina of Time as it’s often made out to be. The dungeons and bosses pale in comparison to OoT, Many of them rely way too much on ridiculously tough Timed challenges that you can only win by a hairs length. Secondly The Time Reversal Mechanic while creative is just a cheap way of extending the game time and extremely frustrating to manage Your progress once you lose all your hard work of a few days doing challenges and collecting all your Items you’ve invested so much game time into. Lastly, the main Villain whilst certainly Having a great design and creepy menace to him, Is defeated way too easily in a visually amazing but way too easy Hollow final boss fight, without any real tension unlike the Brilliantly threatening Ganondorf from previous and future games.

Ultimately Majoras Mask is still a Great Game, but it’s nowhere near the near perfect 10/10 game so many people have made it out to be as, Nostalgia has really blinded people to many serious flaws in the game, and I could say the same for a lot of other Zelda games.

 

[Double Dee]

Of the first-wave DLC for Smash Brothers Ultimate, Byleth wasn't a super bad character choice. Granted, I would've preferred to have seen them with a different weapon, but I'm not here to nitpick.
Banjo-Kazooie, on the other hand... I dunno, I didn't feel like B&K brought anything interesting with them.

Also, I do NOT understand the fanbase for Waluigi. I get it, WAAHHH, lolol. It gets old.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Also, I do NOT understand the fanbase for Waluigi. I get it, WAAHHH, lolol. It gets old.

I think it started out as a joke, like why would there be a fanbase for such a nobody character that only appears in party games. Then the autists failed to see why it was funny and took it completely seriously.

 

[Super Hans]

The driving physics in GTA4 wasn't that bad.

I liked that physics setup a hell of a lot more than 5's. It certainly could have been tightened up a bit, but in 5 they went too far and it feels like a vehicle's wheels are nailed to the ground.

 

[AsianChris]

Chrono Trigger would have been a lot better with Secret of Mana style real-time combat. The slow battle system where everything just freezes every time anyone does something is the one major flaw in that game.

My main issue was the map linearity and lack of challenge on the early game. I dropped by the rat chase, does it gets any better?

 

[I Love Beef]

My unpopular opinion, I guess, is that I just can't give a rat's ass about video games. They were fun as a kid. People take them way too seriously for me to want any part of them as an adult. I have real world things like food and not losing a house to worry about now. No artificial dopamine hit of fake adventures on a TV screen is going to do anything for me now that I've left my parents' basement.

I am going to state my respect in that I can definitely see where you're coming from. I'm honestly at a point in life where video games are still an interest and something fun for me, but I want to prioritize other things I want out of this life before going back into leisure, and even then, I don't think it will be until a long while, or maybe even the same world that I came from. Plus, I like what you had to top off your opinion with. Not everyone who plays and enjoys video games has their head on straight, and especially lolcows and some of the assholes I had to deal with out of this hobby of mine.

Cheers and happy trails.

 

[Pissmaster]

I think it started out as a joke, like why would there be a fanbase for such a nobody character that only appears in party games. Then the autists failed to see why it was funny and took it completely seriously.

I think a lot of it came from this webcomic: http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/151-witf/

which was an April Fool's Day thing but it turned out to be by far the best comics that guy ever did. That compounded with Nintendo's shift in focus on Luigi from time to time while tending to ignore Waluigi despite how they're ostensibly rivals, and how Wario's occasional games have presented him as a much more interesting, funny character than anyone else in the Mario universe. There's just a whole lot of comedy potential for Waluigi that never gets realized, so he's the clear-cut underdog of Nintendo. He's not even the most ignored Nintendo character, that award would go to pretty much any character in StarTropics, considering even Stanley the Bugman from Donkey Kong 3 got a trophy in Smash, but StarTropics seems to get the shaft for the sole reason that it was never released in GRORIOUS NIPPON.

That's why I think he became a meme, anyway. Everything about Waluigi is absurd, even in the context of a world that is inherently absurd. His biggest role to date was in Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, of all things, and his entire reason for existing was because Wario needed a tennis partner. I get that autists love to run memes into the ground without realizing why they're memes in the first place, but Waluigi gets love because he's just so inherently funny and underutilized.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I think a lot of it came from this webcomic: http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/151-witf/

which was an April Fool's Day thing but it turned out to be by far the best comics that guy ever did. That compounded with Nintendo's shift in focus on Luigi from time to time while tending to ignore Waluigi despite how they're ostensibly rivals, and how Wario's occasional games have presented him as a much more interesting, funny character than anyone else in the Mario universe. There's just a whole lot of comedy potential for Waluigi that never gets realized, so he's the clear-cut underdog of Nintendo. He's not even the most ignored Nintendo character, that award would go to pretty much any character in StarTropics, considering even Stanley the Bugman from Donkey Kong 3 got a trophy in Smash, but StarTropics seems to get the shaft for the sole reason that it was never released in GRORIOUS NIPPON.

That's why I think he became a meme, anyway. Everything about Waluigi is absurd, even in the context of a world that is inherently absurd. His biggest role to date was in Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, of all things, and his entire reason for existing was because Wario needed a tennis partner. I get that autists love to run memes into the ground without realizing why they're memes in the first place, but Waluigi gets love because he's just so inherently funny and underutilized.

I've seen that webcomic artist make Waluigi videos, like that Hallelujah parody where it's just Waluigi going "Waaa-lelujah!" And I thought it was funny because it was absurd and used Waluigi's only vocal noise.

I agree with you that there is an untapped comedic value with Waluigi, especially since even characters like Daisy had more to do in the series than even him. I guess I got soured on Waluigi after the Smash Bros autists freaked the fuck out over him not making it into the game.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I think it started out as a joke, like why would there be a fanbase for such a nobody character that only appears in party games. Then the autists failed to see why it was funny and took it completely seriously.

It started out as a joke..and then turned real when people like me started to feel bad for the dude. The fact he is a nobody that only appears in party games when even a loser faggot like Toad got his own game makes him an underdog.