Unpopular Gaming Opinions!

[Sean]

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[Dr. Mechano]

Mario

• While Super Mario Bros. 3 is a fine game, I have to say that Super Mario World is the best game in the entire series. Better controls, better level design, better everything than SMB3.
  
• I enjoyed Super Mario RPG a lot, but I just don't see what the big deal is about Geno. He was kind of a cool guy, I guess, but he's not this amazing character fans make him out to be.
  
• Luigi's Mansion was great.
  
• I genuinely like Super Mario Sunshine, and feel that the game gets very much undeserved flak.
  
• Super Princess Peach was a good game.
  
• I like Waluigi.
  
• Super Mario Bros.: The Movie was bad, but I enjoyed it. Same for the cartoons.
  
  Donkey Kong
  
  • I liked all three DKC games, but I actually enjoyed Donkey Kong Country more than Donkey Kong Country 2.
    
  • I think Donkey Kong 64 was a perfectly fine game.
    
  • Cranky Kong is the best Kong.
    
    Wario
    
    • The VB version of Wario Land alone makes it worth owning a Virtual Boy. That's how good this game was. It's an obscure gem, lost due to its terrible system.
      
    • Wario World was short and easy, but it was still a very fun game.
      
      Zelda
      
      • Link's Awakening was the best 2D Zelda.
        
      • Majora's Mask was the best 3D Zelda.
        
      • I don't really like Navi, but I don't dislike her either. I think she's not nearly as annoying as fans make her out to be.
        
      • I like Tingle.
        
        Metroid
        • I liked the original Metroid more than Super Metroid.
          

        Mother / EarthBound

        [*]Despite its praise as a very deep and well-characterized series, I feel the protagonists of Mother are awfully flat and bare-bones as characters (Even the ones that do talk). The best characters tend to be villains and other NPCs.

        [*]Pokey Minch is a better villain than Giygas.

        Mega Man

        [*]I like the classic series better than the X series.

        [*]I actually liked that

        Dr. Wily reforms at the end of the Battle Network games.

        Final Fantasy

        [*]V was fine. I don't see why it's panned so much.

        [*]VI was the best game.

        [*]VII is a fine game, but nowhere near the best.

        [*]Sephiroth bores me as a villain, and as a character in general. For me, it's Kefka all the way!

        [*]XIII is good. It was overly linear, but I still liked the story and characters. Especially Sazh.

        [*]On that note, Sazh is one of the most well-written characters - if not the best - in the franchise.

        Other

        [*]The Ganbare Goemon games are overlooked masterpieces. Go play them.

        [*]Blast Corps is one of Rare's finest works.

        [*]I don't care about tiers; I main Mario in SSB, Dr. Mario in Melee, and Wario in Brawl.

        [*]I suppose on this board it's an unpopular opinion: I like Mario more than Sonic.

Edited May 30, 2012 by Dr. Mechano

[JezMM]

- I think Madden games, no, ALL sports games suck because it's basically the same damn game every year. The only changes being an updated roster and slightly better graphics. They should really stop making sports games completely because why should I play a game of something I can either watch on tv, go to the stadium and watch, or better yet play in real life? Besides sports games are boring anyway

Do you actually play sports games though? I mean I dunno, I sure as hell don't but what you just described is how I see game genre sequels I don't care for: for example fighting games and generic war shooters like CoD and Battlefield, but ask any die-hard and they'd be able to tell you a ton of things that are different or improved in each installment. I assume it'd be the same with sports games too?

I don't like sports games at all but... just sayin'.

[Vertekins]

Majora's Mask > Ocarina of Time. In practically every area.

A story that was more absorbing and had characters that actually made you care about their predicaments which really gave you a sense of purpose and a desire to set things right, even more varied gameplay styles, an amazingly unique sense of tenseness from the time system, superior visuals and arguably a better, more moving soundtrack with winners in the emotion department such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB_sZA2pJdc, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e056R97svz8and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDX4ZwUeOok. Did I mention it's replay value?

Edited May 30, 2012 by Verte

[Semi-colon e]

I don't like Cave Story, nor the whole stupid faux-8 bit retro fad so many indie games now have because of it, it just feels lazy to me. Either that or everything looks like Nightmare Before Christmas (which, surprise surprise, I also don't like!) for some reason (which is kind of a stupid opinion, I know).

I got the the Sand Zone and the puppies in Cave Story and gave up. Bunny Must Die to me is a much more enjoyable indie Metroidvania, and it's not trying to be purely 8-bit.

Metroid: Other M was mediocre but it had a lot of promise. I actually appreciate almost everything the game tried to do or attempted to go for, it's just I felt the execution needed a hell of a lot of work. And it needed to be much less linear. I hope Samus doesn't just go back to being a mute now. I'm also gonna say Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is hideously underrated compared to the rest of the series. It gets really good and I felt it did a better job of balancing exploration, action, and story than Other M did. Speaking of more Metroid, as much as I've tried, I can't fucking stand the original one. I appreciate it's a nice piece of history, but I played pretty much every other Metroid game before this and it's just aged so horribly. Metroid 2 is actually not too bad and deserves a remake.

I couldn't get into Assassin's Creed either.

I prefer a game where everything is spelt out for you in a slightly patronising way than one that is overly cryptic. I don't mean to the point of totally holding your hand, but I don't mind a little bit of help or tips here and there. I just hate overly cryptic shit that is REQUIRED to beat the game. I don't really care if a game is easy/too easy either, sometimes it just helps me to relax rather than going apeshit at frustratingly hard segments.

Edited May 30, 2012 by Semi-colon e

[Carbo]

Cave Story was merely "8-bit" due to creative limitations. Pixel started working on the game around 1999 where he had a severely limited amount of assets to work with. If you want to get technical, the entire development of that game invoked the development process of older games; not using design choices because of him wanting to, but because he had to.

[Semi-colon e]

Oh, okay, fair enough. I was more referring to games that deliberately do it in it's wake though. That are just doing it because "it's retro". I mean I can get behind something that actually has those limitations, but I just didn't warm to Cave Story at all.

[Tori Himemiya]

I do love Brutal Legend. Its full of crazy awesome. But my unpopular opinion involves one of the characters. All the characters are awesome in their own ways (which I'm still wondering why they won't get over their differences and just team up) but I keep hearing that everyone hates Lionwhyte, the first villain you get to take on, which I could see why but honestly I believe he's almost as awesome as just about everyone in the game.

Why? He's a crazy awesome parody of hair/glam metal who flies with his hair. Not only that but he's voiced by Rob Halford of Judas Priest, who voices another character in the game which is pretty much him. And to make things even more better you get to kick his ass to Dr Feelgood by Motley Crue. Its nice to have a not so serious foil to Lars who is rather serious. But I suppose Lionwhyte did his job as a villain since he's hated. It doesn't help he's a douchebag. But yeah.

Also that game needed Type O Negative's Black No. 1 for Drowning Doom, the goth/doom/death metal fraction since its rather fitting. I'm not sure how popular this opinion is.

[Doubled32]

I honestly felt the way you did at a point, and I still feel that way about MOST shooters, but I honestly urge you to play some of Valve's games. At the very least Portal and Team Fortress 2. They're both very unique games.

Nothing like CoD. In fact, most CoD dudebro gamers I've seen don't even like TF2 because it defies a lot of what they've come to expect.

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Oh, I don't include the Portal series in that list XD Those are awesome, I just can't get use to the controls, so I have to watch walkthroughs. I'm willing to watch anything that makes me laugh while the game progresses

And more~

- I honestly don't see the big deal about LoZ games. I mean, I guess it's okay (Wind Waker being my favorite for letting you traverse the ocean in cell shaded graphics), but still. I tell my friend (who is as huge LoZ fan as I am a Sonic fan) that I don't really play them, and he thought I had no childhood and also thought I was weird for liking Wind Waker and toon Link.

- I also like some movie based games more than some regular games. Granted it has been a while since I played one

- Crash should come back and play like he did in Twinsanity. That was a fun game (I'm not sure if its an unpopular opinion or not, as I've heard many say they want him to stay dead).

- There aren't enough space or tropical based games out there. I've heard that many would prefer games that take place in foresty areas or mountainous places, but in my opinion, I think tropical islands would be epic if you could explore them in an RPG with controls like KH or Rogue Galaxy.

-Speaking of which, Rogue Galaxy is highly under rated. I wish they would make a sequel ;A;

[Vertekins]

I'm not sure if the following is an unpopular opinion...

I think that Stealth Rock ought to be banned from the Pokemon meta game. So many players nowadays either make it their priority to place Stealth Rock first, get it out of the way with a specialised Pokemon that can get it out of the way or is immune to it and players who don't use Pokemon that used to be in high tiers but aren't as of Generation 4 all because of Stealth Rock.

It's a flat out broken move IMO. 50% of your 4x weak Pokemon's HP taken from merely entering the battle field!? 25% of HP taken from a Pokemon 2x weak to Rock? Insane...

[Eternal EX]

I'm a girl gamer don't flirt with me silly boys (die)

• Out of all The Legend of Zelda games I've played, Wind Waker is my favourite.
  

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Finally someone else agrees with me!

-Brawl is better than Melee. Guys just suck it up and deal with it.

-No matter how much you try, Metroid will never catch my interest. Fuck that series.

-Star Fox Adventure is actually one of the best games from last generation. I dare you to try to attack me.

-S3&K is the best classic platformer game (from the 90s) EVER. It beats out everything.

-Mario 3 can suck it.

-Charizard > all other pokemon

[JezMM]

-Star Fox Adventure is actually one of the best games from last generation. I dare you to try to attack me.

Challenge accepted, care to elaborate? Because for all the stuff in that game that was good (crazy amazing graphics, good length, no loading, charming characterisation, dude it's okay everyone's furry for Krystal, music and such) there was a loooot of crap stuff (implying a highly explorable world that rarely rewarded exploration, boringly basic combat system, non-sensical puzzles for the sake of puzzles and a terribly anticlimatic finale).

Not meaning to pick a fight here, just genuinely curious!

Edited May 30, 2012 by JezMM

[Covskin]

Final Fantasy

• V was fine. I don't see why it's panned so much.
  
• VI was the best game.
  
• Sephiroth bores me as a villain, and as a character in general. For me, it's Kefka all the way!
  

The only thing I dislike about FFV is the Sand Dungeon where you only have 3 Party Members. Fuck that place.

And damn straight about 6. I only assume these opinions aren't more popular because less people have played 6 than 7 (or after, and just couldn't take going back to 2D).

The "why do people play sports games when they can just play it for real" argument is bloody stupid, as Sean touched upon earlier. On FIFA, I can score from 35 yards out in a Champions League Final against Barcalona. I can't do that myself in my back garden.

I didn't see the fuss about Bayonetta. Granted, I hear the PS3 version is inferior, but still. Do plan on giving it another go though.

I didn't enjoy No More Heroes or Resident Evil 4 (Wii) either.

Super Mario 64 is kinda boring - much prefer the Galaxy games.

Escape From Monkey Island isn't as bad as people say.

Episodic Gaming doesn't work. You either space games out way too much (Valve) or stretch yourself too far and standards drop (Telltale).

Never got into Ratchet & Clank, even though I loved Spyro. Jak 2 was way better - probably my favourite PS2 game.

[JezMM]

Oh, incidentally I do agree with the vast majority that Majora's Mask and Wind Waker were the best Zelda games. I prefer Majora's Mask overall but honestly they're such different spins on the series I find it hard to compare them directly.

Oh, on that thought though, here's a REALLY unpopular one!

Skyward Sword is my least favourite 3D Zelda. That's not to say it was bad, far, far from it. My least favourite 3D Zelda is still gonna be a million times better than a lot of games, but I did find it very disappointing and didn't live up to the hype. The entire surface was just one big dungeon and that got exhausting at times, and Skyloft had barely anything interesting to make me lose hours to sidequests right in the middle of the story. The main town was fantastic but the rest of Skyloft was just... floating rocks with an NPC on a few of them pretty much.

Also the story was very meh. Fantastic characters but Zelda lost all her charm when she got all intertwined with destiny n' shit. By the time tragic things started happening it'd been so long since I had any interaction with her I kind of forgot why I was supposed to care. It was just "Your Princess Is In Another Castle" all the damn way through. And then they tried to pull the emotional card on us with Fi at the end. Fi. A character who had zero development throughout the entire game. And now suddenly we're supposed to think she's been developing emotions or something? Ugh.

Twilight Princess had a much better and well-paced story.

Edited May 30, 2012 by JezMM

[Eternal EX]

Challenge accepted, care to elaborate? Because for all the stuff in that game that was good (crazy amazing graphics, good length, no loading, charming characterisation, dude it's okay everyone's furry for Krystal, music and such) there was a loooot of crap stuff (implying a highly explorable world that rarely rewarded exploration, boringly basic combat system, non-sensical puzzles for the sake of puzzles and a terribly anticlimatic finale).

Not meaning to pick a fight here, just genuinely curious!

This is according to the games I've played from last generation. I know there are still a tons of (considered) great games on the ps2 that I have not touched. I mean for it's time (which was like 02 or 03) SFA was amazing.

[JezMM]

This is according to the games I've played from last generation. I know there are still a tons of (considered) great games on the ps2 that I have not touched. I mean for it's time (which was like 02 or 03) SFA was amazing.

I can appreciate that, but to be fair, SFA's flaws weren't products of the era. They were products of simply bad design and rushed development.

[Eternal EX]

I can appreciate that, but to be fair, SFA's flaws weren't products of the era. They were products of simply bad design and rushed development.

Nostalgia has gotten the best of me. I havent' touched that game in like what feels like a decade. (wow I sound old)

[Johnny Boy]

I also think poison type pokemon should be super effective against water types (pollution).

And we are long overdue for a dolphin pokemon gamefreak.

[Old dead account]

SM64 is my least favorite 3D Mario games. Though it's still better than most other games I've played, I found the 3 games that followed much better.

Mario Sunshine was not ruined by FLUDD. Want an example of pacebreaking gimmicks? Just look at most 3D sonic games

Call of Duty gets infinitely more praise than it ever deserved. As much as we bash it online, it's still an unpopular opinion in general because of the 7million+ people that buy it probably vastly outnumber those who don't jizz our pants at the announcement of the annual new title

Sonic gets more hate than he deserves. The opposite of CoD, the people who hate it outnumber those who like it.

Skyward Sword is the best Zelda game. I actually liked how the overworld was a huge dungeon and liked it much more than it just being a huge boring empty world like it was in OoT, TP pretty much all other Zelda games. Also, the motion controls actually felt natural in here and made it much better than if it would have had traditional controls or just brainless waggle like TP. Story also moved me more than any other zelda game. It's only beaten in sidequests by MM

[Stacy]

All Japanese games aren't necessarily good.

I am sick of seeing Weboos/Otaku's saying this, both Japanese and Western Game companies have made their fair share of shitty games over the years.

I am not saying their is anything wrong with Japanese games, I found Japanese are still very creative at making video games even if some don't appeal to me at all. Not saying Western game companies are uncreative either.

Point is I don't care if something is Japanese or Western what matters to me is if I like it and I enjoy it regardless of origin.

Resident Evil: I enjoy the modern main Resident Evil games (Res 4 onwards). Yes Resident Evil 5 wasn't "scary" (I personally I have yet to play a Resident Evil that gives me Nightmares) and too action orientated but I still enjoyed despite its flawed Co-OP AI and I am looking forward to Res 6 but I am trying keep my hopes balanced. I have nothing against the earlier Resident Evils next to 4 Resident Evil2 is one of my favourite and despite finding Code Veronica a pain in the arse however I still enjoyed it. It just would be nice if some people would take off their Nostalgia goggles, if you don't like the way Resident Evil is heading sod off and play something else.

Call of Duty gets infinitely more praise than it ever deserved. As much as we bash it online, it's still an unpopular opinion in general because of the 7million+ people that buy it probably vastly outnumber those who don't jizz our pants at the announcement of the annual new title

To me this opinion is a unpopular/popular one because I see alot around here and to be honest its just as bad as people who think COD is only good game on this planet (you got to be fucking kidding me).

I mean the top comments on the Black Ops II were actually negative and they got something like a 500 likes, not mention the about of thumb down the trailer itself got.

Edited May 30, 2012 by BW199148

[Ekaje]

V was fine. I don't see why it's panned so much.

I've never really seen V panned so much as ignored.

I really like the Battle Network and Star Force series (BN4 and SF2 are garbage though).

I really like Metroid Fusion. Yes, it's far more linear than most other Metroid games, and forcing you into Nav rooms was annoying, but it also did a lot of things right. It was also actually quite creepy/scary for a GBA game, with things like the SA-X and Nightmare flying around a good while before you encounter it.

Galaxy 2 and Sunshine are my favorite 3D Mario games.

People saying FFVII/OoT is overrated.

Not just talking about people in this thread, but I think at this point it would be more unpopular to say that either of these are your favorite game.

Edited May 30, 2012 by Ekaje

[lounge]

First off fuck all of you that dissed Galaxy 2, seriously.

When Twilight Princess came out, I was one of the three people in the world that was dissapointed by it. Pretty much every single aspect was a dissapointment. I remember I could only find like 2 fan reviews that had the same views on it as me. Everyone else was like 10/10!!! Perfect Best Game Ever! I was like NO! It's funny cause now more people today are realizing the flaws the game had.

Star Fox Assault I felt was a must own GameCube title.

Banjo Kazooie today is NOT better than Banjo Tooie. Not ever close. Tooie is one of the best games I've ever played. I litterally couldn't put it down. Screw everyone that cries over how it's too big.

Fuck everybody that prefers the Nuts and Bolts designs over the original designs. Everywhere I go, I see more people defending Nuts and Bolts and actually liking those disgusting, unappealing, trainwreck of character designs. It's one of those things I can't get over, like how the hell do people like that?!

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I think Mario is a highly overrated franchise, and that the games are boring.

Edited May 30, 2012 by Dr. Felix

[Wentos]

Nintendo's games are getting really damn repetitive. Maybe they should focus on putting more gimmicks into their games instead of their consoles.

Edited May 30, 2012 by KatamariParadox

[Patticus]

Here's one of my (no doubt myriad) unpopular gaming opinions:

The Doom series should remain back in the early 1990s. It should not be receiving new installments. Retro look-backs? Sure, whatever, go nuts, but it shouldn't still be here. It's tedious, boring. I really don't understand why anyone would pick it over the Quake series.

Speaking of Quake, here's another unpopular opinion: Quake 1 was tedious too, and Quake 3 Arena should be wiped from the annals of history. Multiplayer-focused horseshit. It should never have been allowed to be more than that crappy little extension of the vastly superior singleplayer mode.

*Waits for the RAEG*