What is a POSITIVE controversial gaming opinion you hold

Harry Bizzle wrote:Crash Team Racing is a better kart racer than MK64.

Not a positive opinion. Verbal warning.

Knoyleo wrote:Short games are better than long games

Also not a positive opinion. Verbal warning.

I didn’t have many issues with Star Fox Zero’s controls till the last boss fight in which they just made it far trickier than it should have been. Wasn’t a bad game but not exactly great.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:The N64 controller is perfectly fine and it's one of the things I like best about the system.

I had no problems with it either, I found it quite comfy to use as well and don’t see the issue with it.

Knoyleo wrote:Short games are better than long games

This really does depend on the game though? Some short games are great and likewise so are some long games. Just depends on the story they’re trying to tell, how much content it has and if it outstays its welcome or not?

Captain Kinopio wrote:

Harry Bizzle wrote:Crash Team Racing is a better kart racer than MK64.

Not a positive opinion. Verbal warning.

Knoyleo wrote:Short games are better than long games

Also not a positive opinion. Verbal warning.

Fine.

Short games are great!

Robbo-92 wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:Short games are better than long games

This really does depend on the game though? Some short games are great and likewise so are some long games. Just depends on the story they’re trying to tell, how much content it has and if it outstays its welcome or not?

This is true, but I increasingly find that the longer a game, the more likely it is to outstay its welcome and just get boring. Can't think of many 'long' games recently that I've actually wanted to see through.

Knoyleo wrote:

Captain Kinopio wrote:

Harry Bizzle wrote:Crash Team Racing is a better kart racer than MK64.

Not a positive opinion. Verbal warning.

Knoyleo wrote:Short games are better than long games

Also not a positive opinion. Verbal warning.

Fine.

Short games are great!

Not an opinion, not controversial. Written warning.

I’ll disagree with that if it helps? I love some long games and some short games but my favourites are on the longer side.

How is that not an opinion?

Balladeer wrote:I’ll disagree with that if it helps? I love some long games and some short games but my favourites are on the longer side.

I definitely prefer more focused/condensed games that cut out the "chaff" that there's so much of in a lot of bigger games. I get that a lot of people really like the immersive sim genre, and the way so many of those gameplay trappings have made it into loads of mainstream releases, but they're just not for me. I much prefer games with a concentrated core focus, that isn't trying to make you juggle a ton of subsystems, and can just deliver the core experience in a handful of hours, and then be done with. If I really like it and want more, then I can go replay it.

I don’t replay games. Or very rarely and then years later. I’ve experienced it once, why would it be interesting to do so again? I don’t really understand the fun of replaying games lots.

No, I want a big world I can lose myself exploring. ‘Chaff’ ain’t great but if there’s a bit of slower pacing along with the faster stuff then that’s good in my book; but it’s discovering new aspects of the world that really thrills me. As a Switch owner that’s what I’m missing at the moment too - I’ve got lots of indie titles to play through but not so many meatier experiences to sit alongside them.

With the sheer volume of games in the last decade it's ok to remove a game from your backlog forever if it hasn't grabbed you after two hours.

Cuttooth wrote:With the sheer volume of games in the last decade it's ok to remove a game from your backlog forever if it hasn't grabbed you after two hours.

I'd take that a step or two further and say it's okay to remove a game from your backlog for almost any reason.

Cuttooth wrote:With the sheer volume of games in the last decade it's ok to remove a game from your backlog forever if it hasn't grabbed you after two hours.

To add to this, it's also okay to not 100% games you really like. The way I played games growing up im conditioned to want tick every single box but now I continually ask myself if I've got enough out of the game already and if its time to move on.

Especially important for open world games with their copy and paste approach to missions. Better to move on to experience another game.

Tomous wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:With the sheer volume of games in the last decade it's ok to remove a game from your backlog forever if it hasn't grabbed you after two hours.

To add to this, it's also okay to not 100% games you really like. The way I played games growing up im conditioned to want tick every single box but now I continually ask myself if I've got enough out of the game already and if its time to move on.

Especially important for open world games with their copy and paste approach to missions. Better to move on to experience another game.

Very much agree with this. I'm playing shadow of the tomb raider at the moment, and while it's nothing amazing, I'm mostly enjoying it. There's a lot of guff to collect and so on, and I've decided to just enjoy what I feel like playing in it and ignore what I don't want. I really don't need to drag the experience dowm by spending an extra 20 hours looking for collectables. Better to enjoy the tombs, finish the game and play something else.

I don't think I've ever consciously 100% a game. I just don't see the point.

Cuttooth wrote:I don't think I've ever consciously 100% a game. I just don't see the point.

I’m the same, if I complete the story I’m happy but I can’t be bother combing over areas to collect everything or see everything,

Victor Mildew wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:With the sheer volume of games in the last decade it's ok to remove a game from your backlog forever if it hasn't grabbed you after two hours.

To add to this, it's also okay to not 100% games you really like. The way I played games growing up im conditioned to want tick every single box but now I continually ask myself if I've got enough out of the game already and if its time to move on.

Especially important for open world games with their copy and paste approach to missions. Better to move on to experience another game.

Very much agree with this. I'm playing shadow of the tomb raider at the moment, and while it's nothing amazing, I'm mostly enjoying it. There's a lot of guff to collect and so on, and I've decided to just enjoy what I feel like playing in it and ignore what I don't want. I really don't need to drag the experience dowm by spending an extra 20 hours looking for collectables. Better to enjoy the tombs, finish the game and play something else.

I'm playing Rise of the Tomb Raider at the moment and doing exactly the same

I very rarely aim for 100% completion these days as well as there is nearly always something else to play thats more fun than essentially completing a check list, obviously there is exceptions where I do go for a higher % completion. It’s actually part of the reason I stopped with Assassins Creed as from Unity it just felt like a big tick box exercise when looking at the map and it’s actually part of the reason I’ve been hesitant to get Origins and Odyssey. Seeing the ending credits is more than enough for myself these days.

Take Hollow Knight as a recent-ish example for myself, I loved playing it through to the standard ending but I think if I tried to go for the true ending and 100% (well I think it comes up as 112% or something) then I don’t think I’d have enjoyed it anywhere near as much as I did.

I never ever aim for 100% completion.
I'm playing Kiwami 2 at the moment, and loving it, but i wont touch the Clan Creator mode after trying 2 quick rounds of it.
Conversely i'm mainlining the Cabaret Club missions because i find them really addictive and fun.
So my positive controversial opinion is that games nowadays spoil us and provide us with too much value.