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PostYour Unpopular Opinions
by RJ Badman » Tue May 12, 2020 9:19 am

Tell of them.

The intro to Half Life is apparently a groundbreaking masterpiece of videogame direction and scene setting. I found it enthusiasm-crushingly slow and tedious.

I much prefer the DualShock 4 to the Xbox One controller and don't understand the hate for the former. This is despite preferring the transforming 360 pad to the DS3 and acknowledging how badly the dualshock 3 has aged.

Breath of the Wild plays great in terms of travel and combat but badly needs more story than just a small handful of short cutscenes.

Donkey Kong Country controls friggin weird. I don't know if it's the size of the sprites or hitboxes, or maybe the time of animations or something but for me at least it controls like I'm wearing mittens.

Ted Woolsey's involvement in a game was not automatically a bad thing. See: Chrono Trigger

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Seven » Tue May 12, 2020 9:22 am

Resident Evil 4 is great game, great action game but it is not great Resident Evil game.

I think Gears of War isn't epic as people made it out

I like Sonic Unleashed on Xbox 360.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Rex Kramer » Tue May 12, 2020 9:27 am

Okami is a better 'Zelda' game than all the Zelda games.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Balladeer » Tue May 12, 2020 9:56 am

Oh crap I can feel the rage building within me already. To be honest I preferred Kinopio’s unpopular positive gaming opinions thread which I now can’t find. Here are some unpopular negative opinions I guess:


There are more than enough good and great games on Nintendo machines for any one person’s life without invoking other machines (NB not the case last generation) (does demand that you like Nintendo and indie games).

The following classic games have aged poorly and no longer stand up: Super Mario Bros., Link to the Past, Link’s Awakening, Super Mario 64, Pokémon RBY, Chrono Trigger, ICO.

The Gen. 1 Pokémon designs are no better than many of the others, and the starters in particular are weak. Charizard in particular is bobbins.

Shadow of the Colossus (oh hai OR) has worse controls than Kid Icarus Uprising.

Handheld gaming is better than big screen gaming. Differences in immersion are minimal and extra grunt < being able to game on the train/loo.

There’s no need for any further increasing realism in game graphics. Developers should be looking more into art styles for their visuals, while power could be spent better reducing loading times, making bigger and more filled worlds, and improving AI among other things.

The OP should’ve bumped this thread instead of making a new one. :P

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by OrangeRKN » Tue May 12, 2020 10:11 am

Balladeer wrote:The following classic games have aged poorly and no longer stand up: Super Mario Bros.... Link’s Awakening, Super Mario 64... ICO.


Balladeer wrote:Oh crap I can feel the rage building within me already.


You're telling me

Balladeer wrote:Handheld gaming is better than big screen gaming. Differences in immersion are minimal


Nonsense - handheld gaming is a lot more immersive!

Balladeer wrote:There’s no need for any further increasing realism in game graphics.


VR tho

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Jezo » Tue May 12, 2020 10:13 am

The Last of Us is an average 'game' at best.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by OrangeRKN » Tue May 12, 2020 10:25 am

Jezo wrote:The Last of Us is an average 'game' at best.


It's a party game

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Prototype » Tue May 12, 2020 10:27 am

Jezo wrote:The Last of Us is an average 'game' at best.



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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Zilnad » Tue May 12, 2020 10:40 am

I swear we've had this exact thread recently and I stick by my previous statement that DmC is the best Devil May Cry alongside 5.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Peter Crisp » Tue May 12, 2020 10:45 am

The Atari ST was better than any Nintendo console.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Mafro » Tue May 12, 2020 10:49 am

Jezo wrote:The Last of Us is an average 'game' at best.

This.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Cheeky Devlin » Tue May 12, 2020 10:58 am

Balladeer wrote:Oh crap I can feel the rage building within me already. To be honest I preferred Kinopio’s unpopular positive gaming opinions thread which I now can’t find. Here are some unpopular negative opinions I guess:


There are more than enough good and great games on Nintendo machines for any one person’s life without invoking other machines (NB not the case last generation) (does demand that you like Nintendo and indie games).

The following classic games have aged poorly and no longer stand up: Super Mario Bros., Link to the Past, Link’s Awakening, Super Mario 64, Pokémon RBY, Chrono Trigger, ICO.

The Gen. 1 Pokémon designs are no better than many of the others, and the starters in particular are weak. Charizard in particular is bobbins.

Shadow of the Colossus (oh hai OR) has worse controls than Kid Icarus Uprising.

Handheld gaming is better than big screen gaming. Differences in immersion are minimal and extra grunt < being able to game on the train/loo.

There’s no need for any further increasing realism in game graphics. Developers should be looking more into art styles for their visuals, while power could be spent better reducing loading times, making bigger and more filled worlds, and improving AI among other things.

The OP should’ve bumped this thread instead of making a new one. :P


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About the only opinion I've really agreed with so far is from the OP.
RJ Badman wrote:Breath of the Wild plays great in terms of travel and combat but badly needs more story than just a small handful of short cutscenes.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Balladeer » Tue May 12, 2020 11:12 am

I presume the smiling .gif means you agree with everything in the post CD?

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Cheeky Devlin » Tue May 12, 2020 11:15 am

Not a bloody word of it.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Balladeer » Tue May 12, 2020 11:17 am

Ah. That was going to be my second guess.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Ploiper » Tue May 12, 2020 11:35 am

the Mario Galaxy games are somewhat overrated. not to say they are not good, as they are. but that's it. just good.

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by <]:^D » Tue May 12, 2020 11:37 am

i dont know why i check these threads they just make me angry :lol:

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Balladeer » Tue May 12, 2020 11:43 am

<]:^D wrote:i dont know why i check these threads they just make me angry :lol:

I recognise that I’m part of the problem, but - same. This is why I preferred the positive version of the thread - but I now can’t find it!

EDIT: Happy thread!

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PostRe: Your Unpopular Opinions
by Cumberdanes » Tue May 12, 2020 11:46 am

I've never really rated the Half Life series and Dark Souls isn't that hard.

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by 7256930752 » Tue May 12, 2020 11:48 am

The combat in Dark Souls is average at best, some of it is straight up bad. Telling story through weapon descriptions is also really bad.

BOTW is great but just removing map symbols didn't stately make the 'discovery' of a camp any better. Most of it is standard open weeks affair.

2D Sonic was always bad. The game plays itself when moving fast and is just gooseberry fool when played slowly.


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