Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[SNESdrunk]

This remains my favorite thread on this forum. I haven't even thought about Denver the Last Dinosaur in like 20 years.

[fastbilly1]

This remains my favorite thread on this forum. I haven't even thought about Denver the Last Dinosaur in like 20 years.

Dinosaucers or bust

Though Dinoriders is my favorite

[ElkinFencer10]

On the subject of dinosaurs, although its a rarer and slightly-pricer-than-most Wii game (as well as playing like a painfully budget game), Dino Strike is one of the most entertaining arcade rail shooters I've ever played.

[Xeogred]

Didn't want to derail the Games Beaten thread, so...

Red Dead Redemption put me in a coma.

I don't know if I like or dislike Westerns yet, I've seen some Dirty Harry recently and think I could really dig some of Clint Eastwood's stuff. And would Spielberg's Duel count? haha, love that movie.

It probably doesn't help though that I kind of hate desert locations. Tremors is awesome... but video game wise, those environments always bore me to tears. And of course my favorite sci-fi franchise of all time, can't get away from a certain Tatooine... lol.

Also, I'm allergic to dust mite, mold, etc cliche' stuff, and ... horses.

So Western/deserts/farm stuff = no for me.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Didn't want to derail the Games Beaten thread, so...

Red Dead Redemption put me in a coma.

I don't know if I like or dislike Westerns yet, I've seen some Dirty Harry recently and think I could really dig some of Clint Eastwood's stuff. And would Spielberg's Duel count? haha, love that movie.

It probably doesn't help though that I kind of hate desert locations. Tremors is awesome... but video game wise, those environments always bore me to tears. And of course my favorite sci-fi franchise of all time, can't get away from a certain Tatooine... lol.

Also, I'm allergic to dust mite, mold, etc cliche' stuff, and ... horses.

So Western/deserts/farm stuff = no for me.

*reads*
*starts having a panic attack, grabs inhaler*
"Be nice to the internet person with a different opinion, be nice to the internet person with a different opinion, be nice..."

[BoneSnapDeez]

Red Dead Redemption put me in a coma.

Same. I find most modern games to be complete slogs. Add "open world" to the mix and they just get infinitely worse.

Wild West can be a cool setting though.

[Exhuminator]

I love exploration in video games, so "open world" in itself as a concept is appealing to me.

I understand the negative side effects such designs can have though, so I get where you guys are coming from.

[Sarge]

Gunman's Proof is cool stuff. Nakedly inspired by A Link to the Past, but it twists the formula enough on its own to be interesting. Very quirky, almost Earthbound-ish humor.

[Tanooki]

Sandbox/open world games I loathe. Back when GTA3 and Vice City were out that was about my limitation to enjoying such things. Since I've tried GTA4, Red Dead Redemption and a few others and I can't stand them. It's like while they took a step forward in visuals and audio, they went backwards with large unnecessary nannying, nagging AI wanting junk, unfair mechanics (like GTA4 people can beat your ass, pull a bat or a gun and the cops take YOU out), bloating of various spaces and mechanics. It's tiresome.

It sickens me that some games are now taking themselves in this direction that didn't before and it's hugely demotivating and I just can't do it. It was a real nut punching that Link Between Worlds on 3DS is open world, the stages are easy, the overworld is kind of boring, and I hate the feeling of being lost trying to guess where to go and where a dungeon is hiding. Even original Zelda people will say was like that, but they gave away a free partial mini map, and if you had NP they gave you a full one or the Tips and Tricks book, there was no really being 'lost' or open world about that. One of those last factors that broke my WiiU interest in keeping it was Zelda going open world and Starfox looking good but a little janky with forced tablet mechanics.

[Sarge]

I have never considered A Link Between Worlds as "open-world". Plus, the overworld, barring some changes, is basically A Link to the Past's all over again, and I wouldn't consider that open-world, either. It's certainly exploratory, and not as guided as some games, but it's definitely not of the putz around doing nothing variety.

Also, LttP gives you a mini-map that gives some guidance on where to go next. I'm pretty sure LBW does as well.

If anything, LBW adheres to the formula most Zelda games do, so I don't see how it's really any different from what came before, unless I'm missing a really, really linear Zelda game out there. Maybe Four Swords Adventures or something.

I will agree the game is pretty easy, though.

EDIT: Also, regarding the mini-guide, or having Nintendo Power: Those aren't actually necessary today, because we have guides that you can buy in GameStop, or if you don't want to spring for that, you can wait for the myriad guides and discussions that usually spring up in the first week a game has released on the Internet. If anything, there's even less of an argument that Zelda has gone open-world in games up to this point if we're using outside sources of information as our metric.