Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[A.C. Sativa]

Forgive me if any of these have been mentioned but I'm not going through over 650 pages of comments to look.

-Mario 64 sucked. Terrible controls and the camera makes it unplayable. Same for Donkey Kong 64.
-Yoshi's Island also sucked.
-Castlevania II is the best NES Castlevania.
-Link to the Past was the last good Zelda game.
-The WiiU was a good system. The Dreamcast and Saturn however, were not.
-Anything pre-NES isn't retro, it's antiquated crap. And before someone says I'm too young to appreciate it, I'm 36.
-The Halo games are terrible.
-The Metroid series is by far and away the best series Nintendo does (we'll just forget Other M exists for the purposes of this discussion).
-The Gran Tourismo games are absolute crap.
-RPGs in general are boring as hell.

I'll probably think of some more later.

Hi! Welcome to the forums! I know that the vast majority of the internet encourages and delights in the idea of hating things to prove some kind of edgy level of coolness, but we here don't really reward that behavior. You may not like something and that is totally okay, but to go to such extremes with no commentary on the reasons behind it leaves little room for discussion.

I encourage you to take a minute, rethink your words and dedicate some more time into explaining why simply beyond, "It sucks." I am not saying your opinions are invalid, but please offer more insight to you as a player so that we could also contribute and discuss. Hope to hear more from you and encourage you to express yourself a bit more thoroughly.

Yeah, it's a topic about unpopular opinions. So piss off.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Forgive me if any of these have been mentioned but I'm not going through over 650 pages of comments to look.

-Mario 64 sucked. Terrible controls and the camera makes it unplayable. Same for Donkey Kong 64.
-Yoshi's Island also sucked.
-Castlevania II is the best NES Castlevania.
-Link to the Past was the last good Zelda game.
-The WiiU was a good system. The Dreamcast and Saturn however, were not.
-Anything pre-NES isn't retro, it's antiquated crap. And before someone says I'm too young to appreciate it, I'm 36.
-The Halo games are terrible.
-The Metroid series is by far and away the best series Nintendo does (we'll just forget Other M exists for the purposes of this discussion).
-The Gran Tourismo games are absolute crap.
-RPGs in general are boring as hell.

I'll probably think of some more later.

Hi! Welcome to the forums! I know that the vast majority of the internet encourages and delights in the idea of hating things to prove some kind of edgy level of coolness, but we here don't really reward that behavior. You may not like something and that is totally okay, but to go to such extremes with no commentary on the reasons behind it leaves little room for discussion.

I encourage you to take a minute, rethink your words and dedicate some more time into explaining why simply beyond, "It sucks." I am not saying your opinions are invalid, but please offer more insight to you as a player so that we could also contribute and discuss. Hope to hear more from you and encourage you to express yourself a bit more thoroughly.

Yeah, it's a topic about unpopular opinions. So piss off.

Awww, did the poor little baby get mad that someone tried to talk to him like a big boy? Welcome to real life little man. No one cares what you think.

[pierrot]

Yeah, it's a topic about unpopular opinions. So piss off.

This isn't prison, yo: New blood doesn't need to shank someone to not be messed with in the showers. --Wait, is this prison? Have I been doing it wrong?

Awww, did the poor little baby get mad that someone tried to talk to him like a big boy? Welcome to real life little man. No one cares what you think.

Are you doing all right, Bogus? I can't help but feel like you might be a little on edge lately.


I'm going to take the heat off of everyone else for a second: I don't like Candy Crush. Anyone feel like asking me how it is out here on the edge?

[Segata]

Candy Crush ad pretty much all those pay to win model games are poo poo anyway . Also, hasn't Bogus always been like this? He's been that way to me since the day I joined. Meh, whatever.



Now as for an actual unpopular opinion. I prefer digital triggers to analog triggers.

[ElkinFencer10]

I prefer digital triggers to analog triggers.

In general, I agree, also I do prefer analog triggers for racing games.

[marurun]

Analog triggers have pretty niche uses, so in general, a digital trigger is better. Not sure that's an unpopular opinion, though. Stop polluting our unpopular opinions with your popular one, you hipster!

[isiolia]

Analog triggers fall more into the "better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" sort of thing to me. More often than not, it comes down more to implementation. The worst being the ol' DirectInput to XInput "that's not a button that's a joystick axis" issue. On the other hand, a combination of approaches might work better - combine the better haptics Nintendo is using with the Xbox One controller's approach (it literally has rumble motors in the analog triggers) and you could likely have an analog button that "clicks" like a digital one if that's what suits the game.

[samsonlonghair]

Analog triggers fall more into the "better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" sort of thing to me. More often than not, it comes down more to implementation. The worst being the ol' DirectInput to XInput "that's not a button that's a joystick axis" issue. On the other hand, a combination of approaches might work better - combine the better haptics Nintendo is using with the Xbox One controller's approach (it literally has rumble motors in the analog triggers) and you could likely have an analog button that "clicks" like a digital one if that's what suits the game.

The analog triggers on the GameCube controller are sublime for racing games.

Digital triggers are basically just another button. Might as well be a face button.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Unpopular classic WRPG opinions.

- With the exception of the Ultima games, most WRPGs are better on consoles than in their original computer format.
- Interplay is underrated. The Bard's Tale and Dragon Wars are two of the best first-person dungeon-crawlers.
- Wizardry IV blows.
- Might and Magic is twenty hours longer than it needs to be. Same goes for the sequels.
- The good Ultima games are III, IV, V, VI, and VIII. VII is way too bloated. Being able to "do anything" gets old fast.
- Western roguelikes are mostly kinda shitty. The Japanese did this genre better.
- Diablo is really fun for like three hours.
- Betrayal at Krondor is the best WRPG ever. The sequel: ass.
- Dragonstomper is severely underrated.

[PartridgeSenpai]

Analog triggers fall more into the "better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it" sort of thing to me. More often than not, it comes down more to implementation. The worst being the ol' DirectInput to XInput "that's not a button that's a joystick axis" issue. On the other hand, a combination of approaches might work better - combine the better haptics Nintendo is using with the Xbox One controller's approach (it literally has rumble motors in the analog triggers) and you could likely have an analog button that "clicks" like a digital one if that's what suits the game.

The analog triggers on the GameCube controller are sublime for racing games.

Digital triggers are basically just another button. Might as well be a face button.

I'd say shoulder buttons are actually far better off being shoulder buttons because then you can press them with something other than your thumb. If all shoulder buttons were better off being face buttons, then you end up with something like the Jaguar controller