Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[BogusMeatFactory]

There's no deep meaning I just thought they were funner games and Everything or Nothing was an excellent third person shooter for its time. I also enjoyed the original stories.

Goldeneye never hit home with me as a PC gamer. I had fun playing it with friends but it wasn't that genre defining game for me like it was for a great many gamers.

The PC angle is the best angle for every genre... master race represent!!! I kid, but with FPS games... for real! I think that the biggest edge goldeneye had was just that multiplayer. The game isn't amazing if you weren't in the zeitgeist at the time. The zeitgeist is one of the craziest gaming elements that changes everything.

[Reprise]

I loved Agent Under Fire. I thought they really nailed the Bond feel and the fact they did so with an original story was pretty impressive.

[Stark]

I liked the Gamecube Bond games more than Goldeneye, especially Everything or Nothing.

My favorite Bond game is Bloodstone for 360/PS3. It is the last game from Bizarre Creations, of Project Gotham Racing fame. Controlled great and just had a nice cinematic feel to it.

[marlowe221]

Honestly, Goldeneye and stuff like not being able to control the camera in Mario 64 had me convinced that 3D games were not ready for prime time for years.

I was happy to stick with my SNES and PC (strategy games) for a long time. It wasn't until a college roommate got a PS2 that I began to think about 3D games differently. I didn't own a new console again until the OG Xbox.

[Gunstar Green]

I liked the Gamecube Bond games more than Goldeneye, especially Everything or Nothing.

My favorite Bond game is Bloodstone for 360/PS3. It is the last game from Bizarre Creations, of Project Gotham Racing fame. Controlled great and just had a nice cinematic feel to it.

I like Bloodstone too. Kind of sad the planned sequel never happened.

[samsonlonghair]

Here's an unpopular opinion:

StarTropics is the greatest RPG of the 8-bit generation.

Come at me with that "it's not technically an RPG if you don't waste time leveling up" bullshit! That's what makes it good.

[marurun]

I think Star Tropics is a rather good game. I think of it more as a Zelda-like adventure/exploration game, but eh. Good for a discussion heavy in semantics. Pointless otherwise.

[Tanooki]

I never could quite get into it but only tried a few hours of it. I can see merit in the title and was kind of surprised (yet due to the letter not too) it didn't make the NES CE cut when that came out originally. If not the first, the sequel since it didn't need the letter. I don't think it's great, or really even an RPG, but it was pretty decent up to the point I stopped for some reason years ago.

[ESauced]

I’m playing Startropics right now for the summer gamed challenge. I’m not huge on RPGs and I haven’t played any turned based RPG pre-FF7, so I don’t have much to compare to in treat regard. If we’re calling it an RPG I guess maybe we’re calling Zelda one too though and in that case I’d have to give the award to Zelda. I’m not liking the amount of times that it has me walk into invisible walls, the dark rooms are pretty annoying, and some of the quests outside the dungeons are tedious, so it has its faults. But overall it’s well designed and fun and I could see how someone could prefer it over Zelda.

[MegaJ]

My unpopular gaming opinions are 90% just liking/loving stuff which it's popular to hate on. Random people poking their nose in just to say "That thing you like sucks!!" when I'm just trying to enjoy myself is regularly something that gets on my nerves. Don't like the thing? That's cool. There's a lot of stuff I don't like too.
Go out of your way to barge in and be insulting about what I like when I'm just minding my own business and enjoying myself? Not cool.

The list includes!

- Star Fox Zero
This is the big one. I LOVE this game, and I found it one of the freshest, most awe-inspiring gaming experiences I'd had for years from the moment I started it. It also got me out of a pretty bad funk I'd been in for quite a while, it was the most fun I'd had in ages and I was super thankful for that. So, oblivious to any popular opinions of it, I casually posted about how much fun I'm having with it online, not expecting a thing, just happily expressing my joy, then some rando I've never met before seemingly hunts down my blog (like, they had to go out of their way to do this- it wasn't like a youtube comment section) and peppers me with insults, just for liking a game they don't, completely unprovoked. Bummed me out. This is what got me a little defensive about games I unpopularly love in the first place.

- Skyward Sword
It's one of my favourite Zelda games! I literally never had an issue with the motion controls, and I loved how even the outside areas felt like traversing dungeons, with their various puzzles and challenges!

- Sonic Forces
Admittedly, I don't think it's a great game at all. I just feel like it got way more than its fair share of hate, and that was more due to its unfortunate timing of being released so close to Sonic Mania. I still enjoyed it for what it was (though there were very frustrating parts) You can extend this opinion to most 3D Sonic games, to be honest. I prefer the sidescrollers, but I still just like them. I even enjoyed '06, but only for it being gloriously, exquisitely terrible, in this case.


On the flipside, for a little balance... I found Super Mario Odyssey mildly disappointing. I was ultra hyped for it, and I love pretty much everything about it!... aside from the difficulty level. I feel like that game fundamentally misunderstood what makes difficulty fun, and instead made everything overly easy and just threw Moons at you like they were candy. In Super Mario 64, Sunshine and the Galaxy games, every Star/Shine felt like a genuine victory and progress. There were certainly ones which took next to no real effort to obtain, but they were the exception, rather than the rule- and in that way, they felt welcome, like the game cutting you a break here and there. But when it feels like almost the whole game is cutting you a break, I sort of feel like I'm just going through the motions and achieving very little. Which is weird, since I actually usually love games slightly on the easier side.
But, like I said, I don't wanna dive in and say "THIS GAME SUCKS!!1" (though I still think it deserves the vast majority of its praise, just not on the difficulty balance, personally) every time it's mentioned- 99% of people seem to totally adore it, and that's awesome. I wish I was one of them, if anything!

My perspective is wanting to enjoy the good in all games I come across! That's not to say that there aren't games that totally suck. There are many, many, many of those. But outside of calling out anti-consumer/unethical business practices (microtransactions, EA, Konami, most mobile games) I just want to enjoy games. The worst a game can be for me, outside of those things is just... boring. Mediocre, without being entertainingly bad, silly or some kind of fun oddity.