Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[Violent By Design]

These are my unpopular opinions.

I think saying FF7 is overrated was a legitimate statement about six years ago, but these days so many people hate it I would say if anything it has become underrated.

Metal Gear Solid is crap.

Xenogears is an awful game. If I wanted to read something long, boring and pretentious I would reread the Watchmen graphic novel.

Resident Evil 4 kinda sucked and all of its predecessor are superior.

X-Men vs Street Fighter and the first Marvel vs Capcom game are both better than MvC2.

Zelda Ocarina of Time does not in fact cure cancer.

Just because KOTOR 2's story was darker than the first game does not make it better.

Saga Frontier was good.

Most people like the first one a lot more.

[BoneSnapDeez]

- Disgaea and pretty much anything from NiS sucks

I can kinda see this. NIS churns out way too many games and most of them are tedious as hell and about 40 hours too long.

- All JRPGs are terrible. I play them and enjoy them, but they're bad.

Uhhhhhhh..........

- I'm more interested in a Lost Vikings 3 than any future ****craft game from Blizzard

Word. Too bad we'll never see a part 3.

- Super Mario World is a boring game with terrible level design.

Care to elaborate?

[ZeoDefender]

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- Disgaea and pretty much anything from NiS sucks
- All JRPGs are terrible. I play them and enjoy them, but they're bad.

So, does this mean that you still play and enjoy NIS stuff? Or are they of too severe a suckitude even compared to the other terrible JRPGs you enjoy?

SRPGs have as much to do with JRPGs as FPS have to do with shmups. I actually love SRPGS, but I hate NIS games.

[Gamerforlife]

3. I thought Indigo Prophecy was a great game.

Didn't realize this was unpopular. I enjoyed it a lot.

4. Warrior Within is my favorite game in the Prince of Persia series.

Definitely disagree. I think Sands of Time is the best in that series, both from a gameplay perspective and the narrative. Also the rebooted one called just Prince of Persia was better, in both gameplay and narrative. Warrior Within is definitely not the worst of the games, which is: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

5. The Walking Dead was okay but not great. Mainly dislike the game because it acts like your choices are important, but in reality nothing you do really has a huge effect in the story overall. My opinion of the game severely dropped when they executed a character in front of me for no freaking reason and without giving an option to at least try and prevent it.

This is kind of the point. Lily does have a reason (irrational though it may be) for killing that character and the shock of it to you means that the main character wouldn't have time to react.

Problem is, every major story event in The Walking Dead plays out this way. You have NO CONTROL OVER ANY MAJOR STORY EVENT. This is one of the things I hated about the game. Your choices only affect minor, insignificant things. Heavy Rain actually does what The Walking Dead falsely advertises itself as doing. The writers had a vision for the story in The Walking Dead and it didn't involve player choice at all. I feel like they tacked on some minor choice elements at the last minute, and it somehow become the game's major selling point. I HATE when games promise things they don't deliver on.

I also hated the extremely predictable ending. About the only really great thing I can say about The Walking Dead in retrospect was that it has one of the most lovable kid characters I've ever seen in a game in Clementine. Unfortunately, that's counter balanced by one of the most aggravating video game characters in history in the form of Kenny, whose head I just wanted to bash in with a sledgehammer multiple times throughout the story. I HATE that guy. Also, the game lifts so many story elements from the comic book and the show. Some of it feels very recycled.

TWD is one of 2012's most overrated games. I can't believe it won game of the year awards from so many sites with so many better games having come out that same year like Journey, Mark of the Ninja, Dust: An Elysian Tale, and plenty others. So yeah, there's my little "unpopular" rant for the purpose of this thread.

[Violent By Design]

meh...Journey.

[ZeoDefender]

- Super Mario World is a boring game with terrible level design.

Care to elaborate?

Well, look at the various worlds

World 1 - Plain Land
World 2 - Plain Land 2 (no donuts in sight)
World 3 - Cave Land
World 4 - Super Short Bridge Land
World 5 - Forest Land (Plain Land with trees)
World 6 - Chocolate Land (Plain Land coloured Brown)
World 7 - Cave Land 2
World X - Romhack Land

Just compare that to Super Mario Bros. 3 and it's such a huge step down in variety. And the levels within those worlds? They're all pretty much the same. Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) and 3 both had excellent levels that are still memorable today. However, SMW doesn't have anything that holds up. Sure, the Star World was interesting and a ghost house or two was fun, but for the most part the whole game just felt empty, bland, and safe. The NSMB 2 of its time.

Also, there's the loss of so many great powerups. Powerups that were replaced with a cape that broke the entire game. The bosses were insultingly simple (Big Boo might just be the easiest boss on the SNES) and started to repeat after the halfway point of the game.

However, there are things I liked about the game. SMW had excellent music. The graphics were beautiful. Mario had amazing physics and was a joy to control. Yoshi was a good idea if critically underutilized. However, the lack of interesting levels or bosses and the lack of variety in the various worlds (Desert? Sky? Pipe? Dark? Water? Tiny/Huge? All gone and replaced with plains, caves, and more plains) really killed the game for me.

[Gamerforlife]

- Super Mario World is a boring game with terrible level design.

Care to elaborate?

Well, look at the various worlds

World 1 - Plain Land
World 2 - Plain Land 2 (no donuts in sight)
World 3 - Cave Land
World 4 - Super Short Bridge Land
World 5 - Forest Land (Plain Land with trees)
World 6 - Chocolate Land (Plain Land coloured Brown)
World 7 - Cave Land 2
World X - Romhack Land

Just compare that to Super Mario Bros. 3 and it's such a huge step down in variety. And the levels within those worlds? They're all pretty much the same. Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) and 3 both had excellent levels that are still memorable today. However, SMW doesn't have anything that holds up. Sure, the Star World was interesting and a ghost house or two was fun, but for the most part the whole game just felt empty, bland, and safe. The NSMB 2 of its time.

Also, there's the loss of so many great powerups. Powerups that were replaced with a cape that broke the entire game. The bosses were insultingly simple (Big Boo might just be the easiest boss on the SNES) and started to repeat after the halfway point of the game.

However, there are things I liked about the game. SMW had excellent music. The graphics were beautiful. Mario had amazing physics and was a joy to control. Yoshi was a good idea if critically underutilized. However, the lack of interesting levels or bosses and the lack of variety in the various worlds (Desert? Sky? Pipe? Dark? Water? Tiny/Huge? All gone and replaced with plains, caves, and more plains) really killed the game for me.

Yeah, 2d Mario peaked for me with SMB3, well Yoshi's Island was pretty sweet too, but the original Super Mario World was a "meh" sort of game. I found the original Sonic the Hedgehog far more exciting than Super Mario World

[Violent By Design]

I actually agree, I get bored with Super Mario World, thought it was a step down from the NES ones.

I can see why it is popular, but to me Mario is all about dat jumping, and really SMW doesn't actually try to improve on the platforming elements. SMW revolves around throwing a lot of bells and whistles, but it fell flat to me.

SM3 had so many fun power ups, I loved strategically picking which one I wanted to use to exploit a level.

To be fair, I used to say the cape was really broken in SMW (it is), but the raccoon suite was just as cheesy too.


I actually do not like Yoshi. He's kind of what I think of when I say adding bells and whistles. Nintendo just like the commercial for SMW just wanted to make Mario bigger, but bigger isn't better. Yoshi himself I thought added very little, and tbh he was too strong of a power up. It's a little silly when you can take 3 straight hits in Mario and not die (yoshi + 2 power ups).

Good game, but it has nothing on SMB1 and 3 to me.

[ZeoDefender]

- All JRPGs are terrible. I play them and enjoy them, but they're bad.

Uhhhhhhh..........

haha, this is a topic for unpopular opinions. I'm not pulling any punches.

I used to love JRPGs when I was younger, but I'm just not interested in the core RPG experience (loot, customization, character progression (e.g. leveling), and exploration) any longer. There's the occasional exception (the Mario RPG series or something with a great story), but for the most part I just play RPGs while on the commute to work or when trying to sleep. 5-15 minutes of a Dragon Quest game and I'm out like a light. It took me like 3-4 weeks to get through the final dungeon in FFIV playing a little bit each night.

[AppleQueso]

- All JRPGs are terrible. I play them and enjoy them, but they're bad.

Uhhhhhhh..........

haha, this is a topic for unpopular opinions. I'm not pulling any punches.

I used to love JRPGs when I was younger, but I'm just not interested in the core RPG experience (loot, customization, character progression (e.g. leveling), and exploration) any longer. There's the occasional exception (the Mario RPG series or something with a great story), but for the most part I just play RPGs while on the commute to work or when trying to sleep. 5-15 minutes of a Dragon Quest game and I'm out like a light. It took me like 3-4 weeks to get through the final dungeon in FFIV playing a little bit each night.

I think he's trying to suggest that saying you enjoy them kinda runs contradictory to a blanket statement about them universally being "terrible."