Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[foxhound1022]

I genuinely dislike Mischief Makers.

No matter how many people hype up the Genesis, I believe that SNES is just an all-around better console and game library, even though Saturn and DC are in my top 5 of favorite systems.

I don't believe the N64 library has aged as terribly many think.

[Gamerforlife]

I hate the Uncharted games with a burning passion. The only redeeming quality I see in them is good writing and pretty good voice acting.

Well to be fair, that is primarily why it became such a hit. That and its graphics and general visual presentation. But yeah, people by nature do try to hype up Uncharted's gameplay which is pretty barebone at its core.

Sadly, this seems to be the formula for most hyped up games now. Copy/paste gameplay, pretty graphics, and stories desperately trying to copy Hollywood. It's all so boring, and Uncharted epitomizes all of that. Anybody could make an Uncharted game. There's no inspired vision or creativity there.

I find it a bit amusing how the JRPGs are being described negatively as antiquated on a site that celebrates retro games.

This has got to be the what, second time? we agree on something.

To be fair, a few members here aren't really retroists, but modernists who happen to like a couple retro games. I know I've seen far too often "I mostly play my PS3/360/PSP/Wii these days".

*shrugs*

de gustibus and all that.

Funny you mention that, These days I feel like a modern gamer, who appreciates retro styled, new games. But there are certain retro gameplay mechanics that I no longer have patience for

Got me to laugh. But honestly, Life parallels game-behaviour way too often and about the only real difference between the two is a retardly steep difficulty curve and a complete lack of save points, and you only get one freakin' life to do it.

Unless you believe in reincarnation, but I guess that wouldn't count since you have no memory of your former self when you come back.

There are ways around that...whole other topic

[Gamerforlife]

No matter how many people hype up the Genesis, I believe that SNES is just an all-around better console and game library

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I can't imagine how anyone would disagree with that, and I'm a Sega fan. Still, the Genesis has some games that were just more edgy, experimental, faster, artistic, and raw. That's just all part of Sega's style though. Plus, they made some real strides in animation with games like Aladdin and Earthworm Jim (which I think was originally developed for the Genesis)

[foxhound1022]

I won't say that the Genesis doesn't have any redeeming qualities; I mean The Punisher is a badass game and one of my all-time favorite beat-em-ups, along with Cyborg Justice.

I think it just mostly stems from the fact that I always had Nintendo growing up, and only knew of Gen titles from what my buddies had; and quite honestly, their choice of games sucked.

[Gamerforlife]

I won't say that the Genesis doesn't have any redeeming qualities; I mean The Punisher is a badass game and one of my all-time favorite beat-em-ups, along with Cyborg Justice.

I think it just mostly stems from the fact that I always had Nintendo growing up, and only knew of Gen titles from what my buddies had; and quite honestly, their choice of games sucked.

For me, both consoles gave me a lot of happy childhood memories. Objectively speaking though, I think the SNES was the better of the two in terms of hardware capability and library size, but the Genesis did have some of the greatest 16-bit games of all time. That whole 16-bit era and the accompanying popularity of arcades was the golden age of gaming in my opinion. I was never happier as a gamer than I was then and probably never will be. I was almost that excited about gaming again when the Dreamcast came out, but that console didn't last long

On a completely different note, I have another unpopular opinion for the thread. I absolutely LOVED the mako sections in Mass Effect...and I didn't mind the elevators either. I'm always amazed at the kinds of things gamers whine about

[Violent By Design]

I only recently played the GBA port of Final Fantasy II, and I could not put it down. I really enjoyed the story, the characters, the challenge, and - believe it or not - the leveling system. I have been through Final Fantasy IV twice (i.e., I have played through the original version and the U.S. "Final Fantasy II" version), and both times, I found the game enjoyable but a little bland...

Is there an actual port of FF2? I always thought it was a remake. I've always heard that the original FF2 was pretty bad.


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Care to elaborate? inb4 Konsole Kombat.

The other day, I was comparing my Gamecube and Xbox collections, and I realized - to my surprise - that I own almost twice as many Xbox games. The Gamecube has some excellent first party games, but the Xbox - in addition to having some excellent first-party games - also has: (1) the best versions of many multi-platform games; (2) some excellent Sega and Tecmo exclusives (i.e., Crazy Taxi 3, Gunvalkyrie, Jet Set Radio Future, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Ninja Gaiden, Toejam & Earl III, etc.); (3) some excellent exclusives from other publishers; and (4) some PC ports that did not appear on other consoles (i.e., Chronicles of Riddick, Doom 3, etc.).

Doom 3 huh? How's that rank against the PC version?

No matter how many people hype up the Genesis, I believe that SNES is just an all-around better console and game library

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I can't imagine how anyone would disagree with that, and I'm a Sega fan. Still, the Genesis has some games that were just more edgy, experimental, faster, artistic, and raw. That's just all part of Sega's style though. Plus, they made some real strides in animation with games like Aladdin and Earthworm Jim (which I think was originally developed for the Genesis)[/quote]

I dunno, I would. I mean there are honestly like 4 or 5 games on the Genesis that I probably like more than any game on the SNES (and I wouldnt be surprised if there were more Genesis games that I love since there is a lot I haven't played, I've played through much more of the SNES library than Genesis so far). And going genre by genre, I probably would still think the Genesis beats SNES in a slight majority. I'm also not a huge fan of games where the main draw is "exploring" which is more of a SNES thing I'd say.

[AppleQueso]

As far as I'm concerned, the SNES and Genesis libraries are both so strong and so complimentary that really, you need both. SNES excels in areas the Genesis is weak in, and vice versa.

[Menegrothx]

Sadly, this seems to be the formula for most hyped up games now. Copy/paste gameplay, pretty graphics, and stories desperately trying to copy Hollywood. It's all so boring, and Uncharted epitomizes all of that. Anybody could make an Uncharted game. There's no inspired vision or creativity there.

Are you a programmer? Do you have any idea what kind of math and physics you have to know in order to be able to make a game like Uncharted, even if the game is based on a ready made engine? And level design is certainly not a cake walk either: making the optimal route for the player and designing all the beautiful scenery of those games. Sure I prefer unlinear games that don't try to be like movies via the heavy use scripted scenes and cutscenes (Uncharted), but still I have enough intellectual honesty to aknowledge that the Uncharted games are very well made in this regard, they achieve what they strive for.

You could say that there's no inspired vision or creativity in Indiana Jones movies either, because that's what the Uncharted games are, they were designed the same way.

[Erik_Twice]

You could say that there's no inspired vision or creativity in Indiana Jones movies either, because that's what the Uncharted games are, they were designed the same way.

Uncharted is to Indiana Jones what Twilight is to Nosferatu.

[irixith]

As far as I'm concerned, the SNES and Genesis libraries are both so strong and so complimentary that really, you need both. SNES excels in areas the Genesis is weak in, and vice versa.

Who do you think you are, coming into this thread with your logic and stuff. Pffffff.