Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[AppleQueso]

Hating FFVIII doesn't really seem like much of an unpopular opinion at all really. Most people I've met consider it a very weak entry.

I've met more people who love Final Fantasy X-2 than people who love FFVIII.

[Jmustang1968]

Hating FFVIII doesn't really seem like much of an unpopular opinion at all really. Most people I've met consider it a very weak entry.

I've met more people who love Final Fantasy X-2 than people who love FFVIII.

I prefer VIII over X-2

[prfsnl_gmr]

I think that FFVIII is great. I enjoyed it when it was released - I could relate to all of the moody teenagers back then - and I would probably still enjoy it today. The music and atmosphere are very good. The graphics were good at the time, and the summon animations were awe-inspiring the first time I saw them (...albeit less so the 100th time). I also enjoyed "hunting" for magic with the draw system, and Triple Triad is the best mini-game in FF history. Finally, I thought that Ultimecia was an interesting villain, and the game's vague, confusing story made her more interesting because I never could dtermine her motivation. Certainly, the game has its flaws, but it is by no means a bad game and certainly not the worst in the series.

[AppleQueso]

I remember reading a very lengthy retrospective on Final Fantasy VIII that jokingly proposed a theory that the game was designed with the dev team locked in a room for 3 days with a gas leak.

[dunpeal2064]

I agree with everything aside Ultimacia. She has nothing on Kefka, or Sephiroth. Part of it is probably because you don't even know you are after her for 3/4 the game, but she just didn't do it for me like the other villains. She also had a terrible taste in hosts (Adel was barely tolerable)

VIII had the best sumon magics though. Would have been nice if the game wasn't so broken so that you actually had to use them, but I still thought they were awesome.

VIII was also the first game I recall with decent side questing available throughout the game, and not just near the end. Wandering around and finding Brothers randomly was such a treat at the time.

[Krejlooc]

^I recall reading something about how the Dreamcast controller port has the protocol for a second stick (or something like that, I don't quite know the technical details) so they could've easily made a dual analog controller down the line.

It has 2 axises which are used by the analog triggers. It also has 2 unused buttons - C and Z. A few games, if you use a sega saturn controller or a fighting stick or build your own controller - will recognize C and Z and label them properly, like many Capcom fighting games.

If Sega ever wanted to build a dual analog dreamcast stick, they could have moved the trigger axises and used them as the X and Y for a new stick, and replaced the analog triggers with 2 digital Z and C shoulder buttons.

It was abbreviated "psx" in magazines and such before there was even a Ps2. It just stuck.

Really, I blame Sony for actually making something called the "PSX"

Also, It was abbreviated "PSX" because until about a month before the japanese launch, the console was called the "Playstation X"

The name change in japan came at the last minute, and since so many magazines were doing pre-launch coverage, the name simply stuck.

[Menegrothx]

This is common knowledge amongst RPG and retro gamers. There's two things to blame: publishers and Xbox. Three if you count casual

Ehh not commom knowledge. I loved Mass Effect, DA:O, and Fallout 3. I also love the old PC RPGs as well.

Even if many people find them enjoyable, majority of new WRPGs are mechanically inferioir to older WRPGs. Less interactive, more linear, less dialogue, more black and white moral moral choiches, larger focus on being "cinematic", action oriented combat rather than turn based and less depth overall (combat, customizing your party/character etc) and so on.
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- The Turbo CD library is superior to the Sega CD library (yes I am including imports when I say this).

Also, I agree with Mustang. DS is the second best Nintendo console. So many JRPGs!

Do you mean that PC Engine CD+Turbografx CD>Sega CD/Mega CD? If so, that's a nobrainer, PC Engine was huge in Japan. Turbografx CD (only US releases) vs Sega CD (only US releases) on the otherhand is a more even and intresting battle.

[MoNsTeRzKHAOS]

I hate Turtles IV: Turtles in Time I find it bland and boring, I never got into the TMNT show and grew up with Streets of Rage so I'm guessing that's why.

[Krejlooc]

The Sega CD is a unique console in that virtually no games worth playing on it are exclusive to single regions. Everything worth picking up was released in both the US and europe, as well as Japan. The only really noteworthy overseas exclusive is Shadowrun (which is receiving an english translation patch). As an enormous fan of the PC Engine and Turbografx, I would think a domestic Sega CD library would crush a domestic Turbo CD library by mere breadth alone. I have 88 PC Engine/Turbo CD titles (not counting any hu-cards), but only about 30 of those are US Turbo Duo titles. By contrast, I have 65 Sega CD titles, and all are US.

[fysyxx]

I don't really understand the point of having a thread to share your odd/unpopular/personal gaming opinions just to then have everyone else break it down point by point and try to refute them.

This is a forum. Discussion is the point, and that is especially true on this thread. As I wrote earlier, this thread is great because is allows us to gain different perspectives on commonly-held opinions or to find other members who share our "unpopular" views. In any event, breaking down member's opinions point-by-point has been happening since the first page of this thread, and I expect it to continue. Finally, if you would like more elaborate responses to your opinions you should include a brief statement indicating why you hold them. The opinion, "The PSX is overrated" only merits a curt response. Writing "The PSX is overrated because..." justifies more discussion.

(Also...we did not refute all of your opinions. I think you and I would both agree that Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons are the best top-down 2D Zelda games. )

Right, but that's not exactly what I was even...ah, forget it.

Anyway, I personally feel that for some reason anything that Sony churns out of it's little cornhole has always gotten a massive amount of publicity and popular opinion without actually delivering that much. I didn't care for the PlayStation 1. I think that every worthwhile game, with the exception of Crash Bandicoot, had an equally as good/better counterpart on Saturn or N64. Not only that, but even most PS1 exclusives were trumped by other games of the same genre on competitive hardware.

I have just never truly enjoyed the experience that anything PlayStation branded has delivered. Now, it's not just because I didn't own one or didn't give it a chance or whatever else. With both PS1 and PS2 I bought into all the mass hype and tried them out and both times it ended up the same; sold. That being said, both my Saturn and Dreamcast have sat by every TV that I've ever owned and have often be accompanied by my SNES, N64, GameCube, etc.