Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[marlowe221]

Yeah sometimes I think I must have a magic phone or something, because I don't have battery issues at all with mine. When I play games on it, I simply disable everything that isn't necessary, which means I can only receive calls and texts. With that setup, even when playing highly intensive 3D games, my phone's battery lasts about 5 hours. Which is equivalent to what I get with a 3DS XL on max brightness, and more than I get with Vita games. I have no qualms thinking of my phone as a handheld gaming device which also calls people.

With current battery technology, the fact that I need my phone for lots of non-gaming functions hampers my ability to use it the way I would a games-first device like a 3DS or Vita. It's cool that it's possible to get that kind of gaming battery life on a phone, but it's still using the limited pool of energy that I'm going to need the rest of the day. Dedicated gaming handhelds don't have that problem - their battery being dead is, at most, an inconvenience.

That's not to say that I don't game on my phone. I absolutely do. But I don't do it very much - in fact, I would like to do it more! I often toy with the idea of buying a small tablet just to use for mobile games and to save the battery on my phone.

[Markies]

Streets of Rage 2 is so good, it doesn't even need 1 or 3 to beat out the entire Final Fight trilogy on which brawler is better

+1

[AppleQueso]

I think SOR3 is under appreciated and is tops.

i legit love its soundtrack

[Damm64]

I think i prefer bayonetta over any devil may cry game. Been trying a bit of 1-4 none didn't grab me like bayonetta did.

[Xeogred]

DMC3 is literal perfection.

[Sarge]

See, I'm the other way around. I think DMC3 and DMC4 are absolutely fantastic, the first Bayonetta was good but flawed, and Bayonetta 2 is back to being super-awesome.

[Kuruwin]

And i played DMC3 years after i played Bayonetta and i was sorely disappointed. I give the game points for the combat but otherwise i remember it being really boring game.

The levels are really dull and there's some tedious back and forth running around. I'm not sure but it also might have had some awful platforming.

[Tanooki]

For the Tales of...fans out there.

I'm playing Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World. I like it, like it a lot actually. The first hour I was annoyed at Emil and the whiny bitch routine, but once he started to go dark and learned to whine less about 2 hours into it, it's been fun. I don't get the hatred about this game lumping it mostly on him.

You get the overworld time wasting run around removed for a point and click system to areas. The areas are all with roaming monsters you can fight (even get advantage) or just attempt to evade so no random throwback garbage. You can recruit monsters and just store them, or you can use them as combatants and equip helping items or evolve them so it's basically Shin Megami Tensei light. The story is quite good and has some nice twists so far as it has been developing and seeing the few years later changes of the old Gamecube era terrain is awesome.

Haters are just going to focus and hate I guess.

[Sarge]

My brother absolutely enjoyed Dawn of the New World. I honestly don't know why folks ragged on it so much. The combat system, in particular, is fast and fluid, which can't be said about all Tales games. For instance, everyone loves Vesperia it seems, but I found the combat in that game rather halting in nature. I much more enjoyed playing through Tales of Hearts R recently.

[PartridgeSenpai]

From what I'd heard about Dawn of the New World, it was mostly because of a wasted setting. For a sequel to a previous RPG with very fleshed out characters whose fates were totally up in the air, the game features them very little (I think you can recruit one or two, but not for quite a while). That combined with the fact that it's kind got a Dragon Quest thing going on with the monster recruitment (something no other Tales game does) and it really sticks out as the black sheep of the spin-offs that have come state side (of which I think we've gotten like 2, but still ). I mostly just didn't want to play it after Symphonia because I didn't care for Symphonia that much, but your positive review has actually made me curious. I'll have to give it a look-see someday

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Now as for a possibly unpopular opinion, I really don't mind when there is no English voice cast for an RPG brought to the states (same goes for movies too, tbh, Japanese or otherwise). I'd much rather have the voice acting the animations were based off of and characters were built around, along with a very dedicated text-translation rather than try to half-ass an English dub. I don't have this problem so much with newer games, as stuff like the English Tales releases tend to really care about their translations and voice cast. Even non-Japanese stuff like Metro or Witcher just sounds so much better in the original, even though their English voice-dubs are quite good for the most part.

Older stuff though, now THAT's usually something that gets horribly fucked. I just watched a video of the English release of Yakuza 1, and HOLY FLIPPIN' CRAP is the English dub fucking horrible. All of the colorful regional accents and eccentricities of characters (like of Goto Majima) are dulled down to really boring, dry Midwestern accented American guys. They try to skirt this weird middle-ground between domestication and keeping it Japanese (they still call each other "aniki" (albeit in a very American accent) but use American swear words O.o ). There're even really blatant textual errors like within the first 20 minutes of gameplay of unavoidable text-only dialogue, leading me to believe it was just a sloppy translation in general.

They must've really ported it on a shoestring budget. But if that's the case, then why did they bother to go through the much more time consuming process of dubbing all the voice lines in English (even going through the trouble to record new voice lines for Kazuma when he does finishing moves which aren't present in the Japanese version)? It's totally baffling to me. I'm SO glad that they made the decision (for money or otherwise) to just subtitle all the subsequent games in the West. This makes me even more excited for the remake of 1 to come out here, to be honest. That game REALLY needed it, at least here in the West.