Unpopular gaming opinions

[Donnie Restad]

Well, after reading a bunch of these, apparently my opinion that Half-Life 2 was (and still is) fucking AMAZING is a pretty unpopular opinion. The environments are all unique and memorable, there's wonderful pacing between all of the big fights, and how many other games have you played where absolutely every. Single. Weapon you get makes you feel like the biggest badass of them all?

As for other unpopular opinions, I can't stand the Mass Effect series. They're wonderful games, but I can't get over how short everyone's arms are. It's just distracting.

 

[Fetus]

Half Life is overrated.
Portal 1 and 2 are fun but not groundbreaking.
Please...spare me. I am sorry.

 

[Lugbzurg]

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) deserves all the hate it gets. I honestly think it should be used in videogame design classes for what to avoid.

BUT... I think it's the best Sonic game of its console generation. That's right. I find Unleashed, Colors, Generations, and 4 to be even worse than Sonic '06. At least they actually tried. At least you aren't in narrow train tracks that are supposed to pass for levels. At least you can turn left and right (backwards, even!), without wrestling with the controls. At least there's pacing in the levels. At least you can't correctly guess exactly how the story is going to end before you even start playing. At least it has loads of different types of badniks. At least replacing said badniks with rocks would have made the game considerably easier. At least you don't sit back and watch the game play itself most of the time. At least you have multiple characters to play as. At least, as bad as the script is, there aren't cringe-worthy jokes that make no sense in any currently-known context. ("No copyright law in the universe is going to stop me!")

I used to think Sonic '06 was the bottom of the barrel. It couldn't possibly get any worse! Then, Sonic Unleashed showed up, and set the standard for future titles in the series. But hey! It managed the reach the bar that was set, right?

After all, it was practically touching the floor.

Spec Ops: The Line

It's not a bad game, in fact it's a pretty good game, and I liked the story and it did a lot of things right. But the game has major flaws

The game spends too much time at the beginning of the game not giving the player the slightest clue what's going on. Who am I shooting at (as in are they Dubai locals, CIA, or what)? What possible reason is there for the CIA to be involved? Who's running Dubai now?

And the gameplay is a boring tedious slog. If it weren't for Extra Credits and Yahtzee praising the game (and more specifically the story) I would've rage quit the damn thing and never looked back. It's worth playing definitely but I really do not want to play it again.

That's the point! Also, no one has been praising the gameplay. The whole reason this game's been getting its buzz is because of the story. Not the gameplay itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBrenhzMZI

Something else I should say. I don't know about the sequel, but the story in the original Half-Life is not special. Only the way it was told. Aside from the military plot twist, the entire story essentially rips off of Doom. In fact, a lot of things were copied over from Doom. However, they left out some of the more interesting bits, such as the protagonist's backstory, and simply switched out the demons for aliens.

 

[Zacharious-khan]

Skyrim is without a doubt the worst game i have ever played. I honestly can't think of a mechanic or system in that game that i thought was designed well. Like you know how there are shooters like doom or half life2 where you zoom around with a billion freaking weapons need medpacs and the whole experience is about as realistic as watching MLP:FiM on acid (not that i would know just sounded like a good analogy) and then there is CoD and Battlefront which are the realistic shooters? That's how i feel about skyrim, clunky gritty brown fantasy, whereas Amalur would be the slick colorful acid trip.

 

[ejb626]

Games like SC2, HoN, and LoL are more damaging to the industry than Call of Duty and Halo ever could be.

May I ask why? You're entitled to your opinion of course but I'm curious to know what you have against MOBAs (and SC2).

OT: Some "pro" gamers need to get over themselves. Yeah, I'm not all that impressed that you've dropped out of college to devote your whole life to playing the same game for hours on end as it is now your sole source of income.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

BioWare games are really bland and boring as hell.
Oblivion was pretty boring, too. Tried playing it twice and lost interested both times (Skyrim I did really like though).
Final Fantasy VIII was pretty bad.
Portal 2 was a let down. It was funny, but it terms of a "puzzle game", it sucked.
Team Fortress 2 sucked even before it was a hat simulator.
Dota 2 is also shit, but that may be because I don't care at all for the MOBA genre.
Fallout 3 was WAY better than New Vegas.

I actually really enjoyed these games:
Duke Nukem Forever
Dirge of Cerberus
Damnation (maybe played an hour so far, but it has been fun)
Rage
Red Faction Armageddon (way better than Guerrilla, which was basically just a "destruction tech demo")
Quake 4

 

[Bertylicious]

Every copy of Half Life 2, Bioshock and Skyrim should be erased from existence.

Portal 2 blows Portal 1 out of the water.

Only stuff valve did great are Portal 1, 2 and the first Half Life (with a proper unofficial HD mod installed)

OT:
Half Life 2, a 10 hour borefest which got expanded to around 18 but never got a proper ending. Beta was way better.
Only Halo games worth playing are 2 and Reach.
Only good Zelda games are the first one for Nes, Ocarina Of Time and Twilight Princess.
I prefer the Metal Gear Solid remake for the cube over the original.

What about Left 4 Dead? That was pretty good.

 

[Caffeine_Bombed]

I guess, in general, the PS1/PS2/Xbox generations had far superior games to the current gen (obviously with a few exceptions).
I just feel that they don't have heart anymore. I mainly buy second-hand or part-ex games now because there's hardly anything out there worth a full price.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Every copy of Half Life 2, Bioshock and Skyrim should be erased from existence.

Portal 2 blows Portal 1 out of the water.

Only stuff valve did great are Portal 1, 2 and the first Half Life (with a proper unofficial HD mod installed)

OT:
Half Life 2, a 10 hour borefest which got expanded to around 18 but never got a proper ending. Beta was way better.
Only Halo games worth playing are 2 and Reach.
Only good Zelda games are the first one for Nes, Ocarina Of Time and Twilight Princess.
I prefer the Metal Gear Solid remake for the cube over the original.

What about Left 4 Dead? That was pretty good.

L4D2 was horrible, first one was actually kinda decent but I never bought it for myself.

 

[KingHodor]

Skyrim is without a doubt the worst game i have ever played.

Actually, that gives me an idea for another unpopular gaming opinion: I believe that there are shades of grey between "great" and "crap", and I respect a game if it's well-made, even if I didn't enjoy it.

For example, while I did not enjoy Dark Souls and cannot understand the completely glowing reviews it got, I am convinced that it is a well-made game that a certain niche of gamers can enjoy. In fact, I too would probably enjoy the game very much if the difficulty came from the awesome boss fights themselves, rather than the fact that you have to fight your way through the same groups of zombies on the way to the boss everytime you die.

Edit: And I will also admit when games I liked are flawed. For example, as an RPG gamer, I will freely admit that even though I enjoyed certain RPGs immensely, I do not believe they merit a perfect score because they are inexcusably buggy or imbalanced. Anybody played that Pirates of the Carribean game on the PC (the Russian one that was originally called Sea Dogs 2, but got rebranded)? Loved that one to death, but I can understand if somebody hated it because much of it was a bug-infested mess.

 

[Agow95]

JRPG's are boring
Console gaming is better than PC
Mass Effect 3 was great
All MMO's are pretty boring.

 

[PeterMerkin69]

Mass Effect was a mediocre series and its ending was perfectly consistent with the quality of the rest of the series, making the critical reception to the third instalment a gigantic overreaction. The game was on rails from its inception, with color of those rails being the only choice the player ever had.

The Grand Theft Auto series isn't nearly as fun as it used to be. The tone of IV suffered for trying to split itself between serious and humorous, and its shooter component is incredibly shallow with very sloppy, sluggish controls. Meanwhile, its derivatives have continued to expand on its premise, introducing better stories, better gameplay, and novel mechanics to a stale formula.

A brief consideration of the illusion of the relationship between cause and effect that appears to dominate the macro world in which we exist would alleviate untold amounts of Gamer with a G angst and confusion. Example: the endings to many video games "suck" because statistics demonstrate that most customers don't reach the ends of games, leading developers to the conclusion that their limited resources are better spent on the areas that the most customers actually will see. Hooray for more money to make more games and buy food!


Gamers who refer to other gamers as entitled are self-entitled hypocrites who misuse the word entitled.

 

[Josh Hibbard]

Not enjoying online gameplay, and not hating realistic shooters.

 

[SoulSalmon]

Although perhaps not "unpopular" these are all things I know plenty of people will disagree with:

Skyrim is the best ES game, Oblivion is the worst.
The handheld Kingdom Hearts games are part of the "main series" no matter how much you say otherwise.
Runescape was easily the best MMO of it's time (similarly to WoW).
The Wii is the only 7th gen console that's really worth having because most PS3/360 games are released to PC anyway.
LoZ:OoT was a good game, but it doesn't deserve half the praise it gets, I'm pretty sure a lot of people only say they love it to fit in.

And this goes last cos it's longer:
5th gen Pokemon do not suck, the Litwick and Vannilite lines are some of my favourites.
Anyone calling the 5th gen unoriginal while saying the 1st gen was original have their head shoved up their arse, a caterpillar that evolves into a butterfly is less original then a ghost that carries around a mask, which evolves into a coffin that eats people.

 

[ThisGuyLikesNoTacos]

I didn't care much for Pong or Tetris. They left a very bad taste in my mouth.

 

[XMark]

I actually want Dark Souls 2 to be more accessible and have a less hidden story

 

[Grape_Bullion]

My words

What you and some other guy asked

The large functions put up to watch "pro" players play these games and the money the players win support an unrealistic portrayal of what a "gamer" is, and the games themselves are nothing more than point and click math problems. While Halo and CoD dumb down just one genre, these MOBA games dumb down an entire platform of the gaming industry, and they're praised for doing it.