Unpopular Opinions

[Halla Burrica]

-Mass Effect 1 is the weakest game in the series in terms of characters, gameplay and exploration.

I know that liking something or not is subjective, but how can ME1's exploration be the weakest in the series, given it's the only one of the three games which even has it?

I consider Mass Effect 2&3 to have better exploration (with Mass Effect 2 being above 3), in the sense that you can travel around and discover stuff not directly tied to the main storyline. Instead of having to drive around on lifeless planet territory in a vehicle that couldn't be less suited to navigating that kind of terrain if it was blind horse with green soap tied to its hooves (as you can probably see, I really hate the Mako). Not to mention the horribly recycled warehouses you would go into. I actually felt compelled to pursue and discover the side missions and stuff present in ME 2&3, since I didn't feel like they wasted my time with terrible vehicle sections on generic maps, and got rid of those stupid "collect 20 of these things" or "walk around and shoot these things" missions, that didn't feel rewarding at all. I had to push myself to finish a lot of those in ME1, and only so I could see if there was some kind of new thing they would reveal about its fascinating universe. For the most part, they didn't. Therefore it felt like a blessing when they just had Shepard drive to the place instead, places that were distinguishable from one another. It also helped that you could go to different overworlds in ME2, instead of being locked into just the sterile and not very exciting Citadel. Now I don't think the Citadel was bad, it works for what it's supposed to be, but compared to Omega, Illium and Tuchanka? Not a chance of being as memorable. Sure, they were smaller, but were just so full of atmosphere and artistic vision that I really didn't mind.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Frozen is trash long overdue for incineration.

It's boring, it's poorly written, the whole thing is sloppy, the two female characters as well as several background female characters are not only identical but look like rats and nothing like real people, and on a more meta side of things I hate how Erdub and Agaga are considered feminist icons when they don't... actually do anything even slightly inspiring.

Also abortion is always, always ok and misandry and misogyny are bad, and not all feminists are angry radical man-bashers - infact, few are. These opinions should not be as unpopular as they are.

Also Waluigi did do wrong. He has done so much wrong. And Guy Fieri isn't inherently hilarious even if he does poop on floors and blames it on dogs.

 

[Halla Burrica]

- Princess Peach is one of my favorite characters in the Mario universe; she is way more complex than people give her credit for.

...How? I am legitimately curious here, because in my entire life on this planet, I have not once heard the name "Peach" and the word "complex" in the same sentence.

 

[darkcalling]

I loved Mass Effect 3's ending even before the extended version.

Dragon Age 2 is the best in the series.

Duke Nukem Forever did not deserve the hate that it got.

FF7 is the most overrated game I've ever played.

Keyboard and mouse controls feel Far less intuitive than than a controller.

I can't tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps and wish people would stop obsessing over games running at less than 60.

Shezow is an interesting concept rendered nigh unwatchable by bad voice acting and the most annoying opening theme song I've ever heard.

 

[Roboshi]

-Heath Ledgers Joker was a terrible joker, because it wasn't even the joker. No blame on the actor himself more on the direction and style those movies took. I mean the joker would ever disguise his getaway vehicle as a school bus and blend in to a crowd, blending in has never been a phrase you'd associate with the joker.

-Halo, as a series, is just bland. I'd not bad but nowhere near worth the level of praise it gets. Bungie has always been just "ok" at making games and their recent efforts with destiny proves just how lacking in creative spark they are.

-Superman really isn't suited to the mainstream media any more, his entire character is like if captain america was lacking the whole "man out of his own time" thing that gives him the vunerability you need from a superhero. Superman just hasn't stood the test of time and perhaps it's time DC stopped trying to reboot him.

 

[Varanfan9]

I like Spider-man 3 while finding 2 boring, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Star Wars Prequels as a whole, with Phantom Menace being my favorite in the series, think Spider-Gwen is over blown and has a terrible costume... yeah, I think that about covers it.

 

[McElroy]

Oh these threads I just love these. I get the stuff I agree or almost agree with that I hadn't thought about before, and then there are the absurd ones that are so damn off the wall and wrong that they immediately paint the poster as some maniac raging in their basement.

But hey, I still have some to share: Big Hero 6 is a bad movie and shouldn't have won the Oscar. Praise for the robot's voice is insignificant as practically anyone can do a voice like that.

Buying fan merch is almost always a dumb as shit waste of money, though I'm not against the idea, the products just happen to be overpriced thrash.

Marriage should be for two people who are raising or will raise kids. That's it. If a couple becomes infertile they adopt or get divorced and so on.

 

[IOwnTheSpire]

I've got another one which may or may not be an unpopular opinion:

I adore Natalie Dormer; she's talented, attractive, I want her to play the lead in the movie I wrote...
HOWEVER!
Even though I (and most others) know her from Game of Thrones, I think she was miscast as Margaery. I'm not a purist by any means, but she just doesn't match the character I read in the books, in terms of appearance and personality and general demeanor. I don't blame Natalie for this, of course, she's only portraying the character that she gets in the scripts, but I wish I had gotten the character I read in the books.

 

[Chris Moses]

-I don't like Kingdom Hearts.
-I don't really care for any game or show that includes fairytale characters from different fairytales working together or against each other or whatever the fuck they do...
-As an adult I have absolutely NO desire to go to Disneyland.
-Sex is just a bodily function and so is birth. I'd just as soon watch someone taking a dump and think it was a magical experience of creation...
-Here's a good one... I think there should be state sponsored brothels where horny teenagers can go and get their rocks off in a safe and heavily regulated environment, and I mean as young as 12 and 13. And, I don't necessarily want to work at one as much as I think adolescence would go a lot smoother for at least some people (I'm remembering mine) if they had an outlet for all their hormones and urges.

Edit: I just had to add this. Zombies are incredibly STUPID... "villains"? If zombies were to be possible, then rabies would have been it. Hell most zombie plots don't even have animals being capable of spreading the disease. Imagine having to defend yourself from a swarm of zombie birds or bats... People are slow and clumsy. Imagine trying to outrun a zombie cheetah. Zombie fiction almost always violates the second law of thermodynamics. If zombies eat their victims, then how do they make more zombies? If zombies don't eat their victims, then how do zombies get the energy they'd need to move around?

 

[Gyrick]

- Princess Peach is one of my favorite characters in the Mario universe; she is way more complex than people give her credit for.

...How? I am legitimately curious here, because in my entire life on this planet, I have not once heard the name "Peach" and the word "complex" in the same sentence.

Sure, I'll try my best to explain what I mean.

Princess Peach isn't that complicated of a character, but she is far more than the "damsel in distress" that she has been given. For example, what most people tend to forget is that Peach is not only a Princess, but a magic user as well. In the first Mario Brothers game, the instruction manual explains that the reason that Bowser kidnaps her is that she has the ability to dispel evil magic; in other words, even if Mario defeats him, the only person to undo the damage done to the Mushroom Kingdom is Peach. Peach displays her magic in the following games: Super Mario World (her slow float at the end of the game), Super Mario RPG (her skill set), Super Paper Mario (wish magic and floating), and Super Princess Peach (emotion magic), just to name a few. Peach apparently is also a master baker considering that she likes to bake cakes.

Peach can also be a leader when need be, as evidence of her sending Mario and Luigi to save parts of the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Brothers 3 (she actually doesn't get captured until you beat the boss of world 7). Peach eaves notes to Mario in Mario 64 on what Bowser has done and how to defeat him in battle. In Super Mario 3D World, Princess Peach is playable and can use her magic to fly, but it should be noted that Princess Peach is the first of the group (including Mario, Luigi and Toad) to chase after Bowser when he kidnaps the last Sprixie.

Peach also is an impressive athlete, who is well versed in tennis, golf, soccer, baseball, racing (kart and motorcycle), and she can compete in various different Olympic events. Granted, these are skills that most people in the Mario universe have, but it would still be impressive resume.

I guess it's more about looking closely at what she does instead of what happens to her that makes her interesting to me. I hope I've answered your question

http://www.mariowiki.com/Princess_Peach

 

[JessePinkmanJr]

I'm sure I'm forgetting some:

- Nutella and Bacon are both very overrated

- American Sniper is overrated

- The Jurassic Park and Back to the Future films are somewhat overrated, although I don't think they're bad

- Birdman is an excellent film (Although I'm not exactly sure if that's an unpopular opinion, I know quite a few people really disliked it)

- There's nothing wrong with the 2nd and 3rd Matrix films (It's a perfect trilogy, I can't think of another trilogy that is as literally awesome)

-The Matrix sequels are criminally underrated.

Thank you!

- There's also nothing wrong with Jar Jar Binks or the Phantom Menace film (Although it has been a few years since I've seen it?...)

- The Die Hard series should've ended with the 3rd one

- Resident Evil 4 is the best of the series (Best PS2 game of all time in my opinion actually)

- Superman is a boring superhero (Didn't mind the live TV show when I was younger though) and he is probably going to ruin Batman/Superman film

- Bioshock 2 isn't a bad game

 

[Dango]

Fuck Skyrim
Fuck Dark Souls 2
Fuck Mass Effect 2. Bioware hasn't made a good game since Mass Effect (That includes Dragon Age: Origins, fuck that game).
Fuck Grand Theft Auto 5, it plays like shit
Fuck Borderlands 2
Fuck Wolfenstein: The New Order
The original Bioshock is boring, the shooting is stiff, and the game plays generally very clumsily.

Resident Evil 6 is a great game

 

[Dalisclock]

That's like saying "I know how the US Army and Marines will deploy their forces because I've studied a lot of Norman Rockwell paintings." It's idiotic to the nth degree, and made him less "brilliant" in my mind, and more of a Marty Sue villain who was beyond fault.

I can only imagine what Thrawn would have thought if he had looked at Dali or Matisse, or one right after another. Try drawing conclusions from that.

 

[das_n00b]

-being a working class minority REALLY IS FUCKING TOUGH.
-smoking weed feels great and I shouldn't be made to feel like a criminal for it.
-you don't need a large social circle to lead a rich, fulfilling life.
-starting a family does not complete your life.
-Intelligence isn't always dictated or defined by the capacity to conform in an institution of power (universities, government agencies, the judicial system...).
-polygamy is perfectly human.
-sometimes, violence IS necessary.

 

[Carzinex]

-i feel that all marvel and dc comics are now being targeted at a new audience rather than me and thats ok
-all star wars expanded universe was trash, just as the new stuff seems to be(han solo has a wife?)
-mass effect 3 was a good game(at least after extended cut, didnt play before that)
-bioware has turned into a fantasy dating simulator game developer with a tacked on hero narrative if Inquisition is anything to go by.
-identity politics is exclusionary not inclusive

 

[McMarbles]

I find Superman, a guy who holds down a regular job has normal relationships with human beings, and is just trying to make the world a better place, inherently more relateable than a tormented billionaire who's always the best at everything (This REALLY annoys me; Mr. Miracle SHOULD be the better escape artist, John Henry Irons SHOULD be the better engineer, Richard Dragon and Lady Shiva SHOULD be better fighters, Dick Grayson SHOULD be a better acrobat, but no one is ever allowed to outshine Batman; the only thing he should be the best at is detective-ing, and even then, Ralph Dibney should give him a run for his money) and has been brooding over his dead parents for twenty years.

Looking back, I think Man of Steel wasn't really that bad of a movie.

Some of what Cartoon Network's running today is better than any of the shows that would be considered its "classics". I would take Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and Over the Garden Wall over even the good seasons of Dexter's Lab or PPG.

Hershey's makes terrible chocolate. I'm amazed anyone likes that garbage.

I don't care how "dead" they are, I like JRPGs.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is just plain not funny.

I'm thoroughly sick of zombies.

 

[happyninja42]

I don't mind there being an actually competent villain, hell I want those in stories. My issue with Thrawn was how he was so infallible. The way he was described, as knowing intimately, the military strategies of a culture, simply because he looked at their damn pottery or paintings is absolutely idiotic. That's like saying "I know how the US Army and Marines will deploy their forces because I've studied a lot of Norman Rockwell paintings." It's idiotic to the nth degree, and made him less "brilliant" in my mind, and more of a Marty Sue villain who was beyond fault. And yeah, the way he died, if he's so damn brilliant, why didn't he see it coming? I admit as a kid my level of tolerance for stupid in books was WAAAAY lower than it is now. I've become way more critical, but even then, as a kid I was rolling my eyes and saying "oh come on! That's bullshit!" when Thrawn would flawlessly defeat some group because he studied their finger painting. xD

Its been quite some time since I read the books, so I could be wrong, but wasn't it implied that that was a lie on his part and it could have just been something he claimed for the sake of his own image?

I dunno, maybe? It's been decades since I read it too. I don't recall it being a lie he perpetuated, but that he was genuine when he said he knew them by their art. *shrugs* I've purged most of that series from my brain, and I read it as a young teen, so my recollection is spotty.

That's like saying "I know how the US Army and Marines will deploy their forces because I've studied a lot of Norman Rockwell paintings." It's idiotic to the nth degree, and made him less "brilliant" in my mind, and more of a Marty Sue villain who was beyond fault.

I can only imagine what Thrawn would have thought if he had looked at Dali or Matisse, or one right after another. Try drawing conclusions from that.

I know right?! xD I think this is mostly due to the common sci-fi stereotype for aliens of them always being the same. Very very few races depicted in scifi are as varied and diverse as humanity. They all have one culture, one religion (maybe with some different sects), one look, etc etc. Which makes them all seem like some kind of hive being. Whereas humans, hell we're so diverse it hurts the brain. I get why scifi writers do this, as it's easier/quicker to describe 1 aspect of a new species, instead of developing a full, fleshed out race with all the diversity it would develop over time. You'd need a whole book for each one. So you distill them down to the most significant "non-human" traits to describe them. This lessens them in my opinion, but I understand it as a necessary evil of writing. Still, it allows bullshit like Thrawn to grow, and justify his stuff through some "knowing their art, means I know the race" crap. Which just doesn't work at all. *gets off his Fuck Thrawn soapbox, and stops derailing the thread now* xD

 

[Callate]

People who feel they know everything about someone based on one article of clothing have more issues than people wearing fedoras.

 

[Silvanus]

-Heath Ledgers Joker was a terrible joker, because it wasn't even the joker. No blame on the actor himself more on the direction and style those movies took. I mean the joker would ever disguise his getaway vehicle as a school bus and blend in to a crowd, blending in has never been a phrase you'd associate with the joker.

Really? He does it in the comics, depending on the writer; the characters all change drastically writer-to-writer, but Joker's certainly blended in when needs must in the source material.