what are your "unpopular" opinions on gaming?

[krazykidd]

1: Mass effect series suck ( story and gameplay )
2: Oblivion is a great game without mods ( mods ruin the game )
3ragon age 2 was a fun game ( flawed but fun )
4: Dragon age Origins was too easy on normal mode
5:Golden eye 007 ( graphics aside ) is the best FPS on a console
6:Graphics for a game are not important
7: Fallout3 / NV is a lesser version of Oblivion
8: FinalFantasy X-2 sucked

 

[WOPR]

*snip*

Mine are

1) regen health kills the game and makes it crap
2) I'm tired of "realistic" war shooters and grey brown games in general
3) I think nintendo can go suck it
4) I feel the best games on the Wii were by Hundson, Ubisoft, and SEGA (and NOT Nintendo)
5) I feel guitar hero requires no skill to play and can be mastered by a 5 year old with ADHD if you give them a few months and nothing else to play
6) I believe the computer is the greatest console of all time
7) I feel Halo can go die and Tribes can rise from the ashes and spit in Halo's ashes
8) I feel WoW and other MMO games are horribly boring
9) I feel we should have a game with a system like "LoL" 's brought over to consoles
10) I think Nintendo should kill it's series to make new good ones (like Cubivore and Pikmin..)
11) I enjoy 3D sonic games (and by that I mean Sonic Adventures 1 and 2)
12) I don care that SC2 doesn't have LAN
13) I feel we need a stealth FPS game about being a bomber, where you can make your own character but the enemies are Americans... because I'm so sick of FPS games where you're killing people from generic middle-eastern-stan and people from horribly-racist-squinty-eyes-china'pan

EDIT: 14) I feel Minecraft is the biggest waste of money sense Starbucks
15) I feel Fallout 1 and 2 are better then 3 and NV can ever hope to be
16) My opinion of Zelda games matches Yahtzee's... and Zelda fans hate me for it
17) I feel Dawn of War is a deeper and better RTS game then StarCraft
18) I feel that 90% of todays games are WAAAAAAAAAAY too easy (I'd say Super Meat Boy and VVVVVV are what I'd classify as "Normal" or "Hard" rather then "OMG INSANE!" like people are making them out to be)
19) I consider Flash games to be full fledged videogames
20) I actually like Quick-Time-Events

EDIT 2:
Before I forget to say i
21) I HATED PORTAL! IT WAS SO FREAKING EASY I BEAT IT IN UNDER AN HOUR AND WANTED MY $10 BACK AFTERWORDS!

 

[Tommeh Brownleh]

Mario Sunshine was a great game

Twilight Princess was the best Zelda game

I genuinely like the 3ds

COD Black Ops isn't bad, but it certainly isn't good

COD 4 isn't great, but it certainly isn't bad.

Misanthropes are people too.

Playing a new game on easy doesn't make you a wuss

EA isn't an awful company, they're just idiots.

Having no friends is a good thing.

 

[WOPR]

- New Vegas also sucked. It was smaller and less open than Fallout 3 was, and the whole game was bland, especially the ending...

I felt that New Vegas was just a copy/paste of Fallout 2... only watered down to the point of it's "Hardcore" mode still being easier then Fallout 2 on "Normal" and the whole game overall being just a watered down, insanely easy version of Fallout 2 with Fallout 3's graphics

and I was actually kinda offended by how many REFERENCES it BLATANTLY makes to fallout 2, and still claims to be it's own game (also bugs me how many NV players didn't get ANY of the references)

 

[hazabaza1]

Not all games are art forms, and we don't all need to be going out trying to get games to be recognised as art.

 

[Flutterbrave]

- None of the Mario games for NES are still fun to play. FF1 was incredibly boring. Most NES games are not still fun to play. Except Kirby

- New Vegas was such a terrible game I only played it once. I accidentally shot my friend's dog and after that, I couldn't even get near the town where all the quests were and spent about half an hour wandering the wilderness before giving up

- Red Dead Redemption is Rockstar's best game. Unless they release a prequel where you play as Landon Ricketts

- Fighting games are rip offs. It's like taking a small part of most other games, removing all of the interesting story, plot, adventure and interest, and claiming that it's still a full game.

- That said, they, along with sports games such as FIFA, are still fun in five minute bursts or with friends.

- I really, really hate online multiplayer

 

[VanillaBean]

Call of Duty isn't overrated there are just a good chunk of games that deserve the same amount of commercial acclaim that will never get it, because of this franchise.

 

[zehydra]

CoD is the best thing to happen to gaming.

I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily, but in what way do you mean?

 

[Guilherme Zoldan]

Wind Waker was the best Zelda
Final Fantasy XIII was not that bad
Bayonetta is the best pure action game ever made
Dragon Age Origin was boring

 

[Zandarck]

MGO is my favourite online game on a console and it's damn shame many people don't play at the sometime I try too.

 

[Ready2Go]

3. Obsidian cant make games.

HEY, up yours, I love KOTOR 2 and Alpha Protocal. fallout: new vegas is alright, it could have been a 2800 MP dlc like the oblivion expansion "The Shivering Isles" , but it was still fun to play.

 

[darthmason0719]

here at the escapist OR anywhere else

1. I dont give a damn about regenerating health

2. I like dark and gritty

3. cutscenes are not the devil (that is unless they are 5 hours long)

4. generally I think voicless is only ok if you can customize your charachter (yes there are exceptions)

5. the Wii has absolutly nothing to offer ASIDE from the obvious nintendo franchises (metroid prime 3 was amazing)

6. Red faction Gurrela is a good game

7. people who scoff at "dark gritty COD fanboys" in favour of more "colurful" titles can be JUST as obnoxious and annoying using eaquality stupid arguments

letting the tearing apart of people favorites begin

This. Seriously I agree on everything. Plus TF2 being free is a great thing

 

[TheDooD]

I can't stand DRM.

Single player is should be the focus games.

Graphics aren't everything.

16 - 32 bit was the prime of video game music.

Multiplayer and Co-op should be options in all games not the main focus.

Dino Crisis was better then Resident Evil

Fighting, Puzzle and Rhythm games are the only games with real pros.

Major League Gaming (MLG) is a joke

Metal Gear Solid 4 was the worse game in the series.

Persona 4 is an overrated date sim with battles in between.

Diablo 3 is gonna be the end of the series

Devil May Cry 3 was easy

Davil May Cry 2 was really good

Castlevania Lament of Innocence was way better then Lords of Shadow

Castlevania should stick to 2D

 

[Vault101]

here at the escapist OR anywhere else

1. I dont give a damn about regenerating health

2. I like dark and gritty

3. cutscenes are not the devil (that is unless they are 5 hours long)

4. generally I think voicless is only ok if you can customize your charachter (yes there are exceptions)

5. the Wii has absolutly nothing to offer ASIDE from the obvious nintendo franchises (metroid prime 3 was amazing)

6. Red faction Gurrela is a good game

7. people who scoff at "dark gritty COD fanboys" in favour of more "colurful" titles can be JUST as obnoxious and annoying using eaquality stupid arguments

letting the tearing apart of people favorites begin

Unpopular among gamers or non-gamers?

If it's gamers then I think that games are essentially a giant waste of time and money.
Now don't get me wrong, like playing games, I was pretty hardcore in primary school. I do however acknowledge that in the end, all I'm getting from them is a lot less time and money.

If it's non-gamers then probably that games are NEVER the reason for violence and murder, unless the person doing it already has mental and/or psychological problems.

my problem with this is you could apply that logic to any form of entertainment

now I mean fair enough if somone would rather put their time and effort into somthing more productive, but I dont think there's any reason games should be singled out

 

[Dethenger]

Unpopular opinions, followed by brief justifications.

-Halo has an impressive story, even if it tells it horribly.
Most of the backstory and whatnot comes from the novels, and really the games are just the edge pieces of a large puzzle. They're not the most interesting part of the whole, but they are a necessary one. If you think that a game needs to be able to tell its story without forcing people to study the extended universe, well, you're right. If it weren't for the fact that I've already done that with Halo, I'd probably dislike it just as much.


-Gimmicks--touch screen, 3D, motion control, et cetera-- need to die off.
This honestly feels self explanatory, but okay. For me, these things all strain one's immersion, not enhance it. Especially with touch screen, you're literally touching the 4th wall, and yet all that does is remind you that it's there. It's like a glass door that's really clean; if you just look at it, you can hardly tell it's there, but when you walk into it, it's abundantly clear.


-Multiplayer needs more localization.
I often don't have access to online gaming, as I can't connect my Xbox to a router nor do I currently have a PS3. Even when I can play online, though, I begin to loathe the experience. There are always game-wrecking things that the game can't do much more than alleviate some, such as lag, latency issues, modders, etc., and it seems everyone online is an internet tough guy. I'd much rather sit in a room with my buddies and, using Black Ops as an example, play some Nazi Zombies for a while; unfortunately, it only allows for 2 players at once, so we have to leave two people by themselves while everyone else just plays with their dick.


-Super Mario Sunshine wasn't a bad game.
Had it relied less on the squirt gun (which was another gimmick that needed to die), it would've been almost as good as Super Mario 64. That, along with dropping the silly storyline and making Bowser a tougher goddamn final boss.


-ODST had the potential of being the best Halo.
A longer development time would've fixed most of what was wrong with it.
The city of New Mombasa wouldn't have suffered as it did from the abundant copy-pasting, which would've made for a much better FPS sandbox. The campaign would've been longer than 3 hours. Competitive multiplayer (with 4 players local, which is something Halo always has). Customization.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

1.) I love the Call of Duty games... all of them. They aren't the greatest games ever, but they're extremely fun and that's all I give a damn about.

2.) The Goldeneye 007 reimagining on the Wii was a fantastic and fun game, even when compared to the original.

3.) Crysis 2 >>>>>>>>>> Crysis 1

4.) Half-Life 2's driving sections were some of my favorite parts of that game and had fantastic controls (on PC at least... the console version's controls can go screw themselves, on the other hand).

5.) "Realism" and "Fun" in video games are not mutually exclusive concepts.

6.) Halo 3: ODST is my favorite Halo game, and Halo: CE is my least favorite Halo game.

7.) Perfect Dark Zero was a fun game. Not as good as it's predecessor, obviously, but still fun.

8.) I enjoyed the DNF demo, and I want to buy the full game because of it.

9.) Gran Turismo 5 > Forza 3

10.) MGS2 is my favorite MGS game.

11.) Casual games are not evil/killing the industry/always terrible cash-ins.

 

[emion]

and thats we I'll never gonna touch the filthy moneysponge known as WOW or DC universe, or any game like that -.-;

is that opinion "unpopular" enough for you O.-

 

[xXCrocmonXx]

My unpopular opinions! WOO!

1) COD is a stupid franchise.
2) Dragon Age 2 is not Dragon Age: Origins, but that doesn't mean DA2 is trash and people who like it have shitty tastes
3) Sequels have every right to be different. Just because the players don't ever want the thing they're good at (be it number crunching and begging the game mechanics to work like a sleep-depraved shut-in of a DM) is no excuse for you to remake the same game with different graphics and/or plot.
4) FPS games are generally bland and not that exciting now that 'modernism' has hit gaming.
5) Halo 4 is a plague.
6) Games can be but often times are not art.
7) Halo didn't need the Chief after Combat Evolved, and he was basically riding side-seat in the story-Warthog in 2, then in 3 he was tied to the rear bumper and given thirty feet slack while the Separatists, Loyalists, Humans, Flood, and Spark all fought for the wheel.
8) George Lucas says it's canon, so therefore it's fucking canon. Get over yourself.
9) A game that has 'moral choices' should make these moral choices actually mean something and not be 'good/bad/neutral choices.' The free-choice things in DA2 were a great example. The Pitt DLC for Fallout 3 had another great free-no-karma choice at its finale as well, if you won't accept that DA2 is a game worthy of noting.
10) A plot should make me think because of what it says, not because it doesn't make fucking sense until I work it like a Rubik's Cube
11) Co-Op is neat, but I should have to put up with a stupid AI partner who can't shoot/change weapons unless I hold her hand if I want to be alone (Resident Evil 5).
12) Fighting games are all the fucking same. You beat a controller on your ass so Siegfried can kill Nightmare, vice-versa. Change names as you see fit, the formula is still the same.
13) SPORE was great.
14) Obsidian/Black Isle are the whiny teenage ***** of the gaming industry, crying because their step-daddy Bethesda did their franchise better, and Obsidian/Black Isle didn't make New Vegas, they just added crap to FO3's engine and made it a slew of punchlines, few jokes, and the same story as FO3 (War never changes? Gee Ron Perlman, haven't we said that before? Hm...)
15) Jimquisition is for stuckup assholes who think NOSTALGIA fixes everything and sheep who want someone to tell them they're stupid and that it's great they think for them.
16) Nintendo is the crochety old bastard of the gaming industry, who got competition and decided to just say "OH FUCK YOU LOUSY KIDS" instead of trying to stay in the game. (No puns intended)
17) Activision can go piss off.
18) You can use games to teach values, just make characters that are admirable once in a while and not "Plaster your face on him and think you're him for the playthrough."
19) Gears of War is fucking dull.

Here's the big one.

20) It's an old, dusty as shit game. There's nothing from it we need to go back and look at. It's dead; you wouldn't desecrate the grave of your grandma to pull an idea out of her head that you know by heart, would you? Don't go rifle through your collection to some long-dead title and tell me "THE GOLDEN AGE OF GAMES DIDN'T HAVE DLC" or "THIS WAS A GREAT GAME BECAUSE OF [X] THAT YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE" nostalgia-humping because you're feeling like something today is rough or unbearable. You hiding your head in the past isn't going to fix what's on the table today.

And because I forgot about it.

21) DA:O was you hunting to fetch the remotes. Your character was never taken seriously, and nothing you did ever changed anything. No matter what, all of the forces would show up, all of the pieces would come into play, and no matter what you did you were still a fuckhead Warden who was an outlaw. Dragon Age 2, your character was god damned important, and didn't save a world that laughed at him when he mentioned something like The Blight, he was rewarded for his work. The Warden at the end did some shit on a coast, went back to Ostagar, and then hunted down Morrigan. All he did was just save people who honestly didn't care. Hawke was a god damned hero and didn't have his ending just be "Oh lol party-party-party" then credits rolling, he left after slapping the world in the face and that was that.