Your gaming guilty pleasure/unpopular opinion

[DrunkOnEstus]

My guilty pleasure would be Dance Dance Revolution. When I was younger I loved playing doubles in the arcades and all the attention it would gather, but as the years have passed a level of shame started to rise and its been reduced to private living room exercise. Strangely enough I would never listen to about 75% of the music in any other context, and I get no enjoyment from the Kinect/Wii dance games. If I'm not smashing arrows I'm just not feeling it.

The unpopular opinion of mine is that I really don't enjoy the Arkham Batman games. I've tried to finish Asylum multiple times, and played the recently released demo of City. I don't like hand-to-hand combat, dealing with the gun-toting enemies feels cumbersome, and a lot of the level designs feel awkward to me, especially random things being walled off by not having the appropriate gadget that I feel batman should already have. The Scarecrow segment in Asylum sparked my interest to continue forward, until I just couldn't do it anymore. I like Batman, I grew up watching the cartoons and playing the 16-bit games, so I wanted to love these games and wish they felt better to me, and I just don't think "GOTY Material!" at any point.

Anything you're not afraid to share?

CAPTCHA: "when you think of yp & eating out, what first comes to mind?" That you've offended me incredibly as an embedded advertisement with no regard to proper English, and somehow managed to associate cunnilingus with a phone book. To hell with you.

 

[JEBWrench]

Guilty pleasure? I love my Kinect.

Unpopular opinion? I dunno what's popular anymore, but I'll hazard a guess and say Dungeon Siege 3 not being that bad is probably unpopular.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

The first Two Worlds is a pretty fun, enjoyable game. That's a fairly rare opinion, to my knowledge.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My guilty pleasure? [sub][sub][sub]Not counting the fact that I've spent more on classic games/consoles in the past few months and indeed, haven't played a new/current game since Skyrim and, Saint's Row the Bored[/sub][/sub][/sub]...I love my Wii. I love playing Wii games such as Kirby's Epic Yarn and, Donkey Kong Country Returns. Also I still buy and, play Gamecube games to play on it. Finally playing Twilight Princess!

My unpopular opinion? Top 3 Zelda games = 1: Zelda 2 2: Wind Waker 3: Link to the Past. Skyward Sword is bad but the DS ones (phantom hourglass and, spirit tracks) are the worst.

Bonus unpopular opinion - The Virtual Boy is freaking awesome. It wouldn't have failed though, if it was put into R&D long enough to get a full color screen or, more than just red-on-black.

 

[Clinky]

For my guilty pleasure I have to say that I love games based on cooking. I happen to be a fan of the cooking Mama games and an old game I've felt the urge to play again is... A disney interactive kitchen. XD In that you're given free reign of a kitchen with access to ingredients and pretty much told to go wild. All the while Mickey and Minnie were making comments and a radio was going on in the background with the occasional PSA. I sunk so much time into it when I was little, I've wanted to play again.

As far as unpopular opinions go I have to say that poor graphic quality is rarely that bad a turn-off for me. As long as it has good art direction that makes good use of the tools they have it could be N64 quality for all I care.

Edit: Let me add that I'm with you on DDR. To be honest I always found them more fun than Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Though I've never been able to place why...

 

[StormShaun]

My unpopular opinion...

Well I may get killed for this, BUT I think that Twilight Princess was the best Zelda game ever made...even more then Ocarina of Time and I have played both and I infinitely prefer Twilight Princess.

I dunno it was just more fun then OoT. :S

 

[Zhukov]

I enjoyed the hell out of Bulletstorm.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

The first Two Worlds is a pretty fun, enjoyable game. That's a fairly rare opinion, to my knowledge.

I enjoyed it, but it was just WAY too damn glitchy. It probably would have been better received if it wasn't screaming "We can do oblivion too!", yet somehow lowering the QA standards set by Bethesda in the process.

For my guilty pleasure I have to say that I love games based on cooking, I happen to be a fan of the cooking Mama games

I'm going to have to second this one. If you have a PS3, in the Japanese PS1 games section there's a cooking game that I find addictive and excellent that's based on a style of Japanese meat preparation. And it's only 6 bucks.

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Bonus unpopular opinion - The Virtual Boy is freaking awesome. It wouldn't have failed though, if it was put into R&D long enough to get a full color screen or, more than just red-on-black.

I enjoy my Virtual Boy sometimes, the Wario game was fantastic and the 3D effect was amazing to me at its time. The problem I have (and I think a lot of people do) is that it's very difficult to play it in any fashion that doesn't cause physical pain to some capacity. It's hard to literally suffer for your enjoyment.

I award the bravery of you folks, and that nobody has to wear a flamesuit here.

 

[Vault101]

Unpopular opinion?

I think people are too harsh on Bioware

guilty pleasure? TBH any game counts as a guilty pleasure

 

[Racecarlock]

I really like call of duty games. Shooting nazis is fun.

Now tell my why I'm stupid.

 

[arnoldthebird]

I enjoyed the hell out of Bulletstorm.

I love it. The gameplay mechanics are so addictive

My guilty pleasure would be enjoying the banter between characters in Bulletstorm, childish yet very entertaining

 

[sage42]

Guilty pleasure is the Fable series, I love the games. And I enjoyed Twilight Princess.

My unpopular opinion was that Alan Wake sucked ass.

 

[Vault101]

Now tell my why I'm stupid.

your stupid because your not praying to mario like you should...and your not dencouncing anything brown in favor for pink and fluffy

and I bet you thourght other M was bad didnt you?

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I really like call of duty games. Shooting nazis is fun.

Now tell my why I'm stupid.

I would never say someone was stupid because of their likes/opinions, granted COD hasn't been about shooting nazis for quite a few years now. The first one on PC, IMHO, was revolutionary, especially if you had a kick-ass speaker system. Hearing blasts all around you, the squadmates yelling orders in all directions...for me it was total immersion the way we like it.

And shooting nazis is always fun, as there has never been another organized group of humans that one would feel no guilt mowing down and punishing, except maybe NAMBLA. I'm sure there's a few people among us who dreamt of what we would do if we had some nazis in front of us and unlimited bullets, and COD 1/2/3/WaW made it happen virtually. Reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel conjured these fantasies for me, even though it went against his message of forgiveness and hate being unable to defeat hate and so on.

I'm now picturing an indie game (it might as well have to be indie) where you're Chris Hansen and you mow down armies of pedophiles waving the NAMBLA flag. Someone get on this so that I can give you my money.

EDIT: Is it bothersome to respond to all kinds of replies? I'm thinking "that's probably the point" but I'd hate to rub people the wrong way. I'm happy here.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Twilight Princess was the most interesting Zelda game i've ever played. Now I don't play much Zelda anyway but TP felt like they weren't just going through the usual motions

Get sword > get boomerang > get bigger wallet > save the world/princess. etc etc

The same motions were there obviously, but the concepts/characters introduced in the game kept it interesting.

I still find Midna to be freakin' awesome for example XD

Also, I don't find any particular Champion overpowered in League of Legends... That gets you shot in some countries I believe.

Except mayyyyybe Fiora. I swear this one game just had a Fiora just Quadra Killing most of our team over and over again with that badass Ult. (I just used the guaranteed escape card as Riven. 2 parts of the Broken Wings combo, Valour, Flash, finish the combo. Nobody can catch you unless you just run into a wall or something.) She was probably just a bit fed though.

I think "overpowered" just means "Oh shit we fed that guy, run away"


Oh and EA ain't that bad. At least they actually produce interesting games most of the time (not including those endless sports titles of course) unlike some producers I could name...

[sub]coughactivisioncough[/sub]

 

[Tanis]

Gundam games - They tend to just be bad/mediocre but I somehow enjoy them.

I also think FF7 is complete mediocre garbage and that the fan-base tends to be pants-on-head retarded.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I also think FF7 is complete mediocre garbage and that the fan-base tends to be pants-on-head retarded.

I promise to uphold my promise to be civil and nice...but I feel I must state that my parents buying me FF7 was a defining time in my childhood, I cried when Aeris took it, and even hearing my friend play some of the soundtrack pieces on the piano moves me like few things can.

I must note that I don't support the advent children crap and every bastard child spit out by Square execs after Uematsu and Sakaguchi jumped ship. I get the feeling that maybe "the fan-base" and myself exist in different planes, otherwise I'm okay with the tradeoff of having a developmental and cognitive disability if it means keeping the beautiful memories I have : )

 

[NeutralDrow]

Gaming guilty pleasure? I don't know if I should admit those. I do like games that I acknowledge have noticeable flaws (Soulbringer and Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World are some of my favorite games), but I'm pretty open about saying so. Not guilty about it.

So, guilty, um...I'm actually enjoying playing The Sagara Family? All my other encounters with ZyX games led to me being either bored (Do You Like Horny Bunnies) or disgusted (Lightning Warrior Raidy), but they somehow managed to make The Sagara Family hold my interest, keep me coming back to try finding all the scenes, and even distract me from the fact that their primary artist can only draw three different faces.

As for an unpopular opinion...I don't know how popular or unpopular it is, but I hated the way Bastion's story was told. I loved everything else about the game, but for 90% of it (everything but the hub world-building and the final level), the narration bugged the crap out of me. It felt like I was trying to play the game with someone reading the novelization of the story out loud over my shoulder from the past tense perspective of a character I (rightly) distrusted, constantly reminding me in realtime that it was just a story and one that had already occurred, and I had absolutely nothing to anchor me into it.

 

[Tanis]

I also think FF7 is complete mediocre garbage and that the fan-base tends to be pants-on-head retarded.

I promise to uphold my promise to be civil and nice...but I feel I must state that my parents buying me FF7 was a defining time in my childhood, I cried when Aeris took it, and even hearing my friend play some of the soundtrack pieces on the piano moves me like few things can.

I must note that I don't support the advent children crap and every bastard child spit out by Square execs after Uematsu and Sakaguchi jumped ship. I get the feeling that maybe "the fan-base" and myself exist in different planes, otherwise I'm okay with the tradeoff of having a developmental and cognitive disability if it means keeping the beautiful memories I have : )

While I 'get' the nostalgia, even partly share it - but with more FF8, I'm able to 'get over it'.

FF7 OST was mediocre and only got 'good' when The Black Mages and other remixed/redid parts of it.

The story was nothing special - I'd seen the same 'chase the villain' in toons like Mighty Max.

The characters were all poorly done - never mind that bad translation.

The (in game) graphics weren't all that revolutionary.
-They'd be beat like a year prior with NiGHTS and PD.

The main villain was a HUGE let down that killed the ending for me.
-Srlsy? Mama's boy goes on rampage, really?

As I've said before:
I'd rather have a 2D game with 3D characters, FF6.
Then a 3D game with 2D characters, FF7.

Never mind, much like FFX-2, the ending was ruined by it's various continuations.