Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Don Kang]

lol calm down it's a video game.

On topic I genuinely enjoyed the console and portable Sims games (Urbz, Bustin Out, etc.) They had a charm to them and I would love to see another one.

Some of my best childhood memories are playing the Sims console games with my brother, splitscreen, on a fucking 14 inch CRT television.

Sims 2 was probably my favorite since you had full movement control instead of being limited to tiles. The jews at EA really outdid themselves with that one.

 

[Robotron]

Unless that Disney Marvel Square Enix crossover game is actually good, then I think I would be actually okay if Disney dropped out of the gaming business once again.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Lisa the Painful deserves way more love than it gets, and it kind of annoys me that Undertale is more successful despite being inferior.

 

[Beardfish]

2017 was easily among the best years of all time for videogames, maybe it could even make a run at being the best year of all time in the sheer amount of great games released, but EA had to fuck it up for everyone and now a lot of people will look back at it as kind of a disappointment.

Not sure how unpopular that is, but I've seen a lot of doom and gloom look backs to 2017 as if the industry is fucking toast and that is sad.

 

[Sable]

Lisa the Painful deserves way more love than it gets, and it kind of annoys me that Undertale is more successful despite being inferior.

My unpopular opinion is that LISA the Pointless is at LEAST as good as Hopeful, even though it's a fangame.

 

[UnKillFill]

Final Fantasy 8 is a criminally underrated game. And 6 and 7 are both overrated.

 

[Ruin]

Final Fantasy 8 is a criminally underrated game. And 6 and 7 are both overrated.

Eight was a sold game thematically with most of the (fair) criticism coming from the junction magic system being gimmicky and criminally easy to exploit making the game trivially easy. You could farm and hoard powerful magic and steamroll bosses while barely leveling up at all.

 

[UnKillFill]

Eight was a sold game thematically with most of the (fair) criticism coming from the junction magic system being gimmicky and criminally easy to exploit making the game trivially easy. You could farm and hoard powerful magic and steamroll bosses while barely leveling up at all.

Never said it was perfect, just that it doesn't get the praise it deserves (especially compared to it's two predecessors)

 

[30KPS]

Despite backlash, Billy Hatcher was a nice fun game for the dumb kid me. It has flawed mechanics that makes the whole gimmick of egg-based combat tedious, but honestly it's a good title. Not best or worst just... lukewarm to okay.

 

[vertexwindi]

My unpopular opinion is that LISA the Pointless is at LEAST as good as Hopeful, even though it's a fangame.

I would've loved it if it wasn't so fucking hard.

 

[Robotron]

Not sure how unpopular that is, but I've seen a lot of doom and gloom look backs to 2017 as if the industry is fucking toast and that is sad.

I can sorta see why certain people would say that, mostly due to certain companies sacrificing game quality in exchange for trying to m ilk the consumer for more money. I'd say if they weren't careful, they could cause a large blowback.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

The first Kingdom Hearts is the best one. The sequels aren't bad or anything, they just don't compare. The original game easily had the best story while everything after turned into a gigantic incoherent clusterfuck.

Even in terms of gameplay I find it the best. People claim KH2 has the best combat, and it's certainly very flashy but it doesn't have the utility of the first game, like the dodge roll and the various action abilities you can unlock. Plus the magic in KH1 was awesome; spells had a lot of punch and you could easily wipe out groups of enemies while 2's magic was borderline useless. And the worlds in 1 relied on navigation and even light platforming, which helped them stand out. 2's worlds were certainly bigger but navigating them wasn't nearly as interesting.

Also the gummi ship segments weren't that bad, and I legit think KH2's gummi ship aren't as good.

 

[Overcast]

The first Kingdom Hearts is the best one. The sequels aren't bad or anything, they just don't compare. The original game easily had the best story while everything after turned into a gigantic incoherent clusterfuck.

Even in terms of gameplay I find it the best. People claim KH2 has the best combat, and it's certainly very flashy but it doesn't have the utility of the first game, like the dodge roll and the various action abilities you can unlock. Plus the magic in KH1 was awesome; spells had a lot of punch and you could easily wipe out groups of enemies while 2's magic was borderline useless. And the worlds in 1 relied on navigation and even light platforming, which helped them stand out. 2's worlds were certainly bigger but navigating them wasn't nearly as interesting.

Also the gummi ship segments weren't that bad, and I legit think KH2's gummi ship aren't as good.

There was something magical about the first game that later games just didn't seem to recapture. Maybe it's just nostalgia talking though.

I probably wouldn't have minded if KH1 ended where it did.

 

[Bicycle Disaster]

I find the Persona series too edgy and pretentious.

 

[TerminalTryHard]

The first Kingdom Hearts is the best one. The sequels aren't bad or anything, they just don't compare. The original game easily had the best story while everything after turned into a gigantic incoherent clusterfuck.

Even in terms of gameplay I find it the best. People claim KH2 has the best combat, and it's certainly very flashy but it doesn't have the utility of the first game, like the dodge roll and the various action abilities you can unlock. Plus the magic in KH1 was awesome; spells had a lot of punch and you could easily wipe out groups of enemies while 2's magic was borderline useless. And the worlds in 1 relied on navigation and even light platforming, which helped them stand out. 2's worlds were certainly bigger but navigating them wasn't nearly as interesting.

Also the gummi ship segments weren't that bad, and I legit think KH2's gummi ship aren't as good.

I agree the first one is best story wise, but I think BBS has the best game play.

I think the boardgame minigame in BBS gets too much hate and is actually pretty fun.

 

[Aib Ld]

Mighty No. 9 was a pretty good game. The only things bad about it was a bullshit level design near the end of the ice level where you have to dash through a pit to get through the other side and you would slam to enemies and back to the instant-death pit because said enemies were previously off-screen, the grating lag throughout the mine stage (which is my favorite stage out of all the other stages but the lag is just sad), and the sub-par graphics. The DLC character, RAY, is miles better than the main character Beck, because she shows her playstyle is how the game is supposed to be played, despite her declining health fucking the player up in time to time.

Both of the Mighty Gunvolt -especially Burst- games blow MN9 out of the waters, but I would like MN9 to get a sequel someday instead of crossover games, since a lot of sequels in various video games are miles better than the first due to the people working behind them are just starting out with the game mechanics themselves too. That, and the character designs on everyone are too good to waste.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

N64-wanna be platformers are absolutely horrible. How can anyone look at Yooka Laylee's empty levels and go "Yeah, I'm 25 and would love to pick up random objects to maximize a counter and then stomp on a boss 3-4 times".

Ironically I liked Mario Odyssey and the Crash remake, but they just felt more tightly packed. Mario still had some of those maps of just, I can tell what it'd look like in the program as they mapped it. Barebone.

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

A lot of sequels in various video games are miles better than the first due to the people working behind them are just starting out with the game mechanics themselves too.

This may be one of the reasons I like Persona 4 and Persona 5 much more than Persona 3. In P3, you just had Social Links to strengthen the Personas you fused and an Arcana-specific Persona if you maxed them out. In P4, you had that, plus if you Social Linked with characters in your party, their Persona evolved (for lack of a better word) to something stronger with the weaknesses of its first form gone when you maxed their S.Link out. In P5, every Confidant gave you some kind of benefit, party member or not, plus the basic good stuff from P3 and 4 and the Persona evolution feature from P4.
tl;dr: S.Links in the later Persona games have slowly been polished up from clunky to helpful to absolutely awesome. Come at me, @Hui.

 

[Lackadaisy]

I find the Persona series too edgy and pretentious.

I was the same way, but somewhere it all became charming instead of irritating.

 

[Medici]

Destiny 1 is a good game. I never understood why people bitch about the story so much, who the fuck cares about a story in an MMO? We all know 90% of people would've skipped through the dialogue anyway. I'm aware the game had it's own problems that made me quit and not pick up the second one, but damn. Also lol @ people that cried about grimoire cards. You were not gonna read a bunch of fucking cards with a paragraph of random irrelevant lore if they were accessible in the game and you know it.