Unpopular Gaming Opinions

[Elite Lord Sigma]

The problem with most of my gaming opinions are that I spend most of my time with people like everyone here and not people who are only superficially interested in the medium. As such, my opinions really can't be classified as unpopular, since the ones I have (e.g. Microsoft is focusing too much on Kinect and not enough on a compelling exclusive game library) are generally agreed upon. If I had to choose one, it would be that PC gaming is overrated.

Other reasons I have issues with some of my opinions are that I just haven't played a lot of the games being brought up in this thread. I never really owned a Sony console at any point in my life thus far, so I haven't played the main series Final Fantasy games from VI to XII for any significant amount of time. I've never played Xenogears, I've never played Shadow of the Colossus, and so on and so forth with pretty much every game to come out for a PlayStation console and nowhere else. I'm also not much of a PC gamer, so I haven't played classics like Planescape: Torment, either.

[Citizen Bleys]

Suikoden II is badly overrated

Every other Suikoden game is underrated

Star Trek Online is acutally kind of fun.

There has never been a good Star Wars game

Privateer II: The Darkening is better than any FPS ever made.

For that matter, "space sims are fun" seems to be a pretty unpopular gaming opinion full stop.

[Skyblade]

Please justify this. Specifically, comparing it to the library of the GBA (all Gameboy and GBA games) and the DS (all GBA and DS games).

Final Fantasy I-IX on one machine.

Oh, and it's my opinion.

Of course it is. I didn't discount the opinion, I merely asked for your reasoning.

And, in my mind, the FF library is not the best set of games on a console. The series is hit or miss, and there are definitely some better titles out there.

Heck, the DS has Chrono Trigger.

[The Man]

The Super Famicom still has a better library of games than any other console in the history of gaming. (Granted, we didn't get a lot of them here, but that's another story...)

A Link to the Past is the best Zelda game.

Yoshi's Island is the best 2D Mario game.

The Marathon series is not only probably better than Halo but set a standard of depth with its story and worldbuilding that few games since have managed to match.

FFVI and FFVII are both good games. (VI is still better, though).

A lot of games were more charming when they had troutty translations and voice acting. (Symphony of the Night is a great example of this).

[Old Manus]

Watch Dogs just looks like Deus Ex gone horribly wrong
I think people only pretend to like Tetris
Shadow of the Colossus tried so hard to be 'arty' that the gameplay suffered as a result
Metal Gear Solid 4 killed the series stone dead
Gran Turismo games are boring as hell

[Quindiana Jones]

People who think an exclusive library is a good thing are wankers.

[Slothy]

Chess competitions are dumb unless you're actually really good at which point you definitely don't have a life because to get good at that game you have to put in a lot of time investment for the strategy.

You can replace Starcraft competitions and chess competitions (as well as the words game and strategy with appropriate substitutes) with just about anything from Sports to making movies to accounting or even moderating an FF forum and it would be no less apt as a demonstration of Shiny's wrongitude.

I don't think any thread has left me wanting to use my CK powers irresponsibly more than this one.

Is that why my post is missing or did I hallucinate writing it the first time???

Either this is a poor attempt at a joke or you're hallucinating now.

[Jiro]

Chess competitions are dumb unless you're actually really good at which point you definitely don't have a life because to get good at that game you have to put in a lot of time investment for the strategy.

Not true. I'm great at Lightning Chess and that's purely intuitive for me. Conversely, I'm too impatient for normal chess usually.

[Aulayna]

The Civ series is trout.

/thread

edit: To really seal the deal:

There's still rampant innovation within the Gaming Industry as a whole.

[Old Manus]

The Civ series is trout.

/thread

[Fynn]

The Sims 3 offers a wonderful gaming experience And I love the Simstore.

[Madame Adequate]

The Civ series is trout.

Explain.

[Formalhaut]

The Sims 3 offers a wonderful gaming experience And I love the Simstore.

Oh yes I LOVE the Sims 3! Ah, those are good times just tending to my little family. I can forget the sim store though, those items, for what their worth, are quite expensive.

[Shoeberto]

Japan is still more progressive in game design than Western developers are.

Gaming is all about evoking emotion made possible by interacting with the environment. A lot of AAA titles fail to be games because they restrict or guide the interaction part too much.

I'm curious why you think Japan is more progressive than the west in the modern era since it runs counter to what I see demonstrated.

Your second point takes a really narrow view of what gaming should be. It's like saying that computer software is all about being able to type and format text in interesting ways. By your definition, no one should ever enjoy a game of Solitaire or Peggle. It might not be what you prefer, but that doesn't mean that it misses the point of being a video game.

• Digital Distribution is unfeasible as an exclusively sustainable business model.

Explain.

I guess it's time for my opinion, which really is actually quite popular among developers: The mobile market is the future of gaming.

[NeoCracker]

Watch Dogs just looks like Deus Ex gone horribly wrong
I think people only pretend to like Tetris
Shadow of the Colossus tried so hard to be 'arty' that the gameplay suffered as a result
Metal Gear Solid 4 killed the series stone dead
Gran Turismo games are boring as hell

Asside from Watch Dogs, pretty much this.

Especially the Tetris thing. I feel like I'm a smurfing monkey fitting different shaped blocks into the holes.