Unpopular Opinions (Video Game Edition)

March 2021 UPDATE: Valheim.

There's no multiplayer game on the market right now that lands between casual and hardcore, non battle royale that I can enjoy with my recently turned gamer friends.

There was Killing Floor2 but we played that to death. The game is considered dead by the dev for 2021.
There's WoW but the time time commitment isn't appealing for someone in their thirties.

If you like top down shooters i recommend you Brawl stars.

Matches are short and the game is easy to learn.

The app is free and while one can pay real money to gain stuff it's not a "pay to win" because skill is always more relevant.

I guess my unpopular opinion is that Tales of Graces F was pretty fun for me.

That and that I play Tales games lol

The never should have made Zelda the incarnation of Hylia.

To add to that, I really don't see the point of her being Link's ultimate girlfriend my god. Besties? Sure. Nothing romantic though.

I generally dislike open world games. XD They are filled with way too many pointless side quests and I don't appreciate that the campaign is usually pathetically short but that if you do the sidequests, they are LONGER than the campaign. WTF? LOL. Gimmee Baten Kaitos or Xenogears any day over that! Super long campaigns and only a few sidequests!

Let's see... I actually REALLY liked Skward Sword--it's one of m favorites hides from critical eyes and I think Breath of the Wild was pretty dang overrated. Definitely not a game for me, haha.

Oh, I also love most of the games put out by Sonic Team, and I honestly kind of enjoyed Sonic Generations more than Mario Galaxy. Hot damn, I kinda loved the story book games a lot.

Skyward Sword gets no love fr everybody bags on it for being awful with the motion controls and the linearity, but I never had an issue with either

And Breath of the Wild makes it way too easy to kill the difficulty of the game and relies too heavily on Korok seeds to fill the play time. Those side quests give you nothing but junk and pocket change tbh the only quest worth doing is Tarrey Town and that's it lmao

Late to the party, but got here through the link in the music thread lol. I have a number:

• I'm team "Zelda Breath of the Wild was overrated". I didn't dislike it, certainly, but it's middling on my list of favorite zelda games overall, and towards the bottom if you just include 3D entries. I thought the exploration was really fun, but I absolutely hated everything about the combat. From the fragile weapons to the (initially) limited inventory space that I didn't realize you could expand for like 50 hours because the game encourages exploration

I prefer longer full dungeons to the several broken up shrines and small buzzlebox dungeons, etc. Again not a bad game or anything and I am looking forward to seeing what they do with the sequel but ugh.

• Conversely, this is somewhat nostalgia driven but Majora's Mask is still my favorite Zelda game.

• I didn't mind Pokemon Sword/Shield as much as a lot of peopled seemed to. The streamlined lighter story I felt was in-line with what I expect from pokemon (since their "plot' writing is rarely strong anyways), and as someone who plays Pokemon PvP I appreciated many of the QoL features added for training new pokemon easier at the like. Some things were definitely frustrating, like the removal of the battle replay recorder and butchering of the PvP match timer... but I digress. It's still the most played game on my Switch behind only Splatoon 2 because I started to get into the official tournaments right before COVID started. That was a lot of fun~

• I think these are both relatively unpopular opinions within the series, but Tales of Xillia and Tales of Hearts are some of my favorite entries because they have my favorite combat. Conversely, while I liked Graces' story, I very much did not like its combat which seems to be a fan-favorite.

• Disgaea series, 3 is still my favorite. Most folks I talk to that enjoy the series seem to put 3 towards the bottom lol. Love the school setting, hero flavoring, and main character cast. 1 is close behind, then 4, 2, and 5.

• Despite how ridiculous the story has become, I'm still a pretty strong kingdom hearts fan. I know a lot of people hopped off the train at or around 2, but I'm still going strong lol. Birth By Sleep is my favorite entry, with 2 following close behind probably. Unlike a lot of folks, I quite enjoyed Chain of Memories' card battle system.

• Of the 3 modern Persona games, 4 is my least favorite. Similarly to the mario ranking in the OP, that's not at all to say that I dislike it- quite the contrary, great game. But my ordering of preference is 3 > 5 > 4.

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oh one more! I've never tried Minecraft purely because I can't stand its aesthetic (and don't really feel like trying to track down a bunch of mods to "fix it"). People always think it should be my favorite game since I work in the architecture design field but nahhh. I play Dragon Quest Builders instead

Oh I forgot the most unpopular opinion I have.

All Zelda games are overrated. They get so much praise that it makes me not want to play them. Yes yes I know there's some that people don't like, but I don't like any of them.

I am mostly uninterested in Pokemon as a franchise. The only game that I liked was from a spinoff called Rumble. But honestly, if the game switched Pokemon with generic zoo animals, I still would have played it. I like the Detective Pikachu film but then again, that’s a movie based off a spinoff.

I also wish people wouldn’t take my disinterest in the franchise as a personal attack. It is OK for people to not like Pokemon.

was that the one where one used pokemon toys and was action based?....i played a demo of it and it seemed promising.

that would be fun to watch....

Rumble is the one with the toys.

I have played Pokemon Blue but found it really repetitive and sort if broken from a game design perspective. I do like the retro gameboy graphics but I did not like the game play. I honestly enjoy reading up on the history and how broken the game is more so than actually playing the game.

I do know some about Pokemon due to being into the hype as a child. Most of my nostalgia for the franchise comes more from the show. However as an adult, it’s not really something I geek out over. I know there are a lot of people my age who go crazy over it. I remember when the app game came out and I just had zero interest in it.

• I, honestly, not a big fan of Fantasy based games. I enjoy more modern-city type or futuristic type settings.
• I don't like First Person game. Somehow, I feel so limited.

I recently bought 3D All Stars and found myself going back to Sunshine and Galaxy more. 64 just kept making me dizzy and the other 2 play better.
I really liked the setting in Sunshine. Sure, every level is the beach, but it's a different variation and each area feels lived in. There's citizens you can talk to and they have jobs and families and there's cool memorable set pieces. It's better than ice level, desert level, lava level, empty grassland with nameless goombas to kill, etc... If only the game had the same mission structure of the other 3D titles, it would've been perfect.

I liked Super Paper Mario. I thought the story was good and was fun to play through. I've never played the others, but I don't like RPGs. I don't like having to flip through menus of menus and having to waste time figuring out what to equip my party with and oops...you missed the hidden item in an area that you can't return to which would've made the final boss easier. The only exception is Chrono Trigger.

@HGohwell I never understood why people complain about video games having an easy mode. I understand if it's forced on the player, but if the option is there, I get what's the problem.

@rajillustration I always hated how difficult retro games are. People act like they're better for growing up with them, but the reason they're hard is to either steal your quarters or lengthen play time without running out of space.

The space stage in Spore is the best part of the game.

Luigi's mansion 2 sucks, it suuuucks
No not because of the ghosts, the gameplay is just objectively inferior to the first and third entry
also that ice boss is a bitch to beat

I haven't been in tapas in a while but I've got some hot takes:

1. I genuinely can't stand Skyrim

2. Square's writing tends to be a bit...eh. Even back then though I suspect that this is at least partly due to localization. And I'm not sure why but the FF sequels tend to have worse writing.

3. Dark souls 3 has the worst invasion system in the entire series including Bloodborne.

4. Sunless Sea is a great game but the rougelike elements are genuinely not that great because it really only leads to repeating content you've already done (especially when the areas don't even shuffle much if at all)

5. Halo 4s PvP was hilarious. Good? Probably not compared to other halo games but it had some of the funniest balancing decisions. Like how playing 2 on 2 in Ragnarok devolves into "who gets the mech first"

(bonus) 6. Breath of the wild's durability system is a problem but it also has major balancing issues. The armor upgrade system makes the entire game a joke if you use it normally and flurry rush activates when the enemy's attack is not even remotely close to you. And it kinda devolves into turning enemies into damage sponges especially for late game