Unpopular Gaming Opinions

richymcdermott

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Most disgusting thing and I hope its really proper "unpopular" opinion. One of the reasons why I said "hardcore Nintendo fanbase are the smugiest gamers on earth".

I do have respect to Nintendo for who they were and how they built up gaming. I even now have huge respect for pulling off such a miracle out of their arses with 3DS.
Then again I dont like Nintendo games right now and I find them way over rated and still coasting on its Legacy. Currently Nintendo is shiet in Console Gaming, but very strong in Handheld world.
Just because I dont drool over anything that Nintendo decided to throw at fans, does not mean I dont have credibility to talk about Videogames.

ShadowHearth

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Play as female Shepard. Jennifer hale is fantastic.

I heard that she did a great job on it. I got all ME games on PC, but I played ME1 and ME2 on 360. Sadly my 360 decided to break while sitting in a box. I dont want to start ME3 freshly as all the things I did before wont count in. I really cannot be arsed playing all ME games right now too.

jacksie66

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Retr0gamer

jacksie66 wrote: »

I actually liked/enjoyed Driver 3...




/runs...

Monster...

CiDeRmAn

That's kinda unforgivable, that game was broken in every way.
Gamestop lost their shirt on that one, bought in thousands of units and most of them were returned, total muck.
Parallel Lines was pretty underrated, though the cops were too good in that one.

Fnz

Deleted User wrote: »

Defiance is the only game with an online aspect that I have ever really enjoyed. It's a MMO game that knows that some people just want to play by themselves. The way you can join up with others or gatecrash a battle great and as I type I'm reinstalling it so as to play through all of season 1 again.

Hmm, I might try Defiance. I did like the casual grouping in Guild Wars 2's open world. You might want to give Firefall a look - another FPS/TPS game where you can casually switch between grouping up/going solo. I had fun in it for several months before quitting.

Canis Lupus wrote: »

For me ME1 was best. It felt like an actual RPG with a sci fi setting. 2&3 were just 3rd person shooters.

"Just"!?

The first game would only be improved if it had the combat of the sequel. I'm trying to remember what RPG elements from the first game were sorely lacking in the sequel....

'terrible... inventory'?

Grimebox

The combat in Mass Effect 2 was pure ****e

Dave_The_Sheep

Grimebox wrote: »

The combat in Mass Effect 2 was pure ****e

The combat in Mass Effect 1 was worse.

CiDeRmAn

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

The combat in Mass Effect 1 was worse.

People forget ME was a reskin of Knights of the Old Republic, from the PC and Xbox.
Yes, they used different game engines but the combat, game progression and design are all common between both.
In fact, it was a criticism at the time, that it was really a KoToR game but without the license, and the story was weaker as a result.
Of course from our perspective the story is solid, and this is probably down by the success of ME2 and it's move to integrate a better real time combat system into proceedings.

degrassinoel

must've been the only criticism considering how highly the game scored with everyone. I agree though, the combat was bad, i much preferred 2 and 3's combat, in fact the combat in 3 is some of the best and easiest to play, can be challenging too in co-op with the various difficulty settings.

CiDeRmAn

I keep meaning to get to the third, just so much to play these days.
I will get to it, right after Skyrim, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2, and another couple of dozen games in the wings, awaiting their turn!

Mickeroo

I thought the combat was grand but to be honest I generally just wanted to get through it as quick as possible so I could progress the story.

Retr0gamer

The Mako sections in 1 were utterly abhorrent.

C14N

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

People forget ME was a reskin of Knights of the Old Republic, from the PC and Xbox.
Yes, they used different game engines but the combat, game progression and design are all common between both.
In fact, it was a criticism at the time, that it was really a KoToR game but without the license, and the story was weaker as a result.
Of course from our perspective the story is solid, and this is probably down by the success of ME2 and it's move to integrate a better real time combat system into proceedings.

I never actually played KOTOR (still sitting in the Steam pile) so the system was completely new to me at the time. I liked it better in ME1 though when the guns had unlimited ammo but longer cooldown times. I did a lot better in tough situations with that system for some reason.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The Mako sections in 1 were utterly abhorrent.

Is that supposed to be unpopular? I've never met a person besides me who didn't loathe the Mako.

Retr0gamer

The first two Crash Bandicoot games were mediocre platformers. (Can't say the same about the 3rd since it was pretty good)

Fnz

C14N wrote: »

I've never met a person besides me who didn't loathe the Mako.

No, there is another who is also misguided. [NSFW Link]

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i liked the mako

shruikan2553

I just cant get into nintendo games like Mario, zelda or metroid. The only one from them I can play is pokemon but I get easily distracted into playing another game.

C14N

shruikan2553 wrote: »

I just cant get into nintendo games like Mario, zelda or metroid. The only one from them I can play is pokemon but I get easily distracted into playing another game.

In your defence on this one, Metroid can be hard to get into. In the cases of the Prime games at least you get very little instruction on what to do and there is almost no dialogue along the way to give you any exposition or story.

That said I still think they're very well-made games.

CiDeRmAn

C14N wrote: »

In your defence on this one, Metroid can be hard to get into. In the cases of the Prime games at least you get very little instruction on what to do and there is almost no dialogue along the way to give you any exposition or story.

That said I still think they're very well-made games.

?
Er, no...
Metroid Prime had masses of exposition, most of it in the scannable panels in nearly every room, giving the background to the planet and what happened there.
There's no dialogue because, well, she's alone!
And the missions give you a big fat "?" on the map and ask you to get there... seems like enough for me!

MadYaker

jacksie66 wrote: »

I actually liked/enjoyed Driver 3...




/runs...

The driving and vehicle physics were excellent but everything else was absolutely terrible. I still loved it though!

brianregan09

I thought Skyrim was crap ....and i love games like that

sarumite

brianregan09 wrote: »

I thought Skyrim was crap ....and i love games like that

I wouldn't say crap, but considering the amount of hours I piled into Oblivion, Skyrim just hasn't grabbed me all that much.

sweetie

Darksiders is one of the best new IPs of recent years

gaynorvader

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i liked the mako

Me too!

I was annoyed that it was gone from

the sequels. We should form a club.

gimmick

sweetie wrote: »

Darksiders is one of the best new IPs of recent years

The Diamat boss is infuriatingly difficult so i had to walk away from this one.

Retr0gamer

Darksiders is the most unoriginal game series since all those 8 bit donkey kong clones.

gaynorvader

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Darksiders is the most unoriginal game series since all those 8 bit donkey kong clones.

I'd like to draw your attention to every Pokémon sequel ever.

Retr0gamer

Well pokemon was original on release.

Darksiders is 'remember the portal gun from portal? Lets steal that!'.

As I said before though I'm fine with it since they're good games at least.

C14N

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

?
Er, no...
Metroid Prime had masses of exposition, most of it in the scannable panels in nearly every room, giving the background to the planet and what happened there.
There's no dialogue because, well, she's alone!
And the missions give you a big fat "?" on the map and ask you to get there... seems like enough for me!

Sure, enough for you but it's still got much more of a mentality of "figure it out yourself" imo than other adventure type games like Zelda. I'm aware of why there's no dialogue, I was just making the point that it is a game where you as the player are isolated almost all the time (part 3 had a few friendly space marines in it too at certain points). It tells you where you need to go but often part of the challenge is figuring out how to get there.

I'm not saying this is all bad, I'm just saying I can see where someone would get stuck with it.