Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Jimmer-jammer Ghostwire certainly has quite a different aesthetic though, I'm not too sure of it yet but always willing to give stuff from Mikami a try.

While I have a lot of nostalgia for Sonic 2 & Sonic & Knuckles since I used to play them practically every weekend at my cousins' house, Sonic is just a series I've since never been able to get into. I eventually beat S2 in one of those compilations for PS2 (largely thanks to the ability to save), but never beat any of the other classic entries, and the other times I've tried to get into the series I just can't get into the games (Sonic Heroes & Secret Rings). I do have nostalgia for Sonic Adventure 2: Battle too, though that was my friend's game & he did most of the legwork.

While thinking about it, it's probably not as prevalent as I thought (or as it once was), but I have no attraction to the big budget, gritty, post apocalyptic titles like the Last of Us, Days Gone, & the Division that seem to be everywhere.

@RR529 Yeah, I’m not a fan of post-apocalyptic settings either as they seemed to be everywhere in movies, TV and games for a while. The Last of Us would have been a better experience for me with a more interesting setting.

@RR529 @nessisonett I actually like a good post-apocalyptic settings in cinema, games, and literature, but I’ve never been a big fan of zombies (or walkers, or freakers, or infected, or biters, or...). In fact, until recently I’ve mostly avoided zombie games except for The Last of Us and The Walking Dead series, even though they were shoehorned into almost every game there for a while. But now I’ve finally caught the zombie bug — I’m going to continue my playthrough of the Resi Evil franchise and plan to eventually play Days Gone.

007 Bloodstone is the best Bond game ever made, by an absolute mile.

I said what I said.

@Arugula I'll have to google Nightfire. Which one was the Mega Drive one with Timothy Dalton on the cover? Side scroller, you could fight Jaws and Oddjob. Had a lot of fun with that when I was little.

007 Racing - Playstation 1

@BowTiesAreCool Nightfire is brilliant. I actually haven’t played Blood Stone as I have a bit of an odd PS3 library.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Chrono Trigger had Frog though… 🐸🗡

I bought PS3 and PS4 machines just only to play kids games.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy It was fine in the 16-bit era, but it definitely doesn't hold up as one of the greatest games of all time. And, frankly, isn't as good as Final Fantasy VI. Of course, that won't stop 90's kids online from dragging you over the coals for saying that.

For the record, I'm not a fan of Toriyama's art, either. It's ugly. I like Dragon Quest games IN SPITE of his contributions, frankly.

@Ralizah I’m also not into Toriyama’s art at all. So yeah, Dragon Quest is very much a gameplay and story deal for me as Sugiyama’s a bag of wet flatulence too 😂

Don't kid about such things @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy! If I was sitting on a chair I'd have fallen off it.

@Ralizah Tbh I oscillate between preferring Final Fantasy VI or Chrono Trigger. FF6 has a far better story and characters, but Chrono Trigger is less demanding. Toriyama's character designs are so similar across everything he does, but I do love the monsters in Dragon Quest.

@nessisonett It's weird, because the gameplay isn't typically anything special, either. And, while I've not played a ton of these games, the stories have been pretty traditional JRPG fare so far.

Sugiyama was no Uematsu, but he did compose some absolutely iconic tracks for the series. But, IMO, he got lazier as time went on. DQXI had hardly any original music in it.

At least now we probably won't have to deal with whoever the new person is not wanting their symphonic compositions to be used in future games.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Nah, I've never fully understood the love for CT. It's... fine. Probably another game where I came to it too late, as I didn't play it until the NDS re-release.

FFVI might be a little slow in places, but it's absolutely a classic, and it has one hell of a mid-game twist. Shockingly dark compared to previous games as well.

In that case, I also came to it late, although not quite as much. I played through the GBA re-release. Which is still, IMO, the definitive version of the game, although maybe the pixel remaster version will become that soon.

You're really not taking to these classic SE JRPGs, eh?

Hello Kitty Mission Rescue is my best choice for OG XBOX collection.

This is the reason i will get OG XBOX, for Hello Kitty.

@Anti-Matter well that’s as good a reason as anything else I’ve heard to justify buying any Xbox tbh... enjoy!

@FullbringIchigo ''I think the 3D Sonic games are more fun that the 2D one, i love the 2D ones but i enjoy the 3D ones more ''

FACTS !!! i feel the same way about that too ! 3D sonic games are way more fun & engaging . granted i'm a 2000's kid so i was introduced to sonic with the 3D games , but still . i have the 2D games , & they just don't hit the same . that goes for mostly ANY 2D game to be honest ; mario as well .

My unpopular opinion though - Multiplayer and CO-OP is better than single player . More re-playability & more of a challenge , with experiences that are never the same . and more longevity to keep coming back and playing the game .

Ok, here's my hot and controversial take.

People need to stop whining about 2D platformers being $60 when most of those same people are willing to play $60, hell, $70 on a yearly sports game.

What makes Fifa 22 worth more than Metroid Dread?

I did not like Deathloop. Rave reviews everywhere, not for me and I loved the Dishonored games. I wanted to like it, but it just was so so for me. I never felt pulled into the story. It might be do to the masks everyone was wearing. It also could have been that I only played 15ish hours worth. It wasn't strong enough to hold me though.

@Elodin I didn’t care for Dishonored when I played it for a few hours on PS3. I never went back. I heard some other people criticize Deathloop because of its structure and difficulty getting invested into it. They say it eventually gets good, but 15 hours should be plenty of time to bring you in. Apparently there is no arguing the slick gameplay, it’s more the weird and confusing structure which just gets in the way of the fun gameplay. I have no plans to play it, even before your feedback, but your thoughts reinforce that.