Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

@Th3solution I’d say it’s worth a go. The structure is interesting, it keeps you constantly discovering new things instead of trying the same section over and over. Immersive sims are one of my favourite genres and Deathloop is a much much better example of the genre than Dishonored and Bioshock.

@nessisonett I’ll keep an open mind, but it will be down the list for a while. It’s curious how polarizing the game is.

@Th3solution The weird rhetoric surrounding the game is really irritating. There are genuine things to criticise about the game but I’ve seen an awful lot of ‘real gamers don’t like the game’ and ‘the user score matters more than shill critics’ being said. Dunno whether that’s because it’s the last Bethesda game on PlayStation or because it reviewed better than Ratchet & Clank or whatever. A whole lot of the bad word on this site especially is rather embarrassing with how mean-spirited it is. Reminds me a lot of when TLOU2 came out.

@nessisonett Among fans around here I’ve seen mostly positive feedback, and the official PS review was 8/10. Perhaps all the GOTY talk has created some overreaction from those who merely found the game to be “good” or “okay” given it doesn’t sound quite up to measure for a normal year, yet is being lifted up as the best game of the weak year that was 2021.

Having not played the game, I’m not sure but people say it’s unnecessarily contorted and the menus are a mess to navigate. I understand there are puzzle-like tricks to find people at certain times of day and suss out how to assassinate targets, but If you can ever get past all that then the gameplay feels great, I’ve read. Ironically, I suppose it’s not unlike Retunal in that sense that if you just try to pop in and skim the surface that you’ll find a really tight, fun gameplay experience but will have a hard time fully enjoying it without pushing past the quirky obstacles in pacing, narrative, and world building.

@nessisonett Ghostwire Tokyo is another Bethesda game coming out exclusively on PlayStation (and PC) soon, just saying

Oooph, I hate Sudoku. 😂

But thanks, I’ll definitely take your experience into account too.

Big fan of Arkane (well I loved the Dishonored games anyway). I’m hoping to fit a replay of both relatively soonish to mop up the plats and then really looking forward to playing Prey too. For some reason Deathloop doesn’t appeal to me quite as much (I think it’s the whole loop thing tbh… but that aspect might surprise me) but I do plan on playing it eventually.

@Jimmer-jammer I agree Prey was fantastic, so many options to how to get things done and the enemies as everyday objects had me weary of everything lol.

My unpopular opinion is that all of the unpopular opinions that Prey is actually good are wrong and it's pretty naff. It's whatever. 6 all day.

Personally, I am NOT the biggest Arcane fan either. From the first trailer, Deathloop has never been on my 'watch' list and the more I've watched, read and heard about the game, the more its reinforced that this is perhaps not my type of game. In fact, I'd go so far to say that when it comes to 'Game Pass', I'm still not likely to try it.

I think part of the attraction for some and issue for others is that this is a game where you have to 'read' everything, pay attention to everything - even the 'idle' chatter between NPC's and notice the differences depending on what time of day you 'visit' each section. Each time, you are expected to 'learn' more and more that enable you to do 'more and more' things on each playthrough. When that clicks and things, inc the 'story' and 'reason' behind things become 'clearer', that's when it seems that people start 'raving' about it but that's not what I tend to want from a game.

Ghostwire: Tokyo doesn't appeal to me either but then everyone has different tastes and preferences. A review is an opinion only and I use them more to find out if the developers executed on their vision, paying more attention to any potential issues that are mentioned across several reviews rather than the score. There are a LOT of games that were rated very highly, winner of Awards etc that I can't stand (SoulsBorne, MGS etc) and many games that averaged '6/10' that I had a LOT more fun and enjoyed playing a LOT more so I don't put to much 'weight' on others opinion.

A combination of game-play trailers, reviews and 'research' help me to decide if I would like to play it or not. I couldn't care less if Mortal Kombat 12 (for example) is a GotY winner with 100% on Metacritic with over 100 reviews, I don't enjoy Fighting games so wouldn't buy it regardless...

I love games and I don't like to complaint to be honest but this is a good opportunity for me to throw a few in:

Metroid Dread: Awful UI, hate controls, boring enemies, (not big fan of the genre I guess)
Any superheroes and sports games: (except Batman, oh boy)
Nintendo's business model and 80% of their games along with the switch (cr*p hardware and I don't care about portability)

and that's it =) peace out

@HotGoomba Love this one and tbh I'm one of those that complains (only with me) about paying $60 for a 2D and that's why I just simply don't do it but to be fair I'm not paying $60 for a yearly sports games either so the balance is good I guess =D.

Girlie games like Barbie / Cooking Mama / Imagine series / My Universe games / Style Savvy are way much fun to play than AAA Western games.

I hate Westernized in games with idea of rated M games all the time. I mean why the heck you have to feed your brain with such gruesome stuffs like that ?
Did you hate to being nice people ?

I hate it when people, on Twitter or on this website or beyond, call Xbox players toxic but then turn around and brag about having better games (with is subjective) and also call them Xbots.

Not saying that Xbox fanboys don't do it, but I've seen it being more common with PlayStation fans.

Sorry, has to rub that off my chest after seeing a comment on this very website.

@Gunnerzaurus well ‘someone’ just blocked you! 🤣

Half a brain.

Not sure how unpopular this is but —
I like the PS4 UI better than the PS5 UI.
Having had time to become accustomed to the PS5 now (I’ve had it for almost a year now), I can safely say it’s not that it’s just the newness which is off-putting. I still don’t like the layout and the way you have to click around to get to things. The store is better and the trophy lists are now really well formatted, but the rest is pretty ‘meh’.

Also, now a year later … I still don’t like the chime sound for trophies. PS4 was better on that too. Sometimes I can barely hear the sound when I pop a trophy; the tone is too low and it’s too quiet. I earned a trophy playing Dirt 5 today that I didn’t even know I got because the sound was drown out by the raucous music in the game and I was concentrating on the road so didn’t see the icon in the corner when it popped.

Minor grievances, to be sure. I love my PS5 otherwise but who was the design committee that put these things together? It’s like it was changed for change’s sake.

@velio84 Upgrades and runes did make some difference in the endgame content (grinding in Niflheim, fighting the Valkyries). I imagine they were also more meaningful when just playing on higher difficulty settings - but I agree they didn't really matter that much if you just did the story on normal and I wasn't a huge fan of that part either.

New Barbie games on PS5 is something I really waiting for.
PS5 need some girlie games just like PS4 already have.

@Anti-Matter I appreciate what you’re saying but can we just stop weirdly genderising games? There’s no such thing as a girlie game. Boys can play with Barbie dolls if they really want to. Girls can play whatever games they want to as well. It’s a bit reductive.