Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Digital games could depend on where your 'licence' to play is held. If its locked to your profile and on your console, as long as you have all your digital games downloaded and updated, then it shouldn't matter. You will of course lose your PS+ games as that requires an online check to see if your PS+ account is still active I don't know about the licence for games you purchased. The license id different as a PS+ licence is conditional. I know a digital licence is locked to your account unlike a licence on a disc which is general. We may have a clearer idea of what will happen with digital games in the future when the PS3 gets turned off. Its been discontinued for over 2yrs now (EU) and over a year in Japan with March 2019 seeing the end of PS+ support too. Its the first generation were digital games became a thing so it will give us some indication as to their playability once the console is 'turned off' essentially. The PS3 doesn't have BC with PS4 either and when the X360 gets turned off, not all 'digital' games will be on BC either.

Its not as f you can trade them or they add 'value' to your console if you do sell. That for me is one reason why I won't buy digital for 'convenience'. Digital are all about the hear and now, the convenience and not for the long term. When you bought, you were never promised that these would remain playable in the same way physical games are. We all know that games like Destiny, the Division etc are limited to a time frame and that they are not playable indefinitely - whether you buy Physically or not. The more generations you go, the less likely that they will be supported too - generally you only get 1 generation of support if you get any. You didn't get BC with the NES, SNES, N64, Game Cube etc and Sony in particular seemed to be against BC - maybe after getting burned on the OG PS3 so it will be interesting to see what happens. I can see a lot of unhappy people who may rethink their decision on buy digitally!

@Kidfried great response. I cant relate to Kratos at all and your comment puts that into context and will actually help me the next time I play GoW.

@RenanKJ
"3. Crash Team Racing is, well... meh."
Agreed

"1. Assassin's Creed Unity is a great game,"
Hahahahahahahaha. Good one. Unity was one of the worst gaming experiences I have ever had. I kept glitching through walls. I gave up about an hour in as it played so badly and unoptimised. I think the patches helped for anyone who came to the game late.

@Kidfried I don't like Joel either from the Last of Us - at least not as the main character I was playing as and couldn't really identify with his actions or words. I don't necessarily think its a bad thing to have anti-heroes or characteristics we can't identify with as well but I do think that in some cases, that can affect the way we feel about a game.

For me, it made the game-play and structure of LoU much more obvious - same with God of War too actually. I won't talk about GoW's structure hear as its still too soon but with LoU, it made me very away of its 'game-play' loop, the individual sections of each part - whether it was a 'quiet' bit, a kill everything bit before door opens or a 'horde-mode' bit for example. I knew very early on the way the game was going to end despite the early stages trying to push you to think one thing. It became so predictable that you basically knew what would happen to any 'new' Ally you met. It almost became 'by the numbers' - Emotional bit, followed by shooting bit, followed by water/pallet bit, followed by meet someone bit, followed by horde mode bit followed by travel bit etc. Its not that the game was fundamentally bad, it was well polished but because I wasn't so invested in Joel, its limitations - mostly hardware in fairness, became more apparent to me. Other games too had similar 'blocks', maybe not so polished or visually spectacular at that time but because I was more invested in the characters, these 'blocks' didn't seem so obvious. They didn't become another 'Pallet' section or another horde style section even though they probably did have repeating sections like that. Its not exclusive to LoU either as a LOT of linear games like that do have blocks of different game-play that are sequenced together to form a mission/game. Mission 1 may well be basic training starting off with a intro block, some basic movement block until you get a weapon then some 'simple' combat before you face a 'tough' enemy (or enemies) and put what you have learned into one. From then its a case of putting these 'blocks in sequence that fit with the story.

Titanfall 2 is a 'great' example where every mission is virtually the same in terms of construction, start off with your titan. get separated and do some platforming, then some combat, some more platforming, some more combat, some more platforming to get back to your titan and then face off against a titan in a boss fight. The settings may change in each but the basic mission structure doesn't. You may get an extra platforming or combat stage in between but principally, that's virtually every mission and because you end each in your titan by beating a boss, you start each 'next' mission in your titan before getting separated so you then do the Platforming/combat before reuniting to fight the next boss. Again, not to say its fundamentally 'bad' but you can see the 'structure' of the game. The fewer blocks, the more obvious. Some games can through a 'curve-ball' too like CoD4's, they look like ants (in the AC130 mission) or All Ghillied Up which - things that are completely different and not been done before or repeated in that specific game.

For me, the more enjoyable a game is, the more invested in a story I am, the more varied the blocks are, the less obvious the game. If you only have one Horde mode type section, its not so bad but by the third or 4th time it becomes more apparent too. This applies mainly to Linear games as Open world games, although missions may be similar in sequenced blocks, the fact that you have spent time doing various other things in between can lessen these too. If you spent hours and hours since the last 'kill everything to open a door to progress' and most of that was free roaming anywhere and everywhere, its not so bad to come across another block like that later on.

Unpopular gaming opinion: Sonic & All Stars Transformed is easily a better game than MK8 (because it is).

Better characters, better tracks, waaaaaayyy better music, better mechanics.

@KALofKRYPTON I thought so as well.

@KALofKRYPTON hell yeah

@RogerRoger @Tasuki @FullbringIchigo
It's kind of a shame about Team Sonic Racing, but I suppose a straight up sequel would've been just as bad a sell as MK8 Deluxe.

TSR is looking a blast to play though. And I'm sure there's bound to be DLC down the road... (see what I did there?).

@KALofKRYPTON i'm looking forward to team sonic racing but i do wonder if the sonic series has enough characters to a have a well balanced and robust roster

@FullbringIchigo Probably not. But since the teams are all set up as having 3 'types' - I'm guessing that the actual stat variance across the board will be pretty minimal from the outset.

I'm sure there are enough characters to fill it out. As I say, I fully expect some SEGA character dlc to show up. Perhaps teams of different franchises or types? An Arcade racer team; Hang On/Manx TT bike, Sega Rally Celica, and the Daytona Hornet sort of thing...

@KratosMD i suppose so but i can't think of anyone else from Sonic 06 the could use

@KALofKRYPTON oh i'm sure we will get DLC and IF it is characters from other games i would LOVE a Skies of Arcadia team

@KratosMD Don't forget, Infinite!!

Metal Sonic and Eggman/Robonik hasn't shown up yet either.

@KALofKRYPTON nor Chaos either

Speaking of unpopular Sonic opinions, I really want Blaze to return as a playable character in a main title. Blaze in my opinion was the best of the characters introduced in the 2000's, being able to keep up with Sonic gameplay wise, and having fire powers. She fits in the series well enough and it would be cool if she was playable again.

Speaking of unpopular 'Sonic' opinions - I thought Shadow the Hedgehog game was OK - better than the Sonic the Hedgehog 3D game on PS3/XB360 anyway...

@BAMozzy i loved Shadow the Hedgehog when i first played it and still enjoy it now

and i assume your talking about Sonic 06?

@FullbringIchigo That's the one... That Sonic game was 'disappointing' to keep it polite....

@RogerRoger Good call on the teams.

I get where you're coming from. All Stars really was the best way in to the kart racing genre though. It was more than just a 'Sonic MK clone'. The additional franchises kept the roster, tracks and music fresh for both games, and around release of All Stars, the franchise and Sonic as a character was in a pretty sorry state. I think within a year or two, All Stars released, then Generations and Colours - all well received and the best outings for Sonic in quite a long while.

There wasn't much between All Stars and Transformed. Maybe Sonic 4? Episode 1 was awful, 2 less so. And another Mario sports game. All the while waiting for the next 3D platformer to be inevitably on par with or worse than Generations or Colours.
I really love Transformed. It's easily the best kart racer out there. I really hate that Sony stuck it on the PSTV blacklist.

Moving on to now - I guess at the start of and during development, franchise confidence was riding high. Despite the pretty awful Sonic Boom stuff, the recent mobile games were doing well and of course, Sonic Mania really couldn't have gone down better. Sonic Forces released at the worst possible time though. What I've seen of it actually doesn't look all that bad, but the Mario hype really overshadowed it and drew very unfavourable comparisons. By then though, I'm sure the die was cast to take TSR in the direction it is. I suspect that's why it has such a low launch price.

I do hope that they release TSR with a standard race mode though. I like the team idea, I really do - but as with Onrush, it's like someone decided that a decent online game mode is the whole crux of the game.

@RogerRoger @KALofKRYPTON Sonic Forces was actually a pretty good game with only one real flaw, it was too short, game play wise it's probably the best version of the modern style we have had in years but i think it may have been rushed out early and the story does suffer for it because it wraps some things up WAY too quick

but definitely a good step in the right direction and if they expand upon it for the next one we could have a really good Sonic game on our hands

also the Sonic Boom series was awesome

@FullbringIchigo Bizarre to rush it to release right next to a Mario game. I think they wanted to ride the Sonic mania wave of goodwill.

@KALofKRYPTON probably

anyway Unpopular Opinion time

The Lego games series isn't actually that good, yeah they hit just the right spot with the Star Wars ones but since then they have over saturated the market with what accounts to basically every release being the same game with a new skin