Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

agreed, MGS2 is still probably the best game in the entire saga and V is the worse

i don't think being able to chose your character or having dialogue options in games always work, sometimes a more focused narrative with set characters make better games

@FullbringIchigo That 5200 joystick is the forerunner to the Jaguar monstrosity.

@FullbringIchigo I agree. I’m worried about the new AC because it just doesn’t make for historical accuracy. Syndicate notibly suffered from pushing that to the side, so I just don’t know that AC is a fit for it. Or at least any dialogue choices beyond what’s in Uncharted 4.

@RogerRoger I'd say it's unpopular with most gamers who have played the series, though. Snake Eater seems to be the favorite, and the change in protagonist and general weirdness of Sons of Liberty puts off a lot of people. For my money, though, it's Kojima at his mind-bending, post-modern best.

Also, Snake Eater ditched the radar, which sucked for me. I don't care how unrealistic they are: I really like being able to see enemy vision cones.

@themcnoisy The Duke is truly one of the worst controllers I've ever used. It's a tumor with buttons.

I fully endorse this comment.

Every time I come across a Wavebird at a thrift store, flea market or garage sale I buy it. Such an awesome controller.

@Jaz007 i just want to say i'm not against the system as it can work but for some games, like the afore mentioned Assassin's Creed Odyssey i don't think it will

i'm sure many outlets will give it great scores upon release but this kind of game play system pretty much goes against all the lore the previous games built

of course Ubisoft has said there will be a "canon" story in the novel but even that's still breaking the history of the series by having Kassandra as the "canon" character when there were no female Spartan warriors (mainly they were poets, musicians, teachers and athletes) and they at least used to TRY and be historically accurate within their story

it feels like they have abandoned the core of the series in order to make the series "more accessible" and i think in the end it's just going to come back and bite them in the ass

Need for speed High Stakes for PS1 looks much better than any other racing game ever made, newer games included. The colour palette, the environments, their atmosphere. Every other racing game I tried look shallow and boring in comparison and I find it very disappointing.

A few things (fortunately only a few) looked better in the original version of Crash Bandicoot 2 than in the remake. Expecially the 1st stage, Turtle woods, look really bad with the dumbed down colours in the remake.

OK. Here's an unpopular opinion:
I think a lot of people make WAY too big of a deal about a game's framerate.

Now, obviously, this is within reason. If a game has a wildly unstable framerate, or if the framerate is routinely hovering in the low 20's, then the game just isn't going to feel good to play. But 30fps is well enough for 95% of games out there, and the degree to which people fetishize higher framerates for everything is obnoxious. As are performance police who like to lecture people who say they don't notice framerate differences or especially care about them.

If the game feels good to play to me, that is ALL that matters.

And hell, here's a (sub) unpopular opinion: sometimes I PREFER lower framerates. Not most of the time, but some games just don't look as good with the excessively smooth motions and image transitions you get at higher framerates.

I feel the same way about resolution: again, within reason. If resolution dips too low, things get fuzzy and unpleasant.

But, IN GENERAL, I don't think resolution really matters that much. As long as the game is pleasant to look at, that's all I care about.

I've been thinking about this a bit since I've started playing Ys VIII on the Switch. I've played a bit of the PS4 version and so got to experience the game at a higher resolution and framerate. In an ideal world, it'd probably be better if the Switch version ran like that. But it doesn't, and I'm not enjoying it any less than I enjoyed my time with the PS4 version. I can load this version of the game up wherever, and that impacts my enjoyment of it quite a bit more than the lessened performance.

@Ralizah I pretty much agree. Stable framerate is a priority. A stable 30 fps is enough for the vast majority of games - 60 fps is nice sometimes.

Funny you mention Ys VIII. Of every Switch game I've played, this is the only one where the graphics have bothered me (bad looking textures, frame rate drops, etc.). The game is still perfectly playable though, and I'm quite enjoying it.

@Ralizah The power available on a given device is not unlimited. I prefer this power to be used to create a beautiful image rather than to render it at the higher resolution available, so I agree with you about the resolution. I mean, I think that 1080p is great and if I can get it without any compromise I'm extremely happy, but if compromises are necessary often I prefer to have a lower resolution but more pleasant content of the image.
More than 1080p is completely useless for me.
About the frame rate, after I tried Castle of illusion remake both on PC and on PS3 I just want the higher and more stable framerate possible. The higher the framerate is the better the game feels imho, always, and sometimes if framerate is too low it can completely ruin a game making it unplayable and making it seem a completely different game than it was intended to be (Castle of illusion on PS3 is the best example I can think of, it is so incredibly frustrating it really feels horrible on PS3 and it is, like, 50 times more difficult than it is on PC where it runs the way it was meant to, completely unfair and absolutely frustrating)

@LuckyLand To be honest, I'm not sure I can even tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. Mario Kart 8 on Wii U looks identical to MK8D on a docked Switch to me, despite that apparently massive boost in resolution.

@Buizel I've noticed opinions on the Ys VIII Switch port seem to be all over the place. Aside from the weird-looking tree shadows, I think the visuals are charming. Although it's undeniable that the environments look like they were ripped from a PS2 game. Then again, so does the gameplay and character movement (they turn and walk in a very robotic manner like in older 3D RPGs).

@FullbringIchigo Yeah, I think it will bite them too. Actually, I hope it does. Them having a female spartan just seems progressive and polictially correct to me too. It's obviously not accurate. The spartan physical requirements would have it made very hard for a woman's biology in regards to sheer physical strength too.(Having a strong female character doesn't have to be that literal too .) I miss the days when the character you played as was a real person in history. That was a lot cooler honestly.

@KratosMD 100% agree with you!!!

@KratosMD @BAMozzy first off you got completely the wrong idea, we know the story is fiction as are the characters what we was talking about is how the fictional story was presented because it always had at least one toe in history by presenting things how they were back then (not the ancient magic stuff) by showing us a fictional yet real depiction of history

like we both said having the canon character be female isn't a problem but even you just said fiction BASED on REAL events, that's what the series was, what we are saying is that ISN'T what it is now and we think that's not the way it should go because it's losing the "soul" of what made the series

Origins did it too by letting you battle the Egyptian Gods and we know they never existed either and it felt completely out of place even in a series with ancient magical artifacts

we think the series has gone too much fantasy

@KratosMD I thought Ezio was a real person without much actual history. So that’s my bad for sure. My search’s before resulted in different results than the ones a few years back (don’t know how that happened.) regardless he was a possible historical figure. Of course the events didn’t have assassins in them, but that’s understood. A protagonist being impossible historically is still different though. The person couldn’t have exited at the time. They could have a female assassin, those are real, but not as a spartan. Much of what’s in AC is accurate though.
Your point about the Earthquae proves my point though. It actually happened. The games story coincides with real events. They made up a reason, but the earthquake is still historical. That’s the opposite of a historical error. That’s impressive historical fiction that’s real to history. If the death waits didn’t happen, that would be an error. Now they’re taking that actual historical backdrop out of the game. If any type of person was disallowed from a group or treated poorly (or well) in that time period, I expect it to be reflected within reason. (I don’t expect or want to actually see people getting rapped for example, somethings are best implied.)

@KratosMD lets be honest i don't think we are ever going to agree, i think it's gone too far from it's routs and you don't but then again that's life and not everyone is the same and going to think the same and that can make for good healthy discussions

perhaps bringing the character selection into wasn't the right thing but for a lot of people it is a main point of contention because some feel it's just put in for the sake of it

i do see your points and i understand them and i hope you can see and understand mine too

thanks for keeping it civil

Assasin Creed died when ubisoft decided to pull a whole chapter from the main campaign and sell it as DLC.

That was Assasins Creed 2. Absolute disgrace.

@Kidfried The other inaccuracies bother me too. The train being in London in Syndicate when it wasn't there yet in the years the game was set bothered me a lot too. When you have blatant things like that it starts to detract from the game. There was a different vibe from Unity to Syndicate because of the difference of placing importance on the historical side of things.Unity had a very loving and carefully crafted recreation of Paris and the historical rumors people or events that the side missions were based on did a lot for it. Syndicate didn't care and suffered for it. The grappling hook was also unforgivable in that way and they couldn't even try to think of a half-decent way to explain in the game because it was so bad. It was just there. I understand it can't be perfect, but they just don't seem to try as hard anymore.
The mindset that they had here is being lost.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3037212/the-fun-violent-history-l...

Ok everyone this thread is starting to go into unnecessary subjects for a video game forum, i.e. politics. Let's not bringing race, sexual orientation, religion etc into this discussion even if that's your opinion. Even if it is an opinion, it can get out of hand quickly and I don't want to close this thread down.

Thanks for understanding .