Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

The day I'm bothered about some batteries in a controller you can shoot me in the heaaaad

@KALofKRYPTON i love the Mega Drive design

@BAMozzy oh i don't mind the fact that you can use batteries i really like that you have the options i just think it should come with a recharge pack because a controller is what £40 and the recharge pack is £30 so if you want to buy a second controller it would cost £70 all in all in you also wanted the ability to charge it

and like you said it does make changing dead batteries a lot easier which i also like and i think both Sony and Nintendo should use a similar system but like i said it should come with one as standard

@FullbringIchigo specifically, the Pal MegaDrive. Pure class.

@FullbringIchigo The point I was making is that you really would want at least a spare rechargeable which adds to the cost - let alone the additional cost 'every time' you buy a new controller if it came supplied - which is unnecessary and only adds to the cost to us.

Like I said, you really don't have to buy an MS Plug and play kit, there are plenty of decent 3rd party and much cheaper alternatives and, if you bought AA rechargeable Batteries, then that too is an alternative and 'cheap' option. Why be 'forced' to buy a MS plug and play kit when you can buy just a normal AA battery charger and batteries? You can get branded Batteries like Duracell or Energizer and as these come in packs of 4, always have a couple of batteries charged and ready to go so can swap them and continue playing wirelessly - something a single Plug and Charge kit still doesn't allow.

I still had AA rechargeable batteries from last gen so I didn't 'have' to buy a plug and play kit (I did though just because) and could very easily of just used those instead. Its a LOT cheaper and transferable between generations - something the MS battery packs won't do. There are options to suit every budget - whether you buy standard batteries, non-branded/branded rechargeable batteries and/or charger (which are useful for other devices too btw), 3rd party or first party rechargeable battery packs. Even if you wanted a second controller, you still don't have to pay £70 to make it rechargeable - in fact if you already have a standard battery charger and a pack of rechargeable batteries, then you already have a fully rechargeable controller in essence - maybe costs an extra £5-8 to buy another pack of rechargeable AA's so you have a few spares always....

It would be nice to be given one in with the Console bundle but I wouldn't necessarily want to be charged an extra £20-30 every time I bought a new controller just because it comes with a rechargeable battery pack. If you look on ebay or on Game, Amazon etc they are quite a few rechargeable battery packs - twin battery packs and docking station for £15 for example or you can buy an Energizer Pro charger with 4 AA batteries for a similar cost with new pack of 4 batteries costing around £6-8. If you go this route, then you wouldn't want or need battery packs anyway and be paying for stuff you don't actually need. Point is, you have options to suit your budget and don't have to buy a plug and charge kit at all or have to pay 'extra' because the controller has a rechargeable battery included.

OK so this one MIGHT be a bit controversial BUT The Bioshock series isn't that good, it's game play is kinda clunky and it's story is a mess

the worlds and the characters are good though

@FullbringIchigo The only Bioshock game I like is Infinite. I tried the first and second one and just couldn't get into them.

Bayonetta is overrated. I can like weird games, but it has the wrong kind of weird for me. Gameplay is excellent, but most other things borders on awful. Truly awful.

Speaking of Baytonetta, my unpopular opinion is that I find Bayonetta to be ugly.

@Jaz007 As a character or the game?

Unpopular gaming opinion: Shadows of the Empire is great!

@KALofKRYPTON it controlled terribly though and some of the difficulty spikes was way to big but yeah still a fun game

@FullbringIchigo 'Generally ropey' is probably a good descriptor, loved it though.

@RogerRoger
One of my biggest childhood gaming disappointments was borrowing my school friend's copy of The Living Daylights and Sinclair Lightgun - just to find that it wouldn't work on my 128k +2. There were tears.

@RogerRoger Agreed, a bad history has done some examples. For Bond, I loved Blood Stone. I played a lot of times and almost beat it on 007 difficulty (which wasn’t as difficult after playing g the game so many times), before losing interest the very end due to also playing it so many times. It had so many melee animations. It made Uncharted and just about anything but Arkham look like it had variety’s compard to it.
It’s also funny because we’re all hyped out of our minds for Spider-man, yet there’s also ways so much caution for others.

@RogerRoger some of my favourite games have been movie or T.V licence games, The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers, The Return of the King and The Third Age, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Goldeneye, Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ghostbusters The Video Game and Toy Story 2 just to name a few

@KALofKRYPTON The character.

Total Annihilation is the best RTS game ever made.

@RogerRoger So what's the difference between Blood Stone and 24? It's the Craig bond like the movies, it just doesn't follow one of the movies like how the 24 game doesn't follow any of the seasons. It wasn't like the Jason Borne game.

Unpopular opinion 1: Sonic Generations is better than Crash Bandicoot trilogy, Super Mario Galaxy is better than Super Mario Odyssey, Oblivion is better than Skyrim, Twilight princess is better than Breath of the wild, Alone in the dark (1992) is better than any Resident evil game and any Resident evil clone ever made, Endless Ocean and Trauma center are better than most Wii U games (tbh they are better than EVERY WIi U game imo), Country returns is better than Tropical freeze, Soul Calibur 3 is better than SC4 and 5... (I could go on but I think that's enough)

and because of that

unpopular opinion 2: backward compatibility is absolutely necessary and indispensable for consoles, expecially now that PCs are becoming more and more user friendly and Windows is becoming a really good OS so consoles need to be much more competitive to remain interesting for a gamer

@Kidfried I time as well as money.

AAA games cost a fortune to develop - and something tied to a lucrative licence will also has the associated licencing costs. if it goes down badly, it can kill a studio - or at least leave a big publisher with a big bill at the end of it all.