What are some of your controversial gaming opinions

[Jonna]

Duke Nukem Forever wasn't a bad game. It just didn't lineup to expectations.

Battlefield is more rehashed than Call of Duty.

Breath of the Wild is the worst mainline Zelda game.

Damn, your opinions went from "YES YES" to "wait aww no" for me.

But yeah, DNF was fun, and I dislike that people take it at the value of being the amazingly hyped up for years game it was supposed to be, instead of taking it as just the next Duke Nukem game.

 

[Kioku]

Oblivion is better than Skyrim.
Skyrim is overrated.

I used to be of the hivemind that Oblivion sucked.. But I truly never played it. Bought it on discount and found out its a better game than people gave it credit for. The 3d models and some of the animations were... Interesting... But it was a fun game.

New opinions of the day:

- The Virtualboy was ahead of its time. If Nintendo had waited 20 years and came out with it then? It'd have been a hit.

- I don't understand why people think Sony makes good systems. They're powerful, but the controllers pre PS4 are abysmal and they have a shitty online service.

- Cross platform play isn't hindered by KBM vs Controller. It's hindered by the toxic communities.

- Aim assist isn't an aimbot, if you claim otherwise you need your head checked.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Oblivion is better than Skyrim.

I dunno if this is much of a controversial opinion, everyone I've seen who has played both always reaffirm that Oblivion is better than Skyrim, hands down. I think most of the people who claim Skyrim is better just haven't played Oblivion whatsoever, so their opinion is invalid anyways

Totally agree that Skyrim is overrated, especially stock, non-modded Skyrim. I will never understand how anyone can play through the stock game more than once or twice cuz everything is so monotonous and boring. If it weren't for the dozens of mods I use on PC, I would never have more than 20-30 hours in the game total.

 

[330]

Microsoft is a 'SO NICE' company that they tryed to deny/forbid some of our gamer rights, like sell/transfer digital 'used' games and so on (who watched the E3 Xbox One reveal know what i am talking about) which, ironically, made Sony's job so easy that they did nothing than don't go to the same path that Microsoft tryed to choose, so, they easily won Wii U/PS4/Xbox One gen.

After all that, they were forced to run against their mistakes, since they were losing a load of cash from Xbox section.

Seeing all that we know how Microsoft really is if they could dominate on consoles/games like they do on PC..

Working with many people from the highs up, you have no idea how big the percentage of these bad ideas come from. And if you tell them that they will piss a lot of people off, they will say that the internet has short memory. Which is true, considering how the Xbox One has sold a lot of units.

Just be happy that someone got fired over that decision

 

[Stephano]

- Aim assist isn't an aimbot, if you claim otherwise you need your head checked.

Their heads can't be checked because it got shot off by someone using an aimbot.

 

[MiguelinCrafter]

Skyrim is a bad game

 

[Perfect One]

Working with many people from the highs up, you have no idea how big the percentage of these bad ideas come from. And if you tell them that they will piss a lot of people off, they will say that the internet has short memory. Which is true, considering how the Xbox One has sold a lot of units.

Just be happy that someone got fired over that decision

Sincerally? I am happy that Microsoft even with so many sold xboxs, still have a long way to conquer everything they lost since E3 reveal. This show us how bad is a single company dominate everything is SO BAD.

That is also the same reason on why i took so long to buy a xbox one console.

It's good that any xbox one is a development hardware, but they only did that due to reason i wrote here and on my previous comments.

 

[MiguelinCrafter]

Crash bandicoot is very easy

 

[Lmaokernel]

I actually liked Knack.
And minecraft doesn't appeal to me at all

Sent from my toaster running Rebug

 

[Perfect One]

F1 Race Stars is almost an average game, and this is due to fact that ALL tracks have special/exclusive sections/paths which can only be accessed if you get a weird item (good luck on guess about where it appears on each track). Since i, like almost anyone else, very rarely can guess at first where such items are located, but, for our 'luck', AIs know where and when to get them on each track, so, with that, they get a GIANT advantage over any other racer. I see some people saying that this game is hard, but it isn't: it is just badly unfair on you or anyone else which don't get such 'special' item i described here.

That is sad, since i really enjoyed this game.

For me, the best racing game is, without any doubt(s), Modnation Racers: it let you create (and share online if you wanna) your characters, cars and tracks! Not to say that this game have a real hard AI (even on easy they are brutal! lol) which won't let you relax for so long on races, UFG (the game's creator) know how to make nice and, sometimes, challenging tracks, so many options and so on. Best racing game ever which is a must-have as a remaster on PS4! =D

 

[MiguelinCrafter]

Gran Turismo is overrated

 

[HamBone41801]

The CD-i Zelda games were decent. Persona as a series isn't that great, just barely above average for me. I'm probably the only person that thinks Tales of Xillia was a good game. Tales of Symphonia is overrated. I liked Halo Reach. I enjoyed the hell out of Pokemon's 5th gen games.

I also enjoyed gen 5, but that was probably because It was my introduction the the series. Once I played soul silver, I almost immediately realized it was better.

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

nge?

neon genesis evangelion it's an anime you could watch it but not that good in my opinion

 

[Polopop123]

I actually liked Knack.
And minecraft doesn't appeal to me at all

Sent from my toaster running Rebug

You like Knack? Fuck the that shit man....KNACK 2 IS WHERE ITS AT BABYYYY

 

[Veho]

Most games have terrible storylines.

 

[Stephano]

neon genesis evangelion it's an anime you could watch it but not that good in my opinion

You would have to pay me to watch anime with VERY few exceptions. lol

 

[MiguelinCrafter]

I actually liked Knack.
Sent from my toaster running Rebug

I also enjoyed Knack

 

[Deleted User]

Graphics are not important in games.

If you're talking about pure technical, polygon-pushing power in video games, then yeah, i'm inclined to agree there. A lot of games from the 8- and 16-bit era looked great then and still look great today, despite having a limited color palette. They worked within their limitations well, being particularly careful about their color choice, as well as being careful to accurately portray shapes and characters within their limited resolution. Some of them look better than a few games being made today!

However, if you're talking about graphical style and shaping an aesthetic, I'd be inclined to disagree. While nowhere near as important as gameplay in a video game, a good aesthetic creates ambience and molds expectations from players. If your game lacks a good aesthetic, people will inevitably be turned off from your game. Aesthetic is the reason why the aforementioned older games still look great.

This video from Extra Credits goes more in-depth regarding this graphics vs. aesthetic matter:


Long story short: while any person with a decent-enough system can push out high-poly models and environments, it takes an artist to craft them to both make them pleasing to the eye and enhance and reflect the gameplay of the game.

 

[FAST6191]

Haha. I could understand where the confusion comes in. More times than not, a lot has to due with how slow a game starts. "Dude, after you get a quarter of the way in, it gets really good." Unfortunately a quarter of the way in could be 20-30 hours. That's too much time for me to invest in a game that "gets better." The other part that plays a role is my attention span. While I think Breath of the Wild was a fantastic game; it took me 3 times starting to get through it. The first time was only an hour or so. It didn't necessarily start slow but I played a good 10 hours, pretty much hooked, for the most part. Then I just stopped. Other games stood out or I get into a TV series or life just happens. I went a long time without playing it. Then I got a Switch and a buddy of mine said I have to give it another shot. Maybe it was the fact that I got a new console and was just wanting to try something great on it but I played a couple hours every night until finished, that time.

I think it's more that I don't really have the time to invest into games, like I used to, and a lot of the really long games are hard for me to just play a few hours on weekends cause I tend to forget where I was and what I was doing from week-to-week. It's just easier to start a shorter game Friday night and be done with it by Sunday night.

I got where you were heading but there was the chance for said snarky remark and I then had to take it.
Perhaps a more useful version would be
"I would have loved this game when I was 18 but time today, should I have a few weeks holiday and nothing to do then still would.

Better do another one for me.
Gamestop are OK and I am OK with them continuing to do what they do. My only true misgiving with them is the removal of codes thing the other year. Staff treatment too but that is just retail in general these days.

 

[MiguelinCrafter]

Got a new one

Nintendo labo is actually a cool idea