List Your Unpopular Videogame Opinions

I feel I agree with your list. Dunno if that makes it popular or both of us unpopular

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy is the best Naughty Dog game

• Bethesda hasn't made a good game since Morrowind.
• Mass Effect 2 is the worst of the trilogy (though still great).
• Naughty Dog is the most consistently excellent developer right now, tied with Valve.
• GTA IV is fantastic.
• Final Fantasy 7 is good not great.
• Anyone who thinks Crysis was only good for its graphics must not have played it.

Linearity is good.

Games' stories shouldn't be longer than 10 hours.

Batman Arkam games suck.

Fallout 3 and NV are better than 1 & 2.

GTA 3, VC and SA are better than IV and V.

Metal Gear games suck.

Ubisoft makes better open world games than Rockstar does.

Wii U is a good gaming system.

NINTENDO 64 is a better console than SONY PLAYSTATION

Agreed. I also think GameCube was more fun than PS2 (although the latter was great too).

Very unpopular opinions indeed.

Now that time has passed and I'm much older it is far easier to objectively look at each consoles. The N64 is the better built machine. I may be in the extreme minority here, but I also prefer the audio of the N64(when not attempting to mimic the psx/saturn). The N64 audio, imo, is the last of its kind--one of the highest fidelity of the synths in consoles. I personally prefer the creative aspect of designers creating music from such mediums, within the game development team, vs going out and hiring musicians and/or getting licensed music. Related to this, the N64 was really the last of its kind.

Then there's the loading issues. CD had to be done, i think?, but in its infancy people seem to forget that it really was rather long. Not to mention the errors that went along with it--and imo playing some repetitive digitized track is NOT better audio.

Then there's games. If you look back at the games on these consoles it is easy to nix a lot off of a "must play" list. The entirety of the 'sim sports' genre is just worthless. If I think of sports games from the era, the only ones worth playing are on N64--Wayne Gretskys Hockey, NBA Hangtime, NFL Blitz, Mario Tennis, and Mario Golf. It's odd that the 16bit hockey games were actually better than the following gen, sim wise. Then there are racing games. Ask me at the time and I'd likely say PSX no question. However, Gran Turismo has evolved as with just about every other popular psx racer. The N64 still has immensely playable racers like Wave Race. Mario Kart is still playable just fine even with the new releases because the gameplay mechanics have changed so much, but the ones from the past were still sound.

Blast Corps, Tetrisphere--N64 has experiences that are great and you literally need the console to play them as the genres died after the console. ....

But CD was N64's downfall. Even though N64 was the stronger console, it had to compromise on almost every aspect, graphix, audio, movies and even gameplay. Just imagine some of the N64's classics if made on CD, they could've done much more.

The only plus that cartridges had was the loading speed.

And of course, N64 was seriously lacking in some game genres. Especially when it came to RPG's.

Even without the sales argument, it's safe to say that PS1 was the best console of that gen.

CD was the downfall, but that only drove more developers to psx. Not all the games really hold up on these systems, and the ones that do favor the N64. I am not bashing the psx--it is one of my fave consoles, but so many of the games I once liked simply aren't as playable as I thought. The only games I'd go back to are a select few and, as you mentioned, RPGS. The rpg genre thrived on that system. It made the ps2 feel generic by comparison, but that is just one genre. The only psx game I still play on a regular basis is Twisted Metal 2. People will say blablabalbla there are so many classics on psx. I say they are blinded by nostalgia as even games like MGS has issues. I'm trying to think of other mechanically sound games that really define the genre and hold up well to this day--Twisted Metal is all that comes to mind.

All my Oppinions are Unpopular.... Even the ones based on facts.

Forgive me if you already said this, but I'd say that the RPGs on PS1 hold up very well simply because the genre itself doesn't seem to age as badly as action games. Most of the RPG on PS1, with some exceptions, don't really rely on having good controls, so they're still highly playable.

Stuff based on facts aren't opinions. They're facts

@seanmcloughlin

Its not an Either/Or type of thing..... Sometimes an oppinion and a fact are one in the same..... To say other wise implies Oppinions are bad because they're not factual.

The same could be said for N64 games.

And let's not forget that N64 was the first failure for Nintendo on the commercial side.

But I understand your feelings towards both consoles. In the end both were great consoles.

@SolidGame_basic

To add to your point, backwards compatibility on a computer can be a crap shoot at times. Sure in theory you can run that game from 10+ years ago, but it wasn't programmed for the hardware, drivers, or operating system in your computer. Max Payne is a game that I had to run on my Intel HD 4000 graphics processor instead of my dedicated graphics processor because it simply refused to run on a more powerful card. In addition I had to install custom drivers and mess with the configuration files to get the sound to work. Knights of the Old Republic was rendered unplayable to due frame stuttering/freezing where the game would lock up for five seconds and then run at 60 frames per second for five seconds. That instance was on an even older computer from 2005 that had the specifications well beyond what the game required. I can't imagine how well it would run on a modern computer.

As for my contribution to this thread:

• Consoles shouldn't strive to be incredibly powerful or stripped down computers as they currently are.
• I find terms like "casual" and "hardcore" to be pointless terms that really have no meaning, and are often used in a "holier than thou" way.
• I find excessive use of cut-scenes in video games to be a completely uninteresting and lazy way to tell a story. i.e. Metal Gear Solid 4. I'm fine with cut-scenes in moderation, I think Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 3 strike a fine balance between cut scenes and gameplay.
• Treyarch was better at making Call of Duty than Infinity Ward.
• The Legend of Zelda series is usually at its finest when Ganon or Ganondorf is not the main antagonist.
• Super Mario Sunshine is better than Super Mario 64.
• Grand Theft Auto IV was a bad game with terrible mechanics, some of which were downright broken.
• Team Fortress 2 was better before Valve started adding hats and other items.

Rockstar as a whole does not make good games.

Videogames are more important than film but not books

When it comes to being the videogame equivalent to tabletop games, JRPG's have not even been real RPG's since somewhere in the middle of the SNES/GENESIS era they are character driven interactive narratives that happen to use RPG mechanics for some stats and battle systems, there is no real roleplaying as to what the term meant for that genre.

The Wii u is the most interesting and fun Nintendo system since the SNES.

XBOX was the best system of its generation but suffered from install base, smaller library and the fact that its run and owned by Microsoft.

The new Tomb Raider game is not only better than any of the uncharted games but is better than the original Tomb Raider games.

A few come to mind:

• I thought The Last of Us was a great game, not a masterpiece.
• I thought Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2 were enjoyable games.
• I thought Half-Life 2 was a great game. What? Check the other comments in this thread. ;)

An all digital Xbox One would have been awesome sauce.

• Gameplay > story.
• I think that if a game has horrendous physics then it's an immediate immersion breaker for me.
• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is better than any of the Zelda games.
• The whole strategy genre is absolutely shit. Add MOBA, too.
• The whole Dark Souls series is highly overrated.
• Max Payne 1 was the worst in the series. It's like this: Max Payne 2 > Max Payne 3 >>>>>>>>>> shit.
• Far Cry was better than Doom 3 (not sure if it counts as an unpopular opinion).
• GTA IV was a fucking masterpiece. Actually, all of the GTA games are.
• Half Life 2 is better than Half Life.
• To The Moon was shit. Yep, I said it. I didn't weep, I threw up.
• All anime/Japanese/Final Fantasy-ish RPGs are shit.
• Nintendo sucks, along with their consoles and rehashed games.
• MGS is a shit franchise.
  That's all I can think of right now, probably will update this post as I remember some more overrated shit.

Agreed. Video games are the most profitable entertainment medium, with close to 40% of the community being female. A female designer voicing a female opinion is a green light to get fired, which is bullshit, so I'm glad someone is taking a stance on the issue.

and games that try to be "art"; Limbo, Braid, Shadow of Colossus, are terrible

• HL1>HL2
• Mass effect 1 > 2
• San Andreas > all other GTA's
• Oblivion > Skyrim
• Fallout 3 > New Vegas
• Super Meat boy is the best indie game that's been released to date.
• Don't mind origin at all. Steam has been sliding downhill in the last few years.
• Gmod is a fun online experience especially if you have a good mature group of friends.
• TF2 was fun in the first year not so much these days.

Half-Life, Counter Strike, Left 4 Dead, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, The Stanley Parable, The Witcher, STALKER, Grim Fandango, Crysis, Civilization, Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo, Thief, Duke Nukem, Doom, To the Moon, Quake, Amnesia, Chivalry, Day Z, ArmA, Sins of a Solar Empire, etc. are all piece of shit terrible series/games.

Read: I hate PC games for no justifiable reason.

That's hardly an unpopular opinion.

Those aren't unpopular opinions. I think the Halo 3 one is probably the most universally accepted statement in the Halo community.

I love games in general. I typically don't care about platform. But I will be honest that Xboxone and PS4 are not worth owning right now at all. There is no reasonable justification for paying 400 or 500 dollars for two exclusives that are coming out this year. Xboxone has Sunset overdrive as its only exclusive this year. Sony has Driveclub and Infamous. I mean really, how can do pay that much for those games?

I actually want answers/people's thoughts because by the time games worth owning come out there are going to be better bundles and better iterations.

Unless serious changes happen this might be the worst gen for consoles. Hardware is so similar to PC that ports will be easier. The only thing consoles have are Demon's Souls games and Destiny (used to be Halo).

• Loved Fallout 3. Despite its improvements, couldn't be bothered to finish New Vegas.
• Red Dead Redemption is easily better than any of the GTA games. GTAIV is damn near unplayable on consoles. Bought GTAV at launch expecting to like it better, but have only played an hour or two.
• I like Saints Row: The Third better than Uncharted 3, and Uncharted is one of my favorite IPs.
• I've found playing Killing Floor on PC to be superior to most AAA games and to MP on most console games.
• Batman: Arkham Asylum > Arkham City.
• Purely from a gameplay mechanics standpoint, Max Payne 3 is the best game Rockstar has ever released.
• Left 4 Dead 1 is a better game than L4D2. I liked the original survivors better and the added weapons and enemy types just muddy up the flow of gameplay.
• Uncharted 2 MP > Uncharted 3 MP
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the best game in the Battlefield series.
• I thought Gotham City imposters was a better MP game than any Call Of Duty.
• Tomb Raider (2013) is better than Uncharted 3.
• The original Assassin's Creed is the single most boring game I've ever played. Tried playing AC2 and, while better, still can't get into it...because AC1 was THAT bad.

to be fair there are those on the internet who think their opinion is fact.So I can see how this person can get confused.

@finalfantasy94

1st of all "This person"... Don't act like you don't know me *SNAP*

and 2ndly, Facts and Oppinions aren't mutually Exclusive

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Opinion

and even if they were...... Both you and "that person" (hurt, don't it ?) miss understood my statement.

Whos confused now now, Sucka !

- Tomb Raider (2013) is better than all 3 Uncharted games.

- Played every Call of Duty since the first one, and I continue to enjoy them more than a lot of other games. Call of Duty is more fun than Battlefield.

- Battlefield 2142 is the best game in the series.

- The 'souls' games are overhyped. No interest in playing them.

- Mass Effect is not only an RPG, but it's the best RPG.

- The only GTA games worth playing are IV and V. The series in general is overhyped to hell.

- I generally don't like fighting games. Injustice: Gods Among Us is the best and most fun fighting game I've played.

- I'm totally fine with these HD re-releases on current gen consoles. It's painfully obvious that developers were being severely limited by decade-old hardware.

- I have zero interest in anything Nintendo puts out, with the possible exception of Metroid.

Also

• MK9 is better than any of the recent Street Fighter iterations.

I know we haven't gotten along the last time we talked, Link, but... you want to know what's worse? He's calling Char a Hermit.

Praising Skyrim (or anything by Bethesda) is surely unpopular on this forum.

• Uncharted 3= The best Uncharted game
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 = The best final fantasy game of last gen
• Demon Souls= the hardest game out there
• Halo franchise is the abysmal at best
• MW2= the best CoD game to date
• Mass Effect 3= the best ME game to date
• Red Dead= the most boring game out there
• Vita>> 3DS

- I think consoles really are quite stupid since last gen when they tried to mimic what my PC already did. At least ninty still offers a unique experience. I will never purchase another console in my life.

- I see almost no appeal to handheld gaming anymore, plus personally it gives me a headache.

- I can't stand Final Fantasy or Zelda

- the ME3 ending was fine after the fix and I think most of the butthurt surrounding it was unfounded and cringe worthy, it just needed more details and explanations.

- Performance aside, Watch Dogs is really fun and worth the $60 (I almost never buy games day one or full price, I'm a steam sale nut)

- I'm not a fan of Blizzard, I think they are really overrated. Their games are usually quality, but they don't do much that's new, and they are terribly slow to release games and drop prices. Diablo 3 + Reaper of Souls, however, is one of my favorite games though.

• Games are not art. It's actuallly better for us if they were treated as products of design
• Souls games arent hard. Those that beat it aren't better than anyone else or havent actually picked up a hard game.
• Deus Ex: Invisible War was a very good game
• Call of Duty games are still enjoyable. If you want a 60 FPS experience on Console, play CoD it's your shooter benchmark.
• There's nothing wrong with locked/DLC content already on disc. This has been a standard practice for software for years.
• Planescape: Torment isnt the best story told in a videogame. If anything, most of the overwhelming praise comes from those who havent played it (considering how the closing moments unfolded - if it were literature or film - it would have cause some rather divided opinions).
• While amusing and with a neat difficulty system, Godhand wasn't that great. It's cult following stems mostly from those that are intent to delegitimize IGN (Not that I like IGN)
• Consoles are best used for Sports and Racing games that most posters here dislike hate/dont play.
• Criterion arent that great. They only get alot of praise because they make racing games for those that dislike racing games.
• Command & Conquer/Red Alert games werent that good.
• Nintendo, has always been a company that delivers games as a means to make the idea of play accessible to a wide audience. And that hasnt changed since the introduction of the NES, up towards the N64 and through to both Wiis.
• There's nothing wrong with the concept of microtransactions. It offers choice and greater consumer awareness on a business' treatment of a service

• No More Heroes was kinda mediocre. As with most Grasshopper games released since then

UC2 was a boring game and overrated.

God of wars series is bad

TF2 sucks

DOTA 2 is boring

Controllers are superior to keyboard and mouse.

^^I agree with those. Here are some of mine

1. There is no reason to upgrade to a ps4 or xbox one right now

2. The libraries of xbox one and ps4 are very weak

3. The graphic improvement of xbox one and ps4 over 360/ps3 is minimal

4. Dark Souls is a huge pile of crap and don't know why anyone thinks they are fun

-Uncharted 2 is the worst game I've played on my PS3. I believe that pretty much everything about it was a terrible design choice.

-The Pikmin Franchise is a stronger series than Mario, Metroid, and Zelda.

-The Wii U's library is slaughtering both the PS4's and Xbox One's right now.

-Sony's first and second party developers are generally mediocre. They often produce games that are completely outshined by many other multiplats and exclusive games on other consoles

-Capcom's support for Super Street Fighter IV shows how much they love their dedicated fans

-inFAMOUS is Sony's best franchise

-The best game on the Wii is Donkey Kong Country Returns followed by the Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword

-Super Mario Galaxy wasn't that great at all, but the sequel was absolutely mind blowing in every way.

Listen to , Fix you, by Coldplay off the XY album.

If your still a fanboy, god bless you. You're lost

Sony first party are average or subpar for the most part. The only dev who isn't, is ND and they've only made two great games this gen.

Mario games aren't fun.

ME3 is utterly shit, not due to the ending but due to every conversation with your crew having some erotic tone to it which becomes unbearable to listen to. That's among other reasons like the horribly repetitive combat, missions etc.

Bad company 1 had the best multiplayer of last gen.

The open worlds in ubisoft games are pointless and just filler.

Risen is one of the best RPGs from last gen.

Destiny looks incredibly boring.

The Witcher 2 might be technically amazing but it looks horrible aesthetically.

GTA 4 is better than 5

Skyrim is overrated trash