What are your biggest unpopular gaming opinions?

[inpurpleshadows]

A few months ago, I made a post asking Steam users what games they dislike that a majority of others like. I wanted to make a bit of an expansion of that thread that doesn't just center on games one dislikes that others like, but for gaming as a whole whether it would be positive or negative. Your unpopular opinions can be centered around anything related to gaming; studios, genres or specific video games, anything goes. Feel free to vent out all your frustrations in this thread. Just, please be civil about it and don't start dumb fights.

I'll start:
I don't understand the appeal of Pokemon.
DOOM II is, at best, a decent expansion pack.
I'd take Quake II over anything that came afterwards.
Nintendo peaked with the Wii (I'm totally nostalgia blind for this one).
GTA IV is the best one in the series.
Game stories don't need to have good writing in order to be enjoyable.
Dark Souls is not for me.
Sonic Heroes is mid.

I'm sure I pushed some buttons with these ones.

[D. Flame]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από zirkustier:

What is E3? The former games fair?

used to be a big gaming showcase, but every company thought there were the star of the show, so they all decided to go solo, only to realize, they really aren't that interesting on their owns.

It was like the super bowl commercials but for game nerds.

[Pipe]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TurtleShroom:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Tex:

Starfield does NOT deserve the hate it gets, it's a very good game. People had unrealistic expectations.

Oddly, most of the criticism of "Starfield" is that it has a lot of parts that are boring, not that the game is bad, bugged, or whatever. That's an unusual take for a Bethesda game.

is there a difference between a boring game and a bad game?

[D. Flame]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Pipe:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TurtleShroom:

Oddly, most of the criticism of "Starfield" is that it has a lot of parts that are boring, not that the game is bad, bugged, or whatever. That's an unusual take for a Bethesda game.

is there a difference between a boring game and a bad game?

Yes. The EDF games are bad games, but they are also a ton of fun and not boring.

[zirkustier]

@ D. Flame: Thanks, now I know. I thought maybe she meant a game with that abbreviation too. ^^

[J4MESOX4D]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Muppet among Puppets:

WASD controls make no sense to me.
Arrows are the key.

I grew up with arrow keys back when games were simpler but WASD now is practically a necessity on many especially if Q, E, F, C, G and V have functions which can be reached easily.

[Painkilleruk]

sports games should be sold only digitally since within a month all copies end up in a store for £1 each may as well save the recycling because sport games are sh**
Sonic after the genesis are terrible and overrated
EA and ubi connect are terrible services / launchers
the new alone in the dark was terrible
south park snow day I would not wipe my backside on
souls games are cr*p because lack story
fortnight is WAY overrated
COD is super overrated and peaked with modern warfare ( 360 )
mobile gaming is not gaming its desperation
they should raise pc system requirements and stop making games for potatoes
pc are the master race!!

[Roday]

Mobile gamer = gamer
anyone who play game=gamer,no matter what platform

[Tempest]

Classic arcade games are better than modern games. This is just my preference, though, I realize that.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Kei]

older games are better than newer ones
new ones usually are terribly optimised and have to rely on garbage like DLSS/FSR and have no soul in the game itself, look at the recent COD games, all copy paste

[Tempest]

Pinball is still awesome. Old games relied on creativity, charm and gameplay.

[Lumios]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από TurtleShroom:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Pirate☠️Pocah:

Monthly subscription mmo's are better than free ones

This take is HOT.

Why do you think that is the case?

I thought it was lukewarm for a take. It should be common sense that paid products are consistently of higher quality than free products. Most free games have gacha/lootboxes, microtransactions, advertisements, subscriptions/tiering system, tracking, a donation link, or any other form of monetization. Occasionally, they are even overrun with adverts to the point where you spend more time watching them than playing the game.

Now, obviously, some big studios have decided their paid games would have these after-purchase "features", but if you download a free game that isn't foss and open source, then you are absolutely gonna get some form of monetization every single time.

Oftentimes, it is better to pay for a MMO monthly rather than play one that is free, since that doesn't come without a cost. They still need money to pay for their expenses, including server maintenance and electricity bills.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Roday:

Mobile gamer = gamer
anyone who play game=gamer,no matter what platform

Part of the issue, and why it is a controversial take, is that "gaming" is a subculture (like nerds, goths & emos, furries, weeaboos & otakus, and sports fans), hence "gamers" have set values for what constitutes a gamer. So, in short, if you don't fit into their set values you don't deserve the label in their mind, and there are many factors playing into that, but the "gamers" themselves figured out that mobile players at large weren't gamers because they are, let's say, too mundane and out of touch for them.

I'd say anyone who plays mobile games can be a gamer, granted they don't exclusively play casual games like Candy Crush Saga. For example, if they play Minecraft, Brawl Stars or Fortnite they'd qualify in my book, but again I know people have different standards for what a gamer is or isn't.
Best portrayed by this Akechi impersonator on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsKRShkC_Q
I can't recount how many times I've heard some nutcase with a fragile ego claiming something to the effect that people who only ever played indie games/farming games/fangames over the latest AAA titles weren't real gamers.

[SHUT IT DOWN]

nerd/gamer subculture has become pure and distilled cringe. lol @ gate keeping the word "gamer"

hot take 1:

sci-fi, video games and all the things that were once part of an innocent nerd culture haven't been for a very long time. your favorite franchises have been bought/sold like bad debt. they are exploited to the limit. they know people have mental health/addiction issues and love to abuse that for more money.

a lot of people with lives that revolve around gaming should be prioritizing other more important things first. maybe come back to gaming later

hot take 2:

VR feels more like "old" gaming due to the novelty and $$ barrier to entry. vibes to anyone who still hasn't gotten into VR in the year of our lord, 2024.

[Ogami]

Time for another one.
The GTA games have mediocre gameplay at best, often with terrible shooting and driving controls and 90% of the reason they are so succesfull is because they appeal to the teenage " i want to be a gangsta!" crowd and look nice because of their giant budget.

[atomicgirl]

Here's my unpopular opinion: GTA is nothing but social engineering. This whole thug/gangsta stuff got played out in the 1990s but for some reason, this game insists on selling a culture that died out 20 years ago. Don't even get me started on this game glamorizing sociopaths. No wonder today's males are so messed up. They used to have admirable heroes to look up to. Now they have cannibals and murderous sociopaths to look up to as cool bros (Trevor).

[inpurpleshadows]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Ogami:

Time for another one.
The GTA games have mediocre gameplay at best, often with terrible shooting and driving controls and 90% of the reason they are so succesfull is because they appeal to the teenage " i want to be a gangsta!" crowd and look nice because of their giant budget.

For me, the appeal of the GTA franchise is the sandbox gameplay, something that few gaming series have done to the same level. I wouldn't call any of the GTA games the "greatest of all time" despite what those top game lists would say, but they are nice ways to turn my brain off after a long and boring day.

But yes, a large percentage of the GTA series' audience consists of teens and young adults who think that anything with guns, violence or swearing is 'cool' and 'adult', despite violent video games existing ever since the late 70s.