What are some of your controversial gaming opinions

[incidentallyscribble]

Pornographic content in video games are not ok.

Kinda disappointing that this is considered an unpopular opinion, but whatever I can't control what people play

 

[New_Newbie]

Zelda games suck. Oh yes, can't wait to do cryptic things- by doing a million other cryptic things before I can do that! And when I do, it's all trial and error. They're just not enjoyable. I like fun games.

 

[Chary]

Portal games are only alright.
GTA is far overrated.
Super Mario Oddysey is merely okay, but probably one of the worst 3D Marios.
Fire Emblem Fates and Shadow Dragon are terrible Fire Emblem games.
2D Zelda > 3D Zelda
There's a higher number of good mobile games than people think
Xbox is a better company than Sony. I'm not talking games or exclusives--just as a gaming company on its own.
The new Pokemon games since X/Y are clunky with their new 3D models, and are lacking in content compared to older entries.
Destiny is a fun series underneath all the issues and drama that's gotten lumped on them.

 

[Hells Malice]

I'd post here but none of my opinions are controversial, just correct.

 

[Seliph]

• Every Jrpg that isn't Persona 5 or Fire Emblem is boring, especially Final Fantasy and Bravely Default 1 & 2
• Animal Crossing is Overrated
• Pc > Nintendo > Playstation > Xbox
• Ocarina of Time is boring
• Kingdom Hearts is boring
• Every Fire Emblem game past Path of Radiance that isn't Shadows of Valentia was either bad or mediocre
• Fire Emblem Heroes is trash
• Breath of the Wild is not only the best Zelda game, but it's one of the greatest games ever made
• Piracy is fine unless you pirate games from Indie developers
• Shovel Knight is okay
• Pokemon is overrated

Fire Emblem Fates and Shadow Dragon are terrible Fire Emblem games.

I don't think that's a particularly unpopular opinion lol, especially for Shadow Dragon

 

[VinsCool]

I mentioned that earlier somewhere else but Metroid Prime 3 was ruined by the forced controling scheme.
The only Metroid game I actually ragequit.

 

[Taleweaver]

This is really tough. Not to come up with opinions where I conflict with others, but in correctly estimating the blogosphere. I tend to write about these things, and I usually get enough likes and "me too's" to get me doubting the reason for posting the blog in the first place.

Previously posted:
-I've played 15 games I liked better than BotW last year
-GTA V is overrated
-I don't like people strongly identifying themselves as "gamers"

Here are a couple, but it's only a guesstimate as to whether the opinions are controversial:

-GoG is better than steam at this point
-there are absolute gems among mobile games. And that sector will become a strong competitor for consoles in the upcoming years
-given a sale, I'll buy (and probably like) no man's sky this year

Square boob Lara is superior to round boob.

I suddenly have a mental image of you giving your girlfriend a bra consisting of metal boxes for her birthday.

I'd post here but none of my opinions are controversial, just correct.

That goes for most controversies: pretty soon they don't revolve around what's said but around the tone someone said something.

 

[AxlSt00pid]

• GTA San Andreas is way too overrated and has aged poorly
• Driving in GTA IV is a pain in the ass, specially when going fast
• Every Monster Hunter game since Tri on Wii isn't really good
• Final Fantasy VII is overrated
• Fire Emblem games nowadays are just waifu/husbando simulators
• Crash Bandicoot the Wrath of Cortex is better than Crash Twinsanity
• The loading screens on the original release of Wrath of Cortex on PS2 aren't soooo long
• Resident Evil Code Veronica X is actually a really good game
• Devil May Cry 2 isn't so bad
• 1 2 Switch is great as a party game
• Shin Megami Tensei IV gets boring after a while
• Super Mario Land is better than Super Mario Land 2

 

[Gabbynaruto]

- Mass Effect 2's Suicide Mission was trash (and the less controversial part, screw EA for holding the true ending, "Arrival" to ransom)
- Skyrim is a horrible game. The only reason it is liked is because of the modding community, and if you have to rely on mods to be good, then you really suck.
- Breath of the Wild is a terrible addition to the Zelda series.
- (As someone echoed before me) Mass Effect 3 is still the best goddamn Mass Effect game.
- The Witcher 3 is merely an average game.

 

[Jack Daniels]

mortal kombat should've kept being 2D, all was better when lucas arts was still in thier own hands, EA makes the world a little more fucked up to live in each day.

 

[AutumnWolf]

Some of these are not exactly controversial just unpopular opinions

- I think Yooka laylee is a good game
- FIFA, PES, Madden, COD, NBA are all pretty boring games
- BOTW isn't THAT good
- Smash Bros Brawl is a good game
- Had I to choose between a keyboard and a controler I'd choose the controler
- I prefer fantasy games and games with non realistic looking visuals
- The "New" (2D Mario games for the DS, Wii and Wii U) Mario games all suck
- I liked Metroid: The Other M
- Twilight Princess > Ocarina Of Time/Majora's Mask
- Spyro The Dragon is boring and not so good (soooorry :[)
- Crash is easy
- BOTW is easy, Master Mode is normal
- My favorite LEGO game is "Pirate's Of The Caribean" for the Wii
- My favorite "Monster Hunter" game is "Monster Hunter: Stories" and I prefer it over "MH: 4U"
- Pokémon US/UM is... well, let's just say it's not that good
- I did not like the Hoenn region (the games... and the region)
- Pokémon X is one of my favorite pokémon games (I heard some did not like it)
- I prefer "Xenoblade X" over "Xenoblade 1"
- I did not like "The Last Story"
- "The Last Of Us" and "Uncharted" are good looking games and all that but I just didn't like em' much
- Motion controls = good (Star Fox Zero/Skyward Sword)
- Star Fox Zero was actually good and same goes for Color Splash (Star Fox gets an 8 and Color Splash gets a 7)
- 3D Metroid > 2D Metroid
- Twilight princess is the best Zelda game in my opinion
- FF is boring, however I did like "The Zodiac Age" and "World Of FF"
- JRPGs > RPGs

 

[Taleweaver]

I forgot an important one. One i see countless examples of in this thread, even:

Franchises suck. More specific: most gamers aren't gaming to learn gaming skills that are underdeveloped or not yet known to them, but rather want to hone or (at best) improve the skills that they already have. This ultimately leads to players becoming stuck on a certain genre of games* or a franchise.


* I had to move heaven and Earth to agree my girlfriend to play a game of chess with me. It was "too much of a thinking game" for her

 

[vinstage]

I hate Pokémon and play Overwatch unironically.

 

[DinohScene]

Okami is better then Zelda OOT.
Fact.

 

[nikeymikey]

Ill start with this one... There are NO whining entitled self righteous idiots on GBATemp..ever.

All Final Fantasy games are boring.
The PS4 is an over-rated piece of garbage.
Fifa is a terrible game..all 500 of them..
Call of Duty multiplayer is only fun with hacks.

This one seems to buck the general trend of this thread......Mario Odyssey is great fun

If i think of any more i come back and add them.

 

[Navonod]

You're not a real gamer if you play anything else other than angry birds.

 

[BlackWizzard17]

PlayStation All Stars:Battle Royale is better then Smash Bros
Pokemon R/S/E has the best OST in the series to this day.
DreamCast is overrated.

 

[FAST6191]

Some seem to take exception to my looking down on the 3ds. I loved my GBA and DS, still do in fact, 3ds did absolutely nothing for me and lost most of what made those great. My seeing similar things as likely for the switch' future has also seemingly caused me to see the ire of some.

Nintendo has long since lost any good will from me that they might have had. Today they have to prove their worth before I consider them. For comparison EA, utter bastards that they are, are in a more esteemed position.

Most of Nintendo's first party efforts in recent years are extremely unappealing. Some seem to think they are good game designers, I think they variously get lucky or have iterated for so long they have something that works. As far as understanding things I still look at Mario Kart and wonder why its customisation options are less than some other SNES games, never mind things like Smash Brothers.

Android has serious potential as a gaming platform, though is not quite living up to it yet. Two things I use to justify that. 1) If it can emulate "good"/"real" games then it can surely have them coded from the ground up. 2) Mobile web browsing was once a joke (or a horror in the case of WAP) and the sort of thing people used to pull up bus times or something, today people look down on sites that don't do mobile well. I see a similar progression in games (oh it's just snake, no serious gamer would touch it, it is good for on the bus, maybe there are a few games that are good and the next step is surely the market realises how crappy pay to win is and something really nice gets made.

Diablo 3 auction house was a fine idea. Never actually played Diablo 3 as having no offline and LAN modes was a silly idea.

Microsoft should have continued to push the kinect. Only way it would have worked is if they could push a 100% install base.

Paid online is bad. Don't want it. Put my no money where my mouth is as well and have never paid for online games beyond running up a bit of phone bill doing phantasy star on my dreamcast.

Similarly Steam sucks. I want to be able to easily resell my games (I never do but I want to be able to buy those from others). That they block that means I am not a user of their service.

Competitive pokemon and smash brothers are awful. Not my thing but I can see a competitive pokemon like game working and obviously fighting games work competitively. The games don't help but moreover the tournament designers have seemingly never read chapter one of how to design a tournament.

Genning legal pokemon is no ethical/moral problem. Said mons take no skill to capture or train and the RNG is such that you are not going to have a massive time investment to get one with favourable numbers. Gen away.

The only time my wallet is coming out to help me win in a game is when playing track and field. Some seem to take the hard line against any gameplay altering (as opposed to cosmetic) paid items though, where I am happy enough to see what are dubbed incomparables (completely new way to play) and things on the Pareto frontier (if damage per second is the main thing then I am happy enough to see a paid item that doubles fire rate but halves damage is OK by me).

Oddly controversial.
Sonic Adventure sucks.
N64 was a failure.
I thought both were well accepted facts, however recent years on the internet have made me wonder if I fell into an alternate universe.

The PS3 was not an RPG machine, or at least not compared to the 360. PS2 was unquestionably that but PS3 wise other than ni no kuni you were not missing out on much having a 360, and indeed might have had some good stuff you had instead of that.

Review scores are bad and I don't like them. Some seem to really take exception to this. I maintain a complex opinion of a complex work is hard to express in a number, never mind one that has seen feature creep for years (7/10 is not bad if you know numbers).

Games don't cost more to make*, people just choose to spend more. *barring inflation anyway.

Some seem to treat the vision of the devs that made the game as something special. Such a thing is pretty far from where I sit on the matter -- in all things I want something to play so I will slice any dev's vision to ribbons to pull that off.

 

[Stephano]

- The best Pokemon Gen is Gen 3

Same dude, my brother gets mad at me for playing only Ruby (GBA) /Omega Ruby and not finishing the other Pokémon games. I just like it better

- Twilight Princess is best Zelda

Certainly better than BotW

- Metal Gear Solid 4 is best Metal Gear

71 minute long cutscenes for the win boi.

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- All Call of Duty games are the same and are boring; shoot people, zombies, throw grenades, dodge UAV attacks, die, spawn, repeat

That's not controversial that's just healthy thinking.

 

[the_randomizer]

Same dude, my brother gets mad at me for playing only Ruby (GBA) /Omega Ruby and not finishing the other Pokémon games. I just like it better


Certainly better than BotW


71 minute long cutscenes for the win boi.

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That's not controversial that's just healthy thinking.

You'd be surprised how offended people get from that opinion on IGN. Speaking of opinions, Fire Emblem, and Shin Megami Tensei are all nothing but fan service games pandering to weebs.