Share your unfiltered, unpopular gaming opinions and let’s dive into some real discussions. If you come across a view you disagree with, feel free to (respectfully) defend your perspective. I don’t want to see anyone say stuff like “we’re all entitled to our own opinions.” Let’s pretend like gaming is a science and we are all award winning scientists.
My Unpopular Opinion:
I believe the criticism against battle royales is often unwarranted. Most complaints revolve around constant content updates, microtransactions, and toxic player communities
Many criticize the frequent content updates, often cosmetic, as overwhelming. However, it’s optional, and no other industry receives flak for releasing more. I’ve never seen anyone complain about too many Lays or coke flavors.
Pay-to-win concerns are mostly outdated; microtransactions are often for cosmetics. If you don’t have the self control to not buy a purple glittery gun, then I’m glad you don’t play the games anymore, but I don’t think it makes the game bad.
The annoying player bases is the one I understand the most. I don’t really have a point against this except that it’s better to play with friends.
Overall I think battle royale games are pretty fun and rewarding. Some of my favorite gaming memories were playing stuff like apex legends late at night with friends or even playing minecraft hunger games with my cousins like 10 years ago. A long time ago I heard in a news segment that toy companies found out that people are willing to invest a lot of time and energy into winning ,if they know there will be a big reward at the end, and battle royales tap into that side of my brain.
This is just my opinion
I couldn’t care less about owning games physically. I’m way more likely to lose/damage them then lose access to their download.
Most people that complain about digital media aren’t fanatics for physical items. The problems usually come down to who actually owns the media in question.
While I don’t disagree, when I eventually get a PS5 I plan to get the disk version, simply because I can often get disk games second hand for a fraction of the price that they are on the playstation store
Physical games make much more sense for consoles for this exact reason.
Physical games for PC are pretty much entirely pointless because 99% of the time you’re going to use the steam code from the box then either throw it away or throw it on a shelf.
Yeah, I don’t know if I’ve used a PC game disk since I was playing Myst or the Spider-Man 2 (OG) demo
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I like lending games to friends. If that was supported with digital games, I wouldn’t ever care for physical games.
For example, after I beat BotW, I gave it to a friend to play. They likely wouldn’t have bought it, and I no longer have any interest in playing it, so it worked out. I rarely play games twice.
I also like the idea of selling games, but I never actually do it.
I agree whenever it comes to PC games, but I won’t buy digital media for consoles.
Knowing that the platform will stop being supported, even if it’s a decade+ later, makes me not want to buy from it. Especially since if I want to play it again I will have to pay resell prices for the game. I bought so many cool games on the Wii that I won’t have access to anymore.
Also, I like buying second hand at local swap meets and garage sales. It’s a small hobby for me lol
My only consoles are Nintendo and that’s because they’re all hacked. Digital preservation is possible that way.
Battle royale gameplay sucks though. I like competitive games but spending 15 minutes in empty buildings looting, then 4 minutes running from shots that I can’t tell where they’re from, then 30 seconds in a firefight only to die and have to wait for the rest of my teammates to die before I can play again… that’s objectively boring af.
When I get time to spend playing video games, I want to actually play, not spend the whole time just picking up items and guns I never get to use.
I was really being snobbish at battle royal type game. I’m an older gamer. Been playing TDM for years. I didn’t get the concept.
But I got into Apex when it released. I think it’s the best game I’ve ever played. The gameplay and movement is phenomenal, I can’t play any other FPS.
And being in the last 3-5 team alive on the last few ring is so much adrenalin! I love it.
Only PUBG (pre bots) has ever got my heart rate above 180; my first win. No other game has done that.
Shame it sucks ass, now.
Also basically no replayability because there’s zero progression. Since every round starts exactly the same as every other, there’s nothing to unlock other than skins, and you have to pay for the battle pass to even unlock those. Meanwhile games like Battlefield or Battlebit or COD have tons of things to unlock that you can use when you want.
Well that’s a subjective opinion, but I will agree that it is not for everyone. I love battle royale games because of how intense they are.
It’s one of the only game modes that make me feel like I have something to lose if I do not perform my best. There are actually consequences to my actions, and that’s why it’s so intense.
Sure, technically I can start another game, but I will not get back my previous investments.
Also, the last couple fights before I win a game are more intense than any other game I’ve ever played
Well that’s a subjective opinion.
The gameplay loop being 10-15 minutes of running around empty buildings and 30-45s of firefights is objectively boring, though.
I’m glad you like it 👍
Not sure what games you’re playing that you don’t get straight into the action. Whenever I play, I get into a gunfight within the first couple minutes all the time.
Also, since the rise of battle royale games the maps have gotten better and there is more action more often. Not only that, but the games are generally more balanced nowadays. That’s one of the benefits of the constant funding: there will continue to be constant updates and the game will continue to be tweaked and improved as long as people play it.
Just like every other game genre, they have improved. The first platformers didn’t come out of the gate being like Mario Wonder or Celeste. There has and will continue to be more progress in the genre.
I don’t like 3D platforming. I haven’t liked it since it really kicked off in 1996. Even all these years later with Super Mario Odyssey, I feel like I’m constantly fiddling with the camera, and something in my brain struggles with judging distances in 3D space at times. I used to love platforming. Yoshi’s Island is one of my all-time favorite games.
If I were in a bubble, I’d say the camera and the floaty controls that are in a lot of these games need an overhaul, but Mario’s as popular as ever. Between that and Mario games still being at the top of metascores, it’s probably only me and five other people grumpy about it.
Yeah, I completely agree. It’s even worse when the platforming is forced in a game that’s not about platforming.
2D platforming is way better. Far less frustration, and there’s a lot games can do with it.
Some of them felt like they were set up to force weird camera angles and be luck of the draw. That’s not adding challenge. That’s just being a dick.
Yeah I love 2D platformers, but can’t get into 3D. I did enjoy Super Mario 64 when it came out, but on replay I find it’s often finicky and hard to control, simply because of the 3D format.
Give me some Celeste any day though
People overestimate what a healthy population for a game should be.
You don’t need that 19 million people are playing the same mmo as you are when you are.
Have three unpopular opinions:
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Bethesda games are insanely overrated and absolutely carried by the modding community. Do I enjoy Skyrim? Hell yeah! …With 500 mods.
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Everything below 50-60 FPS is stuttery, unsmoooth, and unenjoyable no matter the genre.
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There‘s a place and time for „Ubisoft formula“ games (aka. tick off 500 icons on a map), cause sometimes I don‘t wanna think, I just wanna mindlessly walk around with semi-purpose and do stuff.
I love unpopular opinions.
Disagree with 2. You get used to it, especially when playing more older games. After a few hours of Ocarina of Time even the 20fps works eventually lol
- I was about to post this. Morrowind is genuinely great, but that’s an outlier.
- I think 40 is fine, but only if your monitor supports adaptive sync or can be locked to 40 (e.g. Steam Deck)
- Disagree. If I want something mindless, I’ll farm something useful so my next play session is more “productive.” That could be grinding levels, money, crafting materials, or fetch quests. Just ticking icons isn’t fun.
2&3 completely agree
On 1 though, I agree IF every other game embraced the modding community as much as Bathesda games do. GTA is the only other game I heavily mod, and in comparison it’s such a pain in the ass, the game engine is not designed to support it so you get weird bugs, just overall a worst experience.
So I think it’s fair to rate the base game highly for its support of mods. They’ve decided that providing a great experience for mods is a high priority for them. Maybe they can make the base game better if they don’t have to make it compatible with whatever modders want to throw at it.
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I don’t like open world games. Give me levels to explore or the illusion of an open world and I’m perfectly happy.
I really appreciate games like Dishonored, where you have massive levels to explore but they’re still very tailored experiences, and each level gives you something brand new.
My one gripe with Dishonored is that the way runes, bone charms and money (the main upgrade materials) work encourages you to explore every nook and cranny of each level. While some may like that, I’d prefer to find a fun way to reach my target and then on future playthroughs I could find another dozen completely distinct routes, making every run feel fresh.
That whole second paragraph has nothing to do with your point, I just felt like mentioning it.
I don’t even care about an illusion of an open world, I want a hand-crafted experience. I felt Zelda BotW was empty, and I much prefer Skyward Sword.
I have enjoyed a handful of open world games, but I generally avoid them because there are so many that waste my time.
I played Dark Souls 1 for the first time about a year ago and it was a miserable experience. I legitimately cannot understand what people enjoy about it. It was slow, clunky, and frustrating. The game was designed to be irritating. The only enjoyable boss in the main game was Ornstein and Smough (although the DLC bosses were all fantastic, with a special shout out to Artorias). The rest were either garbage or Crapra Demon, which deserves it’s own special level in hell.
Prior to that, I had beaten every other Souls game other than DS 2 (and platinumed Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and Sekiro), so I know it’s not cause I don’t like Souls games.
I think if I had played DS 1 as my first, it would have turned me off of the entire genre. I don’t even think it’s because I had played more recent games first, because I love Demon’s Souls.
Funny, I kinda preferred ds1 over 2 and 3 because it felt a lot more methodical, almost like a turn based strategy game.
Anything with i-frames is not for me.
Without i frames sonic would die instantly even with rings when hitting spikes.
While technically true, it’s a pretty comparison. They’re obviously not talking about “being invulnerable until the animation carries you away from the hazard you don’t take another hit the very next tick”. They talking “Press button X between 11 and 31 milliseconds before animation Y starts to take zero damage regardless of everything else”
Many criticize the frequent content updates, often cosmetic, as overwhelming. However, it’s optional, and no other industry receives flak for releasing more. I’ve never seen anyone complain about too many Lays or coke flavors.
Lots of people complain when some product they like is no longer available in favor of a ‘new and improved’ product. Remember ‘New Coke’? Patches and updates to games are the same thing, especially ones that significantly change the gameplay.
I, for example, liked Overwatch during certain time periods. That game is no longer available. There’s certainly people who play League of Legends or DOTA that feel the same way, though I wouldn’t know - the game they liked was at a certain point in its development, and since then changes have made it no longer the game they like. Same applies to a lot of MMOs - I liked Ultima Online, EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and others, but the games I like no longer exist even though the games technically exist.
The problem isn’t easily solved either - no updates may make some people happy but others will not be happy. The resources probably don’t exist to continue splitting the game and maintaining a stable version of an online game at each iteration, and even if they did, the player base would become too diffuse to be able to actually keep the game enjoyable with sufficient players. But it might be a fair criticism to say that updates come too fast for some of these games, and we need more time between them, or various other things. And there’s nothing wrong with people just griping, even if it’s something that can’t reasonably be stopped.
A lot of people I talk to think that PC is the best platform. I agree that it is versatile and has the most options. I can’t stand playing games on my PC at this point, though. I spend all day fixing computers at work. I don’t even want to look at a computer after clocking out. To be able to play games for PC, but not use a computer, I’ve decided to get a Steamdeck.
Huh, I’m a software engineer, and when I get home, I’m excited to do stuff on my computer. I even like building software at home for fun.
I’m not big into tinkering with game settings though, I am much more excited about playing or making games than tuning them. So maybe that’s what you don’t like? I find the Steam Deck’s defaults to be extremely reasonable and it feels just like a console.
I don’t like using computers after work because it feels like work just turning it on. Idk why.
That’s fair. I just don’t have the same experience.
My hobbies are very similar to my day job (software engineer), but in a different tech stack (Python @ work, Rust @ home) and building different things (business logic @ work, distributed systems and games @ home).
Maybe it helps that I’m forced to use macOS at work (which I dislike), and I get to use Linux at home, so it really feels like separate things.
But then again, many of my coworkers don’t have personal projects at home, so I’m probably just weird.
The OS differences probably help. I use Windows both at work and at home, so there’s no difference. And it seems like every time I fire up my PC, something is wrong with it. I avoided fixing a problem for 6 months because I couldn’t handle it emotionally after work lol. My hobbies are not tech-related other than gaming. I went into IT because the thing I have always been the least bad at is working with computers. I don’t have any other skills I thought would help me make money when I was exploring options at college
I use my pc on my TV with a controller for this reason. It limits the games I can play since so many aren’t optimized for controller but I generally like the games on PC better. I also use my pc for movies and TV as well so it serves as an overall entertainment center.
I have a ps5 for all of my media needs and PlayStation exclusives and all that. My gaming computer is also getting pretty old and doesn’t run stuff as well as it should. A Steamdeck is straight up an upgrade at this point. I’ll keep my PC around for older games I can’t play on other platforms, but I am pretty much fully embracing consoles lol. I also don’t have the funding to constantly upgrade a computer, and consoles seem to last a long time and have just the initial costs.
You can use a controller
Consoles are for the rich and my mind can’t be changed about that.
After all these years I found a ps3 getting thrown away so I picked it up and asked my cousin for a controller and it’s really fun and convenient for gaming but damn back then I could never afford it. Now it’s worse. You have to pay for online, games are more expensive, controllers are more expensive, and it’s way more locked down. I remember my cousin and I were trying to watching a YouTube video and we couldn’t because sony servers were down and you had to be logged in to watch a YouTube video.
Most of my gaming friends who play on consoles are well off. There’s an abundance of games that you can play for free/cheap on PC that don’t need a lot of horsepower to play. Most people play on cheapo laptops or cheap PCs with less than 500 USD budget to build. My brother in law still plays on a Ryzen 1600 and RX 480 PC built in 2017 right when it was released and the only upgrade made to the system is getting 1660 Super or 1660 Ti 3 years ago. He mostly play Brawlhalla and Forza Horizon.
That was me, but with a 1700 (bought for compile speed, I’m a SWE) and a GTX 960. I upgraded last year when prices came down to a 6650XT and a 5600X, but still on the same mobo.
I never really had an issue playing games because I prefer to play older games. I can afford nicer, but I don’t see a point. I hate paying more for games than I need to, and PC just has so many options that I’m interested in that I don’t see the need to play recent games.
When I was a kid, I saved up for a console but I could only afford a handful of games. My PC wasn’t good enough to play many games, so I just played the games I had. So I have a ton of games I missed growing up, so I’m content lagging a bit on modern games.
You don’t need to be rich in a western nation to get a console, but if you mean the value proposition of having the newest console sucks then yes, absolutely.
The only console I’ve bought since the PS3 has been the Switch and it hasn’t been absurdly expensive. I’ve bought almost all of my games second hand.
It can take a while to find them at the right price, but I’ve had good luck finding people selling multiple games at once and bundling a couple together for a good price. I bought Mario Kart 8 and BOTW for $25/each
Also, the games don’t lose much value if you ever want to resell them. I imagine I could still get ~$30 for each one if I really wanted to and in the future they’ll probably go up to about $50-$60 once they stop manufacturing them
It really depends on what you are expecting. I got two consoles, a refurbished PS4 slim and an Xbox One S. The PS4 was 125 USD and the Xbox (an all-digital edition with no drive) was 90 USD. Yes, you have to look out for these deals but they’re there. PS4 games cost me usually 10 USD max, I buy them during deals or used. Xbox had a lot of game pass tricks you could do so the games were mostly extremely cheap.
But I do understand if you mean playing the newest games. That can be expensive.
Plus the online if you’d want to do that. PS5 is crazy. My cousin is on his 5th $70 controller because they keep getting stick drift. I honestly don’t know why he still plays console
Yeah that is just laziness. When I wqs a kid consoles were too expensive so everyone wqs gaming on their PC or handheld consoles. You either used a keyboard or a shitty knock-off controller. I couldn’t imagine paying big bucks for a new gamepad. Even though I love games I still like to be thrifty with my gaming related purchases and treat myself only once in a while. Sometimes I wonder if the people who get the newest stuff would necessarily notice if they were playing a PS4 or PS5 game.
I don’t know if this counts but Assassin’s Creed Origins sucked and its story was cringe. It could be fun at times but generally wasn’t great, I’d prefer the original two games.
Also, Final Fantasy 7 Remake should have not deviated from the story of the original FF7 and it’s taken way too long to be developed/released. I bought Part 1 during presale and picked it up Day 1 and even bought my PS4 to play it but I don’t know if I’ll bother getting the others much less playing them. But I haven’t even played Part 1 because I was waiting for all Parts to be released and play all at once, then I heard about the changes to the story and was disgusted. I don’t even care to play it anymore. I think the original FF7 is the greatest game of all time.
what changes did they make to the story?
I can’t remember them all off the top of my head, especially because I didn’t play it but we can also only know a limited amount of changes because they have only released 1 of 3 parts.
But I remember hearing they spend an inordinate amount of time building up Jesse and that Avalanche crew who quickly dies anyway and aren’t a major part of the plot at all. They are just prolonging that stage of the game with fluff. And they made it so the relatively quick, plot-driven Midgar part of the early game is also extended with required but pointless cliché RPG quests like collecting some guy’s chickens, delivering mail for some person, and so on. There are other changes but I’m too heartbroken and disappointed with that game to read up on them again.
Wedge, Biggs and Jesse don’t die…
Well, maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but they should die.
I don’t want to spoil it all for people given the community’s tendency to play games really late but not many major characters die so the few that do die in the original make a huge impact. Even minor characters like Jessie dying, makes it feel meaningful. But not dying just makes it just like any other game.
As a book and video game enthusiast, my unpopular opinion is that the average video game is a much better entertainment value than the average book.
I’ve played a lot of games and read a lot of books. When measuring dollars for hours, I think video games win.
On the one hand, I’ve put massive numbers of hours into titles like Zelda, Metroid, Harvest Moon, and Pokemon.
On the other hand, I’ve only gotten two or three read-throughs out of even some of my very favorite books.
And then the video game classics really put up some big numbers: after decades, I’m still enjoying PacMan, Frogger, and Galaga and their kin.
And then there’s the elephant in the room: Tetris.
If I had to pick - on a desert island - between an e-reader with every book ever printed, or one copy of Tetris on a Gameboy…it would be an agonizing choice.
Video games retain their value much easier and longer as well.
I played fallout 3 a lot, was my favorite game for a long minute.
I could never get into fallout new vegas. I tried many times but it just never grabbed me. It just didnt feel right.
Where fallout 3 feels like a desolated wasteland, new vegas feels like a generic western with added monsters, it’s got none of the charm of 3 despite every other aspects being better
Just wondering, did you play them on consoles? Because I played FO3 on PS3 back in 2011(?) And it worked fine but when I tried picking up NV a few years later, I had to drop it because of all the bugs.
Pc. I never even encountered any bugs. I just couldn’t get into it
I tried so hard to enjoy New Vegas but honestly I think it just had too many choices that all fucking sucked. Tons of factions, and I pretty much hated them all.
In hindsight I think I’ll try to replay it and go full Mr. House.
I wouldn’t mind the issues of live service games as much, the ones you describe anyway, if it didn’t replace old content or have most of its content timed. Huge sense of FOMO that I just don’t need to have, so I go nowhere near those games.
Very specific but Assassins Creed: Revelations is the best game of the series (I’ve only played through Unity). It came just before the games’ mythos got too convoluted and took itself too seriously. The combat and parkour is smooth and Constantinople is a beautiful world to explore.
Also, Homefront: The Revolution is a fun lite-stealth FPS that has held up very well for the amount of hate it got on release.
Homefront: The Revolution
I got that game cheap and enjoyed it for what it was. I think if I had paid full price my experience would have been quite different. It seemed well put together though, a tighter experience than some of the Farcry games and Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Wait wait is “Revelations is the best AC game” an unpopular opinion? I didn’t realize that at all.
I’ve played all of them except Rogue and finished everything except the newest three that I really do not enjoy nearly as much.
Idk how much it’s changed since 2016ish when i stopped following gaming news/discussion but at the time it was definitely the most hated of the mainline games
I’ve never had as much fun online gaming with my buddy than with AC: Revelations.
