U̶n̶popular Opinions Thread

[Anonymous No.1395719]

Let's be positive!

I want to see /vr/'s popular or not-so popular opinions.

[Anonymous No.1395721]

OP here.
I really like N64 textures, they have something special, especially dusty effects or water.

[Anonymous No.1395726]

>>1395721
>>max power

"I got it from a hair dryer"

[Anonymous No.1395729]

n64 controller was overall crappy, but first party titles for the most part used it well.

[Anonymous No.1395732]

Positive, uh... playing vidya is keeping me from killing myself so that's good.

[Anonymous No.1395736]

I absolutely adore pre-rendered scenes and it was one of the things that attracted me to the RE series so much.

[Anonymous No.1395735]

>>1395719
Super Mario World is 5/5 bretty good.

[Anonymous No.1395740]

Castlevania SOTN is an awesome game.
Mario 64 is excellent.
Sonic 2 is the best in the trilogy - but 1 and 3&K are pretty good games too.

[Anonymous No.1395742]

Live action cutscenes are awesome.

[Anonymous No.1395746]

>>1395729
this is an UNpopular opinion thread, dude.

[Anonymous No.1395749]

>>1395746
It's both turd.

This is one of the most feel good games i've ever played.

[Anonymous No.1395754]

>>1395721
I've always been fascinated on how people worked with the limitations of the N64's hardware. I guess that's why I like Rareware so much considering what they did on the system. Reading development stories on older consoles (specifically fifth gen) is so interesting to me versus reading one about a new game.

>>1395729
I find the N64 controller awfully designed but not uncomfortable. There wasn't a single point where I had to stop playing a game because of the controller. I would hate to have to design a game around it, though.

>>1395740
>inb4 Smile

[Anonymous No.1395757]

>>1395742
Fucking agreed.

[Anonymous No.1395764]

>>1395754
the most uncomfortable thing I've ever experienced were the thq/aki games where turn used the control stick for taunting, firing up, and finishers. that wasn't even bad though. there were some games that made use of the l button and the stick which was a little weird, but if you're sitting down you can bump it against your knee

[Anonymous No.1395765]

>>1395749
>it's both

any and all opinions thread?
what's the point?
might as read any other thread

[Anonymous No.1395771]

>>1395765
>what's the point?

To not be an abomination like that other thread?

[Anonymous No.1395776]

All the (retro) Zelda games are amazing and deserve their praise regardless of which one you think is better than another

[Anonymous No.1395786]

>>1395771
at least that other thread was fucking focused on one topic

[Anonymous No.1395790]

Best PC platformer, picture related. Too bad It doesn't have a soundtrack so you must play your own music if you want to.

[Anonymous No.1395791]

While there are some (few) exceptions, modern games are better than old games.

[Anonymous No.1395792]

>>1395786
Who cares? Let's have a nice thread instead.

[Anonymous No.1395796]

It's not necessarily that controversially unpopular an opinion, but I think that the N64 and the DC were both pretty lackluster systems (I wouldn't go so far as to call them awful, but I might just be being polite).

They just had incredibly disappointing libraries, and for me, that's something that a platform lives or dies on. Their gems just aren't good enough to make up for the fact that either console only has a handful of them.

[Anonymous No.1395805]

>>1395742
I agree. Back then they were cheesy, but now they're AWESOME.
Even though modern AAA games are going for the "cinematic experience" which is fucking bullshit, I would love to play a new real interactive movie with real actors etc.

[Anonymous No.1395816]

>>1395796

I think the Dreamcast especially comes off as a bad system these days because all the great games on it have been ported to other consoles. It was also kind of a weird console because most of the good games were just arcade games ported to it. I would disagree if you called it awful but I think it gets a little more love than it deserves.

N64 had far too many gems to be a bad console in my opinion. The problem with the N64 is that there were so many absolutely shit games on it. We talk about all 12ish excellent games but once you begin to stray from the acceptably good games you're quickly entering shovelware territory.

I was really thankful to have a PS1 over an N64 back then though. It seems like N64 titles stood the test of time better though.

[Anonymous No.1395819]

>>1395757
>>1395757

I like you guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8eYANZVApUg#t=212

[Anonymous No.1395823]

>>1395757
>>1395757

I like you guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=8eYANZVApUg#t=212

[Anonymous No.1395831]

>>1395816
I mean I'm not knocking the good games they do have, it's just that compared to the PSX or even the Saturn there's just not nearly as much mileage you can get out of either the DC or especially the N64 as a whole. If you're the kind of person who likes to play a lot of games (like I was at the time), then their technical advantages over everything else available at the time still weren't enough to make them all that great as a whole.

[Anonymous No.1395830]

I liked the Master System more than the NES.

[Anonymous No.1395832]

>>1395786
Yes. The topic of seeking attention.

[Anonymous No.1395838]

Kirby is one of the best series in video game history. Even and "meh" games are charming and fun.

[Anonymous No.1395850]

>>1395719
Super Castlevania 4 is my favorite "classicvania", I didn't care much for 3 or Rondo of Blood.

Simon is also my favorite of the Belmont clan.

>B-but muh Trevor/Richter!

Oh please, Trevor got shanked like a bitch in curse of darkness, and Richter got brainwashed like a bitch in SOTN.

>B-but Simon's Quest!

Yeah, Drac cursed Simon, But he went and took care of the problem by himself, he didn't need mopey Swordsman #65842 to do it for him.

[Anonymous No.1395858]

I think every game that doesn't have enough complexity or at least difficulty to not remind me how much time of my life I'm wasting on this shit while playing is garbage, and therefore 99% of games released past 2004 or so are complete fucking trash.

[Anonymous No.1395921]

>>1395850
Super Castlevania IV is cool, but too easy. On the otherhand, Rondo is fucking tough as shit.

After all of these years, Symphony of the Night still reigns supreme. :-)

[Anonymous No.1395938]

Links Awakening was the best Zelda

[Anonymous No.1395954]

N64 and Sega Saturn had a lot more memorable games than PlayStation even came close to having.

Bloodlines is the best Castlevania by a longshot.

Superman and Raiders of the Lost Ark are much worse than ET and deserve a lot more hate because they messed up even easier properties to base a game off of.

Every time I play Zelda II, I remember how much better Konami handled a side-scrolling combat system in The Lone Ranger and just play that instead.

Sega CD only still gets flak because of the AVGN review and anyone with a brain knows if they made the CDX their second model, sold the add-on for cheaper, and really sold the CD-ROM to developers they way it happened on PCs, things would've ended up differently for Sega in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.1395967]

>>1395954
>Bloodlines is the best Castlevania by a longshot.
>by a longshot

Good game, but lets not get crazy.

[Anonymous No.1395969]

Megaman 7 is one of the best games in the series. The only thing I hate, is the final boss which is just cheap and unfair IMO. I like the shop system, because it avoids boring grinding (filling your sub tanks is one of the worst things in the X franchise). Most of the weapons are useful at least some of the time. The boss fights are fun and well-balanced and the music is amazing.
But then again, Megaman's sprite is a little bigger than usual, so it is officially the worst game ever or something

[Anonymous No.1396001]

I'm not crazy about the NES.
The graphics are ugly and unenjoyable. Way too much black.

[Anonymous No.1396003]

>>1395954
>Every time I play Zelda II, I remember how much better Konami handled a side-scrolling combat system in The Lone Ranger and just play that instead.

wat.

[Anonymous No.1396018]

The ZX Spectrum was a cheap piece of shit and its games were pure torture for the eyes and ears.

[Anonymous No.1396052]

genesis is a p bad console overall. a lot of the games are either clunky knockoffs of nes games or just straight frustrating to play.

[Anonymous No.1396067]

genesis is better than snes, ps1 is better than 64. only good mario is the first one, zelda sucks.

[Anonymous No.1396073]

>>1396003
You've played the Lone Ranger on NES, right?

[Anonymous No.1396075]

>>1396052
Git gud.

>>1396018
My god, is that really supposed to be Outrun?

[Anonymous No.1396101]

>>1396075
Sadly yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxJDqC4rLWA

[Anonymous No.1396120]

Mega Man 4 best Megaman
Zelda 2 best Zelda
UMK3 best Mortal Kombat

[Anonymous No.1396131]

wind waker is better than all the retro zelda games

[Anonymous No.1396180]

>>1396131
>wind waker
>better than fucking any retro zelda
i dont recall half of any retro zelda being a boring fucking fetch quest

[Anonymous No.1396287]

>>1395816
>We talk about all 12ish excellent games but once you begin to stray from the acceptably good games you're quickly entering shovelware territory.
Where the fuck did "12" come from? There's lots more good games than that.

[Anonymous No.1396310]

Megaman 2 is the best MM and it introduced many elements that were carried by the next eight games

[Anonymous No.1396318]

>>1395832
you mean like this thread

[Anonymous No.1396336]

>>1395954
>Bloodlines is the best Castlevania by a longshot.
I completely agree with this.

>anyone with a brain knows if they made the CDX their second model, sold the add-on for cheaper, and really sold the CD-ROM to developers they way it happened on PCs, things would've ended up differently for Sega in the 90s
There's many things SEGA could have done to have things turn out better.
Like, you know that special 3D chip in Virtua Racing which did better 3D than Nintendo's Super FX and Super FX 2 chip? At one point they were considering making a lock-on cartridge to house the chip, and making an entire line of games that used it, that way customers would only have to pay for the chip once and 3D games would be as cheap as any other games. If SEGA had pursued something like that and not bothered with the much more expensive and cumbersome 32X, things might have turned out different.
The main thing that would have helped, no matter what other decisions were made, is SEGA Japan not killing off the Genesis world wide when the system was at its peak and had another 2 or 3 good years of dominating Nintendo left in it in the US and Europe.

[Anonymous No.1396401]

>>1395954
All I see in the Sega CD is wasted potential. There was suddenly near infinite storage space and what did everyone do with it? They squandered it all on FMV shit and ports. Sega could have completely changed the industry at the time if there were more good games to take advantage of the technology like Silpheed or Popful Mail.

[Anonymous No.1396419]

>>1396401
A lot of the problem is that right as the add-on was getting some decent support, the 32X happened, and then SEGA Japan killed the Genesis.

[Anonymous No.1397290]

I love the DK rap. I do not get the hatred for it I come across so often on the internet.

[Anonymous No.1397438]

>>1397290
dk rap was my jam back in the day.

[Anonymous No.1397443]

The Final Fantasy games made for SNES are great, the ones on playstation mid-tier and the PS2 -current gen ones are less well designed. The ones for NES don't appeal to me as much personally, but I can see why people like them.

[Anonymous No.1397462]

Resident Evil was pretty much always an action series masquerading as horror.

I find that I enjoy roughly the same number of modern games as I did older ones.

[Anonymous No.1397464]

Castlevania 2 is a pretty good game and it's really fun.

The first Sonic game doesn't quite get the respect it deserves sometimes, but that's okay because at the end of the day, it's still a really great game.

Pokemon RGBY are all flawed games, but have an atmosphere that will never be emulated again in a video game because of the internet. However, the nearly monochrome colors of it made it so much more amazing.

[Anonymous No.1397465]

healthpacks<regenerating health
all weapons<2 weapons only
>inb4 bait

[Anonymous No.1397473]

drunken retro gaming is hands down the best thing you can do with your pants on

[Anonymous No.1397475]

>>1397473
I agree. I always pop Pokemon into my GameBoy Player and see how far I can get.

I remember I was drunk off my ass once, passed out, and woke up at Saffron City with only a Pidgeotto and a Raticate.

[Anonymous No.1397484]

>>1397465
It would be more interesting if you actually explained why you feel this way.

[Anonymous No.1399536]

OK guys, let's drop the bomb ...

Dragon Quest is better than any FF game.

Doom3 will always be the perfect fps.

Ocarina of time is not the best Zelda game in the series.

Wario is cooler than Mario.

Cod 2 was an awesome game with one of the best multiplayer ever.

Crash Team Racing PSX is better than Mario Kart 64.

[OPtimistic No.1399558]

>>1395742
Yeah they are!

[Anonymous No.1399565]

>>1399536
Those aren't popular opinions, they aren't unpopular either, they are debatable and controversial.

But I'm sure you knew that.

[Anonymous No.1399572]

>>1395954
>Bloodlines is the best Castlevania by a longshot.

Agree, at least for Classicvanias.

[Anonymous No.1399580]

>>1399536
I agree with most of that EXCEPT doom3 being the best. Its good, dont get me wrong I love it immensely but there are much better.

[Anonymous No.1399586]

>>1399580
I need examples to play them right now

[Anonymous No.1399637]

>>1395954
>>1396336
>>1399572
Did we play different games? Please explain how Bloodlines is even remotely better than Symphony.

[Anonymous No.1399642]

What the fuck is the point of this thread?
It's just random opinions about anything: the thread
Wow, how riveting

[Anonymous No.1399672]

>>1399637
explain how symphony is better than any platformer castlevania? Protip: It isn't

[Anonymous No.1399676]

>>1399642
We made it just to anger you.

[Anonymous No.1399681]

>>1399637
Well, for one, its a classic Castlevania game. The last one ever made, I believe. Symphony is stupidly easy, I noticed that even the first time I played it. Later bosses couldn't even hurt me. It has that ass backwards RPG curve, where the game starts hard and ends easy.

Bloodlines is hardly perfect or anything, but its got its points, like great music, and the level in the Greek ruins is just beautiful to look at.

[Anonymous No.1400089]

My favorite Zelda games are the N64 ones because they have a certain feeling in its atmosphere that I can't really describe other than creepy. Maybe it's the graphic limitations.

[Anonymous No.1400135]

Mega Man X5 is a good game. Not as good as X4, but very enjoyable.

Except going back to Duff McWhalen's stage 3 times.

[Anonymous No.1400142]

Zelda games are very fun and charming on the first playthrough, but they are nowhere near as entertaining on repeat playthroughs without some form of imposed challenge.

[Anonymous No.1400247]

I've come to dislike fighting games...... but:

Best Overall: Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition
Underrated: Killer Instinct
Overrated: Mortal Kombat

[Anonymous No.1400341]

>>1400142
That is true. But the reason is obvious. Zelda is in great part a puzzle game, once you figure out the puzzles of the dungeons, and no longer get lost as in not knowing where to go or what to do, there is not much point in replaying it.

But that happens to all games in which the hard part is figuring out puzzles and finding out where to go, once you do that, the second time you play the game you breeze through.

[Anonymous No.1400451]

Mega Man X6 is the best in the series.

[Anonymous No.1400461]

>>1400341
It is obvious, but still disappointing. I love replaying games; it's the reason my backlog is so fucking huge. I'm always a little disheartened when a game doesn't stand up after repeated playthroughs.

>>1400451
Best in the X series or best in the whole series? Either way I want to know why you think that, as I really dislike that one.

[Anonymous No.1400478]

>>1400461
X series. Doesn't really make sense to compare X games to classic Mega Man or even Zero and ZX.

Well, X6 game just plays nicely. It's responsive and feels great. The other games feel incredibly slow compared to X6, especially the SNES titles, and it gets especially ridiculous when you equip certain parts on your character: it becomes a stage-eating platforming monster. X5 was laggy and slow; last time Mega Man X felt that good was in X4. Zero's a beast in this game, too.

The only annoying thing are the reploids and the rank system. I crafted a bunch of saves that have everything collected but no stages cleared. Took quite a while, but now I get to have fun whenever I want.

[Anonymous No.1400490]

>>1400451
It's really odd to see people who are objectively wrong.

[Anonymous No.1400504]

>>1400490
On the other hand, it's quite the eyesore to see yet another faggot who think their opinion matters more than those of others.

You're in a fucking unpopular opinion thread, retard

[Anonymous No.1400532]

My favorite Zelda game so far has been Majora's Mask. Maybe it's just that I liked its focus on character interaction and the way it was set in a smaller region with a higher-than-usual dungeon density.

Eggman is a better, more fun name for him than Robotnik. Robotnik for a bad guy sounds extremely dated now that we're more than 20 years after the end of the Cold War and over a decade removed from our bad guys suddenly getting Arab names on 9/11, while Eggman, silly as it may be, just fits more for a series where we're supposed to take an anthropomorphized hedgehog somewhat seriously as our main character.

Mortal Kombat has always actually sucked, but in the early (pre-4) installments its suck was part of the charm, along with the ludicrously bloody nature of the series compared to anything else out at the time, and I liked it at lot as a kid when I was too young to know it wasn't really that good, but now that I've played other, better fighting games, I no longer enjoy it as much as I used to.

[Anonymous No.1400649]

>>1400461
That thing which happens to Zelda also happens to Metroid (both games are similar).
The first time you play Super Metroid you may spend the whole morning and afternoon playing it and getting lost till you beat the game.
Once you know where everything is and you know the map like the back of your hand, you can beat it in a couple of hours.

That doesnt make them bad games, 2 metroid and some Zelda games are among the best games ever, but they don't have the same replayability as Civilization, multiplayer shooter games, fighting games or platformers.
They are an experience more comparable to a movie or book, as in, you beat it, think it was awesome, put it in a shelf, and may pick it up again years later, not play the same thing for months.

[Anonymous No.1400849]

>>1400649
Wow I disagree entirely with this. Metroid games have a ton of replayability when you come back to them to see how you can beat them the fastest. Zelda doesn't have this aspect because 1) it doesn't record your time and 2) it's not really built to be an enjoyable speed clear experience in the first place.

There are two different Metroid experiences. One the first or second time you play it and then all the subsequent times after that. And Metroid not a platformer? Shut up idiot.

[Anonymous No.1400867]

>>1400649
I don't know, I almost have more fun replaying Metroid games. Now the Metroidania Castlevania games...

[Anonymous No.1401840]

>>1400504
>You're in a fucking unpopular opinion thread, retard
Nope, this is a popular opinion thread.