What's your biggest 'unpopular/controversial' opinion?

[Yanrima~]

Sonic Frontiers is overhyped and it's not even Game Of The Year worthy, it's more of an alright game in my opinion.

I don't have a problem with the game itself, just the fans who overhype the game to be some sort of 'artistic masterpiece' and shut down any form of critique for Sonic Frontiers.

For me, the game is 7/10 at best. Not great but a step to a right direction with were Sonic games were heading.

(also Sonic franchise isn't my cup of tea but, congrats on the fans who long waited for a Sonic game that isn't downright bad like Sonic Forces and worthy to compare with early 2000's Sonic games)

 

[Corrie]

The first Pokemon anime English OP is overrated. Whenever it comes on, I honestly find it boring to listen to. Literally any of the others (at least til Battle Frontier as that's as far as I go) are better.

 

[Violet Witch]

Pokemon is overrated.

 

[Midoriya]

The Persona series is overrated, and Vtubers and streaming are boring.

 

[Corrie]

The Persona series is overrated, and Vtubers and streaming are boring.

The whole concept of a Vtuber is stupid imo. I don't want to watch someone's badly animated ugly OC cutting off gameplay.

 

[Alienfish]

The whole concept of a Vtuber is stupid imo. I don't want to watch someone's badly animated ugly OC cutting off gameplay.

Same, this so much.

Honestly a lot of (insert something) tubers/streamers etc. are pretty cringe to watch. Especially people doing games and everyone recording in the same male/female voice, lol.

 

[-Raven-]

I agree very much with the last 4 posts but I gotta say, people keep acting like the backlash to gen 5 is responsible for the current direction of Pokemon. It’s downright wrong and it’s so obvious.

Whatever you think of gen 5, they sure aren’t going back to what made gen 4 loved and that was extremely loved at the time Platinum and HGSS came out (DP not so much, you might not remember but the speed got tons of backlash, people were happy with Plat tho). Gen 5 also did not sell poorly because of backlash and the backlash it recieved at the time has been overblown, people act as if it were universally blasted which isn’t the case aside from arguments over the designs. Gen 5 sold poorly because people were waiting for a 3DS entry and had moved past the DS.
If the changes to the series were about backlash then they would have gone back to what worked, aside from nostalgia pandering. It was just about cutting cost. The changes to the series were inevitable.

Also, almost everything people like to blame the 3ds games for from intrusive story to lack of postgame are actually rooted in gen 5 but I think I’ve already said that. The only things that really fall on the 3DS games are the nostalgia pandering and gen 7 wasn’t even bad about it + lame animations, granted (though still overblown and has some toxic debate around it, people tend to ignore the animations that are good and act like Stadium/Colo animations and the games themselves were all amazing which is totally wrong).

 

[Midoriya]

I agree very much with the last 4 posts but I gotta say, people keep acting like the backlash to gen 5 is responsible for the current direction of Pokemon. It’s downright wrong and it’s so obvious.

Whatever you think of gen 5, they sure aren’t going back to what made gen 4 loved and that was extremely loved at the time Platinum and HGSS came out (DP not so much, you might not remember but the speed got tons of backlash, people were happy with Plat tho). Gen 5 also did not sell poorly because of backlash and the backlash it recieved at the time has been overblown, people act as if it were universally blasted which isn’t the case aside from arguments over the designs. Gen 5 sold poorly because people were waiting for a 3DS entry and had moved past the DS.
If the changes to the series were about backlash then they would have gone back to what worked, aside from nostalgia pandering. It was just about cutting cost. The changes to the series were inevitable.

Also, almost everything people like to blame the 3ds games for from intrusive story to lack of postgame are actually rooted in gen 5 but I think I’ve already said that. The only things that really fall on the 3DS games are the nostalgia pandering and gen 7 wasn’t even bad about it + lame animations, granted (though still overblown and has some toxic debate around it, people tend to ignore the animations that are good and act like Stadium/Colo animations and the games themselves were all amazing which is totally wrong).

I'm not really understanding your post. Are you basically saying that the blame for Pokemon's current direction doesn't lie with gen 5??? I agree about the last part that it was about cutting costs and that the changes were inevitable, but the rest of the post is kind of worded cryptically imo.

Also, thanks for agreeing that Persona is overrated, lol.

 

[Corrie]

I agree very much with the last 4 posts but I gotta say, people keep acting like the backlash to gen 5 is responsible for the current direction of Pokemon. It’s downright wrong and it’s so obvious.

Whatever you think of gen 5, they sure aren’t going back to what made gen 4 loved and that was extremely loved at the time Platinum and HGSS came out (DP not so much, you might not remember but the speed got tons of backlash, people were happy with Plat tho). Gen 5 also did not sell poorly because of backlash and the backlash it recieved at the time has been overblown, people act as if it were universally blasted which isn’t the case aside from arguments over the designs. Gen 5 sold poorly because people were waiting for a 3DS entry and had moved past the DS.
If the changes to the series were about backlash then they would have gone back to what worked, aside from nostalgia pandering. It was just about cutting cost. The changes to the series were inevitable.

Also, almost everything people like to blame the 3ds games for from intrusive story to lack of postgame are actually rooted in gen 5 but I think I’ve already said that. The only things that really fall on the 3DS games are the nostalgia pandering and gen 7 wasn’t even bad about it + lame animations, granted (though still overblown and has some toxic debate around it, people tend to ignore the animations that are good and act like Stadium/Colo animations and the games themselves were all amazing which is totally wrong).

What backlash to gen 5? Everywhere I see online praises it saying it's the best Pokemon game and had the best story.

 

[redpandness]

I've only ever played the Pokemon games on the switch, which have been great, with the exception of bdsp, but everyone I've talked to loved all the games on the DS's.

One of my most unpopular opinions is cheese. It's revolting, but all of my friends think it's great. Also peanut butter.

 

[Alienfish]

I actually liked SwSh, but BDSP was a big disappoint for me. Gen 5 was..eh for me. The whole N story and stuff was overrated.. I will forever be a Gen2-er though, those were the best and HG/SS was great too.

 

[QueenCobra]

Antz is better than A Bug’s Life.

 

[ali.di.magix]

Fondant icing is legitimately good. I swear I'm the only person that'll say that.

 

[QueenCobra]

Guys I miss Cupcake Wars. All the other cooking competition shows are trash and Food Network is devolving into a food version of the Game Show Network.

 

[-Raven-]

Eeh I’ve seen some speculation that if Twitter died it would revive forums and I hope that doesn’t happen full-on because it would mean the Twitter userbase and drama making their way to forums. Sorry if that seems like drama or anything

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Eeh I’ve seen some speculation that if Twitter died it would revive forums and I hope that doesn’t happen full-on because it would mean the Twitter userbase and drama making their way to forums. Sorry if that seems like drama or anything

I think that would only happen if all the other instant social media websites died along with twitter. Even then, it'd be more likely that people would migrate to some new social media website before they went to forums

 

[Alienfish]

wireless/nfc payment "beeps" on cards are a really stupid idea and if it's true it was only made for students being able to pay for their coffee quicker it's x10 more dumb.

 

[Chris]

This thread was meant to be about biggest controversial opinions, but it has started to serve a similar function as the Place Your Random Thoughts and What's Bothering You threads instead of sticking to its intended focus. For this reason we have decided to move it over to The Basement.

 

[Neb]

Okay, this is a very controversial unpopular opinion that I know a lot of people will disagree with. To me most farming simulators are okay at best and rarely live up to their full potential.

Like many, I started playing farming simulators with Stardew Valley. It blew my mind because of how relaxing, yet in depth it was with what it offered to the player. You could approach the game in so many different ways. Aside from one mechanic that I’ll bring up in a bit, every element felt fleshed out. When I found out it was based on the Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons I decided to try several games in those series. What I was left with was disappointment.

Stardew Valley nearly perfected the genre. So much so that every game that came before it feels like a cheap imitation. No matter how many games I tried nearly all of them had clunky farming, repetitive dialogue, and had little to do outside of maintaining crops and spamming gifts. The only one in those two series that really impressed me was Trio of Towns. Each town had a fun, distinct culture, the farming was streamlined, and the characters were fun to talk to (although the dialogue could get repetitive here too). Frustrated, I turned to the Rune Factory series.

I picked up Rune Factory 4 for the Switch and loved it at first. The plot was cute and interesting, the characters were charming and had lots to say, and the farming felt fluid. Then I reached level 30. The game does a horrible job at explaining its weapon and armor crafting system. As a result, I wasn’t able to improve my gear. Even on the easiest difficulty, enemies were still destroying me because I couldn’t figure out an essential game mechanic. The only two guides I found were convoluted and only made things harder. I ultimately gave up on my second favorite game in the genre because it didn’t properly explain how to progress.

The one thing that I think holds back every game in this genre is the social interaction system. I have yet to see a farming simulator where you aren’t gifting the same items over and over again to befriend characters. It’s such a basic way to interact with characters and doesn’t give them the chance to shine. Socializing in real life involves speaking with people and getting to know them. What if a farming simulator had you participate in interactive conversations with the characters? It would give the writers opportunities to establish their personalities and be more rewarding than “I gave the girl an amethyst, so now she likes me more.” It doesn’t help that many games in this genre have a very limited amount of character interactions to begin with. My pitch isn’t perfect, but it would certainly be more interesting than item spamming.

 

[Chris]

The one thing that I think holds back every game in this genre is the social interaction system. I have yet to see a farming simulator where you aren’t gifting the same items over and over again to befriend characters.

What if a farming simulator had you participate in interactive conversations with the characters?

There is a farming game that handles the social aspect this way: Harvestella. In terms of gameplay, it is similar to Rune Factory in that it has a main plot and dungeon crawler elements in addition to being a life sim - and bonus is it is also beautiful to look at! I've been playing farming sims since the early 00s and Harvestella is everything I didn't know I needed. I'd absolutely recommend giving it a go.