Unpopular gaming opinions SECOND IMPACT

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Got to drop this out there.

The N64 may have lost to the PS1 in terms of sales, but several of the N64 games set the stage for much of today’s market.

Mario 64 and Zelda OoT, I should have to explain either of these but I will. Mario 64 defined 3D platformers and how they can and could be played compared to the 2.5D and the corridor-ridden games that preceded or arrived around the same time as it. Zelda just helped make all other 3D games better with enemy lock on and automatic actions based on situations.

Goldeneye 007 was not the Halo of the N64/PSX war; it was the Doom of console FPS. It was the first popular console only game to help make the genre and more importantly, the multiplayer work were before; all you had was lame two player death matches. Halo simply picked up where Goldeneye 007 and its spiritual sequel Perfect Dark left off.

It also initially had the ?life-sim games? experiment with Nintendo backed products like Animal Forest aka Animal Crossing, back on the 64DD, along with that one game about the Yellow giant that size depended on be good (help villagers) or evil (kill villagers). Only thing that stopped the N64 was its cartridges.

And the one I will probably get the most flack for… Winback had the duck and cover gun action well before other games such as Gears of War and Killswitch.

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Pokmon is possibly the best RPG concept in all of video games, it simply isn’t properly executed. The games are still a ton of fun, but the premise looses a lot of its potential with the cheesy storyline and the ability to cheat/glitch/hack. After all, any incentive to do hard work (Not MMO hard work by any means, but harder than most shit on consoles) to catch the best pokemon is dashed when other people just cheat them.

Perfect example is Rayqueza or whatever from Ruby/Sapphire, that dude was intentionally added to the game to be as annoying as piss to catch. Every ability he has is meant to piss you off, and catching him properly is quite hard, but too much depends on luck.

If pokemon were made harder (reduced dependancy on luck, higher level scales, 80-100 for the elite four instead of 60-75), given a better/less cheesy storyline, eliminated the possibility of cheating I’d probably consider it the best rpg ever.

edit- Also, pokemon from ‘special events’ in real life removed.

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that yellow giant was “Doshin”, I remember…that game interested me, but it never came to the U.S., sadly.

heh, and you’ve reminded me…I didn’t see the big appeal for Animal Crossing. The characters are amusing to me, but that’s about it.

Though I was a fan of Metal Gear Solid…I’m not sure what people were talking about when they brought up the game’s “good graphics”. Bitch please…it was ugly, even considering the the time period in which it was released. It wasn’t necessarly Tekken-level ugly(the first tekken = ugliest popular 3d game ever? I think so.), but it wasn’t what I would’ve called “good graphics”.

The first Street Fighter was terrible. The only good things about it were music and sound…and the funny announcer. It was always a good laugh to hear this guy who sounded like he was trying to speak with a mouth full of peanut butter sandwich. Oh, one other good thing was the ninja. Any game automatically receives bonus cool points if there is a ninja in there at some point.

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Goldeneye 007 was overrated and it sucked.

For it’s time, the graphics of Tekken sucked terribly. DOA2 had much better graphics for it’s time than Tekken Tag.
Virtua Fighter gameplay >>>>>>>>>>> Tekken

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Megaman fucking sucks. That’s right, I said it.

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For being one of the first FPS on the Wii, Red Steel was actually very fun and quite good. Those bad reviews do not do the game justice.
It wasn’t the best FPS every (compared to ones on computer) but it was good.

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I wouldn’t go that far but I will say this, which is probably just as blasphemous to Mega Man fans but…

Pulseman >>>>>> Mega Man “I’ll get you Pulseman!!!”

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OH SHITZ THE INTERWEBZ ARE WATCHING!! Lord knows the REAL first rule is not to take anything too seriously. Funny how? It was until then that I became tired of it. Why go back and put forth the effort to quote something exactly when I have something just as stupid sitting right in front of me? What difference does it make what post I quote when they’re all fucking stupid? “Yo mama”? Really? No one was offended by that. We’re just in awe at how worked up you’re getting over a few opinions. When you’re bitching about every other post you’re in no position to accuse someone else of getting serious or overreacting.

It’s not embarrassing me, it’s embarrassing you. That whole “You got offended/took me seriously first” thing doesn’t work. It’s fucking preschool and if you really wanna talk about offended why not mention all of your recent posts in this thread. How could I be the one who’s butthurt when you haven’t said anything offensive to me?

And lol at this comment:

Well, now I’m quoting you: What the hell is that all about? Like I said, this is the unpopular gaming opinion discussion. Not only are they just opinions but you were already warned with the thread title that they wouldn’t necessarily be to your liking so why the outrage? Hell, it’s not like you see it everyday; they’re unpopular.

We gotta close this thread because you can’t agree with some of the posts? For someone who puts so much pride into being at a website you sure didn’t spend a whole lot of time learning did you? There are reasons why threads are closed and “I don’t like your opinion” isn’t one of them.

See right here you’re just being a fag (a tripfag, even). Sending us to blog sites would pretty much defeat the purpose of your beloved forum. Does the 1st Amendment “analy” rape you every night? Is that why you hate it so much? And for Christ’s sake stop drowning your posts in “:rofl:” smilies. “LOOK AT ME, I’M LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE AT YOUR OPINION TO PROVE HOW NOT ANGRY I AM” It’s completely overstated and no one believes it. Don’t fucking lie.

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Wow RaishinX, Shut the fuck up already.

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Blow me.

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Reki…well, yeah. He *made *Street Fighter cool. :rofl:

Square Enix was all about story+gameplay. Always has been and always will be. Graphically, they attempted to measure up, but slightly got around to it in later releases. Matter of fact, I can’t remember many japanese games that could do all aspects justice in the 32-bit days without some sort of flaw in a graphical area, especially MGS. When SCEA brought out Legend of Legaia, they bragged about their characters actually having mouths as a shot to FF VII. Mouths that they didn’t even use to talk.

Front Mission 3 is horrible to look at during battles, but the gameplay saves it from ruin and the characters had that Squaresoft flair we all know and love. Vagrant Story was a bit of a surprise from Square, but they did a great job on all ends with what they had to them.

It’s hard not to care about graphics on a 4th gen system. That’s what these opinions have taught me.

  • SNK Vs. Capcom: Match of the Mellenium will never see a current gen. console release and it is the best fighting crossover game produced by the SNK team.

  • EX is fun. Very fun.

…that went well.

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Agreed. People don’t give that game enough credit.

The missions were extremely fun too.

The music is great. I’ll probably upload it soon.

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doesnt matter if you said it… what matters is you’re wrong :arazz:

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I’ll do the EX 2 Original Soundtrack for the uploading. EX series in general is fun and very educational, but people take it too seriously because it’s got “Street Fighter” in the title. It didn’t make the cut in some scenes because it disappointed alot of the fans. The team who did it has made a better game than EX, but this game is a japanese release only.

As for edutainment, there could have been more titles for the Nintendo brands on this issue. Luckily, DS will fix that.

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I liked EX + Alpha and all, but I had much more fun trying to do the combos in the training part then actually playing the game. I would by the game just for that.

And the music, of course.

-While I understand the importance of the Mario games and respect them…I kinda hate playing them. Maybe I just don’t see the fun of stomping on mushrooms and going down green pipes and kicking the shit out of turtle shells(just to have them rebound from a wall and hit me instead) for 8 worlds. It gets tired quick and there’s no replay value IMO.

Ironically, the Mario game that is largely different from the others(SMB2) is one of my favorites and I never get tired of it, but alot of people seem to hate it or don’t even mention it. Shrug.

EDIT:With all the FF remakes Square is doing, they need to do a Xenogears remake. It WOULD’VE been one of the greatest RPG’s out there if Square didn’t shit everyone with the second disc(and tweak the gear battle system a bit). As it is, it’s just an above average game.

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Another one…

Yu-Yu Hakushu on Genesis is the funnest fighting game EVER. I play 4 player on my Nomad everytime I can.

And Diddy Kong Racing on N64 was a fun ass racing game.

On another note, what happened to real console wars?

PS2 vs Xbox was pretty good I guess (Even though we all liked XBX better, id say PS2 ended up winning)
Genesis vs SNES is one for the ages
PS1 destroyed Saturn
Dreamcast could have been better, but lost to itself (or to you reading this, with three copies of 3s import, three copies of 3s american, and every Capcom/2K sports game collecting dust in a spindle of cd’s)
PS3 vs 360? Please. 360 isnt even that great, but PS3 isnt even competition until games come out.

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Holy Shit

I agree to a majority of what specs said, especially about Super Castlevania 4 and Kirby for SNES :tup:

Here some food for thoughts

-Final Fantasy 6 was the best FF game ever made!

-Super Ghouls and Ghost, Super Castlevania 4, and FF6 had the best VGM music of all time !!!

-VGM and sound effects was better on SNES, bring back organ style music!

-The best and best looking Arcade Shooter I played was The Ocean Hunter!

-I love the game Carnevil, I don’t know why it gets so much hate!

-Tecmo Knight was an awesome and gory game and you all suck for hating it!

-I like the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden better than the NES versions!

-Arcade Shinobi was better than all the home system Shinobis!

-Sin and Punishment was the best N64 ever made!

-Video Game Horror games are NOT SCARY, what the hell is so scary about polygons!

-I think developers who make games that you cannot skip the cut-scenes so go fuck themselves, thats right Onimusha 1!

-Every game and system should have a “Easy button Reset” to the main title screen, I miss Dreamcast!

-Earthworm Jim 2 sucked!!!

-.Hack is the worst video game and anime series ever made!!

-Three Dirty Dwarves was an awesome game!

-Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity was one of the best PC games ever made!

-Resident Evil games should NOT control like a FPS, RE4 was the best RE game ever made!!

-Megaman 2 sucked because there was like 10 million copies of them everwhere!!

-Red vs. Blue is NOT FUNNY!!

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Carnevil gets so much hate because it is fucking horrible. This isnt even debatable.

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To me, its the whole freaky demented side to the shooter that I end up loving!!

Police and Terrorist shooters are so boring!

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Crash Team Racing (for PS1) was better/more fun than the mario kart games. or other kart games