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The only part in New Leaf that appealed to me was collecting things for the museum. I loved that. If the games were just that I'd love it a lot more.
For me, personally, it's great for the pick-up-and-play-with-friends aspect mixed with dose of competition and fun. I will say, though, that I like it best in smaller doses and can easily get burnt out by it if I play for too long. To each their own, of course, but those are just my thoughts.
Yeah, nowadays, to think I actually probably sunk some good 100 hours into MKWii, it's just...
THANK YOU. Sinnoh IMO was probably best designed region, but I disagree with what you said about Johto. I enjoy the Sinnoh region for the overall appearance and geography, and even though Johto might not be the best when it comes to geography (people complain about Hoenn having too much water, but at least it didn't have currents all over the place making going through the surfing sections much more annoying to get through), but I think it has the best appearance out of all regions (I have not played Gen 7 yet so I don't know anything about the region). Unova in B&W was easily my least favorite region when it came to exploring it, but B2&W2 made me like the region a lot more with the new areas and changes to older areas.
I honestly never really saw it as censorship and just saw it as excluding a dumb feature from the game that I can only imagine really strange people legitimately enjoying unironically. I once got called a censorship apologist by someone on this site on a different thread once just for saying that I didn't care that they removed that.
The only FE characters I think should have been in the game are Marth, Ike, Robin, and Chrom. Corrin is the only character in Smash 4 that I feel does not belong in the game. He was added into the game before FE:Fates even came out worldwide, and most people never cared about Corrin anyways. The second most voted ballot character should have been added instead of Corrin.
Every Mario Kart game I played after MKDS was really only enjoyable when playing with my friends. Playing alone or even online against randoms is just boring and something about the controls in MKWii and MK8 just feels really clunky and weird to me, even without motion controls. The tracks in the newer MK games also just seem uninspired to me for the most part.
**** you I hate you. (I just joking mods please don't kill me)Did someone say unpopular gaming opinions?
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People don't think that Sonic '06 is Adventure 3? Like, I know that some folks like to hold the Adventure series to a higher standard but '06 is so clearly a Sonic Adventure game gone wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if early in development the game's title actually was Sonic Adventure 3.
I never really got the hype with Xenoblade. Its like MMO game play was introduced to non-MMO players and that entire crowd lost their minds because it was new to them. That style of game has existed since at least 2004, and as a long time MMO addict I found the game stale only a few hours in.
Honestly I think its apples to oranges. Yes, they're both fruits but their similarities end there. F-Zero is about mastery and challenge where as Mario Kart is designed to be more universally appealing.
I could honestly write an entire book on how I hate the artistic direction the Fire Emblem series is going. Less swords and sorcery strategy, more anime archetypes and features to appeal to the general otaku community.
Yeah, I get what you mean with the Mario Kart/F-Zero thing. It was just my go-to racing game example in spite of the differences.
Hold on there, buddy. This is the unpopular opinions thread. I'm pretty sure these go into the popular opinions thread.
Elaborate? I think its a monstrous improvement over Mario 64. Most of Mario 64's later levels are horribly designed, trying to be traditional, execution based levels when for 2/3s of the game you're being taught that the game is more about exploration and less about your ability to pull off tricky jumps and navigate obstacles. Mario Sunshine at least stays true to the exploration focus to the end.
I actually kind of agree to an extent, although I honestly find myself not really enjoying LoZ period these days though.
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You get gen 1 starters in XY. They gave Charizard two mega evolutions. Alolan Professor Oak, Red and Blue are all in SM. The TCG just released a set based on the original Base Set. Origins and Generations are specifically designed to appeal to older fans. I'm pretty sure Pokemon has done a ton to pander to its older fans.
I feel this way about Hearthstone, its baby's first TCG.
I disagree.
Well yeah, like I actually said before in this thread, having this opinion is actually the norm nowadays, not the exception. I'll just ask what I asked then: What is actually supposed to be so bad about these games? They're far from perfect but I have never actually seen anything reasonable been criticized about either games ever since hating on them became the norm.
I don't even like Pokemon anymore and I find that questionable. What design principles? Every generation has cool Pokemon and bad Pokemon. I still like the Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon the best arguably (most my favourites are from those two) but it's not like I don't like anyone from the remaining gens. They've got some pretty neat lil' creatures I ended up liking just as much as anything from the original GB games. We had a Pokeball and an inverted Pokeball for Pokemon in Gen 1, it's not like bad designs weren't always there.
I have extremely strong opinions about OW myself but I was never able to settle my mind on whether or not I think the game is just really beginner friendly or severely dumbed down. I'd need to actually play the game to work that out, but I'm not willling to shell out a fortune for a game I have no idea I'll like.
I don't mean dangling nostalgia in front of your face, I mean content actually intended for an older audience. Smarter dialogue and storytelling, more complicated stories, characters and themes. The games hold your hand all the way through and the storytelling is so lazy, and the anime is made for literal babies. At this point we pretty much only have the manga for anything resembling something intelligent and even then, that's stretching it. I think a more mature Pokemon story could be really, really good
You are wrong. Majora has incredible atmosphere and a unique central mechanic that it uses to it's fullest extent to create engaging gameplay and completely flesh out the world and characters. It also shakes everything in Zelda up, by not having Ganon, Zelda, the Triforce, Hyrule and sporting a more nihilistic story that doesn't revolve around your character being a special snowflake and more him being a mere observer. The amount of characters and emotion it conveys, even though it's simplicity, is a sight to behold. I consider it a masterpiece and a fine piece of gaming art.
I will acknowledge good gameplay is most necessary for Mario to succeed, but nowadays there is more to games. Mario has been in a rut of stale mediocrity, and it is a shame to see the most famous video game franchise attempt to do absolutely nothing exceptional. Mario can benefit from being more ambitious in terms of atmosphere. it's not like Mario is a stranger to having a bit more artistic integrity either, just look at Galaxy. Galaxy has incredible scale and atmosphere, nothing like we've ever seen in Mario before or since. The first three Paper Marios are endlessly praised for their storytelling and characters, and you even have to give credit to Sunshine for trying to create a fleshed out game world
the missions. they're terrible. all of them. they're all terrible. not to mention the sheer amount of padding and lazy design that went in to the game. you fight Shadow Mario like, 10 times. also, Fludd completely breaks platforming so they had to make each world unnecessarily HUGE with every single gap and ledge being HUGE so Fludd wouldn't make all the platforming in the game a cakewalk.
agree or disagree but at this point we're at the stage where most people who grew up with the Gamecube are everywhere online and praising the Sonics and the two Zelda's. I do not see where the appeal in playing any of those games nowadays is.
I don't mean the actual idea behind the designs themselves, I mean how they're drawn and depicted. I don't care what they base a Pokemon on, I care about the art style. Pokemon has undeniably gotten a much simpler, rounded art style now.
I agree, but not to such an extreme extent. I do wish Pokemon would go all the way as an RPG, instead of constantly feeling tugged by its roots to stick to familiarity, but Pokemon exists in an unfortunate space where it has to appeal to both adults and children. Not to mention that most people don't even seem to acknowledge its an RPG.
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I mean, I played WW, OoT and MM all at the same time when I was a kid. To this day I still think WW is the best of the three, followed by OoT and with MM at the bottom.
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they use the three day cycle to create a fully fleshed out world while keeping it totally streamlined.
if there was a straw man pokemon I'd post a picture of it in response
Look, geodude is a circle with two rectangles sticking out of it with two more circles on the end of the second rectangle.
You are missing the point. You have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about here
Pretty much every generation did this until Gen 5 only had like 6 HM moves if I'm correct and most of them were decent moves to use in battle just for the story, but Gen 3 definitely was the worst offender for that. I remember in Ruby I had to have two HM slaves, which is just ridiculous.
I still don't understand why people hate ORAS so much, I personally thought it was one of the best in the series.
Before I played that game for the first time I was starting to get burned out on the Zelda series, but that game brought back my interest and made me hope they just never make a linear Zelda game again. Not that the past Zelda games are bad or anything, but I feel Zelda is at its best when the player is given the freedom to explore wherever they want and go through any dungeon they want in any order. Thankfully Breath of the WIld looks like it is going to take the non-linearity of ALBW to another level. I think I remember once hearing that future Zelda games are going to take the direction of non-linearity, so I wouldn't be surprised if we get more games like BoTW and ALBW.
I love both the original gen III games as well as ORAS, but for me (and most likely everyone else) the biggest problem with ORAS was its lack of post-game content. Emerald had the Battle Frontier while ORAS just had a copy-and-pasted Battle Resort from X/Y. Sure the original R/S didn't have the BF, but neither did Gold/Silver yet they got their own BF in their remakes (sure it was copied from Platinum but it was still great to have). The Delta episode was ok, but I'd gladly trade it for the Battle Frontier any day.
I've noticed that they tried to market the Gen 5 games to older audiences, but for whatever reason with Gen 6 they started trying to market the entire series towards really young children. Just looking at Gen 7's anime and all the complaints about hand-holding this gen is making me think Game Freak is trying to market Pokemon towards literal babies by this point and giving actual zero ****s if this is insulting anyone's inteligence.
I think Game Freak trying to market Pokemon to very young children has a lot to do with Youkai Watch. As far as I know, that series is primarily targeted at young kids and is currently kicking Pokemon's ass in Japan (although this might have changed with SM). I think Game Freak felt like they went too far in the other direction with B/W and are trying to get the younger audiences back on board.
Poor is an exaggeration, it was more like very low end of middle class.
Atleast not until muuuuuuch later.
The Delta Episode and having all of those legendary pokemon to catch in the post game left me satisfied most likely, because it was just more than what X and Y had and I pretty much forgot most of what the post game was like in the Gen 5 games other than a few key things like not fighting Alder until the post game and doing the stuff having to do with Colress or whatever his name was (the guy in Team Plasma that was some kind of scientist who turned out to be a good guy).
Which is strange, because I remember a lot of people praising Gen 5 for appealing to older audiences, even the people who hated everything else about Gen 5.
My little brother is exactly like this and he is only 3 years younger than me :/ I remember trying to get him to play Dark Souls 3 and he gave up after he died to the first boss once. Unfortunately a lot of gamers within the ages of about 14 and below can't stay interested in games if the game isn't really simple to understand. A lot of kids don't care about how to figure out a strategy to beat challenging parts of a game, or learning how to time attacks. I remember back when I was in middle school when I would battle against other kids and I would notice the people in my grade would use more strategy in the battles, but the people in the grade just below us mostly were the types to use a full team of legendary pokemon with nothing but the highest damage moves, so we never played against them since there was no challenge when we played against them.
I don't think ORAS is the among the best in the series (Although, my hate for Hoenn probably didn't help). I think its rather underwhelming as a remake. Not remaking the Battle Frontier and use the Battle Chateau instead is one of the reasons why ORAS get so much hate.
Technically, Sun and Moon does have some side quests but they're only "catch x pokemon and I'll reward you money".
I personally don't care enough about the post game for it to effect my opinion on a Pokemon game that much. The post game is an important thing to me, but I felt like ORAS had enough to it to make it a good remake. I could never beat Ruby after playing the games past Gen 4, I can't really pinpoint why, but I wouldn't be surprised if I would have the same problems trying to playthrough Gen 1 or 2. The best thing about ORAS for me was the main story and the multiplayer (the return of move tutors opened up a lot of pokemon added in X/Y that I loved using in singleplayer to being useful in multiplayer, such as Pangoro hwo is my favorite Gen 6 pokemon).
Splatoon is an even better argument for that.
I never felt that Smash 4 was a incomplete game, but it did feel like it was just one step forward for the core gameplay and three steps backward for single player. Not to say that the single player modes are bad (except smash tour is just bad), but not including any kind of mode like the subspace emissary was really disappointing for me. Smash Run is great, but you can't play it in the Wii U version and there is no online multiplayer for it or ANY of the single player modes.
Instead of being some 2-3 paragraphs talking about the character/object and what they do and where they are from, now they're just a single barely informative paragraph that feels like it was written with the mentality of "kids these days probably thin this is cool".
