Unpopular Opinions: The Thread

[bgillisp]

@Countyoungblood : Mm9 has a lot of problems getting it to run. I tried to buy the gog version, but that refused to run on a windows 7 machine. Guess even that version is bad. Plus I hear it has game breaking bugs where you can easily break the main storyline by accidentally going out of order.

@Lothloran : Yeah, its only because we prefer to keep the language consistent. And it is easy to make a culture mistake, I've heard there are some you can insult them by shaking with the wrong hand.

 

[Sauteed_Onion]

Guacamole on a submarine sandwich is pretty good.




*s.t.o@the avocado hatred*

 

[Tai_MT]

More unpopular opinions:

I thought Windows 7 was pretty good. Windows 10 too.

"Hearthstone" is the worst TCG ever made, and it's even worse with all the really terrible game design decisions.

Destiny 1 and Destiny 2 are complete garbage. Fit only to be incinerated. Playing these games is an exercise in self flagellation.

StarCraft II has a great storyline... The gameplay itself is probably among the worst RTS ever made. Right up there with C&C 3. No strategy or tactics. Just learning exploits.

Supreme Pizzas are gross.

Mushrooms taste nasty. So do Olives.

Sour anything is fantastically delicious.

Pepsi tastes like carbonated syrup.

For steak to be delicious you need only to add salt. If you add anything else, you're making it obvious that you can't cook a steak and have RUINED IT. No, I don't care what "professional" chefs say. The only excuse for ruining a steak by adding extra stuff to it is that you don't know how to cook it to be delicious without masking every single flavor of the meat.

"Steven Universe" is physically painful to watch. It's badly animated, the characters are annoying, and the storyline is mediocre at best.

"Dragon Warrior Monsters" is a vastly superior game in EVERY respect to Pokémon. It needs more sequels.

Watching people Speed Run games is exceptionally freakin' boring. Is it impressive you can beat a game in under 3 minutes? Sure. Do I care to see how? No, not really. I know you're using exploits and tricks and really aren't playing the game "right". Thus, boring to watch. If I want to see how to do exploits and glitches and tricks, I'll read about it.

Games need to come with manuals again. I'm sorry, but these were great features. I used to read the manuals. The excuse that "they cost too much to make" has largely been debunked and is utter nonsense. They didn't want to put people in charge of creating a manual and printing it, so they instead dumbed down the games to cope with the idea that they're cheap.

Flowers don't smell good at all.

The smell of cooking onions is pretty nasty.

Most "online only" games are pretty rubbish with no real thought put into them or into balancing.

I want more games to balance for strategies instead of raw numbers. Yep, even shooters. And everything else.

Nintendo needs to make it's entire library of games, all the way back to NES, compatible with every new console release. Or, offer to transfer forward to new versions of their games if you own old versions. There is no reason not to do this. It would obsolete most of the "emulator" market if they did so.

Chicken sandwiches are more delicious with ketchup instead of mayo.

Orange soda is far more delicious than grape soda.

Popcorn is really only delicious if cooked via air popper or on the stove. Microwave popcorn is pretty freakin' garbage.

I like the Sims 4.

Tidus from Final Fantasy X was a very well written character. Too many people focus on and misunderstand the laughing scene as well as paint it 200% out of context.

Gunblades are freakin' stupid.

Punching things to death in an RPG setting is freakin' insane. No, I don't care if you're a monk with "Chi". It's still stupid. Especially when I can brain you with a mace or break your freakin' hands with it when you attempt to block it. Also, there's no way you're ever going to be strong enough to punch a dragon to death. Not unless you're going to discredit every single piece of lore in your RPG Universe.

Okay, I'm done with my second list.

 

[Lothloran]

@Tai_MT
Ehh I don't think it would kill the emulator market. I use emulators because I'm not going to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars buying old and rare games on ebay just to play them. I'm also not about to spend hundreds of dollars on capture cards to stream them and I think most people feel more or less the same way.
Zelda OoT averages around 55 bucks on ebay lol, I also have no idea how they'd make their games compatible without releasing either a ton of peripherals to plug cartridges into their disk drive systems or by releasing their entire library digitally on a steam-like nintendo store, and then you run into the same problem, no one is going to spend money on digital releases of 30 year old games when they can find free digital releases for emulators.
I mean... I guess I could conceive of a weird peripheral that would plug into the disk drive and read cartridges but what I'm picturing in my mind looks incredibly fragile and wonky.

most monks use katars or other bladed fist weapons by the time they start fighting dragons. The internal lore of an rpg is violated any time someone defeats a dragon regardless of how, "the dragon's scales are hard as diamonds" and yet a sword, spear or magical attack can somehow kill them lol.

I can 120000% agree with you on Steven Universe though, my ex made me watch that crap, holy Christ it's bad. You might enjoy this though

Warning, naughty language.

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^The video was like catharsis by proxy after being forced to watch 100 episodes of this crap.

 

[Tai_MT]

I'd buy all the games again, provided it did work like the Steam library does. I can prove I bought X game, so when the new console comes out, I can download it onto that. New version of the game is released, I get "store credit" towards it's purchase and get it at a drastically reduced rate and am only paying for the "new content".

It would drastically hinder emulator markets to have every Nintendo game available on all their consoles, released digitally or otherwise. I would rather own the game than have it for free and have it not be owned. But, that's me.

I also see no reason to stream games.

Really, nobody wants to watch people stream games, unless the game is new and they don't own it. You tune it to streamers for the PERSONALITY AND COMEDY OF THE STREAMER THEMSELVES. At which point, any game they're playing is moot, since they can make anything funny... And you don't need a super fantastic capture card to be funny or charismatic. But, that's another unpopular opinion of mine. I don't watch streamers, 'cause most are not funny, and watching someone else play a game while not adding anything interesting to the experience... Yeah, I'd rather just play it myself.

Oh, you can actually buy OOT for the 3DS for under $40 if you want. Majora's Mask as well. I own the carts for both, but I find having the newer versions that are handheld is a better proposition than some silly emulator.

As one who had played a lot of RPGs... and even D&D... Even handheld weapons like Spiked Knuckles... really aren't going to be that effective. Especially when most other weapons reach a much longer distance and do more damage. "I punch through that monster". No, no you don't. You punch them, bruise/break your knuckles, and make the monster angry enough to bite you. Congrats. We're not even getting into RPG's where people punch ROBOTS.

 

[Lothloran]

That's fair, I do speedruns so I either have to stream them or record them locally so I can submit video proof of the run. I don't stream games just to stream them, I only stream when I do world record attempts.
I'd also say that I disagree a little bit about people's personality being the selling feature, take people like Gunnermaniac on twitch who has something like 30k followers and 4 million stream views, dude has all the personality of a mop bucket... BUT, he held the world records for pokemon red/blue, yellow, gold/silver, and a few others. People pay attention to the skill, he's really skilled but he's really boring.

I don't wanna be a dork or anything, but don't Shaolin monks spend months standing in front of a wall punching a stack of paper to produce repetitive micro fractures in their hand which toughen their bones to the point of being able to punch through bricks or have people smack their knuckles with metal rods?
If I wanna roleplay as a punch-a-holic who beats up robots with his bare hands I'm just going to assume I spent 20 years in a temple conditioning my bones to take the abuse.


This on the other hand..

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[mlogan]

Just to be completely clear before any accusations are thrown: I am the one who removed things from Lothloran's posts. Both things violated our "do not use excessive profanity" rule. In addition, the video contained a lot of material (yes, I watched it) that could be offensive to members of our community. These sort of things do not have a place here.

 

[Lothloran]

Just to be completely clear before any accusations are thrown: I am the one who removed things from Lothloran's posts. Both things violated our "do not use excessive profanity" rule. In addition, the video contained a lot of material (yes, I watched it) that could be offensive to members of our community. These sort of things do not have a place here.

Could have sworn I put it in a spoiler with a warning.

 

[mlogan]

I don't remember that making it okay. The only place it's ever been okay, to my knowledge, is in project threads.

 

[Mystryl_Shada]

This actually looks like fun, lol. I don't want to start any fights, though, so keep in mind these are just what the title says: OPINIONS! Whee!

@Tai_MT Yeah, I tried a few eps of Stephen Universe. Most of what I saw I couldn't believe got past censors for a kid's cartoon. Not just that it was inappropriate (some of that too), but because it was waaay heavy. And yeah, that art is atrocious, storytelling clunky, and nearly every character bugged me. Hardly a one of them are emotionally stable, frankly, and are terrible role models.

To add to that opinion, I'm gonna throw even more fuel on the fire and say that I wish SpongeBob Squarepants was never created. This world would have been a much more beautiful and intelligent place without it. I can't even begin to describe how bad this show is. Please, make it stop . . .
(with the exception of that plankton guy; he's actually almost funny)

I agree with the creators of Phinneas and Ferb; too many cartoons rely on getting their laughs from idiot main characters. SMART PEOPLE CAN BE FUNNY TOO. Also, too much humor in general these days rely on picking on some poor character. "Butt monkeys", as TV Tropes calls them, can be funny in moderation, but they can be overdone too.

Something I like though, was a bunch of cartoons that I think got cancelled before their time due to stupid studio stuff. Megas XLR, Transformers Animated, Legion of Superheroes . . . I could go on forever. I really think a lot of cartoon network execs have never really been kids themselves.

Unpopular game opinions!

Total Annihilation is the best strategy game. OK, fine, I'm biased because its a buncha mechs duking it out, so what, lol.

FPS is kinda boring. I like to see my character, thanks. The last FPS I played that I liked was Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64. And that was lifetimes ago, lol.

I've never played The Sims. Any of them. . . . I'm pretty sure that's against some gamers' code or something, lol.

I think micropurchases should be illegal. Especially ones that gets you a random reward, either good, great, or meh; that's flat-out gambling.

RANDOM UNPOPULAR OPINIONS!

Mayonnaise may be the most disgusting thing in the history of the planet. *shudder*

I don't get the big deal with monkeys. They're not cute. This includes apes, gorillas, and chimps. If I'm watching a tv show or movie and a primate of any kind shows up, I know I'm gonna hate nearly every scene with them.

 

[TheMutantSpaceDancer]

I think Tingle is the best character in the Zelda universe, he's a weird, goofy character and I like him because of how strange he is. Some people think he's gross because he's a fat, middle aged man who dances around in green tights and flies around in a balloon speedo, but I just find him hilarious for those exact reasons. He also starred in two really good games that never made it to the west, and they're both really fun and goofy.

 

[Lothloran]

I don't remember that making it okay. The only place it's ever been okay, to my knowledge, is in project threads.

So personal responsibility and self-accountability mean nothing? My God, imagine if that mentality applied to the real world, cars would be illegal because, despite the roads being littered with warning signs, "Stop" "Keep Right" "No Entry" people must be too stupid to take heed. Thank goodness there are forces in the universe to protect the illiterate.

I had a re-read of the general forum rules and I can't specifically find the rule you're talking about could you be so kind as to direct me to which line/number (X.Y) so I might better acquaint myself with the statutes in question?
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/forum-rules.90/

 

[Kes]

@Lothloran Due to time zones, it is unlikely that mlogan will be around for a while to answer your query. So probably what she had in mind would be things like

9. Do NOT use EXCESSIVE profanity.

10. Do NOT post sexually explicit content.

In addition, there is the general statement in the thread 'Responsibility on a PG-13 Website'

RPG Maker, though powerful enough to be used in professional development, is software made to be used by all ages, including minors. Because of this, the forum is PG-13 in both behavior and content.

In the past there have been some discussions as to what may or may not be posted here and how to behave (always keeping in mind that some of the readers here are children). Most people here do understand that everyone here on the forum has a responsibility toward the minors reading here.

That particular thread then goes on to discuss a type of behaviour which is not relevant here. However, the opening statement is, I believe, pertinent.

 

[lianderson]

My most unpopular opinion? In terms of RM, it would have to be RM websites. They're good, but too many creators spend more time on them, instead of their actual game.

Non RM related? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm… guns are boring. I've shot enough in the army to learn this. Why people take them so seriously, is nothing more than great marketing of the people who make them. That's my unpopular opinion, which I guess, may not be too unpopular. Divisive is more like it.

A more unpopular opinion would be, hmmmmmmmmm… I don't mind micro transactions. As long as it's got M for mature on the cover, I honestly don't have any issue.

 

[Lothloran]

@lianderson Of course guns are boring in and of themselves. So are hammers and screwdrivers. I might get excited about new drill bits though... never mind that, I digress.
I don't think most people are excited about guns themselves, or even shooting all that much. I get excited about improving my skills, or accurately predicting the MoA on a shot I've never taken before and hearing the satisfying ping at the end of the range.
In terms of guns, the only gun that really... really gets my motor running is the PSG-1 and if I ever win the lottery or have a spare 21,000 bucks laying around...
I'd be surprised if, outside of niche collectors, anyone is actually really excited about firearms. That said, I religiously watch ForgottenWeapons on the youtubes because historical equipment does turn my crank.

 

[Matseb2611]

Geez, it sure got heated in here. Well, not related to these, I've got one that I can't seem to get other people to understand as of late and it's driving me crazy.

The differences between people's personalities can be very massive, to the point where their entire perceptions of the same thing are different. To say one way is right and another is wrong is arrogant and self-righteous. For example: making decisions based on objective criteria or based on how it affects other people, or liking people vs not liking people, or being social vs not being social, or being into artistic stuff vs not being into it. Really, psychological theories such as Big 5 personality traits need to be taught in schools from a young age so that people can learn to understand these differences between one another and to stop trying to force other people to see the world the way they do. Not only this, but people have different degrees of tolerances, sensitivities, thresholds, and triggers. Just because you are able to endure 8 hours of non-stop small talk socialising, doesn't necessarily mean that everyone can, and to some people that is quite literally a mental torture. It always ticks me off when you tell people something that is hard for you and they say "then how do I manage to do it and you can't?".

 

[Philosophus Vagus]

My most unpopular opinion? In terms of RM, it would have to be RM websites. They're good, but too many creators spend more time on them, instead of their actual game.

This is far from an unpopular opinion, trust me. Most of those guilty of this (myself certainly included) are at the very least self-aware that we waste more time here then we spend being productive.

Non RM related? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm… guns are boring.

Yes, yes they are. So are most tools, it's what you can do with the tool that is interesting whether you are building a porch with the hammer or getting your groupings as tight as possible through experience, slight adjustments to your firearm and handloads. For most people I know that are into guns (or really any kind of tool) enough to collect them beyond just keeping one or two for self defense purposes the appeal is in the mechanical aspects required to understand,maintain and most effectively use the tool, not the tool itself.

 

[Sakurra]

@hiddenone I meant stupid as in I don't like them. Honesly didn't mind them much before, but my mom brought home a canary and it does not stop tweeting at all and it's driving me and my brother crazy.

Meet Alex the parrot.

Disclaimer: I am a cat person but it was not a dog nor a cat that spoke to humanity first, it was...a BIRD. Dun dun dun!

In all seriousness I understand and sympathize that a bird is annoying you. I just wanted to show a smart bird is all.

 

[Rafael_Sol_Maker]

Let me try...

• I like a lot of filler arcs in animes because they explore possibilities the canon material never dealt with. I consider them a "expanded universe".

• Cats and dogs are pretty, good companions, but sincerely, I don't know if I have patience for any of them. Too much hassle.

• Moe anime simply sucks. Most are boring (as well most of the animes anyway). Ok, character design is cute, sometimes okayish, but frankly, they get into the nerves quickly. They don't help to tell a story at all. Breaks the immersion and are irritating. The same goes for the modern deformed toons or newer deformed versions (cheaply made).

• I can't like Boruto, for me, it's just a ripoff. Until it has a decent story to tell on its own (not milking a established franchise and its universe) it will be always bland and unimaginative. What moved the history in Naruto was the characters, now that they solved their inner conflicts, all we have is a empty shell of anime/manga. They need to redo it (create good characters with compelling dramas). Hopefully this will change in the future.

• Most of Mobile iOS/Android games are rubbish time-wasters and cash-grabbers, specially the infinite ones with a lot of grinding, time waiters and no story or plot at all. They do sell. But I don't buy them.

• FF8 is underrated, but better in almost every aspect compared to FF7. VII is favorite because of the hype and due the fact of being the first one for a lot of people. The plot had the potential to be better, but the game, overall, is vastly inferior (I'm talking about design choices, not only graphics). I liked both, though. Best plot and characters goes for VI and best adventure & OST for V.

To be continued...?

 

[Touchfuzzy]

The World Ends with You was a bad game.