Share your unfiltered, unpopular gaming opinions and let’s dive into some real discussions. If you come across a view you disagree with, feel free to (respectfully) defend your perspective. I don’t want to see anyone say stuff like “we’re all entitled to our own opinions.” Let’s pretend like gaming is a science and we are all award winning scientists.

My Unpopular Opinion:

I believe the criticism against battle royales is often unwarranted. Most complaints revolve around constant content updates, microtransactions, and toxic player communities

Many criticize the frequent content updates, often cosmetic, as overwhelming. However, it’s optional, and no other industry receives flak for releasing more. I’ve never seen anyone complain about too many Lays or coke flavors.

Pay-to-win concerns are mostly outdated; microtransactions are often for cosmetics. If you don’t have the self control to not buy a purple glittery gun, then I’m glad you don’t play the games anymore, but I don’t think it makes the game bad.

The annoying player bases is the one I understand the most. I don’t really have a point against this except that it’s better to play with friends.

Overall I think battle royale games are pretty fun and rewarding. Some of my favorite gaming memories were playing stuff like apex legends late at night with friends or even playing minecraft hunger games with my cousins like 10 years ago. A long time ago I heard in a news segment that toy companies found out that people are willing to invest a lot of time and energy into winning ,if they know there will be a big reward at the end, and battle royales tap into that side of my brain.

This is just my opinion

  • @caut_R@lemmy.world
    26•1 year ago

    Have three unpopular opinions:

    1. Bethesda games are insanely overrated and absolutely carried by the modding community. Do I enjoy Skyrim? Hell yeah! …With 500 mods.

    2. Everything below 50-60 FPS is stuttery, unsmoooth, and unenjoyable no matter the genre.

    3. There‘s a place and time for „Ubisoft formula“ games (aka. tick off 500 icons on a map), cause sometimes I don‘t wanna think, I just wanna mindlessly walk around with semi-purpose and do stuff.

    I love unpopular opinions.

    • @Penta@lemmy.world
      17•1 year ago

      Disagree with 2. You get used to it, especially when playing more older games. After a few hours of Ocarina of Time even the 20fps works eventually lol

      • all-knight-party
        9•1 year ago

        You get used to 2 as long as the framerate is consistent. If you’ve got a smooth 30 then you can get used to it. If it’s constantly jumping around from 30-50 or something you won’t be able to stop noticing it

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      5•1 year ago
      1. I was about to post this. Morrowind is genuinely great, but that’s an outlier.
      2. I think 40 is fine, but only if your monitor supports adaptive sync or can be locked to 40 (e.g. Steam Deck)
      3. Disagree. If I want something mindless, I’ll farm something useful so my next play session is more “productive.” That could be grinding levels, money, crafting materials, or fetch quests. Just ticking icons isn’t fun.
    • @wearling0600@lemmy.world
      5•1 year ago

      2&3 completely agree

      On 1 though, I agree IF every other game embraced the modding community as much as Bathesda games do. GTA is the only other game I heavily mod, and in comparison it’s such a pain in the ass, the game engine is not designed to support it so you get weird bugs, just overall a worst experience.

      So I think it’s fair to rate the base game highly for its support of mods. They’ve decided that providing a great experience for mods is a high priority for them. Maybe they can make the base game better if they don’t have to make it compatible with whatever modders want to throw at it.