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Pay-to-win concerns are mostly outdated; microtransactions are often for cosmetics.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
Consoles are for the rich and my mind can't be changed about that.
After all these years I found a ps3 getting thrown away so I picked it up and asked my cousin for a controller and it's really fun and convenient for gaming but damn back then I could never afford it. Now it's worse. You have to pay for online, games are more expensive, controllers are more expensive, and it's way more locked down. I remember my cousin and I were trying to watching a YouTube video and we couldn't because sony servers were down and you had to be logged in to watch a YouTube video.
Most of my gaming friends who play on consoles are well off. There's an abundance of games that you can play for free/cheap on PC that don't need a lot of horsepower to play. Most people play on cheapo laptops or cheap PCs with less than 500 USD budget to build. My brother in law still plays on a Ryzen 1600 and RX 480 PC built in 2017 right when it was released and the only upgrade made to the system is getting 1660 Super or 1660 Ti 3 years ago. He mostly play Brawlhalla and Forza Horizon.
That was me, but with a 1700 (bought for compile speed, I'm a SWE) and a GTX 960. I upgraded last year when prices came down to a 6650XT and a 5600X, but still on the same mobo.
I never really had an issue playing games because I prefer to play older games. I can afford nicer, but I don't see a point. I hate paying more for games than I need to, and PC just has so many options that I'm interested in that I don't see the need to play recent games.
When I was a kid, I saved up for a console but I could only afford a handful of games. My PC wasn't good enough to play many games, so I just played the games I had. So I have a ton of games I missed growing up, so I'm content lagging a bit on modern games.
You don't need to be rich in a western nation to get a console, but if you mean the value proposition of having the newest console sucks then yes, absolutely.
The only console I've bought since the PS3 has been the Switch and it hasn't been absurdly expensive. I've bought almost all of my games second hand.
It can take a while to find them at the right price, but I've had good luck finding people selling multiple games at once and bundling a couple together for a good price. I bought Mario Kart 8 and BOTW for $25/each
Also, the games don't lose much value if you ever want to resell them. I imagine I could still get ~$30 for each one if I really wanted to and in the future they'll probably go up to about $50-$60 once they stop manufacturing them
It really depends on what you are expecting. I got two consoles, a refurbished PS4 slim and an Xbox One S. The PS4 was 125 USD and the Xbox (an all-digital edition with no drive) was 90 USD. Yes, you have to look out for these deals but they're there. PS4 games cost me usually 10 USD max, I buy them during deals or used. Xbox had a lot of game pass tricks you could do so the games were mostly extremely cheap.
But I do understand if you mean playing the newest games. That can be expensive.
Plus the online if you'd want to do that. PS5 is crazy. My cousin is on his 5th $70 controller because they keep getting stick drift. I honestly don't know why he still plays console
Yeah that is just laziness. When I wqs a kid consoles were too expensive so everyone wqs gaming on their PC or handheld consoles. You either used a keyboard or a shitty knock-off controller. I couldn't imagine paying big bucks for a new gamepad. Even though I love games I still like to be thrifty with my gaming related purchases and treat myself only once in a while. Sometimes I wonder if the people who get the newest stuff would necessarily notice if they were playing a PS4 or PS5 game.