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Pay-to-win concerns are mostly outdated; microtransactions are often for cosmetics.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
The price of modern games is often justified. I don't buy many at release, but the ones I do buy have been more than worth the money.
its one of the few things that never increased with inflation nor quality
SNES games were 60 dollars and could be beaten within a weekend
games today can take weeks to beat, if you rush it
Games actually decreased heavily in price.
$60 dollars back in 1992 would be $131 today. Still over a hundred for most of the N64 and PlayStation as well.
I like to use Red Alert 2 as an example, since it's the very first game I bought in Euro's in 2001. It cost me 45 euros, which was a fuckload of money for teenage me. And that's 77 euro's today. Warhammer 3 is selling for in 2022 (and 2023 for 17 euros LESS.
The massive amount of work that goes into a modern AAA title is truly mind blowing. It's gross that so little money goes to the people who actually make the games but certainly the effort is astounding even in titles that fall short of expectations.