I understand your frustration, but I personally believe all those games deserve the praise they're getting.
Wrong thread. :PUnpopular opinion(s):
1. I think Super Mario Sunshine is one of the best Mario games out there since mainly nostalgia and I prefer the style, feel, and platforming challenges.
2. I'm not a big fan of Wario Land 4, but I don't hate it. Either call it odd or just weird, but I do enjoyWario: Master of DIsguise.
3. In Banjo-Kazooie, I think Rusty Bucket Bay is easy and not as hard as everyone anticipates. Sure, the Engine Room can be very aggravating, but it seems to be a cake walk for me. (I have played both versions of the game and yes I think the N64 version is a bit more difficult since notes aren't saved and are rather a high score.)
We are the sameI like pineapple pizza, bluegrass is better than country, pauline from mario is overrated, and in call of duty i prefer the modern warfare characters (soap, price, ghost) over the black ops ones (mason, woods, bowman)
Most pop music isn't bad per se, it's just that it is produced in a style that doesn't do justice to the original composition.
Take the song I'm Blue for example: It is a typical 90's eurodance song with tons of synths and vocoder, which some may like but many don't, yet when you listen to an instrumental version, it sounds much more sad, poignant and melancholic.
Take a listen for yourself:
This is hardly surprising once you know that I'm Blue started out as just the piano riff with the rest of the song being built around this original composition. There are more examples of pop songs that IMO sond way better when you listen to the melody itself, such as Lady Gaga - Poker Face, Shakira - Whenever Wherever, Ariana Grande - One Last Time, and many other mediocre pop songs where the instrumental melody sounds better than the actual song. But maybe that's just because I listen a lot to trance music, where the music itself is the main focus of the piece and lyrics are either nonexistent or of secondary importance. However, I've had this opinion before I got into instrumental electronic music though.