Eric* unpopular = would get downvoted in r/games
apparently gets downvoted here too lol
half life 2 + episodes aren't just good, they're the greatest singleplayer fps to date (still flawed, but god damn they good). also people bitch about the airboat/driving sections way too much, they were decently interesting. the only really unfortunate parts are the occasional unskippable cutscenes, and in most cases they offered pieces of the environment to fuck around with while those happen anyway.
any of the battle royale games are a terrible choice for an esport. if the rng element can be reduced, they might work, but right now there's no way to consistently win those games at the highest levels, effectively making the winners of tournaments random. there's a difference between a highly competitive top level of skill, and the game just doling out better tools to some players.
nintendo's games, while fun, are not half as innovative as people make them out to be. they just do a better job at implementing that particular graphics style than anyone else.
civ and games like it are incredibly boring. they basically are just tricking you into reading an encyclopedia. they involve no skill outside of "memorize this skill tree faster." games like empire earth had a similar concept of tech progression but minus all the bullshit
this is a long one, but i've heard a lot about how flawed 5cp is as a spectator sport because of how slow it sometimes is in europe. 5cp is significantly more flawed from a player's point of view than the spectator's. there's almost always stuff to talk about, even in some of the stupid slow 15-minute-stalemate games. Pretty much every cast I've seen, when teams stalemate, we get a recap of the last fight and then we settle into a play by play of the offclass or sac. i feel like stalemates are perfect for more in depth discussion, or even gossip about the players. commentators should be more willing to talk about basic shit during stalemates, too--why teams are holding where they do, could they perhaps uber exchange (if not, why not), how would they break the stalemate if they were playing? Also commentator bias (to a point) shouldn't be avoided, it's actually really engaging, even just talking about why they might like one team over the other.