My Thought about Nintendo

[sethsez]

Why play shit that's only moderately enjoyable?

When you could play Umihara Kawase instead!

Oh, wait...

[Neon]

Umihara Kawase Shun 1+2 on PSX are better

[sethsez]

I still only find them moderately enjoyable. Good idea in search of a better game.

[BulletMagnet]

And of course people think Ocarina is teh best game evar oneoneone. It's what the magazines, and their Nintendo fetishes, tell them to think.

Try telling that to my dad...he's never cared much for video games in general, but to this day OoT remains the only game he's ever sat down and played all the way through, without any promting to do so from me or anyone else. Perhaps his tastes and yours aren't compatible, but it certainly wasn't a magazine or a console bias that persuaded him to play the thing.

Might it be reasonable for a person to consider that, if others enjoy a game he doesn't like to some degree, to assume that the game does SOMEthing right, even if it's not something that he personally cares much for? Or is it somehow more reasonable for him to just take the well-traveled path that a good chunk of this forum likes to traverse, and just assume that he alone is somehow enlightened, and everyone else on the planet just plain "doesn't get it," and that's Just The Way It Is, Dammit?

[sethsez]

Might it be reasonable for a person to consider that, if others enjoy a game he doesn't like to some degree, to assume that the game does SOMEthing right, even if it's not something that he personally cares much for? Or is it somehow more reasonable for him to just take the well-traveled path that a good chunk of this forum likes to traverse, and just assume that he alone is somehow enlightened, and everyone else on the planet just plain "doesn't get it," and that's Just The Way It Is, Dammit?

I've given up on this battle. Most people are dead-set on the second point of view.

[Neon]

There's a difference between that and the fact that Ocarina got far more coverage and hype than any arcade game ever has. Thus it's going to be more people's favourites.

As the saying goes, if you try to please everybody, you please nobody. He and everyone else may have enjoyed the game, but not as much as they would a niche title catering to their specific tastes, methinks.

[sethsez]

But for a lot of people, OoT did cater to their specific tastes. It was epic, had a lot of action, had plenty of stuff to break up said action, etc. A singular focus works for a lot of games, but many people also play for the overall experience, and that is what OoT provided.

[Marc]

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There's a difference between that and the fact that Ocarina got far more coverage and hype than any arcade game ever has. Thus it's going to be more people's favourites.

I'd have to disagree with you there. SF2, around the time of the SNES conversion received more coverage than any game, ever. Least over here.

As the saying goes, if you try to please everybody, you please nobody. He and everyone else may have enjoyed the game, but not as much as they would a niche title catering to their specific tastes, methinks.

Maybe, just maybe, it did cater to some gamer's specific taste's. Those who like 3D action/adventure games and wanted to play the finest example ever coded for starters.

Bottom line is for me that one game showcases Nintendo at their very peak. S'been all downhill ever since

[jp]

Funny maybe, I've got a point though. Why play shit that's only moderately enjoyable?

What Nintendon't needs to do is make fullspeed w/sound NES, Genesis, and PCE emulators for DS, then I'd get one.

http://www.computercloset.org/NECTurboExpress.htm
http://www.ravengames.co.uk/engine4.htm
http://www.computercloset.org/SegaNomad.htm
http://www.nintendo.com/systemsgba



D'oh! My bad. I forgot, you don't like to actually buy videogames.

[BIG]

I guess I have had too much time on my hands at work today as I got to thinking about Nintendo's next console.

Why don't they just make a 2D optimized system?

Because 2-D does not equate to $$$$ these days (well,in America,atleast).

B-

[Neon]

Funny maybe, I've got a point though. Why play shit that's only moderately enjoyable?

What Nintendon't needs to do is make fullspeed w/sound NES, Genesis, and PCE emulators for DS, then I'd get one.

http://www.computercloset.org/NECTurboExpress.htm
http://www.ravengames.co.uk/engine4.htm
http://www.computercloset.org/SegaNomad.htm
http://www.nintendo.com/systemsgba



D'oh! My bad. I forgot, you don't like to actually buy videogames.

I have the most feedbacks of anyone in the trading forum...

Anyways, the point is not to carry around a bunch of ancient expensive portables with 2 second battery life plus the necessary cartridges.