Official PlayStation Vita Thread

[Finch]

SORRY COMPASS, I THOUGHT NO ONE CARED, BUT I WAS WRONG.

[MechDeus]

I'd say that the only way one could prefer Nintendo's 16-bit games or Activision games this generation is through ignorance or lack of exposure to the alternatives.

Nah.

[Tain]

i do think it's kinda wild to hold Nintendo's games up as the best on NES or SNES

[Finch]

I don't. It's ridiculous to do anything else unless you're a Master System Kid who develops those weird tastes and thinks stuff like Zelda 2 is better than Zelda 1. You're not a Master System Kid, are you Tain? Are you?

[Mzo]

Tain has a pretty narrow view of what makes up a good game. Nintendo games don't usually even try to fulfill his requirements, so they'll always fall short despite being excellent.

If I know Tain, Japanese SMB 2 is his favorite Mario game.

[kedawa]

Kid Chameleon is the best Mario game.

[Yoshi]

I don't. It's ridiculous to do anything else unless you're a Master System Kid who develops those weird tastes and thinks stuff like Zelda 2 is better than Zelda 1. You're not a Master System Kid, are you Tain? Are you?

Zelda II is not only better than Zelda I but also Ocarina, Wind Waker, etc. But I'm not sure what system preference has to do with it, since we're talking generations, not systems. Konami absolutely crushed Nintendo during the 8-bit generation, and neither released anything on SMS.

[kedawa]

Zelda II is clearly the most Golvellius-like game in the series.

[Shin Johnpv]

I'd actually argue the opposite. I'd say that the only way one could prefer Nintendo's 16-bit games or Activision games this generation is through ignorance or lack of exposure to the alternatives. I could reasonably see someone arguing for EA this generation, because they have brought both breadth and quality when they aren't busy ruining it with Origin.

No you're simply wrong. You can't dictate some one's taste or opinion. Just because some one really likes something you don't doesn't mean they've had lack of exposure to the rest of what's out there. They just don't have the same tastes as you.

This really isn't a hard concept, different people like different things. My 5 year old nephew can figure this out, an adult man should be able to as well.

[Yoshi]

It's extremely unlikely, unless you're equating fanboyism with taste. If people objectively played all the key games from a given generation, it would be extremely unlikely that they would choose Nintendo's, because there are very factual differences like a lack of genre variety that would hold Nintendo back. I know you have to rush to Nintendo's defense at every opportunity, and since you can't play the "it's fun" card here, you have to take all the objectivity out of the argument a different way, but this is not all subjectivity, since things like quantity and variety of games are measurable.