Anonymous
10/17/2025, 1:05:39 AM
No.12103637
>>12096485
while i don't agree with how harsh this post is unfortunately it's pretty much on the dot. you see a lot more nintendofags because older nintendo games were worth celebrating compared to everything else around. i can pick up NES super mario bros and get a solid afternoon of entertainment out of it to this day, and other companies were putting out classics like contra and castlevania for the system that also offer solid entertainment no matter the replay count. it's all about what stood the test of time.
you try to play a 2600 game today and you're going to be bored of the novelty in minutes. not only was the jump in tech massive the quality control was important too. no one cared about giving devs time to make something decent versus having shit out on shelves so you got shit like the ET situation where it was rushed out and unceremoniously dumped into a literal landfill. you have some stuff like pitfall that was a glimpse of what was to come sure, but at the same time it's fucking pitfall. a whole 20 minutes of fun. what exactly are people meant to discuss about that?
>oh man that pit that disappeared and reappeared sure was a crazy obstacle. same with the next screen it was on, and the next one!
similarly you see people bring up the old sonic games time and time again but you don't see much love for other genesis titles. then you look at the other crap even sega themselves were doing and it becomes clear. something like ristar is just okay. third parties? as an example, for some reason there's a big debate over which console aladdin game was better when if you actually play both the entire way through it becomes blindingly obvious that capcom's offering had much more thought put into it compared to virgin's where the level design completely falls apart. neither is an amazing game by any measure but it's the sort of comparison you'd see time and time again, there's a reason why vectorman is utterly forgotten compared to donkey kong country after all.
while i don't agree with how harsh this post is unfortunately it's pretty much on the dot. you see a lot more nintendofags because older nintendo games were worth celebrating compared to everything else around. i can pick up NES super mario bros and get a solid afternoon of entertainment out of it to this day, and other companies were putting out classics like contra and castlevania for the system that also offer solid entertainment no matter the replay count. it's all about what stood the test of time.
you try to play a 2600 game today and you're going to be bored of the novelty in minutes. not only was the jump in tech massive the quality control was important too. no one cared about giving devs time to make something decent versus having shit out on shelves so you got shit like the ET situation where it was rushed out and unceremoniously dumped into a literal landfill. you have some stuff like pitfall that was a glimpse of what was to come sure, but at the same time it's fucking pitfall. a whole 20 minutes of fun. what exactly are people meant to discuss about that?
>oh man that pit that disappeared and reappeared sure was a crazy obstacle. same with the next screen it was on, and the next one!
similarly you see people bring up the old sonic games time and time again but you don't see much love for other genesis titles. then you look at the other crap even sega themselves were doing and it becomes clear. something like ristar is just okay. third parties? as an example, for some reason there's a big debate over which console aladdin game was better when if you actually play both the entire way through it becomes blindingly obvious that capcom's offering had much more thought put into it compared to virgin's where the level design completely falls apart. neither is an amazing game by any measure but it's the sort of comparison you'd see time and time again, there's a reason why vectorman is utterly forgotten compared to donkey kong country after all.