Should Nintendo double down on working with "AA" studios

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

There are plenty of games I enjoyed during the 5th gen, I just wasn't that impressed with many heavily praised titles. I think there are a ton of games from the 5th gen that aged better than Rare games on N64. Again, I argue if it didn't age well its very possible the game was never that good. Because there is plenty of old shit I can still have a blast with.

Same applies to any older title... Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo Wars, Gears of War 1, Final Fantasy 7/8/9, Metroid on NES, Resident Evil 1, Call of Duty 1, 2 and 3, Grand Turismo, Morrowind, Goldeneye, Grand Turismo 1... They all aged badly, but during their release time frame they were great titles that were representative of the hardware they were released on... But compared to todays games, are pretty average experiences.

They all aged badly? No. Its also possible some games had good ideas but the overall execution was poor, those are the games that aged badly.

Some of those games you mentioned are actually still enjoyable. I mean Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo Wars, Gears 1 are still good games I've played in the past few years via remasters or BC. Halo 1 and Halo 2 still have active MP in MCC.

I think FF games generally aged fine because the core gameplay is just a standard JRPG.

I always hated the tank control of RE games, but I think people enjoyed the games outside of that.

NES games are an era people have mixed feelings about. I feel like 16-bit games get more praise and rightfully so.

CoD1 is not a great game to revisit, but I feel CoD2 and 3 are okay. These are all just gallery shooters.

I never spent much time with Gran Turismo. Goldeneye on an actual N64 has terrible controls and performance, but would be enjoyable if they remastered it like Perfect Dark on 360. On side note those PS1 Medal of Honor games were surprisingly good when I tried them on PSP in recent years.

I think there is a difference between an average experience and a game that is difficult to revisit. For example, replaying Sonic Adventure games is torture. But it was fresh at the time, so we appreciated what was new and tolerated some bad gameplay.