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Khuutra on 02 September 2008
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forevercloud3000 said:
Khuutra said:
Incandescence: I see now that in that sentence you equated "best" with "best-loved". The statement makes much more sense now; thank you for your clarification.

forevercloud3000: No. Popularity does not equate to best.

Unless you'd care to argue that every single Mario Kart is better than every single Final Fantasy, that is.

 

Regardless of what I personally think it is not up to me on what is better. Obviously people think Mario Kart 64 (the only one to pass FFVII) was simply that good of a game. Yet this one is debatable seeing as they are completly different genres. And Popularity does not make a game the best, but the best games are popular.

 

 

Mario Kart DS has smashed FFVII's numbers to paste.

Yes, ideally, it is you who says what is best. Going with a crowd mentality means giving up the responsibility of having your own opinions, which is something that absolutely has to be preserved.

No, the best games are not necessarily the most popular. To pretend that is to ignore sleeper hit underground games that were arguably the best of their respective generations: EarthBound and Steel Battalion, for instance, are both better than Final Fantasy VII, and neither of them sold even a tenth as much. Probably not a twentieth.