| WereKitten said: It was not meant to be arrogant at all, only coherent with the idea that it does not make sense to compare games that are too different in genre. |
People compare things in different genres all the time, making "best movie" lists, authors, etc.
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As such, though the devs at Nintendo for example make the best pure platform games around, they don't fulfill the needs of lovers of driving or flight simulators, nor of lovers of RTS games. |
Here's my issue with what you're saying: "lovers of driving or flight simulators" might be able to play and enjoy Nintendo platformers as well, because some (hopefully most) people have more interests than just one or two narrow genres.
Take one of my above examples--a best movie list. I feel like what you're saying is is that however good The Godfather is, it's not necessarily going to satisfy someone who's really into Adam Sandler movies, therefore it's nonsense to compare them.
While I'm sure that it's sometimes true that someone will only be able to enjoy either The Godfather or The Wedding Singer, there are going to be other people who can enjoy both. And there are also people who are going to be competent to compare them, despite the fact that they're different in many ways.
| Thus, the only way someone could say "Nintendo makes the best games" period - and I always silently add a "for me" to such a statement - is if he/she's only interested into playing the kind of games Nintendo excels at. |
Right, I get what you're saying. Nintendo hasn't made the "best FPS," and the best FPS (whatever it is) is probably one of the best games of all time. But where you lose me is when you have this idea that the only person who can conclude that Nintendo games are the best is somone "only" interested in playing Nintendo games. I mean, some of the games that I've loved over the years include MGS, GoldenEye, Warcraft, Civ, Street Fighter II, Monkey Island, Final Fantasy & EA's NCAA series. I like lots of different things, games, genres and styles. And yet, I give credit to Nintendo for doing something special--a large number of their games in every generation stand out as being all-time classics. It's not because I "only play Nintendo" or only like platformers or anything like that.
I'm not saying you can't disagree: you can think that these Nintendo games are overrated, or that other games are better. That's fine. But don't assume that someone who thinks Nintendo has made the best games is ignorant or uninterested in the competition... that's simply not true.
