| lestatdark said: @dtewi You can't answer that question, because if 20 years ago we had the games that we have now, then those same games would have been nostalgia, as you put it, right now. Also, why do you use nostalgia as an excuse? Old games may not be of your personal preference, yet that doesn't give you the right to say other people have warped feelings about a game just because of nostalgia. My favourite game of all time is Lufia 2. You really think it's nostalgia? Think again, I still play it nowadays and would pick over any game that's released right now. Not everyone functions in the same way as you do. |
I'm sorry but that bolded part may be one of the most brutal ownages I've ever seen. That was a really good comeback as obviously dtewi had worked himself into quite a contradiction haha.
For 2D versus 3D, you ahve compare game sin their own respect. Meaning it's contradictory to say that every game that is considered good now is automatically better than the ones beforehand due to advancements. Because then you'd have to be able to make the same argument that if 2D and 3D were flipped in years that they'd come out that the same would be true. It's an obvious contradiction.
That is why we judge games on their own merit rather than how they compare to others or how they "should be" in the future. Doing so is silly because it's either good at one point or not good at all. Meaning even though it might seem "aged" that doens't mean it's worse than it was before because it is still the same game. ONly perceptions have changed and even then that doesn't mean they can't like what was good beforehand. Argument that newer things are always better than older things is actually an appeal to novelty fallacy so let's avoid using it.
AS for the OT, I don't think SMB3 is the greatest game of all time but it is surely a timeless classic that I still enjoy today.
