what would the the world be like without nintendo?

[johntonsoup]

akuma587 said:

bluster said:
It would be like the film world without Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch.
Sad and empty.
Seriously, as much as the other companies hav done in the videogaming story, it has always been Nintendo the one that paved the way for al major improvements during the last 25 years. Games wont be the same without the Big N

I think you guys are overemphasizing the artistic quality of Nintendo games. I can't even remember the last time I played a first party Nintendo game with a story above a 3rd grade reading level.

If you want to say things like that about Bioshock, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, and numerous others I agree, but Nintendo is more like Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay than Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch.

 So, the story line is the key piece for you? To me, what makes Kubrick or Lynch great is rarely the story, but rather the mastery of mood and environment. On this metric, I think Nintendo is one of the best. I will agree that Nintendo has an entirely different feel to its games (more like Disney than the intense adult oriented films of those two).