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Khuutra on 31 October 2011
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RolStoppable said:
Khuutra said:

No need to be short with me. What you consider common sense is rooted in your own value set. Remember that.

What it comes down to is this:

You insist that the (simple) majority dictate what the "real" series is. What you don't explain is why they get to decide that.

Because they pay for it. Without them, Super Mario Bros. wouldn't have become a hit. Without Super Mario Bros. becoming a hit, none of the spinoffs would have spawned.

Without consumers, a medium like video games cannot exist. That's why consumers get to decide what is and what is not.

All right. I guess you anticipated a couple of questions.

So. They are the financial backers of games. How does more financial backing make one game more "real" than another?

The answer is simple: it doesn't.

More support from a larger number of people does not define what is real. In order to establish that it does, you would need to define why a certain section of the population gets to define reality for everyone.

You can't.