Lord Ciansworth said:
pezus said:
Lord Ciansworth said:
Mr Khan said:
Due to the distinct efforts of the gaming media and third parties to alienate us, we Nintendo Gamers have, i think, become a community somewhat separated from the gaming community at large
"enlightened" is not the term i would use. "Mutual alienation" is better. The clear bias of the gaming media against what we enjoy and their efforts to focus on everything except that which we enjoy makes it such that Nintendo Gamers can effectively get nothing out of mainstream gaming sites anymore, and must find their own communities
This is what makes the Nintendo-PC gamer alliance particularly strong, since those who have really stuck by PC gaming (and not migrated to HD-faux-PC gaming) also experience this alienation |
I certainly agree with all of that. Whether or not you want to use the word "enlightened" depends on whether you believe one set of tastes can be "superior" to another. But of course they can.
Is Charles Dickens a better novelist than Lee Child, is Citizen Kane a better movie than Transformers 3, is Super Mario Galaxy 2 a richer experience than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? Real genius and art never needs explosions and shotguns to draw audiences. Perhaps the Nintendo gamer is, indeed, "enlightened".
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Is Wii Fit a richer experience than Halo, Cod?
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Oh I certainly wouldn't argue that. I was just arguing that there is a large class of Nintendo gamers who choose to play games, not because of their graphical fidelity, explosions, and guns, but because of their charm, genius and artistic quality, games that are appealing to young and old and will still be regarded as classics in years to come. You only have to look at each console's top selling games to see this is the case. Of course these kinds of gamers exist on PS3 and Xbox 360 too, there are just less of them.
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And the reason for this is simple, like Mr Khan so well explained. It's because Nintendo-only platform owners were left with no choice, since 3rd parties didn't port their pulp to the Wii for the most part. Who's to blame? Who cares. But the fact remains, no pulp, no taste for pulp ;)
