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kain_kusanagi on 03 September 2012
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retroking1981 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Been gaming since Atari. In my opinion Nintendo's games are just as good as they used to be and in some cased much better.

The hardware, on the other hand, isn't always so great.

The NES was a graphical powerhouse of it's day and so was the SNES.

The N64 made the mistake of not using optical media.

The GameCube was great, but underutilized.

The Wii wasn't HD and it had mandatory motion controls that I still don't like.

The Wii U will still use motion controls and now it has a giant screen I don't want to use.

All I want from Nintendo is great Mario, Zelda, and Metroid games with standard controls. That's the difference between Nintendo of old and Nintendo of today. Unfortunately today's Nintendo thinks we all want to swing and swipe and touch and flail. I and many others don't.

1. The NES definitely wasn't the power house of it's day

2. I agree completely

3. This is because of the GameCube failing*

* reason being... they need an angle/novelty/innovation/gimmick (call it what you want) to differentiate itself from MS/Sony.

A lot of people yourself included say All I want from Nintendo is great Mario, Zelda, and Metroid games with standard controls. They did that, it was called the GameCube, it didn't sell well. If they carried on down that road the GameCube2 would have been Nintendos Dreamcast.


I was there man, the NES had graphics like you wouldn't believe. We had just come from the era of Atari and Coleco. Sure the Master System had more power, but it didn't have the graphics. The NES had smooth scrolling graphics that made you think you were playing a cartoon show.  Home computers even had trouble doing that. In processing power it may not have been top dog, but graphicaly it was a show stopper. And I did say graphical powerhouse.

I'd rather have a Gamecube 2 than the Wii. I don't like motion controls, even when done right like in Skyward Sword. It would have been a much better game without motion controls. Honestly, if my choices are "Gamecube 2 fails so Nintendo goes 3rd party like Sega" or "Wii motion controls, Wii U Tablet gimicks", I'll take the 3rd party Nintendo with standard controls for multiplatform Mario, Zelda, and Metroid.

That's coming from someone who's been playing Nintendo games since before there was a Nintendo Home Entertainment System. It would be sad to see an end of an era, but the painfull lose of Sega consoles taught me that the name on the machine doens't matter so long as I still get the games, with standard controls that is.