| Veknoid_Outcast said: Playing the nostalgia card is a dangerous game. In effect it totally delegitmizes someone's opinion. |
And so it should be because it's an emotion that's very likely to influence one's opinion and very difficult to dissociate from it. It's the same thing as having a crush on someone; you can't claim people are being unfair because they can't just see how awesome that other person is. Chances are you are wrong, even if you are one among a large set of people as crowd psychology has been theorizing for a long time. As Sagan would put it, extraordinary claims need extraodinary evidence. Claiming a game to be among the best five ever when it released a decade and a half ago and a thousand games releasing every year is more likely to be a claim based in emotion as opposed to evidence than not. It's like saying a modern game has less than 0.03% of being better than Zelda with all the competition and resources we have nowadays.
