Why is Ocarina of Time not in your top 5 games list?- Smeags top 250 thread proves it is in your collective top 5!

[Veknoid_Outcast]

haxxiy said:

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 (such as a simply game needing to be top five for everyone) needs extraodinary evidence.

That's a good point, but how can we talk about games -- specifically games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s -- if someone can dismiss a valid opinion as nostalgic?