pokoko said:
happydolphin said:
@Kresnik. Nice :).
@OP. I'm trying to introspect.As a Nintendo gamer, I grew up in the glory days of Nintendo. We grew up watching marketting that was anti-Nintendo. Back then it was SEGA. I felt like a jab at my childhood because to me Nintendo = a good portion of my childhood.
When the Playstation years arrived and Nintendo faltered due to its antiquated 3rd party policies, it was like seeing Micheal Jordan suck at baseball and golf. The guy was a legend, and it felt like almost an insult: an insult to Nintendo that I didn't like because Nintendo meant the world to me. An insult by 3rd parties, by the media which became pro-playstation and anti-Nintendo. The arrogance of some of the media at the time and of some of the people who were fans of the playstation was like a kick in the nuts, you knew just how good Nintendo was, but for some reason a company with at the time almost no compelling first party content was able to topple Nintendo and humiliate it. To add insult to injury, Nintendo actually made it through and survived almost solely on its 1st party offerings.
IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME.... The industry had shunned the most excellent publisher/manufacturer in the industry. Though the manufacturer side faltered, the consoles Nintendo put out were quality consoles with their weaknesses for sure, but the total exodus of 3rd party developers during the 64 and cube eras is a huge letdown to any Nintendo gamer.
It's that whole situation that gave and at times continues to give me a lot of resentment, that and the fact that despite the PS3 taking a blow this gen, that that arrogance is still residual in certain fans of the Playstation, the king of the last 2 gens.
Luckily, today, there are some excellent Sony fans to help flip that resentment on its head. But truly, honestly, this resentment is a very hard thing to reverse.
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This post is very interesting to me. It's honest and understandable. It's also interesting that I started from the same place and went in a very different direction.
I also grew up with Nintendo, the NES and SNES. Subscribed to Nintendo Power and everything. However, starting with the PS1, how I felt about Nintendo gradually changed. People were making new gameplay experiences, they were making games with complex plots and characters, games with darker themes and more imginative worlds, and Nintendo ... wasn't. Nintendo was doing the same thing it always had. It felt like Nintendo had this arrogant position where they felt they owned gaming and they didn't HAVE to do anything new or different. It annoyed me because it felt like Nintendo was letting me go without a struggle. And that's what happened, FF7 finally pushed me to the PS1 and an entire new world spread out before me, one that I realized I liked better than Mario and platformers.
They're the ones who act superior because, for some incomprehensible reason, they think liking Nintendo games makes you a better human being. They're the ones who stupidly rail against everything else as being for "violent teenagers". It's these people, more than anything else, that make me struggle with feelings of negitivity toward the Nintendo fan-base at times.
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