Wii helps PS3?

[Bodhesatva]

zaphodile said:

Bodhesatva said:

Unless you can honestly answer: "Yes, I think last generation's games were superlatively more fun than all the generations that came before it," this should answer the question -- no, better graphics don't make games more fun.

I can honestly say that. Most people prefer HL1 before HL2 for example, but that is because HL1 was much better in relation to all the other games that were out then. HL2 is actually the better game in every way.

The thing is, people get nostalgic. I, for instance, still think Transport Tycoon Deluxe and Red Alert are among the best games ever made, because I was like 10 years old when I played them.

Most good games out today are much better then the good games of yesterday, but people who have

experienced several generations can't see this, because they still measure old games by old standards.

No... we measure them by today's standards, and they're still as good or better. Sorry, you're just dead wrong. I don't say to myself: "Well, I had some fun playing (Old Game X). Not as much fun as I did (New Game X), but that's understandable. So I like (Old Game X) better, overall." That's not it at all -- I can honestly say that I preferred Half Life 1 because I had more fun playing it (although not by much, because both games are in my top ten favorites). By any standard, past or present.

Just please accept that many of us don't use some wacky, old-school standard to measure old games. We are saying that the games made during the SNES/PS1/NES era really are better games. Not better for their time, not better considering they're old, just flat out better. You can't honestly believe that professional reviewers can't see the difference? That professional reviewers can't put down their nostalgic prejudices? And yet, as I said, SNES/NES games get put in their favorites lists all the time.

If you enjoy your better graphics, by all means, do so. Just recognize that the majority of us simply do not consider graphics a decisive portion of the fun-factor. I can't emphasize this enough: we do not use separate standards to measure old games. We measure them by today's standards, and they still measure up. Let me rephrase what you've implied: that we all say we like old games as much as new games, but we don't really feel that way. We're blinded by nastalgia and don't recognize that the new games are actually better for us.

Let me restate this -- you.are.wrong. We really do feel precisely as we describe. We are not blinded by nastalgia (least of all the reviewers). I'm certainly not questioning your opinion that graphics matter to you -- although I could, as I might purport that your love of the PS3 has blinded you, and that you want to believe that graphics matter because that position supports the strength of your console. But again, I'm not suggesting that. If you care about great graphics, go ahead. Just recognize that many of us do not agree. Probably most of us, in fact.