Inafune:‘If a Creator Hasn’t Played Mario, They’re Probably not a good Creator’

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fatslob-:O said:

Mr Khan said:

fatslob-:O said:
That's a pretty bad generalization.

I should say not. Whatever genre you work in, you probably owe something to Nintendo, pretty much unless you're in text RPGs. The historical impact of their works are foundational to game design as a whole, and if you think you can ignore the foundations, then you need a lesson in humility.

It's like anyone who aspires to be a great movie director, "Birth of a Nation" (white supremacist morals aside) is required viewing. If you haven't seen it, you can't understand where the medium's been and can make no credible claim towards contributing to the medium in a progressive way. So it is with video games and Mario, or Zelda. So much of what present games take for granted comes from these resources, and you cannot be groundbreaking without appreciating those who broke the ground that you stand upon, or more importantly, understanding why they were so successful.

Games are very different today compared to what nintendo created as ground breaking in the past. They may have had a big impact on game design but I'd go as far to say that third parties overall did more in the past recent years to make more revolutionary ideas than nintendo does now. Nintendo is not humble enough anymore to disrupt the idustry.

What does that even mean ? Wii Sports wasn´t disruptive ? How are they not humble ? Explain !