| Faxanadu said: there is no I in sarcasm show me a game this gen that is more fun to play than secret of mana, chrono trigger, link to past, zombies ate neighbours or illusion of gaia. has nothing to do with nostalgia but with fun. |
Games aren't more fun to you exactly because of nostalgia. I'll readily admit that I don't have as much fun playing games now as I had as a kid. That doesn't mean that games got worse; it means that I got older. Now I have a more critical eye and a capacity to distinguish shades of grey between "bloody awesome" and "pure crap." So do you. That's why games don't seem as fun as they did back then.
@ kenzomatic: By today's standards, most 2D platformers are overly simplistic affairs where you hold right and press the jump button a lot. And compared to, say, Tetris DS, the original Game Boy/NES Tetris cartridges are pure crap, and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who would pick the second over the first. Chess really isn't comparable.
@ El Duderino: Nobody died and made me king of definitions; I just looked up the word "best" on dictionary.com and got, as a relevant definition: "1.of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students." Nowhere in any of the definitions of "best" as an adjective will you find the words "influential" or "revolutionary," or any of their analogues.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
