MegaManX said:
Kart racing are one sub genre of racing games, I give kart racing to Nintendo but I hardly give the genre to them, Gran Turismo, Need for Speed, Forza, Nascar are all highly acclaimed games that have sold million and are more realistic simulation of racers as opposed to rubber band MK AI. Tetris wasn't developed by Nintendo hence why it's appeared on nearly every console and handheld. Dr. Mario is ok, but hardly innovative and nowhere near the first in the genre. Pokemon is not developed by Nintendo so they can't be credited with making the "best" RPG, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star, lots of others are predate pokemon, even the Mario RPG games are often farmed out to other companies, not that they compete with the best RPG's anyway. Duck Hunt is hardly the definitive light gun shooter. Namco and Sega with Time Crisis and House of the Dead series respecitively are bigger franchises than one pack in game that was made to sell an accessory from 25 years ago. If you played the first screen of Duck Hunt, you've seen the entire game. Again Smash Brothers, fine series but not the definitive fighting games. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Soul Calibur have done more for the genre. Nintendo was the king of the arcade? Name one game outside Donkey Kong that was big in the arcade. Nothing to rival what Atari, Namco, Midway, and Sega did from the 70-90's for arcades, Pac-Man nuff said. Nintendo wouldn't exist if these companies didn't advance modern games. Strategy, not really my thing, I know there are lots like Command and Conquer and the like on PC where they do it better. Fire Emblem is great, though they get repetitive and the latest Pikmin did not sell well. And turned base strategy is only one type of strategy game, hardly definitive of Nintendo. Wii Sports was a bundled game of simplistic sporting events, it was hardly definitive of any one sport, a simple tennis, bowling and boxing game is not deep by any stretch, pick a sport, Soccer=Fifa, Football= Madden, etc, the Wii sports brand is a one or two off series that was made as simplistic as possible for a widest audience at the expense of any skill required to win, that and combined with being bundled dont compare to yearly installments or the evolution of sports game in general since the 1st gen. If you only played Nintendo than you wouldn't have played a sports game until the 2006, come on! Animal Crossing does well, so does the Sims. LOZ is great, but the action adventure genre is so huge, it can include everything from Elder Scrolls, Fallout, etc Zelda is formulaic, the graphics have improved, and they usually add a new gimmick but it's the same visit dungeon, get item, kill boss, rinse and repeat. I give Nintendo kart racing and party games, but even platformers outside of Mario and DKC (made by retro or rare) have plenty of quality releases over the years from Sonic to Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia etc. And look at all the other genres you failed to mention, at least half you couldn't name one and some of the ones you did light Light Gun games are really stretching. |
Wow, do you actually think this? It's as Nintendo as Mario or Zelda.
Also you missed the entire point of the thread, yet again. We're using Rol's logic here. I win :p
