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FayeC on 03 December 2014
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the_dengle said:
FayeC said:
zorg1000 said:

I doubt it, take Metroid Prime and compare it to Mario/Donkey Kong/Kirby and most non gamers would probably think it's not made by the same company.

Any more so than LBP, TLOU and DriveClub? Or Child of Light, Assasins's Creed and Beyond Good and Evil?

First of all, we are not non-gamers here on this website. We do not have to pretend that any of us are so uninformed as to not recognize Metroid as a Nintendo game. OP isn't referring to a Walmart clerk recommending a Wii U if you like Nintendo games, it is referring to discussions taking place in this very forum.

I don't see what you're getting at. That's correct, other companies have fairly varied output (despite the fact that BG&E is over 10 years old... whatever). But people rarely group the works of Media Molecule, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, and Japan Studio under a single blanket term of "Sony games" when making broad generalizations about whether or not they like these games.

Hell, I wouldn't even generalize about the works of a single one of these studios. I like inFamous 2 but I'm not crazy about Second Son. Why would I make a generalization about Sucker Punch when I am sufficiently informed to be more specific?

Certainly we generalize "Ubisoft games" when discussing Ubisoft as a publisher. That is a different context from discussing Nintendo as a content-creator. It's common recently to say you don't like Ubisoft; not so much to say you don't like Ubisoft games.


We may not be non gamers on the forum, but the poster I quoted certainly suggested a situation where that was not the case. Thats what I was responding to.