What Has Happened to Sony’s First-Party Exclusives?

[DonFerrari]

mornelithe said:

DonFerrari said:

Agree 100%, but we have gone really off-topic =]

Back to the point. I think than more than undeserved hate on Sony I get more incomodated by the unbased praise for Nintendo from reviewers... I know it is opinion and tastes but I can hardly justify their inflated metacritics as I'm certain that if it was the same game but made by MS or Sony it would lose 20 points automatically.

Well, I'm not really sure what to think about critical reception of Sony games.  It'd be very easy to allow for conspiracy theories, but I just don't know.  I know I've found much entertainment in the Ps4 games I've played thus far, and all that really tells me is reviewers are completely disconnected with what I prefer.  That's...not that unusual really.

As far as the praise Nintendo gets, well, to be fair, Fire Emblem sounds like once it was quite innovative, or at least, added uncommon elements to gaming.  The problem is, after 30 years, can you still call it innovative?  Or...is it just rehashing the same old material?  I mean, other games get docked for rehashing the same elements from previous iterations...so, I don't know.  I do like Nintendo, and I like the alternative to the overtly violent games that're out these days (call me square, I think kids should be able to enjoy child hood, and introducing them to war, death, etc... before they really need to.  Or GTA for that matter.  I think GTA is pretty much unparalleled in the level of detail that they painstakingly recreate (with humor, of course), in any number of embarassing realities of America in decades past.  But, that's not a kids game...never was.  I think Nintendo does great things to help develop the imagination, but...it's hard to continue investing in them as I got older, simply because they don't really like to do adult games (which they themselves have admitted openly).  And that's fine. 

Ok, no more derailing. 

I also don't think it is much of conspiracy (maybe some paid articles to make MS look better, but I doubt it), but I do think they are much harsher with the games released on Sony platforms than I am (and I don't like all sony games)... but that may just be different tastes... same for Nintendo, for me (and I like their games and also preffer that my son plays nintendo until he is a lot older so I can introduce him to other games, on PS I would have to separate the games he can play (small portion actually), but I do (maybe biasedly) think Nintendo gets too much free pass on rehashing or maybe the reviewers just try to find an angle where Ninty inovates so they can justify the high scores they like.