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Aeolus451 on 09 October 2015
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spemanig said:
Aeolus451 said:

I'll elaborate a bit on what I meant. 

I like the metroid IP the most out of nintendo's IPs but "oversaturation" has nothing to do with why I like it over the others. The sci-fi theme resonates with me. 

Their main IPs are oversaturated compared to their new IPs. Some people want to play the same IPs over and over again. That's good for them but it's not for me. I don't care for playing games just for nostalgia's sake. Some might take this as blasphemy but I don't like the mario, zelda, donkey kong, smash bros, pokemon, mario kart or any other main IP of nintendo. I just got burnt out on them. I'll leave it at that.


No one's playing them for nostalgia's sake. They're playing them because they're the most well designed games being made today. It's your perogative to dislike those IP, but don't pretend the reason they're the biggest franchises in the world is just because people remember playing them when they were five.


That's a flat out lie and I'm not pretending anything. They are nintendo's biggest IPs because of nostalgia and people wanting to experience those IPs/games again.   All people become attached to characters or a IP itself for whatever reason but it plays a main factor in why they will keep buying any additions of that IP. That's the case with just about anything entertainment related. I'm not knocking the games themselves but nostalgia itself. I just don't care for it. Alot of nintendo's main games are good but it's the same IPs over and over again. 

Alot of the nintendo camp will buy any new zelda game without ever seeing any gameplay or trailers. That's not because of well designed games and I'm not saying that they aren't well designed.

I'm the same with other things. If they did a remake of the goonies or the poeple under the stairs, I would go watch it or if SE revived the chrono trigger series, I would play it without seeing any gameplay. I'll be playing the FFVII remake because of nostalgia. 

By no means, am I saying that the nintendo camp are the only ones doing that sort of thing but nintendo's gaming experience has been about mostly nostalgia for many years.