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Soundwave on 08 January 2017
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dharh said:
RolStoppable said:

I reviewed the whole conversation we had in a properly awake state. I did indeed not connect the dots that you were refering to a post of yours that you had just posted minutes ago. That was a clear mistake on my part.

However, the entry point of the conversation is as weird as it was before. If you were trying to add nuance by mentioning an example, then it would have to be anything except a Nintendo game, because the person I talked to specifically excluded Nintendo games from the games he felt he had a "duty" to buy, meaning he has no problem to skip Nintendo games he isn't interested in. I suppose you read my post ("Your duty is to support good games...") as saying that good games are determined by Metascores and/or community consensus, but that interpretation doesn't hold up in the context of the entire conversation. He doesn't need to buy third party games to have a leg to stand on in arguments, so it doesn't matter how much other people insist that a game should have been bought.

That's why I started to question you, because I thought that you just wanted to say something negative about Nintendo. An assumption that isn't far-fetched based on your posting history; I don't need to remember specifics to be aware of the general attitude. Your initial post either needed a non-Nintendo game as example or a more elaborate explanation for what you were trying to say. By now you have provided a sufficient explanation.

That's it from my side, you can have the last word if there's anything left to say.

I 'chose' Splatoon simply because prior to reading your post I had read bdbdbd's post where he mentioned Splatoon.  It just happened to be on my mind.  It's also a pretty popular game here that I just happen to not like.  I guess I could have chosen FFIX which I also don't like within my favorite series no less.

Other than that my negativity torwards Nintendo is specific to the last few generations.  NES/SNES/GB/GBA era Nintendo for me is some of the best gaming I ever had.  Nintendo had the best first party, the best third party, and was always considered the must own console no matter what genre you loved.  This is simply not the case now and has not been for a while.

I don't think NES/SNES + GB days will ever happen for Nintendo again. It was a long time ago. It's sad but I've mostly accepted that. 

They'll never have that kind of market sway again I don't think. 

Take 25 years. Now add that to you current age and think about how old you'll be. If you're 26-27, that means you'll be over 50 years old. That's a long time, we just don't realize it in certain contexts (ie: the NES/SNES era feels like "yesterday" but it was a long, long time ago). It's been like 23-24 years since the SNES was in its prime days, that's a long time ago. 

If you're a Nintendo fan but you don't remember or missed out on the late 80s/early-to-mid 1990s ... you missed out unfortunately. That was really a magical time.