burninmylight said:
I hope you never find out that the Zelda fanbase can at least tolerate the idea of another game not named Linked to the Past being in the master class or being considered GOAT, unlike Metroid's. Oh wait, you just did. I also hope you never perfectly illustrate my point by taking a fellow Metroid fan to task just for having a preference for other games in the series and a differing opinion.... Oh crap, you did just that, didn't you?
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8459325
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8459454 I'm starting to notice that you two like to tag team all over anyone who has a different opinon than yours... |
Considering that a solid plurality of the recommendations on this thread have been for original Metroid/Zero Mission, not Super Metroid or Metroid Prime, your claim is more than a little far fetched. Plenty of Metroid fans favor other Metroid titles over Super and Prime, and the vast majority of people are respectful of opinions. I'll certainly grant that you'll find people who are jerks about other's opinions, but they're by no means the majority of a fanbase. I can just as easily link half a dozen or so examples from Zelda boards on other websites where people are equally intolerant of differing opinions like this one.
Also, if you bothered to, y'know, actually read my posts, you would know that I also called the other guy (mZuzek) out for jumping over him for his opinions. I specifically mentioned that "telling someone that they have terrible taste just for liking a game is universally one of the least productive ways of debating ever."
More to the point, however, I never called Jumpin out for liking Metroid 2. Again, if you read my posts in the thread, you should've have seen this quote as well:
"You're welcome to not like SM/Prime/whatever else if you don't want, but the notion that people can't argue that they were best games around at the time is more than a touch ridiculous."
He (Jumpin) was making the argument that you cannot claim that any game past Metroid 2 was one of the best games of the era, and since other people have done that, that's pretty obviously absurd. I never called him out for liking Metroid 2, nor did I tell him his opinion of thinking Metroid 2 is the best Metroid was stupid, or wrong, or anything remotely close to that. I simply claimed that many people consider other Metroid games (most notably Super and Prime) to be examples of games that were the best of their generation.
If you're going to stalk me back to other threads in order to construct an ad hominem attack, the very least you could do is bother to read the entirety of my posts.
