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curl-6 on 11 October 2017
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CrazyGamer2017 said:
curl-6 said:

I can see your justification for Ocarina of Time, given that the N64 was strong hardware at the time, but I can't find any post where you explain why Twilight Princess specifically gets a pass when it was more technically outdated in 2006 than Botw is in 2017.

Oh man I don't remember whether I answered that or not, but if I did not, here goes:

Just to be clear, I never said BOTW is outdated, I only meant the HARDWARE and I wouldn't say it's outdated, just weak.

As for Twilight Princess I don't remember it as being outdated or suffering of weak hardware issues (with the exception of the Wii having a low def 480p output which showed but I was ok with it).

Maybe because my standards were lower back then. Remember that the farthest back in time you go, the more simple things were and video games are no exception. As an example I'll tell you that as a kid in the 1980's I knew next to nothing when a new game was released. All we knew about it was when a friend at school talked about it or when we saw a commercial on TV. Then at the store I just looked at what was written in the box of the game for information and of course the stuff on the box was all praising the game "go on an amazing adventure, with this fantastic game, blah blah blah...

As a consumer, my standards were as low as they could ever be because it was how things were back then. Then as time passed and as I grew up, my standards began evolving more and more with each passing generation. There was more and more info, magazines, TV programs about video games, reviews, then the internet came everywhere and more complex reviews, analyses, trailers, discussions, opinions etc. And this evolution naturally increased our standards and our demands, at least for hard-core gamers.

Anyway, long story short, you cannot hold a 2017 system (or anything else for that matter) to 2006 standards because things were different back then and what people expected back then is not what they do nowadays. So EVEN IF Twilight Princess was outdated which did not strike me as such back then, does NOT mean that one should be just as lenient nowadays cause things are more complex now and using the past as an excuse is a cop-out in my opinion.

I'm not talking about holding a game/system from 2017 to 2006 standards, I'm talking about holding Switch to 2017 standards and Wii to 2006 standards since that is when they released, and Wii was more outdated in 2006 than Switch is in 2017.