Global Hardware 23 December 2017

[Biggerboat1]

Qwark said:

Also it's a false equivalence to say that a Nintendo fan's positive prejudice amounts to the same as an anti-nintendo fan's negative prejudice.

A Nintendo fan becomes devoted to the company and its games because they've enjoyed a seminal selection of games over years or even decades. It has been earned. 

The anti-nintendo fan generally doesn't play any or many of the companies games, but rather draws on a pre-existing bias. 

Again, I'm not saying everyone has to like every Nintendo game, but I just don't find it credible that an honest fan of many genres of game can't find a good deal to enjoy within Nintendo's catalogue.

And this goes for any developer. Just because I don't own an Xbox or PlayStation doesn't mean that I doubt there'd be titles on them that I'd enjoy! 

Every developer has a certain style for making games. Playstation and Nintendo are very far apart in that regard. Or the new bayonetta and the new god of war, as far as exclusives go. I can imagine someone enjoying let's say resident evil 4 but doesn't like the last of us.

 

Sony's style of games is way more presentation and story driven and tends to blur the line between cinema and game. While Nintendo puts 90% of their focus on gameplay and wave a story etc around that. Nintendo tjeir games will never try to blur lines between games and other media. There are always a few exceptions. But I can see someone enjoying nearly all Nintendo games and disliking near all Sony games or the other way around. It doesn't say much about the quality of the game, just your preferences for one or the other. I like Sony's approach more and I think odyssey is way to weird for me, although botw seems pretty cool, although I still don't like the artstyle.

The thing is, when you talk about Nintendo games, you're talking about games from many different teams & studios. 

Mario / Zelda / Pikmin / F-Zero / Xenobade / Starfox / Metroid Prime / Fire Emblem / Pokemon / Animal Crossing / Smash Bros / Mario Kart / DKC / Splatoon / etc. span a wide variety of genres, art-styles and 'feel' - so there is no single 'style' to be drawn to or put off by...

I simply don't buy that there's some common thread running through all of these games that can be identified and viewed negatively...

I can buy the the scenario that some gamers on other systems take the lazy approach and just assume everything on a Nintendo system is a variation on Mario and that they all look 'kiddie', which simply isn't the case...

If you want story then zelda, xenoblade, the next metroid prime, when it arrives - all have a shot at scratching that itch.

I like some Nintendo games and some aren't for me and I believe that this would be the case for 99% of gamers if they actually tried playing the games rather than immediately deciding that they're not for them...

Last edited by Biggerboat1 - on 16 January 2018