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JWeinCom on 07 May 2020
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Hynad said:
JWeinCom said:

I mean... I tried my best to understand it.  I rephrased it, and asked if I had it right, and asked you to clarify if I had it wrong.  Whether you believe me or not, I was trying my best to understand what you were saying, and just didn't think the analogy worked.  If you can say you were honestly giving me the same courtesy, I'll accept that.  

I edited my reply to you, but I will copy-paste what I added here:

If I applied your reasoning, I would say XCDE (species) is a video game (kingdom), a Switch product (family), and a remaster (genus). Or something along those lines.

Cool.  That shows you understood the general point I was making.

The problem with that though is that if that I just don't think FFVII Switch and Xenoblade Chronicles DE belong in the same genus.  I understand your point that it has a certain feature in common with FFVII, that it's based on the same source code, but I think it has more features in common with games that you'd put in the remake genus, like Link's Awakening.

The point of classification systems is to put things into workable groupings.  I.e. things that are comparable.  I feel like it would make sense for instance to ask "What is a better remake Xenoblade Chronicles DE or Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes?"  I think we can have a good discussion about that. On the other hand if you asked me "which is a better remaster, Final Fantasy VII Switch or Xenoblade Chronicles DE?"  I wouldn't know what to say.  Those games are so different in terms of what their purpose is that I don't think you can meaningfully compare them.  And if they're not comparable, they should be grouped separately.

Last edited by JWeinCom - on 07 May 2020