Hynad said:
Weak attempt at belittling and dismissing his stance. It does not. Sales data and critical reception are what indicate if they dominated or not. And sure enough, just with Donkey Kong Country’s series on the SNES, they sold similarly to Nintendo’s domestic studios’s own games and were received similarly during the same era. With that in mind, yes, his assertion is wrong. But having played the games or not has absolutely no bearing in this. |
You didn't need to be a rocket scientist to see that the vote would split along PC/Console gaming lines, but Azz criticising Don now that was a shock? .
Now there were posts from the Rare side like for example Leynos who made his judgement after playing just part of one Blizzard game D3, those choices are just like Don's assessment valid since at the end of the day no matter how much we pride ourselves on objective reasoning, these types of who did it better questions are subjective .
It doesn't help when the who did it better question is also using developers who did the bulk of their work on different platforms and then there's people reacting like these development studios are single entities that live in some kind of unchanging stasis, now to the important part my subjective opinion, I having played the greater part of both parties catalogues and I voted for Blizzard over Rare and one of the reasons why was I felt that a large part of what made Rare what it was at that time came from its association with Nintendo, having said this I would like to point out that the voting tally in my mind was way closer than I expected and that was all to do with Diddy Kong Racing being my everybody's all time favourite greatest racer and if it was the only game Rare ever made they would still be great almost up there with my ability to hyperbolise.
Last edited by mjk45 - on 27 January 2022Research shows Video games help make you smarter, so why am I an idiot
