@Dtewi

I won't even go correction your misconceptions about the movie industry, too much debate there and entirely OoT.

You think that people who remember SMB3 as being a good game or any of the 2D games for that matter, are judging it by nostalgia only? That's a pitiful way to try to force your opinions on people. I've played SMB3 a few weeks ago, and yet I can go ahead and play once again, why? Because it's a game that has quality and that stands up even by today's standarts.

You pretty much dis anything that's old, just because you believe that anything that comes afterwards is made of better quality, when in fact quality doesn't even come close to the qualifying status that you're giving it.
Also you have a serious missconception of the word nostalgia and it's use. So by your opinion, 20 years from now, games from today will also be flawed and crap compared to those age games? Pathetic.

Don't look up Lufia and just give a generalization of the game. Play it before giving an opinion of it, as you should do before giving an opinion of any game.

Also you didn't address my first question, why didn't people embrace Arcades better than consoles given that they had better "quality" in your terms?

Downloaded this from the VC because of people like you insisting it's the greatest game ever. It's not. Not even close. I'll never get those 500 Wii points back either.

I don't claim to know the movie industry at all.

And no, SMB3 does not stand up to today's gaming. I played it a few weeks ago as well and it wasn't nearly as great as how I remembered it from when 7 years ago. Today's gaming is so much better. I would rather live in the 3D than 2D era.

No, I'm not dissing anything that's old, I'm just saying that gaming has made such great advancements that the games can not compare no matter how good they may be for their era.

Gaming will continue to get better, and I'm sure that in twenty years it will be even better than now. Virtual reality and all that. But that's another debate.

2D era games are not flawed though. They can be great. But modern gaming is simply much better than classic gaming. This is the point I'm trying to stress.

And you do not have to be biting in your argument. I'm sorry if nostalgia isn't the correct term for the definition I gave, but it was the word I though most closely resembled it.

Arcades are inconvenient, consoles aren't. I thought I had said that?

Also, what else do you want me to do about Lufia 2? Give great in-depth details about it even though I have no desire to play it?

becasue you can pick it up today and still feel its magic and charm

@Dtewi

I'm sorry if i'm very crude in my argumentation, it's just that I don't see things the way you do, and it seemed to me that you were trying to downplay old games just because of a few factors, so once again, i'm also sorry if i missunderstood your point.

Oh I didn't see your arcade response too, bad reading comprehension by my part there x.x Arcades weren't too much inconvenience, and it was actually less expensive to play and finish and arcade counterpart of a console game most of the times. Consoles were adopted better than arcades mainly because it had a faster adoption rate, and games evolved way faster on consoles than on the arcades, so people just stopped going and accepted consoles.

You just gave a somewhat global generalization of the game, Lufia is much more than just a mixture of Zelda and Final Fantasy, but given that you have no intention of playing the game, I'll accept it.

I don't have much to add to this thread, other than I think SMW was a little better.

@Dtewi: You are absolutely wrong here. I play old games that I've never played before, and find a lot of them superior to the ones that came out recently.
How can that be nostalgia if I had never played the game before?
You're being incredibly narrow minded about this whole thing. Quality is absolutely subjective. Not everyone thinks like you do.

So NSMB Wii will be the greatest of all time

World was better IMO.