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Everyone's favorite "gaming journalism" outlet Kotaku let Jason Schreier run with an article stating a very subjective opinion piece about NES games and how they are "not worth playing" and that they "have aged poorly".
"In the early 80s, the NES (or, as millions of parents and children would call it, “the Nintendo”) saved the video game industry from catastrophe. With 2016’s NES Classic, we got to relive that pivotal 8-bit era, though those games have grown crusty with time. Today, sadly, most NES games are not worth playing. They are full of poor translations, inconsistent physics, and artificially inflated difficulty inspired by arcades. With a couple of exceptions (Super Mario Bros. 3), the NES Classic’s library consisted of games you’d load up, play for a few minutes, and marvel at how poorly they’ve aged."
He states and acknowledges that Nintendo helped revive gaming in North America. It is widely documented that one of the contributing factors that caused the gaming industry crash of the early 80s was due in part to a lack of quality check. Nintendo did just that, they helped save a dying industry in the West with quality. Something he fails to see, even though he gave them credit for it.
This article has caught the attention of far more informed and influential YouTuber Shane Luis of Rerez fame who chimed in:
To add insult to injury, or rather, to rain on everyone's parade, IGN decided to do a review of the unreleased SNES Star Fox 2.
IGN is using their current modern scoring review system and opinions seemingly to be contrarians. They go as far to say that F-Zero and Mario kart have aged poorly and have claim that Star Fox 2 deserved to be cancelled. Retro YouTuber and retro fanatic Pat Contri of PatTheNesPunk, Author of the Ultimate Guide to the NES Library book, and editor of The Video Game Years and is currently working on a documentary with Kevin James (Not for Resale) pointed out that it's pretty unfair to compare a late in life SNES title to modern game design:
I think we've reached a pretty big low point over the last 5 years in gaming when journalists can't differentiate 4th generation gaming from 8th generation gaming. It's simply not fair to compare 20 year old games to games made now. You can always draw parallels and see where it's coming from but it would be the same as comparing a movie like the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari to the new 2017 It or Citizen Kane to a Wes Anderson film. It's sad that someone who is parading around on a forum dedicated to discussing lolcows in excruciating detail with a picture of an obscure Simpsons reference as a handle and avatar can do more research and put more thought into a single post than a senior writer for Kotaku could ever do.
This is why we can't have nice things.
"In the early 80s, the NES (or, as millions of parents and children would call it, “the Nintendo”) saved the video game industry from catastrophe. With 2016’s NES Classic, we got to relive that pivotal 8-bit era, though those games have grown crusty with time. Today, sadly, most NES games are not worth playing. They are full of poor translations, inconsistent physics, and artificially inflated difficulty inspired by arcades. With a couple of exceptions (Super Mario Bros. 3), the NES Classic’s library consisted of games you’d load up, play for a few minutes, and marvel at how poorly they’ve aged."
He states and acknowledges that Nintendo helped revive gaming in North America. It is widely documented that one of the contributing factors that caused the gaming industry crash of the early 80s was due in part to a lack of quality check. Nintendo did just that, they helped save a dying industry in the West with quality. Something he fails to see, even though he gave them credit for it.
This article has caught the attention of far more informed and influential YouTuber Shane Luis of Rerez fame who chimed in:
To add insult to injury, or rather, to rain on everyone's parade, IGN decided to do a review of the unreleased SNES Star Fox 2.
IGN is using their current modern scoring review system and opinions seemingly to be contrarians. They go as far to say that F-Zero and Mario kart have aged poorly and have claim that Star Fox 2 deserved to be cancelled. Retro YouTuber and retro fanatic Pat Contri of PatTheNesPunk, Author of the Ultimate Guide to the NES Library book, and editor of The Video Game Years and is currently working on a documentary with Kevin James (Not for Resale) pointed out that it's pretty unfair to compare a late in life SNES title to modern game design:
I think we've reached a pretty big low point over the last 5 years in gaming when journalists can't differentiate 4th generation gaming from 8th generation gaming. It's simply not fair to compare 20 year old games to games made now. You can always draw parallels and see where it's coming from but it would be the same as comparing a movie like the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari to the new 2017 It or Citizen Kane to a Wes Anderson film. It's sad that someone who is parading around on a forum dedicated to discussing lolcows in excruciating detail with a picture of an obscure Simpsons reference as a handle and avatar can do more research and put more thought into a single post than a senior writer for Kotaku could ever do.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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