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Originally posted by: S-U-P-E-R
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Super Metroid is Metroid Prime's whipping boy?
4. LOL LOL
LOL LOL I know, it's so obvious Prime is better. WANNA FITE?!
But seriously, when talking about new games versus old games, I think old games definitely have the advantage because:
A) People have fond memories of playing these old games, which clouds their judgement sometimes.
B) New games in a series are most definitely put under very close scrutiny by the fans. Which, by the way, is baffling people haven't burned Nintendo in effigy, considering the amount of crap thrown around when they make one little change.
C) Acting "old-school" is hip, yo. Things ain't the way they used to be, whippersnapper.
But really, sometimes I wish people woulod take off the rose-colored glasses when they wanna get nostalgic. The "old days" of video games only look so good because we don't remember the crap. Like the Home Improvement game for the SNES. Like Urban Champion. Like Home Alone. And why should we? But it isn't fair to say that games nowadays are festering piles when they were more so back then.
And now I'm gonna step on toes. The Original Metroid is crap. I'm glad Nintendo made Zero Mission, so that I can pretend that the original never existed. I'm actually kinda miffed they included it in Zero Mission. They could have used that space for something better. Like Nothing.
The original Final Fantasy is one big snoozefest. You walk around to fight stuff to level up fight more sutff until you fight this one thing and the credits roll. This goes double for the original Dragon Warrior.
These games usually get lauded over current endeavors in the rose-colored Wayback machine, but in reality, these games blow. Hard. People just let their fond memories of playing this stuff after school cloud their judgement of how bad it actually was. Whcih is ok, but when these games get put up on a pedastal, I have to wonder what they are thinking.