Originally Posted by
Bolivar
That was a really awesome post that could be a thread in itself. The flames of the PS3 360 war have largely been extinguished, yet a lot of the fury from the 16-bit epoch still rages, at least passive-aggressively, today. Sega had such an incredible vibe going with the music and the artwork of a lot of the first party games, but I can understand how the opposition gets enthralled by that "Nintendo magic" that you can still see in a lot of their games even today. So while a lot of us have since gone back to check out Chrono Trigger and FFVI, a lot of the Nintendo retro crowd have to wonder why the smurf they would ever want to play Shining Force or Phantasy Star.