Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
Wolf wins the thread. His opinions are very unpopular.
To be honest I didn't even list one opinion cause I really didn't want to get into that discussion. I'm happy I won though.


I'll give you a little overrated, even if I don't agree. But why largely?
Saying a game is great is one thing, treating it like it was the video game version of the singularity is another. Both games are great and objectively I feel they are on equal standing in overall design but the fanboys in us all pretty much blind us to that. Even then I feel progress has marched on and there are better games in terms of design and storytelling and while both entries have aged pretty well, I still feel they both show their age and have elements that wouldn't slide in today's market.


BBS? Tactics Ogre? An improved FFT? The aforementioned Peace Walker? God of War games? Those are some things the PSP has going for it.
I never liked God of War and while I will count BBS and Peace Walker as great games there isn't much left in terms of original content for the system that stands out for me. I don't count ports, even if they are spruced up. My issue with the PSP is that most of my games for it are ports or PS1 games. I don't own very many original PSP games cause it lacks a strong library of original content. I have a similar issue with the GBA. Even the few original games on it that I like, I can't help but feel like they would have been better on a console and often feel they were meant for console originally but shoe horned into the PSP cause Sony was desperate for some original game content. It's not a bad system, but it fails to really live up to its potential and doesn't really offer much I couldn't get anywhere else besides being a portable emulator.

Mario has some great games, so I'm not going to argue with that. But I do think SMG is the evlolution of SM64 which is one of the best Mario games. So that's something. It's tough to knock your pants off twice with 3D Mario. SM64 was such a pioneer for 3D platforming that the other 3D Mario games, though good, live in its shadow.
You know, I never really played Mario 64 cause I never owned a N64 and kind of felt it was a crummy system. So I don't really have the nostalgia vibe for 3D Mario so Mario Galaxy was my first foray into Mario's jump to 3D. If Glaxy is the best successor to that title, I have a feeling I just don't care for 3D Mario games.

So Dissidia is terrible? Then why'd you play it so much?
I don't consider it a real fighting game, much like how I don't consider Smash Bros. a fighting game either cause mechanically they don't play like traditional fighting games. So it's excused on a technicality. The game also is pretty damn over-simplistic and largely it's the RPG elements that are more important than the actual fighting game elements.

You mean like all journalism?
I'm sure if you found a boring topic that fulfills only a niche group of people you would find some honest journalism cause they don't have to suck up to conflicting interest groups.