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Re: Revolution controller: No Buttons, No Sticks, All Touch Screen
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| Leon Dexter 2005-03-30, 6:52 am |
| "Michael Cargill" <mikementalist@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> Mate, you have a real problem with thinking that your opinion is fact. If
I
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> don't like Nintendo games then how on earth can you convince me that they
> are the best videogame maker?
"Best" is arbitrary, because it's an opinion. The closest you'll ever come
to defining "best" is either popular opinion (ie. sales) or critical acclaim
(ie. reviews). Nintendo fares the best by far in both of those categories.
Take it how you will.
Besides, you're claiming that your opinion is right just as much as I am. I
happen to have the facts on my side.
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> No, it doesn't show anything at all. What the hell is a 'gamer' anyway?
A "gamer" is someone who plays games a lot. There are a lot of us around,
but these days we're vastly outnumbered by people who play games just a
little bit, which are "casual gamers".
And yes, it does show something. Exactly what I said it does.
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> My mum has a GC, a PSOne, a chipped PSX, a mini-PS2, a GB, a GBA, a GBA
SP,
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> a DS, an Atari Lynx and a PC that she plays games on. She has over 100
PSX
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> games and probably a similar number for her GBA. She orders games from
the
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> US online, she buys games on Ebay and then trades them in for a profit
when
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> she is bored of them. I would say that this makes her a gamer.
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> But she hates Mario, Zelda, etc. She likes Spongebob Squarepants, Spyro,
> Solitaire, Columns, Jak and Dexter, Ratchet and Clank, etc. To her, the
> 'classics' are things like Alex Kidd on the Master System - but she
doesn't
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> give a toss about Mario.
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> Me, I don't play games all that much anymore but I still have all three
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> the DC) current consoles plus a PC. I couldn't give a toss about
Nintendo's
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> games either - does that mean I am not a gamer? Does that mean everyone
who
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> has similar tastes to to either myself or my mother is not a gamer?
No, you're both gamers. Good for you. In a group made up of millions of
people, it's not hard to find examples of anything. Big deal. I'm sure
there are gamers who play naked, but that doesn't mean anything.
By the way, I'm curious what you and your mum play on the Gamecube and the
DS. The main reason to own a Cube is for Nintendo's games. The market of
non-Nintendo but exclusive games is pretty small. If I hated Nintendo, my
Cube library would be pretty damn tiny--if I had a Cube at all.
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> Yes, this is pretty much what it all boils down to. As far as I am
> concerned, anyone who tries to reinforce their ideals as to who is the
best
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> developer, who made the classics and which games are the classics can
shove
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> their diatribe up their arse.
Like you? YOU are claiming that what I say is not true, which amounts to
the same thing. Why is it okay to claim that such-and-such is NOT classic,
but not okay to say that something IS classic? It wasn't me who started all
this, it was the guy who claimed Nintendo's games aren't classics.
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