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Malenko:

--- Quote from: dkersten on February 02, 2016, 01:14:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 29, 2016, 04:14:35 pm ---Notice how all the games you mentioned had superior arcade versions? I've had this argument with sega fans before, if your console only had arcade ports then it doesn't have a good library because we now have access to the arcade versions.

Shoot we didn't even have to wait until emulation.... Once the NES was released many of those titles were re-released on it and they were vastly superior ports.

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Your logic is all based on what you can do TODAY, not what you had back then

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My problem with that logic is that I don't have fond memories playing the arcade version in my living room, I have fond memories of playing the inferior console ports. I don't allow someone else's opinion define what I consider a good library. He's totally right to have that opinion and I wont try to change it, doesn't mean I have to agree with it though. Some people think FFVII was good, all you can do is agree to disagree and move on.

Howard_Casto:
And I don't get people relying on nostalgia to buy stuff. I get it, I have fond memories of consoles as well (not the 2600 though, NES FTW) but nostalgia will only be a temporary feeling if you live with the thing again. After that wears off there has to be something there that appeals to you now. I appreciate and respect the past, but I don't live in it. If I want to play a particular title, I want to play the best possible version of it, which is exactly why my snes copies of the MK and SF games have been collecting dust ever since the day I discovered emulation.

wp34:

--- Quote from: dkersten on February 02, 2016, 01:14:27 pm ---As for Intellivision, it isn't much different but I still spent dozens of hours playing D&D and Utopia on it.. LOVED those games. Are they the best in the genre (or title) now? No, but that isn't the point. At least not to me it isn't.

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Loved me some Utopia. It is the first SIM that I can remember seeing/playing. :cheers:

Malenko:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 02, 2016, 02:51:33 pm ---And I don't get people relying on nostalgia to buy stuff. I get it, I have fond memories of consoles as well (not the 2600 though, NES FTW) but nostalgia will only be a temporary feeling if you live with the thing again. After that wears off there has to be something there that appeals to you now. I appreciate and respect the past, but I don't live in it. If I want to play a particular title, I want to play the best possible version of it, which is exactly why my snes copies of the MK and SF games have been collecting dust ever since the day I discovered emulation.

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You cant speak in absolutes for everyone. I have SNES and still frequently play it, same goes for my Saturn and others. I mean I buy giant 250+ pound boxes that play a single game based on nostalgia and take up a ton of room; a console I can toss in a box if I decide to not play it for a while is no big deal. What you consider the best isnt always what someone else considers the best; I prefer Spy Hunter on NES over the arcade version even if the arcade version is better.

Im not gonna go back and forth with you, I'm just telling you different strokes for different folks.

pbj:
Soon as a new system comes out, I very rarely have any interest in playing the old ones ever again. If the PS4 read DVDRs better, the 360 would have been in the trash a year ago. Wii and PS3 haven't been touched in almost 2 years. I've gotten rid of anything older than that. No ragrets.

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