@jg4xchamp said:
@AzatiS said:
Its a fact mario galaxy has great values as a platform therefore my opinion about it , which i found it great but not that great is irrelevant. If that isnt a fact , then im batman.
So is for Crash. If someone comes in my face , specially when most likely havent played the very first game day 1 to understand both impact and quality values in that era , and tells me its average , which we all know average stands for 5 to 6 score wise while he is calling ALL Sony platforms ( the same guy ) shallow including Jak and other good/great games ( i wont call em amazing to make it fair ) , im sorry. Facts beg to differ.
It is an 100% irrefutable fact that all Crash and Jak main games averaged from 8 to 9 in Gamerankings ( metacritic didnt existed back then ) which stand from Great to awesome = AA/AAA. Sales were great , people were happy , critics were happy , companies were happy. If gaming newbies , Nintendo fanboys and all sort of Sony haters specially when they have almost zero experience of the games on their initial release found them shallow its just their opinion which that i was pointing out all along. Which imho , they shouldnt have one. Its like i call shallow an Amiga game or something similar that i never played myself.
All they said was how SM64 and Banjo were better ( like i said otherwise ? ) and thats why Sony platforms are shallow. They couldnt backup any of their claims simply because they dont know what are they talking about , they just talk. And you defending those guys ? Ok , whatever ! Think what you want but keep it real all im saying. Facts are facts.
Whatever our opinions , you cant change facts. As i cant change the fact that Galaxy production values and level design as platformer are amazing even if its not my cup of tea so people cant change the score facts , the design facts and everything Crash or Jak offered in their respective eras just because SM64 or Banjo were miles ahead. Period
Does Mario Galaxy have a lot of things we inherently value about a platformer? Sure, it's actually a pretty difficult game to argue as poor, you basically stick to the part where you argue Mario Galaxy 1 at least is way too fucking easy, and how much the series regressed mechanically. You'd still have a hard time calling it poor, but sure if you didn't find it great, for those exact reasons, it's not that crazy of an argument. Because Mario galaxy's greatness isn't a fact, it would still be an opinion.
Albeit sure I'm not the biggest fan of the idea that opinions can't be incorrect or shit, plenty of them.
That said I think you're overreacting to the idea that someone is just a fanboy (which whatever it's SW, easy to do that), and just ignoring that simply that style of platformer didn't click with a lot of people. Because in the case of Crash games and Jak 1 they are very similar games. In the case of Jak 2-3 those games dial back the platforming for the sake of being more action games by comparison. And again it is a fact that people liked those games critically and commercially, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that if someone felt the game was average, he or she is wrong or incorrect that the game is average.
Unless you want to present exactly what qualities Crash has that are 100% valued in platformers, and stacks up favorably to his contemporaries, and the greater history of the genre, mate you're still battling opinions with opinions.
Otherwise pretty sure my long ass post out right agrees with the notion that "shallow" seems to be a silly way to be articulating why one platformer is inferior to the others.
You are on point , i dont have anything to disagree with overall though i dont agree with the idea of someone judging games he didnt even see in his life let alone call em average without experience them around their release but anyways. My opinion i guess.
Everything started when people started to get upset with me when i was calling their opinions for what they were , opinions. Calling Jak games for example shallow or average ? Well its their opinion ... seems when im pointing out that people get furious. Then Charizard jumped once again in other peoples debate to call names again .. Well i had to defend myself once more to one of the most fanatic sheep around. But anyways ...
To close this , i never judge peoples opinion . I mean , you find Crash or whatever average ! Ok so be it , but its your opinion. Thats all i said to him. What did i say so wrong so we get all this drama ? Nothing ! Its a fact its his opinion ! You get what i mean ? Let people rage , im used to it , actually it is entertaining.
But calling a fact , that he even agrees with in the first place which make the whole debate even more ridiculous , that its his opinion he finds Sony platforms average , then going into butthurt mode when all im doing is pointing out the very same thing he says himself and then start the drama ? Oh come on now ! Its funny as hell im telling you !
So you find ALL sony platformers shallow and average ? So be it , your opinion ! And thats a fact ! Thats what im telling them all along ! And they get butthurt , its my fault ? Not really , its their fanboyism takes over thats what really going on. A well known LEM made another SONY dissing thread calling ALL Sony platforms shallow as F and all sheep and/or Lem came here to agree with. I pointing out its their opinion or im calling them to backup their opinion and they coming with ridiculous claims like "SM64 was better" or "Banjo was 9.4" or getting upset for no reason !
Thats what is really happening. And all i said to those people was that its their opinion. Then im the loyal , im the cow , this that ... Lol ! I mean , really ? haha ! Anyways , ill let it thru , had fun though , specially with Charizard.
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