Just saying.
I call BS, FF7 didnt make RPGs more popular in the west, but rather ALL the RPGs on this "New Amazing 3D system" called the PS1 did that. You had all released the same year Breath of Fire 3, Saga Frontier, FFT, Grandia, Alundra, the list goes on and on. You, like most people are overestimating FF7's importance. Remember: Nothing can survive in a vaccum. As for Cloud's identity, He gets Mako poisioning, loses his mind, decides he will take the identity of his superior, get modified by an alien, gets his mind back because of love, and than he becomes the true hero as his true self. Yes, thats about as deep as a gutter puddle.
FFVII just had the most advertising bucks behind it, so that much is absolutely true..
thank you, I think. I am a dimwit that is superior to no one, however I have created MANY things of value in my long life. As a degree holder in Philosophy, I very much appreciate your application of post-modernism, I prefer Epistemic externalism however. Remember: reality is subjective and can be constructed
Jay Z was never a good rapper.
Midwit, not dimwit, there is a difference. Statistically speaking, there are FAR more midwits, than dimwits, in any given population..
Why? There are many good groups for them.
Eh, I'd beg to differ since Mario 64 and later Ocarina of Time (along with Rareware games) would help the console and I'd also argue that OoT easily triumph over 80% of the PSX library and makes them seem antiquated when they lack dualshock support.
Video game isn't just about RPGs though.
You forgot about how massively successful the Wii was and I could argue that the N64 and GameCube were still good consoles. Calling it a "decline" may be a bit exaggerating.
The N64 was the first crack in Nintendo's dominance, because it lost hard to PS1. Then, the Gamecube was absolutely wrecked by the PS2 AND Xbox. The Wii turned a profit almost exclusively off of the normie/non-Gamer market (Wii Sports sold more Wii's than literally ANYTHING else on the system), and at least somewhat off of how badly Sony fucked-up with the PS3. But, meanwhile, Nintendo has always had the handheld market ON-LOCK, which allowed them the breathing room to stick to their in-house strategy.
What does that change about the game's quality?
Popular console with shovelware isn't exclusive to this one, even the PSX and PS2 had plenty, that's statistical.
I think there were good Sega CD games.
I think that in the 00's casual gamers became a more valid playerbase, video games were no longer something seeing as "for nerds" or people who knows a lot about electronics.
I agree about when they censor it but Zelda ALTTP on the GBA had to change "Wise Men" to "Sages" because of OoT and how they removed the ambiguity about that one sentence implying that "Zelda is your sister". Same if the new script is closer to the original.
That's not a hot take.
That's why I hate FOMO in any game of any form.
Sorry but Zelda was stagnant with Skyward Sword doing the same formula since '98, BotW was the breath of fresh air needed. Also the series still got top down entries and EoC didn't recycle the ALTTP formula.
I'd still argue that the Super NES was better in almost (if not every) ways than the NES and the N64 was probably slightly better than the GC in term of revolutionary games (and Rareware still making games on it).
Replace "more valid" with "bigger," and you would be correct. But this move had more to do with publicly-traded corporations pursuing infinity growth, than it ever had to do with making a better product..
On the other hand, I do agree with you here. I've had a bone to pick with what I coined as "graphic whores" for decades now. Dumbass consoomers that are into the "new hotness" just for the sake of being slightly better looking than the last thing are a cancer on the medium as a whole..
