"Retro gamers" should be able to beat these games

[Lee__Kanker]

It's like how a lot of people just can't let go of God Hand's low score review by IGN. People just gotta accept that not everyone will see what they see in certain things or just have a different mindset. "Beat these NES platformers or I don't respect ur opinions" as if NES platformers or SHMUPs are some apex genre that only the Truest Elite Gamers can enjoy. It's just so eye-roll inducing and takes away from otherwise great discussion points.

It's not just the fact that the guy who reviewed it didnt get best em ups, it's that reviews like that are one of the reasons games now are so bland and the mechanical complexity of 80-2000s games went from being the norm to being nieche, while the modern sony exclusive became the norm


Many arcade ports or pure action games got dumped on by game sites for being "too short" "just an arcade port" "too repetitive" "not enough production values" "dated mechanics"

And as much as people say "you cant spell ignorant without IGN", their opinions have more influence on how games are made than everyone else's.

You mentioned people writing off RE4 right? Every review starts off with how the remake Finally Fixed those awful controls, what were they thinking not letting you move and shoot am I right? It's the same thing.
And now capcom is planning to remake every single mainline RE game, so now more people will have played more and even less people will know of the greatness of the OGs, and that style of game will become even deader: Prepare for the Re1 Remake-Remake reviews saying they finally fixed one of the greatest horror games ever haha

And then Capcom takes notes: now every made gets made like that, you're gonna get praised by every outlet for streamlining everything

If these mainstream reviewers didnt see the design of final fight, the punisher, castlevania or ninja gaiden or gradius as outdated relics of the past... but instead held it in high regard like Kamiya did when they made Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe or Mikami did when he made Re4 and Vanquish, maybe things would be different, and people wouldn't see RE4 limiting your movement as Jank