The only flaw of SMB3 to me would be that this game needed save games reeaal bad.
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chloyster@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I kind of feel a lot of 8 bit era games haven’t aged the best. But there are a few that I love. Of course smb3 is really outstanding. That game is timeless and really showed how well Nintendo can make games. While I may personally prefer smw, smb3 was in my eyes the first to perfect the side scrolling platformer.
Mother is another game from the era I enjoy a lot. It hasnt aged as well as smb3, but it’s still a fun game to look back on. I feel the same way a bit ahead of it’s time, and with a few gameplay changes I think it would still be worth playing for any jrpg fan today
luciole@beehaw.org 1 month ago
chloyster@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Lol that’s fair! Been a while since I played it without save states
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I’ve been watching Jeff Gerstmann work through and rank the NES library over the past year, and I agree with your sentiment. It seems like there are only like 10-20 NES games that actually hold up, and the rest of the library is either “good for the era” or absolute garbage.
Mondez@lemdro.id 1 month ago
I’d argue that is true of any generation, a few games are must plays and endure as such, then there are many that are just okay even at the time and then a bunch of crap it’s hardly worth playing.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 1 month ago
The “floor” for how bad a bad game can be has gone up as the generations have gone on. There’s always a few stinkers, but most PS2 games are objectively better than like half of the NES library.
Mondez@lemdro.id 1 month ago
Better by which objective metric? Amount of content? Total size of game code and data? Got to disagree with you otherwise.
jecxjo@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
I think the difference is that in the 8bit generation yhe majority of the game were bad relative to each other. The peak of the bell curve for 8bit was between mediocre to kinda bad games.
While there are more games in later generations, it feels like the console manufacturers took more control and regulated what was published. Bad games happen now because of shitty business decisions and bad story writing. You dont see garbage being published just because you can.