Top 10 Bittersweet Facts About Video Games
The Top Ten
1 Satoru Iwata, after contributing seemingly endless amounts of charm and charisma to his company for multiple decades, is now dead
He created the DS and Wii. He was my childhood, the magnificent bastard.
2 Rock Band, though a solid evolution of Guitar Hero at the time, was also the closest a game developer has ever come to literally blatantly ripping off its own franchise and charging players extra for it
3 The stereotype that all Nintendo haters care about is edgy realistic graphics and violence is so painfully true that it almost physically hurts just to think about (look at Gligar13vids for an archetype example)
4 The deeper of a hole the Sonic franchise digs itself into, the more entertaining its Rule 34 and meme culture gets
5 Conker's Bad Fur Day, being gigantically overrated and only mildly funny aside, was actually the game that permanently disbanded Rareware from Nintendo
True, true. But some people just don't seem to realize that.
6 Despite being three of the absolute worst video games ever produced, Hotel Mario and the Faces Of Evil duology also have some of the funniest cutscenes ever made
7 As a horror game, Resident Evil 4 was pretty much the last actually good entry to the series
8 The new and amazing-looking official Metroid 2 remake, Samus Returns, is actually the result of Nintendo greedily and lazily taking down the also-amazing fanmade one, seemingly out of sheer spite for its own fans
9 The original Super Smash Bros was actually the result of a generic polygon experiment that probably would have failed if not for its Nintendo coat of paint; without Melee, the series literally would never have gone anywhere
10 Um Jammer Lammy's arcade port actually WAS, in fact, the game that basically invented guitar peripherals...and boy, does that guitar peripheral's age show
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11 The Call of Duty series is finally just about dead now
12 In the new Smash Bros game, the Ice Climbers were removed and replaced with the even weirder playable inclusion of the Duck Hunt dog
13 ROB, one of the worst Nintendo peripherals of all time, has now been popularized and characterized by Smash Bros and Mario Kart
14 While Nintendo IS finally beginning to catch up with the rest of the modern world, they're doing it in mostly all of the wrong ways
True. As long as they don't end up like Disney, then I am fine.
15 While Super Smash Bros Brawl was great, it took seven years (after Melee) to release and didn't even nearly live up to its hype
16 While Smash 4 is great, it took basically seven years (after Brawl) to release and STILL had many of the same problems as its predecessors
17 Brawl was the first Smash Bros game to officially have an online mode...and said mode turned out to be absolute garbage
18 Meta Knight has been nerfed so much from Brawl to Smash 4 that he's almost underpowered now
19 Ratchet & Clank is back, but Chairman Drek is a joke now
20 Because of how good Guitar Hero and Rock Band are, basically everyone forgets that all of the other rhythm games exist
21 Because of how much Sonic 2006 and Secret Rings sucked, Sega actually legitimately decided to reform the Sonic franchise once and for all (if only for a brief period of time)
22 Symphony Of The Night is one of the best games of its franchise...and also pretty much the point when its franchise stopped being actually challenging (for the most part)
23 As the graphics of Uncharted became better (after Uncharted 2), the gameplay became worse
24 While it did basically kill the series and was incredibly disappointing compared to its predecessors, Parappa 2 was still quite a lot of fun
25 Quite a few of the best gaming-related Youtubers also have some of the most annoyingly stubborn fanbases
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