I also want to say, this is like the exact opposite of most features on this site, which profess that it's important to understand influential games even if they weren't well-known in your own country. But here, these men do not understand a bunch of influential games that weren't popular in their country, but now this time we should be mocking anyone who dares question this knowledge hole. Really bizarre double-standard, and honestly I'm getting very wary of UK-centric news sites that can't rein in their bias (*coughEurogamercough)
Like this article could've easily been "Devs tell us about their backgrounds", and then added in "Because did you know, over in France..." Nice and informative, without trying to divide people.
What a bizarre article. It seems to be trying to foster a narrative of "Americans are so ignorant that their experience wasn't superior", but all it is showing is tons of Europeans getting high-and-mighty saying that THEIR experience was superior (and that Americans are soooo dumb). Especially that St1ka guy re-tweeted above, who goes full keyboard warrior responding to every single comment and going into deep denial mode about Nintendo systems having influential games.
And even better, these "outrage" threads are showing that usual hilarious ragebait result, where only like two people are "upset" about it, and then there are just hundreds of people being upset about this fictional army of other upset people. It's just blowing up a reply tweet from a random unimportant nobody, and everybody else is just getting off to how they are so much more superior to that guy and his non-existent massive followers.
And even the two people who are surprised by this don't even sound surprised that the guy didn't have a Nintendo system growing up, but moreso the fact that he allegedly STILL hasn't played games on Nintendo consoles. Which is indeed kind of weird, especially when your whole job is to understand game design. Like maybe take some time to study up on this? It's like, sure, maybe you didn't watch a lot of movies growing up, but once you become a film-maker, maybe you should go back and check out all those things you missed out on? Hell, that's why I like this site. Tell me all about those highly influential games that we in the west were ignorant about. I'm not sitting here like "Well I personally never played it, so it must've not been important at all!" And yet these voices are the exact ones this article is amplifying.
Also, from another interview, I see another team member of Expedition 33 talking about how he loved Paper Mario, and even told the guy above to try it out. So yeah, this game playing similar to some Nintendo stuff isn't a random coincidence. Some people on the team were indeed well aware of these games, even if the guy above wasn't.
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Re: Random: "That's Wild" - The Fact That Two French Devs Didn't Play Nintendo As Kids Appears To Have Upset Some People
I also want to say, this is like the exact opposite of most features on this site, which profess that it's important to understand influential games even if they weren't well-known in your own country. But here, these men do not understand a bunch of influential games that weren't popular in their country, but now this time we should be mocking anyone who dares question this knowledge hole. Really bizarre double-standard, and honestly I'm getting very wary of UK-centric news sites that can't rein in their bias (*coughEurogamercough)
Like this article could've easily been "Devs tell us about their backgrounds", and then added in "Because did you know, over in France..." Nice and informative, without trying to divide people.
Re: Random: "That's Wild" - The Fact That Two French Devs Didn't Play Nintendo As Kids Appears To Have Upset Some People
What a bizarre article. It seems to be trying to foster a narrative of "Americans are so ignorant that their experience wasn't superior", but all it is showing is tons of Europeans getting high-and-mighty saying that THEIR experience was superior (and that Americans are soooo dumb). Especially that St1ka guy re-tweeted above, who goes full keyboard warrior responding to every single comment and going into deep denial mode about Nintendo systems having influential games.
And even better, these "outrage" threads are showing that usual hilarious ragebait result, where only like two people are "upset" about it, and then there are just hundreds of people being upset about this fictional army of other upset people. It's just blowing up a reply tweet from a random unimportant nobody, and everybody else is just getting off to how they are so much more superior to that guy and his non-existent massive followers.
And even the two people who are surprised by this don't even sound surprised that the guy didn't have a Nintendo system growing up, but moreso the fact that he allegedly STILL hasn't played games on Nintendo consoles. Which is indeed kind of weird, especially when your whole job is to understand game design. Like maybe take some time to study up on this? It's like, sure, maybe you didn't watch a lot of movies growing up, but once you become a film-maker, maybe you should go back and check out all those things you missed out on? Hell, that's why I like this site. Tell me all about those highly influential games that we in the west were ignorant about. I'm not sitting here like "Well I personally never played it, so it must've not been important at all!" And yet these voices are the exact ones this article is amplifying.
Also, from another interview, I see another team member of Expedition 33 talking about how he loved Paper Mario, and even told the guy above to try it out. So yeah, this game playing similar to some Nintendo stuff isn't a random coincidence. Some people on the team were indeed well aware of these games, even if the guy above wasn't.