I'm still playing through Wind Waker and not dissapointed with it yet, its cool, and I'll play it all the way through, but it still doesn't have that Miyamoto magic, not sure why, but none of his games have lived up to Mario64 or possibly OOC in my opinion.
"What's with saying that 8bit games are better than current releases?"
Its not that, its just that the majority of new games are near identical to old games, just with better graphics. At the birth of gaming, ever game was a new and fresh idea
That said when something original AND playable comes out nowadays, I'm always thrilled
"There are brilliant gems in every genre and style with more coming on the way..."
Thats the point, there never used to BE genres. Every new Race game is basically the same, every new fighter, every new FPS, all basically the same game, with different graphics. Thats not to say nice new lil tweaks and tucks can't make them better than the games they are based on, but for example, no FPS game will probably evr feel as fresh and innovative to me as DOOM, because b4 that, I'd never played a FPS. Or even a 3D game that gave true 360 degree movement, it was a joy to behold, and I played in awe for weeks
"strikes me rather like saying that Win3.1 will always be better than Win98..."
Euch No Windows was awful until 95. I loved MS-DOS, and basically no DOS games or programs ran under Win 3.1 . It wasn't an operating system, it was just a memory hungry shell program, and an excuse for Microsoft to make exclusive programs like Word and Excel to force people to use it. Up until 95, whilst I had Windows installed, I stuck to using DOS, along with QuikMenu, Envision and NeoPaint for all my work
