Nintendo, Square - Embarrassing?

Thanks to EvilAvatar for pointing to a recent update at the sadly semi-retired ToastyFrog site, in which Nintendo and Square are added to the list of The 20 Most Embarrassing Game Companies. A gentle roasting is applied to Nintendo for being "..called the gaming equivalent of Walt Disney. Partly because their work is innovative, polished and marketable, but also because a pervasive stench of evil hovers over the company", and a similar treatment is applied to Square, of which ToastyFrog posits: "Which is worse, the company, its fanboys or its ex-fanboys? The world may never know." However, this tongue-in-cheek cynicism produces plenty of good points, most notably Square's Tom Sawyer RPG as a "terrible cultural hiccup."

Comments

Niche Player?

[M3wThr33]

Hardly a niche Player when the GameCube is #2 worldwide, and of top 100 games in Japan, Nintendo published more than anyone else.

FF3 (USA) and Chronotrigger

[jpsowin]

Those games rock (FF3 and Chronotrigger). I still play them today on my SNES emulator, and loved them when I was a kid. The story lines are well thought out, and the multiple endings for Chronotrigger was a great idea to get people to keep playing. In fact, I think it's about time I fired SNES9x up again :)

Square may have made alot of mistakes, but what company doesn't? Overall, I think they've done a pretty good job over the years.

Re:Biased writing

[Alaric42]

I'd recommend you look at some of Parish's other work to get an idea of when to take him seriously and when not to. This would be an instance of sarcasm, a concept you may have run into in other comments here at Slashdot. For instance, he doesn't actually think that Pac-Man is jingoist, xenophobic anti-Christian propaganda (at least, it's never come up in conversation...). And if you really think Xenogears' protagonist was originally named Fei Ben Jesus, you're beyond help.

Presentation in General

[DrWho520]

The articles for Ninetendo and Sqare-Enix may be toungue and cheek, but I think its more important to look at the entire section as a whole. Too put Capcom, Nintendo and Square-Enix in the same context as 3DO and Acclaim...now that's just wrong. I find 3DO and Acclaim seriously embarassing as a gameplayer. They put out some real steaming piles, and lets not talk about tombstones. I just think its bad journalism in a way, to put those companies in the same context.

He deffinately has a pair for critcizing Capcom, Nintendo and Spuare-Enix in this way, though. I just think he might have had a blood flow problem at the time.