Why do some people regard nintendo as "kiddy"

Nintendo is not the "Disney" of Videogames. Square Enix is. Quite literally, in fact.

The "kiddy" label Nintendo has been stuck with is the result of a false dichtomoy, in that there are two extremes and no middle ground. Either the game is "mature" and has blood, swearing, and sex, or it features none of those things and is deemed "kiddy" by elimination.

It does not matter if Nintendo tries to shake the "kiddy" label, nor are they ever very successful. Conker's Bad Fur Day didn't do it. Eternal Darkness didn't do it. Both were violent and one was filled with raunch. But herein seems to be a common element.

It is not that those that desire "mature" games from Nintendo want them to publish mature games. That is not sufficient. Nor is it sufficient if they actually develop them. That is also not enough. They want to see Mario do it. And that is not going to happen. They want to see Link have a threesome with Zelda and whatever other female is at hand. That is not going to happen, ever. They want hours of voice acting, overbearing pointless plotlines, long frequent cinemas, or whatever other shallow "production value" can be thought up on short notice. I certainly hope that does not happen.

The reason these things should not and hopefully will not happen is because of the dedicated, semi-dedictaed, and casual fans of these said series appreciate the resistance to the temptation of increasingly violent and profane production values. Myself, for example. I know for a fact if the Zelda coming up for the Cube/Rev/whatever pull the stunt Prince of Persia did, or was anything at all like God of War, I would dislike it and probably not purchase it. What is not known is if the groups of people that blew off Zelda for being "too kiddy" for them will instantly convert once they see the new hard-edged one specifically tailored to their demographic. I personally think they would not. And so Nintendo would have risked their assured majority of fans who silently appreciate their work to grab a small, miniscule group of people who may or may not enjoy the change.

As a case study, Jak and Daxter. Jak and Daxter started off as a playful, E-rated, quasi-colorful humorous adventure. Then it went all Hulk and GTA and Ninja on everybody. And as such, its sales diminished each time until it resorted to copying Mario Kart, a crime Naughty Dog is guilty of twice.

There is no question that there are some games Nintendo has made that do not display gratuitous violence and overly sexual themes. But as a perespective on this, a majority of Steven Spielburg's movies are PG and PG-13, and he was even the creator of several cartoons, and nobody heaped crap on him and called him "kiddy" when he did so.

I guess I suppose I would rather Nintendo be treated the same as Steven Spielburg is.

(tl;dr Anybody that calls Nintendo "kiddy" is a moronic teenager who's testicles have not descended yet or a severely developmentally challenged young adult with social issues)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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There's still a decent amount of games worth buying for the Gamecube, but most of them would be Pikmin, SSBM, you know, game titles which are aimed at kids.

Explain how Pikmin is "kiddy." But you are forbidden from using the following reasons:

1. It's rated E. So are Gran Turismo 4 and Madden. This reason is meaningless.
2. It has rich, colorful graphics as opposed to murky browns. Killer 7 had bright graphics too.
3. The lack of violence. Once again, no violence in something like Gran Turismo.
4. The lack of sexuality. If this makes a game kiddy, the list of the guilty gets quite long.

I eagerly await your answer, Elixir.

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Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (PSP) has a much better online service, and it's free.

Actually it has one gigantic glaring flaw. It requires the purchase of Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (PSP). Mediocre PS1 games do not suddenly become great once they get demoted to the PSP.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

My point is that Syphon Filter sucks ass, period. Each one was a gigantic pile of bleh and Dark Mirror is no exception. It's free and supposedly good online system does not help the fact that it is still the poor man's Splinter Cell, which is the poor man's Metal Gear.

And the game being terrible might also have something to do with it.

Did I mention it's terrible?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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Do you have a PSP.
Have you played the game.

I have played a PSP several times. And I have played the game, and it is a dog.

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Don't lie now, or you'll have lost even more respect.

Ahaha good gravy, who should I care for?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?