I, like any true gamer, am getting severely and re he hearly annoyed with all this gibberish about which version of a game is superior. i don't play games because other people thought a series of games were popular, actually quite the contrary dear reader, when i 1st got into gaming i was about 7, gaming was still quite the geeky hobby back in 1989 and all the cool kids would be outside playing, not that this actually bothered me being absorbed into a static little game world.

Now as things have progressed into the mainstream, I fear this once geeky hobby has descended from how it used to be valued, Sure i'm all for accessibility and all that malarkey, and i'm glad to see these technologies advance into something truely great as it helps to remove more obstacles, but now that the tables have now turned and a lot of these cool kids from back then and mostly now are inside a lot more playing games, and it's these people who i feel are starting all these un-necessary console conflicts about which version of a game is better because..."It has this and the other version doesn't" or some other bone headed reason.

Back when systems weren't as powerful there were obvious differences(Just look at arcade to home computer/console conversions of games as an example and you'll see better drawn sprites, better sound hardware, music etc), but now we've reached a pinnicle of advancement in technology which truely blurs the graphical differences between the consoles mostly to those with an untrained eye, as it seems those differences are just so minor it somehow seems to warrant an arguement (Loading speed, Clipping, Install Screens, Sounds, Downloadable Content, Exclusive Content etc etc and so forth)
Now it seems that instead of people saying "you know what?....i personally like Super Happy Fun Game, and it's cool if you don't like this game, but let me enjoy what i like about this game" you have idiots saying things like "That is such a bad game, you oughta play super pwnage team game, it's way better" or "dude, they're playing that sucky game, what a bunch of losers"
or as Foamy(illwillpress) once pointed out "because you've not unlocked a certain achivement, it makes you a lesser person" These don't actually mean anything, they're virtual.

I'd personally love to see these newer and younger gamers try retro games on other systems and complain about the low resolution visuals i grew up playing on and am very comfortable with, are so restrictive, Restrictive?....who're you kidding?
I used to think it was technology which was restrictive but it actually boils down to your imagination when playing, also the cover art on a game box would really spark the imagination for gamers years ago, i could be wrong, but if a young gamer saw for example Metroid on the NES and compared it to the cover art, they wouldn't feel compelled to play because it doesn't reflect what the game actually is in terms of the visuals on screen. (in a similar fashion how books would absorb you into another entity as your read word for word)

IMO, True gamer is someone who enjoys and appreciates gaming regardless of how a game is compared to another game, if you enjoy 1 game and not another a billion others like, that doesn't make that game better or worse just means you don't like that game same thing vice versa, it's all opinion based, and the companies and people who make these games and gadgets for your enjoyment, they don't really care as long as they sell a copy of their product to you.