While I don't doubt the nostalgia feeling alot of these dudes get when playing these franchises, you gotta remember that alot of these cats are wannabe entertainment divas who drum up attention by just being really extra when they are talking about how "moving" shyt like this is.
I mean, these guys don't emboss their twitter handles on the screen for nothing.

They need you to understand their connection with a game and why they like it more than half the time instead of showing you what to expect from it or why it might potentially fail from discussion/speculation over the developers choice of action in certain instances.