Is it strange for one to be so rooted in traditional styles of gameplay, that they don't want to play a more recent version?

I'm facing something like that now, with my boyfriend, and his unwillingness to play any Metroid Prime title or Zelda on the Wii. What I find most... disturbing are his reasons for not playing either. For Metroid, he claims it should never have been brought to 3D and should've kept it's 2D roots. (I don't know if he's played any of them before, mind you.). For Zelda, he says he doesn't want to touch it because Link has always been left-handed. Yep... He doesn't want to play based on what hand the weapon is held in. I completely understand from a character design perspective, but in this case, it may not be the same Link as others, and therefore any easy excuse can be made for such a change in design.

Has anyone encountered another person whose had such... unique excuses for not playing a game?