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| SNES vs Sega Genesis Observation |
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| Warmsignal:
I have a built-in bias in favor of Nintendo just due to circumstance of having an older brother who had and favored Nintendo. So the SNES influenced my gaming preferences from a young age, and I'll always have more nostalgia towards it. Although we actually ended up getting a Genesis, we kind of neglected it. I didn't really know a whole lot about it until my collecting years. I think it has a damn good library of games and I can see how someone might favor it if they were playing Toejam, Golden Axe, Streets or Rage, Shinobi, Rocket Knight, OutRun, and a slew of legendary shooters like Musha, Truxton, Thunder Force, etc, not to mention lots of other great ports and exclusive counterparts to SNES titles. I wish I had played all that stuff back in the day. Holy crap, I just discovered that I own two complete copies of Altered Beast.... I never realized that. Anyway.... One admission I will shamelessly make in favor of Genesis, is that I like Sonic 1 thru 3 hella better than Super Mario World. However, because my childhood memories are closely tied to playing SNES, I'll always favor it. |
| oldgamerz:
I like the feel for the Super Nintendo's original controller, better then the SEGA Genesis controller. I have few few 4th generation console games. |
| sworddude:
I can't imagine disliking especially sonic 3 & knuckles if your into action platformers in the classic era, makes no sense to me. The nintendo bias is quite huge. Probably a ton of people who have rpg's as their favourite genre aswell. There are other genre's than rpg's lol Sega all about flash and lacking substance when their action games and shootemups where actually just better the bashing is real. if where talking controllers. the amount of snes controllers that where just broken is pretty high. Sizable Odds of some buttons not working anymore. even in sets where the games where pristine with boxes these controllers might turn bad even when they weren't used to much them rubbers seem to go bad overtime. Meanwhile I have never had a sega 6 button pad fail one me ever. always consistent and good, those controllers could take a hard beating and still work perfectly unlike the snes controllers. If your playing sega you definitely want a 6 button pad asap it's a huge upgrade compared to the standard controllers. not only for consistency but it's buttons and d pad are superior. --- Quote from: dreama1 on March 09, 2021, 08:19:28 pm ---The SNES is kind of kiddy console compared to the Genesis/Megadrive. There's not much for someone outside Jrpgs, and the main Nintendo franchises if you don't care for those. I think most of the older franchises played and felt better on the NES to be honest. --- End quote --- Truth. Another cultured individual If where talking nes > snes I've heard people who prefer the nes era. They didn't like the more cartoony look of the snes but there are probably multiple reasons aside from the looks to prefer the nes if where talking for example gameplay |
| kashell:
I grew up with SNES, so that's my preference. However, this has lead me to discover a bunch of Genesis games I missed out on which has been pretty fun. |
| Cartagia:
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on March 09, 2021, 09:41:48 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on March 09, 2021, 06:58:39 pm --- --- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on March 09, 2021, 06:52:59 pm ---There's always been more games I've liked on SNES. Genesis has some good games for sure, but stuff like Sonic, that gameplay has not aged well to me I found after playing Sonic Mania and there isn't as much I'm interested in having for it, though there are a few for sure like Gunstar Heroes and a couple others. --- End quote --- I loved Sonic Mania. Felt just like a Genesis Sonic title with just as great quality. --- End quote --- I just realized I hate that old Sonic gameplay at a certain point in my life. Visually, musically, Sonic is awesome, always has been, but his gameplay is just a lot of running into stuff you'll never know is coming, with occasional bouts of platforming strewn throughout. It was made more tolerable with Sonic Generations, where they zoomed the game out for Sonic classic, it helps, but otherwise I am just not into it. --- End quote --- Same. I even tried Sonic Mania and had the exact same frustrations - even if it was a a more polished version of those older games. Just does not work for me at all. --- Quote from: sworddude on March 10, 2021, 06:17:56 am --- --- Quote from: dreama1 on March 09, 2021, 08:19:28 pm ---The SNES is kind of kiddy console compared to the Genesis/Megadrive. There's not much for someone outside Jrpgs, and the main Nintendo franchises if you don't care for those. I think most of the older franchises played and felt better on the NES to be honest. --- End quote --- Truth. Another cultured individual If where talking nes > snes I've heard people who prefer the nes era. They didn't like the more cartoony look of the snes but there are probably multiple reasons aside from the looks to prefer the nes if where talking for example gameplay --- End quote --- This is just a bonkers take to me. I love the NES, but anything it can do the SNES does better.. Especially gameplay. And if we are comparing SNES to Genesis? Most the dual platform games are better on the SNES (your occasional Aladdin not withstanding), but to say it only has first party games and RPGs? Buh? Huh? The Super Star Wars Trilogy, Earthworm Jim, Rock n' Roll Racing, the Mega Man X trilogy, TMNT IV, Contra, ActRaiser, and so many more. And discounting first-party titles when that literally has gems of pretty much every genre? That's a very broad dismissive statement. |
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