SNES vs Sega Genesis Observation

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Flashback2012:
Y'all going around and around about SNES and Genesis like a bunch of mouth breathin' jackalopes trying to figure which was better when the answer is clearly neither. A lot of you never experienced the greatness that is the Turbografx and it shows! :P

Jokes aside, I'm a both systems guy. Each system scratches an itch the other cannot (at least for me). :)

bikingjahuty:
I had both growing up, but I got my Genesis first and its library of games just appealed to me more. I got my SNES around 1995 and played a bunch of DKC and DKC2, but never got into the JRPGs like other people did. I still prefer the Genesis to this day.

dreama1:

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--- 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.

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I loved Sonic Mania. Felt just like a Genesis Sonic title with just as great quality.

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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.

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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.

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--- 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.

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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

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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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You know a lot of those games are on Genesis as well right? They were sometimes better on the SNES but not to the point that I would justify owning the console as definitive. I said "there's not much" Not it's "none existent" And Man, not everyone is into 1st party nintendo franchises or enjoys them, why is this so hard to accept?

Mega man X is respectful entry but as I said I honestly found the original capcom/konami franchises more enjoyable on the NES or better on Genesis. Same as the rest of the 1st party and "3rd" party franchises that are better known/associated with Nintendo. The SNES just seems like a HD upgrade of the NES just HD 2D upgrade rather than the HD 3D of the later generations.

dreama1:

--- Quote from: Flashback2012 on March 10, 2021, 12:27:27 pm ---Y'all going around and around about SNES and Genesis like a bunch of mouth breathin' jackalopes trying to figure which was better when the answer is clearly neither. A lot of you never experienced the greatness that is the Turbografx and it shows! :P

Jokes aside, I'm a both systems guy. Each system scratches an itch the other cannot (at least for me). :)

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Hey the Turbografx deserves to be remembered jokes aside or not. The street fighter 2 port is good. There was a lot of reasons it failed in the west but I can't help but feel the Nintendo fever played a part in it.

dreama1:

--- Quote from: burningdoom on March 10, 2021, 11:36:42 am ---Only RPGs? I don't even own a lot of RPGs on my SNES. It also has great platformers, beat-em ups, and fighting games.

All-time classics like Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World, Star Fox, Super Mario Kart, Sim City, Wolfenstein 3D, Contra III, Castlevania IV, Turtles in Time, Mega Man X, Super Turrican.

None of those are RPGs.

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We don't talk about Wolfenstein 3D. And you do know like 90% of the games you've just mentioned now are literally Nintendo franchises? or cucked Nintendo 2nd party franchises? As for the ones that are not, they're also on Genesis or at least I found more fun on the NES to play than it's SNES upgrades.

As for castlevania? Rather play it on NES or Genesis. Or even better Rondo of blood on the pc engine not touching that shitty SNES port or whatever you want to call it. Same for Contra it didn't have those terrible 3D sections nearly as much.

Mario kart and star fox? I don't think anyone would touch them these days unless nostalgic, they were a big deal back then tech wise sure even though we had virtua racing on Genesis besides the point. Literally they're 1000x better on N64 and the subsequent upgrades on the newer hardware's these franchises.

Fighting games? Sure. Mortal Kombat 2 and street fighter 2 are debatably better on SNES compared to the pc engine and Genesis even with the poor controller not suitable for fighting games compared to the 6 button controller of the pc engine and genesis, but even if it were true? So what? It's an inferior port compared to the arcade perfect ports we have today of those games or the saturn port of street fighter 2 a few years later. There's little reason to revisit it.

The SNES isn't a bad console or anything and there's a few gems even the Atari Jaguar and 32x has it's gems but they can't escape the self imposed stigma that none of you likely will bat an eye at. In the same way that you think I'm imposing on the SNES in the opposite way, of what is status quo zeitgeist when it comes to the SNES.

I just don't think it deserves the overwhelming hype it gets with the same old 1st party Nintendo franchises that are not bad per say, but being pushed over and over again in the present gaming sphere compared to what the pc engine and Genesis offered back then. I don't want to say americans are indoctrinated when it comes to the Nintendo brand you definably have those types in europe with some countries that Nintendo got a hold on. But I can't help but feel it to some degree overhyping Nintendo.

I found the 1st and 2nd party games more enjoyable on Genesis and the NES. If it's castlevania, ninja gaiden, contra or mega man, or the main nintendo franchises.

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