Oh man, this has got to be some hilarious bait. No one can actually think this. Just for the hell of it, 'cause I'm bored, I'll break down everything wrong with this.
At 1/16/18 10:40 PM, NeonSpider wrote:
Admit it. The Sega Genesis sucked compared to the SNES or even NES. The hardware may have had whatever advantages it supposedly had, but if you look at the actual games they were across-the-board inferior.
Says the NES & SNES always has better games
Titles the thread as "Sega Fanboys"
This is friggin' adorable, seriously. Like out of everything you've said in this post this kills me. You even have the smug emote next to it like this has gotta be self-aware. No one can be that blind of a Nintendo fanboy, right?
This sounds like one of those fanboys that claim anything remotely different is "innovative" while also clinging to only popular Nintendo, Capcom, and Konami games and literally nothing else for those old systems.
In cases where a game existed on both SNES and Genesis, the SNES version was always the good version with the sole exception of Mortal Kombat. Most times the Genesis version outright sucked. Other than Moral Kombat, there's a few games that were on par, but never better than the SNES version.
Okay, to drop the humor facade for a second, I hate how people say Mortal Kombat 1 on Genesis is better than SNES because "muh violence." All that version has over the SNES version is a better soundtrack composed by the great Matt Furniss. Visually it's horrible, and it's missing sound effects even!
That being said, y'all do know that there's tons of multiplats where the Genesis version is better than the SNES and vice-versa, right? It's almost like, get this, it depended on the company developing it rather then then the system it was on. Crazy right?
Even in cases where the NES and Genesis had the same game, the NES version was superior.
Not saying that there aren't any examples of NES versions of Genesis games being better, but to say that's the norm is laughable. Go ahead and try to beat Battletoads in co-op on the NES with that game-breaking bug on Clinger-Winger. Unlike the NES you can actually beat Battletoads on the Genesis version on co-op because no such bug exists. The game is also optimized to run at the appropiate speed it was developed (the North American and Japanese NES versions were sped up accidentally.)
If we look at exclusives, most of the Genesis exclusives sucked or were mediocre at best, whereas the SNES exclusives were some of the best most iconic games of all time.
LOL
Yeah, I mean, obviously the people at Treasure, Technosoft, Vic Tokai, Compile, Wolf Team, Masaya/NCS, are just a bunch of incompetent, talent-less hacks amirite? For context, since I doubt you even know who these companies are, but they all exclusively developed for the Genesis. The only exceptions being Compile and NCS, where compile ported some of their arcade games to SNES (although it's almost universally considered that the Genesis versions of those ports are the best, IE Puyo Puyo 1 & 2, which sound and look just like the arcade but have even more modes making them the definitive versions of each game), or how NCS had a couple games also on SNES but for the most part focused on Genesis.
Hell, many of those developers made games on the system because they thought the SNES was too limiting hardware wise or they didn't want to deal with Nintendo's practices. Believe it or not, the SNES and Genesis are completely different beasts in hardware, one not better than the other. The only objective facts of what is better is that the SNES can output more colors, but the Genesis can have much more things happening on screen without sprite flicker or slowdown/lag due to its better processor.
Oh, and totally not like the RTS genre got its first game ever on the Genesis thanks to Technosoft or anything. Hell even Konami made great exclusives like Rocket Knight Adventures which is unanimously considered better than the sequels it got on the Genesis and SNES. Game Freak, aka the guys that made Pokemon made Pulseman, ever heard of that? What about Toejam & Earl which was one of the earliest games in the Rouge genre and pioneered split screen co-op?
Hell, I'm not even getting started on the first-party games developed by SEGA themselves. I'd honestly debate that back then, SEGA made more IPs than Nintendo since unlike Nintendo, Sega did sequels far less frequently then them and would constantly come up with new ideas.
Even the Genesis flagship game Sonic the Hedgehog was just mediocre at best, and actually a quite boring and overly-long game. Here Sonic can only walk and jump and do a lame spinball attack whereas Mario had all kinds of things he could do by that point. Sonic the Hedgehog can't compete with even the original Super Mario Bros, much less games like Super Mario World it was laughably trying to compete with at the time.
Blah Blah slopes and curved level design blah blah open ended exploration with multiple pathways blah blah different kind of platform games being compared is dumb blah.
I'm sorry, defending Genesis Sonic is boring regardless of how easy it is to do because no one learns anything from either side.
If you look at Sega's advertisements they are some of the cringiest aimed at try-hard wannabe "bad" kids and constantly badmouthed Nintendo. Meanwhile Nintendo's advertisements of the time just showcased awesome gameplay and didn't bother to even acknowledge the inferior existence of the Sega Genesis. They didn't need to. They could compete based on far better actually good games.
Implying all video game commercials weren't cringey or didn't try attacking their competitors
It's totally not like Nintendo did the same thing back to Sega in that same era or anything. Totally not like in things like Donkey Kong Country you see Sonic's shoes in the trash or anything.
Besides, who the hell cares about some dumb nearly 30-years old advertisments meant for 9 year olds to entice them to choose a side? Unlike the games that literally doesn't matter in this day and age.
In before a thousand Sega fanboys tell me I'm wrong and everyone else knows it's the truth.
Again, if this somehow isn't self-aware bait, I'm eating my shoe.
To be serious for a second, in regards to fanboys in general, why the hell would you choose to limit yourself to one thing as opposed to playing everything? Literally thousands of great games from the 80's and 90's, sure would suck to just limit yourself to 2 systems from 2 different console generations. But hey, what do I know? Who wants to play great undiscovered or under appreciated games that aren't apart of 30-year long running franchises anyway?