Can't we all just get along?!? MD vs SNES - The Bear and Badger

hylian_elf

tigerswiftly wrote:

Has anyone mentioned Phantasy Star IV? Or is everyone too scared of the avalanche of top quality SNES jrpgs that would tumble down upon it's mention?

My MD owning friend liked it. I leant him my SNES with FF3/6. He couldn't believe how shit Phantasy Star was in comparison.

monkey

Chrono trigger hasn't been mentioned enough.

hylian_elf

regmcfly wrote:

Abuse. Narky posts. I was literally lying in bed this morning thinking of games I loved on SNES and got accused of just copy and pasting from Wiki. Sad, just because people haven't heard of them.

Sad indeed. Specially as the games you listed were great.

I love revel for mentioning Terranigima. Xxxxx

hylian_elf

monkey wrote:

Chrono trigger hasn't been mentioned enough.

It has. I think it was you!

monkey

Needs more mentions.

ChopperByrne

Zelda: LttP

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hylian_elf

More classic SNES games:

Soul Blazer
Illusion of Time
Solstice 2: Equinox
Plok!
Shadowrun
Cybernator
Harvest Moon
Super Turrican

tigersgogrrr

hylian_elf wrote:

tigerswiftly wrote:

Has anyone mentioned Phantasy Star IV? Or is everyone too scared of the avalanche of top quality SNES jrpgs that would tumble down upon it's mention?

My MD owning friend liked it. I leant him my SNES with FF3/6. He couldn't believe how shit Phantasy Star was in comparison.

Seems a bit unfair that; Phantasy Star IV (or II?) is generally regarded as being one of the best 16-bit RPGS.

I've never given it more than a cursory dabble, myself. I might rectify that one day. I love FF3/6 and Chrono Trigger. The SNES definitely had it best when it came to RPGS.

hylian_elf

Earthbound

hylian_elf

@tiger: his opinion may have been influenced by the fact that he played all the MD RPGs and FF6 was the first FF he played and was "blown away".

He did like on MD:

Story of Thor
Landstalker
Sword of Vermilion
Shining Force series

tigersgogrrr

Final Fantasy 6 just does so much right.

SNES didn't have Sonic Spinball though.

mk64

Someone said the snes lacked beat em ups

1) turtles in time
2) ssf2t
3) alpha 2
4) final fight 1,2 and 3
5) ultimate mortal kombat 3
6) killer instinct

And sorry what did the mega drive have? SoR and championship edition sf2? Lol

Sim city and super tennis. Md had nothing like it. Also what RPGs were on the md compares to snes? Infant snes is better than almost every system ever for RPGs

Brooks

I was pretty pleased to have both machines, all things considered. Now I have neither because emulation.

Billy

yay a thread where we list awesome old games for MD and SNES!

Whoever said "Magical Flying Hat Turbo Adventure" i love you (DecapAttack FTL)

Has anyone said "Herzog Zwei" yet? awesome.

hylian_elf

SNES had Captain Commando. Commands (lol) hundreds of poinds on ebay. Did the MD have it? Great game.

@tiger: good call on Sonic Spinball! Devil Crush was an MD exclusive, wasn't it? Never played it, but it is often cited as one of the best pinball games.

monkey

Scrolling shooters is an interesting one but Snes edges it again.

Pop n twinbee, super rtype, aleste, parodius, un squadron
v
Xenon, Thunderforce, Hellfire, Gynoug.

Good games all round in that mix.

optimark_prime

In defence of the Mega Drive, regarding JRPGs. As has been mentioned, SEGA didn't have much support from Japanese developers (not sure Nintendo would allow it), so any RPGs released on MD would pretty much have come from SEGA themselves.

Not an easy task, as the company was more famous for it's arcade games.

EA did release The Immortal, which was pretty good though.

EvilRedEye

optimark_prime wrote:

In defence of the Mega Drive, regarding JRPGs. As has been mentioned, SEGA didn't have much support from Japanese developers (not sure Nintendo would allow it), so any RPGs released on MD would pretty much have come from SEGA themselves. Not an easy task, as the company was more famous for it's arcade games. EA did release The Immortal, which was pretty good though.

What are we talking about as well, the overall software catalogue or the original MD/SNES experience? Because a lot of the best SNES RPGs never came out in Europe originally. Shining Force II was amazing - and was actually released over here.

optimark_prime

hylian_elf wrote:

SNES had Captain Commando. Commands (lol) hundreds of poinds on ebay. Did the MD have it? Great game.

@tiger: good call on Sonic Spinball! Devil Crush was an MD exclusive, wasn't it? Never played it, but it is often cited as one of the best pinball games.

Devil Crush (Dragon's Fury over here) is genuinely brilliant (I've mentioned it a couple of times already), it's available on the Wii Virtual Console, and I'd highly recommend it.

optimark_prime

mk64 wrote:

Someone said the snes lacked beat em ups

1) turtles in time
2) ssf2t
3) alpha 2
4) final fight 1,2 and 3
5) ultimate mortal kombat 3
6) killer instinct

And sorry what did the mega drive have? SoR and championship edition sf2? Lol

Sim city and super tennis. Md had nothing like it. Also what RPGs were on the md compares to snes? Infant snes is better than almost every system ever for RPGs

Are you actually suggesting the Mega Drive had nothing like Super Tennis?

C'mon MK!

It had Theme Park too, btw.

Yossarian

mk64 wrote:

Someone said the snes lacked beat em ups 1) turtles in time 2) ssf2t 3) alpha 2 4) final fight 1,2 and 3 5) ultimate mortal kombat 3 6) killer instinct And sorry what did the mega drive have? SoR and championship edition sf2?

If you'd been paying attention, the MD had SSFII, with a specifically designed pad that had an amazingly responsive and accurate d-pad and the correct button layout. SNES loses that one.

And you laugh at SoR, but have you ever put any time into them? SoR 2 and 3 had a wider move set and much more depth than any other scrolling beat 'em up I've ever played. I would take either of those over every scrolling beat 'em up released for the SNES.

JonB

optimark_prime wrote:

In defence of the Mega Drive, regarding JRPGs. As has been mentioned, SEGA didn't have much support from Japanese developers (not sure Nintendo would allow it), so any RPGs released on MD would pretty much have come from SEGA themselves.

It was basically just the lack of Square and Enix really.

EA did release The Immortal, which was pretty good though.

Ah come on, that was shite.

optimark_prime

I quite enjoyed it. It was many years ago, though.

optimark_prime

There was a JRPG released (translated and released in the west) for the Mega Drive about six years ago, called Beggar Prince.

Reviews at the time were good, although I've not yet played my copy, so I can't recommend it from experience.

Yossarian

I can't help with the RPG thing. I've never been a fan.

hylian_elf

Did the MD get the Mega Man series, Breath of Fire games, Contra 3? They were good.

hunk

SuperSF2 on MD had less colours and awful sound BUT Ryu featured more animation frames in the intro than the snes. There was also some kind of extra option in time trial or something.
Supernes SSF2 AV presesentation was crisp and vibrant, not quite cps2 standards but tolerable.

As for the pads ahem...... it's what your accustomed to.

Also snes SMASHTV.
Awesome.

regmcfly

No one else remember Turtles Tournament Fighters? It was an amazing amazing fighting game- I remember the animation being stunning.
Also, wasn't Samurai Showdown on the SNES?

Yossarian

Mega Man, no. Contra, I'm not sure but the name rings a bell, so perhaps. Breath of Fire I've never heard of, so probably not.

hylian_elf

regmcfly wrote:

No one else remember Turtles Tournament Fighters? It was an amazing amazing fighting game- I remember the animation being stunning. Also, wasn't Samurai Showdown on the SNES?

I remember it, loved it, but thought it was multi platform?

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