Hello X) (11584) on 8/9/2012 6:38 PM · Permalink · Report
Over the years there has been many battles between companies and platforms. To me these are the battles that I lived with and i was wondering what peoples preferences were. Any others that people can remember?
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 8/10/2012 5:47 AM · Permalink · Report
Hello, I'm a PC. And he's a Mac.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 8/10/2012 5:48 AM · edited · Permalink · Report
Of course, SNES vs Genesis ("Sega does what Nintendon't"?!) is legendary, as is Game Boy vs Game Gear.
Starbuck the Third (22606) on 8/10/2012 11:12 AM · Permalink · Report
Its funny, for the sixth console generation, I was a PS2 guy. But now were into the seventh Gen, I prefer the Xbox 360.
Unicorn Lynx (181775) on 8/16/2012 7:15 PM · Permalink · Report
I didn't really pay attention to those famous battles because for me there has always been a clear winner there. SMS and Genesis don't even come close to Nintendo consoles in terms of game quality.
j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】 (95185) on 8/16/2012 8:32 PM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Unicorn Lynx wrote--]SMS and Genesis don't even come close to Nintendo consoles in terms of game quality. [/Q --end Unicorn Lynx wrote--] Considering your tastes, this surprises me none. As a shooter and platformer afficionado, I find the Megadrive to have a much more enjoyable library than the SNES. ;)
Incidentally, the AVGN just posted a two-part SNES vs Genesis comparison video. It's amusing just to see him aghast at the arguments of his own eight-year-old self. :)
Unicorn Lynx (181775) on 8/17/2012 4:14 AM · Permalink · Report
Megadrive had better platformers than SNES?! Prove it! :)
j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】 (95185) on 8/17/2012 8:31 AM · Permalink · Report
Well, not to say it's better, but I certainly don't think it did any worse. The SNES might have Yoshi's Island, but the Genny had Sonic 3 & Knuckles, which I personally consider the absolute pinnacle of the action platformer to date.
There were a lot of other great exclusives as well. Off the top of my head: Rocket Knight Adventures, Vectorman, Dynamite Headdy, Garfield: Caught in the Act, Pulseman, Monster World IV, Alisia Dragoon... On the flipside, I adore Yoshi's Island and Super Metroid, though I'm hard pressed to come up with any other quality (non-Mario) exclusives.
Of course, I was a Sega kid growing up, so I might be a little biased. ;) I've never understood the appeal of Donkey Kong Country, for instance...I find it to be an ugly, slippery, poorly-designed mess of a game.
Daniel Saner (3503) on 8/18/2012 11:28 PM · Permalink · Report
The only one I really noticed was Dreamcast vs. PS2, sadly that was a true battle to the death. I didn't take sides, and unfortunately I didn't even own either of them. I played one at a friend's house and the other at another friend's house. Much more on the PS2, but I always though the Dreamcast was very cool, sort of like the more quirky, more personal, overall probably more interesting world with a lot of great ideas, stuff no one else really tried before or after. I was quite sad when it was discontinued. It would have been great to have a bolder platform around.
Around here the Xbox never really was any competition to the PS after that. I know exactly one person who ever owned one, and I never played one.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 8/19/2012 5:58 PM · Permalink · Report
While they admittedly did have platform exclusives, at least for a while, the forerunners of the last generation (PS2 / Xbox 1) really did seem to me like a case of same shit, different pile. The only one that stood out was the Gamecube, and that mostly because Nintendo doesn't 3rd-party develop for the competition. I guess sometimes giving your platform a particular personality is a liability.
Slug Camargo (583) on 8/19/2012 8:09 PM · Permalink · Report
Really? I can think of so many PS2 exclusive must-play games (Shadow of the Colossus and God Hand pop up to mind immediately) that if I ever were to buy a console, it would undoubtedly be a PS2 --no contest possible.
On the other hand, while the 360 does have a couple of exclusives I'm mildly interested in, I can't think of a single one for the original Xbox.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66360) on 8/20/2012 4:45 AM · Permalink · Report
The GTA 3s were initially on the Playstations only, conversely Xbox was the only place to go to play Halo. (But why would you?)