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I agree with you here. I always thought the SNES sound chip was very echoey and lack any kind of punch in the low end. This is especially apparent when listen with headphones. Though I love me some SNES music (and the system), nothing has come close to equaling the bass in Streets of Rage.Quote:
Originally Posted by sega fan
PS1
1. Graphics sucked.
2. Never could get into the games.
3. Sound was bad.
4. I hate sony.
5. Too expensive for the time. (For me at least)
PC was better in those days so I never made the leap to the PS1, Saturn, and N64 era.
That lack of bass is apparent when listening to any "explosions". They lack "oomph".Quote:
Originally Posted by JFLY
Konami gets free pass for "Turtles in Time" because that custom music set (or whatever they use) works well, but "Batman Returns" really suffers from lack of good bass.
And there is no way the SNES could ever do the bass like what was done in SOR, Level 6.
Sega Saturn:
5. Too expensive.
4. Poor hardware design, with dual-processing that almost no programmers could handle.
3. Not as many good RPGs as on Sega Mega Drive or Sony PlayStation.
2. It's a big, ugly, black box.
1. Naming a console after a planet is stupid!
Sega Dreamcast:
5. Very short lifetime, 1998-2001 or so, even though new licensed games were released up to 2006 I think.
4. Not many games that are interesting to me.
3. You can't play DVDs on it like on the Sony PlayStation 2 DVD player.
2. I hate the controller. My hands hurt after less than an hour of play.
1. It breaks almost as easily as the Ekusu Bokusu 359, which isn't very reliable or worth its money then.
Atari Jaguar
5. CD-ROM player can't play DVDs
4. CD-ROM player can't play Blu-Ray Discs
3. Trevor McFur sounds like a hirsute porn
2. Didn't play Neo Geo carts
1. Naming a console after an animal is stupid. I bought the Sega Master System solely based on the fact that it wasn't named after an animal.
Its NOT A CONSOLE its an ADD ON! It wasn't $199 either, the launch MSRP was $149 (according to an old GamePro Buyer's Guide, if you paid more, you were ripped off) and quickly dropped to $99. It's still a little pricey, but games were $70+ in alot of cases, so for the price of another game you could get a 32-bit add on. You can say games were better on Saturn or Playstation, but that's a stupid argument as those would run you double or almost triple the price (though would be a better investment in the long term :? ). Still, the 32X offered at least 20 really solid games that were some of the best around until PSX and Saturn got going.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Agreed. I regret getting an N64 over a PSX every day of my life, especially since the best N64 games still sell for less than medium quality PSX games in alot of cases (even though PSX was almost half the price)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty Venture
Get a Logitech wireless controller, the Precision is awesome (slightly less stiff joysticks, very smooth, and a great D-Pad) and has an estimated battery life of 300 hours. I've had the same batteries in it since I bought it over a year ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by TmEE
AMEN AMEN AMEN HALLELUJAH PRAISE THE LAUD SOMEONE GETS IT! I have actually learned to love the original XBOX for all of the softmodding goodness (which is really more a testament to homebrew developers than Microshit [and PS2 still blows it out of the water]), the XBOX 360 is just too shitty of a ripoff after the initial sale and the quality is just too poor. I have never purchased any hardware that was lower quality than an XBOX 360. Even my cheap shit black friday special portable DVD player is better built than an XBOX 360 (turns out the DVD player had a Sony drive in it, even though the player itself is a "Digital Labs" brand, whatever that is). The biggest shame is that there is alot of good software for the XBOX 360, but I can never own any of it because I refuse to buy something that will barely last long enough to even finish one game.Quote:
Originally Posted by AD2101
1. that's a dumb argument, the system hasn't even picked up speed yet, XBOX 360 didn't have shit for the first year or two, many people I knew were thinking of selling theirs. Also, if more people didn't catch-22 it by saying there's no games, people might buy the system and then there WOULD be games.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Jackal
2. www.logitech.com -> the best PS2 and PS3 controllers ever made, unless you're bitching about the joysticks being side by side, in which case stop playing gay FPS games and you'll be fine.
3. you gotta be kidding me, that's all I'm going to say. "The PS3's 380 watts will cost you around $40 a year to run if you play it two hours a day" and that's a quote from a PS3 slam site.
4. ? so you're bitching about a thrown in blu ray player yet Microsoft is just dandy offering an HD DVD player for ANOTHER $199?
5. You mean like the original XBOX? At least the PS3 works, unlike a certain competitive Microsoft product...
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
Well since it tis the season an all I figure I might stray away from my usual scathing negativity and instead type about the things I am thankful for and which bring good cheer.
1. I am thankful the Sega Genesis has a lovely D-pad instead of that fucking cheese grater they stuck on the SNES.
2. I get great joy from the fact that I do not own a N64 because it has one of the worst controllers Ive ever held. The analog sucks the D-pad sucks those rediculous C buttons suck I hate the triggers and it feels like some kind of 3 pronged dildo device raping my hand.
I will say this for the N64 tho, it can take a beating. About a week ago at a friends we were drunk and playing Mortal Kombat and generally talking lots of trash bc I got on a role and neither of my friends could beat me (even tho I normally lose), anyway tempers were starting to flare. So after one particularly smug victory over my friend Adam he jumps up and punches as hard as he can the N64 controller which flew the length of the cord and to its credit did not come unplugged but hit the floor at maximum velocity and did not break. He then kicked his television set as hard as he could and the damn thing flew on the hardwood floor but some how did not break or take any damage. It was a smallish maybe 30 inch cheap ass tv. I think the cheap plastic helped it bounce or something.
3. I am thankful that as hard as SEGA sucks right now it doesn't matter bc the real SEGA has long since died and it's body has been taken over by body snatchers from the planet Lame-ass.
4. I am thankful I don't play many FPS.
5. "SEGA!!!"
;)It's still a gaming platform. Swap the title with Jaguar and you get the same results: crappy hardware with crappy games. I'd love to hear what your 20 solid games are, because all I can think of is Shadow Squadron, Star Wars Arcade and maybe Virtua Fighter. Zaxxon Motherbase 2000 wasn't all that great and I'd have to say that it wasn't much different from Viewpoint. Virtua Racing was a slight upgrade from the Genesis version, but it still wasn't anywhere near arcade perfect. And Sonic Chaotix really doesn't do much for me, with the tag-along gameplay.Quote:
Originally Posted by 17daysolderthannes
To be honest I hate all the fifth generation consoles.
N64 pissed me off because the games always looked smoggy
PS1 as I stated above was just a load of pixelated crapola
I'm not even going to talk about the 3DO, Amiga, or Jaguar.
They all sucked.
Saturn on the other hand I can't even comment on cause I never got the chance to play it in depth.
Its funny, people either never heard of, hate or love the Saturn.
I'm in the love category.
20 GOOD 32X games, some may have better versions on NEWER, MORE EXPENSIVE systems (speaking retroactively of course), but that's a moot point since the 32X was the "affordable" option:Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
After Burner Complete
Blackthorne
Corpse Killer
Cosmic Carnage
Darxide
Doom
Knuckles Chaotix
Kolibri
Metal Head
Mortal Kombat II (best port)
NBA JAM TE (most arcade accurate, at least on a cartridge system)
Shadow Squadron
Space Harrier
Star Wars Arcade
Tempo
Toughman Contest (basically the same as Genesis, but still a good game)
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Racing
WWF Wrestlemania: Arcade
Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000
now, some may claim they weren't a big enough step up from the regular Genesis version of the SNES port, but I didn't say all of them were, I just said there were a decent amount of good games compatible with the add on. Even a small improvement is still an improvement. Some other games you may claim weren't fantastic, etc. but we can be here all day with an argument like that. I think 99.999% of RPGs are complete dogshit and shouldn't even be sold, others only play RPGs and nothing else. I would say only about 5-10 of the games are really great must own exclusives today, but for a format that was only around a year, that's not too shabby.
Oh, and if you don't like Knuckles Chaotix (your complete butchering of the name gives a clear indication how much you've actually played it) you simply haven't played it long enough to get used to the controls. The first day I pledged to play it for at least an hour I ended up playing so long I almost beat the whole game. That night I went back and played Sonic CD and it almost felt boring by comparison. Knuckles Chaotix is THE game to have for 2 player Sonic action.
Don't get me wrong though, Its a Sega Console and probably had a few great hits. I played Virtual Cop with the light gun and thought it was great. I just never had the chance nor the funds for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanegashima
The saturn definitly had more than a few great hits, it has tons of shooters and beat em ups etc. Most of the good games are jap however.
Yea, I don't know if this is correct but I heard the Saturn was very popular in Japan. I heard that it was played religiously by the japanese until the launch of Dreamcast and PS2Quote:
Originally Posted by Dirt Ball Gamer
That is mostly true, it outsold the PSX for sometime before sega pre-maturely pulled the plug.