Some gamers say, "Genesis games were cool way back when but face it today they stink"

Some gamers say, "Genesis games were cool way back when but face it today they stink"

What do you make of these comments... do you agree/disagree and why?

This should make for an interesting thread...

If i saw those gamers i would beat them with my copy of streets of rage 2.

Whatever.

I'd say that the majority of the games buying public are idiots.

I don't mind, less competition to get the games I want on the genesis for me. It is their loss really, there are so many great games for the 16bit generation, and alot of the GBA games are 16bit in nature/origin, and I don't see idiots making the same statements for that system.

Haha, it's kind of ironic that I would find this today having just spend the entire day messing around on Sonic Mega Collection. If anyone ever spewed forth such madness in my presence I would smack them with my dick so hard that it would snap their neck. That being said, I enjoy even the oldest games like Galaga even today, hell, I enjoy Galaga more then I do most the shit that developers put out these days.

Big deal. It is just an opinion. The genesis collection thread was far more interesting.

I'd laugh at them, and then go play my Sega Gen CDX.

I just beat PS4 about 4 months ago. Loved it. I still play SOR2 every few months, and love it.

I got the sonic collections for GCN (because I only own, sadly, 1 and 2). I am still impressed with the graphics to this day. Am I lame? Look at all that scrolling! My god, HOW is that little machine handling all that scrolling? Only 64 colors, and yet look at Sonic 3. It's incredible.

So, who ever says that, just isn't a true gamer. Yeah, there are a ton of games on the system that no longer deserve play (such as sports games, many racing titles, and so on) just because there's a ton of new games that are like them, but much better. However, there's many many more games that were never quite done like these ones again (Streets of Rage, Sonics, PS series, and the ever incredible Gunstar Heroes). So screw what anyone says. If they don't like it, then that's cool... but the good lord knows I still do!

Spike

I'm going a strange route.

I'm one of the first people on the front line to defend old school games, methodology...the works.

BUT I concede that many times we percieve games to be much better than they are because of personal attachment to them. That there are games, that on their own merits, that aren't as good as we think and say they are.

But that's not ALL games. Only in the past few days have I tried Shining Force.

I never played it before, so it's not nostaligia and I was a devout SNES player so it's not residual self delusion.

The game, is good. It's a little easy, but the strategic element is quite nice and is something that is absent from many current RPGs.

Again, I admit there is gamer favortism but I won't condem an entire system and it's library for that reason any more than I'd condemn the entire X-Box catalog because of Blood Wake, the entire Cube catalog because of Universal Studios, the entire PS2 catalog because of the endless shit that has been churned out (lots of good PS2 games, but since it has the most games, it will logically have the most BAD games, although percentage wise all systems are probably the same. So chill out Sony Fan Boys ) or even condem the fucking 2600 because of ET.

A game should be measured on it's own merits. Period.

Altered Beast isn't as good as a lot of people say it is (I wasn't a genny person so I can step back and realize this) but I thoroughly enjoy Shining Force and on a gameplay level I'll take that and Shadowrun over BMX XXX and Cel Damage any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Well I'm going to say that whomever truly believes that is a dumb fuck, and prolly started playing games with the onset of PSX and think that the crap mostly released here was all the Saturn had to offer. Obviously as my call sign in here states I for one love my MegaDrive/Genesis and know for a fact that just because something is old doesn't make it suck. The problem is is that today's gaming market is tailored to the fickle casual gamer and not to the brigades of scattered Nerds, losers, tech heads, and open minded ppl that make up the ranks of us die-hards. Alas like with everything else, something cool became a fad and now the pioneers must pay the horrible price, of ignorant flash-in-the-pan gamers and the gaming companies who rush to lick their ejaculate.

I think some of those old Genesis games are way better than some of the crap I've seen on the PS2,GC,and Xbox!Some of the games on these newer systems are just plain horrible! With games like Azurik,Backyard Football,Universal Studios,Shrek,and Akuji: The Heartless,who need frisbees?

My copy of Mutant League Football can kick Blitz fan's asses anyday of the week.

Steve:
What do you make of these comments... do you agree/disagree and why?

This should make for an interesting thread...

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Some gamers say, "Genesis games were cool way back when but face it today they stink..

I can see people saying this.
I hear it all the time,but not amongst collectors.

These are the same people who could say The Neo Geo sucks or any other 16 bit system,and they wouldn't be welcomed here by no FKN means..


I never bash any system and I get pretty pissed off when I hear a young kid or a fkn adult say that the older systems suck.
When they have no fkn clue what they are talking about.

Hang out in any used game store like Funcoland and you will hear the most biased customers bash systems and games.
Especially the older systems.
I seriously hate that shit..

I didn't read any other post answers,just the question so everyone will have their own answer and opinion.
This is just the way I feel.
I'm a very dedicated Game collector.

Tomorrow I'll look and someone will post reply.
"Genesis games suck" eek_2

<small>[ February 03, 2003, 12:29 AM: Message edited by: chris1 ]</small>

Those who say that are probably graphic whores who are spoilt by the modern, graphically intense games of today.

Devil_Gans:
Those who say that are probably graphic whores who are spoilt by the modern, graphically intense games of today.

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Damn that summs it up well..

Well of course it's a bad thing to say because there were so many games. Games like Gunstar Heroes and Sonic really are great, and many others are definitely worthwhile. Sub Terrania for example... I wrote the guide for that game...

BUT I do think that some games that people kind of liked back then are tough to play now... I think some games have terrible programming. Like Jurassic Park.... I couldn't handle it... It felt so buggy... Games like that were considered okay back in the day I think... but I never owned a Genesis back then, so I'm looking at a lot of my Genesis games with no preconceptions...

I totally agree with Blaine, too.