NES vs SNES

[Dumanios]

Game Boy is still the best cos it has pokémons on in.

I agree with you.

 

[Earthling]

Er...excluding a certain strategy game that a certain forum is dedicated to...

Oh, don't worry, TL is still keeping us up to date on Starcraft II

 

[Rashiminos]

Sequals usually suck.

Er...excluding a certain strategy game that a certain forum is dedicated to...

Yes, that's why the game series is still around today isn't it? It's sequel "sucked" (your brains out if you weren't wearing a suit).

 

[illram]

Nostalgia factor is pretty high for both and I do remember some awesome NES games (Zelda, all the Mario Brothers games, Baseball Stars, Metroid, Mega Man), but I think there were more games for the SNES that I really loved, plus the reincarnations of the old NES classics worked so well on the SNES too. All the Mario games, Zelda, Street Fighter (all of them) Mario Kart, F-Zero, Pilotwings, StarFox, the list goes on. The SNES, from what I remember, was pretty amazing back then and totally dominated the Genesis, aside from the Genesis claiming the spotlight for having the gorier version of Mortal Kombat, which was kind of lame anyway.

SNES by a hair for me.

 

[Narz]

NES was much better, better games, more of them.

 

[thekaje]

SNES has better games.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I have never played a console game, ever. PC games all the way. I voted for "Go Fish".

 

[Nylan]

NES made me a gamer. World Cup Soccer, anyone? Jackal? Contra? Mario? TMNT?

Those games and Age of Empires made me who I am today, man.

 

[thekaje]

NES games were a lot simpler, in every respect. You NES partisans gotta admit that. They're mostly arcade/twitch games with barely any story and less depth.

The SNES games, though, were beautiful and deep. Many went far beyond twitch, and several had memorable characters and moving plots.

So it's really no contest, I'd say.

 

[Nylan]

NES games were a lot simpler, in every respect. You NES partisans gotta admit that. They're mostly arcade/twitch games with barely any story and less depth.

The SNES games, though, were beautiful and deep. Many went far beyond twitch, and several had memorable characters and moving plots.

So it's really no contest, I'd say.

I guess that makes the PS3 the best system EVAR, huh?

NES games were amazing in depth and beautiful in simplicity.

 

[thekaje]

I guess that makes the PS3 the best system EVAR, huh?

NES games were amazing in depth and beautiful in simplicity.

I don't know. Do PS3 games have deep, memorable characters, plots, and gameplay?

P.S. Name ONE deep NES game.

 

[Nylan]

I don't know. Do PS3 games have deep, memorable characters, plots, and gameplay?

P.S. Name ONE deep NES game.

One?

Zelda, Contra, Friday the 13th even. So many games took concepts and ran with them. Working within the medium did not inhibit depth of story, and indeed sometimes it was even better to have important themes implied rather than outright spoken in dialogue. At times, it made games even more beautiful, in almost the same way as books leave just the right amount of room for imagination.

The developers managed to squeeze every last drop of life they could out of the NES's processor and built the very foundation upon which modern console gaming stands. So much of the SNES's strong points are simply NES concepts with better graphics.

 

[LucyDuke]

NES games were a lot simpler, in every respect. You NES partisans gotta admit that. They're mostly arcade/twitch games with barely any story and less depth.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[Mad Man]

Lets look at the facts people with a good old fashioned statistics war

BEST GRAPHICS-SNES

LONGEVITY-NES

BEST CONTROLLERS-SNES

BEST ACCESSORIES-NES

BEST COMPETITION-SNES

BEST MARKETING-NES

BEST GAMES-SNES

 

[Narz]

NES games were a lot simpler, in every respect. You NES partisans gotta admit that. They're mostly arcade/twitch games with barely any story and less depth.

The SNES games, though, were beautiful and deep. Many went far beyond twitch, and several had memorable characters and moving plots.

So it's really no contest, I'd say.

The original Zelda was hardly a twitch game. Nor were the excellent Dragon Warrior games. There were plenty of strategy games, war games (like Nobunaga's Ambition). And the "twitch games" were often great fun (compared to graphically better but less fun SNES games), Super Dodge Ball comes to mind.

I'm biased & also I didn't plan that many SNES games but I was very impressed with the NES overall & underwhelmed by future systems which seemed to emphasize graphics over gameplay.

 

[Narz]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Yeah exactly, complex doesn't necessarily mean better.

 

[cardgame]

Yeah exactly, complex doesn't necessarily mean better.

Well, I don't know, do you want to play a flash game online or CIV 4?

 

[Mad Man]

Which flash game and what CIV4

 

[LucyDuke]

Well, I don't know, do you want to play a flash game online or CIV 4?

Depends. Usually I'll opt for the flash, since it's far less involved.

 

[Narz]

I prefer Cities & Knights of Catan online (http://games.asobrain.com) over Civ II (didn't like III, never played IV). Though this is mostly just cause I got totally burned out of Civ II. The board game is simpler but it's a beautiful simplicity. Rulewise chess is simpler than either & I also very much enjoy that.