[QUOTE="Metrovania"][QUOTE="Panzer_Zwei"][QUOTE="Metrovania"]SNES for me. Lttp, Yoshy's Island, Castlevania 4, Street Fighter 2, Contra 3, Super Mario All-stars (+ SMW), Super Metroid, Mario Kart, F-Zero, Final Fantasy III (VI), Chrono Trigger, Legend of Mana, Star Fox, Super Punch-out! etc. What more could you possibly want from a gaming system?Panzer_Zwei
More variety of genres. The SNES didn't had Adventure or RTS games for example.Adventure games? Well it had Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past - my personal favorite Zelda game, as well as The Legend of the Mystic Ninja - an absolute ****c; though I suppose that is actually an Action/Adventure game. But if that's the case than the N64, or PS1 didn't have many adventure games either. Super Metroid is a side-scrolling adventure game, as or the two Lost Vikings games and Blackthorne. As for RTS, the only reasonably good RTS on any of the consoles listed as options would be StarCraft 64 - but then that wasn't as good as the PC version anyway. SNES did get SIm City, Civilisation and Populous (the latter is considered by many to be a seminal God Game), if you count those as RTSs. as well as Front Mission and Ogre Battle, though they were TBSs. No one buys home consoles for RTSs, and if you did, then the GC would be the obvious choice, since it had Pikmin (1 and 2) and Battalion Wars, as well as a TBS in the form of Fire Emblem. Other then that, there's Herzog Zwei on the Genesis/Megadrive.
I don't think your argument was particularlu well thought through.
Adventure games were aplenty in the 16-bit era, just not on the SNES. The PS actually did had many adventure games like Broken Sword and Discworld and not to mention the whole lot of Japanese ones. RTS is just an example of a missing genre on the SNES, and while they might not be system-sellers, it's a nice genre to have, the more the merrier.But anyway, you asked and I replied, Looks like you just settle with what the SNES had and want to think of the type of games it missed as non significant.
There are more strategy games on the SNES than on most consoles. The Megadrive did get Herzog Swei (amazing game) and Shining force (important game), but I would hardly say it's library of strat games utterly out-did the SNESs - and in terms of Platformers, Action/Adventures and RPGs, it doesn't come close (nor do most consoles imo). How many great adventure games came out on the Megadrive, or N64 or Dreamcast, or PS1? Sure the PS1 had Policenauts (cracking game) but little else that was particularly memorable. That is, if by adventure you mean PURE adventure games like Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max. And those were far from available in huge numbers in the 16-bit era.
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