@MirkoS77 It's this type of bullshit that has completely ruined gaming. I mean seriously. It really pisses me off that all you fucking asshats think are "good games" are endless and recycled beige colored murder simulators where the only things happening of note are "hard men making hard choices." It's gets very fucking tiresome playing the same goddamn games every single fucking year with little to no diversity. And yet you people will fucking eat it up because you easily impressed by style over substance.

I'm sorry, but really, this generation of gamers is laughably the worst generation and you people are going to lead this industry over the goddamn cliff.

The Genesis didn't offer any games with great gameplay. Take a look at reviews for Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter and you see that the SNES had the better port in terms of gameplay, sound, and visual aesthetics.

It's also not an extreme exaggeration when Sega marketing revolved around exploiting scantily clad women and the fact that there was blood in their games. Take a look at any of the adverts from the time and you will see what I am talking about. And even this began to reflect the dudebro culture that was developing at gamemags. Take a look Mortal Kombat 1 and 2's Gamepro review for Christ's sake. How in the actual blurb of the review they praise the SNES version in terms of it's technical abilities over the Genesis but mark it down heavily in terms of actual score due to the fact it does not have blood. But when we get to Mortal Kombat 2, they seem to have flipped and have scored the SNES version over the Genesis version simply because the SNES version has blood.

And for Shooters and sports? It's not Nintendo's fault that EA did some shittastic ports. But Shooters? Riiiiight. Even though the SNES had Axelay, Phalanx, R-type III, Super Smash TV, UN Squadron, Parodious Da, Pop'n' Twinbee, and my favorite, Metal warriors.

The statement that there wasn't a genre that the Genny lacked compared to the SNES might be technically true but is a meaningless statement. The Genesis ports were, for the most part, always inferior in terms of sound, controls, and visual aesthetics. The only thing that made the Genesis even remotely popular was the edgy way in which it marketed it's games, (specifically ads that sold to the dudebro crowd) and the way it emphasized the *unique* traits of certain games in it's library.

Except, I was the same age as you and I went the other way. I saw the commercials for Mortal Kombat, Doom and Streets of Rage. I pretty much saw these games as klunky looking games that only had edginess and blood as selling points. No grand vision, no great story, and certainly no great gameplay mechanics that would attract me to those types of games.

It was Nintendo games that provided puzzle solving, and expertise in platforming, that brilliant stories and great characters, as well as fluid controls that hooked me in. That's why I was a SNES kid instead of Genesis kid, and why I stuck with Nintendo and having fun with their first party games. Like Earthbound, like the Legend of Zelda, like F-zero, like Mario, like Donkey Kong Country.

In a lot of ways it's the the Sega crowd of the 1990's really ruined gaming. That crowd was easily appeased not by good gameplay or good characters but by tits, 90's 'tude, ultra-violence, blood, and grimdark bullshit where we have the tired trope of "hard men making hard choices." And that really influenced AAA devs into producing overhyped, overmarketed, cinematic borefests where the only reason i'm playing is to get to the next multi-million dollar cutscene. Money that could have gone into QA instead.

And it's the same shitshow year after year with no end in sight. And frankly, I am sick and tired of the fact that the cancer of Sega of America and the Genesis crowd, a cancer that exists within Sony and to certain extent with Microsoft continues to consume gaming culture.

@lamprey263: At least they play very well with tight controls at launch unlike the litany of games put on Sony and Microsoft's machines.

Still too high and the fact they gave the Taken King an 8 is also pretty damnably hilarious in it's own right.

And yet this game will have a better online gameplay then that overrated piece of shit Destiny had a launch. I'm still chuckling how the idiots at gamespot gave that broken garbage anything above a 7.

Remember when people didn't whore out "grafix" and polygons? When people judged a game by how well it played?

You mean like the PS4 controller that has gyroscopic controls that aren't used ever and that little black touch pad that has barely any uses. But the Ps4 controller isn't a gimmick...

I can't tell if you are serious or just stupid.

It's people like you that have ruined video games for every one else. I remember a time when people played Mario and Contra on the same damn console. Nowadays, it's just assholes whole cling to their "grafix" and their "wurld bilding herpa derp" while forgetting the game part of video games.

At least Nintendo games aren't fucking broken at launch. When compared to to say EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Activision, and Bioware's latest offerings.