It's not a bad list but you have to also take into account that nobody at IGN was playing games in the 16-bit era and it's an american website so heavily skewed towards Nintendo over Sega as Nintendo was more popular then. You can also point out the severe lack of handheld and saturn games. There's Saturn and DS games that are all time contenders, more deserving than the likes of Red Dead 2.
I think you just need to explore the megadrive library more. Many of the more popular Megadrive games are not that great but if you explore the library there's a lot there that's great. Also many games on the Megadrive run way better than the SNES games, the Strike games for instance.
IGNs best of all time. Very Snes heavy. Not a lot of Megadrive. Hardly any actually. As has been said, the Megadrive briefly filled the gap from arcade to home but dated very quickly.
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-best-100-video-games-of-all-time
The SNES also doesn't have a game better than Gunstar Heroes.
Fight me.
The Megadrive was a cracking machine with a great games library.
If you have decided that the console was awful, you are probably in the wrong forum and 30 years too late, as the playground MD hate nonsense belonged there.
It filled the arcade at home demand at the time with a large number of its games. The Super Nintendo didn't really have that, had a different range of games.
On great MegaDrive/Genesis games, check out;
Maybe thats it. Too many Megadrive games are the same. Run aloing to the right punching or shooting forever.
I mean the super Nintendo was a better console than the megadrive but the megadrive is still one of the best consoles ever and pretty much essential. What I love the most is that the libraries of the snes and megadrive are so different but compliment each other.
So you've played Phantasy Star IV, Gunstar Heroes, Castlevania Bloodlines, Musha Aleste, Streets Of Rage 2, Contra Hard Corps, Rocket Knight Adventures, Ghouls n Ghosts, Alien Soldier and think they're all shite?
If that's the case, I think you just don't like videogames ;)
I kinda really have to start thinking hard after Streets of Rage. Ecco the Dolphin plays quick I suppose.
There's 3 Megadrive games worth getting? Cmon the ****....
I played them all as a kid but was always more of a Commadore/Nintendo guy anyway. Never liked Sonic for example. But some of these were bad then and are abysmal now. I downloaded the emulator a few years ago and could think of about 3 games worth getting.
You are clearly just playing the wrong ones!
Playing some of the Megadrive games on the Switch. Jesus theyre bad. What an awful console.
Any of you guys give Capcom arcade Stadium a go yet? I bought it on a whim for the switch when I saw a line of candy cabinet in the demo.
Its a really cool take on the whole thing, it literally emulates candy cabinets. You can play on a camcom Cute, Impress and a Status 18. Some really fantastic CRT emulation going on too, great to see such a thing taking off more and more, would absolutely love if they added more cabinets!
Played a bit of Lumines last night. Easy to get sucked into that game and lose an hour without realising!
I renewed Game Pass PC for 3 months for €1 and going to give Halo another try. I just never got into it before. Not sure why. Tried it on PC way back then again on Game Pass on One S a year or two ago. Maybe it's because I was playing other games on Game Pass and didn't give it the time of day. Also going to give Gears of War a go.
Recently completed KOTOR I & II, iPad versions with community mods installed on II. Still very enjoyable and perfectly playable on touchscreen.
Just picked up a Xbox S so replaying the Halo collection at the moment.
Minish Cap is another one on my "to play" list. It's only recently I've been interested in handheld stuff so it's all new for me! I'll probably play on a mix of GBA and GB Player like I did Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission!
I must play them again, I have the carts and I can play them via the GB Player or the Retron 5, Capcom made them, didn't they?
I really liked The Minish Cap too.
I found oracle of ages and seasons to be quite tough. Some really challenging dungeons, bosses and some real head scratcher puzzles.
As for reminding you of Zelda 1, the oracle project was meant to be a trilogy of games, a remake of 1 and 2 and a brand new game.
Finished Samus Returns after Dread and tried taking a break with The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.
Not really sure about it yet. It’s like NES Zelda in that you start out quite fragile and death is a thing in dungeons. In generally actually, it reminds me more of the NES game than Link’s Awakening.
So, back to the Metroid series… I’m working through Metroid Prime whenever the baby sleeps long enough to get a session in.
It’s as good as ever! Phendrana Drifts is just a great section, although the Space Pirates showing up is a bit of a pain.
Couldn't think of what to play earlier so I threw on Bully to get a few remaining trophies. Debating replaying it as I really enjoy it but sure I've loads of other stuff to play...
How about no I **** won't.
I realised today why this game feels so off. It's the rocket pack. In RKA after a rocket jump of you hit an enemy you bounce outside of them or if you don't the enemy will be in a damage state and can't do damage giving you time to get away.
In this game about 40% of the time you end up inside the enemies hit box and will take damage making the rocket pack a total crap shoot.
That and the rockem sockem robot fight is complete shite.
Finished Sparkster for the SNES on Normal. Need to go back to play it on Hard to get the true final boss.
I always was annoyed that the SNES got the better Sparkster. It looked amazing in screenshots and the first stage I played on emulators was pretty good.
Actually playing it though and I actually think the Megadrive game is the better one. It does look gorgeous with the SNES pulling off some insane graphical effects but after that initial opening stage the game isn't that great. Levels are big and open but badly designed, feeling like they come from the Sonic CD school of level design. There are some clever ideas in parts but it's mostly bad design. Bosses as well are very disappointing with some just not being fun or well made. And the music isn't a patch on the Megadrive game which sounds so much better.
Another win for the Megadrive then although it also means Rocket Knight Adventures never got the sequel it deserved.
In fairness, I haven't put much time into it, but I had fun with both Mario Kart and Zelda
Ploughing through Dread now. I've got most of the usual power ups now so guessing I'm near the end. It has been pretty enjoyable so far, but some aspects of it like the EMMIs and annoying 3D areas where you're faced with corridors you can't go down work against it for me.
The other bosses are great. Interesting move sets and challenging enough at times.
@CiDeRmAn - Isn't the N64 emulator Nintendo have used supposed to be input lag city?
Playing some Mario Kart 64 courtesy of Nintendo Switch Online...
It's expensive, but the games play very well, with a choice between the EU and US versions of the games.
MK64 is super smooth, lots of fun
Dread definitely dials down the exploration, sometimes to its detriment. Overall though I think the game does a really good job of moving you along the map in a really organic and satisfying way - speed is the main focus of the game, and it has a hell of a pace.
Was so-so on the parry overall though. I think it feels great when out against normal enemies, but becomes too much like a glorified quick time event in some of the boss fights. Especially against the EMMI - the parry window's obviously extremely narrow and random on purpose, but the timing feels just that little bit too unforgiving.
Finally started playing Dread myself yesterday, I'm not usually a massive fan of 2.5D visuals and prefer when games like this are sprite based - but this looks fantastic, really suits the style of the Metroid universe, some of the backgrounds look incredible.
Not too sure if I'm sold on the parry action as of yet, makes the game feel more like a modern fighting based Metroidvania like Dead Cells (which I'm sure is the point) than an explorative one.
Only mild niggles really, enjoying it immensely so far and cant wait to get back to it this evening!
Finished Fusion and conveniently a click and collect for an OLED Switch is now at my disposal! Hmm, I guess Dread is next, THEN Prime and Samus Returns.
Fusion was great. I really loved the music and apart from one spike in difficulty, it was an enjoyable jaunt. I do hate the cutscenes and dialogue inserted into the games now though. I get that originally, it was a technical limitation, but there was something about the story being told via gameplay in Super Metroid that I really loved about that game. Prime managed to do the same for the first two games. I guess it's just more my thing.
