| BTFeather55 said: Miyamoto is no better than Kojima and he is certainly inferior when it comes to crafting stories. So, at best for Nintendo and Miyamoto, it could be considered a tie with Nintendo having Miyamoto and Sony having Kojima. So one would have to look at other factors. Kojima is far inferior to Robert Jordan when it comes to crafting stories. Oh wait, we are talking about video games. I guess I am the only person who reads books to get a good story and play games for good gameplay.Certainly the SNES didn't have a racing game the equal of Gran Turismo or Gran Turismo 2 but the Nintendo fans will say "no racing game equals Mario Kart in terms of fun. The PS1 did have far more of Square's top games while some will say that Nintendo had the best Square games overall, but the PS1 had four Final Fantasies to release in the US and a great Dragon Warrior game while none of the SNES DW games came out in America, one of its FF games failed to come out in America. One of its Mana games failed to come out in America and several smaller but fondly recalled games like Bahamut Lagoon and Treasure Hunter-G failed to come to America. Most of those games probably would have come to the American PS1. The PS1 probably didn't have any platformers that rivaled the ones on the SNES. However, all things considered the PS1 probably had better shooters something SNES didn't seem to have very many of at least in the US. The top three paragraphs fall into the following problem. When you are asked "which is the better console", are you talking about which one has the more refined and better designed games or which one has the more original and innovative games. When you are talking about two consoles from two generations, the later one (PS1) will obviously have the more refined and better designed games because they base their game designes off of designs developed in the SNES generation. The consoles from the previous generations (SNES) are going to have the more innovative and original games since the games made for the PS1 are based off of design concepts used during the SNES era. You can say the same thing about SNES vs. NES. Keep this in mind for the following paragraphs.
As for Mario Kart vs. Gran Turismo, the SNES did not have the technology to make Gran Turismo. Mario Kart was more original and innovative, however, and is more fondly remembered because of that.Same thing with FPS games. The SNES did not have the technology to make really good FPS games. Just about the only one I can remember is DOOM.As for RPG's, I would stack the SNES library against PS1. Once again, remember that PS1 games are going to be better designed and more refined because they are using the design concepts from RPG's made during the SNES era. FFVI and FFVII are somewhat close together with development dates and many people (including myself) believe the only thing FFVII has going for itself is better graphics (ie: bad 3D graphics, see earlier post in multicolor). Not only did the SNES have FF IV and FF VI, but it also had: Breath of Fire, Breath of Fire II, Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, 7th Saga, Chrono Trigger, Lagoon, Lufia and the Fortress of Doom (sounds like an Indiana Jones title), Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals, Paladin's Quest, Robotrek, Illusion of Gaia, Illusion of Time, Shadowrun, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and those are only the ones I've played myself.
I guess it could be considered a draw. |
