Experimental42 said:
pokoko said: Hardly, 2015 looks awesome. Even if it weren't, it would be hard to top the blandness of the SNES period where it seemed like every new game was either a platformer or a beat 'em up. |
Or an RPG, or a tournament fighter, or a Schmup, or wait...
They pretty much made every genre of games aside from the types that weren't actually possible or as entertaining at the time. Huh weird.
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It was a period where every other game seemed to be a licensed derivative. Beethoven the dog had a game. Wayne's World had a game. If it was on TV, it had a game, and most of them were just retreads of other games with pretty much the same mechanics. I don't know about schmups, but neither RPGs or fighting games during that gen would be a patch on the volume we got with the next gen, which is probably true of most genres. Game variety went up substantially.
From a personal perspective, the SNES was my least active as a gamer, as just about everything felt alike. Side scrolling this, side scrolling that. Games like A Link to the Past and Final Fantasy VI felt absolutely magical in comparison.