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Sony: Ugh, these last couple of months have been pretty bad as far as PR, Microsoft is gaining ground in the biggest market, and people seem to be lukewarm about Pro and PSVR.......

What can we do........? Let's "for once" offer a decent PS Plus month!!!!

@JaxonH

That's the thing.....

Do you like JRPG's and action adventure-titles?, stick to the SNES...

Do you like shooters and action games?, stick to the Genesis...

Do you like platformers? play both...

@JaxonH

The great games on the SNES, 70% of gamers know about, the great games on the Genesis/Mega Drive, 70% of gamers have never heard about them.

I totally disagree with you that the SNES has a much better library than the Genesis, each has libraries that play to it's own strengths, although people fail to realize this. The Genesis had a much faster CPU, so it excels when it comes to being able to handle a number of sprites at a fast rate (hence you have a lot of shooters and action games, fast moving platformers), the SNES had the superior graphics chips, but a slow CPU, so it did best when playing graphical tricks on slower moving games (like JRPG's, more meticulous platformers, erc)

I have a feeling it's going to be a NX exclusive. Makes sense, it would appeal to Nintendo fans and some of the core gamers within the Sony-Microsoft spectrum.

@DerMeister

The OG Revenge of Shinobi, along with Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi, are quite a bit slower paced than Shinobi 3..........that doesn't mean Revenge is bad, because it isn't at all, just that the gameplay is a bit more meticulous and old school. The level design in Revenge ranges from good to somewhat cheap, but it has a nice diversity in locals, and SEGA went off and kinda illegally threw in a bunch of IP's into revenge, you have Batman, Spiderman, Godzilla, etc. So Revenge has this great B-grade cheesiness to it, sometimes you swear the game is taking itself seriously, but than it goes off the deep end (and that's a good thing in this case).

As far as Sonic.......

Sonic the Hedgehog: Great game that still holds up, although it's a bit front loaded as the later levels aren't quite as good / rushed.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Very close to a 10/10 game, maybe outside of Metropolis Zone overstaying it's welcome, this title is pretty much perfection.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3: Just a tad bit below 2, the presentation is superior, and although most of the levels in 3 are amazing, some become a bit overly long-convoluted.

Sonic and Knuckles: More or less the same as 3.

****You can also "lock-on" Knuckles to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in order to create Sonic 3 and Knuckles, which is a massive 2D platformer by any standards, and is more or less the real Sonic 3 (originally Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Knuckles were one and the same, but Sonic divided the game in half and continued to work on Knuckles in order to get a game out sooner).

@Feena

You should try getting your hands on a repro of the English patch, or a rom of Doremi Fantasy: Milon's Doki Doki Adventure for the Super Famicom, thats a really quality platformer as well.

I would also say that Rocket Knight Adventures for the Genesis is one of the best 2D platformers ever.

@johncalmc

Sonic 1-2-3+Knuckles, great games...

Sonic 4, medicore to bad...

C'mon kiddo, you have to know how to pick em....

@DerMeister

I very much agree,........except for Super Thunder Blade (ugh)! I actually like Altered Beast, I have no reason why it get's so much hate, for a 1988-1989 game, it was a great technical showpiece.........and while it's a bit shallow, it's still enjoyable.

@DiddyWahDiddy

They don't make em like they used to

The Genesis library is amazing btw.......what it lacks in JRPG's (btw it easily beats the SNES in tactical RPG's), it equals or betters it in everything else.... (and I love the SNES btw)

Gunstar Heroes, Sonic the Hedgehog 2-3, Dynamite Headdy, Rocket Knight Adventure, Shining Force 2, Thunder Force series, Crusader of Centy, Streets of Rage 2, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Strider, Steel Empire, Phantasy Star 4, M.U.S.H.A., Gaiares, Twinkle Tale, El Viento, Strider, Mercs, Contra: Hard Corps, Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master, X-Men 2: Clone Wars, Wonder Boy in Monster World, Monster World 4, Pulseman, Landstalker, Alien Soldier, Castle/World of Illusion, Disney's Aladdin, Ristar, Mega Turrican................etc, etc.

@DiddyWahDiddy

What a tosser, go and play your super R-Type at 5 frames per a second, I'll enjoy my Thunder Force 4.

Who cares about soccer?

I haven't played the game in like 9 months, give me Destiny 2 or give me death.

@GamerDad66

I'm pretty sure the work on Driveclub VR has been completed for sometime, at least the new tracks.........Sony probably just sat on it until PSVR could launch (it smells that way, considering nothing new came after the Japanese tracks and the one city track), despite the closure of Evolution.

""It's been described by some major publications as the best virtual reality racing game period"",

Wow, thats a lot of competition anyways, I could care less about the VR version, just give me those track that you've been holding onto for the last year Sony.

@get2sammyb

I actually pre-ordered the PS4 Pro today, shhhhhhh!, don't tell the kiddos on here.

@Devotion

I may or may not enjoy trolling people such as yourself.

@kyleforrester87

Nope, disagreeing views make the world interesting. We don't need a bunch of mindless Sony fanboys walking around here like the zombies from Resident Evil 2.......get yourself a shotgun to the face.

@kyleforrester87

Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast = all good names

@get2sammyb

Your PSVR and Pro coverage is like 90% advantages and 10% disadvantages......unlike NL, you guys don't even say a breath of Nintendo or Microsoft.

We all live in happy go-lucky Sony world, let's not have a disagreeing viewpoint, we can't have that.

@kyleforrester87

It's crappy marketing and a greedy corporate choice, glad we agreed on that.

@kyleforrester87

The Japanese pretty much disowned the Mega Drive, like an unwanted child. It was Sega of America, who called it the Genesis, offered it a warm meal, a new home, patted it on the back, and told it to "go off and make something of yourself in Europe."

The Master System is a crap name btw.

@kyleforrester87

Basically all this is......is a ploy by Sony to line up their pockets with another 400 dollars by selling you a new console that offers the bare minimum in an actual noticeable upgrade. After all, they will be selling you that new 500 dollar PS5 come holiday 2018.

At least the Scorpio (I can feel the PS fanboys crying already) offers a next step up in the evolution of the actual hardware, rather than being the bare minimum for another 400 big ones.

Basically, Sony is a bunch of money hungry corporate pigs (as is Microsoft, but they are playing this one smarter for once).

@get2sammyb

Which conclusion? I know it works on the base PS4.....that doesn't mean that this whole "two versions" idea that your indirectly selling for Sony is a good idea.

@kyleforrester87

The Genesis, it came out here a good year before the EU, and it sold more units as well, plus Sega of America more or less pulled the strings in Europe................so the Genesis it is!

@Flaming_Kaiser

Duh it still works on the base PS4, and duh it will have Pro support.....that doesn't mean that all of this forced fed marketing mumbo jumblo isn't getting annoying.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi

Yeah, but for about 15 years they kicked ass, that's more than most companies.

All I hear is.........."please, pretty please, buy another 400 dollar console.....c'mon guys, 4 the Gamers, right?"

@themcnoisy

Genesis is a much better name,........it was, after all, the genesis of the 16 bit generation for the west (the Turbo was as well in August of 1989, but it was a failure in NA).

Mega Drive just sounds boring - dull, lifeless.

@get2sammyb

Compared to Microsoft, Sony's release schedule has arguably been the worst maintained.....how long ago was a Hot Shots announced for the PS4? C'mom now.

I don't think they have had one fall release schedule go to plan since the PS4 launched, which regardless of your notion on the importance of those months, is pretty pathetic.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi

Hmm, my big gripe is that although some of the characters and quests feel well crafted (say, the Far Harbor vault murder mystery), a lot of it's also uninspired (the main story arc for the base game is rather sloppy in execution, Nuka World is interesting but ultimately rather shallow, etc).

Maybe instead of working on so many settlement building options, Bethesda should spent that time sprucing up the dialogue and thus making you care about these characters / world on an emotional level.

@Pink_Floyd

I reckon Fallout 4 is a "great" game,......just that sometimes it tries to be an adult-oriented Minecraft / modern FPS at the expense of nailing the RPG fundamentals.

Great games can also be disappointing in some aspects.

@Bhattiboy

Far Harbor is better than Nuka World if you want to look at it from a cohesive piece of content. Nuka has some interesting locals but it's pretty lacking when it comes to cohesive depth of characters or quest design.

Not saying Far Harbor didn't deserve the criticism of its technical faults on the PS4 btw, just saying it's better outside of the initial issues. It fixed a lot of the problems found with the main story arc, while Nuka reverts back to its shallowness.

Bwhahahaha!! Want to hear a joke? PS4 and release date......

@Matroska

lol, I'm envious, I've played through the game multiple times already, but I would do it again to see it in 60 FPS (I've always been more of a high frame rate guy over resolution and texture quality).

I reckon CD Projekt will create some kind of Pro feature, they just seem like that kind of studio.

@andreoni79

Bloodborne fans are pretty humorous though, Sammy was the same way thoughout most of 2015, he had a hard time giving TW3 it's dues because it was overshadowing Bloodborne in critical claim.

BTW, TW3 > Bloodborne,....

.......but wait, I hear the cries "the combat isn't as good", and my reply is, your right, but your ignoring the fact that one is a huge open world action RPG that focuses on quest design and character interaction, and the other has a much more linear world,.....while differing in being a technical hack and slash with light RPG elements.

It's like comparing Gran Turismo with Burnout.

@Octane

Game of this gen IMO, I'm on the fence for PS4 Pro, but if CD Projekt announces a 60 FPS update, I'm buying that console so fast......

Bonk's Revenge! for the TurboGrafx-16, but played via the VC (just completed Bonk's Adventure.............what a great little platformer series, it kicks the crap out of Alex Kidd in Miracle World, that's for sure)

@get2sammyb

I think the tech specs given out by MS speak for themselves.......seriously Push, it's OK to be critical or openly question Sony at times......the guys at NL do it all the time without being overly negative on the big N.

How about better battery life? That's so obvious it hurts, nobody gives a $hi! about the light.

"Step up your SF game" Ramsey?,......winners play KOF (unless your talking about the Alpha series).

It was kind of a lame introduction to these new models, but yeah,....it was suit and tie Sony today.

Agree that this won't affect Sony's sales, but in the longterm, a few more slightly misguided (arguably) choices and it could allow the mantle to return to Microsoft in North America (dunno about the EU, they don't know Halo from Gears outside of the UK).

@BAMozzy

Your just jelly

@BAMozzy

All the cool kids have a 60 inch OLED - HDR capable 4K though. If not, meh.....

It was a MEH......................

This game seems to be appealing to the OG Battlefield 1942 fans.......I understand why some of the graduated COD to BF4 fans are upset,.....but good taste just isn't for everybody.

@kyleforrester87

Deux EX on steroids??!! Here's a copy of MGS5 and the door, don't let it hit you on the way out.

It's all on personal taste but....

Outdoor oriented mature fantasy 》Grimey urban cyber-punk...

Basically your all crazy if you disagree, still looking forward to this though as TW3 is one of the best games ever.

Really loving this, and yeah, it may not feel like WW1 from a technical - historically accurate aspect, but.......it's a hell of a lot of fun, and the fact that it's not another "me too" modern to near-modern FPS is so refreshing

Thanks for taking a chance DICE, this is great stuff.

@Grawlog

Right! The Push Square staff has a distinct lack of love for retro and arcade titles, well, at least compared to NL..........and if they do, they don't show it, Ramsey is busy writing his 20th article on Berserk and Sammy is in the corner, sobbing over the next non-playable interactive indie ""experience"".

Hey guys, want to play Streets of Rage 2? Nah......were busy writing about the emotional underpinnings of Life is Strange.

@rjejr

This is Duke Nukem 3D......as far as complaining about Forever, I get it, but I think people who are offended by his character / or the satire of the series need to get their panties out of a bunch.