/vr/ - Retro Games

Is it weird that I just really don't like 16 bit era games at all?

My friend has a SNES Classic with some extra games added on and when I come over I pretty much exclusively play the NES games. Ninja Gaiden is my shit. I can play that for hours. paperboy 2 is awesome, as is megaman 2, but I generally get bored of pretty much all the 16 bit offerings really quickly.

When I go home and fire up my emulators the same thing happens. I'll play NES games, then pretty much go straight to Playstation games, but rarely touch the SNES or Genesis titles (except Sonic and Knuckles occasionally because that game is awesome)

Now before I get the predictable response of
>hurrrr SNES Classic is shit that is why fucking fake ass faggot ass emulator

That's not the issue. I actually don't care how 100% accurate an emulation is as long as it's playable and has a good frame rate, and like I said I play on emulators at home as well. The issue is game-play.

The 16 bit era didn't really do much to expand on the gameplay of the 8 bit era. It's all the same shit: side scrollers, platformers, fighting games, and JRPGs (but now with an ungodly amount of unskippable cut-scenes that aren't even good), and honestly I don't really like these genres of games that much with the exception of a well made platformer.
On the NES these games are tight, to the point and abstract. But on the SNES and genesis they feel bloated and clunky, and the attempts of the 16 bit era to branch out into 3D gaming were just awkward as hell. The SNES did have some decent SHMUP offerings but they were always inferior to their arcade counterparts, which the PS1 were able to emulate much better.

Idk. I just don't really think 16 bit gaming is all that great.