/vr/ - Retro Games

Compare how many levels there are in Sonic games, and how many levels there are in Mario games.
The design philosophy, while similar, is different. Sonic takes emphasis on multiple routes that are readily available, Mario emphasis on more linear design, with secret paths being scarce and well hidden most of the times. Sonic doesn't have sub-levels within levels, Mario does (when you go to bonus stages, or take alternate routes underground, etc).
The pic in OP is an old bait pic from /v/ by the way, it's comparing the first level of SMB3, which is the simplest in the game, to one of the more maze-y levels in S&K.
Console warriors get the rope, etc.

>>6998461
To be fair, console warriors in general don't belong here, this used to be a Segatendo board.
Now it's kids who grew up with PS3, Xbox and Wii LARPing as having been part of the Gold Age by using their soulless non-retro console war tactics on old systems.
But, /vr/ was taken over and most of the old guard left, so do whatever you want, kids. It's your playground now, I guess.

Console wars are only for the friendless, bitter poorfags.
Growing up as a Segatendo idort was the best childhood a video game fan could ever ask for.
Also, RPGs weren't a popular genre back in the day, most people played side-scroller platfromer/action games, on both systems, which offered a lot of quality titles in that regard.

They're very different, so it's hard to compare.
As someone who actually grew up as an idort with both Genesis and SNES, I can say I enjoyed both a lot, and Sonic just got more games in a short amount of time. On SNES, we only got SMW, and then Yoshi's Island at the end (if you want to count it as a Mario game), while Sonic got 4 games (5 if we count CD, but I didn't play that back then, because of no Sega CD of course).
The thing with the 2 series is that the Sonic games didn't have big changes between entries other than some stuff like power shields and some changes in the way the zones were structured (like the transitional levels on Sonic 3 and S&K), but the gameplay was mostly the same in terms of how you controlled Sonic.
Mario is very different depending which game you're playing, with only SMB1 and SMB2J having the same controls and physics, then SMB2U/doki doki, SMB3 and SMW are all their own distinct, unique thing.
In the end, I think I prefer the Mario games, especially 3 and World. They also rely on momentum (IMO more than Sonic, there's some very precise platforming in those games that I don't find in Sonic) and you can go quite fast once mario reaches full speed. Bridge levels are an example of this.
As a kid I don't think I would have been able to decide though and I may have said Sonic simply because Sonic as a character was just way past cool, but upon replaying the games again over the years, I find myself replaying Mario more, and enjoying it more too, but I still play Sonic and enjoy it too. It really is a matter of preference. Sonic does have the pinbball physics and that's unique to it.

>>6316295
fpbp
single-systeam peasants on an hero clock

Friendly and most excellent reminder that if you didn't grow up during the 16-bit era and being a Segatendo idort, you only had half a childhood.

the whole point of that song is that being a console warrior is a poorfag thing and that he couldn't make up his mind because both are great, which he enjoyed when he finally made it and could afford them.

Yeah, Segatendo childhood was the best childhood.
I'd say most people that are still trying to push a console war for SNES-MD are either traumated adults that never got over their incomplete childhood, or adoctrinated console warriors from /v/ that LARP as having been alive back then.

Threadly reminder that if you weren't a segatendo idort, you only had half a childhood.

Simply put, if you didn't grow up during the 4th gen AND being a Segatendor idort, you didn't have a real childhood.

>not having been a segatendo idort
You only had half a childhood.

Friendly reminder that if you were alive in the 90s and you weren't a segatendo idort, you only had half a childhood.

>not having been a segatendo idort
You only had half a childhood.

>>4968132
I never bought into it, even when I was a kid.
I pity those who didn't own both during their childhoods.

>>4762654
Gramps, I knew abour your hateboner for the N64, but I didn't know you were full-on anti-Nintendo.
It's fine to prefer Sega, but to claim all Nintendo does is "branding" is just shitty opinions of a kid who wasn't a Segatendo idort.
Also, Super FUCKING Metroid.

Threadly reminder that if you weren't a Segatendo idort growing up, you only had half a childhood.

The two giants of video games. Other companies might have brute-forced their way into the console market with money, but Sega and Nintendo are still the kings.