/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5608394
mega-cd had like 5 noteworthy games and was total shit, FMV shovelware. pic related is about as good as it gets.

>>5608394
The only mega cd game that was good was lunar

>>5608414

It has a smaller library of games than the MD, SFC, or even PCE-CD, but it has a lot of good games. Even if some of them are just NA ports of PCE-CD games.

Noteworthy CD games:

>Snatcher
>Sonic CD
>Shining Force CD
>Popful Mail
>Lunar: Silver Story
>Lunar 2
> Keio Flying Squadron
>Robo Aleste
>Lords of Thunder
> Android Assault
>Earthworm Jim SE
>Ecco the Dolphin
>Final Fight CD

>>5608394
Which add-ons weren't failures?

>>5608467
most successful add-on of all time for every system: another controller

I think ultimately Sega would have collapsed because everything else aside, they were an arcade-focused company moving into a different era of games. But had they just not launched the 32X, had better architecture for the Saturn and not elected Bernie Stolar, the Saturn could have been a moderate success worldwide and Sega would have had enough money to run the Dreamcast until probably 2003 or 04.

>>5608467
Also electricity. Every single person who played on their Genesis added electricity to it.

how does it connect to the genesis

>>5608442
Plus the best versions of NHL '94, Sensible Soccer, Spider-Man vs. Kingpin and Eternal Champions. Also, Silpheed was and still is better than Star Fox.

>>5609738
Children shouldn't play with electricity. Ask an adult to plug in your consoles for you.

>>5609493
Sega was a powerful cerberus capable of hellish destruction but it couldn't stop its 3 heads from trying to eat each other
>America and Japan always fighting, Europe awkardly between them and getting hurt from both sides even though Sega always did pretty well there

It was slow.
But I can't hate on it.
This is one of my favorites.

>>5610224
Yeah it's the other reason I don't think they would have succeeded. Even now the only reason SoA and SoJ don't fight is because all the power of SoJ has been stripped away. They don't have any dev teams or real marketing muscle anymore.

>>5609738
basically there's just a portion of the Genesis shell on the side that comes off to expose a connector, then you slide it on top of the CD and it plugs into that bit on the right side

>>5609756
>Also, Silpheed was and still is better than Star Fox.

oh yeah the sega CD was awesome

i would love nothing more than to watch my video
games instead of playing them

I actually liked the old London detective game bundled with this but for the life of me can't remember it's name.

>>5613749
Don't fall for SEGA's lies, that game was called Sherlock Holmes and came out on the TurboDuo years before SEGA had it!

>>5613419
Stop watching ecelebs, kiddo.

>>5608394
People only remember it for the FMV crap and forget that it had like 10 good games on it. Bouncers was my jam back in the day.

>>5613757
b-b-based and memepilled

>>5613757
But in the game you have to write a letter to Holmes asking for advice.

>>5608467
The PCE-CD literally saved the system.

>>5613749
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detetcive. Very good game, got a rerelease on Steam not that long ago with vastly improved video.

>>5613786
Thank you my good man!

>tfw can't find a Sega CD that actually works
I've come across 3 in the past few months and none of them actually play games. All of them read CDs but none of them will play games.

>>5613791
Are you sure regions match up?
If yes the laser is on it's way out and needs to be replaced

>>5613786
But in this game I mentioned you don't play as Holmes. You're a newb breaking into the racket, riding a hansom around Victorian London to solve a case.

>>5613757
nobody asked you Johnny Turbo...

>>5608394
I can't be assed to write up a big post on the matter, but I agree with you wholeheartedly OP. It annoys me too.

>>5608414
>FMV shovelware

FMV games are bad, but they're not shovelware. "Shovelware" refers to just cheaply made trash games that flood markets of popular consoles. FMV games in contrast were actually high budget affairs often employing real actors.

>>5608394
I always liked playing road avenger on sega cd.

>>5608442
that terminator game was dope too

>>5617517
oh ok like sewer shark and mad dog mcree, or how about ground zero texas. lots of low budget crap if you ask me.

>>5618346
Don't forget the Make My Video series. Sony + Sega = gaming dream team

>>5608442
>Android Assault
Fun little game with some cool tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0za6fh77_e8

>>5608394
>It wasn't even that impressive technology wise side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOWZbydnlZE

>>5620062

First, it's still significantly weaker than the Saturn and PlayStation, making the whole thing pointless. Second, tech demos are meaningless. They're pure hypotheticals running graphics at 100% but nothing else. Like, I see empty rooms. What about music, enemies, and orhter effects?

Remember, 32x was released:
>NA: November 21, 1994

Saturn:
>JP: November 22, 1994

It came out literally a DAY before the Saturn. Saturn is much more of a next gen system than the 32X. 32X is like some half-measure. You either go with either the 32X or the Saturn, not both.

>>5608442
This kills the retarded you're responding to, also don't forget
>Vay
>Dark Wizard
>Dungeon Explorer

>>5620112

The thing that happens is that the fanboys will over-sell weaker consoles to try to make them on par with other ones. Look at any Saturn "Recommended" list and it's filled with filler and ports and games you'd never see being recommended for PS. That's because of their insecurity.

If you start from admitting the Sega-CD has a weaker library, but still has plenty of great games, it's a much better position.

The Mega Drive had a much stronger library than the PCE, but the PCE-CD had a stronger library than the SegaCD. Funny how that works out?

>>5620127
Firstly you're wrong about Saturn has so many incredible lesser known games that would be mainstays on every "greatest games of all time" list had the system been popular. I find a lot of genesis and snes games to be very overrated because of the popularity of those two systems (especially games like Star Fox, Terranigma, etc. - that are always held in such high esteem, and you would probably call "filler" if they were on a Sega CD list) in addition to all the great games they admittedly do have. As far as PC-Engine vs Sega CD, it seems about equal, they both catered to many of the same niches and had a very similar feel from the palettes used to the soundtracks of many games on both systems. You'd be hard pressed to call any of the games mentioned above as filler, games like Dark Wizard give you hours and hours of strategic gameplay whereas games like Ecco CD are uniquely enjoyable enough to say you can't get that experience anywhere else.

>>5620203
>Firstly you're wrong about Saturn has so many incredible lesser known games that would be mainstays on every "greatest games of all time" list had the system been popular.

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