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Which 3 do you prefer?

>> No.4546869
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4546869

castlevania 3

>> No.4546871
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Or perhaps ninja gaiden 3. Not sure.

>> No.4546882

>>4546867
This nice little made-for-console shooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBnLUqJvRD0

>> No.4546897

>>4546867
I’ve never played Sonic 3.

>> No.4546909

>>4546867
Sonic 3. Just feels more epic in tone & style.

>> No.4546989

>>4546867
Sanic 3 if it includes &K, otherwise Mario 3.

>> No.4546992

the one that actually takes skill

>> No.4546997

>>4546867
Blows my mind that anyone who takes an objective look at them can actually prefer Sonic 3. Peel away Sonic's stylish art and music and you're left with something that's almost as on-rails as the later 3D entries. There's no actual substance to the level design. Mario 3 is at least an actual game that actually tries to kill you sometimes.

>> No.4547013

Sonic 3 if you just wanna play a quick easy game in one sitting. But if you want to get into a game and explore optional stuff and have some hard levels towards the end Mario 3 is better. also Sonic 3 has better music.

>> No.4547039

>>4546867
sonic 3

>> No.4547160

Sonic 3. Its soundtrack absolutely demolishes Mario 3's.

>> No.4547162

Going with Mario 3, but it was a tough call. Ultimately it came down to the fact that Sonic 3 was half a game, and fans had to make the Sonic 3 complete patch for the game to even live up to it's fullest potential, meanwhile, Mario 3 is a whole game and I can't think of any way that it could be improved on.

>> No.4547164

>>4546867
Is this a serious question? Sonic 3 isn't even the best Sonic. SMB3 is often called the best video game ever.

I played both as a kid and the choice was clear.

Besides, mario can breathe underwater and fly by himself, something Sanic can only dream of.

>> No.4547185

>>4546867
I am shocked by the amount of people saying Sonic 3.
To be fair I don't really like that game at all, but regardless Super MArio Brothers 3 is the best mario game. It's ridiculous to even compare them.

>> No.4547191

>>4547160
While it's true older sonic games have much better music than their Mario counterparts they also don't fit the games as well. Marios music just fits thats world.

>> No.4547268

>>4547160
OP posted Sonic 3, not Sonic 2. Sonic 3 has the worst music in the franchise.

>> No.4547337

>>4547268
Sonic 3 is nowhere close to the worst music in a Sonic game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6NaZrPQGfY

>> No.4547338

>>4547337
GOT PLACES TO GO GOTTA
FOLLOW MY RAINBOW

>> No.4547341

>>4547337
wtf why would you pick a contrarian choice instead of picking a genuinely bad piece of music. you had plenty of options

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>>4546869

>> No.4547376

>>4547268
CD's American OST and 3D Blast Saturn are pretty uninspiring.

>> No.4547380
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>>4547349
Speaking of 3's.

>> No.4547383

Sonic 3. If we're talking about Sonic 3 and Knuckles. This shouldn't even be a debate. Sonic 3&K had better more interesting level design with greater avenues for exploration, (I'm STILL finding areas of the game I didn't know existed, like a Tails-Only route in Death Egg Zone) better more interesting level themes which include a variety of enemy designs, better soundtrack to go with those themes, & knuckles.

Does Mario 3 have knuckles? Fuck no.

>> No.4547397

>>4547341
because then he wouldn't get replies

>> No.4547401

all these people picking sanic really show the state of this board

>> No.4547418

>>4547401
Childhood is idolizing Mario. Adulthood is realizing that Sonic 3 & Knuckles was the greatest achievement in old school platformers.

>> No.4547427

>>4547418
Explain why it's the greatest achievement in old school platformers.

>> No.4547437

Not even gonna dignify the faggot who said Escape From The City is a bad song with a (You). I just want everyone to know that he is a faggot.

>> No.4547463

>>4546867
Mario 3. Not a big Sonic fan, personally.

>> No.4547465

I'm a Sanicfag myself, but anyone who chooses Sonic 3 here is mad desu.

>> No.4547471

Why compare two different games made six years apart on two different generation of consoles?

Mario 3

but Sonic 3 is very good as well.

>> No.4547479

>>4547427
muh aesthetics

>> No.4547510

>>4547465
>is mad
False. I played both Mario 3 & Sonic 3. While I enjoyed Mario 3, I prefer Sonic 3 because of many reasons such as the graphics, the music & the game play.

>> No.4547536

>>4547510
I always thought Sonic 3 was a step down from Sonic 1 and 2 graphically.
His sprite looks like a vaseline model with crossed eyes, his shoes look like they're somehow inflated. The overall art design is less psychedelic, long gone are the trademark checkered patterns on the soil of the first level, and while it is a colorful game, the color palette is less variated and goes for a more realistic look instead of a trippy psychedelic one as on previous games.
To be fair, Sonic & Knuckles brought back the checkered patterns on Mushroom Hill but meh.

>> No.4547652

>>4547510
>the graphics, the music
Better than a NES game, but inferior to Sanic 1 and 2.

>the game play
Super Mario Bros. 3 wins here.

>> No.4547658

>>4547652
>Super Mario Bros. 3 wins here.
bait

>> No.4547668

>>4547164
>Sonic 3 isn't even the best sonic
Accurate, this thread is dumb

>> No.4547674

>>4547658
Why is it bait. The only concrete point I ever hear in defense of Sonic's gameplay over Mario's is "exploration", and I've never understood why that was supposed to be a virtue anyway. It almost reminds me of open world fanboys. "Hurr you can walk lots of places that means it's good".

>> No.4547846

>>4547652
>Super Mario Bros 3
>Gameplay
Nope. SMB3 was frustrating at times, while Sonic 3 gave me no frustrations whatsoever. Sonic 3 wins hands down.

>> No.4547850

>>4547846
>Sonic 3 gave me no frustrations whatsoever. Sonic 3 wins hands down.
???? But that's sort of the point of a game, especially a 2D platforming game? It's supposed to challenge you? You think a platformer is superior because it lets you hold right to complete the level and doesn't challenge you?
I feel like I've stepped into an alternate universe with this thread.

>> No.4547869

>>4547850
You think Sonic 3 isn't challenging? Because it sure is on some parts, especially the bonus stages. However there's a difference between challenging and impossible. SMB3 is impossible to beat without cheats, power ups or save states. Mario games have a bad habit of not allowing the player to advance without something to help them or having pure luck(such as jumping over huge gaps landing on a tiny platform & jumping to the next platform in a quick succession). Everything has to be perfect with Mario or you'll lose. I practically had no choice but to use a game genie to make any Mario game beatable except for Super Mario World because that one seems easier than the previous Mario games. There's nothing fun about getting frustrated losing lives left & right just because I couldn't make an impossible jump or dodge some bullets while trying to hit an enemy.

>> No.4547876
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>>4547869
>SMB3 is impossible to beat without cheats, power ups or save states.
Dude, I prefer Sonic 3 too, but you sound like a hardcore casual right now.

>> No.4547878

>>4547869
>SMB3 is impossible to beat without cheats
rofl
>powerups
umm, not impossible but very hard. but why wouldn't you use powerups? it's part of the game
>save states
just acknowledge the fact that you are not qualified to have an opinion on video games because you're too awful at them
>I practically had no choice but to use a game genie to make any Mario game beatable except for Super Mario World because that one seems easier than the previous Mario games. There's nothing fun about getting frustrated losing lives left & right just because I couldn't make an impossible jump or dodge some bullets while trying to hit an enemy.
that's because you're a retard lol

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>>4547869
>SMB3 is impossible to beat without cheats

Jesus fuck dude, I'm a super casual, I love both Mario and Sonic, but "You can't beat Mario 3 without cheats" is by far the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard.

>> No.4547890

>>4547869
>SMB3 is impossible to beat without cheats
Is this the most /v/ post of 2018?

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>>4547869
You had me for a second there, that was a pretty fun joke you were doing with those outlandish claims. You really reeled em in didn't you.

>> No.4547902

>>4547869
This is bait, but I'll give you a (You) anyway.

>> No.4547903

>>4547876
Casuals don't use cheats, moron. Casuals are the type to either play sports games or FPS games.

>>4547878
False. SMB3 is impossible to beat without cheats, power ups or save states. Denying this makes you a liar, dumbass.

>>4547886
>>4547890
You're full of shit if you think you can beat SMB3 without cheats.

>> No.4547906

>>4547869
>falseflagging this hard

>> No.4547909

>>4547869
Absolutely based.

>> No.4547915

>>4547906
>Lying this hard
Stop it.

>>4547909
Indeed.

>> No.4547924

>>4546869
fpbp
I'd say Mega Man 3 though.

>> No.4547939
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Really not a fair comparison; Mario 3 is simply one of the greatest games ever made and the Mario series's highest point. There is no comparison between the two.

>> No.4547950

>>4547939
s...source on that gif please?

>> No.4547956

>>4547950
Yeah, I'll share it because you lot will probably be able to appreciate sprite porn; and he does a lot of it: https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=1890160

>> No.4547961

Between the two, Mario 3 by a landslide. Sonic 3 was fun, but not even in the same league.

Mario 3 > sonic 3 > SMW.

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>>4547956
Bless you anon.

>> No.4548008

>>4547337
>>4547268
kill yourselves

>> No.4548018
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SMW>Sonic 3k>SMB3>Sonic 2>Sonic CD>SMB1>Sonic 1

>> No.4548026

>>4548018
>SMW at the top
>Sonic CD not at the bottom

It just don't add up.

>> No.4548669

Alien 3 arcade game. Way better than the movie and its console ports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htUjhFtgtEY

>> No.4548704

>>4548669
What a shitty rail shooter. No alien game can be compared to the nes version of Alien 3 up to date.

>> No.4548798

>>4546867
I don't really think that's a fair comparison. If we're talking peaks, it would be S3&K vs SMW.

SMB3 honestly makes me vomit just thinking about it. Something about the music, the graphics, the gameplay... Anyone else?

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>>4548798
Oh, and I just want to clarify that I wasn't exaggerating. SMB3 literally makes me physically ill. I'm not joking. Even when I watch gameplay of it, I cannot stomach more than 10 seconds before I have to force myself to watch something else before I hurl. Like a bad feeling that just festers in your stomach. I can't even listen to the first few notes of 1-1 without getting dizzy. And don't even get me started on the graphics. They couldn't possibly use a worse palette for the entirety of the game. It's like the art department just decided to shit itself after a long night at Taco Bell, wrap it up in a plastic bag, blend it and shove it down someone's throat to have them regurgitate it, and then compiling that into the shithole that embodies SMB3 graphics. Like this game is just bad, indescribably bad, so bad that I can literally write a dissertation on why this game shouldn't even exist in the first place. Holy fuck, I hate this game.

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>Which 3 do you prefer?
n-no bully ;_;

>> No.4548880

>>4548816
Is this pasta?

Play the All Stars version on SNES anyway.

>> No.4548882

>>4548880
Not pasta, I GENUINELY loathe the game.

And why bother playing the All Stars version? What good is polishing the turd?

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>>4547869
>SMB3 is impossible without cheats
I will not dispute that SMB3 can get hard at points, World 7 especially, but seriously? Are you mental?

>> No.4548891

>>4548887
Shit I took the bait.

>> No.4548901

>>4548882
The palette is better senpai

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>>4548798
>SMW
>AKA The Proto New Super Mario Bros.
>"Peak"

>> No.4549013

>>4548887
Try getting through World 7 without power ups or save states. I promise you, you won't make it far.

>> No.4549047

>>4547380
>80 stages
Jesus christ I didn't remember that about it. I don't think I even got halfway through it then.

>> No.4549048

>>4547437
I know.

>> No.4549060

>>4549047
I think they're counting every single screen as it's own stage meaning when you got the "hold on" message you were technically on the next stage. I could be wrong about it though, I never made it past the timed level in the circus.

( "hold on"...jesus I can't think of any other SNES gmaes with loading screens, let alone with such an obnoxiously worded one )

>> No.4549228

>>4549013
Good point. I hated that stage too.

>> No.4549234

SMB3 by a mile.

I really enjoy Sonic 3; it's my favorite in the series, very exciting aesthetically, and has far better music than SMB3. But Sonic 3 really isn't that challenging or engaging, you can cruise through most of the game pretty mindlessly. SMB3, on the other hand, has a perfectly-paced difficulty curve and the level design is absolutely brilliant.

More =/= better.

>> No.4549254

>>4546867
Sonic 3 & Knuckles was better than Mario 3

>> No.4549265

>>4546997
What?
Have you not played Sandopolis Zone? Sky sanctuary Zone?
Lava reef act 1?
Shits out to kill you left and right

The fucking barrel??

>> No.4549290

>>4549265
people have to be trolling with this barrel shit. I never even noticed it until people on here pointed it out.

>> No.4549310

>>4549290
It ended tons of runs as a kid

>> No.4549314

>>4549290
Sonic 3's barrel is gaming's greatest pleb filter.

>> No.4549316

>>4549290
It kept me from beating Sonic 3 as a kid. I literally never figured out how to get past the barrel. I got the game when I was 4, and I didn't beat the game until I was 16 when it jist occurred to me one day that I shpuld look up the answer on gamefaqs.

>> No.4549405

sanic

>>4548846
The game is 11/10 but you fucked up with the filename.

>> No.4549406

>>4549310

It just made it hard for me.
I'd have two ways to get through as a kid, the easiest was I'd use Tails on the second controller to jump on it while Sonic had a spindash ready to go through as soon as the barrel would go up high enough. The other was just to be really tenacious at jumping on it. It could work, it was just fucking hard and annoying.
It wasn't until my late teens or early twenties that I found out you could just press up and down. I never looked it up because I thought I could get through it anyway.

Anyway this shit about difficulty is stupid. SMB3 is harder and definitely more challenging in later worlds. It's not more fun and it's not as good. It's not even as good as Kirby's Adventure, which is piss easy.

>> No.4549420

>>4549406
And I thought I was the only one that had this technique haha
It’s amazing

>> No.4549434
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>>4546869
My fuckin nigga

>> No.4549461

>>4549310
>>4549314
>>4549316
>>4549406
what the fuck. you guys must hold your controller weird or something. it's not even an obstacle to me

>> No.4549482

>>4549461
It isn’t anymore, it was when we were 4-5

>> No.4549575

The one that has less autoscrolling levels.

>> No.4549708

>>4549228
See? I couldn't be the only one who had a hard time with stage 7.

>>4549314
>>4549316
>>4549406
>Barrel
I managed to get past that part very easily. Get good.

>> No.4549715

>>4549708
I am good now. I know to press up and down to get past it. It doesn't affect my evaluation of the game or anything. Not really sure who you were tryibg to talk to here.

>> No.4549925

Sonic 3 is better than any Mario game.

>> No.4549973

>>4547185
agree. apples n oranges

>> No.4549978
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id like to throw a wrench into the cogs of this thread

>> No.4549980

>>4547658
you ever try jumping while on the side of a hill in ANY sonic game?

>> No.4550032

>>4547185
>I am shocked by the amount of people saying Sonic 3
That's because you're a Mario fanboy. You're bound to show how biased you are.

>To be fair I don't really like that game at all, but regardless Super MArio Brothers 3 is the best mario game. It's ridiculous to even compare them.
My point is proven. Game over AVGN.

>> No.4550063

Sonic 3 fucks mario rectally for free. That was true back then, and its true right now. That is by design even. It was SEGA's design goal to do so. And they succeeded.

>> No.4550107

>>4549013
The game gives you powerups. By the time you get to world 7 you should have a horde.

>> No.4550115

>>4550032
Nigga I love Sonic 1 and 2.
They still don't compare to Mario 3.None of them has gameplay as tight or levels as inventive.

>> No.4550118

>>4550063
People didn't stop playing Mario because of Sonic. But yeah Sonic games were good back then.
Sonic 3 standalone was a bit disappointing after 1 and 2, but still a good game on its own.

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>>4547268
>shitting on hydro city and ice cap zone

fuck u, anon

>> No.4550124

>>4550032
You callin me AVGN when theres this bruh >>4548816 in the thread?

>> No.4550126

>>4547536
I do really like some of the art decisions they made. The level transitions and how each new act just continues from the last one but the level has changed in some way. It's very smooth.
Overall I agree with you though. Sonic 1 and 2 are top notch.

>> No.4550134

>>4546867
Mario 3, if only because it had more to offer than Mario 1 & 2, while Sonic 3 wasn't much different than the previous ones.

>> No.4550256

>>4549978
Bonk 3 doesn't even beat Bonk's Revenge, which, in turn, beats neither Mario or Sonic 3. Maybe it would have stood a chance if Bonk didn't have that weird lag to everything he does.

>> No.4550259

>>4547160
Ripped off american music like megaman games did. Youtube it. Straight copied. Its why its so good.

>> No.4550337

>>4550119
HCZ didn’t have the best music, LRZ though

>> No.4550676

>>4550259
Michael Jackson literally worked on it. Of course it sounds like pop music.

>> No.4550682

>>4550259
Megaman was rock, not pop

>> No.4550683

>>4550259
can you link a list or specific pieces of music mega man copied? I know about sonic bu thavn'et seen any mega man examples
>>4550676
I think he meant stuff like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OWC5Hosv8

>> No.4550776

>>4550683
It's not a "ripoff" though, it's just the original musician that worked on this unreleased song that decided to make a Mega Drive version of it.

It's common for seasoned musicians to use unreleased material from 15 years ago to make "new" stuff.