Comments on: Ask Old Wizard http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3 Gaming lore from the gaming vanguard. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:25:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alberto http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-35750 Alberto Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:33:01 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-35750 Is this about MARIO VS SONIC? OR NINTENDO VS SEGA? Is is Mario vs Sonic as in who will win a fight? or as in who has better games? or as in who is a better character? Fight goes to Sonic Better games goes to Mario Better characters THIS IS A TRICKY ONE I'll say Mario, the characters are wakky and the creator was one a heavy mushroom trip when he put this world together, come on Evil Musrooms? Pink Pricess? Turtles with wings? that you can defeat by reaching the stars? Overgrown Evil Turtle? Defeates by a Fat Italian Plummer and his Skinny looking brother? Mario wins. Nintendo VS Sega Well that one pretty much got answered when Sega died Innovation Nintendo vs Sega? Close but Sega wins Marketting Nintendo vs Sega? Nintendo Evil Corporation Nintendo vs Sega? Nintendo Is this about MARIO VS SONIC?

OR NINTENDO VS SEGA?

Is is Mario vs Sonic as in who will win a fight?
or as in who has better games? or as in who is a better character?

Fight goes to Sonic
Better games goes to Mario
Better characters THIS IS A TRICKY ONE I’ll say Mario, the characters are wakky and the creator was one a heavy mushroom trip when he put this world together, come on Evil Musrooms? Pink Pricess? Turtles with wings? that you can defeat by reaching the stars? Overgrown Evil Turtle? Defeates by a Fat Italian Plummer and his Skinny looking brother?
Mario wins.

Nintendo VS Sega
Well that one pretty much got answered when Sega died

Innovation Nintendo vs Sega?
Close but Sega wins

Marketting Nintendo vs Sega?
Nintendo

Evil Corporation Nintendo vs Sega?
Nintendo

]]> By: Logan http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-35674 Logan Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:35:35 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-35674 Ugh, Sega was plenty fucking innovative. They pioneered online gaming for consoles and motion controls as well as contributed the first major advancement of voice-recognition technology in a video game. And even though it wasn't the first RPG ever developed for a home console, Sega were the first ones to take the chance and market an RPG, Phantasy Star, to the Western audience. Also, the Sega Channel was video gaming's first foray into digital distribution. Not to mention they created the world's first 3D fighting and racing games with Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing and the first on-rails shooter with Space Harrier. Saying Sega wasn't innovative is just ignorance - they were enormously innovative. Nintendo fanboys like you just seem to want to write them off in history as being negligible out of blind consumerist ignorance instead of any actual attempt to give credit where it's due. Besides, Sega HAD to use familiar gameplay concepts to get their foot into the console market back in 1991... they had like, 10% market share. You think they could've done that with a shoot-em-up, beat-em-up, RPG, sports sim, or some entirely new genre? Of course not! Back then you HAD to market platformers because that's what the general market was used to because of the success of Super Mario Bros. Sega didn't have any other option besides making a platformer, and Sonic the Hedgehog contributed a TON to video gaming on a technical level with its blazingly fast and tight gameplay and groundbreaking physics, not to mention the fleshed out stories and absolutely STELLAR soundtracks and character designs. Jeez, you think YOU could have made a game to combat the massive, greedy Nintendo Corporation back in 1991? Don't blame Sega for having to work within a box to make a big hit, blame Capitalism! Sega innovated PLENTY, it's just that their early innovations were primarily in the arcade and they had to get their bearings when transitioning over to the home console market, but man, they fucking did it. By the Dreamcast-era to the end of their tenure (2004, when Sammy bought out the company and basically destroyed it), they were the most creative force in the industry, and there's no denying it. BEAST MODE. Ugh, Sega was plenty fucking innovative. They pioneered online gaming for consoles and motion controls as well as contributed the first major advancement of voice-recognition technology in a video game. And even though it wasn’t the first RPG ever developed for a home console, Sega were the first ones to take the chance and market an RPG, Phantasy Star, to the Western audience. Also, the Sega Channel was video gaming’s first foray into digital distribution. Not to mention they created the world’s first 3D fighting and racing games with Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing and the first on-rails shooter with Space Harrier. Saying Sega wasn’t innovative is just ignorance – they were enormously innovative. Nintendo fanboys like you just seem to want to write them off in history as being negligible out of blind consumerist ignorance instead of any actual attempt to give credit where it’s due. Besides, Sega HAD to use familiar gameplay concepts to get their foot into the console market back in 1991… they had like, 10% market share. You think they could’ve done that with a shoot-em-up, beat-em-up, RPG, sports sim, or some entirely new genre? Of course not! Back then you HAD to market platformers because that’s what the general market was used to because of the success of Super Mario Bros. Sega didn’t have any other option besides making a platformer, and Sonic the Hedgehog contributed a TON to video gaming on a technical level with its blazingly fast and tight gameplay and groundbreaking physics, not to mention the fleshed out stories and absolutely STELLAR soundtracks and character designs. Jeez, you think YOU could have made a game to combat the massive, greedy Nintendo Corporation back in 1991? Don’t blame Sega for having to work within a box to make a big hit, blame Capitalism! Sega innovated PLENTY, it’s just that their early innovations were primarily in the arcade and they had to get their bearings when transitioning over to the home console market, but man, they fucking did it. By the Dreamcast-era to the end of their tenure (2004, when Sammy bought out the company and basically destroyed it), they were the most creative force in the industry, and there’s no denying it. BEAST MODE.

]]> By: Wolf http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-24235 Wolf Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:34:55 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-24235 sonic is a great game and the old ones when they were made were high above the status quo and were pretty innovative to be able to have such fast paced action im not gonna argue that sonics better than mario though the old sonic games where great games but mario was... epic sonic is a great game and the old ones when they were made were high above the status quo and were pretty innovative to be able to have such fast paced action im not gonna argue that sonics better than mario though the old sonic games where great games but mario was… epic

]]> By: Avi http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-21453 Avi Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:10:49 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-21453 ''what it truly meant to be a plumber'' HEHEHEHE... ”what it truly meant to be a plumber” HEHEHEHE…

]]> By: avi http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-21126 avi Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:31:22 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-21126 true. true.

]]> By: Delta http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-21125 Delta Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:23:51 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-21125 It was sorta kinda like putting a faster processor or more powerful graphics card onto your PC or adding more RAM. Makes it more powerful than the original core, but not an entirely new system. It was sorta kinda like putting a faster processor or more powerful graphics card onto your PC or adding more RAM.

Makes it more powerful than the original core, but not an entirely new system.

]]> By: avi http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-21124 avi Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:20:41 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-21124 they are often regarded as their own consoles, but, you're right, they were made to enhance the life of the genesis. they are often regarded as their own consoles, but, you’re right, they were made to enhance the life of the genesis.

]]> By: Geoff http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-21097 Geoff Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:59:01 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-21097 What a shitty fucking waste of time, you fucking cunt-bearded old ass hat. What a shitty fucking waste of time, you fucking cunt-bearded old ass hat.

]]> By: Delta http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-21077 Delta Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:59:53 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-21077 They were made to enhance the life of the Genesis, and boost it's technological capability. I don't think I'd include it as post-Genesis. They were made to enhance the life of the Genesis, and boost it’s technological capability. I don’t think I’d include it as post-Genesis.

]]> By: Avi http://old-wizard.com/ask-old-wizard-3/comment-page-1#comment-21073 Avi Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:08:24 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=3583#comment-21073 ''would GENESIS add-ons count'' ”would GENESIS add-ons count”

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