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This Zone is dedicated to the lesser known elements of anime hosted by the cast of Victory Script.
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Having been watching Bad Game Hall of Fame's streams, a question that has been bugging me for weeks now, which console group has the worse games, avoiding obvious failures like 3DO, Phillips CDI and Atari, were just focusing on the big four, Sega, Nintendo, PlayStation and XBox.
Sega
We'll start with the group no longer making consoles Sega, having not been around for 20 plus years now, there isn't much to work with and Dreamcast's library has hardly any bad titles, however with the Genesis going on so long it produced some quite bad titles, Mega CD and 32X being particularly bad with games, surprisingly the Saturn has very few truly bad titles but doesn't have the best track record adapting it's Sega arcade catalogue.
XBox
I've heard this a million times now, achievement hunters only play bad games, I've seen your profile; look almost everything Xbox has ever had is available on the other consoles, in fact alot of companies try and avoid porting to Xbox entirely as it's proven to be harder to port on xbox especially the more recent ones.
PlayStation
With PlayStation having a relatively good track record between all it's consoles, it's hard to imagine it having a bad game catalogue, however it's because of it's over whelming success that everyone tried to port on to it for a quick buck with very little push back from Sony themselves not to mention it has xbox's so called cheap achievement games.
Nintendo
You'd think Nintendo wouldn't have this burden with it's immaculate record on it's first party titles but that's the thing, it's first party record may be immaculate but it has a porting problem, Nintendo is so keen to go it's own way that anyone wanting to port on it has to jump through more hoops more than Xbox, it's not like Nintendo isn't capable of making something better, Gamecube is proof of that but also like the PlayStation, something too popular can create an endless supply of shovelware titles which were still feeling now thanks to the Wii.
Final Verdict
Sega have been out the game too long to really have a bad catalogue with the majority coming from it's attempts at keeping the Genesis alive.
Xbox's catalogue is available on other consoles, if anything it's redundant in the grand scheme of things.
PlayStation has no quality control when it comes to it's catalogue and it has no excuses for allowing it to be that way.
Nintendo has a porting problem as it won't make something that caters for anything other than it's first party games.
Really it's between PlayStation and Nintendo, but I'll give it to PlayStation for one major reason. Corcord. Critical failures are a part of a consoles life cycle but only PlayStation has failed so badly that it has lost more money than all it's previous bad games combined.
Today we return to fact hunt and we go all video game trivia.
1. Sims has it's own language
Creator Will Wright in order to avoid repetitive dialogue, created his own language for the Sims to speak in game called Simlish, there's a long list of phrases that get repeated frequently and are easily translated into basic dialogue like hello and how are you.
2. Sega made an acronym out of Eggman
Not that long ago, Sonic's official page showcased the picture above.
Evil Genius Getting Mad At Nature.
Makes way too much sense.
3. Sega had a dirty secret
The Sega game Dynamite Dux likely has the dirtiest secret in gaming history, hidden for 30 years, it's only accessible through a hex editor replacing a piece a code with the word dirty to get an R-rated opening sequence, it's too raunchy here but Youtuber Larry Bundy Jr has quite a long video on it.
4. Craziest Castle
Crazy Castle has more licenses for it's game than pretty much any other game.
Looney Tunes, Ghostbusters, Woody Woodpecker, Mickey Mouse, Garfield, Hugo the Troll, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Universal Studios.
5. Creepy Console Sounds
When the original PlayStation couldn't load a disc, it would let you know with two different jingles called Personified Fear and Fearful Harmony, the sounds were built in a way to ward off hackers from using fake discs.
Often overlooked in favour of it's more popular American counter part by Archie, Fleetway's Sonic the Comic had a few moments that need way more recognition.
1. Metallix is a bad ass name for Metal Sonic
Metallix was the name given to Metal Sonic and his other counterparts and they were just as dangerous as the Video Game equivalent, leading to the Brotherhood of Metallix arc where Metal Sonic served as the big bad.
2. Amy has her own Tails in Tekno the Canary
Amy Rose was designed with more heroic traits rather than the feminine traits she traditionally has in the games, this sadly makes her not only one dimensional but closer to a female Sonic as opposed to her own unique character but she's given her own Tails as a compromise in Tekno, a female canary with all the same traits as Tails but slightly older, this also means you can have Amy play as a substitute to Sonic in her stories and keep the same tropes as Sonic and Tails would.
3. Super Sonic is an evil entity
In order not to have Super Sonic be overpowered they made him a super evil chaotic entity that split from Sonic, it means they don't rely on it to solve major plot points.
4. The little animal friends are now characters
Like Archie, the animal friends that were nameless in the games have names in Fleetway, our heroes in this one are Rabbit Johnny Lightfoot, Pig Porker Lewis and Squirrel Robot Shortfuse to name a few, they bring their own unique spin to the story.
5. Bigger Rogues Gallery
There are way more than just Robotnik, a few highlights include, Megatox a sentient toxic ooze from chemical plant, Dr Zachary an Echidna made to be a foil for Knuckles and the Drakkon Empire, an ancient race not to similar to the old Echidna race in Sonic Adventure, even Robotnik's No.2 Grimer is a green skinned goblin like scientist that can be as sinister as his boss, but speaking of Robotnik.
6. The cleaned up Sonic and Robotnik back story
The backstory Fleetway went with is that Robotnik started as a kind scientist called Dr Ovi Kintobor, yes it's Robotnik backwards, and he got morphed into Robotnik through a combination of Chaos energy and a rotten egg, as for Sonic, he started as a regular coloured hedgehog until he tested super sneakers that turned his fur blue after shattering several speed milestones.
7. Mighty is a member of Chaotix
Mighty has always been the missing ingredient from Chaotix and having him there makes Chaotix complete.
8. Sonic is smarter at the cost of humour
This incarnation of Sonic is more heroic he's alot less 90s attitude than his other counterparts but he at least is alot smarter, he even has a disguise called Bobby Beaky.
9. DRAT does alot for world building
One thing that no series has shown is Robotnik having supporters, this is where DRAT comes in, Dr Robotnik Appreciation Tribe, what makes it funnier is that the boss is a rooster, giving an Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog feel. DRAT helps alot with giving Robotnik more weight as an evil entity.
10. Other Sega Franchises in comic form
Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Kid Chameleon, Eternal Champions, Golden Axe, Decap Attack, Marko's Magic Football, Ecco the Dolphin, Wonder Boy, Sparkster, Mutant League Football and Shining Force were all in comic form during Fleetway Sonic's run, it's a Sega fanboy's wet dream.
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