SNES vs. Genesis: A Battle for the Ages! [Part 1 is over, platformers coming up next]

[A Black Falcon]

Reality is what it is.

Indeed. System power determines what kind of games you can get. One of the major reasons for playing classic games is to see what can be done on limited systems. And even beyond that, that you are somehow denying that the differences between systems matters is so utterly bizarre I can't even begin to understand it...

My opinion of Mercs was only somewhat based on the lack of diagonal aiming and I'd already altered my opinion of Hard Corps before changing emulators. Hard Corps is a fun game it does some pretty cool stuff, Mercs...eh, I could've skipped it and not feel as though I've missed anything.

Have you ever played any of hte other games like it? The best ones definitely are the Shock Troopers games on Neo-Geo, buth tere are others as well. Of course though, I'd call Mercs a pretty good game in the genre. Really the only fault (for its genre) of the Genesis version beyond its sometimes high difficulty is that it doesn't have multiplayer. Other that it's great. Evidently you just don't like that kind of game...

And, yes, the Xbox360 d-pad is pretty lame. But it's better than the keyboard, which is the only other alternative at the moment.

You need a better PC gamepad then... :)