Another Lords of Thunder version comparison

[Arjak]

I found another Lords of Thunder Comparison of the Duo and Sega CD versions.  This one is from a Sega Genesis site. Check it out, you might be surprised. I like how the article (in my opinion at least) is fairly unbiased, and is much more in depth, unlike a similar article on a certain site I could mention...

Here's the link:

http://www.sega-16.com/Side%20By%20Side-%20Lords%20of%20Thunder.php

[Joe Redifer]

The a$$hole who wrote that can go straight to hell!!

[Arjak]

*Looks at the last poster's user name, then checks the article again*

Uh... yeah.

[MrFulci]

Sega-16... I like their site, I visit there from time to time. It's updated often and the review archive is pretty nice.

That's something I'd like to see on this site, more reviews....

[nodtveidt]

The review was pretty on-the-mark. I was surprised, especially with it being on a Sega site. Just too bad the reviewer doesn't know more about the game development process, or he'd understand why it's completely absurd to think it was a "quick and sloppy port", considering the architectures between the two machines are like night and day.

[Joe Redifer]

Quick and sloppy compared to how it should of been.  Obviously it was not optimized for the Sega hardware.

[Turbo D]

exactly, but I don't think that they would optimize it for sega console and have it outsell their own, right?

[Joe Redifer]

Who knows what their logic was even putting it on a Sega system in the first place?  Well, it was $$$ obviously.  I don't think the Sega version was released in Japan.

[Black Tiger]

Although they could've improved in some areas(just like most games) I think that they did an extra good job with the actual graphics, considering how they had been tailor made for the PC Engine.

Some scenes look identical and can only be distinguished from the original by examining them. Even though there is sometimes almost half as many colors being used.

In the end I think its a great port of an amazing game.

[Tatsujin]

a good friend of mine once made a 1-live-clear on both systems and recorded it. his friend then fitted both vids next to on a screen where you can see the differences synchronous. unfortunatelly the vid is no longer on the net, i believe. will ask him to put it up again.

[spenoza]

I would so love to see that vid. If you find it, please post it.

[malducci]

Although they could've improved in some areas(just like most games) I think that they did an extra good job with the actual graphics, considering how they had been tailor made for the PC Engine.

Some scenes look identical and can only be distinguished from the original by examining them. Even though there is sometimes almost half as many colors being used.

In the end I think its a great port of an amazing game.

 They did add a few improvements. Mostly some extra scrolls here and there, and the desert level boss moves up and down as it walks. I think they added something to the last level or last boss - can't remember.

 Some of the enemies colors bothered me though, like the yellow & blue enemies of the desert level. Otherwise, on a TV the color reduction isn't really noticeable thanks to Sega's blurry output - plus they did a great job with the overall color reduction.

 

[Black Tiger]

They did add a few improvements. Mostly some extra scrolls here and there, and the desert level boss moves up and down as it walks. I think they added something to the last level or last boss - can't remember.

 Some of the enemies colors bothered me though, like the yellow & blue enemies of the desert level. Otherwise, on a TV the color reduction isn't really noticeable thanks to Sega's blurry output - plus they did a great job with the overall color reduction.

The final boss wavy scrolls into oblivion after you beat him. Its cool that they tried something different, but it takes longer to wait for it to finish and the ending to begin than it does to actually beat him.

If I remember correctly, aside from the extra layer here or there, the Sega-CD is also missing one or two scrolling sections overall.

[Tatsujin]

If I remember correctly, aside from the extra layer here or there, the Sega-CD is also missing one or two scrolling sections overall.

but in contrary, a nice thing of the MCD version is the blue BG at some boss stages where the BG got a linescrolling wobble effect. which doesn't appear in the original.

[spenoza]

Graphical limitations aside, the Sega CD does have a lot of extra horsepower that sure wasn't utilized in this port, line-scroll or no.