Best Super CDRom2

[Black Tiger]

It was between Lords of Thunder and Dungeon Explorer II for me, but I voted for DEII just because I prefer questy games and it has more replay value.

[natethegreat82]

For me it was a choice between Gate of Thunder and Lords of Thunder. I ended up giving the nod to Gate. It does have the arcade feel after all.

[esteban]

Oh no! I thought we were voting for the best simulation game. My bad.

[_joshuaTurbo]

Lot, Got, Dragon Slayer, LOOM, DEII, or Beyond Shadowgate....

I'll roll a D6-

Beyond Shadowgate it is!!

[Necromancer]

Oh no! I thought we were voting for the best simulation game. My bad.

Sim Earth? 

[sideshow]

This poll is really a tug of war between the two thunder games.  I picked Lords cause of the epic soundtrack.

[spenoza]

Lords has some great heavy metal, but I don't like how they mastered the volume down when the music gets heavy. GoT's music is less heavy but more melodic. I like the increased variety in GoT.

[Joe Redifer]

I agree that while the music to Lords of Thunder is good, it has some really shitty mastering/recording going on.  Did they cut all frequencies below 500Hz?  I only hear midrange and treble in this game.  I've heard cassette tapes that sound much better.  Gate of Thunder fares a bit better in that department (you can actually hear some bass) but it is still a bit too quiet and the noise floor is very high.  I guess people who like TurboGrafx do not care about good audio... or at least that's what the developers think.

[Black Tiger]

I agree that while the music to Lords of Thunder is good, it has some really shitty mastering/recording going on.  Did they cut all frequencies below 500Hz?  I only hear midrange and treble in this game.  I've heard cassette tapes that sound much better.  Gate of Thunder fares a bit better in that department (you can actually hear some bass) but it is still a bit too quiet and the noise floor is very high.  I guess people who like TurboGrafx do not care about good audio... or at least that's what the developers think.

I think that they were probably trying to keep the music from overpowering the sfx and weren't thinking of people listening to the soundtrack as a music cd. Unfortunately, the actual music turned out too good.

[Joe Redifer]

The music DOES overpower the sound effects as it is.  The TurboGrafx can't do "loud" sounds.  They are all very soft and quiet.  The ADPCM chip can be loud, but that's it.

[Black Tiger]

The music DOES overpower the sound effects as it is.  The TurboGrafx can't do "loud" sounds.  They are all very soft and quiet.  The ADPCM chip can be loud, but that's it.

Even if the Turbo can't do "loud" sounds, at some point when a game's CD music is made quiet enough it should balance.

The sound in Lords of Thunder sounds perfectly balanced to me (I want to clearly hear the music in game like this), and not just because the sfx are too loud in the Sega-CD version.

[SignOfZeta]

I agree that while the music to Lords of Thunder is good, it has some really shitty mastering/recording going on.  Did they cut all frequencies below 500Hz?  I only hear midrange and treble in this game.

I've listened to a lot of old music from Japan and to be honest, this is simply what would pass for mastering in Japan back then. It wasn't until the very late 90s that pop music from Japan actually got some bottom end to it. What's sad is that the artists were ahead of the engineers and stuff from bands like X Japan really could sound better if they had recorded abroad. Listen to the stage 2 music from GoT. Its obviously inspired (at least in the beginning) by house music, but lacks any of the bass.

I think Globe's "Try This Shoot" was the first Japanese pop single I had ever heard with real thump to it. That was like...2001, I think.

[malducci]

The TurboGrafx can't do "loud" sounds.  They are all very soft and quiet.

 Tell that to my poor bleeding ears after doing sound coding/testing 

[nodtveidt]

The TurboGrafx can't do "loud" sounds.

Like hell it can't.

[SignOfZeta]

He probably means that it can be loud without sounding like crap...which is true from what I've seen.

Think of a pair of $10 ear buds playing 64kbs MP3s through a 5 watt amp; loud for sure, but also ear piercingly shrill and shitty.