/vr/ - Retro Games

I refuse to believe people unironically enjoy this game's gameplay, it has to be the nostalgia associated with it or the music or presentation or something else. But the gameplay itself is horrendous even for the timer.

How can people say this game aged poorly? It literally aged fine

Mario 64 probably aged more horribly than butter milk on a hot texas sun and yet it aged "flawlessly"?

Zoomers will never understand how much of a landmark title this was

this game is pretty fun

normalfags lied to me

>Very first proper 3D game in the franchise
>Super Sonic couldn't kill Chaos, all he could do was lock it away
>Game ends with a flooded Station Square in ruin
>Hundreds of thousands are dead
>Sonic straight up fucking lost

There's an undeniable appeal to the ambition of its world, the quality of the music and the pre-9/11 optimism of its atmosphere. But as a game, its just so fucking tedious and taped together. And yes, I do mean the original Dreamcast version and the BetterSADX modded version, not the Director's Cut. I've revisited this and SA2 many times over the years since it came out, and my only conclusion as to why people enjoy it is that they have severe autism. Sonic is like crack cocaine to people with aspergers.

>music
>visuals
>production values
>story
>atmosphere
>world

How is it that Sonic Adventure blows Mario 64 out of the fucking water in every single fucking aspect except for the actual gameplay?

Is there a proper term for this concept? Are Sega comedic geniuses?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2KUP_KApuc

This scared me as a lad.

Sonic Adventure isn't a good game

Way better. Suck my saggy white balls

What was it like playing it for the first time in 1999?

>>7370190

To be completely honest, this game was quite bad.

Yeah uh wow, sonic had a rough transition from 2D to 3D to say the least

Hey guys, long time Sonic fan here. Zoomers and Nintendrones may make fun of him, but true hardcore gamers know he's way cooler than Mario. Anyways, I'm about to start my first game of the series, pic related. What am I in for?

>>6869950
popular youtubers saying they don't like it

It's the 21st anniversary of Sonic Adventure (U.S. release). A game that had a lot of heart, charm, and soul put into it, but people like to mean-spiritedly bash it. Like kicking a puppy. Yeah, there's jank, but it never got in my way too much (unless I was actively looking for glitches).

Do people actually like this heap of shit?

> twitchy character movement
> glitchy collision detection (at least in DX)
> 75% of story is wasting time in the pointless padded-out hub world or watching the worst cut-scenes known to man
>The gameplay of every character other than Sonic is boring filler
>Laughably basic (terrible) boss fights

Is SA1 the last soulful Sanic game?

>Last game with dreamlike locations, before SA2 made it all realistic
>Last game where the Doctor calls himself Robotnik. Sonic and friends call him Eggman as a nickname, which is how it should've stayed, imo.
>Last mainline game to focus on echidna lore
>Last game with a more fantasy story like the Genesis games, before SA2 made it like an edgy anime with Weapon X and little girl getting shot
>Last game released in the old millennium

Post video games from your childhood that you no longer enjoy.

Post video game that you consider overrated.

>>4279663
I liked the first one better.

Why is it that 2000-2005 games carried on the themes, charm, and color of the late 90s era (1997-1999), yet 2006-2009 almost immediately switched to DLC, microtransactions, "gritty realism", reboots up the wazoo, grey/brown color palettes, floaty controls, etc.?

What happened? Who let this happen?