/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8258561
>learned how to swim as a kid because my new apartment complex had one
>loved swimming for years
>in high school go whitewater rafting in some artificial thing multiple times and have fun, they claim nobody has ever once drowned there and I believe them
>fall out of the raft right near the beginning of one of the harder 'routes' and unironically have a near death experience
>fully convinced for a moment I was about to drown
>used what they told me to do and ended up fine but shaken, always knew logically it would be fine
>there was just that one moment where it felt like maybe I would be the first
>don't get in the water again even though I'm there for another four or five hours before my school trip leaves
>don't sign up for another one
>haven't swam since

>>7813934
All they had to do was have no ambition beyond gameplay. Sonic Adventure should have been just Sonic levels, at least 20 of them, with unlockable Tails and Knuckles to fuck around in the levels with after you're done with that to totally break them
Instead they got all excited about realistic settings and worldbuilding and Echidnas and Chaos and having all these playable characters and they'll interconnect with this deep story and then they'll all have different gameplay styles and go through different parts of each level and wow it's gonna be so great! Then they had to rush the entire game to even attempt to implement all these ambitious ideas and it turned out meh at best.
Starting 3D Sonic with Sonic alone and with more and better designed and polished Sonic stages would have started them in a far better place. Could even do Adventure 2 with Sonic and Shadow stages but give Shadow's stages a unique twist. With more dev time specifically dedicated to getting those 3D Sonic levels right it could have been so much better. As it is Sonic Team is both obsessed with adding shitty elements to all their 3D Sonic games that drag them down (Hunting, Shooting, the entirety of Heroes gameplay, Werehog, etc.). They're kind of like the Kingdom Hearts games in that regard
Now Sonic Team after years without nary a peep of a 3D Sonic are coming out with.... yeah it's just another BOTW knock off. Woo hoo.