/vr/ - Retro Games

>Hmm I want to play an NES game
>But I want it to not actually look like an NES game

Who asks for this

I looked at some compilation videos - Even the ones that aren't absolutely garish and amateurish (Most of them) still feel like they are just changing the original art for the sake of doing so. Part of experiencing these games is experiencing their original art and sound. Slapping HD sprites and replacing the soundtrack with modern guitar remixes just seems like a pure novelty at best and dangerously anachronistic at worst.

I guess if you've completely exhausted a game and want to see it with a fresh coat of paint on this fits the bill, but most people who exhaust games look to stuff like Randomizers to squeezer more out of the game, not swap Marios sprite with a render of his NSMB model

SA2 ever being good is one of the most egregious cases of nostalgiafaggotry I've seen

Its shit and has always been shit. Not even in a "le sonic in 3D doesn't work" way, Adventure 1 mogs it. Hell, fucking Heroes and Shadow are both better because at least they are focused and half-way competently put together built on speed levels without wasting your time on emerald hunts or shooter stages.

>b-b-but the soundtrack
Subjective

>b-b-but the story
It stinks and makes no sense

I can only assume SA2 was played en-masse by GC children whose impressionable small minds collectively thought it was good and then spent the rest of their lives defending it to the point it routinely gets brought up in top fives of best Sonic game ever.

Its a broken mess of a game with terrible boss battles and level design, a laughably amateurish localization where lines literally cut into one another due to poor mixing, and a story that constantly contradicts itself on top of being the starting shot for Sonic plot going into melodramatic anime bullshit