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One of the most shocking and unexpected moments in retro gaming was when Sega thought that this piece of shit would be more marketable than a 5th gen Sonic scotformer.

>> No.7139068

What is the definition of a scotformer??

>> No.7139070

Good game

>> No.7139075

>>7139068
The Scotformer was the historical event that formed the Kingdom of Scotland.

>> No.7139092

I think the issue is that Sega was initially pushing the Saturn as a home console that could play 3D arcade games. NiGHTS feels very arcade-y with its narrow time range for levels. A huge miscalculation on Sega's part. I don't want to pay $399 and $60 for a game that will keep my attention in shorts bursts up until 10 hours max.

Sony devs realised its content needed to be lengthy in scope - less like arcades and more like PC games.

>> No.7139106
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7139106

Sonic niggers fuck off. Nights is better than every 3D sonic ever released.

>> No.7139110

>>7139106
to this day I still don't understand what the fuck is going on in this game. This one should have stayed in Japan.

>> No.7139118

>>7139110
>american too stupid to read a manual or even the in game tips
Checks out.

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7139126

>>7139118
Reading is for fags. I play video games to get headshots.

>> No.7140173

>>7139106
>maybe if I keep posting this it'll become true!

>> No.7140183

>>7139106
>3D sonic ever released.
Maybe, but sidescrolling Sonic shits all over NiGHTS so hard it's not even funny.

>> No.7140196

>>7139126
Based

>> No.7141391

>>7139106
tranny game

>> No.7141450

>>7138196
I remember at Toy R Us there were two kiosks, a N64 and a Saturn. Seeing them side by side, NiGHTS looked so much more exciting than Mario 64.

>> No.7141465

>>7139110
So there are these blue orbs all over the place. you need a certain amount of those in order to deposit them into this big floating globe
(you see it happen at 0:21 of the webm)
You get a colored orb out of that and take that to that gazebo looing thing
(you start off there and circle back around. see him pass by it at 0:15. Because he doesn't have the colored orb yet, he keeps circling around that phase of the map. You can see he's already gotten the red one placed as he passes and he gets the white one.)
You keep going around that part of the course until you collect enough blue orbs to open the globe, retrieve the "idea" in it and return it to its place at the gazebo. Then there's a boss

>> No.7141478

>>7139106
One of the most overrated games in existence

>> No.7141541

>>7141478
It can't be overrated because it's not a Nintendo game.

>> No.7141581

>>7138196

It was the 90's bro. We were either high, or coming down.

>> No.7141664

>>7141465
Is this post an extreme autismo fever dream? I really hope you're not over the age of 13.
>hey bro collect all the blue orbs and deposit them into the big globe so you get a colored orb and return that to the gazebo
>then do it again, and it's not Sonic autism, it's le hidden gem

>> No.7141668

>>7138196
It's not that they thought Nights would be a better option, so much as they literally didn't have a Sonic to throw out onto the system due to outsourcing, development problems, no clear direction and so forth. So they had to try to use this experimental new IP to try to cover for it instead.

>> No.7141670

>>7138196
It should of been reskinned as a sonic game for the American market.

>> No.7141674

>>7141670
not like they didn't finagle with the idea for the sake of an easter egg secret mode at least, but this being early 3D and their only fitting controller for it having a single analog stick, boy was it kind of a mess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40xQHxylN9U

>> No.7141678

>>7141668
It was the same game designer as the original sonic.

They could of pulled a doki doki panic Mario 2 re skin of the game as sonic nights into dreams.

Sega of Japan was a mess at the time

They were more concerned with dumping a 100 million into a 300 million virtual reality theme park in Australia at the time.

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>>7141678
>They were more concerned with dumping a 100 million into a 300 million virtual reality theme park in Australia at the time.
Bro that theme park was sick. Chocka block full of arcade machines and it had Sega arcade rides too.

>> No.7142523

>>7141450
The one by me had these 2 as well as a ps1 with crash on it. There were always tons more kids playing the mario game then the other 2

>> No.7142564

>>7139106
>Man character can fly
>Flying through rings advances to next level
>Fashion choices questionable unless you live in France

Is this game Superman 64?

>> No.7142867

>>7139068
>scotformer
What a stupid fucking word.
Its literally the same amount of letters as platformer so your not abbreviating or shortening it. Your not making the description any better cause a platformer is self explanatory. I have zero ideas why this fucking word was created.

>> No.7142871

>>7139126
Fucking zoomers. Should have never allowed systems after the dreamcast into this board. See what happens.

>> No.7143001

>>7141465
The funny thing is, this is just the basics. If you play the game exactly like that you are playing it wrong and you will miss all the fun. And that is exactly the reason why nights is better than sonic. It's more than just going from A to B

>> No.7143112

>>7142867
This. Almost as bad as "jarpig"