Why is Sonic Adventure 2 largely considered peak Sonic?

>>714876889 (OP)
CHADow

>>714876889 (OP)
It expands on a lot of the aspects from Adventure and does it fairly well outside of Tails' levels. Score actually mattering helps since you have to go fast and be good if you want to get a better rank.

They played it as kids on the gamecube

>>714876889 (OP)
It's kino...

>>714876889 (OP)
Nostalgia from kids playing it on the Gamecube.
Give it some time and Colors will be the peak Sonic game.
Just like how back in the 2000s, S3K was the peak Sonic game (or 2 if you were more casual).

>>714877058
>Score actually mattering helps since you have to go fast
I fucking wish. I went and got All A Ranks recently, and time matters very little outside of the actual timed missions.
Stopping and killing enemies gives you way more points than speed does.

>>714878926
Why do 4chan posters always ignore the rest of sentences when they reply to shit

Kickass music blaring over big dumb over the top action setpieces: The Game

>>714876889 (OP)
Sonic at the time was supposed to be Sega's main first-party console-seller that pushed all their consoles' features to sell them to kids and moms. It's why packaging Sonic with the Genesis resulted in gangbuster sales. Because of this mentality, the devs legitimately didn't know if SA2 was going to be the last Sonic game with Sega getting out of the console business. As a result, they pumped SA2 full of everything they wanted in case it ended up being Sonic's swan song.

Obviously in hindsight that's not what happened, but it was the reason for the development mentality.

>>714879454
Because the first qualifier in your post is a fucking lie.
Time doesn't matter much in the scoring at all. You should have only said "kill enemies."

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>>714876889 (OP)
First Sonic game on Gamecube.

>>714876975
This.
Sonic vs Shadow after Final Rush/Final Chase was the peak of the series.

>>714876975
/thread

>>714879743
>the devs legitimately didn't know if SA2 was going to be the last Sonic game with Sega getting out of the console business
They were planning SA3 when SA2 released. They only held off on it because Iizuka thought the first multiplat game should be a soft reboot, so Heroes was made. They picked back on their plans for SA3 and it evolved into Unleashed.

Sonic Adventure 2 is peak soul and that kind of thing elevates the enjoyment level of a game even if half of it is whack-ass mech stages.
To draw a comparison: the original Nier. Many of us love it, but certainly not for its combat.

>>714876889 (OP)
because sonicucks have low standards

>>714880276
>when SA2 released
Yeah, when it released, not when they were in the middle of development. At the earliest, "SA3"/Heroes was being planned when SA2 was already at the tail end.

>>714880448
Works on my machine.

>>714880884
oof

>>714881223
>All that non-Dreamcast shit.
Not my problem.

>>714881286
sonicope

>>714882410
If (You) say so.

>>714876889 (OP)
Nintenkiddies' first Sonic game

>>714877058
>die at the end
>score is reset to 0
this alone is probably why i hate final rush

>>714883183
I'd be fine on score if it wasn't for those goofy-ass vertical rails in that one section.

>>714881286
Dreamcast sold 9 mil units, bro. That's ASS. PS1 sold 88 mil when DC died, and N64 sold 32.

>>714883334
>b-b-b-but sales
How does this disprove the fact that the Dreamcast version is the best version of the game?

>>714876975
fujoanon...

>>714883428
It may be the best version, but it still only sold 500K units. It only reached got 2 mill when it got ported to the GameCube.

>>714884028
>but it still only sold 500K units
And?

>>714883334
>>714884028
Sales =/= quality

It's always fascinating seeing people who genuinely can't understand discussion of video games that isn't related to sales.

>>714884390
Salesposting has turned /v/'s brains into mush

They'll never know some of the best games ever made tended to sell like shit

>>714884085
>And?
Sonic's a little fish. Always was. Sonic 1 only did so well because it was bundled with the Genesis. Frontier sold 4.5 mil, but Odyssey and BotW destroy it completely. Odyssey sold 32 mil, while BotW sold about 30 mil.
>>714884390
>It's always fascinating seeing people who genuinely can't understand discussion of video games that isn't related to sales.
Different strokes for different folks, bro. Not everyone's gotta think like you.

>>714884806
see >>714884147

>>714884834
>>714884147
>Sales =/= quality
Sonic ain't nowhere close to Nintendo quality, bro. Get the fuck outta here with that shit.

>>714878054
Played it as teens on the Dreamcast, you mean