Thread 11942076

Why don't people actually play the fucking game instead of asking retarded questions such as
>What do you think of this game, is it any good?

>>11942076 (OP)
I played it.
It sucks
Even on original hardware

I played it.
It's fun.
Especially on original hardware.

>>11942103
Ironically I have yet to play SA myself, I was mainly pissed at all the blatant template threads.

>>11942076 (OP)
People aren't asking those questions, bots are

>>11942126
Fair, I guess that explains why they don't even try and act like they've even remotely heard of the game.

>>11942076 (OP)
Better than 3d Mario.
>>11942248
Brain rot. Who gives a shit?

>>11942076 (OP)
i played the steam version with all the mods that make it playable and it's pure overrated dogshit

>>11942276
return to the sharty.

Hi, I'm the OP. I'm truly sorry for what happened to this thread.

>>11942104
This

>>11942248
Ohnonononono SA bros he's tearing us apart!

This has become the #1 gateway retro game for zoomers

>>11942103
Post your dreamcast with a time stamp (you won't)

>>11943498
But this is a game beloved by gen x and millennials that makes zoomers shit and piss themselves.

SA is a game I like, that more or less does suck.
It's not a well put together game. Sonic's gameplay is more or less fun, but it's ten levels of awkward, and never feels like it plays as smoothly as it should.
The other characters are just tacked on and range from fine to not fun at all.
The intersecting stories gimmick doesn't even work, because they change how scenes play out, depending on who you play as.
The best thing you can say about it is it has soulful Dreamcast aesthetics, and the soundtrack is great.

SA is a game I like, that more or less is great.
It's a well put together game. Sonic's gameplay is fun, but it's ten levels of awesome, and never feels like it plays as badly as it should.
The other characters are a bonus and range from fun to great.
The intersecting stories gimmick doesn't even work, because they change how scenes play out, depending on who you play as.
The best thing you can say about it is it has soulful Dreamcast aesthetics, and the soundtrack is great.

>>11943574
lol, you missed one.

>>11943606
Fuck

>>11943498
I honestly don't think most zoomzooms can beat this game and how would it be a gateway? The kid is going to play SA then be tempted to play Daggerfall and Tobal No.1?

>>11942076 (OP)
Because people are too retarded to form their own opinion about things

>>11943679
That's something I've noticed a lot with these kinds of template threads, some of them even word their questions like.
>What do I think of this?
As if the opinion of some Autistic NEET on a chinese cartoon forum is enough to form your own opinion on something.

no one can articulate what's good or bad about this game. Anyone obsessing over it is a retard.

>>11944576
I think you're the autist for making this observation on a message board for discussing video games

>>11944659
To be fair, you have to be at least a LITTLE autistic if you're using 4chin in the year 2025.

>>11944663
Oh absolutely very true

>>11944607
I just did. It's incredibly shakily put together, and the controls for Sonic don't really work. If you watch anyone play this game for the first time, they'll run straight into a wall. Not great controls for a platformer.

>>11944663
>you have to be at least a LITTLE autistic if you're using 4chin in the year 2025.
nah, i've just grown extremely lazy and listless. i know all the steps i need to do to GTFO, but...yeah. i was an unironic chad in college. 15 years on, i'm 100 pounds heavier and i haven't had penetrative sex in 9 years.

the existential nightmare of middle age is fully upon me.

>>11944907
lol, joke's on you. I was always like that, and am just now pulling myself together.

>>11942248
I think that SA 1 and 2 are both fun games but the physics is indeed atrocious especially for a sonic game. The whole brand is built around tight snappy physics. This kind of stuff isn't even hard to program if you are paying attention, it really shows a lack of care at an engine level.
Big picture though they are nice games just weird how they couldn't hire ONE guy who took high school physics to come in and polish it up

>>11944964
What would have fixed it? Would it have been better if Sonic started slower, and built up to a run?
Everything about these games just kind of feels off in a way I can't quite place. Weightless, I guess.

>>11944978
>Would it have been better if Sonic started slower, and built up to a run?
Yeah that's basic acceleration. iirc there's a tiny amount of it but the velocity feels mostly constant (correct me if I'm wrong)

The thing about the webm I replied to is that an upward collision is simply halting the upward velocity from moving the player rather than setting it to zero as it should.

Both games are rife with similar errors that make the game feel floaty, clunky and cheap

>>11942126
what do the people running the bots gain from this? they arent making money on it, and who cares about this dead board? i just dont get why bots would post here

>>11945049
because they aren't. people vastly overblow the bot problem on non-/pol/ boards

>>11942248
I know this is beating a long-dead horse, but I don't understand why they went with the realistic ass environments and humans rather than the fantastical cartoony style of the earlier games. It just seems like such a fundamentally retarded choice

>>11942276
All the mods is stupid, their goal is to literally turn it into the Dreamcast version. The Steam version lacks some things from Dreamcast, but also makes some enhancements. Rather than adding back the things that were lost from Dreamcast but keeping the enhancements they basically try to turn it into an emulated Dreamcast version unless you manually do the mods one by one yourself.

>>11945816
>It just seems like such a fundamentally retarded choice
you only think that because you weren't alive for it. back then every new generation was a massive leap in technology. the only logical way forward was making the most impressive eye-popping graphics possible. that sequence with the orca destroying the pier behind sonic was flooring, mindblowing. a couple short years before that, there was only shitty blocky spiky 3D.

>>11945902
Are you trying to imply it was impossible for them to display the capabilities of the Dreamcast while also keeping the visual style in line with earlier Sonic titles? It just feels to me like the series lost it's identity after this

>>11945902
Sonic Heroes proves that a more unique and stylized art direction could work in 3d sonic.

>>11945954
>while also keeping the visual style in line with earlier Sonic titles?
what does this even mean? they were transitioning to a world with a whole new additional dimension. there's no easy way to translate pixel art from the 16 bit era to the early sloppy primitive 3D landscape. it also doesn't help that many of sega's devs didn't know 3D. also i don't even know what you mean by "cartoony". the sonic genesis games were bright and vibrant and really pushed the color capabilities of the console, but i wouldn't call them cartoony. toejam and earl is cartoony. risstar is cartoony.

>>11945968
sonic heroes is not all that different visually from the adventure games. take away the 3 character bullshit and it's basically adventure 3.it's also an inbetween between them and the modern boost era games.

>>11942076 (OP)
It's literally just a discussion starter, bro