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I used to have a Saturn back in the day, but I sold it to some kid for $400 in high school. Lol, I remember he used to give me his lunch money every single day in order to pay for the Saturn. Poor kid starved himself for a Saturn, lol. Anyway, I regret having sold it now. I used to have probably close to 50 games back then...sigh...
Sonic Adventure is by far and beyond my favourite Dreamcast game. The music, the silly,-simple-but-fun plot, and the brilliant final boss all come together in a wonderful way!
Ironically I didn't get Sonic Adventure until way after I collected most of my DC games. I have the "Sega All Stars" version of Sonic Adventure 1 and I just purchased a used copy of Sonic Adventure 2 a few months ago at a flee market.
Both games are great and both got phenomenal reviews, after that however lets just say its been all down hill.
Probably not so much as down hill as straight off a cliff!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheEdge
lol :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyb37
Oh yeah, it was definitely still a step up, but it didn't quite feel like a whole new generation. It felt more like the difference between Playstation and 3DO. At the time I didn't really have a concept of just how rushed the Japanese Dreamcast launch was, and I didn't know that the DC port of VF3tb was done in six weeks by Genki. Close to the US launch, when I saw Tokyo Xtreme Racer and Soul Calibur, my mind was changed about the system's prowess. There's also the fact that the Dreamcast came so much earlier than the competition that we had no idea what the other systems would look like, so we didn't really have a frame of reference. Once the PS2 came out and I saw what its games looked like, I was extra convinced that the Dreamcast was firmly in the new generation. But the Dreamcast's first several months in Japan were very rough, and it's not hard to see why it didn't do too well there early on (especially considering the situation with the Saturn).Quote:
Originally Posted by Aarzak
I don't think I've ever beaten the last run of the first stage of SA1, and I got bored of SA2 in one of the early Knuckles levels.
To be honest I'd rather play Sonic Heroes than a SA.
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I hate the knuckle stages as well. Boring and tedious.
The cliff's at the bottom of the hill.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyb37
Yeah, SA 2 should have just been called "Knuckles Scavenger Hunt." I loved the first game, but the second one just never grew on me.
The Knuckles stages are where I got bored with the game too.
I'm seeing a pattern here.
I wasn't crazy about the Knuckles stages in SA2 either, but I thought they were at least better than SA1's Knuckles stages.
I remember playing the Japanese release of Sonic Adventure at Babbage's months before it was released in America. I was one of the few too, I asked one of the employees about it and he took the controller out of cabinet and just let me play, it wasn't a store display or anything. I almost shit my pants that every footprint stayed in the sand of the beach on the first level. Man I wish I had a dreamcast back then, oh well, I have one now :) . Tony Hawk is also the best on Dreamcast.
The Pumpkin Hill theme is head-boppingly brilliant - I prefer the SA1 version of Knuckles' theme over the SA2 version, funnily enough. Love the gospel-y chorus :)
I got Sonic Adventure 2 in MINT condition at a friggin' Goodwill for $5 back in San Antonio while I was in Tech School.
The week before they tried to sell me a SHIT condition POD Speedzone for $8!
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I sorta felt like that as well until I went over to my friends house and played his PS1 after I become used to the Dreamcast. It was difficult going back.Quote:
Originally Posted by j_factor