IGN: Sonic Adventure Review

[crackdude]

If it cost 60 bucks I would expect it to have SA2 and Shadow the Hedgehog included in completely redone HD with new textures and models and lipsync and chao-trading online and revamped controls. And a Sonic hat.

[fluffymoochicken]

And a Sonic hat.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that! Thank you so much for reminding me to pre-order Sonic Colors! ^___^

[crackdude]

And a Sonic hat.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that! Thank you so much for reminding me to pre-order Sonic Colors! ^___^

You're getting the hat?? :DD oh snap man that is so rad

[George]

My cousin pre-ordered Sonic Colors when he say there was a hat for it. Now I always tell him he is going to paint himself blue, wear the cap, get naked and play Sonic Colors everyday.

Just like the rest of us.

[George]

Completely ignored the other games I mentioned TA? Arguing with you is worthless, you have selective hearing.

What are you on about ?

I've said B&K on XBLA is a remake, and GOW is a High Def collection that costs as much as a full price retail game and is sold at retail, so its not really a fair comparsion .

But like I said if Sonic Team were to do a Sonic Adv High Def Collection and charge full price for it. I would expect far far better than a simple port. Now is that simple enough for you ?

The games cost 20 dollars, come with all the extras. (each 20 when it was out, 15 each now, just like Sonic Adventure does with the DX content).

It is a fair comparison. Just that it makes you wrong. So now its unfair.

Sly collection is 3 games for 40 dollars, with 3D, enhanced graphics. Really, SEGA talks about how much 'work' they are putting and how they are doing 'quality over quantity. but they really aren't.

They might as well just port some SEGA AGES stuff. At least some of those where actually handled nicely.

[Team Andromeda]

The games cost 20 dollars, come with all the extras. (each 20 when it was out, 15 each now, just like Sonic Adventure does with the DX content).

GOW Collection was £30 in the UK and more than 20 dollars in the USA on launch (yes I did import the game from Movetyme) . The Extra's you speak off were already in the PS2 Special Edition versions. So even though you have to buy the DX content it still works out cheaper ok ?

It is a fair comparison

How when GOW collection cost far more, and was a stand alone retail game

Sly collection is 3 games for 40 dollars, with 3D, enhanced graphic

Is that a standalone retail game again, published by the platform holder  ? :roll:  . I'll rather compare SEGA classic range to other 3rd parties classic range on PSN and 360 in the interest of fairness

Really, SEGA talks about how much 'work' they are putting and how they are doing 'quality over quantity. but they really aren't.

Please lets cut out the PR Bull ok, because I could really go to town with some of the bullshit PR comments from both SONY and MS over talk of classic downloads ECT

 Its more do with SEGA selecting the games it thinks it will sell, and ones that SONY and MS have no issues with approving to go up on LIVE or the PSN . SEGA have been putting a lot of work their Classic Range have been very decent and thier Arcade ports in the shape of Virtual On and After Burner Climax utterly brilliant ,and now its starting to port some of the DC range.

Good enough for me

[crackdude]

The games cost 20 dollars, come with all the extras. (each 20 when it was out, 15 each now, just like Sonic Adventure does with the DX content).

It is a fair comparison. Just that it makes you wrong. So now its unfair.

Sly collection is 3 games for 40 dollars, with 3D, enhanced graphics. Really, SEGA talks about how much 'work' they are putting and how they are doing 'quality over quantity. but they really aren't.

They might as well just port some SEGA AGES stuff. At least some of those where actually handled nicely.

Excuse me sir, but what the fuck are you blabbering about?

GOW collection costs 50 euro new. Against 8 euro for Sonic Adventure ("new" duh).

And why do you keep pushing the DX in? It's just a bunch of crap Master System games and Metal Sonic!

Also Sonic Adventure 1 is much more dated than GOW2, sorry.

[George]

I'm talking about American prices. God of War Collection costs 29.99 new, cost 39.99 when it came out. That is $20 dollars a title, $15.00 each. The same price as Sonic Adventure with its DLC.

Sony is also doing Sly Cooper Collection. 3 games for $40. The first game that came out in 2002.

Again, I'm not  mad about the graphics, something that people here do no seem to comprehend. I get it. The game is old. But it seems that SEGA just chucked it on there without much attention to detail. Would it have cost them 80 million dollars to add widescreen and some nice HD icons? No.

[fluffymoochicken]

You're getting the hat?? :DD oh snap man that is so rad

Absolutely! ^__^ I love goofy stuff like that.

But anyway, I'll let you all get back to the debate. Sorry for the little off-topic outburst. =P

[Autosaver]

Someone told me that in certain character missions, there are HD textures and stuff.

true or not?

[max_cady]

Well, I'm guessing positive word of mouth on Sonic Adventure helped the game get some momentum and win some minds.

Lord knows, the reviews aren't helping the game, because it creates this bizarre situation where there's a revisioning of 1998 zeitgeist when the game came out.

While it's largely accepted that 3D Sonic games these days have been average at best and many say that 3D doesn't work, but back in 1998/1999, nobody really thought that way, so treating a 1999 game with the same mentality of today, it's not going to mesh... at all.

[crackdude]

Truth is the people who actually take internet reviews seriously are a smashed minority. Even more of a minority when it comes to impulse-buy 8 buck games.

Word of mouth has always been what makes games sell, and why games like GigaWing are holy grails to people who simply never saw Mars Matrix on sale and won't bother going on the internet to find out if there's anything better.

I like it when people simply enjoy games. And it saddens me that so much trivial discussion is going on here over a game that we all loved back then because it doesn't have shit like HD textures or icons or some shit.

The game never had those to begin with and I still had a blast. And I still do now. It adds near nothing to the experience.

[MadeManG74]

Actually reviews do affect sales to a fair degree, so it's not like people who take reviews seriously are a smashed minority. Also I tend to find that reviews are generally pretty accurate. Sometimes they are way off (like IGN's 3/10 for GodHand), but overall if you look at it as a ballpark guide it's usually spot on. A game that averages 8/10 is 99% of the time better than something that averages 2/10.

[Sega Uranus]

Speaking of reviews that will effect purchases, I made one myself! It came out maybe twice as long as I wanted, so bear with me here. I think I worked on it way too hard... Like IGN never made their own screenshot hodgepodges of releases, did they? NO!

http://thesegasource.wordpress.com/2010 ... de-review/

tl;dr good buy, recommend, even for people who had it previously.