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[GymWolf]

The one that published condemned 1.

 

[MrJangles]

Old Sega >>>>Sony, Nintendo,Microsoft

 

[RAIDEN1]

This has got to be the worst poll of all time (no offence to Geometric-Crusher)

- Old Sega : Always innovating with new arcade hardware. Had their own consoles. Released a never ending stream of new games.
- New Sega: I guess they are still making games still. Good for them. I don't want to slam on current Sega that much.... but you know... what the fuck happened to the video games industry as a whole.



It's not even that Sega was able to make a new Virtua Fighter once a year... It's even more crazy when you realize that AM2 was capable of making a new Virtua Fighter once a year on a completely different arcade board.

1993: Virtua Fighter - Model 1 board
1994: Virtua Fighter 2 - Model 2 board
1996: Virtua Fighter 3 - Model 3 board

OK, there was a gap between VF2 and VF3... but AM2 also made the jump from Model 2 to Model 3 hardware. In between those games, AM2 were pumping out Daytona USA, Sega Rally 1 and 2, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Cop, Virtua Cop 2... they were porting games to the Saturn as well. How was this even humanly possible back then? the AM2 division was pumping out more games per year than current Sega has in the last five years.

Who knew Virtua Fighter 3 to this day is still trapped on the Dreamcast, and then there are those who felt MGS4 being stuck on PS3 was bad....

 

[MrCunningham]

Who knew Virtua Fighter 3 to this day is still trapped on the Dreamcast, and then there are those who felt MGS4 being stuck on PS3 was bad....

As a stand alone game, yes. The Dreamcast port was always seen as a bit 'iffy' on the Dreamcast too, as it was ported by Genki. The US version is generally better than the original 1998 Japanese release, as far as I know. It's a decent port, but not arcade perfect.

VF3: TB is playable (emulated) in Yakuza: Like A Dragon in the arcades. But it has never seen a re-release as a stand alone game or compilation collection. Really strange how it became lost in time.

Even Virtua Fighter 1 and 2 had post Sega console releases. VF2 has a nice port on the 360 that might be desisted? I'm not sure.

Virtua Fighter 3 was mind blowing when it hit arcades in 1996. It had some of the highest polygon character models seen in any game at that point. The fully 3D asymmetrical environments were impressive too.

 

[RAIDEN1]

As a stand alone game, yes. The Dreamcast port was always seen as a bit 'iffy' on the Dreamcast too, as it was ported by Genki. The US version is generally better than the original 1998 Japanese release, as far as I know. It's a decent port, but not arcade perfect.

VF3: TB is playable (emulated) in Yakuza: Like A Dragon in the arcades. But it has never seen a re-release as a stand alone game or compilation collection. Really strange how it became lost in time.

Even Virtua Fighter 1 and 2 had post Sega console releases. VF2 has a nice port on the 360 that might be desisted? I'm not sure.

Virtua Fighter 3 was mind blowing when it hit arcades in 1996. It had some of the highest polygon character models seen in any game at that point. The fully 3D asymmetrical environments were impressive too.

Goes to show how dumb "todays Sega" are, that you are forced to buy a game which you don't even have a strong interest in just to play a better version/arcade perfect of VF3....not as if the game was based on Saturn architecture....that game as well as Daytona 2....never saw a standalone release, and I doubt it ever will