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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

 

[Geometric-Crusher]

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.

Let's face it, Sega in the 90s was cutting-edge technology, while today's Sega releases indie-like games.

Virtua Fighter 3 was beautiful, full of special effects and 60fps. But excuse me for saying so, it wasn't a good game, that was Sega's mistake—many games that divided opinions. In 1996, there were more fun 3D fighting games, graphics aren't enough to maintain interest in a game.

Modern Sega understood this after 20 years of trial and error. If I'm not mistaken, they focused on graphics until 2009. Sega Rally 3 ran at 60fps (30fps on consoles) but what good was Sega Rally Revo being an incredible game if its sales were low ? So, from that date, Sega gradually moved away from AAA games until 2022 with Sonic Frontiers. Now, I prefer to believe that they make better games, but that commercially they aren't working due to the graphics. Sega wants to be like Nintendo, selling old-gen like games for $70 – that's not going to happen. They understood this in their latest report, which showed that Sonic Racing Crossworlds sold only one million copies.
Now it remains to be seen if they have learned from their own mistakes. I believe they have. Virtua Fighter Project has everything it takes to be the best VF in the series, the new Sonic could be the best Sonic since Sonic 2 on the Sega Genesis, and the new Skies of Arcadia the best RPG from the company since Phantasy Star 4. I am optimistic that everything done from now on will be better than everything done before, due to this accumulated knowledge from trial and error.

 

[uncreativename]

I think Sonic has always sucked and will always suck , but I think that since the Dreamcast onward the rest of Sega has been awesome. Sure they've had their ups and downs but they're still maybe the greatest videogame company of all time.

Yakuza 2, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, Medieval II Total War, Phantasy Star Online.

More recently I think Yakuza/Like a Dragon has stumbled a bit due to the tight release schedule, but they're still good to great games. Persona 5's ending kinda sucked, but it's one of the most beautiful jrpgs ever made, and just a wonderful game to play. I'm looking forward to playing Metaphor at some point, that looks pretty great, too. Medieval III Total War is looking like it might be the game we Total War fans have been wanting for ages. Virtua Fighter seems very cool but I know I'll be just as horrible at it as I am at all of those games, but I'm glad they're making another one. Jet Set Radio sequel at some point looks like it could be amazing.

And obviously there are tons of games that I'm not even remembering, these are just some of the ones I love the most.