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Sonic Adventure 2 HD |OT| googoo g'joob googoo g'joob
- Thread starter Hot Coldman
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Nice. It's worth it alone for Sonic and Shadow's levels, especially the latter ones.
Wow. I was almost 25 when this came out.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I was... 13, I think, when this came out?
Just pick this game's because you know you want to.Kokonoe said:
entremet
Member
Soarin' Over Space has always been one of my favorites.
This might take a bit.
So good.
I'm usually quite decisive, but on one hand Dan Green is my favorite voice actor, on the other, this Knuckles voice is just so good. Well, they are both good. Hmm...I was... 13, I think, when this came out?
Just pick this game's because you know you want to.
This might take a bit.
So good.
so what's your excuse
ryūkotsusei
Member
Hot Coldman
Banned
What?
SA2's controls needed tightening? I wish the rest of the 3D Sonic games were as tight as SA2's controls.
Seven Force
Banned
Would have bit if Sega could have been bothered to setup some kind of online multiplayer. With that possibility out, there's pretty much no reason for me to buy this.
Maybe through modding it... but not from SEGA officially.
That latter statement has me confused. The controls are very good, no problem with them whatsoever from what I remember. Camera though? Yeah, some issues here and there but really you can get by them.
that's not saying much now is it?
Hot Coldman
Banned
SA2 has level design that actually accommodates the homing attack- not the abundance of bottomless pits that Heroes/06 suffered from. So it gets away with a lot based on that.
so what are you saying
Hot Coldman
Banned
I guess I'm saying the homing attack is OK in this? I mean, it works- it's still hammering the A button to progress, which isn't good game design, but at least it works.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'm young at heart. >.>
Honest answer: playing it for the Sonic/Shadow levels which are pretty decent (and as other have acknowledged, the HA doesn't function poorly here) and for the music. I'm curious as to if the HD version is going to be decent or poor like the SA1 PSN/XBLA version was.
What about the homing attack? The character will home towards whichever way you were pointing the analog stick, it was simple and responsive. And it didn't have the annoying crosshairs, either.
Hot Coldman
Banned
You realise they added the crosshairs because the games got faster and you need to know where you're going to be going instantly, right
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Ya, but you have to beat the horrible treasure hunting to get that far. If it was like SA1 where you stayed the same character it would be fine.
does it really?
at least you're admitting of your wrong doing schala sweetie
next step is to repent
Hot Coldman
Banned
It doesn't send you plummeting to your death like in Heroes, put it that way.
ryūkotsusei
Member
It obviously can use refinements, but I do hate how 3D Sonic control these days. Boost this, boost that.
What difference did it make? I had more problems with Generation's homing attacks than SA2, because the crosshair seemed to have a mind of it's own and pick stuff I didn't want.
Syphon Filter
Member
Isn't it releasing on PC the same day? I remember a trailer saying it.
TBA 2012
Hot Coldman
Banned
Oh, OK, I thought you took issue with the big-ass crosshair visual element itself. Sounds like you're more annoyed at the homing attack targeting- which, yeah, could be better.
i remember dying plenty of times with it because of how broken it is
you calling me a liar?
loved it when it circled the target and looped it like 6 times before dropping to your death
Hot Coldman
Banned
Yeah you suck, deal with it
That... never happens in SA2, you're thinking of Heroes. It was god awful in Heroes.
Only instance I could even think of that would happen in is MP... vs a human opponent.
at least i'll not be bitching when izuka keeps releasing terrible games i guess
never played a console game after adventures 2
wonder why
To be fair, the actual visual element itself was annoying too; and misleading when not only you don't have enough time to make a selection, you actually can't since it's all the computer doing it. Luckily, the problems didn't start being problematic until the challenge stages; the normal stages themselves it worked without incident.
At this point, there has not been any real improvement with the homing attack since SA2. Which is weird, because it seems Sega rebuilds a game from scatch every game instead of improving upon their past games. It's baffling how the Sonic 2006 board segments didn't improve upon the SA2 versions, instead they used a completely new engine that didn't work at all. Considering all the deadline problems with Sega games, you'd think they wouldn't waste time with rebuilding stuff.
Hot Coldman
Banned
:lol
Nah I guess I got lucky with the homing attack. Like I said, the level design isn't working against you in this one... as much. So that probably helped. IDK. It's not great. No denying that. But it's less bad here.
Swings and roundabouts.
I haven't experienced anything of this sort with the homing attack in SA2, nor have I ever seen someone mention it out of all the discussions I've ever had. The Homing Attack always lets you do one more after you land a hit, so falling to your death is impossible unless you just aren't playing the game or make a big mistake.
ryūkotsusei
Member
That's why I'm so glad Sonic '06 wasn't called Adventure 3. It doesn't deserve the title.
Agreed. It made Sky Rail fun.
Shadow Hog
Member
I definitely liked it, although I kind of like the current actor. Like, I haven't heard enough of him as Knuckles to make an accurate judgment in that regard, but the day they brought him on? ALL FEMALE SONIC CHARACTERS WERE REQUIRED TO WEAR... TINY MINISKIRTS!
(Although I prefer Willingham's more badass moments to his goofy ones, admittedly... Oh, fun fact! The person he's killing is Blaze.
)Aaron Strife
Banned
I like Travis Willingham but I won't pass judgment until Knuckles is in another Sonic game... where he actually, you know, does stuff.I definitely liked it, although I kind of like the current actor. Like, I haven't heard enough of him as Knuckles to make an accurate judgment in that regard, but the day they brought him on? ALL FEMALE SONIC CHARACTERS WERE REQUIRED TO WEAR... TINY MINISKIRTS!
(Although I prefer Willingham's more badass moments to his goofy ones, admittedly... Oh, fun fact! The person he's killing is Blaze.
Dan Green is really good too, but I think 4Kids should have gone with Marc Diraison.
It doesn't deserve it because the game wasn't even a year close to being finished. But by any other consideration, it's what a sequel to SA1 and SA2 would be like.
Uh, no. SA2 (at least the Gamecube version) has this issue too. It happened to me a few times when I replayed it last year. Luckily it didn't happen to enemies that were above pits so I didn't die due to that dumb glitch. But that circling around enemy glitch is definitely there.
If only I had the equipment to record what's on my TV. I'm not saying it happens a lot (in fact, the glitch occurs rarely) but I remember it happening for sure.
EDIT: To make sure we're on the same page, we're talking about the homing attack glitch where Sonic begins to circle around the enemy in mid air instead of just hitting it, right?