This is the most turn of the millennium thing ever.
>>720086080I need VMUs to come back.Even if the console comes with a free smartphone memory card.
FEEL FREE TO EXPLAIN AT ANY TIME.OH BUT BEFORE YOU DO, GUESS HOW I KNOW YOU HADN'T ACTUALLY BEEN BORN TO EXPERIENCE Y2K.
>>720086125Sega needs to start making consoles again.
>>720086080>50 massive levelsWhat the fuck?I'm pretty sure even if you count every character's version of each level separately it doesn't come out to 50.
Shut the fuck up and watch Claeb's stream
Where did all the SEGA fans go when SEGA quick making consoles?
>>720087910They switched to Nintendo.
I always suspected it but now I know for damn sure Caleb has someone posting threads here.
>>720087910Same place SEGA went: Nintendo
>>720087910Sega games would continue to be made on Gamecube/GBA/Xbox/PS2 so those platforms.
>>720089421>They switched to NintendoI did that for the GameCube, Wii and Wii U. GameCube because FUCK Sony and the $300 Xbox with paid online wasn't going to fly at our house. Wii because I really wanted it and I loved it (would have legitimately quit following games if the Revolution/Wii didn't exist). Wii U because I saw the potential. Moved to PC after it was clear nobody knew how to use Wii U's potential and I've never looked back.In retrospect the Xbox would have been the better move. Also the 360 would probably have been nice but all my friends already had one and I still didn't like the idea of paid online.
>>720087910>Where did all the SEGA fans go when SEGA quick making consoles?Either Nintendo or Xbox depending on which side of the Sega library they enjoyed the most.Xbox was effectively just a Dreamcast 2 in some ways
>>720087273Probably counting the adventure fields as levels too.
>>720086159Could this be considered spam? I'm tired of this poster.
>>720086080>each with his/herWas "their" not avaliable at the time?
>>720086080Back then it didn't even cross my mind that Sonic Adventure could have online features. But it did, and it even had online events.My phone was too far away to connect it to my dreamcast sadly. I missed out on a lot.
>>720090469You saw "his/her" a lot in print at the time. Of course back then it was established that you were either a "him" or "her" without that somehow being a problem.
>>720091185It's a group of people. They should be addressed in the plural.
amy sexo
>>720091324It was very common back then because gender wasn't a political/divisive topic so this didn't matter to anyone. They/Them/Their were used as well, but it was also perfect acceptable to just use his/her him/her instead.Ironically, if anything people were more accepting and open about gender expression back then, the major difference is that the 90's advocated for expressing yourself regardless of what society says gender roles should be, and in the 10s/20s we've reverted back to "If you don't match the gender roles for your birth gender it means you're broken and the wrong brain for your bodies because people that think/act the way you do are supposed to be a different gender!"
>>720087910Either PS2, Xbox, or GamecubeEspecially PS2 because thats where most of the games were
>>720091742>Especially PS2 because thats where most of the games wereIt was also the cheapest console on the market, doubled as a DVD player, and 80% of the library was in $5 bargain bins so you could get a bunch of games for the price of a single Nintendo game.I used to be a full idort and PS2 definitely had some big cost-effectiveness perks over the competition. The games looked worse and the load times were atrocious compared to Gamecube and Xbox, but it was hard to care when you got 6 games for $30 and saved like $100 by not buying a different console, and another 200-300 by not having to get a DVD player.
>>720087910I went Xbox. And am still with Xbox.
>>720087910>Where did all the SEGA fans go when SEGA quick making consoles?I grew up with both Sega and Nintendo consoles, so after Sega died out I just kinda started buying Playstations and Xboxs instead, in addition to Nintendo. But then after Gen 7 I sorta lost faith in the big three console companies and fell out of the idort lifestyle because the consoles had no games.
>>720087910Three roads:1) SEGA -> Nintendo for 2 gens at max -> PC2) SEGA -> PlayStation for 2 gens at max -> PC3) SEGA -> Xbox for 2 gens at max -> PC
>>720087273>Sonic: 10>Tails: 5>Knuckles: 5>Amy: 3>Big: 4>Gamma: 532>>720090354If you count each adventure field (station square, mystic ruins, egg carrier) as a "level" for each character then that would make 50 exactly.It is very disingenuous marketing through
>>720091447I love her so much
>>720086080>breedOh yeah.
>>720086125>I need VMUs to come back.the problem with the VMU was the shitty battery live these things has, and they didn't have rechargeable batteries. the VMU used two watch batteries for functionality when unplugged from the Dreamcast controller. They still saved data even with the dead batteries, and worked when plugged into a Dreamcast controller. But as a stand alone device, the poor battery life made things like the Chao garden a moot point.
>>720093876I guess it's like if hyrule field is a level.
>>720087841Who the fuck is claeb
>>720087841>eceleb shitNo I'm here for Dreamcast kino
>>720094476>>breed>Oh yeah.
>>720086080What did they mean by "exclusive" A-Life system? Were they saying Mario couldn't have a pet-raising side game?
>>720091447>Hedgehog in a bunny suitDumb.
>>720094524>the problem with the VMU was the shitty battery live these things has, and they didn't have rechargeable batteries.Affordable rechargable batteries weren't really much of a thing yet at that time, at least not ones that worked well
>>720097243Well what the fuck is a hedgehog suit
>>720094524USB-C would solve all of this now. We have the technology to do so much with portable SSDs and gachapon.
>>720097670Doesn't hurt that the tech behind batteries has gotten a fuck of a lot better than it was back then either.
>>720097447It's just Amy committing Mobian black face.
Only the niggers went to pc
>>720098058Pretty sure you meant Playstation, its basically the official console for "visibly ethnic individuals"
>>720097370>Affordable rechargable batteriesI don't think there were rechargeable CR2032 watch batteries back in 1999, 2000. I have never seen them. The VMU uses two of them. They were stupidly expensive to replace.
>>720097192>What did they mean by "exclusive" A-Life system? Were they saying Mario couldn't have a pet-raising side game?The A-Life system first appeared in the game NiGHTS into Dreams on the Sega Saturn. With these Nightopian creatures that evolve as you play the game. It was adapted to Sonic Adventure in the form of the Chao garden, where you could find eggs all over the game map, hatch them in the Chao garden and raise Chaos. Then you could upload the Chao to the VMU and raise them like virtual pets. Even connect VMU's together and have the Chao fight each other or breed. Sega was trying to get in on the Virtual Pet craze with the Dreamcast. The feature was retained on the GameCube, which requires a GBA and a link cable. These days it would just be an app for mobile phones. Back then, it was pretty cool.
>>720099137>They were stupidly expensive to replace.They also die way faster than I remember. I still have a few Tamagotchi, Digivices and VMUs, and a year or two ago I bought a bunch of batteries for them, and within like a month or two all of the batteries were dead. I guess when you're 8 years old 2 months feels like a long ass time, but its no wonder my parents just gave the fuck up and stopped buying batteries for these things when I was younger.
>>720099828>>720096214>>720094524https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thu12f_Y8_I
>>720099828Makes me wonder why Sonic Team didn't bring back the Chao garden as a mobile app and just hide Chao eggs in the newest Sonic games.
>>720100979>Makes me wonder why Sonic Team didn't bring back the Chao garden as a mobile app and just hide Chao eggs in the newest Sonic games.I still don't get why there isn't a decent virtual pet game in general that works through a widget instead of forcing you to open the actual app to play it.
>>720086080Wonder how they picked those 3 screenshots.
>>720100328There are some pretty decent third party attempts at new VMU's with larger storage, better batty life, and back lit screens. I prefer the monochrome dot matrix screens. CR2032 batteries are much cheaper than they use to be, and you can find rechargeable ones. But back then, they were not cheap as far as batteries go.
>>720099828>These days it would just be an app for mobile phones.God I wish, imagine the chao garden on your phone
>>720086080Pretty sure Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast was the first console game to have downloadable DLC. It came out in 1998 in Japan. There was official DLC, it was't very big and mainly just cosmetic and holiday related. On PC, 'DLC' and patches were common back in 1998. On consoles, I can't think of a single console game before Sonic Adventure that had such a feature. https://youtu.be/EwVk63UIsRM?list=PLcSunRMzyM0QSBIl6EiqLfg2v82_h3JTu
>>720100979sonic teams aversion to chao's is the most baffling thing, there was plenty of great opportunities to do stuff with them.
>>720101847They should have just taken the Chao Garden and Seaman and smashed them together into a standalone title
>>720101847They lost the guy who spearheaded it. Even they realize they would just fuck everything up and make everyone hate it.
>>720103464>They lost the guy who spearheaded it. Even they realize they would just fuck everything up and make everyone hate it.Makes sense. The Chao Garden did continue on the GBA with the Sonic Advance games, and a few other random Sonic titles. It was a feature hat started with Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. Nights into Dream toyed around with a prototype version of the A-Life feature. It was improved with Christmas Nights into Dreams. The Wii Nights game has it too.
>>720087910Nintendo and then PC, and now nothing since I'm not really as big into vidya anymore
>>720104424>and now nothing since I'm not really as big into vidya anymoreTbh I'm in the same boat, but its not even like I wouldn't want to be into games, they just aren't making any that are worth being excited about or putting time into anymore.
>>720104597yeah that's pretty much the boat I'm in right now
>>720106237Its depressing man, I always figured that I might eventually outgrow games, but I never considered that games would outgrow me.
>>720106386I'm slowly outgrowing everything and it's driving me to drink
>>720087910Xbox then PC.
>>720106431I've been doing my best to avoid falling into addiction but I find I'm just disassociating harder and harder as the years go by, and I'm finding it harder and harder to socialize or enjoy anything.Its driving me crazy because its some kinda depression but there's nothing I can really do to fix it because the root of the problem is that the entire world is going to shit
>>720094524I just leave the batteries dead in my VMUs, I don't give a fuck. It was a shitty gimmick anyway, more storage was more important
>>720106529Yeah and I've had a problem with addictions (benzo and amphetamine) and I'm trying to not get into a third right now but its really fucking hard and all my hobbies have gone to shit. Weirdly enough socializing has made me feel a little bit better but not much
>>720106625>Weirdly enough socializing has made me feel a little bit better but not muchI think its been extra hard for me because I used to use all of these hobbies as an avenue for socializing, and now that they're all going to shit I don't really ever have a solid reason to get together with my friends, and if we do get together I don't really know what we would even do. Its not like I have much to talk about as far as my personal life, and we have no games or common hobbies we can shoot the shit over anymore either. It used to be so easy to get the bros together for a voice call over some stupid little multiplayer game, but I feel like its been 2-3 years since I really sat down and just played videogames with friends like that, and in that time absolutely nothing has been released that made me think "Oh shit, that would be really fun with my friends!" Even if something does look like it might have potential, it'll have a battlepass and other FOMO live service bullshit that turns the game into a chore instead of a fun time with friends. I even tried D&D and shit like that to switch things up, but I think I'm just getting to an age where the realities of life are starting to become overbearing, and simple escapism doesn't give me that same sense of immersion. Completing objectives and tasks in games aren't satisfying anymore either, I don't really care about playing a game just for the sake of playing it anymore. There are so many god damn games coming out every day now that it feels like you can't just play random shit and randomly find other people that also played it like you used to back before indie games were really a thing. I think back when there were fewer (and higher quality) releases, it almost felt like you could play basically any game and have it be worth your time because even if it sucked you could still talk about that game. I dunno, its hard to tell how much is just getting older, and how much is enshittification
>>720107272You should go to the threads where fellow anons just start playing random older mmos.I think they're playing Closers if you search the archives.Hosting stuff may be your other best bet, like sven co op, lfd2, survival game stuff etc.
>>720107272>used to regularly play fighting games with my bros>SFV and Strive ruined comfy fighting game night forever>can't even get my friends to play older fighting games that we all enjoyed because they hated SFV and Strive so much that it ruined the entire genre for them>the only ones that still had any hope left lost it when they saw SF6 and now I'm the only one that doesn't openly hate fighting games
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>>720087910xbox first because of Panzer Dragoon, then PS2, then Wii
>>720110451>see a pretty lady.>resort to violence because it offends you.Typical redditor behavior.
>>720111279>xbox first because of Panzer DragoonIt also had Jet Set Radio Future
>>720111428yeahalso Gunvalkyrie, the only shooter that truly utilizes three dimensions in my opinion.
