Quick Look: Throwback: Sonic Adventure

Love this game. This and 2 (not as much) are the only Sonic game's that I've liked. It's shown so badly when played like this though. It's not a hard game, I played this when I was around 10 and it wasn't hard to keep the momentem going at all. I think they're being kind of snobs. This game isn't that bad at all.

Man, I didn't like this game when it came out and now I REALLY don't like it.

I played this through to the finish. The adventure stuff is bad (but for its time not that bad), but the action stages were pretty damn intense.
 
No regrets for the time spent with it; this game was a lot of fun.
 
Shaymarx, what are you on about. This IS SA1. Adventure stages all around!

One of my favorite games of all time, 2nd one not so much.

Endurance Run with Ryan and Brad....? Sonic Adventure? Hmm...? 15 min eps (since its so short compared to P4)? Hmm....? Think about it... think about it.

Thumbs up! it's 1999!

Little known fact; the original designer/creator of Sonic 1 and 2 (the levels, game concept etc not the characters or its art assets) stopped being involved with the franchise after those two games and some time in 2001 was hired by Naughtydog and still works for them as one of their lead level designers.
 
Jason Rubin, one of Naughtydogs founders(who left the company in 2004 I believe) was interviewed a while back and talked about him, the interview can be found on Kikizo.com.

God the Dreamcast was awesome...

Oh man that takes me back, I remember playing that first part on the display units in the mall... never got a Dreamcast though : (    

And there you have it. Sonic Adventure is not as magnificent as the Sonic fanboys make it out to be.

Would've been better if you guys had gone more with a historical angle to all this. Of course it looks and sounds like crap now. Given the occasion, it would have been better to talk about what it was like then and why anyone even remembers it now. Something beyond watching a dude play the game cold and complain about the weaknesses everybody already knows it has.

god, I loved this game so much when I was but a lad, even though it is very dated now, the nostalgia is still there.

This is so depressing.  I used to think this game was awesome, even the adventure parts.

Say what you will, but I really liked Sonic Adventure 2.

" This is so depressing.  I used to think this game was awesome, even the adventure parts. "

True that this game has not aged very well but it was so exciting 10 years ago. Perhaps SEGA is right, the demographic of Sonic games has grown past those who grew up with these older games.

DC controller feels foreign? It was basically the template for the subsquent Xbox controllers.....

Yay Dreamcast Day! 
 
I do have fond memories of this game, considering it was sonics first foray into 3D, they got a lot of things right.  
 
Also, Brad died.

I actually enjoyed this game.  Probably the best 3D Sonic game out there.

"One of my favorite games of all time, 2nd one not so much. "

"Would've been better if you guys had gone more with a historical angle to all this. Of course it looks and sounds like crap now. Given the occasion, it would have been better to talk about what it was like then and why anyone even remembers it now. Something beyond watching a dude play the game cold and complain about the weaknesses everybody already knows it has. "

If SEGA were to put out the action stages on PSN or XBLA as as just a game in and of itself then I would totally buy that.  Just cut all that adventure field non sense out and boil it down to its purest form.  Five bucks, that would be rad.

This game is silly now, but it REALLY WAS the shit if you were a kid in 99. The graphics were lightyears ahead of PS1 and N64, it was super fast, and the way all 6 characters' stories intertwined was really cool.
 
The whole thing just seems weird and half-broken now, but at the time, it really was something special, especially if you were young.

I don't get why people hate on early 3d games.  I find them charming.

I played Sonic Adventure 2 to completion...I'll never get those hours and hours back.

I imported a Asian Dreamcast, I had beaten this game more than 10 years ago.
 
When this came out this was THE best looking game in the world.  This was 1998's Crysis.
 
edit : Home game, Model 3 arcade games were better looking...

Yeah, if you were to stack up this game and it's sequel side by side today, the sequel is way better. Less gimmicky bullshit, better graphics, better music, better story (not saying much), better controls, better camera, and more replay value with multiple storylines.

sweet

I still enjoy Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, mostly for the reason Brad didn't like this game: all action sequences (though the treasure hunting sequences aren't really actiony, and kinda suck).

Wow. This quick look managed to shatter any fond memories I had playing this on the Gamecube. There are so many elements to Sonic Adventure, that while impressive in 1999 and even passable in 2003 are total garbage now.

In this game, sonic and friends teased him and called him Eggman and Robotnik called himself Robotnik. It's probably how it should work.

Oh god ten years ago...

This game is awesome, this doesn't do it justice.

Haha the eyebrows are awesome :P
I really love Sonic Adventure 2 though, cept for the stages where you play as Knuckles, rouge , Tails, or Dr. Eggman....Lulz
 
Pretty much only the sonic and shadow parts were fun for me

Oh man, nostalgia empire right here.

" Yeah, if you were to stack up this game and it's sequel side by side today, the sequel is way better. Less gimmicky bullshit, better graphics, better music, better story (not saying much), better controls, better camera, and more replay value with multiple storylines. "

I am one of the few people that loved and continue to love this game....
 
I know the world areas are a bit meh but I think the game worked well enough and is deffo the best 3D sonic game that has been made.
 
I am not all that young (23) so do remember getting this when it actually came out; and I really enjoyed the set up. Playing through the game as the different characters and how everything made sense once you had finished it with all of them (like why sonic only fights certain numbers of the main boss; because tales / knuckles fight the others )...
 
I unno; I still have fond memories and watching this just makes me want to dig out my DC and play it again....

oh god, the hotel part gave me a headache. :(

I can't believe how many people on this site aren't really old enough to have experienced how awesome this was at the time, and be crushed be the hindsight.

I played this when it was new and reacted JUST how Ryan and Brad did in this video... without all the future speak. Time didn't change a damn thing about this game for me.

I played the special edition of this on the Gamecube, and I really enjoyed it. I remember beating it with Tails, but as Sonic there was a point where the game screwed up and I couldn't continue to the last level.

I love this game.  I was amazed at how well the transition to 3D went.

Man, fucking HATERS.  Sonic Adventure 1 is awesome!  It hasn't held up very well, sure, but it's still got some great levels.  Sky Deck 4 lyfe.