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I'm waiting to see how long will mods take to delete this thread because since the hack it seems like this board is completely unmoderated. It's definitely not the board I fell in love with anymore. It just feels like /v/ for old games.
I have a soft spot for Sh2, but there's a reason it didn't click with gamers right away and took years to build a following, and it's mostly the early game:
>intro, walk through park, first enemy tutorial >first weapon: the pank is extremely underwhelming and not fun to use >have little direction for the city section and easy to get lost >get to the apartments and it seems like more aimless wandering >have to go to specific rooms in the right order to get the gun and flashlight (essential to start really "playing' the game) >very easy to get lost in the apartments or miss one item or not understand some obtuse puzzle >city scape again part 2 >meet some goofballs
I think the game doesn't really start to roll until you meet maria, and get into the Brookhaven hospital which is more interesting than the apartments.
It just takes too long and is too much effort for the game to actually get going. The Hospital, historical society, prison, abyss, motel, are all really solid. So whether someone likes the game is likely: did they get past the apartments?
Pacing better might have made more sense to follow 1's format: dream fantasy segment, meet the heroine, she gives you a gun and you find a knife, and a flashlight, so you start playing immediately. In SH1, you get all the essential items within 5 minutes, but it's 15-30 for SH2.
Sh3 went in the opposite direction: nothing BUT action.
What are some of the most persistent memes, falsehoods, or bullshit stories you hear about old video games?
For me, it's "piracy killing the Dreamcast meme" >Sega had already fired 1/3rd of its workforce by 1999 >By 1995 they had so much unsold inventory of Genesis and Game Gear games they were having to waste money buying back >This inventory buy-back and early Saturn launch soured relationship with retailers >Sega was so in the shit, Bandai offered to buy them in 1997 >Sega also gets into a lawsuit with 3Dfx for an early design of the Dreamcast that 3dfx leaked to the public (sega paid out of court settlement) >The CEO who spearheaded Dreamcast development, Bernie Stollar, is fired for selling the system at a money losing price ($200) >The system's launch in Japan is a failure, mainly due to a chip shortage from NEC >PS2 announced by March 1999, offeres built in DVD playback and back compat with all PS1 games >In 2000, Sega had to pay settlements to employees for abusing them in Japan >By Summer 2000, Sega still has millions of unsold systems in their warehouses >coincidentally, in June 2000 is when the first games get cracked >they aren't self-booting >this at a time when most are still using dail-up >not even half of the library is available to download >most of the rips are shitty >games that the 1 gig GDROM capacity have to remove assets to fit on a CD >yet somehow, "piracy is what killed the Dreamcast" in January 2001 after they've spent years losing money on Saturn, pissing off retailers, paying legal fees, and firing staff How does anyone still believe this meme? Are they retarded to all the shit Sega had going on even before Dreamcast launched in 1998? Do they not understand how stupid it is for a company to leave the HARDWARE business when they were dealing with SOFTWARE piracy?
