I just hate the fact that sonic team FORCE you to play through characters that I have zero interest in. This isnt "Sonic and friends go fishing for frogs". If I want to fish on my dreamcast I'll play get bass. Plus compared to sonic adv 2 it has a lame soundtrack and some control issues. Also the whole Adventure/platform element was terrible in the first game.
Never played it. As for burning your own discs go into the emulation thread and check out something I've written which is a guide on a program called DC++ which can enable you to find DC games.
Also checking your local gamestation never goes a miss. You can get Shenmue 2 pretty cheap last time I checked.
Games I recommend:
Crazy taxi 2
The king of fighters 99 evolution/99 dreamatch/2000/2001/2002
Ikaruga
Bangai-O
Daytona
Street fighter alpha 3
Street fighter 3 double impact/third strike
Sonic adventure 2
Shenmue 1 and 2
Garou/Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves
Cannon spike
Ferrari F355 Challenge
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Zombie Revenge
Jet Set Radio
Power Stone 1 and 2
Samba de Amigo
Project Justice
Ecco the Dolphin
Resident Evil Code: Veronica
Space Channel 5
Get Bass
Capcom vs. SNK2
Fire ProWrestling D
Virtua Tennis 2
Soul Calibur
Well, to my shock a SvC tourney will be held at Los Angeles Feb 7, 2004.
"If you choose a regular character, the entry fee will be $5. If you choose a "secret" character, the entry fee will be $10!"
...wonder why
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Sultan is more of an Arabic/Turkish/Malaysian thing...
Also, they mention that they're in India... yet Persia is what is now called Iran...
...yeah that too.
Although its not all innacurate, the prince quoting a story about the (fictional) Persian warrior Rostam shows that they did their homework.
Well I'm doing alot of revision for my upcoming exams right now because I spent most of last week playing it. One of the best games I've played in a while. Battle system could do a little work but control wise super smooth. A million times better than I thought it would be.
I've played both the arcade and PS2 version of SvC (which I got a few days ago). The PS2 port has more transparency effects and has the traditional port extra such as a gallery. Also this might be just me but the infinities seem harder to do.
The game still suffers with from character balance up the wazoo though. You can own everybody and anybody with Geese. Bosses aside there are a handfull of characters that are head and shoulders above everybody else. Another reason why there are no serious SvC tournaments anywhere.
SvC is fun, nothing more. It should never be played competitively. On the plus side the PS2 cover is awesome.
Hyper SFII I was thinking about getting, but there are other things I want to spend my money on right now.