Sonic Adventure DX to be Remade Again?

That Gaming Site writes: "A new OFLC rating has popped up which suggests Sega might be looking to re-release the remake to the Dreamcast hit Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut."

[Elven6]

I loved the Sonic Adventure series on the Dreamcast, not sure how I feel about all these Dreamcast re-releases though.

[raiden_93]

I'm not a fan of Sonic Adventure but I heard the DX version is better. Sonic Adventure 2 was the last decent Sonic game for me.

[Gue1]

The you heard wrong @raiden_93, because Sonic Adventure plays best on the Dreamcast. I have both versions and I know what I'm talking about but if you want a professional confirmation then read the IGN review.

[raiden_93]

Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to check some reviews out.

[Elven6]

The Dreamcast version is the best, the DX release had a few tech issues and just didn't feel the same as it did on the Dreamcast. The VMU connectivity was awesome!

[raiden_93]

Long live the VMU! That peripheral was so awesome.

[OpenGL]

SEGA should remake Shenmue instead, or actually do Shenmue 3 for PS3/360.

[sonic989]

now i hope its on psssssssssssssss3 now sega ps3 plus SA equals explosion for me
now sega now
woow i cant sleep now

[vhero]

Would be cool to raise chois on your PSP :) . VMU connectivity could be easily ported to a updated PSP version like with the GC/GBA

[Zac Simpson]

It was good then, so with some luck it will be re-made properly and translate well. Here's hoping.

[raiden_93]

Wouldn't complain if the made a HD version of SA. Would prefer HD versions of the originals though.

[Nitrowolf2]

i will buy this, i loved this on dreamcast, best sonic game i have ever played

[Masamori Sumimura]

sonic Adventure 1 & 2 where the best 3d sonic game made.

They should go back to that formula

[Elven6]

Sonic Unleashed ALMOST got it right but Sonic Team jut had to add the stupid Werehog missions. Without it the game could have gotten easy 8-9's/10 and given Sonic fans worldwide hope that Sonic could once again return to his former glory.

[Nitrowolf2]

dude sonic unleash was great, but only if they didn't have the werehog like you said.

[iamtehpwn]

Werehog, was an easy 9/10 game.
Werehog KILLED that game.

I would've bought, it I don't care it was only 2-5 hours long of just sonic levels, that's how long the original was.

[Elven6]

The day time missions were created by Dimps (a Sega owned studio), the night time missions were made by Sonic Team. I won't go as far as saying the franchise should be taken away from Sonic Team, but perhaps Sega should have a talk with Sonic Team and ask them not to take so many risks especially at a time where the relevance of Sonic is starting to disappear.

[PirateThom]

Sonic Unleashed is the closest they got, but their reasoning behind the Werehog sections was kind of lame.

[Bnet343]

I bought Sonic Unleashed for $20. That's worth the price. Would not pay $60 though. Werehog missions are bad.

[Nitrowolf2]

werehog was the worst idea for the game. He has very slow controls and is about power. Isn't that what Knuckles was for?
werehog wasn't entirly a bad idea they just didn't make him fit into the game right.

[Elven6]

I bought it for $30 and happily played it until I got to the second werehog mission, it got so damn frustrating and boring I put the game away. I wanted to desperately get to the day time missions but I could put up with the night time crap!

If you think Unleashed wasn't close, I urge you to play Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Sonic Unleashed back to back, with Sonic the Hedgehog being first of course.

Piratethom: I agree, I think 99.9% of gamers would rather have a good/great 3-4 hour Sonic game than a crappy 10-15 hour Sonic game.

[iamtehpwn]

So someone could mod-out the werehog stages.

[Redempteur]

LOl about unleashed i just WANT TO KILL the ones who made "Eggmanland"
This level is so broken ...i just don't understand .

I don't like the werehog part too but it was just ok ... nothing special in fact the game had so manny little problems that killed it ..

-the worst usage of havoc ever ..( it served nothing in the game)
-the worst final level ( eggman land ) ever done in a 3d sonic game
-i don't see why they went further than the model they done in sonic adventure ... in unleashed some stories you're forced to read in order to gain something ARE JUST BORING and CLICHE .
- QTE boos fights ?? ( dark gaea phoenix was mostly a laugh )
- you have 3 minutes of super sonic in a level that is slow as hell ..why ????

Give me the ones you have made the levels in sonic rush adventure ...these guys understood what is needed in a sonic game .

also sonic adventure was really the only sonic game with a decent story AND good idea of level design ( emerald coast , windy valley , mistic ruins ). Also i like "open your heart" better than "live and learn " . even playing with amy was fun for me ... why was this idea rejected ?

[TheColbertinator]

It would be cool to have a remake of Sonic Adventure but I think a Sonic 5 in 2D with trophies/achievements would satisfy my Sonic fanboyism once and for all

[Elven6]

Re-release Sonic Unleashed but with the Werehog missions completly removed, that would be fine! :p

[Cajun Chicken]

Was a great game! Also been waiting for a perfect excuse to post this;

[imec]

I knew I recognized that voice. Insector is so funny.

[Christopher_Walken]

You're too slow.

[Ri0tSquad]

Sonic Adventure 2 was horrible IMO. After that game it got stupid.

If Sonic Unleashed didn't have those crappy werehog missions to extend the game's length, I would of brought it.

Would be cool if they remade one of the 2D games for XBLA/PSN, or better yet, created a new one for it.

[The Swordsman]

I was hoping that Sega would, failing to release a good Sonic game, re-release this game on the current generation consoles, particularly after the release of Soul Calibur on Xbox Live. I owned Adventure DX and Adventure 2: Battle for the Gamecube, and I really enjoyed them, so I hope this does turn out to be a re-release(it'll washout the memories of Sonic the Hedgehog for PlayStation and Xbox 360).

[Mo0eY]

Quadriple Sonic Unleashed running missions, having it sideways most of the time, and you have yourself a AAA title.

[supersonicsaga]

@People complaining about the werehog levels.

Yeah they weren't great but you people make me laugh with " the game would be better without werehog levels"

It was like getting a cake(daytime levels) and also having to eat muffins(nighttime levels). They just gave us something we did not want but it shouldn't have spoiled the cake (daytime levels).

[PirateThom]

Yeah, but it was more like a chocolate cake someone had coated with poo.

It ruined the rest of the game, because the werehog levels were unavoidable.

[Elven6]

It did spoil the cake since you were forced to eat muffins for longer than you wanted to!

[raiden_93]

It's more like having your cake then having it taken away and replaced with a large slug. It's slow, ugly and doesn't fit into the context at all.

[Quadrix]

If they do remake it, I hope the Chao come back as well. I'm dieing to see an HD Chao Garden.

[poopsack]

man i loved the chao garden, countless hours playin levels so i could get animals and rings for em.

[supersonicsaga]

was collecting coins to access levels.

Collecting pointless items to advance the story is so Playstation 1 era... Spyro and other games

[bigjclassic]

this will be on the Wii?? Ill get it because my Dc copy is super scratched up. If it was on 360/PS3 the fanboys will not buy it unlike the Wii gamers.

[Elven6]

I hope it isn't only on the Wii, how well have the other Sonic games sold on the Wii?

[NJShadow]

If they re-release Sonic Adventure it'll be a day one purchase for me. =)

[Knightofelemia]

Sonic needs a vacation till Sega thinks up a better way of persenting him to people, every new Sonic game released is the same over and over again. i liked Sonic and Mario at the olympics but every thing else the hedge hog has done has made me shy away from him.

[Elven6]

See the Sonic Unleashed discussion we are having above. ;)

[Eamon]

Sonic Adventure 3.
And make it very similar to Sonic Adventure 2. Same characters. Same Hero, Dark and Last stories.

No Adventure mode to slow down the game and make you roam around for nothing (unless the adventure mode is as small and easy like in SA1).

Do not bring Silver or Shadow's guns/vehicles. Back to SA2. Speedy platforming levels (Sonic and Shadow), shooter levels (Tails and Eggman), and Sandbox levels (Knuckles and Rouge).

And hopefully the Super Sonic level will be similar to the Super Sonic level from Sonic 3 & Knuckles but in 3D mode. Or at least similar to the Final Hazard boss in SA2.

[DreamcastFanboy]

Sonic Adventure 1&2 are the only good 3D Sonic games.

[gumgum99]

sweet, looking forward to it.

[Shnazzyone]

no... please god no. Sonic adventure was actually terrible... I mean god awful terrible. I played it recently and realise i just wasn't used to 128 bit graphics when this came out. I loved it when it came out only because the graphics seemed so good. But overall adventure has so many fricking problems. The world is bland and lacking in detail, the questing is just plain boring and the fast and fun levels are spread so far apart it is infuriating.

I bought Adventure DX directors cut remembering how awesome it was playing the game in the toys r us when it came out. Only to immediately trade it in for 3 dollars of gamestop credit because the whole experience feels like it relies on the gimmick of good graphics that don't hold up in the least by todays standards. The game just feels broken and noone shold ever revisit this overrated title that proves sonic is best in 2-d.

I cannot express my hate enough for Sonic adventure.... I just can't.

[Knuxxx]

what they need is a combination of SA1&2. Its go (from the main menu) story > hero or dark > character wheel
I think the character wheel was my favorite simply because some people might not want to play as another character, that and it helps tive more insight as to whats goin on in the story & the characters' personalities (ie tails sees sonic as a hero and his script is more heroic sounding)

For levels, sonics would play like SU, tails would center around his tornado & that it transforms, so mech, racing, dogfights, marine/space combat, ect. Knuckles' would be TOTALLY different, they'd center around the ME BUT play more into combat, like DMC or something similar. He'll get shards from beating each lvls boss

EDIT - I forgot to say that with sonics lvls I would eggagerate his speed MUCH more. Imagine sonic chasing eggman in the egg carrier through a city & eggman is destroying it in an attemp to escape. sonic approaches what looks like a dead end but insted runs up the side of a building which gets shot by eggman. As the building crumbles, sonic continues his asention upwards via falling debris and lands on the egg carrier where he continues his pursuit

[xXKingofStingXx]

Sonic Unleashed could have been a decent game if only SEGA omitted some things.

1: Pointless story! Sonic games need no story past Dr. Robotnik (Eggman...WTF?) took the chaos emeralds and plans to use them for his own evil means. Just look at Mario, outside of Paper Mario or Super Mario RPG you do not see much story other than peach was kidnapped and he has to save her, yet that has worked perfect for years. Reason behind that is "Simplicity" no one wants to take a Sonic game serious, they're supposed to be fast & fun not bogged down with tons of text, meaningless wandering around town or out right sick cut scenes suggesting bestiality! (Sonic The Hedgehog anyone?)

2: Useless sidekicks! Tails, Knuckles OK, Metal Sonic sure why not?Shadow, Silver, Gamma, Rouge, Amy, Chip, Moe, Curly, Larry, Dopey, Sleepy, Grumpy, Suicidy, WHAT THE HELL??? Update the game not the roster of characters, this is Sonic not Madden!

3: Music. Sonic games had some of the best music on the Genesis and again it was simple, nothing over done just SIMPLE tunes, why the hell is SEGA wasting money on AKON? (That's right! The guy who sings "I Wanna F*ck You" has a song in a Sonic game!)

4: Gimmicks. STOP, just stop with all the gimmicks, Sonic worked just fine without em' so why is there a need to bury him with useless abilities like a werehog form? What was wrong with Super Sonic?

Once SEGA fixes these things, the blue hedgehog could be on his way back to the top but as it is, it feels like Sonic is on life support and SEGA is just itching to pull the plug.

[Picnic]

Let's take off some rose tinted glasses for a second as I have recently played the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure.

The game is often better to look at than to play. The most famous sequence is probably when the killer whale jumps over the pier. That whole part is essentially on rails. No doubt some of the graphics were very good for the time - a great tech demo for stores - although the technique of drawing some background scenes in as you travel does look dated now.

I think that, even for the time, some things like human characters and general levels of detail in some places weren't all that good. And what are these Chao creatures? Why is transporting them elsewhere so important? What is this huge blob that stores chaos emeralds like some demonic jelly?

With some very bad scripting, especially between Sonic and Dr Robotnik (who is even more beyond annoying in 3D with his dated 1930s villain moustache and way of speaking), inappropriate teen music when something moodier would have been better, and some environments that seem like a knock off from Tomb Raider anyone looking for an 'adventure'- which means wandering around here when, as Sonic, you should be RUNNING as much as possible-would be better off playing Banjo Kazooie on the N64 - or maybe Sonic Adventure 2 (the initial rush through what looks like San Fransisco is brilliant).

As I say, probably quite good 10 years ago for a rental but not compellingly different enough now to return to a lot. Even the beach has since been bettered in a platform game (by Super Mario Sunshine).

I just prefer Sonic when he didn't speak. When he didn't look like some arrogant young upstart which has dated SO quickly. On the Megadrive he was something of an enigma - in 3D he's the exact opposite.

It was early days for the Dreamcast though which would bring some truly distinct games e.g. Jet Set Radio.

[AWBrawler]

I loved the werehog and hope he's in the next Smash Bros. I guess I'm a real Sonic fan and you others aren't. Even in the old 2D sonics you were forced to slow down to overcome obstacles. If it was all day time stages like you all are saying, it would abandon the formula, because most of those stages, you just ran fast and see where he goes with little obstacles in the way. I'd rather play my sonic games than watch them. Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 were the best 3D sonics ever. Unleashed was decent, but the werehog didn't kill it, SEGA did.