Still remember the day they went third party. I am not a sports fan on any level but on that day I found out the hard way, what being in the losing team feels like.
For me, being someone born in 1999 and who largely had a childhood around arcades, I had no idea just how "dominant" Nintendo and Sony were considered until way later. Sega and Namco were what I considered the kings of gaming with Konami and Capcom not far behind and Nintendo practically had ZERO arcade presence.
I was a Nintendo kid growing up but had a dreamcast along with my n64 and GameCube. It was more like losing a good freind/rival. Like if Ryu lost Ken to Akuma, Akuma being Playstation 👀🥴
I felt remorse at the time because I didn't have a Saturn or Dreamcast and felt like people like me were partly responsible for Sega's demise. I liked Sega and always had fond memories of the older consoles lke the Master System and the Dreamcast, but Sony came along with the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Those won me over, and in the harsh world of market forces and economics, it killed Sega in the console business. By the time I considered getting a Sega Dreamcast it was already dead in the water. Thing is, even now I'll probably still consider picking up a Sega console if they re-entered the hardware business and release a new beefy console again. I still don't hear a bad word about Sega all these decades later, and I'm personally long tired of the PlayStation brand which has been on a steady decline for three generations now in my opinion.
The best channel on RU-vid. Hands down. No bullshit, just great content. SLX, will you ever review more modern SEGA games? Like a Dragon, Valkyria Chronicles, the ATLUS/Vanillaware games and so on?
You can say that again. Thankfully I still own a Sega Mega Drive, with Mega CD Model I and 32X attachments. And I still play them at a regular basis. The fact that it carried Master System hardware makes it the perfect omni-console. That and I am a huge fan of retro technology. I found the Mega Drive at a local Charity Shop here in Australia for $5AU!
I'll never forget those exciting days wondering what incredible visual and sound effects we'd see on SEGA's machines in the coming years. Of course, once the Sega CD came out with a powerful new CPU, 1MB of system RAM, 8 channel PCM audio, 550MB games, and some mysterious 3D chip that could pull off hardware scaling, rotation, and warping, our eyes just watered over the potential of this $300 addon that was sure to prove us SEGA fans 100% right from day one! Of course, there were only ever 12-15 games that ever used that ASIC DSP at all, and SEGA never once thought to advertise ANY of them on TV... resulting in us being mocked and ridiculed by neighbors and kids who insisted that this albatross could only do s***y FMV games.
One of my biggest letdowns was the platform-exclusive titles that Sega spread amongst the GCN, Xbox, and PS2. I could only afford one console and chose the GameCube, and it bothered me that games/series I loved on the Dreamcast--namely Shenmue, Jet Grind Radio, and Crazy Taxi--were not going to get new games on the GCN, as Shenmue II, JSR Future, and Crazy Taxi 3 were Xbox exclusives. Not only that, Shenmue and JSR were niche games that could have used a broad exposure to new audiences on both GCN and PS2.
WHen I was a kid, my mom grabbed a bunch of empty Genesis boxes, and she would cut the cardboard cases, and place them into the hard cases. Something I didn't appreciate until years later. I guess you could argue she ruined those cases, but it never, and still doesn't bother me.
I was pretty stoked when Sonic & Knuckles was released. The lock-on technology was rad and it felt innovative and unique that you could get new functionality with some of your old sonic games.
It's never easy to be a Sega fan. RU-vidrs like Arlo lament having to wait four years to get news on a game. Some of us Sega fans have been waiting for over 20 years to get updates to some Sega classics. Sonic Mania and Streets of Rage 4 prove that some new blood and passion can see beloved games return back to life. I never bothered with RPG games in the Mega Drive era, those slow-paced dialogue-heavy games never appealed to me. Panzer Dragoon Saga was my first foray into the genre and I loved it. I think it is a travesty that Saga and later on Skies of Arcadia never got proper sequels. I think another bone-headed move by Sega was refusing to release Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram in Europe. I had to wait until the Xbox 360 before I got to play that. Okay, so the controls would be a bit fiddly but I can confirm that people in the UK like big stompy robots and I'm sure continental Europe won't be that different.
I couldn’t help siding with Sega! I was only 3 when we got our first console, the Mega Drive! We were given a Super Nintendo at one point but we only had Street Fighter 2 for it! Mom got rid of the Super Nintendo because she felt the 2 consoles together were taking up too much space but she was only able to get rid of it when a Mega Drive version of Street Fighter 2 arrived! She offered to get me a PlayStation in 95 but I told her to get a Saturn instead!
I've always been a huge Sega fan and have to say that is really a very difficult task. The japanese Mega Drive was my first videogame ever, back in 1991 so it's always been closer to my hear than any other console or company. I'd say my top sega let downs are: 1 - Sega abandoning my beloved franchises on Saturn - especially Streets of Rage and Sonic the Hedegehog. I always imagine what would be like to see the games I loved so much (and still play to this day) on the mega drive/genesis on the next generation(s) and was immensely disappointed when there was no Sonic, no SoR, no Toejam & Earl, no (real) Golden Axe and even a Comix Zone sequel on the Saturn. 2 - Still no Streets of Rage on the Dreamcast: when the Dreamcast came to life it filled me with many hopes that Sega would do it right and I would finally see my beloved games on their new console, but nah. 3 - Streets of Rage 3: I love SoR 1 and 2 so much that I could not wait to play SoR 3 when i first heard about them on magazines. I hard a hard time trying to rent it from my local store because they only had the one cartridge and it was always rented. Until one day I finally came across it and it was another huge deception. The american version is HORRIBLE, to this day I can't play it and still think that it looks like a rom hack of SOR2. Also, they kept my all time favorite sor character - Adam Hunter - out of it again 4 - Pulling the plug on the Dreamcast and console making altogether: I've felt REALLY betrayed and abandoned when this happened. I could not believe what the magazines were saying. And the first time I saw Sonic on a nintendo platform (Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on the Gamecube) it really made me sad.
One time Sega let me down... 2020 when they split with Demiurge and shutdown their Sega Heroes iOS game. That game to me was the best as it brought together all the Sega Heroes into one game. Legendary heroes from games like Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Shinobi (among many others) coming together on one team was EPIC. I am still very very upset that this game was not given an offline option and was shutdown.
I'll never forget the day I got my copy of Sega Visions that officially announced Street Fighter 2 CE. I was blown away that we were finally getting SF2!
I love that Sega licensed it's controllers to Retro-Bit so I can play their USB gamepads on my MiSTer. They also just Released the BIG6 controller, which is a hybrid of the original 3-button and 6-button controller.
Excuse my ignorance but I thought the 6 button controller was simply an original controller but with 6 buttons ? What are the differences between them ? When I had a Genesis my 6 button controller was a (decent) third party one so I don't think I ever actually used an authentic 6 button Genesis controller. I might look into the Big6, does it have shoulder buttons ? I can really use it for emulation, plus It's weird trying to use a PS4 controller when emulating Genesis games. Plus the 6 button controller is great for fighting games.
Sega was my favorite arcade creator. I remember going to my cousin's house and they just received the master system .... This was before I played an NES, I was completely blown away by space harrier , out run and Astro warriors. I still remember the day we finally got our own master system and playing space harrier . Our NES came about a year later in '89 . I bought the Genesis with altered beast and the Mail in offer of sonic.. I remember waiting for the game to arrive and finally coming home after school and my dad hands me over a package with my name on it ! My biggest disappointment with Sega was how they did little support for us Saturn and Dreamcast owners....
As a lifelong Sega fan lots of ups and downs, but I do remember the crummy capacitors and power socket finally killing my beloved Game Gear and it breaking my heart a little after saving up for it at age 10. That said, it was a fantastic platform and I loved being able to play my Master System titles on it. Other highlights were London's F1 car cabinets for Virtua Racing, all linked for party play, and that first time turning on my Saturn and hearing the Panzer Dragoon score.
For me Sega really dropped the ball with Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown. Released in the middle of the pandemic with the worst netcode I've experienced in a fighting game in recent memory. Sega of America even warned the Japanese branch about the importance of good rollback netcode and we still ended up with a game that's nearly unplayable a lot of the time. Apparently VF5US was profitable though, so hopefully we'll get VF6 one day.
It was a cheap remake for the test and Sony paid them for D1 in PSN. They were satisfied with this result( Downloads + Sony money), VF6 will be released around 25-27. According to Aoki he needs 4 years to create a new VF
All these years later and Sega of Japan is still ignoring what Sega of America says. I played it, got it for free on PS+ but it didn't grip me. I seriously would rather have just gone back to Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution on the PS2. Someone in the comments section was saying there's something called Fightcade and you can play it with rollback netcode and that sounds cool. VF4 Evo is still the very best VirtuaFighter IMO.
Maybe this has already been done but I would love to see a developer make a game for the Sega CD and push the hardware to the limit so we could see what may have been.
Soul Star. Those sprite scaling and rotation capabilities came at a huge performance cost. Making anything that can do both, at a decent frame rate and resolution, is just showing off.
There is soulstar, battlecorps, and thunderhawk (ah thunderstorm or something in USA) by core design if you wanna see what it can do. Plus batman returns and adventures of....
@@matt8264 yea I still play it regularly on my phone on emulation with my 8bitdo mini controller. Sadly that's all I have now, as I had to sell my collection in 2013....
Not exactly what you are suggesting but there's a new game on Steam which basically asks the question: "What if someone made a top tier action platformer taking full advantage of Mega-CD's expanded capabilities?" It's called "Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider". It really feels like a lost Mega-CD game. It uses the MD's color pallet, but adds lots of scaling and rotation, including Batman Returns style driving sections, Mega-CD style PCM sound effects and redbook soundtrack, as well as things that are just beyond what the MD's M68000 CPU was capable of but within the realm of the speedier MCD CPU. I guess that the same developer's "Blazing Chrome" is also like if someone made a "Contra: Hard Corps" sequel for the Mega-CD, taking full advantage of its capabilities. I've yet to play the latter though.
One of my biggest Sega letdowns in modern times is how they have treated sonic for the past decade and how they treated the Sonic Mania developers after their game. We will probably never get a Sonic Mania 2.
You forgot that Sega lost a lot of Saturn games source codes and they have to do remakes of them for current consoles from scratch with mixed results (luckily Night into Dreams is the only one who survived and got ported for PS2 with original and new graphics)
Ahh so that explains why hardly any Saturn games have been rereleased. On the flipside, i am all for full remakes as they are more modern. I enjoyed the Panzer Dragoon and House Of the Dead remakes, if only someone could do Sega Rally…
I had my sega saturn on the closet stored. This weekend i hooked it up again, been playing golden axe duel and im hooked. So good. Bought a mode and a blu-ray player/recorder for my pc to back up all my disc games. Im loving it.
I was totally nodding along to most of these, the only thing I can't agree on is PDS. I too loved the first two games but being able to live in that world was a dream come true for me as a 14 year old kid. Also, I was one of only two guys in my school to have a Saturn, and I heard so many people going on and on about their Playstations and FFVII - it was nice to have something comparable (or in my eyes, better)
Kind of mixed on the fate of Skies of Arcadia. Sometimes games (or movies or books) just need to be one story, written and done. There's always a chance the sequel could be horrible. Of course it could be great as well.
It's really curious how Sega keep neglecting their 90s arcade output. Why is Virtua Racing on the Switch, but not PS5 and XS? Why are Outrun and Daytona stuck on PS3 and 360? Why can't I buy a VF collection, or play SCUD Race outside of an emulator? Where are my arcade perfect home console versions of Last Bronx, Fighting Vipers, Daytona 2 and Sega Rally 2?
Growing up a Sonic nut, my biggest dissapointment was when Sonic Boom for Wii U turned out the way it did. It was the straw that broke the camels back so to speak, I was just getting into Pokemon due to friends at school and it completley took over as my special interest from then on. But when Sonic Frontiers came out I was so overjoyed, it really gave me the feeling of what I loved about Sonic growing up. Mania was very exciting but I have played many good 2D sonics, both fan made and official. But Frontiers was the first 3D sonic I thought was great without any caveats.
I would also recommend Generations. It's a fun game with both 2D playing sections and 3d ones. I think Generations is at least in my top 5 Sanic games. Probably my favorite 3D Sonic, personally. I haven't played Frontiers though and the last 3D Sonic game I played was Forces (Which I didn't hate but I got it for free).
Damn dissapointment don't get me started first of all they let me down with the 32x only 40 games Released then the damn saturn which was a lil disappointing to me because they killed it off too soon to make the developers happy because the Saturn was a bitch to make games for. Then oh my god the fucking Dreamcast was a helluva let down too because as soon as I bought sonic adventure they killed it off too just to try and save their own ass rip Sega I was very forgiving. of your shortcomings because of sonic the hedgehog but damn you really broke my damn heart
My biggest let down was when Street Fighter 3 was allegedly rumored to be in development for N64 as a Nintendo fan I was excited but the development was scrapped.
Well that's what you get for being a Nintendo fanboy ! . . . I'm kidding, though the lack of titles on the N64 definitely made me avoid it and I went with the PlayStation instead.
SEGA: "Here's the best game you will ever play." Fan: "Holy shit, this game is amazing. There's going to be a sequal, right!?" SEGA: 👀 Fan: "SEGA, There's going to be a sequal... right!?"
@@joaofernandes8164 Oh, I know. And I am very happy with the majority of them. But for decades that wasn't the case and I'm still waiting for some of my favourites!
I absolutely agree with the very first part of this video regarding a Master System Mini. I see no good reason for Sega not to release one. I don't own a Master System but there are quite a few games for it I would like to play. I would pre-order a Mini for sure if they ever announced one. A Saturn Mini would also be welcome, as well as a Game Gear Mini.
I remember reading about games like Skies of Arcadia in the gaming magazines and getting excited. I was a major JRPG fan. However my local stores never had it in stock. The shelves were full of the latest Madden or NBA titles. The more obscure and niche games were never even ordered. Thankfully this isn’t a problem in the modern era with internet shopping but I wonder how badly this affected sales of more onsite games that should have been successful.
I think my biggest Sega disappointment was lack of availability of Saturn Games when I got mine around '96. Besides the 3-in-1 pack in games, all I could find were demos and SFA2. They were great games but it was hard to find new ones in my area
Even the system Was hard to find, at least in my area. I have only ever seen one Saturn in person my entire life. I have heard that the surprise launch made a lot of retailers angry and they dropped them. Maybe that's why ?
The abandonment of the Dreamcast…. That shit hit hard in the us. I loved the ps2 and all but I would’ve grabbed up every good dreamcast game too, if support didn’t drop off the face of the earth.
My parents were sick of buying game consoles by 2000, and I had to stick with the Dreamcast until the GameCube hit $99 in 2003, and the PS2 was old news after, didn't even buy one until 2017, 17 years later, as a gag gift for myself. Madden 2001!!
Plus, my sister and I played it (especially Dead or Alive 2) all the way up until 2009 when we dropped the console at some point and broke the disc reader's eye (which, keep in mind back then, takes away a bigger chunk of the console's library than machines in recent years), we played the thing throughout its expected life cycle!!
For me the biggest letdown as a Saturn owner back then was that I couldn't find any games for it. Saturn was not selling at all, so retailers wouldn't bother to put Saturn games and accessories in their shops. I could see amazing games like Dragon Force, Dark Saviour Fighter's Megamix etc on magazines like GamePro, but no one was selling them in my region. You could find everywhere Playstation and N64 games because they were selling like hot cakes, but no Saturn. Of course back in the late 90's we didn't have online sales so all I could do was go from shop to shop hoping to find something good at a reasonable price.
What is my experience with Saturn? None. You could travel all over the western Europe and not to spot a single PAL unit for retail. Even in megastores and game (Spiel in German) stores in Frankfurt or München (Munich, Germany), the only advice I've would have been given about purchasing Sega Saturn: take your passport, fly to Japan and go to Tokyo (Akihabara, or Akiba for short)😮💨😮💨😮💨
Born in 83. I was a pot smoking, highschool drop out working at Arby's with all my homies. I couldn't afford a 32x, Sega CD, or Saturn. I had a SNES, a Genesis and a PS1 my dad bought. Okay, I'm rambling. Basically I saved all my money to buy my Dreamcast. When I bought MVC2, me and all my dudes quit our job. Charging ⭐
Disappointments: SEGA going software only just as the Dreamcast was gaining momentum. No ports of SCUD Race, Daytona USA 2, or The Lost World on Dreamcast. Not releasing some of the Saturn's best games in the West in 1998 and 1999 before the Dreamcast was released. Happy Surprises: Panzer Dragoon Orta Sonic Mania
I was never a sega fan until the dreamcast. In fact I remember always arguing with my friends about the merits of the super nintendo. Since I've been watching your channel I've bought a few different emulation systems and have been checking out all the old school sega games. Now you're the only channel I have a patreon account with and I'm a huge sega fan. My brother said "that is fucking weird" but we've been both tearing into sega's old school library and enjoying the shit out of it. Weirdly enough, the japanese version of contra hard corps is my fave retro game of all time. My bother and I learned it and tore through every path in a single afternoon while we were visiting our parents for xmas. The fact that the genesis could do everything it did in that game with multiple paths and endings is proof alone that it could go blow to blow with the super nes. The japanese version made it so much more accessible to beat. The crazy thing is that it was never even on my radar until I had subscribed to your channel. So thank you Sega Lord X. I love your content and will always be a loyal member of your community. You kick ass
I was so pumped to get a 32x for Christmas as a kid, I got doom with it and it ended up being the only game I ever got for it. I played one other, Motocross, meh .
I remember an article from the 2000s that nailed the whys of Sega's failures. Serious lack of understanding between Sega of America and Sega of Japan that drove to silly things like 32x or the premature killing of the Saturn; Awesome IPs that never left Japan just because Sega of America didn't see the potential; Huge arcades like Lost World Jurassic Park or Star Wars Racer Arcade (much better graphics than the Lucasfilm game) that never saw the light just because they didn't get the licensing to the Dreamcast; They didn't push enough the sports section on the Dreamcast era ruling out EA Sports which was a big selling point (here in Europe all people was looking to play FIFA). The ease of pirating games, and the abilty of the PS2 of playing DVD movies which was the big thing then, put the last nail in the coffin of the hardware run of our beloved company which otherwise could have competed with the PS2 head to head.
Where I lived basically skipped the Saturn, and in fact I don't think I even knew what it was as a kid, but I was awaiting the Dreamcast like nothing else. I was massively disappointed when I went into a game store to try out Sonic Adventure and the clunky gameplay turned me off buying the console. On the flip side I went on to buy a Xbox based solely on Jet Set Radio Future.
Dude I’m still waiting for them to expand other franchises or whatever it was they said they were going to do in like 2011… so far it’s just been more sonic 😑
The Dreamcast and Gamecube were the systems for me in that generation. It was bad for gaming to lose Sega only for a more copycat publisher like Microsoft to take their place.
I grew up with Sega from Master system all the way through the Arcades to the Dreamcast, Segas style and experience was unique and still is, they will endure forever.
I'm pretty sure the way you felt when you found out about how different Panzer Dragoon Saga is how I felt when I found out about PSO Episode III being a card game lol. 😩 Then to add insult to injury, Episode IV/Blue Burst ends up being the game I wanted III to be at a time I didn't have a gaming PC.
@@asimhussain2344 Do you still play online? Apparently redream can get online bit I haven't tried. I last went online on the dreamcast in 2009 using dreamkey 3, it was pointless sadly
@@ChillingCrowley There is a Blue Burst server called Ephinea which is very active. Ultimate mode games are often up and the community is very active. They have a kind of Gamecube/Xbox classic mode with Ep1 and 2 but most people do the full Blue Burst experience with Ep4 as well. A lot of QoL improvements. Veyr much worth downloading; a much better experience than the SEGA and even Schthack servers,
@@asimhussain2344 What's your character called? What level are they? I'm going to play one am android device with a windows emulator as my PC is from the mid '00's GameCube and Dreamcast emulation is so much easier but I don't think they have any servers running anymore.
@@jd9119 Oh. I think we all knew a spoiled kid like you in school. Question is, were you the cool rich kid or the jerk rich kid ? . . . I'm just kidding, don't be angry. You had the best of both worlds, I would have loved that when I was a kid.
PDSAGA big fan here! I can totally understand Sega Lord X reason for not enjoying it that much. I'm younger (36 years) and I live in a small place in Portugal where there wasn't many people with consoles or games. For some odd reason the Saturn was fairly successful in its early years here in Portugal and that's the console kids would normally had. My chance to experience PDSaga was thanks to a friend of a brother of a friend. I can't express how I adored that game and how it´s still my favourite game ever. Many people forget to mention that every single character that live in the game's world is fully voiced at every single word, not to mention the dragon's transformations and...well, it was my very first RPG. I have the original copy that I bought from that friend of a brother of a friend and it's my "precious".
I'm so mad we never got a Planet Harriers either. Space harrier is my favorite game and there was one arcade near me with a sit down PH cabinet. Amazing game!
I have watched most of your videos now, and I find it amazing how close your stories are to mine. When watching, I nod my head in complete agreement and just laugh at the similarities!!! I ordered a lot of my systems from Japan and was a die-hard Sgea kid!! Now, I'm a much older gamer but will never forget the highs and lows of being a Sega fan. When Sega got it right, I was riding high with them, but when they screwed up and I paid hard earned cash for their poor releases, it pissed me off sooooo much. I just love hearing such parallels with your videos. You have a great way with words, and I thought that no one else felt the way I did back in the days. Still have all my systems and games so glad of that no matter how good they were....or how let down I was. Keep up the great work!!
As a Sega Saturn fan I was hoping for a tonne of model 3 conversions to the Dreamcast but I was left disappointed with notable titles such as Daytona USA 2 and Scud Race never coming out
Mike Tyson's Punch Out should have been a Sega title. Their own history parallels his. They both had the world at their fingertips, then stupidly self destructed. My biggest disappointment was the Sega Smash Pack on the Dreamcast. Holy CRAP. I was really digging the idea of getting back into some of my favorite Genesis games, particularly Phantasy Star II. Then I actually played it. The emulation was SO off and SO horrible, it was utterly unplayable. I took it back that same day to the store and got a refund.
I too would’ve loved the dreamcast to continue to get some releases into 2002, 3 and 4. But I think it’s forgotten about how poorly dc games were selling in 2001+. Look at sales of sonic adventure 2. Game sold about 250,000 copies when it launched on dc. Considering it’s the sequel to the best selling sonic adventure and received universal acclaim. I think In the west games were just not selling at all. There must’ve been some sort of small traction in Japan I assume.
Letdown-I remember standing in an Electronics Boutique and hearing from the person behind the counter that EA was no longer bringing sports games to the Saturn. It was at that moment I knew my Saturn was dead (I still have it though and play it constantly) Happiness-the first time I played nfl 2k2 with a friend and could choose my plays via the VMU. I thought that was just amazing. I also really loved playing games in the dreamcast via the internet and being able to chat via the keyboard. Happiness on the Saturn was hands down with Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2. Those games made me chase that franchise to the Xbox to get Orta and I still have that on my Xbox One.
I was really disappointed in SEGA when they canceled Virtua Fighter on dreamcast, but then developed a fully featured Virtua Fighter IV Evolution on the enemies' platform and not even put it on the original XBOX...SMH🤬. I get they had to go 3rd party, but put it everywhere, not just only on your direct competitor's plastic box😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬. Sorry for the venting 😮💨
@joaofernandes8164 But is there fault if they release a bare bones Virtua Fighter (VFTB) and you have go to the next best 3D fighter on your console.....Soul Caliber😒.
It was strange how Sega handled the Lightgun in America we here in Europe got a official release. But I also think Sega drop the ball with Skies of Arcadia Legend it should have been on all platforms not just the gamecube.
I totally agree with Virtual Fighter 3 as the biggest disappointment, but it’s cancellation gave us Fighters Megamix with so much Sega love 😍 It even includes music that’s got to be a early form of the Shenmue theme 😀
My biggest let down was the little effort they put into making Mortal Kombat it sounded horrible NO VOICE OVERS the colors looked dimmed the only thing they got right was the Blood and you needed a code ABACABB if Nintendo wasn’t so kid friendly they would of crushed it on Mortal Kombat but there sports line up was great all the add ons were unnecessary and I’m a HUGE SEGA FAN!!! I’m happy they improvements to Mortal Kombat 2 I’m not dissing the Sega Genesis because it did come out 2 years earlier than the SNES so they was able to do a few things more especially with the color changes and mode 7 Sega was there own worst enemy the Street Fighter Games I’ll admit they did them right
Great video. Sega made some shocking mistakes along the way. Sega as u say way to expensive and most games barely used the hardware Having no version of death adder just crazy , it should if been the perfect AAA title for the saturn Abandoning the dreamcast software was just bizarre
The cardboard boxes for Genesis games in America were atrocious, but so were the plastic cases Saturn games in America received. Why, oh why, did Sega not use regular-sized CD jewel cases in America like they did for Saturn games in Japan? I mean, there was a reason regular-sized CD jewel cases were the standard for other platforms, too, such as PC games, Sony Playstation and the PC Engine CD.
PlayStation started with those awful long boxes as well, in fact Sega sold Sony surpluses of them...I'm not sure when the normal jewel cases became the standard.
As a Brazilian gamer i can attest that tec toy still releases new hardware, lots of versions of master system and mega drive here. Even portable versions (i myself have one with game gear games) they also re-released the og mega drive model in the original box for cheap. You can buy new mega drive controllers and games officially as well in 2023. We are just crazy about sega down here.
As a kid I looked at the cartridge slot on the Saturn and through, "cool they included a genesis slot," Boy was I mistaken. Just disappointing when I realized what the cartridge slot was not for backwards compatibility. Also Sega leaving all their best software in Japan was a huge disappointment. So many great IPs never saw the light of day in the US. Living in a small town before internet meant I would only see them in magazines.
Yeah, it can be tough being a sega fan, but there are good times too. One disappointment for me, is when Yu Suzuki said that Virtua Fighter 4 was coming to the dreamcast, and then a few months later, sega said it was being released for the PS2 instead.😵 Outrun 2, Fighters Megamix 2, and Panzer Dragoon 3 not coming to the dreamcast, were other disappointments for me too. But I think Sega dropping the dreamcast, like they did with the Saturn, was a huge KO for alot of sega fans, and gamers like me.😧 Anyway, good two in one video. I enjoyed watching the entire thing.👍😄
Yeah, being a Sega fan was always an emotional rollercoaster. These were all very good points! I, too, despised the shift to those cheap cardboard Genesis boxes compared to the excellent clam shell box design! One thing that always bothered me is that Sega always seems to forget about their popular series. I agree that Sega should continue to allow their fans to develop more games from lost franchises. Sonic Mania and Streets of Rage 4 were great examples of fan creators knowing exactly what made those classic games special! As a kid, the Sega Genesis was one thing that made me an instant Sega fan. The system just got better and better with age! It got some great exclusives and was one of the few to stand toe to toe with Nintendo! One thing that was a downer about Sega was their questionable business decisions throughout the 90's. After the Genesis, it felt like Sega kept dropping support of their systems quicker than their competitors. Sega was like that friend that sometimes pissed you off, but they're still generally good to you. The fact that such a good game like *Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder* never got ported to pretty much any console (classic and modern) is downright criminal. I played it when I was kid back 1993 in a mini golf arcade only once, but my fond memories of it still stuck with me to this day! The Golden Axe series deserves a grand comeback!
Not continuing the Eternal Champions series. I absolutely loved that game because it was such a complete contrast to MKII at the time. They really could have gone deep with the game's lore like MK eventually did. Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side was the only reason I wanted the Sega CD, such a waste of a summer's worth of cutting grass money, lol...
Sega should’ve put ALL of their 1980’s super scaler games into one cartridge for the 32X. Hang On, Super Hang On, Space Harrier, Enduro Racer, Thunder Blade, OutRun, AfterBurner, and AfterBurner II. Or onto two cartridges. Did I miss any super scalers from the 1980’s that would’ve been doable on the 32X?
From the American point of view, I have to agree with them in part. From a European point of view, Sega's problems only began with Saturn. And although you had done a lot right with the Dreamcast, unfortunately you couldn't do it back. In the end, the Dreamcast was even worse than the Saturn. Due to the poorer playability of Sega Rally 2 or Daytona USA 2001, the lack of linguistic localization of Adventueres or Role playing Games, the missing arcade adaptations of Daytona USA 2, Scud Race, Star Wars: Racer and especially Le Mans 24 ... have sealed in my eyes the fate of the Dreamcast and thus Sega. The hardware was great, but I was disappointed with the mirror oils. It can't be that my favorite game on the Dreamcast is Nancos' Soul Calibur. I love the Mega Drive/Genesis(CD). Saturn was a love-hate relationship for me. I liked the Dreamcast from the beginning, it could convince in my eyes - apart from a few titles - only in the graphics. Sega is and was in my heart the Mega Drive/Genesis (CD). And the dreams (in 1993) of an even better future. After initial disappointment of Saturn, at the end of 1995 came Virtua Vighter 2 and Sega Rally - terrific games! But after that, unfortunately, no Sega game fascinated me so much. Yes, Shenmue was good, quite a few other games too, but it always lacked that certain something.
Panzer Dragoon: 1.) "Panzer" is the german word for a tank. In case of a turtle it means the turtle-shell. 2. "Dragoon", most people might think of a "dragon", but only with 2 "oo", and since there are some dragons in that game, it should be correct. As a matter of fact, "Dragoner" is the german word for infantry, that uses horses for battles. In other words: going into a battle on the back of a horse. Since you go in that game into a battle on the back of a dragon, it seems to be a mix. But maybe that's also a mis-translation, as you can see in the next case: 3.) If you ever played "Final Fight", you might have faced the enemy (and his clones) named "Andore". As a matter of fact, this character is based on "Andre the Giant" (the wrestler). Now, in the japanese, non-japanese words are written in "katakana", so if you want to write the non-japanese name "Andre", you have to write "A-N-DO-RE". The sign for "DO" is actually "TO", but you give it 2 little lines, which makes it a soft-sounding syllable. But as a matter of fact, you speak "TO" often as a "T" and "DO" often as a "D", so when they wanted to write "Andre" in katakana, they needed to write "Andore" - and the english translation was wrong with "Andore", since the translator did not skip the "o", but kept it in the name.
Back to the saturn, my greatest frustration still the lack of explanations about running properly this awsome hardware ... Even the easy saturn basic, Sega never let explanations. If you're curious, a "tech demo/boost" is avaible on Castlevania using real transparency and clean polygons ... It's a shame, cause this version is equal and maybe better than playstation version... Another bad things, the lacks of ST-V games for Saturn, for years I waited for the first zero gunner ... Nice video
The worst part of being a Sega fan was when everyone else would equate Sonic with Sega at large. If a recent Sonic game sucked, then it meant that all Sega games always were terrible. I also hated how the Sega Genesis was "the Sega" to so many. In 2007 I told someone about buying Viking: Battle for Asgard, and I said it's a new Sega game. She goes "Sega still makes games?" And I'm like, yeah? Of course? They never stopped? Just saying "Sega" means "Genesis" to too many.
PSO2 was planned to release worldwide in 2013. It took another 7 years to finally release in North America and other regions due to licensing hell. During that time, the only Sega product I bought was Sonic Mania. Thank goodness for the PSO2 Tweaker.
That bullcrap about the Dreamcast gun is one of many things about this country that makes me facepalm...and no matter what if a psycho serial killer can't get a gun he'll use a knife instead, and I sure as hell don't want no knife games! But banning a controller is just stupid, heck censorship of anything fictional because of a tragedy is idiotic...and yet people say politically correct BS is new...it's not, it's just that the "Karens" who get offended now have too many platforms to voice how offended they are by stupid trivial things that don't even affect them, and of course the "Karens" somewhere around 2008 switched sides.
Downs: Too many FMV Games and too few normal games on Sega CD. The Fact that the Dreamcast was so Easy to pirate games for. Ups: The Fact that Sega allowed Working Designs to translate Games like Lunar and Popful Mail. The Various Collections of Genesis Compilations
Being a racing game fan they have so many great arcade racing that could even be released today in a compilation. But Sega just do seem to be bothered about their back catalogue 🤔
The problem Sega had, was that they were innovators. Always first, and always behind. Nintendo had more time to nail down the specifics of lesser hardware. Saturn was only favorite, and let's face it. Had far less texture warping than the PlayStation...but, the price point killed it. The Dreamcast was outstanding, but so damn early. Sony's DVD machine really busted the hell out of it .
I don't recognize SOR 4 as part of the series 😒 It's not even made by Sega. And it's just part of Nagoshi's failed administration of licensing Sega IPs he disliked... Thank God he is out of the company 🙄🙏
My biggest Sega letdowns are the removal of the FM synth capability on western master systems, i mean how hard would it have been to offer a cheap addon to re enable the feature? Another one would be the lack of an upgraded colour palette on the mega cd. The 64 colours it had to play with just weren't enough for fmv and with few exceptions looked muddy and grainy on sprite based games. Lack of transparency really held it back in comparison to the snes, those checkboard patterns looked awful. The lackluster art on western megadrive boxes paled in comparison to the beautiful Japanese ones, not sure what Sega was thinking considering the art was already done and would only need the text redone in English. And while we are at it, releasing the sub par space harrier 2 on megadrive rather than giving us a conversion of the arcade original. My disappointment upon playing the bland and forgettable game they released was almost rage inducing. Why Sega why?
Piracy is what caused the Dreamcast's premature death in the United States vs Japan. At the point of them going third party, it had become rampant to the point that any new US Dreamcast title released would have been a loss for them. With the SegaCD, I completely agree all the extra hardware was not needed. The one issue they should have addressed was the number of displayed colors; which wasn't done giving it its crappy, grainy look.
The usual letdown is leaving pure genius potential on the table, a classic Sega move at this point. And sadly, some of best recent Sega moves are about they letting outsiders who understand better they IP's doing some stuff. And Yakuza? It is great, but feels like Sega from an alternate dimension...
The UPS, when Sega people would goto their friend's NES household for sleepr that has a NES. The Downs, when the sega kid returns home to his crusty Master System.
The UPS for me was when I saw Sonic The Hedgehog on Sega Genesis as a kid in 1991. I never owned a Sega Master System as I was raised on NES in 1989. The Downs was when Sega went third party and stopped producing their own consoles. PS2 probably had the better Sega exclusives as I remember discovering Virtua Fighter 4 which I would have never given it a chance as I always liked Tekken and Street Fighter as a kid.
I have several and being a Sega fan even though it can be a wonderful experience, it's also filled with frustration, as obvious choices were never obvious to Sega. But as of recent years id say that Sega's strange and meager releases of Sega Ages for Switch has been extremely disappointing. They began with the iconic but also very available titles like Outrun, Space Harrier and Super Hang On but then soon began to halt the releases just when we were potentially near to receive titles that hadn't already been available for years now. So now we end up with a small catalog of games ive already played since the start but not for rarer titles that never left arcades.
One of my disappointment is when Sony brought the rights to tomb raider 2 when it was actually in development for the Saturn as well as the PlayStation. It was one of the Saturn's highest selling games at the time. Oh and capcom canceling the USA port of xmen vs street fighter due to the idea they didn't think it would sell well here. That was the first time I actually imported a Saturn game. I had never done that before and it was hela expensive too.
In Europe the Mega Drive game cases had always been made of plastic, right until the console's end. Apparently Sega only cheaped out on the American market.
I agree that one of the best things Sega has done was to allow the creation of Sonic Mania. It was the Sonic 4 we wanted and deserved. But, as far as I know, they've cancelled the sequel, which is so maddening. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
biggest let down is probably scud race never being released to the dreamcast. and on saturn, the lack of rpg (translated to english at that time) when compared to playstation… where was Grandia????
I don't have a problem with how Sega changed from plastic to paper considering how much plastic waste we have in our oceans today and how much pollution it creates in the manufacturing process. It was a great forward-thinking decision to make the switch
I think the real reason the Sega CD hardware was so under-utilised was the data bus connecting it to the Mega Drive, every game that uses scaling and rotation runs at 256x224@20fps, and games that have both scaling and standard sections will often switch between that lower resolution 20fps mode for scaling and a full 320x240@60fps in the standard section. This issue isn’t actually due to the hardware in the Mega CD being limited, it’s just the Genesis data bus being unable to handle any more pixels per second. This also limits the frame rate of Mega CD videos, and makes it more difficult to include more colours, since the bus can’t handle sending video data to multiple layers. Sega built an incredibly powerful console then bodged it onto an older system that constantly held it back, if it was stand alone it could’ve handled arcade ports in much better condition as well as much more colourful video…
Phantasy star online episode 3 using cards never sat right with me, which is just one of the many disappointments ive had with how sega handled the phantasy star series after phantasy star 4. It could have been bigger than final fantasy, but they let it shrivel away into relative obscurity.
But I do forgive Sega after all I mean the sonic symphony was a real treat. And frontiers had broken some sales records. I think they just might make it after a helluva rough Start
