This game did not age well

[KAIIRU]

Dear lord who rigged the facial expressions and poses in this game? You should be locked up.

[Crystal Sharrd]

It was their first 3D game.

[KAIIRU]

It was only Hitler's first holocaust come on baby let it slide!

[nezish]

Hahaha. The early 3d in general aged like milk.

[Mosh]

Still better than the og sonic games.

[mdesaleah]

Youre telling me a game from 1998 did not have 2020 quality facial animation xD?!!!

You dont say. The story and level design still hold up though

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Youre telling me a game from 1998 did not have 2020 quality facial animation xD?!!!

You dont say. The story and level design still hold up though

^

Not to mention despite the Golden 6 Tomb Raider games still being good and holding up, we were lucky that characters actually moved their mouths by Tomb Raider 4 & 5, both of which actually have Dreamcast ports. (Which I also own besides my PC CD originals and GOG backups)

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Youre telling me a game from 1998 did not have 2020 quality facial animation xD?!!!

You dont say. The story and level design still hold up though

^

Not to mention despite the Golden 6 Tomb Raider games still being good and holding up, we were lucky that characters actually moved their mouths by Tomb Raider 4 & 5, both of which actually have Dreamcast ports. (Which I also own besides my PC CD originals and GOG backups)

And technically Adventure was pretty revolutionary with its full cutscene voice acting and CGI that still looks good

[PC Noob Race]

I grew up with this game and quite frankily, I never thought that the voice acting and animation was THIS BAD. However, it actually makes the game all the more enjoyable since it's fun to laugh at.

[TheJR]

I'd like to say that most of the problems you find in this game are problems of the port. I sugest you to install the Dreamcast Adventure mod that makes the textures and the models less ugly. The DX port is just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess to be honest

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by TheJR:

I'd like to say that most of the problems you find in this game are problems of the port. I sugest you to install the Dreamcast Adventure mod that makes the textures and the models less ugly. The DX port is just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess to be honest

DX has worse textures, but much better models. So you can mod the best of both

[F-Man]

The moving mouths were amazing when this came out.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by TheJR:

I'd like to say that most of the problems you find in this game are problems of the port. I sugest you to install the Dreamcast Adventure mod that makes the textures and the models less ugly. The DX port is just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess to be honest

Same with SA2 Battle. I grew up with the Gamecube port and snapped it up on Xbox and PC when I could, but when I decided to try the DC versions, I saw just how much had been changed in both Gamecube ports, only to get worse in the "HD" versions especially PC. SA2's Dreamcast Conversion is still in its early stages though unlike SA1, as it's all split into different sub mods, and the Misc DC Restoration mod makes the game crash if you try to load Cannon's Core. The audio fix only works for English voices as well, which is a problem if you want to play with the Retranslated mod like I do now.

[Beats by Nick Gurrs]

good ole baby zoomers not used to late 90's 3D cheese

[KAIIRU]

My profile picture is from a near launch title for the ps2. And why would I be playing this old game in the 1st place if it wasn't part of my childhood?

[NBOX21]

While I will say that facial expressions in this game are typical for a 1998 release, at the same time, we also had Spyro the Dragon and Crash 3 Warped which had way better facial expressions and lip syncing, though that was the exception and not the norm. Standards changed once the PS2, GameCube and XBOX were out in the market with games like Jak and Daxter, Luigi's Mansion and Halo Combat Evolved having way better facial expressions and animations, which is also why Sonic Adventure 2's cutscenes were drastically improved compared to Adventure 1's as they became more familiar with the tech.

At least the story was interesting, which in a way does make up for the poorly aged animations.