Would you buy 2006 if they finished it?

I've said this a lot of times, but in short: YES. Had it been done, polished, and in general had more care put into it, it would've had the potential to be Sonic Adventure 3, and that would've been great. Silver's story was already enjoyable as it is (as he can just float over and throw around the same failed attempts at badly-programmed platforming that led to so much pain for Sonic and Shadow), and if the rest of the game managed to do what it was trying to do successfully, I'd call it one of the best games.

 

I suppose if it was fun to play, why not? However, still lots of problems aside from programming.

 

I would buy Sonic Adventure 3, yes.

 

Levels, music, and gameplay were all great. It would have been a fine Sonic Adventure 3.

 

Heh, believe it or not, the first version was actually pretty fun to play.

Why?

It was so bad, it was eventually hilarious.

In multiplayer especially. I have found many things you could do since they screwed it up so badly. (For example, here's a fun glitch. Select the red shoes as Sonic in multiplayer mode, jump into a pit, and activate the slow mode as you die, keeping the button held down. Sonic will move twice as fast at normal speed. You can deactivate this by selecting slow again, and activating it once. Maybe you guys already know this, maybe not. I just found it myself, though.)

Also, the sheer hilarity of watching my friend get stuck inside of a cage due to a glitch was priceless... (in the last case on Wave Ocean, she was stuck inside, continually hitting the spring, but going nowhere.) Also, throwing eachother out of the level into an empty space using Silver was funny as well (Try throwing the opponent, and when you do, tell him to not touch a single button to achieve these)... in Crisis City, you can throw Sonic or Shadow so far out of bounds that they die TWICE. In Wave Ocean, if Silver catches them in the air, and throws them, the thrown character might bounce off the water's surface, going into more unused areas. Heck, I even wound up in Shadow's part of Wave Ocean (With the buggy).

Other than that, the game was horrible, though. The light dash sucked (especially once you get the ability to bounce), they offered a cheat code in the shop (Purple ring basically lets you go anywhere, no matter how glitched), and they really should've improved the story. Whose idea was it for Sonic and a human girl to fall in love? How does a being of complete darkness and a lava monster create a Sun God? Why the heck is Eggman so damn weird looking?

If they fixed all the glitches and redid the story, this game would be much better. But it wouldn't be half as hilarious.

 

Nobody really HATES sonic '06 hell we could've got over that whole eliseXsonic thing if it was just fucking finished. it had potental to be a great game if they had more time they could've added supersonic!

So yeah if they ever did release a DX version for Sonic '06 with all of its glitches/bugs fixed I'd buy it in a red hot second.

 

I already bought 2k6, so fuck yes.

(I mainly play with 2006's physics, instead of playing the actual game.)

 

I bought the beta, so I suppose my opinion is null

 

If it were finished, sure, but if the poor design choices they made (I.e. TAILS SUCKS, etc.) were still there, it'd still suck, it'd just not be as funny.

 

Sonic 06 was probably my favorite Sonic game since SA2. I completed the whole game and actually enjoyed it. The only thing that was really frustrating was the running from the tornado bit that seemed the most buggy to me when playing. If they fixed the glitched in it and the load times it would probably be one of the best 3D sonic games.

Let's put it this way. I finished Sonic 06 but I couldn't finish Unleashed because of the werehog levels.

 

The game had several other issues aside from just being a mess in a technical sense. Uninteresting characters, an embarrassing story along with cringe worthy dialouge, a large quantity of bland and empty environments, terrible controls and character switching ruining the flow of some stages.

Maybe you won't fall into the same lava pit 10 times, but that's not going to make the overall experience better.

 

If they made it more technically competent, as well as change some of the more annoying level design choices, why not? The worst thing about 06 is that it had great potential, but it was squandered due to technical incompetence. To see that potential realized would be great.

 

Chimpo nailed it. Sonic '06 was an abysmal game on all possible counts; I'd even go so far as to say that the gameplay was the least of my concerns with the game. It was virtually everything that a Sonic game shouldn't be.

 

Possibly.


But unless it was part of a collection of other games, certainly not for full-retail.

 

I agree with this. Honestly a "finished" game wouldn't make up for the poor story and design choices in general. I enjoyed it for what it was, but I think even if they fixed all the problems (that any standard game, especially this day and age really shouldn't have anyway), it still wouldn't improve the experience that much unless some drastic changes were made to the graphics, level layout, story, and just some of the other concepts in general. Maybe some of that was planned, but who knows. I was going to bring up the characters breaking up the flow of the game earlier, but I wasn't entirely sure.

Even for an Adventure-style game, I feel like it still wouldn't hold the same appeal as say SA2, or even Shadow (yes, as bad as it was, at least the game actually flowed). Adding to that the fact that the gameplay style was already very much outdated by that time (in my opinion - they'd been running on the same exact system with no significant change for three console generations), and in a lot of ways it was doomed from the start anyway. Sad to say, I think "finishing" the game for the majority of those who played it would make it bearable, not good. :/

To answer the question, I already got the game for Christmas (though I didn't sell it, mainly because I never really sell games, and even then, it wouldn't be one of the ones to go). I wouldn't buy a slightly enhanced version, but if this was 2006 and I had never experienced it yet, sure, I would buy it. It would be better no doubt, especially without those ridiculous load times, which is probably the biggest problem for me. But I think the entire concept behind it all is a joke in and of itself.

Come to think of it, maybe even the story wouldn't be so bad if the writing wasn't so hilariously abysmal. I'm glad the writing sucks though, it just makes the game that much more hilarious and quotable. I hope they play off it for jokes in future games, now that they're finally going for a humorous tone.

 

The only things that didn't necessarily suck about Nextgen was the level design (NOT the object placement in-level but the actual layout), Eggman and his mechs, and the music.

If anyone could successfully put the levels, Eggman and mechs, and the music in SA1 or SA2's engine (with obvious HD 720p/1080p and 60 fps), I'm sure it would've been at least 20000X better than the original.

 

Your right about everything else. But gameplay wise, It was about as close to SA3 as we were ever going to get. It seems like after STH06 everything moved on from a adventure style-type game to a rush style-type of game even with the wii titles. Don't think were going to see an adventure style-type game anytime soon .

 

I don't see how the game being close to Sonic Adventure 1 changes anything. It doesn't make it a better game, and it doesn't make it a worse game. It doesn't make it anything.