Dante Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 http://www.segaonline.nl/blog/2009/02/13/sega-vintage-collection-breid-uit/ Interesting...a rumour of some more XBLA Mega Drive titles. Including Gunstar Heroes and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. But the Sonic 3 pictures have no mention of Knuckles. Unless they plan on adding "Knuckles lock-on DLC" or something. Is'nt Gunstar Heroes a Treasure game?
flameboy Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 Is'nt Gunstar Heroes a Treasure game? Yep....it sure is....
Cube Posted February 15, 2009 Author Posted February 15, 2009 It's probably a lot easier to share the profits when it's £3.50ish per game instead of probably around 50p.
Shorty Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 I just dug out Sonic and Knuckles Collection for the PC and played it with a USB controller. And yknow... I'm glad I didn't buy Ultimate Mega-Drive Collection. As much as I love S3&K, I finished it in a couple of play sessions and these days such a platformer doesn't have the same replayability. Maybe it's the save function, the ease of changing games back then or just that I have grown less patient. Either way I don't think the title would've lasted me very long (probably would've played some Shinobi and Golden Axe but none of the RPGs) so I'm kinda glad they convinced me to cancel my order now.
Cube Posted February 15, 2009 Author Posted February 15, 2009 Now that you mention it, it probably wouldn't have lasted long for me, either. I always find that when I do buy a compilation, I very, vary rarely play each game for more than a few minutes. The XBLA titles I've played through a few times. So even though they cost more money, I'm much more likely to actually play them. Plus I can choose which ones I want. Having a look at what I actually want from the list, it's actually rather small: The Story of Thor (only because I very, very slightly remember the Saturn version) Comix Zone Vectorman Sonic 3 & Knuckles (which isn't actually there, just the two separate games). So I'm definitely not going to get this, either.
flameboy Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 You bring up a good point Shorty, I have the Mega Drive Collection on PSP and barely touched it, pop in for the odd game of this or that. I started Sonic 3 and Knuckles on Sonic Mega Collection on the cube again the other day but the way the graphics look has kinda put me off. They look so chunky and janky...guess thats the only good thing going for this ultimate collection the games will at least look good on a HDTV...
tapedeck Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 Compilations are getting extremely tiresome. Especially from SEGA. I'm surprised people are still interested in compilations at all. Sure some games are still fun but in most cases the memory far exceeds the actual re-play. You could also argue that there are few 'classic' or 'evergreen' titles from SEGA. Especially during the 16bit era. Look at Nintendo's evergreen titles (NES to N64). Compare that with SEGA and it's night and day. SEGA DO have classics but I'd say more were on the DC (and, at a push the Saturn). When they get their arses into gear with DC/Saturn re-releases THEN I may show some kind of interest. Otherwise it's just becoming a bit of a joke how they are diluting their 'liked' titles from the early-mid 90's. /rant.
Hero-of-Time Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 Personally I would love a Disney collection from the 8-16 bit era, playing Ducktales, Chip N Dale, Aladdin, Lion King, Quackshot, World of Illusion etc would be fantastic but seeing as these are licensed games and on various formats it will never happen Why the hell is there no ToeJam and Earl in this collection!?
flameboy Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 Compilations are getting extremely tiresome. Especially from SEGA. I'm surprised people are still interested in compilations at all.Sure some games are still fun but in most cases the memory far exceeds the actual re-play. You could also argue that there are few 'classic' or 'evergreen' titles from SEGA. Especially during the 16bit era. Look at Nintendo's evergreen titles (NES to N64). Compare that with SEGA and it's night and day. SEGA DO have classics but I'd say more were on the DC (and, at a push the Saturn). When they get their arses into gear with DC/Saturn re-releases THEN I may show some kind of interest. Otherwise it's just becoming a bit of a joke how they are diluting their 'liked' titles from the early-mid 90's. /rant. I doubt we will see Saturn collections apparently it is near on impossible to properly emulate, the problems arise from the custom sound set up.... If you listen to I think it was not the most recent but the one before that episode of Retronauts they have the producer of Ultimate Collection and he discusses it... Personally I would love a Disney collection from the 8-16 bit era, playing Ducktales, Chip N Dale, Aladdin, Lion King, Quackshot, World of Illusion etc would be fantastic but seeing as these are licensed games and on various formats it will never happen Why the hell is there no ToeJam and Earl in this collection!? Same again listen to Retronauts...basically it came down to a rights issues I don't think they owned the rights to publish it in all territories or something and they wanted to be able to launch the same collection worldwide. I think that was the issue with it...you'd have to listen to it to check. It's a good listen actually...Producer of the collection talks indepth about a lot of stuff. check it out at 1up.com
Cube Posted February 15, 2009 Author Posted February 15, 2009 It really depends on how the deal was done. Sometimes they include the old games, like Rare, and sometimes they don't. For example, I don't think any of Acclaim's games can be re-released, even if the developers still exist. Look at the Burnout Anthology on PS2: It only includes Takedown, Revenge and the non-Criterion one.
Hero-of-Time Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 My copy is on the way ( along with SFIV ) Methinks its time to dust off my 360 and plug it back in
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 So did many people bother to pick this up?
MATtheHAT Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 So did many people bother to pick this up? I did, played Sonic for 5 minutes, then put SFIV back in
LegoMan1031 Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 So did many people bother to pick this up? I will get it, just haven't decided when.
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 I won't! Unless I see it really cheap! want to see if Sonic 3 + Knuckles gets released as stand alone game or as DLC for this first.
Hero-of-Time Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 So did many people bother to pick this up? I did and ive seen Beermonkey and Chuck playing it while on Live. Its a bit of a rip by Sega when it comes to the boxarts and cartridge shots as they have just left the American ones in the game. Its called the Mega Drive collection yet it has Genesis slapped all over the starting screen as boxart pics move around in the background. Lazy SOBs.
Shorty Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 It's a rip because it holds about 32MB of games on a blu-ray that can hold 50GB. you could fit every sega game ever on this disk.
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 It's a rip because it holds about 32MB of games on a blu-ray that can hold 50GB. you could fit every sega game ever on this disk. This is why the excuse that they wanted to make sure they got other games on collection rather than Sonic 3 + Knuckles doesn't hold any water at all it's plain BS.
S.C.G Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 It's still an excellent collection, and yes they didn't include Sonic 3 + Knuckles on the collection because they will want to release it on XBLA in a more lucrative fashion, but at least we will get it eventually and it will have the full 200G of achievements (at least) that it deserves plus the multiplayer bit will probably be online, that was good fun back in the day. ^^ Also did anyone notice that next to the Sonic 3 screenshot on the back of the box they made a typo and put 'Sonic 2' next to it? I shit you not, pretty shoddy if you ask me but no matter... the collection still seriously owns and I hope they make more based on Mega CD / 32X in the future.
Goron_3 Posted February 21, 2009 Posted February 21, 2009 It's still an excellent collection, and yes they didn't include Sonic 3 + Knuckles on the collection because they will want to release it on XBLA in a more lucrative fashion, but at least we will get it eventually and it will have the full 200G of achievements (at least) that it deserves plus the multiplayer bit will probably be online, that was good fun back in the day. ^^ Also did anyone notice that next to the Sonic 3 screenshot on the back of the box they made a typo and put 'Sonic 2' next to it? I shit you not, pretty shoddy if you ask me but no matter... the collection still seriously owns and I hope they make more based on Mega CD / 32X in the future. I doubt S3&K will get released on XBLA. Around Unleashed would have been a good time to release it but don't think we'll get it now.
BeerMonkey Posted February 22, 2009 Posted February 22, 2009 finally completed robotniks mean bean machine...what a pain in the arse that game is at times so frustating (didnt use passwords) WAS going to get street fighter 4 as well but was 35 quid in shops...and 26 on play etc so will buy off there soon ...first time ive ever played alien storm today pretty decent alex kidd is awesome forgot how good that is
LegoMan1031 Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Well after saying only the other day i didn't know when i would get this i went and got it today, lol. Loving abit of retro goodness!
S.C.G Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 i cant seem to unlock Phantasy Star 1. Sonic 2, two players, defeat first boss = Phantasy Star unlocked.
BeerMonkey Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 ive noticed that one achivement mentions artwork...wheres that? is that the boxart thing in the "museum"?
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