{"id":1169,"date":"1999-09-12T01:30:00","date_gmt":"1999-09-12T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/1999\/09\/1169\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:53:28","slug":"1169","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/1999\/09\/1169\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polygon Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Well, I buried my shame and picked up a a Dreamcast &#8212; even though I don&#8217;t really deserve one. And my god &#8212; what it does nearly brings tears to my eyes. Unfortunately, I made two largeish mistakes &#8212;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although I checked what are <em>supposed<\/em> to be the outside tell-tale signs of the disc, the copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogames.com\/dream\/pltfrm\/sonicadv\/\">Sonic Adventure<\/a> I picked up is the corrupted one. I couldn&#8217;t easilly test the thing in-store, as I picked up the thing at Toys &#8220;R&#8221; Absent (what happened to all of the stuff that used to be in there? Where are the Lego?), so I just held my breath that I&#8217;d not have to take the hour drive back to Portland just to return the thing. Well. Hum.<\/li>\n<li>I decided not to read the box and assumed the system came with one of those memory card\/tamagochi things. Nope. So I guess I have to grab one of them if I want to be able to save at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The warnings about disc scratching are because the Dreamcast games are encoded on normal old cds (insofar as their physical properties) rather than those black, indestructible PlayStation discs.<\/p>\n<p>The controller&#8217;s not too bad. By fact of it being a controller, it&#8217;s starting just now to wear out my hands. But it could be a lot worse. I have no particular gripes about it, but there&#8217;s nothing to acclaim loudly, either.<\/p>\n<p>From playing the demo disc version of Sonic Adventure, they seem to have given Knuckles the personality of Ryoga. Hm. And Sonic appears to have Billy West(Stimpy; Fry from Futurama)&#8217;s voice &#8212; it&#8217;s similar to his voice in the ABC cartoon, but a little less annoying. The theme song reminds me strongly of the seventh or eighth season intro to Ranma 1\/2.<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t want to bother retyping it all in original, slightly more comprehensible verbiage, I&#8217;ll paste in here my initial comments made on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogames.com\/dream\/fight\/soulcal\/\">Soul<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcswirl.com\/reviews\/rev_soulcalibur.shtml\"> Ca<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamcast.ign.com\/reviews\/10953.html\">li<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gamecenter.com\/Consoles\/Dreamcast\/Soulcaliber\/\">bur<\/a>, the other game I picked up:<\/p>\n<p>Soul Calibur reminds me of Tekken, from what little I saw of that. But it&#8217;s astounding.<\/p>\n<p>In SC, there&#8217;s this one character &#8212; she has a sword which is divided into several horizontal segments, connected through the center by a long fiber of some sort. When she swings the sword out a certain way, the segments seperate along the fiber, making a long, barbed whip. Strange.<\/p>\n<p>I like Xiangua quite a lot &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting. The different &#8220;players&#8221; &#8212; player one and either player 2 or the opponent &#8212; use different versions of the same characters. Not just different colors, as in Street fighter. I mean, the first xiangua has short, scruffy hair, a blue bandanna, a kind of happy smirk, is wearing a white-with-yellow-fringe silk blouse-thing and blue pants. The second xiangua has long, primly-dressed, darker hair, is looking a little less &#8220;wild&#8221; in her expressions, and wears a formal red kimono with white trimmings and a yellow sash. In otherwords, a kinda&#8217; tomboyish version versus a noble-looking one. The same kind of differences go for everyone &#8212; the extent of it, I mean, rather than the details. The first player&#8217;s &#8220;nightmare&#8221; is in shining steel armor, while the second &#8220;nightmare&#8221; is in a corroded, barbarian-ish, copper helmet and neck armor, and has a bare chest and arms. This happened in Tekken, again, but it&#8217;s still a new concept to me.<\/p>\n<p>Very well put-together game.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd, though &#8212; I&#8217;m not used to &#8220;next generation&#8221;-feeling games, with very clean fade-ins and outs and so forth &#8212; like a bunch of different elements are put together. A still screen is very recognizable as a static screen. And so forth.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I buried my shame and picked up a a Dreamcast &#8212; even though I don&#8217;t really deserve one. And my god &#8212; what it does nearly brings tears to my eyes. 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