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Sonic and Knuckles was its own game. As a bonus it added Knuckles to the previous games.
Except that it wasn’t. It was the second half of Sonic 3. You had to buy both Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles to get the full Sonic 3 experience as the developers originally intended.
BTW, everyone probably already knows this by now, but Michael Jackson produced a good chunk of the soundtrack. However, he left partially through production when the child abuse allegations started and thus went uncredited.
Street Fighter 2 is an especially bad example.
In like 18nmonths you had:
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II:Champion
Street Fighter II:Hyper Fighting
Super Street Fighter II
Super Street Fighter II: Turbo
Instead of microtranactions, you just bought the whole fucking game again to get Vega or M Bison as playable characters or to get a projectile for Chun-Li.
Came here for this, sf2 is worse than the sonic 3 & knuckles example. Sonic and Knuckles is a fine game on its own, combining them gives you extra content, lets you play Sonic 3 as knuckles, and it even does some minor things for Sonic 1 and 2 as a bonus.
I started the genre with Super Street Fighter 2: the new challengers. Nothing before and after was better than this one.
To be fair on PC older games very often got expansion disks. On top of that people with nostalgia tend to forget a lot of games used to release with game breaking glitches and just never get updated because that wasn’t possible.
The example being Sonic and Knuckles specifically is relevant, because despite being released and marketed as an expansion, that content was originally supposed to be part of Sonic 3 but was cut due to deadlines and development time.
The spanish version of the first Digimon World was literally unplayable lmao, the game had a glitch with an Agumon NPC that is a softlock and makes impossible to continue from that point
German Version Too, expect you played it in a specific order…
But to defend old games (aka when Nintendo didn’t sucked): when you wanted to release a game on a Nintendo console, you had to send a tape with the full gameplay from start to finish without cheats, otherwise it wouldn’t be released.
Or you had game magazines :D I remember buying one specific magazine to get the patch for half life :D
We actually got a whole lot more in terms of swag in the box. Maps, tokens, figures, etc.
Or at least a manual that actually contained substantive information.
Reading that in the car on the way home was such a magical experience.
Seriously. Imagine if silksong had a swag bag. Itd make a killing.
I mean. It’d have made even more of a killing.
Vaguely gestures towards the multiple versions of Pokémon.
Not exactly. Instead of DLCs you had sequels.
As opposed to not having sequels today? What are you smoking and where can I get some?
