r/Games • u/AutoModerator • Sep 20 '24

Discussion Daily /r/Games Discussion - Free Talk Friday - September 20, 2024

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u/Rayuzx Sep 20 '24

One thing that been on my for the past week is Skies of Arcadia honesty should've been a bigger game than it was.

The game came out to near universal praise, so it wasn't like it was okayish at best for the time. While the Dreamcast was a doomed console it got a GameCube port, and it's just weird how that version never caught on. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle has defined a whole generation of Sonic fans, so it wasn't like GC owners weren't weary of Sega games. The Tales series has it's Western popularity bolstered on the fact that Symphonia was one of the few JRPGs on the console, so it wasn't like people were avoiding any of those that didn't have Mario on the cover.

Several other Sega games that came around the same time would get more prominent fanbases, like Crazy Taxi, Phantasy Star's transition to Online/Universe, and Super Monkey Ball. Vyse has also appeared in several other projects throughout the years, so it's not like Sega forgot about it. It's just so weird to me that the game seemed to have all of the things it needed to at least get a vocal cult fanbase, like Jet Set Radio, but it was like the stars perfectly misaligned on SoA.