I spoke about this a lot before but I decided to make this post to see if I can do something about it.
So, as everyone knows by now, both Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 have suffered from poor porting ever since they got released on other systems after the Dreamcast, specially SA1 as that game got buggier and more broken with each version to the point of making the game look much more dated than it should.
Of course the community has done efforts to fix this with mods that restore these games to their Dreamcast states bringing back lots of assets and fixing issues brought by the ports while also ironing out their flaws, and while this is great, I feel like it's not enough to completely undo the damage that was done to these games, so here's my main topic.
What if the fandom made a movement to signal boost to SEGA the demand of proper remasters of the Adventure games?
What do I mean with this? For starters, I'm not talking about doing something as shameful as what some fans did back in the day in the form of spamming every part of SEGA's social media with comments about an Unleashed port, that's certainly not going to pay off in the long run.
My proposal instead is doing things like creating a hashtag, doing fanarts about it and most importantly spreading the word around the fandom. Things like Change.org petitions are useless because they won't even make it into a company's radar, but a movement that gets popular enough to be trending in a fandom might be enough to catch SEGA's attention.
Why I propose this? After seeing the trailer of Sonic Origins, I can't help but feel it's pretty sad that the Classic games are gonna have their definitive versions as the most accessible ones, which is great because these games deserve to be properly preserved, but on the other hand the most accessible versions of the Adventure games are currently the most broken ones that do a complete disservice to the original titles, therefore I think it's time to do something about it.
In fact, Origins might be the best opportunity to do this, since it has been pointed out that the success of this title can lead to more Sonic games, including the Modern ones, getting ported to current gen systems, so this is the golden time to do something.
Who knows? The best case scenario could be developers who want to revitalize the Adventure games finally getting a chance to get hired by SEGA and give those games the same treatment Taxman and Headcannon gave to the Classic games. Or SEGA at the very least could greenlight the idea of finally doing polished ports of these games from the ground up.
Unfortunately, I lack the time, resources and most importantly the influence to cause this movement to happen. The most influence I have is here in Tumblr, however, I'm also aware that doing nothing won't magically change anything, so the best I can do is give my small grain of sand and hope that at the very least this idea can reach the ears of somebody who can actually do something about this, at this rate it can't hurt my chances.
