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iojnekns,

There is a difference you seem to be missing between amping up the difficulty and creating broken enemies.

Having an enemy that is hard to hit unless you use certain moves, shoots out enemies for you to fight, is fast/evasive, and/or has protection that needs to be broken first - those are great ideas, and combined into one uber boss can be quite fun. That's why I like the first boss in this hack, because you balanced that out quite well.

Having an enemy who can push you off screen and make it so you can't move at all [as in boxing you in] despite your trying to escape through all means possible resulting in your players death, or enemies who home in and pommel you to death with no means to escape / defend yourself are - simply put - broken.

I've always enjoyed good challenge. I have yet to find a Sonic game, or a Sonic hack that faced the boss issues that are seen in the 2nd boss of this hack. I've never enjoyed broken mechanics, whether it be in first person shooters, sidescrollers, puzzle games, or my speciality, Live Action RPGs... LARPs being especially prone to REALLY broken enemies as I have experienced over the last 3 years. It is not that I don't appreciate the work that goes into something like this, its that you put up this hack for public critique - and I'm giving you some... a lot of us are. We are the people you target with these hacks, so in a way yes, we do have a say. A limited say mind you, but still it is a bad idea to step on the toes of those who are trying to give you thoughts on how you can improve these hacks to make it more likely that they not only play, but continue to replay your hack. Feedback - and taking feedback into consideration - is important.

All I'm saying is unbreak the boss and you got yourself another hooked player.

 

This thread turned hostile quite quickly from both ends.

How about we cool it there super friends.

 

I have not seen anyone accuse you directly of hyping your product up, or anyone else in the development staff aside from Tweaker.

 

And I'm not "hyping it up"; I'm merely expressing how much I enjoyed the hack. I think it's ridiculous that I can't thoroughly express what I like about a hack in great detail without it being some sort of conspiracy. It's not like this is the first hack I've written a wall of text review of praise on, anyway.

 

I apologiza for making it seem like I was pointing that at you. I was talking about glisp calling us dicks for talking about the hack, who upon further research appears to not be a part of Team SÆGA. What was up with that?

 

I don't implied that YOU specifically hype this game, but still you gotta admit that this game was hyped. Also the analogy with the baby is kinda wrong, after all there things you cant do to a baby. Also nobody has done any unfair judgment we are just giving you feedback, some were negative some were positives but nobody is bashing your hack.

 

I'll define this hack with only one word: Adrenaline.

HOLY SHIT! It's frenetic, fun and really challanging!! If Sonic was like that when I was a kid, probably I would be traumatized with it. XD The speed sensation is incredible, Sonic sprites are well done (not the best I've seen, but good) and the map of levels are pure win!

The bosses, I'm impressed with them, specially with Act 2 one! You gave him a Pseudo3D effect on him showing how much effort was put on this hack! But I found them too hard. It's almost impossible to kill them without take damege 2 or 3 times, act 1 was ok, but act 2 one was more frustrating then fun.

But the epic part is Act 3! Was a hard challenge! After some tries you can go beat it easily, but it's so incredible done, I played it more than 10 times! It's pure fun! This hack got me!

 

First of, yes the first line was a bit sarcastic but this was the fastest way I could sum up my reaction to this game, for me I didn't believe the hype but still was irritated by the hype it had, and I had said that I'm not blaming you for the hype, but still this game was hyped and still even if the game wasn't hyped everything good or bad I say wasn't influence by the hype because I had no expectation, I played the hack with an open mind.

 

I think I can sum up my dislike for this in short: it wouldn't be possible to beat without the fallback of rings. The other 2D Sonics are.

Old-school metagaming is king, guys.

 

iojnekns,

I still wish you'd address this point I made:

 

If the hype had not affected your expectations, game play or feelings for the game then why have such hate for the hype, it did no wrong to your experience?

 

I'm irritated by the fact that this game was praise as the ultimate hack but that didn't truly affect the experience of the game because I didn't believe the hype.

Like I said I had an open mind about this hack and I played it from start to finish and never did they hype it had affect my perception of this hack.

 

You say this but it seems as though the hype brought upon this hack has affected your view in a negative way. I could understand if you didn't listen to the hype but just played the hack for pure enjoyment of sonic hacks but it seems you went into playing this to disprove the hype in a sense. "I'm irritated by the fact that this game was praise as the ultimate hack but that didn't truly affect the experience of the game because I didn't believe the hype." By saying this it seems as though if you had believed the hype you would have enjoyed the game more but because you didn't believe it you perceived the hack in a more negative way rather then enjoying because of the hype, although hype for anything means nothing, as well as others' opinions for everyone has a different opinion. Overall it just seems as though you're saying you would have enjoyed the hack more had there been no hype at all because you wouldn't be expecting something amazing and/or not expecting something great and that others' beliefs on the subject were false.

 

Oh, welcome to everything that's ever been 'sold' to me. Learn to ignore it, approach everything with an open mind. Your life would be richer.

 

When I saw the praise that the contest judges lavished on this hack, I thought ' Well, I'll definitely be checking this one out when its released ' to be honest, I thought it was released a bit soon after the contest winners announcement but that's just me.

I'll admit that while a bit egoistical, the fact your team are making this hack for yourselves speaks volumes. My guess is that if you caved into EVERYONES request here, we'd end up with a severally diluted experience which would probably please no one. But at the same time, you've got to be willing to admit that were some mistakes made here and there and sort those out.

I enjoyed playing this hack but I'll agree the act 2 boss could do with a small bit of tweaking. I know its meant to be hard but crushing the player with little to no means of escape is just cheap, IMO. Also, I mentioned in an earlier post in this topic about putting in difficulty levels, I'd appreciate your opinion on that idea as I think it would be one of the best ways to solve some of the complaints about this hack without compromising the game experience for hardcore players.

 

Nope, Let say there wasn't any hype what so ever, if that were the case would I enjoyed the hack more, I don't know but the problems I have with this hack would be the same because the problems this hack is not determined by the hype the hack had.

 

Then why care about the hype?