Sonic Generations Megathread

I've had absolutely no issues keeping track of Sonic, in both classic and modern Green Hill.

(That is, of course, when I'm not deliberately stopping Sonic from moving in order to gaze at the fucking beautiful waterfalls and other me gusta scenery stuffs.)

 

The fact that Sonic reflects whatever colour is around him doesn't help though. That didn't happen in the old games. Obviously that was because they couldn't do it, but it does work better.

Note that I am not arguing against the game, it's just something to take into consideration.

 

Is the TimeEater sucking up Sonic's friends? Would be cool if after you defeated him and rescued them you also discover that he sucked up Ray, Mighty and Nack.

 

Wouldn't it be cooler if by defeating him, they all never came back. :v:

 

If anything leaks, it had better be the soundtrack first and foremost.

 

Hey guys, I'm back from the Paris Event (Paris Games Week).
Mind if I share some pictures?

http://steevespaces.free.fr/sonic/IMG_1299.JPG

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So... I played the 3DS version... And I must say, I was very impressed. The classic level actually plays fine. Better than I expected. Also, it look beautiful on the 3DS screen. Really.

http://steevespaces.free.fr/sonic/IMG_1301.JPG

http://steevespaces.free.fr/sonic/IMG_1302.JPG

http://steevespaces.free.fr/sonic/IMG_1309.JPG
Fun fact : there were 4 Xbox with Sonic CD, and people seemed to enjoy it better than Sonic Generation.

http://steevespaces.free.fr/sonic/IMG_1325.JPG
The conference...

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Yeah, I got my Sonic Generation Poster signed by Izuka. I even managed to say to him "thanks for bringing back Classic Sonic"

By the way, I recorded the full conference from today, but I saw there are already some on youtube. Do you want me to upload it anyway? He is showing all the levels in the hub world, Rooftop gameplay. Also he said it was the final build. Also : he didn't say anything about making others Sonic classic games. But he did say that we would unlock 100 levels with street pass on the 3DS version. (Yeah, he said "levels" but 100 sounds really too much. Maybe that's some mini levels or something)

Oh, and also : french sonic fans are Reeeeeaaaaally dumb. No joke.

 

I don't mind to be honest, watching Sonic Generations is far far more enjoyable than actually playing it.

 

I have to agree that discerning foreground with background on GHZ can be difficult at times. There were two instances in which I legitimately thought there was a platform on the foreground only to notice it was just part of the background. They could have applied something so that things on the foreground could look bluer, you know, like in here:



But that only happens on far away backgrounds, and the background on Classic GHZ is pretty close to the foreground, making the whole scenery look too clustered and not that easy to tell what is background and what is foreground. Sure, because this is a game with 3D graphics you can tell what is background and what isn't a lot easier than if this was a 2D game, but it still wasn't much of a good graphical design decision.

 

Damn it, I want that picture in 1080P

 

Maybe not if you were to link them rather than in-lining, I mean Jesus.

 

Yup, sorry about that!

 

Lighten up, at least it wasn't a junk .iso torrent or some Sonic xTreme prank again.

 

The console version of the game will probably get leaked during the week as usual for 360/PS3 games.

 

I have noticed some fixes in the most current demo in comparison to his video, including the following.

1. The backgrounds have motion blur applied to them
2. That awful looking stretched out checkered pattern on the slope shown at the bottom of GHZ near the beginning has been fixed
3. That wooden loop has been fixed.

Also in addition I've noticed some other things fixed that he didn't mention, or other things that were changed for whatever reason
4. Turning around on slopes often resulted in you running facing an odd angle. This has been fixed
5. You seem to be able to react faster after hitting a spring than in the older build. This causes some odd occurrences in the super jump cave. I jumped off the farthest slope to the left while running off of it and you go flying. I almost reached the upper path o_0

The odd motion blur problems still exist with Sonic though, and while I agree with the crouch button I still like the insta spindash button.

And did he really use Sonic 4 as an example for 60 fps gameplay? Well no shit it is that game looks like ass, it better be 60 fps, else it wouldn't have much going for it.

 

Let's see ... game releases in about 9 days ... I'll give it about 5 before it actually leaks out for real. I'll be surprised if it makes it to November 1st without being leaked.

Edit: Just realized that's next week. Nice. Nice. I'm really hopeful this game is replayable for years rather than weeks. None of these recent Sonic games have been too replayable for me since Sonic Adventure 2. Don't own a Wii, otherwise I'm sure Sonic Colors would be a contestant.

 

I'm colorblind and I have absolutely no problems keeping track of Sonic. therewas one time when I thought I could land on a background piece, but that's it. Sonic sticks out like a sore blistered beating thumb.

I mean, you're center camera majority of the time too. I don't get Kogen's or anyone else's problem.

 

Eh, not too much. After you get all the Red Rings there's not much left to do besides get the S ranks, if that's your thing. Though it is fun to play through the challenge mode. Every level in a row, uninterrupted.

I hope SonGen has a challenge mode.

 

I've never not once had trouble distinguishing Sonic from something in the background. During the June demo I thought a piece of background after being launched in the air from the S-tube was a platform and it wasn't, but that's it.

 

Problems that REALLY aren't there. Generations is a legitimate GOOD game. To average gamers it's a decent, fun, playable video game. To Sonic fans it's the second coming of Christ. If November 1st proves me wrong and this game is terrible then sega can eat my shit and shit out my shit and then eat THEIR shit which is made up of MY shit that I made them eat.