The Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Megathread

Wanna know my biggest gripe, which I'm surprised no one else has mentioned? The springs. You just run into them from any direction and they hurl you straight up like in Sonic Adventure. No inertia or anything.

 

Oh, it's been mentioned. Maybe not in this version of the thread, but it's been mentioned.

 

Everything has been mentioned.

 

Auto-springs are another aspect of 3D Sonic that works as an aide to ease the transition onto a 3D plane, but in 2D... bah. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old springs, and they presented more interesting gameplay than auto-springs do.

 

http://share.dftba.com/solo.swf?Song=546

A buddy just send this to me, .... wow!

 

The automatic springs have been around since Chaotix.

 

They weren't quite the same in Chaotix, though. And I can only just barely tolerate Chaotix to begin with.

 

has anyone looked on the sega forums lately, I was laughing hard at people arguing over speculation about the 4th console being the genesis

"dur genesis cant play sonic 4 because it just woulnt work"

"thats why they would make the graphics 16 bit"

"dur then it would look gaeh..."

funny to see people arguing over an opinion of a speculation, huh?

 

Perhaps it's at this point you realise that the Sega forums are the same as Retro, except with a two-month time delay and an average user age of nine.

 

On that note, someone on the SEGA forums brought up the idea of putting the game's soundtrack CD in a mocked-up Dreamcast Sonic 4 game case complete with Sonic 4 instruction manual. Even though I never owned a Dreamcast or any Dreamcast games, I think that'd be pretty cool.

 

Also on that note, those boards handled the leaks without committing suicide.

I'm glad someone else recognises this.

 

For a while I could have sworn I was alone on that statement.

 

I'll play the optimist and say they're slowly luring new fans to the classic style.

In all seriousness, they're scared they'll alienate a great chunk of their fanbase. They want the game to appeal to both crowds rather than just the oldbies, even though that's exactly what they said they weren't doing.

 

You're definitely right, SEGA knew very well what we wanted and expected, we had months of anticipation and hype to see the Classic style back. I really hate how SEGA has to unify everything about Sonic now, the universal diversity is completely gone. It's very annoying. I will never ever like the new Sonic, so SEGA can just stop trying to win me over with their shenanigans. It didn't work before and it doesn't work now. I'm cutting my post off here before I go on another tangent.

 

Eh, well, I was actually hoping for the modern style. A classic-style HD Sonic game with new-school designs was exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for in Needlemouse.

Although the Homing Attack and auto-spring gameplay mechanics, on the other hand, I could do without.

...But have we regressed to talking about the character design, really? I thought that subject had been drilled into the ground with a jackhammer already...

 

Freakin' agreed. We see one Chemical Plant-style booster, and immediately start bitching that the "game is ruined because it's all about speed". Really? Would you have griped this much when you saw Sonic 2 today? Or maybe Sonic CD's Stardust Speedway? Hell, if anything those were mostly unusable because you never could tell which way they'd send you. Yes, I said it. It's an ugly truth, but maybe it'll serve as a bit of a wakeup call to actually wait until we have the game in our hands before we pan it completely.

 

It was more because we saw the generic orange Sonic Advance booster in Splash Hill Zone, a zone trope that normally doesn't have speed boosters at all, and then eventually saw multiple screenshots of multiple speed boosters in Splash Hill, which caused people to (prematurely) conclude there would be speedboosters all over every single zone.

The actual result as we saw in the leak was more of a sort of middle ground compared to what was feared—the game isn't all about speed, but the speed sections almost always involve speedboosters.

As for Stardust Speedway, those speedboosters were quite clever: they sent you rocketing off in the direction you were moving when you touched them.

 

but the speed pad was the gimick for only CPZ, this is in almost every level, but if we are lucky, the pads will oly have a short burst of speed, then putting you back to normal speed after a few seconds, rather than spamming speed and autospring into everything

 

The odd thing about these speedboosters is that they also send you into a temporary roll... and in a few cases there are badniks directly in front of the booster, which essentially amounts to HEY, FREE POINTS.