The Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Megathread

I hope this isn't the big news for today.

We knew about this for a few days now! And not only that, we could tell from just looking at the screenshots.

 

I know this may be so minor that no one cares...but they have the supposed "boxart" on the website instead of the giant question mark now!

 

Woo I'm posting in the Sonic 4 thread even if I said I wouldn't touch it anymore.

Namo, read this: SPG:Ring_Loss.
In classic games you can't recollect rings for 64 frames (1.06 seconds), and they last for 256 frames (4.26 seconds). This gives you 192 actual useful frames to recollect the rings (3.20 seconds).

 

This is why most of us are virgin, people.

 

The torch is a good idea, considering that it is similar to the light gimmick in Sandopolis Act 2 of S&K

 

Ruby has a sense of humor, that's good.

 

So...they took two and a half months to speak about something I had first?

Nice, Aaron.

That said, it doesn't appear that's all...looks like we're gonna learn about changes in running physics too.

 

Huh? This isn't the update, guys. The update is the change to an MMORPGFPS.

Edit: But really this caption isn't the update. The update is part of a list.

Double Edit: Ice Cream strikes again!

Yep, Pacific - it's about 2:30 PM here.

Damn you free ice creeeeaaaaam!

 

Ruby is using humor to disarm everybody, because he knows the update is gonna be shit.

 

Calling it "Lost Lab" makes it sound totally different.

brb, craving ice cream now. This update better be worth it!

 

Guys, the update will be crap. Just like the tree and the sunflower.

It will be:

The minecart isn't tilt controlled anymore. The screen doesn't tilt when you play either! It just takes up part of the stage. Sonic holds a torch.

It's not THE BIG UPDATE. It's just part of THE BIG UPDATE. So Sega doesn't release everything at once.

 

I am expecting the worst anyway.

Something like: "we made sonic accelerate quicker, now he can run faster then ever before!" and most probably we will still see that sonic has those slow and ugly looking walking frames in his jog animation which was part of the slowness cause in the first place, they looked wrong and should not have been there.

 

It's up...

EDIT: Very predictable. Act 2 info, wheel of feet come up faster, apparently the running/jogging animation was tweaked, and that chasing wall in lost Labyrinth was slowed down.

 

And the update is live.

http://blogs.sega.com/usa/2010/08/19/sonic...te-blog-part-I/

 

Oh wow, they referenced Act 3's Wall of Death:

Also, Act 2 is changed, mine cart is at the very end of the level and animation changes. That's all folks, wait until September when Ruby tells you that the dying cats and misplaced sound effects are staying in. By that time, I assume that another level will be revealed.

 

So basically in a nut shell...

- Lost Labyrinth Act 2 Changed. The mine cart is present but is now automatic instead of user-driven.
- Sonic's running has been edited.
- Sonic's acceleration is increased, thus we see the blurry feet sooner.
- More balanced gameplay in some areas.

Not bad...just enough to wet our appetites...

 

1. Mine cart only at end of stage

2. Not tilt controlled

3. Faster acceleration

4. Changed running animation

5. Removed bottomless pit

Hell yeah, Sega.

 

EDIT: They didn't say anything about a bottomless pit, glem, that was about a crusher-wall section.

EDIT 2: September isn't actually that far off, it's already August 19th. Time flies when you're on a BioWare craze.

Tweaked the running animation and made it so ye olde wheel-o-feet comes out sooner during his running cycle. Well, I hope this means we can stop bitching about his running animation now. Looking forward to seeing it in action when they deliver on that promise of showing us Lost Labyrinth in action.

That one shot where Sonic's feet are blurry... is that a stillframe of the wheel-o-feet, or is the blur effect something else entirely? Either way, it looks terrible in stillframe—as most blur effects do whether they look good in action or not.

The torchlight does look per-etty oppressive in that shot. And the "Sonic isn't all about speed" quote kind of got my cynical side going... he usually doesn't need lighting gimmicks to "not be all about speed." But that's the extent of my irritation, I'm actually quite happy about the update. The bucket of ice cream at the end of it might have some hypnotic power.

 

I think I can keep an open mind about the future updates they release. Fingers crossed.

 

Act 3 has a wall of Death? :D That's freaking hilarious! I was wondering when that was ever going to come back. I wonder if it has spikes and jet engines on it like (ok, I can't find it). But I'm sure you've seen it.

EDIT: Whoops, nvm, I remember seeing that insanely fast wall. Glad it was changed.