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Stealth, on 22 July 2015 - 05:20 PM, said:

I never intended to be rude exactly nor blame it on you or your team, but rather poke at the people who overhype particular works done by particular people when its not necessarily warranted.

KingofHarts, on 22 July 2015 - 07:25 PM, said:

You sounded as if you were suggesting Megamix is more or less officially the "bar" people try and fail to reach even nowaday, but in case that was not what you meant, then I apologize for the confusion. However considering how you said your comment here, you seem to suggest that just any hack can be "the bar", as many hacks fail to meet the quality of hacks like Sonic Green Snake, LSD is bad or whatever, does that mean this now means they are also some part of "bar" or "standard" or something? Just curious considering how you worded your comment.

MarkeyJester, on 22 July 2015 - 08:36 PM, said:

Well, like any sensible person, I don't consider the leaked version as a release, but what it is; leaked, and I know by now it is probably 2 or 3 years old so a lot of progress could have been done while that, and in fact that is one of the reasons I say the bar of MegaMix has been surpassed, as I don't consider what has been done on the leaked version. And I am sure MegaMix would set the bar once again, but sooner or later something else comes along that is even better, though given that less and less people are interested in hacking, which would unfortunately mean that less and less people even attempt to go for such ambitious hacks, which of course is a shame, and I'd wish people would collaborate more on projects to make them better and more possible! But that is going fairly well off-topic so I better stop while I am ahead


And no, I don't want to start flamewars here exactly, so I hope I don't come off as if I was trying to

KingofHarts, on 19 July 2015 - 06:27 PM, said:

Not really, the bar on MegaMix 4.0 has been crossed many times since, and many people I hear say nowadays its more overrated than anything. But perhaps that will change when/if next release is out of the box!

Something I am working on currently. The video doesn't show a lot and exactly because I don't want to give big spoilers out as of now, but I thought I'd make something at least half-watchable(?).

I played the first 5 levels, after getting too frustrated and stopped. What can I say? Knuckles has missing sound effects. GHZ port is ok but laggy and could have been done better. EHZ layout edit is fine but could be better. WHZ is just boring as heck, almost not objects anywhere, unchallenging layouts, repeating patterns galore, I just wished it was over 90% of the time, and I fell through layout countless of times. WZ was almost as horrible, while it had more going on, the collision was seriously fucked beyond belief, even the badniks fell through it, as I did, they layout was just annoying more than anything, and one section in act 2 had 20-30 chunks of straight line... That is awful design decision. DHZ was better though, with a lot more going on, decent layouts, but god damn full of cheap traps and ways to annoy the fuck out of the player, especially the thingys which shoot fireballs, it is almost impossible to avoid hitting those fireballs all the time, and overall it was not really pleasing experience. Even the music ports you made were mostly sounding horrible or mediocre at least, many having pitch issues and completely sounding wrong, some even to the point of almost hurting ears.

I can't really pick much positive to say, because honestly there isn't. This hack is sloppy thing with all the content slapped in somewhat working. This would need serious work to be a decent product, and I am saying this just based on 5 LEVELS!