Hai guys. I Sonic Generationed.

Well, I'm liking those shields save for one little thing......

When Sonic has the Bubble Barrier equipped he bounces right through the enemy instead of bouncing off of it. What the hell?

 

Well fuck.

I'm curious to know how the shields work for Modern, if they do at all.

They look to work quite well; hopefully they see SOME use outside of Sky Sanctuary, if not in main acts then in the smaller ones.

 

I don't mind how floaty the Bubble Shield seems, in a way it seems more right. Also, I don't think they will be used only in Sky Sanctuary, unless they plan to incorporate a water section into it, and I don't see why they'd do such a thing.

Also:

+ - Sonichu Generations   :specialed: :flees, hides, changes name:

 

so before I bitch, I'm going to flat out say I still fucking love this game and will buy it on day 1.

This is the first time though I've seen something I feel is off, it might just be me, but the shields feel....like theyre from a shitty fan-game or something. The electric shield seems like a halfassed double jump, and the bubble doesnt even have any animations. It looks....halfassed. but again, this is a type of prototype.

 

The shields look wonderful. :specialed:

Also perhaps the floating of the bubble shield might be an error, like that's how the shield behaves underwater. I haven't gotten any chance to mess around with the PS3. Hell I don't even know how. I just wish someone could repackage the file with the full options screen and Modern playable.

 

I know I shouldn't be surprised but...are you guys seriously bitching and moaning about a bubble shield being floaty?

Jesus christ. This is why we can't have nice things.

On the subject of the shield though, does this imply we'll be getting water sections for Classic? Because even if we don't get any for Modern, I'd be alright with at least Classic getting some in. And the fire shield appears to be Classic's Air Boost. Heh. Lightning shield is just as fuck awesome as it always was. I'm down with this.

 

It's odd how Sonic doesn't bounce from the enemies after using the bubble shield against them, but those look pretty cool.

I'm guessing they don't work in Modern's level?

 

This is Sonic Retro, what were you expecting? :v: Though if it was me, I'd make it between what it's now and the normal jump height. That'd probably do it.

If anything, I'm more worried about the lighting shield's double jump. Like, two SFXs are being played at the same time - the shield's own SFX and the jump SFX. Why is the jump SFX being played? I guess I should hope it's incomplete and eventually it'll get fixed =P

 

I noticed that too and same thing is with the Bubble shield. When Sonic jumps, jump and bubble SFX are both heard. I did not hear anything with the fire one though...

Otherwise, I love what am I seeing and I don't see anything wrong. Im usually easy acceptable at everything. If things are like this, then they are.

 

Moral of the story: If Sonic Generations has taught me anything, it's that no matter what Sega does, it will never be good enough. :specialed:

I don't like the fact that Sonic doesn't bounce off enemies with the bubble shield, but everything else seems fine. Heck, I even like the idea that the bubble shield is floaty. I don't really care if the final game has them work exactly like the classics, but it'd be cool.

 

It just weirds me out that the bubble seems to give better jumping capabilities (certainly by distance if not height) than the lightning shield, but on the other hand I always felt the bubble was gimped to the point of uselessness in any level that didn't have water in S3K.

Was there an instance where the double jump feature of the bubble shield was more useful than that of the lightning shield? I'd be willing to suppose there are a couple spots in Hydrocity and Launch Base 2 like that, but other than that, I can't think of any.

 

Just about any time there was a badnik or an item box, and a lack of ceiling, opportunities would rise.

 

The bounce may be fixed for the final version, as this is a hacked move and from a demo prototype no less. From the general lack of bounce from normal jumps however, it's most probable that it won't. In this case Bubble Shield might not be my favourite anymore. This was one of the oomphs! that made me lose so much time with Sonic 3 & K as a child, because I exploited it a lot like the poster above says. However, I like the floatiness, it's quite appropriate.

Fire shield is still the most useless. I wouldn't mind if it got some kind of revamp. For example, be able to destroy certain walls that normal spin can't (like the flame ring summersault upgrade in Adventure 2). What more uses for it? Higher horizontal translation is already secured by the spindash at all times.

 

But how many times have Sonic fans said, "It'll be fixed in the final version" and it wasn't?

 

That is true. But it is a demo and while that would have settled it, this is furthermore a hacked feature built into an engine that didn't have it previously. It might still be in the middle of construction.

 

How many times we were happy with something and then Sega breaks it in the final version?

 

How many times has Sega screwed up an anniversary game horribly?

Just once, but that was somewhat recent...

 

Personally, I don't like the bubble shield being floaty on rebound. The shields are supposed give him new abilities. Not change his physics mid-use. If anything, the bubble shield always felt like it was turning Sonic into a bouncy ball. Pretty much like how the bounce bracelet worked in SA2.

When I think bubble shield, I think bounce bracelet as well.

This...is not the bubble shield to me, especially since you don't even bounce/rebound off enemies.

Thinking about it, this shield is closer to SA2's bounce bracelet than S3K's bubble shield in an overall sense, as you don't rebound off enemies in SA2 when you use the bounce bracelet and you tend to linger in air after a rebound, more than you do with a normal jump.

 

1. WHO FUCKING CARES
2. why is all this fucking autistic nitpicking in a hacking thread and not in the main generations thread where it belongs