Project Needlemouse: old threads

As long as we don't have something on the level of Rouge impersonating Howard Dean (try getting her dizzy in Heroes), the voice acting is passable. For a game like this, I'd prefer it not exist at all, of course.

 

I'm not sure what all the excitement is all about.

For all we know, It is a likely chance that it could be another "Press boost to win" game, which is like 85%, Or it could be a remastered Sonic 1 with brand new levels, adequate Platforming, and a more classic design to Mr. Needlemouse himself, which is the remaining 15% chance.

Sega is merely competing with Nintendo's New Super Mario Brothers Wii. Basically all they're saying is "Hey! If Nintendo is making a remastered version of their first game, Why shouldn't we do it too?"

 

What part of "All New" and "From Scratch" don't you get?

 

Well, When I heard Sonic Unleashed is to be going back to 2-D ways I was excited but, then came the werehog.

Anyways, I'm not saying I don't believe in Sonic Team anymore or, that I'm not excited for this but, what Mykonos said, until there's proof neither of us can tell if what they're saying is true or not.

 

Personally I feel sonic unleashed's 2d play was not very well programmed. where was the classic sonic physics?
for me the physics in gameplay are a big part of what made sonic in the first place not just speed alone.
hopefully the new game addresses this.

 

To switch between 2 physics styles during the short space of time that usually occurs when the transition from 3D to 2D and back again would be disorientating for the player if they weren't given more warning than unleashed did (with the exception of Holoska's beginning 2D bit). And also I'd imagine programming 2 sets of physics to be swapped almost simultaneously would be hard on the processor.

 

Yeah, that right there is a load of shit. You do realize that the game had you switching between Sonic and Stretch Armstrong on the last level frequently don't you?

Besides, everyone realizes that switching physics on the fly is a simple matter of switching which routines are in use. It's no more trying on the processor than a single conditional statement.

 

Switching between 2 sets of physics is not hard on the CPU at all. Just point the code to the next flag.
I've worked with a quite a few game engines in the past and never herd or seen anything like that effecting the game's performance.

Sonic unleashed looks pretty shotily programed along with the rest of the 3D sonic games when it comes to physics.
Rush jobs if u ask me. Sonic = sega's cash cow afterall. The Sonic name seems to be selling games more than the gameplay these days,
I feel early sonic games used a kind of physics formula not necessarily a physics engine seen in most of todays games.
and they pulled off the effect quite nicely.

also ,,,,I don't think it would be at all disorientating, sonic would just have better physics for loops and slopes is all.
not the stiff shitty physics he has now, if u can even call them that.

The loose roller coaster feeling is totally gone from the newer sonic games.
Me and my friend Xeniczone have been working on a sonic project the past 2 years, to bring back the true sonic feel into a 3D world.

 

They're not guilty of it. They'll only be guilty of it if they give a poor performance. The 4kids crew did a good job with their performances. They just had a shitty script to work with which is nothing new when it comes to Sonic Team's writers.

They were always better than the original crew.

Writing was still shit.

 

Sonic Underground.

 

Nah. Knuckles sounded like an absolute wimp in Underground. In 3/K he behaved like a cheeky child.

 

Fixed that up for you, friend.

So, on Unleashed physics; I'd much prefer if they used classic physics for the entire game, and not just during 2D sections.

However, the shoe upgrades in unleashed made me have an epiphany; I'd really like a 3D Sonic game to play somewhat like Legend of Zelda/ Okami, a big open world with "Dungeons" as a sort of puzzle-and-obstacle course, with upgrades akin to those games. Such as, Sonic normally sinks, but he can equip some sort of Water-striding boots to preform an opposite function to the Iron Boots from LoZ. Of course, that's just me.

On the subject of voice acting; I must admit, the 4kids voices are quite well done in Unleashed, however some voices just sound a bit off. Amy's for instance, sounds just a bit too squeaky at times. Professor Pickle, however, is pure win.

 

A game built off the 2D sections of Unleashed would fucking bomb worse than Sonic '06 did. But if they did that they'd be contradicting their claims of building the game from scratch, so that's a relief.

 

I liked Sonic Unleashed's script. It was no Pulitzer prize, nor would I expect one from a videogame franchise, but it was at least simple and with no bullshit.

 

Huh, sweet. Let's just hope that, for their sake as well as ours, it's not a complete screw-up.

No screenshots yet though - too early to make assumptions.

 

Yet nearly every possible assumption has been made...

 

They could just revamp the physics to be more like Sonic Rush and get some decent level design and I think people would eat it up.

I don't think anyone would care if it was a game like Sonic Rush Adventure, but without the boating segments.

 

The only real problems with it are the physics and how you can't turn around in the air. Well, those, and the whole sliding + boosting vs rolling + spindash abilities, which could easily be fixed.