Sonic Generations - we still haven't played it

Blue Blood · Jan 14, 2011

SEGA's New Years Card

MegaDash · Jan 14, 2011

Damn, Sonic. Those are some faaaaahn threads ya got goin' there! Sweet stuff. But what's with the empty white box on the side? Clean slate?

Those are some great cards. I especially love the Prope one. Adorable!

SomeSortOfRobot · Jan 15, 2011

Blue Blood said:

SEGA's New Years Card

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Oh, I simply MUST have that in hi-res.

Yash · Jan 15, 2011

I wouldn't mind a return to the Sonic Adventure-esque gameplay on 3DS (or any console for that matter).

As in, not balls-out fast with rigid mechanics, like Sonic Unleashed. SA1 tried to be the Genesis games in 3D, fairly linear, moderately fast, plenty of platforming and exploration, and it was pretty rad. Unleashed/Colors is fine, but the Adventure formula is more my preference.

DimensionWarped · Jan 15, 2011

Sonic in a lab coat strikes me as a little perverse and mind-blowing. I don't know whether to love it or hate it.

HarrisonJ · Jan 15, 2011

MegaDash said:

Damn, Sonic. Those are some faaaaahn threads ya got goin' there! Sweet stuff. But what's with the empty white box on the side? Clean slate?
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...It's a card. I think you're supposed to write some shit in that there clean slate and give it to a person.

Why are they talking about the anniversary already? It's not until June. Of course that doesn't stop this card from being pretty damned cool.

SteelBrush · Jan 15, 2011

DimensionWarped said:

Sonic in a lab coat strikes me as a little perverse and mind-blowing. I don't know whether to love it or hate it.
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Actually the white suit reminded me of smooth criminal MJ.

TheGrandChawhee · Jan 15, 2011

Lack of pants, you don't wear sneakers with a fancy suit, and green eyes.

/complaints

SomeSortOfRobot · Jan 15, 2011

HarrisonJ said:

Why are they talking about the anniversary already? It's not until June.
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Nintendo celebrated the Mario anniversary for months.

SO PISS OFF

+ - loooooveyooooou

DigitalDuck · Jan 15, 2011

HarrisonJ said:

Why are they talking about the anniversary already? It's not until June. Of course that doesn't stop this card from being pretty damned cool.
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And at what point should they start talking about the anniversary? It's closer to Sonic's 20th than it is his 19th.

Skyler · Jan 16, 2011

I don't care what anyone says, that card and its art is awesome.

Namo · Jan 16, 2011

E-122-Psi said:

It amuses me how many people didn't like the Werehog solely because of the character. Granted there were some big problems with the Werehog levels but hating them solely for not being the right character seems a bit petty (so you say completely lush and well implemented speed levels would be appalling if you played as Big?).

Werehog's problems for the most part seemed more the level design rather than the gameplay mechanics (par maybe being a bit too slow). The levels were extremely repetitive and lacking in innovative obstacles and challenges, you just beat up loads of generic enemies and placed a few switches here and there. The odd few times they put real effort into the setup the character is placed in it begins to shine (the Egg Dragon was epic for example).
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I actually love the Werehog design. I know it was some more of that good old "forced edginess" on Sega's part, but the Werehog ended up being more fuzzy and cute than anything else (at least, to me).

As for the stages, I actually enjoy them to a degree. I like the platforming parts, and the fighting parts are okay, but could do with less enemies. Way less enemies. The fights should not drag on for more than five minutes, and they do, which is a problem.

Sparks · Jan 16, 2011

The were-hog isn't a bad concept on its own, it just doesn't belong in a Sonic game.

Greg the Cat · Jan 16, 2011

Sparks said:

The were-hog isn't a bad concept on its own, it just doesn't belong in a Sonic game.
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Well, that's considering that the Werehog is basically Ristar in 3D but moving at the pace of a sloth.

E-122-Psi · Jan 16, 2011

Greg the Cat said:

Sparks said:

The were-hog isn't a bad concept on its own, it just doesn't belong in a Sonic game.
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Well, that's considering that the Werehog is basically Ristar in 3D but moving at the pace of a sloth.
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Funnily enough wasn't Bunnie's gameplay meant to emulate Ristar in the dumped plans for Sonic Mars?

evilhamwizard · Feb 5, 2011

I don't think this was posted before, but Wave Master is also going to celebrate Sonic's 20th with something music related probably.

http://www.wave-master.com/sonic20th/

Here's hoping it's like a huge collection of Sonic music, in similar fashion to Wave Master's other huge collection releases. Oh, and with Sonic 3's music, with liner notes and credits. That would be super.

360 · Feb 10, 2011

Probably about time I updated my own thread. Following the announcement that Wavemaster is engineering something music-related for Sonic's twentieth we have the strong rumour/news that the first project is a special re-release of Sonic Adventure's OST:

(From the Actual source)

This Japanese shop is advertising what's called Sonic Adventure Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition, out for sale April 20th and available now for pre-order. There are no other details given other than it may not necessarily be a straight re-release. You may remember the first SA OST released in 1999 as a two disc set. A separate vocal mini-album with the game's image themes, as well as a remix album was also produced. It's not clear whether those would be a part of the album.

Source: http://shop.mu-mo.net/avx/sv/item1?jsiteid...mp;categ_id=100

It does seem like Sega are going all out for this one. We have Sonic 4: Episode 2 coming this summer with two more announcements scheduled for the beginning of this year. Given we're in early February those announcements should be imminent. The key project is the multi-platform Sonic Anniversary game which we still have yet to hear anything substantial about; though when we do it will be posted here.

PS. I just hit the site that lists the OST and ran it through a translator and all I could derive was that the soundtrack is the "first of the anniversary soundtrack releases" with more to come.

MykonosFan · Feb 10, 2011

If it comes with all of the game tracks, count me in. More incentive if it comes with the character themes. I really just want an official CD with the songs that isn't expensive/rare.

TimmiT · Feb 10, 2011

There will be a Sega press event in a few weeks: http://www.segabits.com/?p=7815
If Sega is going to announce new Sonic games at the beginning of this year, than they will probably be announced there.

MegaDash · Feb 10, 2011

Nice to see SEGA still hasn't gotten over it's brain-dead tendency to re-release everything from 10-20 years ago. I wonder if they'll release Sonic Heroes DX and it's not-new soundtrack in a few years. :P

It'd better be really special. By the way, are we absolutely certain Sonic 4: Episode II is coming out this summer?

Sonic Generations - we still haven't played it

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