Who composed the music for this commercial? If it was Jun Senoue, we need to stop harassing him for the beta tracks. It sounds a bit like a self-parody... but an awesome one.
Oh hey, I know someone was asking about it before, but the spike crushers in Marble Garden no longer kill Sonic when he pushes against them.
RAW footage for infomercial added to the archive: https://twitter.com/SVAProject/status/1674477950521974797?s=20
You completely missed my point. Not only did I never advocate for postponment I'm saying that good will would be worth the money invested. My criticism is at the investors and execs. If you think in the long term, imagine every Sonic source on social media and youtube could safely say "Sonic Origins" with no caveats, no asterisks, no issues, no alternatives that safely "beat" it, etc. They'd make back the drop in the bucket they spent getting it there and then some. Because Sonic Origins is coming out at a time where backwards compatibility is a forgone conclusion, x86 will be what console and PC use for the foreseeable future, people have simply invested too much into these ecosystems (10 years PS/Xbox) to have it suddenly be jolted from them without a very good reason (and there isn't one) translation: they likely won't get away with another re-release for some time so perfecting the existing release by my estimation would be worth it since it'll exist on all major platforms as the way to play these games for the foreseeable future. They're short-sighted when it comes to profit. They want money now, long-term health be damned, classic investor. They may not even be wrong, gamers have become very stupid and very gluttonous and will buy anything so maybe I'm in the wrong and optimistic. But let's ignore that, say the cost analysis doesn't come up in their favor. Goodwill goes a long way, showing that you care about the hardcore fans by paying a few people to make every pixel just right like a fan will be felt, will strengthen brand loyalty and that should be worth it. They could even call it ++, include genesis and master system roms and it would kill for them. I doubt Headcanon costs a lot especially to earn goodwill for one of their top 3 franchises. But let's say I'm wrong about everything. Literally everything. I believe customers should always demand more of major corporations, maybe it's not realistic and Sonic Origins makes the most it can hope to make as-is why not demand more? If I demand more and you demand more and we all demand more we have much better odds of getting good stuff out of companies then if we don't. It's not like Sonic Origins is a gift, it's a video game I paid $44.99+tax to play. How about we treat it like one?
Kinda sad to think the advert has an old-school TV aesthetic when the actual game (unlike the CRT filters of Mania) does not...
I’ve never heard of someone being happy with a retro-style game’s or rerelease’s CRT filters in my life. Can you or someone else give an example of a game that does it well? I never play with them on.
What about Mania's filters? I mean there's always going to be someone dissatisfied with video filters but I thought most people were fine with Mania's options.
Yeah, Mania's shaders are generally held in high regard, hence why they've been ported to other platforms such as ReShade and RetroArch. I use the former to apply the Sharp CRT filter (aka Yeetron) to the decomps. It's definitely a step above "slap some random dark horizontal lines on the screen and call it a day."
Ok this is ridiculous. The QR code included as a JP version preorder bonus isn't a download link. It leads you to an unlisted YouTube video featuring 9 tracks from the OST instead.
I guess those are pretty good from what I remember. Like I said, I’m no connoisseur so I don’t know what to really look for. I just always see people like Joe from GameSack complain about nearly every implementation of them I see.
Sonic Origins is good but it would be better if instead of Sonic 1, 2, CD, 3, and Knuckles it had Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, Golfing, and Boxing and instead of Sonic you played as a funny customizable avatar called a Mii
So this has nothing to do with Plus and as such has actually been the case this whole time; but I noticed the other day that the Animated scenes all have this, like, drop shadow effect to look like they were actually drawn on physical celluloid sheets. I thought it was a compression artifact at first but it’s consistently in the same direction I could tell from the get-go they were meant to look very 90’s OVA-y like CD’s opening but that’s kind of a wild touch that I’ve even mentioned wanting to see modern animation trying to look vintage do. (I’m also not 100% sure but I think they might all be animated 4:3 safe so they could theoretically be letterboxed over and keep their intended framing intact to complete the look)
https://twitter.com/RaccoonRhythm/status/1674984113944797185 https://twitter.com/RaccoonRhythm/status/1674985345010798592 Someone may find these interesting
If you use the Level Select codes of Sonic 1, 2, or 3 to play as Amy in Classic Mode, she won’t have her Hammer Run (which is a parallel to how Sonic cannot do Drop Dash in Classic Mode either).
I have to say, S ranking the Ex Missions is harder than I remember. That Knuckles one in Marble Zone where you need to glide through the enemies is pretty tricky.
