Sonic The Hedghog Xbox 360 Playable DEMO!!

There was no video posted.

 

Well I don't know what Shade was talking about, but there's some gameplay movies here...

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/son...ehog/media.html

 

Oh I'm pretty sure there was a video posted.

 

Like I said on CulT Forums, I could rip the demo from my 360 hdd but it would require me to get a 360hdd adapter for my PC as well as having to *re-open* my case.

 

...that slowdown is unbearable.

Sickening.

 

...the slowdown was not THAT BAD. And the level complete theme is a remix of the S3&K theme, I actually like it, wtf guys.

 

Meh. I don't see what the hype is. That video wasn't very enticing, didn't look very intersting. And if the controls are as slippery as Heroes, or worse yet, Shadow, then I seriously want to stay away from it. I might be playing this demo on Super's Xbox 360 though, so I'll hold judgement until then.

 

That's actually the music I was talking about. The title screen sounded alright for its 3 seconds as well...

 

That is byfar the most blasphemous remix ever made, in my opinion.

 

Not our fault you don't appreciate orchestra. D:

 

...the fuck are you smoking, dude.

EDIT: aimed at Shade

 

Dude. This style of music doesn't fit the feel of the Sonic series in the least, no matter what the storyline is. it's rediculous.

 

For fuck's sake, enough with the "FEEL OF THE SONIC SERIES WAAAAA" crap. Can you people not take it at the value of a single game, or does it have to always live up to OMG EXPECTATIONS OF THE SERIES and all that shit? Christ.

 

Yes, it does have to "live up to the expectations of the series". It's like the Batman movies. The first two were awesome, then they lost the feel of them with the third and fourth and everyone was like "what is this crap".

When a series establishes itself with a particular feel to it, you tend to come to love and expect it from each game. You can't just go "Oh well, I'll look at it as a standalone game". No. Its from a long established series that has certain expectations attatched to for a lot of people.

 

Dude, I've never watched a Batman movie and gone "Boy I sure hope this is as good as the last seven movies". I go "Boy I sure hope this is a good movie".

In the same light, I never play a Sonic game and go "Boy I sure hope this is as good as the last twenty games". I go "Boy I sure hope this is a good game".

 

Then we agree to disagree.

 

I agree that you (and a whole lot of other people) put way too many expectations down for every game that comes out.


If you expect that every game is going to be (or should be) as good as, if not better than, every game before it, you're bound to be sorely disappointed in the long run. It just doesn't WORK like that.

 

You misunderstand. I expect the game itself to be completely awesome based off what I have seen. The music, however, just does not match what I believe to be "that Sonic feel".

 

Actually, that music feels like it belongs. I mean, really feels like it belongs. It reminds me of an underwater level.

And in terms of everything else... the gameplay reminds me of SA2, which isn't exactly a bad thing...

Looking forward to putting my paws on a final version.

 

Music doesn't have to keep to the original Sonic style at all to sound good. All music is designed to do it capture the feel of the environment, and I think the music I've heard so far does a pretty good job of it. You have to move with the times. The game is supposed to have a dark theme to it, so playing music like the old games just won't work. All of the older games had a lighter theme, all the way up until Shadow. Now they're taking it in a new direction, they can't exactly have you playing a darker style of zone and throw something like the Carnival Night Zone music into it.