Sonic X Shadow Generations thread, movie level out now

Makes a ton of sense; play the remaster to get introduced to Shadow and the good see the movie a month later.

 

Interestingly, the Switch successor might be out by then. We'll have to see whether this console will be backwards-compatible. Forces was also announced for the NX before its official reveal.

 

I get the impression that Sega doesn't have enough staff left who are familiar with Generations' engine to put new content in, so they built a small Shadow game in Frontiers' engine to tack on instead.

 

I'm still on PS4 Pro, I'm hoping to change that this year but I'm doubtful I can pull it off.

 

That's what they did for SMW and Bowser's Fury iirc.

 

Considering how Bowser's Fury looks and plays, that seems to be the same engine, or at least forked from it.

 

I’ve not seen any evidence for that being the case. When Sonic Team has bled developers, it’s historically been to Nintendo, which has much better retention, and Bowser’s Fury looks far more in parity with 3D World than this hodge podge does. Seriously, porting this to HE2 was like the minimum reasonable expectation and they just didn’t bother apparently.

 

I'd rather not have it ported to HE2, because that'd incline a radically different game. Hedgehog Engine 2 isn't just rendering at this point, with it comes an assortment of other factors in development, and Generations would be completely retooled at that point into something it wasn't- with a high chance of severe issues along for the ride.

At least this gives me a vague hope that modders can theoretically hop on over and continue most of their work, versus everything from Lost World onwards severely locking down tons of engine facets with hardcoding everywhere.

 

Website is finally up.



Those screenshots of the original game really don't look upgraded to me.

 

Ever think about how sad it is that a remaster changing absolutely nothing is seen as a good thing by us?

 

I'm gonna be really nitpicky here and say that this logo kind of sucks lol that's not even the proper Sonic trademark logo. Hope it's a placeholder. Generations had a really nice logo to begin with.

 

Holding out for the intense make out scene between Sonic and Shadow at the end of the game

 

Why would you want them to port the game to Hedgehog Engine 2 when Hedgehog Engine 2 has worse looking lighting than Gens and ESPECIALLY Unleashed. I would must rather the game look a little too similar to the original than completely mess up the visuals like Colors Ultimate and tbh a lot of other remasters do. It's not just Sonic. A lot of remasters look like stitched together nonsense with the new visual elements clashing with the old ones.

 

Yea, the bar is in hell.

 

Logo has that 2000s authenticity "I just learned photoshop" vibe.

We've seen the alternative. Can't be trusted.

 

I mean at least if the Shadow levels feel like Cyberspace and aren't on par with the Generations levels at least it's considered its own mode so Generations is untouched (for better or for worse).

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2513280/SONIC_X_SHADOW_GENERATIONS/

Steam page is up.

 

The game is literally called Shadow Generations

 

Is it just me or does it look like they added a bit of bloom?

 

I'm liking the Shadow Generations stuff so far. Hopefully, the game won't end up looking worse the more we see of it.