The Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Megathread

Oh, it's been announced officially? We can all talk about it now? :specialed:

On a (more) serious note, even if the games sold like shit, SEGA will still make them. Ken said they had the whole story thing planned out so maybe they have already planned to make the other episodes and they can't really back out if something doesn't sell well?

 

Tell that to those of us who have been waiting 10 years for Shenmue III.

 

salt on wounds... salt on wounds...

I remember briefly reading something about how Shenmue 3 was gonna be on Xbox in the past... it never materialize.
shame, it would have been the game that would've forced me to crack and buy an xbox + - after a price drop.  

 

I finally got to play the leaked version, and yeah, it's garbage. It's horribly and obviously incomplete though. I have no doubt that the final version will be much more polished than the one floating around the internet.

 

Goddammit, why are people still claiming that Sonic Unleashed sold well? It most certainly did not. It only sold 2 million, which is low for being, you know, the flagship franchise of an entire third party developer. And not only that, you have to consider that it took four different consoles for it to even sell that much, the Wii port for it being the most "successful". So yeah, two million. That doesn't cut the mustard, guys.

 

Heh, only 2 million? Jesus Christ. Well, at least a good majority could smell that stinker a mile away.

On le toppique: Here I was thinking that it was a model rip, not a texture rip, unless I missed something.

 

Neither is consistent with the map shown in Shadow either. Continental drift in Sonic's Earth is serious business.

For Unleashed numbers, it hit 3 million back in january. Roughly 600 for every platform but the Wii, which has 1500. As long as Sonic's face is on the stands it will be a slow burner. And of course, according to vgchartz, which is not that reliable.

 

The background texture of Splash hill looking like a JPEG'd mock-up of the foreground never did fill me with confidence.

I can agree. A big thing that didn't help the Werehog's case was that the concept sounds inherently cheesy and gimmicky from the beginning. Using a pre-established character like Knuckles to go around pounding the stuffing out of things may have made the easier to accept.

 

And then soup up the Flying mini game with Tails and essentially all 3 characters are playable.

 

I miss the good old days where they all had nearly identical gameplay, except for their unique abilities which allowed (or forced) them to take different paths through the acts. I don't like what they did with Adventure. Emerald hunting was boring and the beeping of the radar drove me insane, and all of Tails' levels are broken (Jump off the side of the starting platform in Windy Valley and fly = 20 second win). Everyone else has time limits and/or is Big the Cat.

 

Unleashed playing as only sonic and werehog > Unleashed playing as sonic, tails and knuckles.

Seriously, at least the werehog was (IMO) more fun than the crappy Big levels, knuckles levels, tails shooting levels, etc.

Unless you planned on literally making knuckles just like the werehog and have stretchy arms for some reason, that was the most fun part of the werehog anyway.

 

Yeah, that's exactly what we were talking about. None of that emerald hunting shit.

 

Just exchange the Double jump with the glide, and we have a winner.
Though, I suppose there would need to be some alterations to the levels.

 

I thought we established a while ago (from a question I asked, no less) that doing that wouldn't have changed much. Unless, you know, the Sonic fanbase is being the bipolar bitch it's been for years, again.

 

That's scarcely fair to SA1. You can't just jump off Windy Valley and win with Tails. You have to know exactly where the kill-planes are, which pretty much requires h4x.

I'll agree that the Emerald Radar for Knux was freakin' annoying though.

 

Fixed.

Seriously, Windy Valley as Tails is hilarious. Downward-oriented paths are NOT a good fit for him.

 

Why is there so much discussion on Sonic Unleashed in this thread? For fucks sake guys, stay on topic.

As buggy as the physics are in this release, I kinda like the ability to stop in air and change direction. It KINDA breaks the momentum aspect of the game, but it adds a layer of fun where you can really do some perfect moves.

Also in its current state, the special stage feels like a really bad, bad drug trip, that handles poorly. I really hope that's not a representation of its final state.

All in all, I think the version that was released was solely meant to be shown off, not taken as a final release. Y'know, for some press and internal microsoft/sega show and tell. I think that people won't have as much to worry about in the final, which I'm now very much looking forward to.

 

what in the fuck is this horse shit?

 

Um...I think its a Sonic 06 Sprite.

UUUGHHH.