Sonic Generations Megathread

Sorry bro, this was all I could find (So far):
http://bit.ly/fkRPnD

EDIT: Oh derp. we did have a topic about it:
http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?sho...t=0&start=0

Ok, one of you have got to remember that poll!

 

Sega never made the results of the poll public, but I remember that a Sonic Retro member counted what people said in the comments and posted it. I think it was Dusk Golem.

 

I have a copy of that post:

 

EDIT: Beaten :T

 

Makes me wonder what modern stages we'll see, and if it'll include Unleashed and Colours. Also still got no idea how the Dreamcast era stages'll be like, since both Classic gameplay and Colours/Unleashed gameplay are pretty damn different to the Adventure gameplay, so that'll be very interesting to see what comes up.

 

From what game to what game was the poll allowed to have? seems odd that it all stops at SA2.

 

Especially seeing as it said modern so there's got to be at least Heroes and 06 in that. Would be funny if a Shadow level appeared

 

No Shadow levels in the poll, and lets be honest, the levels are far from memorable...

 

On the point of other playable characters, I am getting sick of 'Sonic only' games, we've had a ton of them, and I do miss the chance to play as Knuckles. The problems that people had is that they just had way too many, and they took over from Sonic's story.

 

As long as they don't feel the need to add extraneous mission-based objectives to their respective characters or throttle down overall development for them, then fine by me. I just hope SEGA doesn't think I'll be willing to pay DLC money for a simple model swap with an extra power that the level wasn't made to accommodate.

As was already mentioned, Sonic having extra playable characters isn't inherently a bad thing, it's just seen consistently worsening implementations with each 3D game and uninteresting inclusions in the Advance series. Why was the latter uninteresting? Because the fundamental level design wasn't very conducive of the alternate characters' abilities, and it was decently unmemorable with just Sonic alone anyways. The real concern here is Sonic Team's abilities to design a fundamentally excellent and memorable Sonic game level-by-level. If they can't do that with just Sonic—either of their iterations—then how much better will they do if they swap out the character with Tails or Knuckles or even Shadow? We won't know until they try, but if we're going to assume that they'll be "like Sonic but" characters, then it's that much more crucial that they get Sonic-only gameplay right. And anyways, if I want to see any character like Tails or Knuckles playable in a Sonic game, I want them to be a part of the development process from the drawing board, not a late inclusion, or perhaps even a post-development DLC project with or without their own unique stages/story arcs.

Also yeah, the more the hub worlds uses SA1's Adventure Fields as a base and expands its distinct designs to the quality and polish of Unleashed's hub worlds, the more I'll enjoy them.

EDIT: I doubt any inclusion of Storybook levels whatsoever, seeing as how they're really shitty spinoffs.

 

I really am hoping for a PC version later on. After all, this game is to celebrate Sonic's 20th anniversary.

 

I understand the concern here, but I really see no problem with this. I was the person who bought Protoman and Bass in MegaMan 9/10, and I enjoyed playing through the levels again with the new features (Though MegaMan is a difficult game and the characters were a nice breath of fresh air).

Though I don't think this would work with this game. The Modern Sonic sections are too linear to use the other characters features. If Sega does decide to release a sidescrolling Sonic game, even based off of the idea of Classic Sonic, I'd be willing to shell out some money/points to play as Tails/Knuckles/Whoever. Hell, it would be injenious not to knowing Sonic fans. A quick drop for Shadow/Silver/Blaze/Espio DLC and it would be easy money for Sega.

 

To me (and for me personally), I thought one of the reasons why people complained about the characters in '06 was because there was getting WAAY too many hedgehogs around!

I mean come on, we have Sonic, Shadow, Silver and Mephiles (not to mention Amy!) - 5 hedgehogs in all (unless I'm forgetting one? [ignoring the Warehog, as it's still Sonic - like Super Sonic is])! FIVE!

I'm wondering if SEGA mistook our complaints of there being 'too many' characters in past games (hence this being a "Sonic-only" game), with the proper context of there being badly-crafted rehashes and poorly thought-out ideas for other characters that we've had in the past?

 

...Blaze as in Blaze the Cat?

 

oops, didn't edit it fast enough

 

I think he's having a bit of trouble existing right now after Sonic erased him from time.

 

Are you talking about Modern or just exclusively classic? Cause, for Modern, you'd have to remove boosting, program the mechanics for the characters, add the animations, and change the level design to work with them, aside from just Sonic. Then, of course testing to ensure none of these additions messes with the game, or allows one to do something they really shouldn't be doing. That sounds more than a few days of work. On the topic of level design for the characters -- looking at how Green Hill Zone (Modern) is, do you really think Knuckles would work in such an environment?

 

I don't know if you guys were paying attention by the end of the video but he mentioned that there will be HD versions of stages from Classic, Dreamcast and Modern Sonic. Definitely news for me!

 

Admitting they did not even try to do this for Sonic 4, hmm?

 

Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors, Sonic 4, the hand heald Sonic titles. Its all the same story.

In other news there was a few extra seconds of Classic footage.