Sonic Generations Megathread II

Just finished the story mode, and my god. I love this game. There's just so many little things that make the whole experience richer. I've also been marvelling at the graphics. Mostly focused on getting story done once I got past the first few stages, so plenty of red rings/challenges/etc to go back and do, and then the wandering around and enjoying the view that I did so much with the demo.

I'd say my favourite stage has to be Sky Sanctuary, both visually and gameplay wise. Most of the game was excellent in tone, but that stage absolutely nailed it.

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Didn't actually have too much trouble with the final boss. Ran out of rings on my first go, but got the strategy pretty quickly after that. My best advice would be to ignore 2D altogether. Found I collected more rings in 3D, and caught up with the Time Eater a lot quicker.

Also, loved the two Eggmen working together. Their banter was very entertaining. Love that for once, a monster didn't actually take control of Eggman, but he properly harnessed it... And still lost. As a random sidenote, I've been listening to some of the Doctor Who audios recently, and the arc starts with the Doctor and his companion sealed in an alternate universe that (at first) seems like a featureless white void, and the universe has no concept of time whatsoever. When I made the connection, the ending scenes suddenly seemed incredibly sinister to me. :P Yes, yes, I'm a fanboy.

And the first homing attack is a rather wonderful link between the two eras. Everything's tied together. I just wish we could keep Classic Tails. He looks so much more... Right.

 

Steam pushed down an update at 7:00 Eastern tonight and since then Seaside Hill has not been loading graphics in some spots for me. I even came across an enemy in Rooftop Run that only had its gun visible.

The setup program is bugged on certain graphic chipsets. Specifically I've seen lots of reports of Nvidia Optimus but my netbook's integrated graphics won't even run it.

 

Thanks.

You're trying to run it on a netbook?

 

I was stuck at work and had the files pre loaded to transfer to my main rig. I figured a settings program would work, but not so much.

 

Am I the only one who feels like

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it was anticlimactic to save Tails after Green Hill Zone, only minutes after losing him at the end of the intro cutscene?

With how it was built up, it would've made more sense to position him at Planet Wisp.

 

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I really wish Time Eater would just erase itself from history. This really is the most obnoxious fight. I know what to do. I've beaten it before. But I can't get the Can't Touch This trophy and finally 100% the game, not because I can't dodge him, but because I can't beat him a second time. It takes forever to catch up to him, and half of the time when I get right up to him he either runs away immediately, or worse, switches planes, undoing all of my progress.

I hate this fight so much.

 

So I looked into the crashing problems with Sonic Generations. Up until I started getting red rings in Seaside Hill Classic, I had no problems, now all of a sudden the graphics vanish after a single playthrough. I verified my Steam files and everything worked again. I missed one final ring, go back and the area is missing again. I still got through and went on to start Green Hill. I got the first ring and it crashed after another few seconds. I am verifying my files again. Can somone else check this? Just go for some red rings in seaside hill classic and see if you have the same glitches. I'm glad I got through the game before this patch broke everything.

 

Overall, the PC version of the game is running extremely nice maxed out at 1336x768 on my PC, which specs are:
ATI Radeon HD 6770
AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.3Ghz
8GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 7 x64

 

I dunno if this needs to be spoiler tagged but I'll do it anyway just in case.

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What is the Collection Room song a remix of? I'm certain I've heard it before.

 

Door Into Summer from Knuckles Chaotix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-axPO7pwgg

 

Wha...but I've never even played Chaotix! How the hell have I heard that song before? I swear I've heard it many times but I don't think I've ever even watched a video of Chaotix, let alone played it. Maybe I heard it on vgmusic a long time ago or something... Or perhaps it was in a hack. Was it in Sonic Megamix somewhere?

 

But who would give exposition? You know Tails is the brains of this outfit.

 

Wow, that was laughably prompt. Three replies!

In other news, I finally played a glorious ten seconds of Sonic Generations. I was at WalMart for some-odd reason and noticed, "hey, Green Hill Classic demo!" So I went over to watch the seven-year-old playing it. He was having a little trouble understanding the idea of holding jump rather than tapping it. So I requested the controller, and I showed him how it worked. I totally bonded with a random stranger, right then and there. And I walked away thinking, "And so Modern Gamer has passed his knowledge on to Classic Gamer..."

Fret not. I shall have my say in the full game... tomorrow.

 

I played through most of the game. The platforming excellence is blowing my mind, and not only that, but they've sold me on Modern gameplay too. When the concept of this game was revealed, I was prepared to be " -_- " about half (modern) of the game. Now I love the entire thing equally.
DLC. PLEASE!

 

Sonic 2 Retro Remix, actually, if I'm right. In the first level, when you go into the underground cave. It's either a remix of that song, or literately is that song.

Why is it nostalgic and glorious music exists in not so stellar Sonic games, yet (at least nowadays) some meh tracks peak their way into relatively good titles? :S

 

Is anybody having crashes on the PC version in the Rooftop Run Modern mission that requires you to collect 250 rings from barrels?

I've crashed twice in a row right towards the end.

 

It's always nice to see the next generation playing Sonic rather than Battlefield/Halo/CoD/Insert Generic Shooter Here.
Total broment -- much respect.

Edit: Wow I feel old.

 

So, here's something I don't remember being brought up: Has anyone tried any more Classic in Modern stages or Modern in Classic stages hacking, like people did with the demo?