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Sonic Generations |OT| What Sonic can learn from Sonic
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Diablohead
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hate how some levels in generations have water for modern sonic that will kill you instead of being something you can spring or jump out of, city escape has a few bottomless water pits which could have just been gutters with some springs in them. Honestly I have died 95% of the time from pits then actual badniks and robots.Kulock said:
maybe next game, but yes colours did water really well.
CurseoftheGods
Banned
Andrex said:
Does all that Andrex do is troll Sonic topics?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The first time I heard the "drowning music" I swear I shiveredKulock said:
ThatObviousUser
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CurseoftheGods said:
I'll stop. Generations looks fantastic, can't wait to play it on my PC.
patrickthehedgehog
Member
Shit! This second to last boss battle is driving me crazy. No matter how much I boost after jumping off the grind rail I can never get close enough to damage him. I have to do the wall jump segment over and over. About ready to toss this game! Ugh.
edit: lol, just beat it! Hahah. Game seems to punish you for boosting too much on this boss fight.
edit: lol, just beat it! Hahah. Game seems to punish you for boosting too much on this boss fight.
patrickthehedgehog
Member
Really? REALLY? These last two bosses are the worst.
"Hold X"
.....?
Go to hell whoever designed this. There's nothing from the rest of the game that gives you any indication as to what to do here.
"Hold X"
.....?
Go to hell whoever designed this. There's nothing from the rest of the game that gives you any indication as to what to do here.
AbsoluteZero
Banned
So I was looking around Youtube and I came across comparison videos of Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast & Gamecube. How did they manage to cock up the lighting so much on the Gamecube release?
Bums me out that I don't have my Dreamcast disc anymore...well, I have a Japanese disc anyway, but that doesn't really do me a whole lot of good on a North American system.
Bums me out that I don't have my Dreamcast disc anymore...well, I have a Japanese disc anyway, but that doesn't really do me a whole lot of good on a North American system.
Vampire On Titus
Member
AbsoluteZero said:
Have a link? It'd be pretty interesting to see since I've never noted a difference looking at one or the other by themselves.
AbsoluteZero
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BlazeHedgehog
Member
AbsoluteZero said:
Probably has to do with some kind of native hardware feature the Dreamcast supported that the Gamecube doesn't. That was still back when game consoles weren't just PC parts in a box; it's not like there was a universal graphics tech that worked identically across all hardware.
Think of it like how the SNES supported Mode 7 but the Genesis didn't. As I recall, the Dreamcast supported this thing called "modifier volumes" for lighting, which is where the cel shading in Jet Set Radio was born - by setting the "modifier volume" to zero, lighting was rendered cartoon style, with no need for the shaders typically used to render that effect these days. If you're emulating the Dreamcast with NullDC, you can actually turn the "modifier volumes" feature off and see Jet Set Radio with regular polygon lighting.
The Gamecube probably didn't support that hardware feature, so they had to come up with a substitute.
I've seen screenshot comparisons of Skies of Arcadia DC vs. GC with a similar sort of end result (Dreamcast lighting looks better).
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
So... two news items to share.
Apparently Sonic made an appearance during the E3 bit of the Simpsons today, which makes... three episodes of the Simpsons now?
The other two:
(from that stupid Sadgasm episode)
(Try N Save)
And the second news item is that Sonic Generations 3DS broke street date in Spain (at least, an isolated case anyway).
Apparently Sonic made an appearance during the E3 bit of the Simpsons today, which makes... three episodes of the Simpsons now?
The other two:
(from that stupid Sadgasm episode)
(Try N Save)
And the second news item is that Sonic Generations 3DS broke street date in Spain (at least, an isolated case anyway).
For reference, Sonic Generations 3DS is supposed to be out November 22, 2011 in North America and 25 November 2011 in Europe.Depending on where you live, were about a week to a week and a half away from the launch of Sonic Generations on 3DS. But Spanish website Sonic Paradise relayed news over the weekend from another website, elotrolado.net, where a user claimed the game could be bought at a local GAME store, a major European retailer.
The store where the SNAFU look place occurred in Spains capital, Madrid, at the Centro Comercial Plenilunio. User al2 saw the game on sale for 49.90, and was able to easily purchase the game.
Just played the demo and I have to say I hate the classic sonic parts. It's too hard to tell enemies and platforms apart due to the speed of the game and the colors blending. I just can't handle all of the colors it's sending. I could oddly handle the newer Sonic level though.
Professor Beef
Banned
Why did you have to go and remind me of that damn Sadgasm episode? At least the Try N Save episode cancels it out in terms of quality.Dark Schala said:The other two:
(from that stupid Sadgasm episode)
(Try N Save)
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to work on my putting.
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
It's actually a lot easier in the other levels to tell the enemies apart from the backdrop, if it's any consolation.kayos90 said:
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Hey, I have bad memories of that episode when I think of Sonic in combination with The Simpsons too, catfische?Professor Beef said:
Seriously. I dislike that episode with a passion.
Don't forget to use a proper swing force! I suggest "feather touch".
I just have to quote it now while we're on the topic:
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I think that issue of Nintendo Power which had the date as 2012 or something like that was completed prior to SEGA giving us an official date of release. Amazon.com has the US date back at November 22 now.Mistle said:
AUS release date is apparently 24 November 2011.
Edit: Oh darn, double-post. :/
Professor Beef
Banned
Too late, I already used POWER DRIVE and I somehow overshot into the parking lot.Dark Schala said:
OT question: are you Australian or just aware that I am? lolDark Schala said:
Big day, the 24th.. Zelda, Mario and Sonic. Seriously that's like my childhood all coming out on the same day. I'll be skipping Sonic for now, and perhaps pick it up at a later date if the impressions aren't too bad and there's a gap in my desperate 3DS library.
Nocturnowl
Member
Would you like to play again?Professor Beef said:
You have selected "no"
and now I have the Camp Granada scene stuck in my head
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I think you mentioned it off-hand in Zelda threads a few times...? I can't remember honestly.Mistle said:
I live in Canada. I'm just up at this ridiculous hour studying. How I remember stuff that doesn't seem to matter in school well enough that it takes a few instances of seeing it, but I don't manage to remember stuff for uni all that well without days of prep is amazing. -_-
Hello, Muddah,Nocturnowl said:
Hello, Faddah.
Here I am at
Camp Granada.
Azure Dream
Member
Dark Schala said:So... two news items to share.
Apparently Sonic made an appearance during the E3 bit of the Simpsons today, which makes... three episodes of the Simpsons now?
Tiara?
i can't unlock this achievement.
Action Hero 10
Perform all of Sonic's moves in Act 2.
Story-related, Can not be missed.
You need to perform 3 of Sonic's Move. The 3 Moves are the stomp, the lightspeed dash and the wall jump.
You can do the stomp move any time during act 2.
The first time you can use the lightspeed dash is in Speed Highway Act 2.
The first time you can do the wall jump is in Green Hill Zone Act 2, but if you miss or can't find then you can do it in, Seaside Hill Act 2.
To perform the stomp move hit - to jump and while in the air - to stomp.
To perform the lightspeed dash hit - while there is a line of rings in front of you.
To perform the wall jump, you need a wall panel to be on the wall (obliviously) and hit - to jump on the wall panel and hit - again to jump off it.
i've done everything, why? And i finished the game yesterday.
Action Hero 10
Perform all of Sonic's moves in Act 2.
Story-related, Can not be missed.
You need to perform 3 of Sonic's Move. The 3 Moves are the stomp, the lightspeed dash and the wall jump.
You can do the stomp move any time during act 2.
The first time you can use the lightspeed dash is in Speed Highway Act 2.
The first time you can do the wall jump is in Green Hill Zone Act 2, but if you miss or can't find then you can do it in, Seaside Hill Act 2.
To perform the stomp move hit - to jump and while in the air - to stomp.
To perform the lightspeed dash hit - while there is a line of rings in front of you.
To perform the wall jump, you need a wall panel to be on the wall (obliviously) and hit - to jump on the wall panel and hit - again to jump off it.
i've done everything, why? And i finished the game yesterday.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
I forget, was this a Sonic Extreme concept?Kulock said:Tiara?
Azure Dream
Member
SwiftSketcher said:
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Tiara_Boobowski
Apparently there were four (I didn't know that) characters planned at one point for X-Treme, each with a different playstyle. This was going to be Tiara's, but they abandoned it when they saw Clockwork Knight 2 did pretty much the exact same thing.
Diablohead
Member
Kulock said:
Ah yep, makes sense. I tend to mention it a lot when it comes to release dates/timezones/etc to avoid confusion, hahaDark Schala said:
Anyway, my Sky Sanctuary Act 2 speed run is progressing... trying to crack the top 10. I can do each part of the level almost perfectly, but doing it all at once is proving to be harder than I thought.
SuperAngelo64
Banned
Platy said:
It's been awhile since I've played Brawl, and I forgot how perfectly represented Sonic was in that game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKhAj56tiuI&feature=related
A+, Nintendo.
Baron_Calamity
Member
AbsoluteZero said:
There was that weird period when Sega went 3rd party but still supported the Dreamcast where most everything on the Dreamcast still looked better than what was then currently being pushed on the ps2 or GC. Maybe the development tools weren't up the snuff? I wish the Dreamcast somehow was a major player during that generation. I would have loved to see what developer could have done on that system.
SuperAngelo64
Banned
JonCha said:
I remember #1 like it was yesterday.
It literally crashed GAF, so yeah. The Brawl thread was pretty awesome, but I don't know who from the 'big posters' list in that thread still posts at GAF. All I can think of are Firestorm and ShockingAlberto.
Check out this post on Sonic Retro: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=26768&view=findpost&p=639263
I love PC mods.
I love PC mods.
ThatObviousUser
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Best decision Sega made with this game was making a PC version. That's on Steam.
Though why they tried to keep it under wraps for so long, despite strong evidence all long, is beyond me.
Though why they tried to keep it under wraps for so long, despite strong evidence all long, is beyond me.
Diablohead
Member
I would think that they wanted console orders to be strong, but it is still boggling.Andrex said:
Azure Dream
Member
Those mods are awesome, and they're just getting started.
Except they specifically designed Sonic's unlock criteria so that the first time you were likely to unlock him was the very, very end of Subspace Emissary. Literally the first opportunity the game gives you to play him in SSE is the final boss.
SuperAngelo64 said:
Except they specifically designed Sonic's unlock criteria so that the first time you were likely to unlock him was the very, very end of Subspace Emissary. Literally the first opportunity the game gives you to play him in SSE is the final boss.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Kulock said:Tiara?
While I wish Sonic X-Treme had actually become a retail product...
No one questioned that this character's last name was Boobowski?
Jesus, this is where it all started.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Wow, the PC-DVD version is ridiculously cheap in the uk. £12-15 pounds. Don't even need to wait for bargain-bin.
Does anyone know if there's any internet-flavoured drm in this edition? I don't buy any games that require any kind(even one-shot) of internet activation just to play single player.
Does anyone know if there's any internet-flavoured drm in this edition? I don't buy any games that require any kind(even one-shot) of internet activation just to play single player.