I'm honestly still sad that Mania 2 was basically shelved. Sonic Team and SEGA being so butthurt over someone else doing a game that's actually superior to their "efforts" really makes this situation look a lot worse, considering they can't even get these 100% right.
This was NO different for Streets of Rage 4. Sega of Japan wasn't too thrilled that 3 foreign studios (Dotemu, Guard Crush and Lizardcube) came together and created a game that exceeded everyone's expectations. Cultural gatekeeping basically. How dare they do better than us? WE CREATED THIS! The IP was pretty much dormant until these guys came through and it was a success. Joe Musashi from The Revenge of Shinobi was even playable but Sega of Japan was like "NAW." Devs were like, "let's add more music from the Streets of Rage games." Sega of Japan was like, "NAW. You only get SELECTED tracks from ONLY Streets of Rage 2 on the Genesis and Streets of Rage 1 from the Game Gear."
Not to derail the thread here, but SEGA and Sonic Team have some major problems with control. Which is why I don't have much faith in Frontiers either. Ian Flynn gave an interview recently, saying that while he is overseeing the story for Frontiers, SEGA and Sonic Team have already laid everything out for him, including playable characters, story beats, etc. They just love to intervene, even when it's already in capable hands. Not sure why they even chose Flynn if this was going to be the case.
How sad. To mettle the game progress like this is insane. Side note, I really want a Sonic Mania 2. In a lot of cases, the best developers are the fans themselves who know the game inside and out, who can provide something familiar yet fresh.
It doesn't. I didn't even realise there was a story mode after finising all 4 games. Makes no difference, you still see all the cutscenes between games
Sega doesn't care. Look at the new Sonic game. It's horrific. They also lost Nagoshi and put one of their better western studios on some dopey looking zoomer shooter. How they plan to stay afloat is a mystery.
The blurriness of the image (which has now been fixed by modders on PC at least) and the weird frame timing issue where the game constantly stutters on certain setups are severe enough on their own to sink the whole thing imo, but what's worse is that even without these issues they're still not as good as already existing conversions available on PC which are widescreen and full of options. The animations they did for Origins are cool and maybe some people will like the mission mode but otherwise there is no reason to pay any money for this collection unless you just really want to give Sega money for some reason
Do you know if you are able to zoom the camera out even further than in the screenshots I've seen? I'd love to play a Sonic game with a camera that's close to one of these shots:
No, you can't do this. Although its a cool idea.Do you know if you are able to zoom the camera out even further than in the screenshots I've seen? I'd love to play a Sonic game with a camera that's close to one of these shots:
Thank you, that's unfortunate. I thought they would take even more advantage of the 16:9 screen real estate like Earthworm Jim HD did.
Not only this, they removed several others.
I think if you already own the Sonic CD Remake, they can't prevent you from downloading it.
No they can't do that. What I meant is that they removed Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Knuckles from all store fronts, with the exception of the Sega Ages games on Switch. All these games were available on Steam on Xbox, and I think that the Xbox games had the proper music.
You can run any licenced games on the Steam MegaDrive and Genesis Classics collection and it could be a big problem for Sega.
Yeah. For some weird reason, they did not encrypt the roms. They are in a directory called "uncompressed ROMs". Really obvious.
Yup lol. It's definitely an oversight.
