Next Sonic Game to Be 2D HD

[BlackAura]

Yes, there does seem to be a lot of visual noise. It's really hard to tell without seeing it in motion, but I don't think the distant backgrounds are going to be much of a problem. They never were in the original Sonic games, after all.

The near backgrounds... might be a problem. It's really hard to tell without seeing it in motion, or ideally playing it.

At least the moving objects (Sonic, rings, robots) have a different shading style, and seem to be overlaid on top of the world. They should be easily visible, at least.

[pixel]

It looks good, but I'm still hung up on the episode idea. Why can't we download the whole game? Also, the rails are coming back, which I'm not a fan of.

[Specially Cork]

It depends on the length and the pricepoint. Sonic games aren't usually very long. Let's say episode 1 has 4 zones - that's about 30mins of gameplay at the most, plus a bit more if you're interested in online scoreboards. I'm not, and I wouldn't pay much for that, especially when I add-up that same amount of money for every episode and work out the full cost of the game.

[pixel]

WARNING: HORRIBLE IDEA

Tilting Mine Cart Level

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/36143/

[Specially Cork]

Soooo the "back to basics" Sonic shows us its first retarded gimmick. Just wait for episode 2 - it''ll be full of them.

[DaMadFiddler]

WARNING: HORRIBLE IDEA

Tilting Mine Cart Level

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/36143/

Ugh. I see what they're trying to do, and it's not necessarily a bad idea, but the way it's implemented looks like an absolute nightmare to control.

[DaMadFiddler]

Lots of leaked footage here:

http://www.shogungamer.com/news/tons-le ... os-sonic-4

[Eviltaco64X]

Nice link, Fiddler. This game seems to be turning out better than I expected.

Maybe it's the fact that it's not being developed by Sega or Sonic Team.

[not just souLLy now]

WARNING: HORRIBLE IDEA

Tilting Mine Cart Level

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/36143/

LOL

[Luriden]

WARNING: HORRIBLE IDEA

Tilting Mine Cart Level

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/36143/

...and THERE'S the game breaker. Up until this point it didn't look like a bad game, just very mediocre. I was wondering if Sega even made it. Now I'm sure they did.

[Eviltaco64X]

WARNING: HORRIBLE IDEA

Tilting Mine Cart Level

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/36143/

...and THERE'S the game breaker. Up until this point it didn't look like a bad game, just very mediocre. I was wondering if Sega even made it. Now I'm sure they did.

No lie, watching that mine cart level made my stomach kind of hurt.

[Neoblast]

Actualy it is dimps the ones that aremaking the game you know...
so not even sega.

[DaMadFiddler]

Actualy it is dimps the ones that aremaking the game you know...
so not even sega.

Didn't Dimps do the GBA games? Those weren't bad.

[Specially Cork]

Yeah, they've developed 4 2D Sonic games all suffering from the same problem: crap level design. Obviously if you want to make a decent videogame you should get it develped by a company that fucked it up multiple times before.

[Quzar]

The biggest problem I had with all those portable sonic games (GBA/Ngage) seemed more to be tied to the character size. In order to make it visible on the tiny screen they made sonic huge (on the ngage version he was almost half screen height). When you're zoomed in that much it's difficult to make a level seem like anything more than a straight line.

[Specially Cork]

I just hated the fall-outs. Making a zone with 10 different levels of height with multiple blind drops between them all then having blind drops at the bottom into death was annoying.

I also hate the "Sonic is going really fast now and he's going to come to a bunch of hazards, but don't worry he'll blitz right through them on autopilot unless you try and slow him down...apart from this hazard here lolz" that happened multiple times.

[DaMadFiddler]

Latest trailer:

I'm not sure how the hell a game like this is supposed to work on the iPhone, but [shrug]

[choujij]

It looks awesome.

[Skynet]

The leg running animation still looks stupid.

[choujij]

The leg running animation still looks stupid.

Yeah, I miss Sonic's spinning legs. It just looked cool.