And New Information–Your Netbook Can Handle the Visuals
Buried among the Sonic 4 hype yesterday was new information on the Unity based Sonic Fan Game from pelikan13. When details first emerged, immediate comparisons were drawn to the official Sonic the Hedgehog 4, and the SFG was praised for its stunning visuals.
Now, there’s word from pelikan13 that the SFG is now a collaborative effort, according to a post he made at the Sonic Retro forums last night:
Mercury has been porting his GM engine on to Unity with great results and this has given me the time to refine an polish up the art as well. For more details about the programming just ask him.
I’m not going to move on to other levels until we have a fully playable first level so I’m still experimenting with ways to streamline level creation and adding more content.
The game right now runs very smooth on my Satellite L555-11U and with some of the effects turned off it’s even playable on an Acer One netbook, that should give you an indication of performance.
The Netbook claim may be a high expectation for that specific audience, but if it can be done, it should increase appeal even more–especially when you see the new screenshots posted of the game. They’re in the gallery below–and yes, one of those shots could tell a whale of a tale.
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looks better than SEGA’S sonic 4.
Also Sonic Beyond is cool too.
Unbelievable. I’d like to see more videos of this in action.
I think Sonic 4 looks cleaner, but this game looks pretty cool for a fan game.
That killer whale screenshot is just EPIC WIN!
I would definitely love to see that in action!
In no comparison to Sonic 4, it looks very fun to play.
I didn’t see “fangame” I got so excited and thought to myself OMG SEGA LISTENED TO US AND THEY FIXED SONIC 4!!! Too bad…
The water effects look a little “meh” to me, but all that aside, the graphics look very nice, and I really like Sonic’s sprites, I do think the whale is a little unnecessary (I mean, it seemed a little much when SEGA did it a second time). I also am not really liking the fact that it just looks like a remake of Sonic 2 right now, maybe it will have some original levels?
look pretty AMAZING
Sonic 4 got some competition 
Some fans around here are always criticizing the games, jesus edge sorry dude but you’r one of them, you are always complaining and blablabla this blablabla that… jeez… just lear to apreciate something… sorry but I need to say this dude
Wow, the visuals are stunning, and it looks amazing! Just wow!
I can’t wait to play an actual build and see how it handles.
@edge the game is called Sonic Fan Remix the author admitted he just used EHZ’s level layout but in different artstyle its Tristan who titled it “Sonic 4-Esque” when it is not and i like the model too btw it is classic sonic if you didnt notice by now
This completely pwns that Crap 4.
As always, Sega is getting owned by randoms. =D
sonic 4 is much more polished and clean.
Besides the fact that the water be bad.
Besides the various objects are polluting more and using more PC unnecessarily.
But it’s getting a great fangame for sure.
And stop with this comparison sonic4, this is ridiculous.
I’m sorry but this doesn’t even look remotely good…
everything looks dinamically shadowed, lit and normalmapped :p
i fail to see how could this run on a netbook…
the guy is kidding, right?
I reallly hate it when a decent fan project pops up and people always have to compare it to the Sonic games and then says how they are SOO good compared to the recent Sonic games.
Seriously, shut the fuck up and stop comparing
@Crysore
My sentiments exactly. I get sick of seeing that oh so much. -_-
I understand no game is ever perfect, but goddamn, at least have some respect for the company for even bothering to listen to its fans and make something they’ve wanted for years now.
…the whale is back for round two.
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Win.
@ Sonic Unleashed (SU)
I really love it when people like you have absolutely no idea who they are talking to or what they are talking about, I’ll just leave it at that, I don’t feel like tearing your comment apart to the point of which you would have nothing to say back. I am very good with words when I am not using this site…
Man I’m not even going to awnser you, you’r a “badass” -_- blablabla criticized fan…
I just want to play Sonic 4 in my Xbox 360 so bad
@SU im sorry but would you rather want a GOOD sonic 4 or a BAD sonic 4 im gald they delayed the game to tell you the truth hopefully they’ll fix the physics and level design and remove the mine cart/2 minutes giant cog/vine/pinball gimmicky level also if you have a PS3 i would recommend it that you get it for PS3 cuz the D-pad is better if you dont then you’re gonna have to settle for playing the game with an analog stick
@ Sonic Unleashed
Now you look like an idiot because you said you wouldn’t answer me by answering me… I’m not calling you an idiot, I just said you look like one.
And I never once said that I was a badass, and could care less at being criticized. And I never complained about this game, I just said I was not fond of the whale and that the water graphics look like they are something strait out of the whimsical world of plastic wrap. Please read my comments fully before you start commenting on them, and please do not start poking fun at me as I have done absolutely nothing to offend you, I regard your comment as a personal attack.
And enjoy your Sonic 4 on your broken video game console. We are not talking about the real Sonic 4 so please leave it out of this thread.
@ DAMN
Yes, I also recommend Sonic the Hedgehog 4 on the PlayStation 3, it has the best balance as you can use the Motion controls as well as the physical buttons and play it in 1080p, this is the most advanced version and on the best (opinion) console. I think of this version as the true version. However, please post comments about the real Sonic 4 in news articles about the real Sonic 4.
I’m tired of seeing people go off topic here.
dude stick with your bullshit teory and pessimist and continue to try making this comunity like the finalfantasy one, as see me continue to make this one of the bests ever (in fact this is the best, as always have been)…
Please don’t bother to anwser… I’m dont even care
@ Sonic Unleashed
First off, you’re grammar is broken
Second, If you don’t care then you wouldn’t have replied in the first place
Third, have you even seen the Final Fantasy community? The FF community is *a lot* better than this.
Fourth, you think that you can make the fanbase good? Just you? You want *me* to watch as *you* fix the fanbase? You sound like hitler man, and just look at how bad he failed, also, your acting a bit like him too. Saying that the pessimists are the reason that the fanbase are bad and the happy sunshine-up-the-ass fans are making it good? I’m sorry, but it’s both sides making it bad, the only ones who could improve it are the neutrals and don’t take everything related to sonic and then love it and shove it up the ass, brutally rape it, and still love it. They have an open mind, they can actually dislike a game, unlike you.
And fifth, how can you consider me a pessimist when I only complained about the crappy beta version of Sonic 4 (which by the way was absolutely nothing like a Sonic game if you actually played it, which I *have* and judging by your attitude and treating Sonic as a religion I can only assume that you have not.), and some of the elements of this game that I do not agree with, please do not bash me or my opinions and we will get along fine, I do not appreciate having someone personally attacking my opinions (especially when I’m extremely sick and cannot think straight)
Oh and SU
Please do not post your website as sonicstadium.org when you don’t even appear on that site at all
edge@: dude I never attacked your opinions I just wanted to tell you not to constantly repeat and cry as usual, And if you want to make this personal, I suggest do not do here because through all the sites we are brave, but personally is another story, but that’s another thing …
To conclude I just want to say that I love sonic, and I am always with him in his good and bad moments and not just in the good moments as some people do (you for example, among others), thenif you stop complaining about everything like, “oh no the fucking grass’re too big”, or “he has green eyes”, jesus this and that … bro you just keep silent or if not everyone believe you should be … I do not boss anybody, just want to see people who complain complaining about how it should be… and not trash-talking bullshit…
SONIC RULES
oh and edge, I’m always at Sonic Stadium, even better I’m always at TSSZ, SONIC STADIUM, INTERSONIC and PORTALSONIC prrrrr
First of all, kid, I thought you told me not to post a reply because you wouldn’t care, which again, you clearly do because you posted back a reply.
Second, you’re sentences just contradict each other in conjunction with messages you have said in previous sentences. I’ll use this one first because it continues to amuse me
“Man I’m not even going to awnser you”
However I do want to know how you will reply to this so please keep it coming, I really am curious! Oh and you misspelled “answer”… by a long shot. But I’ve already said you have terrible grammar. Well here is another contradiction…
“bro you just keep silent or if not everyone believe you should be”
“I do not boss anybody”
Sounds like bossing someone around to me… Oh and then there is this great one right here
“just want to see people who complain complaining about how it should be… and not trash-talking bullshit…”
“you are always complaining and blablabla this blablabla that”
I’m terribly sorry SU but it seams to me that I was complaining about how *I* think it should be, yet you want people to complain about how it should be in *your* eyes. You want the fanbase to have the same bias that you have.
Third, if I wasn’t with Sonic through both the good and the bad, I would not be here right now, I am sick of your false accusations, you think that I hate the entire series when the only games I do not like are the wii and PS2 version of Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, and Sonic and the Black Knight. The only games anyone has heard me complain about is the original build of Sonic the Hedgehog 4, because the physics were bad and everything, levels, badniks, bosses, even music, was recycled, I have not said anything bad about Sonic 4 since they have announced the delay, in fact, I am actually looking forward to the game.
But you, you believe that if someone says that they do not like something about the series, you immediately jump the gun and presume that the person is a terrible fan who thinks that SEGA cannot do anything right, that and you seem to believe that you are the greatest fan because you believe that you can make the entire fanbase better all by yourself, and then you talk about every single Sonic site you check thinking that your better than me, look, you are no better of a fan than me, and until you can understand that you are not a better fan than anyone else, then you cannot make the fanbase better.
You have proven yourself to be a negative force in the Sonic fanbase because of your views on the perfect fanbase, and no the perfect fanbase does not like every single thing that has Sonic’s face on it. The perfect fanbase is a fanbase where everyone can share their opinions without getting their opinion bashed into the ground, where people can make friends and not have to worry their friend hating them because they don’t like one game. From what it sounds like to me, that is what your perfect fanbase idea would end up like.
Oh and I would never curse outside of the internet, and unless someone really upsets me, the farthest I go is ‘hell’, or “sunshine-up-the-ass fans” as it was a term coined by T-Bird on the Sonic Stadium that perfectly describes a lot of Sonic optimists, or I may paraphrase or copy and paste what somebody already said for the purpose of clarity. Unlike you, who seems to be using swear words like there is no tomorrow. Which, by the way, makes you look even more immature.
Also I would never use my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ’s name in vain like you think I would as supported by your line “Jesus this and that”.
Oh and when I said you never appear on TSS I meant that I have never seen you comment on the site.
Also, I could care less about the design of the characters at this point, SEGA has already stated why they couldn’t use those character designs, and when they answered that question I do believe I shut up about it, I only complain about something I do not agree with until SEGA has given me a logical reason not to complain about something. Also, SU please reply as fast as possible, I’m bored and love arguing with you, it’s rather fun hearing what other people have to say!
dude LOOOL don’t make me laught, I’m not even going to read all of that crap you wrote, sorry LOOL but yhe keep on writting those walls of text xD make my day muahahhaa
I’m writting fast just for your entertainment I dgf about my grammar dude xD , so that’s a stupid logic you got there, but I don’t want to make those beautiffull walls of text you do because nobody going toread that… I jdgaf
I said that you have an idealistic view of the fanbase that will never work, and that you want everyone to think the same way you do.
Also I know that you think that you are the greatest fan ever, even though all fans are equal because they all have a different opinion.
And also, you must have read it because I asked you to reply quickly in it.
I dgf? I jdgaf? Are you not big enough to write out these acronyms? Or properly space them? And yes, grammar matters a LOT in the real world, especially when you are representing a company and trying to pass tests that will show up later when you try to get a job. So you do *excuse me for my language* need to give a fuck about grammar.
@edge really? he’s working on a free engine he doesnt have the money sega does i think he did the best he could on the water and i actually dont mind the whale at all its what makes it original a whale in a Green Hill/EHZ-like Zone smashing checkered walls absolutely priceless and it does look better than sonic 4 by faaaaaaaaaar
@edge second reply and check out the post he made there are some pictures showing sonic’s running animation and its alot more better than in sonic 4 and it looks just like in the classics
damn edge once again you’ve been dissed why’s that xD
@ DAMN
Oh, I know that he tried his best on the water, but all I said was that it looked a little “meh” too me. That does not mean that I don’t think he did his best.
@ Sonic Unleashed (SU)
Oh come on little kid. I know a LOT of people who diss you behind your back on a daily basis…
@ DAMN
Oh, I know that the game and running animations look better than the original Sonic 4. We can’t say about the new build of the game. They may change between now and the games release
@ Sonic Unleashed
How is that a diss by the way? He was just addressing something that I had posted and giving his opinion back. That is not a diss. now you need to fix your grammar, then go to a dictionary.
@edge I agree with you on alot of which you said. Though im not sure the video was posted when you posted your comment but there’s a opening for splash hill zone that shows sonic at his full speed.
@SU Shut up please your embarrassing yourself in front of the people reading this. It would be alot better if you wouldnt keep replying to this, and what the fuck do you mean edge got dissed I think you put a typo and meant to say.
“damn once again i’ve been dissed.”
Now please and do us a favor and stop making a fool out of yourself thank you.