See improved Green Hill and more surprises
Launching along side the new Sonic Generations website in Japan, Nintendo released some new media for Sonic Generations as part of last night’s 3DS Press Conference. Among them are even more screenshots of Green Hill, Casino Night and Mushroom Hill, plus a brand new video up for consumption. In particular, this media shows a greatly improved Green Hill Zone, boasting more complex lighting on characters and an overall increased level of detail – quite an improvement over the empty, barren screenshots we’ve grown accustomed to.
But perhaps most curious is the video included with the screenshots, which gives us an in-motion look at the improved Green and Mushroom Hills. The odd part is that near the beginning of the video, Classic Sonic is launched in to the air and while hovering near an enemy, the homing attack crosshair briefly flashes on screen – blink and you’ll miss it.
This adds to mounting evidence that Classic Sonic may see himself getting an upgrade at some point in Sonic Generations. Stay tuned!
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Whining about everything again, classic Sonic fans? Sega is not going to completely emulate their oh-so-perfect-and-flawless Genesis games just because you whine about it. You ought to consider yourselves very lucky Sega even listens to your moaning and groaning. If you’re going to complain this much then you’re better off finding another game series that you actually like and stop ruining Sonic for everyone else!
@The Shadow Emperor
So true! Look at mario for example, they added tons of new crap to the new super mario bros series, and everyone still loves it! But they add one thing to sonic and everyone whines. seriously, if you like sonic, stop whining about new things and just play them.
It’s probably something where Sonic generally falls toward the target if you hold a certain button.
At first, I was kinda disappointed, but then I watched the video.
And…I don’t even care now. This game just looks fucking fun.
@The Shadow Emperor
1. You can thank us classic fans for giving you quality games like All-Stars Racing, Colors, and as of now, Generations.
2. You DO realize that there’s a bunch of classic fans that like some of the modern games (ex. SA1, SA2, and the daytime stages of Unleashed).
3. Constructive Criticism SAVES the franchise, not harming it. Our cynicism and complaints is what helping Sonic make a slow but good recovery.
Sadly, you’ll write this off as “BAWW!!! RETRO-FAG BAW!!! Just saying you can thank the retro crowd for punks like you kick-ass games for the first time since the Dreamcast era.
Am I the only one that thinks the Homing Attack is actually a sensible addition to classic Sonic’s moveset? As long as the level design didn’t force the player to use it all the time like in Sonic 4, Sonic was rewarded with momentum, and Sonic didn’t uncurl, it’s a progressive evolvement from the basic Sonic’s Spin Attack. Not to mention that classic Sonic would pretty much need the Homing Attack or a similar move if he had 3D gameplay. Videos of Sonic Megamix and Sonic CD Plus Plus were to me great examples of how it can work in a momentum-based 2D Sonic game.
@sonicriders02
The difference is that Mario had better thought additions lately, except for what was made for Sunshine; fans only wanted good old Mario platforming, which is what we got in Galaxy. Sonic on the other hand… well there’s Iizuka.
@QuietGuy92
THIS!
I think it’s a good possibility that the lock-on is a glitch and that we’re all panicking over nothing.
@Anasanze
It’s conceptually “sensible”, but it really does drastically change the pacing and style of the g2D ameplay (not to mention they’d have to change they way they typically implement it, according to the guidelines you listed). It makes SENSE, but it really does substantially alter the feel… the momentum it gives you via air-dash almost feels like cheating (especially considering the fact that every time you kill an enemy ALL momentum is completely lost), and it completely eliminates any form of skill/reward in terms of avoiding/destroying enemies.
It makes sense on a 3D plane, but it doesn’t really add much to the 2D experience – it mostly just takes away from it.
I think it’s just left over coding from Modern Sonic, seeing how they both
use the same engine.
@QuietGuy92
And what if I don’t consider these recent games to be as “kick-ass” as you make them out to be?
@Shadow Emperor
Then you can STILL be grateful that you got a slightly less rancid pile of shit and that the series is attempting to dig itself out of a hole, thanks in part to the efforts of the critical.
Regardless of whether these games are great, they’re certainly BETTER than a lot of the series’ past failures.
Either that, or you can take your own advice and “find another game series that you actually like”.
@Shadow Emperor
I rest my case. You’re just a fanboy who’ll buy anything with Sonic’s face on it, even if its a pile of shit. Here’s this, All-Stars Racing is more fun than the Black Knight, Colors is more fun than Shadow the Hedgehog, and judging from recent footage of Generations, its looking to be a MUCH better anniversary game than Sonic 06.
So you hate the retro crowd? Tough shit. Once again, you can thanks us for keeping the franchise from getting even more shitty than it was for almost a decade.
OH MY GOD. When will people realise that the franchise never died? Heroes was good, shadow was DECENT, 06 was EXTREMELY UNDERRATED, the storybook games were okay at best and you guys didn’t help the franchise. Well, you helped with generations, but did you help with colors? No. It would’ve probably been great either way. There are some retro fans that I can tolerate, but most of them pick up a sonic game and say, “oh, if i like thi$ gemm 0r i hayt it pepl haf 2 agree wit meh”
No it wasn’t.
No it wasn’t.
NO IT FUCKING WASN’T.
As a matter of fact, we did. Colors was the way it was because we bitched about Unleashed.
Man, this is why I hardly use this site anymore. Not ONE SINGLE PERSON can handle criticism on here. “OH NO THIS X DOESN’T LIKE Y WHINEWHINEWHINE”
Get over it, you retards.
@sonick123456:
Bitch, please. Heroes was trash. Shadow The Hedgehog was laughably broken and had the dumbest concept in the franchise. And Sonic 06 isn’t overrated, the hate for it is justified (See: Pokecapn’s Sonic 06 LP. And yes, before you asked, I’ve played it prior to watching the LP and I hated that game) You’re just being whiny because people have criticism on your favorite franchise.
And Sonic Colors DID improve because of the criticism the franchise had.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Colors
“Sonic Team examined criticism of previous Sonic titles from critics and fans and tailored the game to match. ”
And don’t you dare pull the “WIKIPEDIA ISN’T ACCURATE” card.
Also to help my argument on that: Many people complained about the Werehog in Unleashed but also praised the Day stages and wished the game was all about that instead. And thus, Colors existed but refined the Day stages gameplay concept.
Oh and you have to be kidding me if you really assume people hate most of the modern games just because others hated it too. Many of the criticism towards the new games are valid.
tl;dr: You’re a tool. Criticisms are important. Without them, no one would improve.