“There’s too much going on for the game to deal with”
Computer and Video Games’s Jon Blyth has apparently docked down Sonic Generations a couple notches for one most unexpected reason–the visuals.
Blyth gives Generations for consoles a 7.5 out of 10 almost exclusively due to matters surrounding what you see–be it the frame rate not being “much smoother,” in his words, or being “difficult to look at,” predominantly in the 2D classic Sonic stages. Blyth explains his position:
People have a go at RAGE for sacrificing too much at the altar of sixty frames per second – but if there’s any game that needs to be a slick and greasy as possible, it’s Sonic. The reason for the immortality that possessing rings gives you in Sonic always felt like an apology for the potential for cruel and crafty deaths. After all, part of the Sonic experience is that you’re travelling too fast to really be able to react properly, and part of avoiding the spikes is to know they’re coming in advance.
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(Typical Sonic Fan)
im off to burn this house down
warning…incoming SH*TStorm
There always something to tear down these games with these reveiwers…..gotta say the game is doing pretty well considering all the nitpicking and tearing apart its getting, though!
Cvs can **** themselves.
Downers
Amy, Cream, Crush 40
2D Sonic’s frame rates can’t keep up
What?
@Annonnymous
Just my thoughs too. Though I havenät listened to their sounds on this game YET… trying to keep it a secret until I get the game…
What’s even worse is the comments on the same review.
Nothing but idiots who’ve never played the game promoting purely Sonic 1-Knuckles, blindly listening to CVG.
SMH.
ign has given the best rating so far an 8.5 out of 10
totally shocking i know right
@Chao93
And? What this means to me? I just show the downers of the review… If you considering this information as spoilers or something like that, it’s your problem, seriously. Well my friend, if you, maybe insist in reply my point, GTFO of internet and be happy, because you will se more and more of people posting parts of reviews, comments like this, etc…
@Annonnymous
Um, that’s not what I meant… I meant to say that I agree with you, I don’t understand those arguments either.
Sorry for misunderstanding…
*I guess I wrote last sentence wrong.
I meant to say, Sorry if you understood me wrong. Gosh english can be hard sometimes… (I’m finnish btw)
He gives the game a decent 7/10 just becuase the visuals were “diffcult to look at?” That’s a crock of shit. Everything in the game looks beautiful plus they give new life to the Classic and Dreamcast levels while giving the Modern levels a huge improvement.
And for the framerate not being “smoother” to him, felt alright to me after playing the demos.
I honestly do not see why this game should get less than a 9. Awesome music, awesome gameplay for both Sonics, awesome graphics, awesome levels and level design, it’s all great stuff!
That’s the freaking point, CVG. Would you have given it the 9 or 10 it deserves if it was easy enough for you that you could beat it in one sitting without dying once?
There is a LOT of negativity on this review compared to the others, even in notorious cesspools like IGN’s forums. I’m guessing that CVG has a different audience with different expectations.
The guy thinks he’s evolved from Charlie Brookers sperm.
What kind of freak thought he was being told off by sonic?!
The games great, we love it. Who cares what a bunch of tossers say?
BTW I commented on the C&VG sonic review so it wasn’t all negative! Lol
Downer = Cream…
Spoilers.
Cream only appears in two side missions and four cut-scenes (Opening, Rescue scene with Modern/Classic in which you can only get one, Ending). In the Opening/Ending, Cream doesn’t talk, and her missions (if I recall) are less than two minutes.
End Spoilers
Yeah, a character who appears for that little amount of time in the game and isn’t playable in any kind of way is a downer. Amazing. Let me guess, someone out there will be like:
“Good Game, but Silver’s in it. Sonic Team made a terrible mistake.”
Because telling people characters who don’t effect the story like Silver and Cream are there is a good warning. I though we got pass the point of hating Sonic’s friends. Their not playable in main games anymore, and except for Tails, they rarely make an impact.
*Reads comments on website*
Yes. Reconsider buying this game because of a side mission where Cream only talks in the beginning. You must think about buying a Sonic Game everyone whined for because you have to hear someone talk for 2-3 seconds max. At less Silver didn’t get belittled… yet.
*Reads own comment*
Damn. I wrote this?
I really wasted time explaining the downer part of a review. If I needed information on the game, I could just play the demo and watch some gameplay online. I like to read/watch reviews just because I like other opinions, but this?… ugh, here I go again.
Amy, Cream and Crush 40 is a reason? Of course, that makes perfect sense! /sarcasm
Gotta love how it’s always a nitpick that gets the most points docked yet the same kind of nitpick in a big budget game will be overlooked or glazed about.
Fuck this fucking industry, damn.
The frame rate (I guess that’s what it was, I’m not really sure) really bothered me in the first demo. It hurt my eyes a lot, like 3D fatigue. And yeah, it was hard to see things coming. I was fine on the second demo though, so I was thinking those things got fixed, I hope it did.
Smh this is why I never bother to read video game reviews anymore.
Wtfffffuuuu… watz thiz shit nonononooo y, y do thz cvg nono sawnik genarationz da biest gme evarrrrr!!11!1 norway iz a peiz of sht 2 D:D: fuk u bich azz haterz. sawnikthebestzzz and sawnik da hedghhog 06 iz also da biest game 2. Fak u cvg and norway…. IGNorant da biest naw
becuse they gve sawnik genarationz da highst sexy scoreeeeeee 8.5 ya bichezzzz!1!2!3!4!5!!!!!!!!1!11!1!1!!! Yez yez!!
These guys said Crush 40 was a downside.
*gets shotgun*
Stupid techno-loving freaks…
The franerate was a let down for me also. Its hard to play with slower framerate. Sorry to say this but the framerate was a big thing for me. I don’t care about sonic generations low rating as I expected it.
7.5/10 score? That’s about a 3/4 score, so that’s pretty good.
However, just a non-playable character you don’t like gets a minimal role in the game you’re reviewing doesn’t mean that you should list that as a con of the game. It’s really sounds immature.
very immature indeed. yes i must agree at first when i played unleashed day stages the speed seemed overwhelming, but u know I did???? i kept playing It, and something miraculous happens…. I got used to it!!!! wouldnt you know it!!! its one of the fastest and most fun things to play in my opinion. if u cant be a pro, dont be a bitch… if ur not a pro on day one dont be a bitch and talk shit on forums or give bad reviews like this douche nozzle… seems to me someone lost one to many lives on green hill zone and got frustrated and decieded to blame the frame rate. Beyond that took everything else they have been unhappy with in previous titles such as cream and crush 40 and threw it in there cauldron of “Haterism.” I mean…. sonic team made a sonic game for sonic fans…. wtf more can u ask for??? honestly my fave games where SA1 and SA2, but I grew up with the classics. Its all likeable, why complain???? as for the graphics…. do u really expect It to b flushed extremely detailed texture???? cuz u were just complaining about the frame rate!!!! OMG!! if the graphics where crazy detailed, believe me u would be complaining even more about the frame rate lol. Moral of this story kids….. Grow the fuck up. Sonic’s 20 now…. so stop acting like your 6 and throwing tantrums in reviews and forums because you cant have it EXACTLY the way u want it. Enjoy it for what it is. An epic fuck’n game
BTW… i just got generations…… and its the shit!!!!!!!