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[Porridge]

From the man's own Play Magazine blog...

The lines between consoles really begin to blur when you throw a game like Sonic into the mix. The bottom line is that content is what drives hardware and we’re so early into this it’s crazy to call it for anyone. Nintendo, wisely, is practically on an island so, we all win there regardless. I’m super excited about the Micro and the Revolution.
PS3 is certainly all powerful but seeing a game like Sonic—not to mention Afterburner (which will simply blow your mind) Virtua Fighter, and House of the Dead—really puts things in perspective. On the PS3 front I was surprised to here skeptics speculating over how much of what we saw was “real-time”. Clearly most of the demos were scripted sections of real-time in-game visuals; however, The Getaway demo and UbiSoft’s impressive FPS Killing Day alone (both obviously live in-engine) prove the PS3 is all that and a serious dose of reality. Back to Sonic though…Imagine a perfectly rendered Sonic zooming through photo realistic forest and relics bursting with Naka design, letting out into vast open areas surrounded by mountains so real you’d swear they were 100% real. It was like the anime opening from Sonic CD in the real world: Absolute euphoria. I seriously nearly wept. There’s really no way I can describe it. Hopefully Sega will release the footage to the public in the near future.
Two more days and then we get to begin putting all of this madness into perspective in print where we live. I’m really looking forward to buttoning up the July issue after the show. I know there’s a ton of stuff all over the web so, hopefully our spin on E3 will bring some fresh perspective. I just had to tell who ever is listening that Sonic is (unofficially) coming to 360 and, for anyone who grew up playing Sonic games , it’s going to feel like the first time all over again.

http://www.playmagazine.com/blogger/index.php?id=26

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[ourumov]

All this Sonic/VF info is indeed worse than TURSDAYTON...Show something or just shut up SEGA.

 

[Funky Papa]

They better deliver, this is the last time I'm giving Sega the benefit of the doubt.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

...letting out into vast open areas surrounded by mountains so real you’d swear they were 100% real. It was like the anime opening from Sonic CD in the real world: Absolute euphoria. I seriously nearly wept. There’s really no way I can describe it.

:lol Some funny, seriously GameFan-style descriptions going on there. Totally Dave Halverson. I can only assume he writes the same exact way in Play...I wouldn't know since I've given up on reading his mags.

 

[Rlan]

Incidentily, the CG at the end of the new Shadow Trailer looks fucking awesome. 100 times better than the ones in Sonic Heroes.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

The Getaway demo and UbiSoft’s impressive FPS Killing Day alone (both obviously live in-engine) prove the PS3 is all that and a serious dose of reality.

I thought Killing Day was cg footage?

 

[Instigator]

On the PS3 front I was surprised to here skeptics

Good old Gamefan.

 

[DJ_Tet]

Here is supposed to be Hear

That would have been the first quote on a lesser respected entity.

 

[Instigator]

Correcting the typo is unnecessary. Besides, there's small potential it would lead to more comedy with a GA poster asking what exactly is wrong with the sentence.

You've ruined it now.

 

[CO_Andy]

Dave iz usually over-dramatic in his rants about videogames.

 

[segasonic]

 

[Kintaro]

Somehow... nope, can't say that even trademark Play/Gamefan hyperbole I used to know and love could get me excited for ANY Sonic game anymore. Fuck em.

 

[raYne]

*looks at Shadow the Hedgehog pics*
*looks at most recent Sega efforts*

Uh huh... I call bs until I see proof.

 

[DCX]

Sonic Adventure all over!! When that game was first shown, there wasn't one person who couldn't deny the next gen at that point in time...hopefully this could rank up there next to Gears of War.

DCX

 

[FortNinety]

Back to Sonic though…Imagine a perfectly rendered Sonic zooming through photo realistic forest and relics bursting with Naka design, letting out into vast open areas surrounded by mountains so real you’d swear they were 100% real.

You know, considering how Shadow is on fully capable hardware, yet it still looks as if its on the Dreamcast, I'd say none of this really matters in the end.

Absolute euphoria. I seriously nearly wept.

Yeah, same ol Gamefan indeed.

 

[Mrbob]

Props for Infected on the PSP!

 

[Shogmaster]

From the man's own Play Magazine blog...



http://www.playmagazine.com/blogger/index.php?id=26

If this was posted already, I wouldn't know, search is disabled. lock if necessary

The lines between consoles really begin to blur when you throw a game like Sonic into the mix. The bottom line is that content is what drives hardware and we’re so early into this it’s crazy to call it for anyone. Nintendo, wisely, is practically on an island so, we all win there regardless. I’m super excited about the Micro and the Revolution.
PS3 is certainly all powerful but seeing a game like Sonic—not to mention Afterburner (which will simply blow your mind) Virtua Fighter, and House of the Dead—really puts things in perspective. On the PS3 front I was surprised to here skeptics speculating over how much of what we saw was “real-time”. Clearly most of the demos were scripted sections of real-time in-game visuals; however, The Getaway demo and UbiSoft’s impressive FPS Killing Day alone (both obviously live in-engine) prove the PS3 is all that and a serious dose of reality. Back to Sonic though…Imagine a perfectly rendered Sonic zooming through photo realistic forest and relics bursting with Naka design, letting out into vast open areas surrounded by mountains so real you’d swear they were 100% real. It was like the anime opening from Sonic CD in the real world: Absolute euphoria. I seriously nearly wept. There’s really no way I can describe it. Hopefully Sega will release the footage to the public in the near future.
Two more days and then we get to begin putting all of this madness into perspective in print where we live. I’m really looking forward to buttoning up the July issue after the show. I know there’s a ton of stuff all over the web so, hopefully our spin on E3 will bring some fresh perspective. I just had to tell who ever is listening that Sonic is (unofficially) coming to 360 and, for anyone who grew up playing Sonic games , it’s going to feel like the first time all over again.

YEAH BITCHES!!! That's pretty much what I saw too, although I don't know him calling them for X360 out right an insider info that the rest of us wan't privvy to, or just jumping to delicious and nutritious conclusions.

 

[u_neek]

Were all these SEGA games just tech demos or real games?

 

[Porridge]

it's kind of sad to see some of you guys dismiss E. Storm's opinions so quickly -- this guy truly and utterly loves gaming. as a Sonic and Sega fan since the early 90s, I got pumped reading what he wrote

hyperbolic praise is all over GAF for this and that, but for some reason it's a no-no with Storm and/or Gamefan/Play

BTW Shog you rock

 

[dorio]

I thought Killing Day was cg footage?

It is, another person duped.

 

[Shogmaster]

Were all these SEGA games just tech demos or real games?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they were more games in development status than pure tech demo status. Infact, HOTD looked almost like footage pulled from a game at the Alpha stage. It looked much more farther along then even the other "demos".

 

[FightyF]

OMG...I didn't realize HotD was shown. And I read the original post twice.

That's gonna be sweet, especially if they go for a realistic look!

But I guess I can't play it on my DLP TV, or my LCD projector in super-high res glory

 

[Andy787]

Ye of little faith.

 

[RiZ III]

Naka design? What good has ever come from Naka design? And if your going to say NiGHTS, that game was nothing without the awsome soundtrack.

 

[imastalker co.]

well, i'd expect some of the best graphics from first gen stuff on 360 to come from Sega, even if it is Sonic Team.

having said that, Halverson tries to sell you on the game more than he pre/reviews it.

how about we see what AM2, the new Amusement Vision, and Hitmaker are up to. oh, and see what became of digital rex.

 

[Odnetnin]

well, i'd expect some of the best graphics from first gen stuff on 360 to come from Sega, even if it is Sonic Team.

having said that, Halverson tries to sell you on the game more than he pre/reviews it.

how about we see what AM2, the new Amusement Vision, and Hitmaker are up to. oh, and see what became of digital rex.

that ugly phantom nights PS3 title is by Sonic Team. That's all.. . :|

 

[Sho Nuff]

This thread is useless without pictures

 

[Shogmaster]

This thread is useless without pictures

We're gonna work on it tomorrow!

 

[Optimistic]

Naka design? What good has ever come from Naka design? And if your going to say NiGHTS, that game was nothing without the awsome soundtrack.

Sonic Adventure had fantastic level design. Sonic 1, PSO, in fact practically any game Naka worked on pre third party.

 

[Sho Nuff]

We're gonna work on it tomorrow!

If I don't get pictures tomorrow I'm gonna put on my pink breakdancing sweatpants and go all Spikeout-style on the entire LA Convention Center!

HERE COMES THE BOSS
AND HIS NAME IS SHO NUFF

 

[Jacobi]

Sega also showed trailers like that for the Xbox...

 

[FortNinety]

it's kind of sad to see some of you guys dismiss E. Storm's opinions so quickly -- this guy truly and utterly loves gaming. as a Sonic and Sega fan since the early 90s, I got pumped reading what he wrote

hyperbolic praise is all over GAF for this and that, but for some reason it's a no-no with Storm and/or Gamefan/Play

BTW Shog you rock

Maybe because with every single Sonic game since part 3, Gamefan has consistently said "its gonna feel like the first time again!" Especially since I'm a former Sonic diehard, its gotten old.

 

[godofcookery]

wasn't it someone else that had a large portion of producing (or directing) credits on NiGHTS and not Yuji Naka...?

edit: Takashi Iizuka

 

[Stinkles]

I am a VF hater (that is, I love it, but not as much as SC/Tekken) but I understand that the idea of VF for 360 is HUGE. What I don't get is why anyone has given a flying fuck about Sonic since the Genesis. Once he went 3D, meh.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Yeah, I was inside the Sega Theater in the first hour of E3. Holy $@^$, next-gen Sega games look breathtaking. More than anything else, more so than PS3 demos or Xbox360 games, Sega showed me that next-gen is really here. And yes, it was all in real-time, nothing was prerendered.

Afterburner for Game of Show!

 

[Outdoor Miner]

Yeah, I was inside the Sega Theater in the first hour of E3. Holy $@^$, next-gen Sonic games look breathtaking. More than anything else, more so than PS3 demos or Xbox360 games, Sega showed me that next-gen is really here.

Afterburner for Game of Show!

No pics or movies? THEN SHUT UP!

 

[Mrbob]

Yeah, I was inside the Sega Theater in the first hour of E3. Holy $@^$, next-gen Sega games look breathtaking. More than anything else, more so than PS3 demos or Xbox360 games, Sega showed me that next-gen is really here. And yes, it was all in real-time, nothing was prerendered.

Afterburner for Game of Show!

We need videos!!!!

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Sega wouldn't let us obviously.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

Here's my write-up if you want to read it: http://www.gamedaily.com/general/article/?id=8749&source=00001&gameid=

Excerpt:

And of course, what would be a Sega demonstration be without Sonic the Hedgehog making an appearance? The footage started off with Sonic running at his trademark blazing pace through a forest with a very gorgeous, lush color palette. Then a group of sleek-looking robots with angular limbs start running beside him, and they end up in a cavern. The robots launch a barrage of machine gun fire at Sonic, who dodges all the bullets and charges at the robots, destroying them all. Sonic then runs out of the temple into a grassy field. A huge shadow eclipses him, and he looks up to see a huge aircraft overhead. Hundreds of those robots start pouring out of the aircraft and surround him. All of them open fire with their machine guns simultaneously, and Sonic takes many hits and drops to the ground. He looks bruised and battered, but then he gets up surrounded by emeralds and morphs into Super Sonic. The whole screen turns bright yellow, and the trailer ends with the robots in pieces.

 

[dorio]

It looks like the games were being shown on their next arcade board and that's why they have the comment of "sooner than expected". The board supposedly has multiple powervr chips in it according to a poster on that other board.

That's unfortunate, I was hoping to see these games on next gen systems, but I'm not sure next gen systems could run it.

 

[jimbo]

"What I don't get is why anyone has given a flying fuck about Sonic since the Genesis. Once he went 3D, meh."

I don't know, me personally I was a huge fan of Sonic and it was the first game to start off our current generation. What they did with Sonic Adventure, from graphics to camera angles, was truly amazing for its time. I still consider Sonic to be Sega's answer to Mario, and it's just as fun to play, so I'm stolked for a new 3D Sonic. I just hope they go back to the roots. Sonic only, less adventure.