gutter_trash
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I tried 20 times, it is blocking me from attaining 100% completion on challengesPhonomezer said:
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Sonic Generations |OT| What Sonic can learn from Sonic
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Box of Bunnies
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gutter_trash said:
Phonomezer said:
Yeah, this challenge is my only real gripe with the game outside of the final boss. It really doesn't work with the mechanics/camera, you'd think someone would've caught it at some point in development/testing and said "hang on, this doesn't really work all that well and isn't particularly fun."
Bucket-o-roadkill
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So I bit and got the PC version, I have to say its not as good as I was hoping. My version hovers between 57-58 fps which gives a terrible 'judder' ever half a second or so. I have a decent pc (Phenom II, GF 460GTX, 8GB RAM) and afterburner tells me my graphics card isn't being maxed out (using 60-70% tops) so its not that. Pretty annoying to have a version which has the possibility of being something awesome.. But is actually harder to play thanks to the stuttering. Fuck sake.
Diablohead
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do you have shadows and reflections on high? drop them to low if so as it helps a lot and doesn't look that different.Bucket-o-roadkill said:
I have a weaker gpu then you and have it at 60fps now, but I am also playing 1280x720, if I could cap the game to 30 fps easily I would do so and raise the visuals but this game really cries out for 60.
Bucket-o-roadkill
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Diablohead said:
As I said, its only using 60 to 70% maximum of my graphics card even with it all enabled, so even after lowering these settings the problem remains. Its fucking infuriating.
IceDoesntHelp
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With the Rouge challenge at Seaside Hill, anyone else have a problem? Mine always crashes, sometimes at the beginning, sometimes in the middle, and sometimes right at the end. I'll never know when it will crash, so I try to make it through the level as quickly as I can.
balladofwindfishes
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I don't know if it's just me, but I would have actually prefered Modern City Escape to be 100% 3D. I don't feel like the 2D sections add much to that level, and having beat Sonic Adventure 2 like a million times, that level's design is so embedded in my brain that it felt really "off" once I got to the 2D sections.
Diablohead
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After speed running city escape modern i've come to realise about 50% of the level is on the board at the start, then a short park area followed by that 2d segment then the truck chase, rather simple once you get it down.balladofwindfishes said:
Classic stage is a lot better.
CurseoftheGods
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What music have you guys changed? I just set Stardust Speedway to Speed Highway. Seems like a pretty good fit.
Any other recommendations?
Any other recommendations?
Vampire On Titus
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CurseoftheGods said:
Crisis City -> Green Jungle
Finished the game, only level I didn't like as much was Planet Wisp Act 2. Amazing though, best Sonic game in years, better than colors, a couple of complaints here and their (devaluing S Ranks, etc) but it's a truly great game. Hope for more DLC levels.
Also played Sonic Adventure 2 Battle multiplayer at a friends party yesterday, still fucking awesome (won almost every match
)Phonomezer
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You can... change the music?
ShockingAlberto
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It crashed for me, too. Right before the end, at that.IceDoesntHelp said:
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Grisby said:
It's not an illusion. It's a big beef I came to have with the game. Modern Sonic is a lot heavier than in say, Sonic Colors. Tested this by loading Colors and going to any open area where you're free to stop and run around a bit.
Sonic Colors: instant response to analog stick, gets up to his medium jogging speed fast.
Generations: while he does respond to direction input immediately he is sloooow to start really moving. Also, when at high speed, he turns a lot more sharply than Colors, making his control mousy and slippery.
It's too bad. I thought they 100% nailed how he should move in Colors. I can't imagine why they'd change it so much.
Vampire On Titus
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Kaijima said:
I think the controls even better in Generations, he's not actually that slow to start moving, and if you want to reach top running speed you can do a quick tap boost. I feel more in control of my direction in the actual 3D platforming segments, then in any 3D sonic game save for adventure 2. He turns more sharply but it corresponding with appropriate analog stick tilting. It's not like Sonic 06 where if you even thought too hard about moving the stick Sonic would go flying off the stage.
I think it's the best controls of the Unleashed style games yet.
Edit: You can also start off faster by getting the acceleration skill.
Phonomezer
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qq more said:
After fighting the last boss, you'll look back on the Egg Dragon with fondness.
Shadowlink
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Any news on the 3DS version?
Phonomezer
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Suzuki Yu said:
I quite enjoyed it too, very easy on the eyes as well.
Shadowlink said:
Nothing so far aside from it having a release date of November 22nd still.
Also everyone should try using Toxic Caves in some of the slower paced Chemical Plant Zone classic challenges. Super Sonic Racing for Modern Sonic ghost races, and Sonic Boom for Classic Sonic ghost races.
Angel Island will probably work nice in Seaside Hill.
Phonomezer
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qq more said:
Always use the boost jump thingies to get on the rails. Took me a while to get that, lol.
Diablohead
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Best sonic design:
I lost the slight stutter by turning off V-sync.
Sky Sanctuary
City Escape
This shows that too fast glitch I was talking about earlier (left the screen like in the old school games, but ended up dying). That and some really close calls with the truck...felt great to make it out by a thread though lol.
Seaside Hill
Ended up going the crappy underwater route on accident in Act 1. Well its not really crappy, just no one likes being underwater in Sonic. Act 2 I really had fun with though.
Sky Sanctuary
City Escape
This shows that too fast glitch I was talking about earlier (left the screen like in the old school games, but ended up dying). That and some really close calls with the truck...felt great to make it out by a thread though lol.
Seaside Hill
Ended up going the crappy underwater route on accident in Act 1. Well its not really crappy, just no one likes being underwater in Sonic. Act 2 I really had fun with though.
The Shadow fight is once again one of the worst things ever designed. Or I am missing something. 21 minutes with the fucker here. Everytime I deplete his rings he gains a boost from nowhere until he finds other rings ! yeah ! How am I supposed to beat that?
And now this retard fell from the stage and is stuck in space. Bugs, how do they fuck up your life. 20 minutes of my life wasted !
And now this retard fell from the stage and is stuck in space. Bugs, how do they fuck up your life. 20 minutes of my life wasted !
I got to pick this up last night for PC. Played through the first two stages.
Classic Sonic does not control as he did in the old games, but he doesn't control poorly. It's a bit snappier than the Genesis titles. Also seems to build momentum quicker. I don't really a have a problem with this, but I'd heard from other people that the physics were the same. They're not.
Modern Sonic... man, I don't know if it's because I haven't spent much time with the series recently, but is it really just a matter of holding forward and attacking when prompted? Is that how modern sonic plays? Really boring.
It's a beautiful game though, and I love the soundtrack. The classic stages are still fun. I just don't really get modern Sonic, I guess. He doesn't roll or anything, it's just like a sudden speed burst when you want to accelerate him? Last Sonic game I finished was Adventure, and I don't remember the mechanics there being the same as they are here.
Classic Sonic does not control as he did in the old games, but he doesn't control poorly. It's a bit snappier than the Genesis titles. Also seems to build momentum quicker. I don't really a have a problem with this, but I'd heard from other people that the physics were the same. They're not.
Modern Sonic... man, I don't know if it's because I haven't spent much time with the series recently, but is it really just a matter of holding forward and attacking when prompted? Is that how modern sonic plays? Really boring.
It's a beautiful game though, and I love the soundtrack. The classic stages are still fun. I just don't really get modern Sonic, I guess. He doesn't roll or anything, it's just like a sudden speed burst when you want to accelerate him? Last Sonic game I finished was Adventure, and I don't remember the mechanics there being the same as they are here.
spindashing
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He's only a mini boss...Haunted said:
Happened to me too. I also sailed too low once. I got too excited and thought I had it... =(AniHawk said:
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Finished the main quest. Sonic Colors has a lot more content and feels more coherent from level to level. I enjoyed Generations, but I have never been a big Sonic fan, so all the fanservice flew over my head.
At least it finally cemented into me the idea that I prefer Modern Sonic to Classic Sonic. But hey, I was a SNES kid!
At least it finally cemented into me the idea that I prefer Modern Sonic to Classic Sonic. But hey, I was a SNES kid!
Seven Force
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I've been trying to S-Rank Planet Wisp Act 2 for the better half of the morning, and most of my mistakes can pretty much be attributed to my muscle memory from Colors betraying me. I'll miss a jump and think "WHAT THE FUCK, I KNOW I PRESSED THE DOUBLE JUMP BUTT- Oh... right."
That being said, it'd be nice if Sega did an HD port of Colors. Planet Wisp looks really great in HD, and I certainly wouldn't mind double dipping.
That being said, it'd be nice if Sega did an HD port of Colors. Planet Wisp looks really great in HD, and I certainly wouldn't mind double dipping.
Bucket-o-roadkill
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Thanks for the suggestions, I managed to get the fucker working properly by messing about with the Vsync options. Good stuff. Got to Planet Wisp in one go, such a fun game. More so playing at 60fps.
I have that annoying stutter problem on a number of things, This is one of the first real times I've fixed it. I tried some other games and they still stutter though, fuck knows what it is.
I have that annoying stutter problem on a number of things, This is one of the first real times I've fixed it. I tried some other games and they still stutter though, fuck knows what it is.
None of those sound nearly as interesting as classic Sonic to me :/Teknoman said:
I'll hope it gets better, but what I've played so far... I was just holding one button basically wondering what the hell I was looking at. In the first modern Sonic stage I go over a jump and he starts spazzing out and I get an achievement for doing a stunt? But I didn't do anything! I was just holding forward.
It's probably too early to pass judgment, but I was really surprised at how automated it all was.