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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread |OT3 & Knuckles|
- Thread starter Professor Beef
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Maybe, we've heard plenty of stuff already. We know that back in June lots of people working on the game were fired and seeing how it uses the Cryengine I doubt that it was originally a Wii U game.
But more importantly.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
Can we just stay in the dark instead and forget the Boom games even exist?
No, there are more things to complain about, one I just noticed.
KLatin Scelus
Member
People didn't ignore Sonic 06, they aren't going to ignore Sonic Boom.
Unfortunately.
It's especially bad now, because Sonic was beginning to look like a decent franchise again. While when Sonic 2006 came out, it was just the cherry on top of all the other bad Sonic games that were coming out in that decade.
KLatin Scelus
Member
Yeah, but Sonic Boom is a spin-off not made by Sonic Team, and non-canon. It probably won't soften the blow, but it is something to consider.
Oh, and I also found this. LOL
ViewtifulJC
Banned
You know who has a fun character design? Tails
Seven Force
Banned
Tails is still one of the GOAT sidekicks. The design has a lot to do with that.
Yeah, but Sonic Boom is a spin-off not made by Sonic Team, and non-canon. It probably won't soften the blow, but it is something to consider.
Oh, and I also found this. LOL
1, 3, 4
Wow, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon really shocked me. This is legitimately great expansion to FC3, something I found myself disappointed in.
Fun, quirky gameplay that's really straightforward. The fact that you can get this as a standalone experience is great too.
I might do a LTTP lol
Fun, quirky gameplay that's really straightforward. The fact that you can get this as a standalone experience is great too.
I might do a LTTP lol
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Rise of Lyric needed more time and more money and was likely given neither.
I suspect that with Lost World barely making a splash (less than 10k sales opening week), Sega probably tightened the belt on Lyric, and with the game needing to launch along side all of the other cross-media bullshit (toys, comics, cartoons) it had to be out by a specific date with no exceptions.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Just because it's not made by Sonic Team doesn't matter considering Sega and whomever approves anything to do with the IP at Sega are just as "culpable".
That being said, it's not like Sonic Team does not have its share of issues with respect to game development and design, either.
Tizoc
Member
T.T Scourge was one of my fav. characters in the comic.
I have this idea for a 2D Sonic game where you can also play as other characters, they'd all share the same base abilities as Sonic but it'd just be a novelty thing. Scourge would be one of them.
It had three years development time and a budget of about 20 million, which is twice the budget of Sonic Colours. It seems like there was enough time to develop the game, but there were issues during development like having to make a Cryengine game work on a console that doesn't officially support Cryengine.
Tizoc
Member
Yikes, should've gone with Unreal Engine 3 if that's the case >_>;
Looking it up, looks like I'm wrong about Cryengine not officially supporting the Wii U as Nintendo's logo is at the bottom of the official website. Still, seeing how Sonic Boom is the only Wii U game that uses the engine I can imagine that there's not as much support for it as on other platforms.
I could have sworn LW had far more sales via legs than opening week.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Looking it up, the last reported sales figure I could find was 710k, and I think most of that was for the 3DS version. If you dare even entertain Chartz, they say only 26,000 worldwide for the Wii U version.
Edit: Apparently the 710k figure was from SegaSammy's official financial report earlier this year.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
I guess it's reasonable to expect that it might've broken a million sales by now, but probably just barely
I'm sad that I couldn't warn the people of just how boring Sonic Boom 3DS is. Almost finished my review for Sonic Retro.
It's not a good game. Far from it.
Tizoc
Member
Hey as long as it's not as boring and frustrating as Lost World, that'd be an improvement if you ask me :V
I can always trade it off later to get Guilty Gear Xrd's price down.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
They can always read my review :smug:
http://www.tssznews.com/2014/11/19/review-sonic-boom-shattered-crystal-3ds/
I wouldn't call it frustrating, but it is one of the most boring Sonic games ever made.
Tizoc
Member
So uh is that a good or a bad thing?
Ideally a bad thing as Eggman alone is practically the main thing justifying actual dialogue/interaction in the whole Sonic franchise.
But I dunno, Sonic has had his moments during a few of the Boom episodes.
YEAH WELL MY REVIEW HAS MORE WORDS IN IT MEANING THAT IT'S BETTER SO THERE http://www.sonicretro.org/2014/12/sonic-boom-shattered-crystal-the-retro-review/
Seriously though I worked hard on my review please read it.
Professor Beef
Banned
pls respond read it
It actually made you appreciate RoL more? Damn.
It does feel like the more mediocre/less ambitious version though. Everything about the game just looked dull from the get go, even after the demo.
Nocturnowl
Member
The Shattered Crystal demo alone was one of those cases where I felt offended by its sheer blandness, the game doesn't even have any so bad it's good merits, it was just so sub standard, so by the numbers and so drab that it made me look back on the worst parts of Lost World with a longing fondness, "hey maybe that shoddy Sonic as a poor man's DKCR rocketbarrel section wasn't so bad after all" though It was of course pretty bad.
You mean the last level of the secret world? It was frustrating in implementation but I thought it was a neat concept, particularly when the boss got involved.
Not going to hide it: I'm just shamelessly advertising it in that post. :V
It actually is the first review I've written of a game though, so I don't mind tooting my own horn for it.
Nocturnowl
Member
By all means toot away, I do tend to read and watch most reviews that sometimes turn up in here even if I usually don't mention it.
That was the odd gravity spheres one right? that wasn't too grand either.
But the one I'm on about appears twice, first as an extra stage in the Tropical World I think and then as a mandatory stage somewhere in Sky Road, this one to be precise.
Those awkward and initially unintuitive controls, of all the random things Lost World does with Sonic this tops the list in confusing me, I'm not sure how they even pitched this idea.
"so how about Sonic is flying in this perpetual up draft right? and you spin to decrease your altitude because reasons and as a bonus we don't have to bother trying with the level design"
That was the odd gravity spheres one right? that wasn't too grand either.
But the one I'm on about appears twice, first as an extra stage in the Tropical World I think and then as a mandatory stage somewhere in Sky Road, this one to be precise.
Those awkward and initially unintuitive controls, of all the random things Lost World does with Sonic this tops the list in confusing me, I'm not sure how they even pitched this idea.
"so how about Sonic is flying in this perpetual up draft right? and you spin to decrease your altitude because reasons and as a bonus we don't have to bother trying with the level design"
That should have simply had a tutorial. Once you learned the controls the levels were neat sidescrolling shmup kind of things.
Also the neogaf edit function has finally been fixed. Praise the lord.
Scourge is one of the characters I miss the most after the penderinging...ing. Luckly a lot of the effects he had on peoples personalities are still there.
Shadow Hog
Member
Huh, Tizoc, when'd you get a custom title?
Tizoc
Member
Sticks in the 3DS game is hilarious.
When I made a thread with a thread title that the mods didn't like :V
When I made a thread with a thread title that the mods didn't like :V
sempai~
Nocturnowl
Member
If I had any sort of those fancy graphic skills I'd have whipped up a Sonic thread cycle image months ago to throw in whenever the cycle itself turns up.
In this case though it's off to a bad start from the word go, polish and modern Sonic are like oil ocean and water palace.
Colors was very well polished though, as was generations.
IIRC Unleashed didn't have very many technical issues and for the most part looked fairly good visually, so in that sense it is fairly well polished.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Time Eater and to a lesser extent Egg Dragoon disqualify Generations from "polished" status
There are a few missions where you can do funky stuff, too. I remember launching myself to a really weird place in a Classic Chemical Plant Zone mission where it was like the normal level, but completely empty and with certain parts of the level missing.
Of course, I guess Generations is more polished than most Sonic games.
Nocturnowl
Member
Colours I'll agree with but as for Generations, well...
This and a few of the sloppier missions. PS3 frame rate can jump around a bit as well which affected me at least.
Honestly I can't remember much of Unleashed in the grand scheme of things, I just keep thinking of the Werehog's lack of jumping shadow at points and half the game being something of a snore to play is like running my finger across that fine looking Unleashed and suddenly DUST ON MY FINGERTIPS, who left those wasps in there? certainly not a man who was finely polishing things!
But at least you're not falling through the floor and stuff.