Sonic General Discussion Thread v1 - Games

Here's another review from a different source, TSSZ. [url]http://www.tssznews.com/2017/11/06/review-sonic-forces-nintendo-switch/[/url] [sp]2/5[/sp]

[QUOTE=Megalan;52862139][t]https://i.imgur.com/JsDBhN8.jpg[/t] Wow, this looks fucking awful. Low-res background texture and rectangular plane as ground in 2017.[/QUOTE] was this made in gmod?

[QUOTE=Electrocuter;52862908]was this made in gmod?[/QUOTE] The renders and posture look about as stale and lifeless as something in Gmod that's for sure. They're nothing in comparison to these guys. [IMG]https://image.prntscr.com/image/a0NbL8n7SnWQXCTe_vFQkQ.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Megalan;52862139][t]https://i.imgur.com/JsDBhN8.jpg[/t] Wow, this looks fucking awful. Low-res background texture and rectangular plane as ground in 2017.[/QUOTE] It's such a shame that Sonic Unleashed from 2008 for last gen consoles looks like a Pixar movie in motion whereas Sonic Forces from 2017 for current gen consoles looks like a Lego game or a GMod screencap. ...like, no joke. There was a scene from one of the trailers of Sonic getting beat up by the villains, and something about how flat his eyes looked reminded me of that Lego game that Sonic cameo'd in. [IMG]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RTHL0AFod-4/hqdefault.jpg[/IMG] [T]http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/lego-dimensions/images/c/cc/SonicNew.png/revision/latest?cb=20161119131229[/T]

[QUOTE=Megalan;52862139][t]https://i.imgur.com/JsDBhN8.jpg[/t] Wow, this looks fucking awful. Low-res background texture and rectangular plane as ground in 2017.[/QUOTE] I really hope that's the Switch version If the Switch version got downgraded from that, I don't want to know what it looks like

[video]https://youtu.be/bwEfT_W80uE[/video]

[QUOTE=Itauske Roken;52861984][video=youtube;uU3FawgeiAk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3FawgeiAk[/video] Launch trailer is live apparently[/QUOTE] The best part is that Shadow appears in the corner of the shot of the heroes, and then again in the shot of the villains. In the same fucking pose.

[QUOTE=Itauske Roken;52861984][video=youtube;uU3FawgeiAk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3FawgeiAk[/video] Launch trailer is live apparently[/QUOTE] Oh my fucking god that audio mixing when knuckles says "BEGINS" the reverb literally comes in mid word.

I'd really love to see a Sonic game with Nintendo levels of polish.

Well, now that [sp]Eggman takes over the world, Tails becomes mopey and depressed (at one point, he was going to resign himself to death right before classic Sonic shows up, but they changed it), and Sonic is literally tortured in a prison for six months after being defeated[/sp] I don't think the argument that Sonic shouldn't be grim is a sound one, outside of a simple matter of opinion. It's also refreshing to see that [sp]Infinite doesn't betray Eggman.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Lord Exor;52864271]Well, now that [sp]Eggman takes over the world, Tails becomes mopey and depressed (at one point, he was going to resign himself to death right before classic Sonic shows up, but they changed it), and Sonic is literally tortured in a prison for six months after being defeated[/sp] I don't think the argument that Sonic shouldn't be grim is a sound one, outside of a simple matter of opinion. It's also refreshing to see that [sp]Infinite doesn't betray Eggman.[/sp][/QUOTE] The problem is that it doesn't know what to do with the tone, it's like they wanted to push the boundaries but later rewrites had them undermine them entirely.. [sp]Sonic isn't even remotely phased by six months of torture, and the story moves on like it never happened like as if Knuckles was exaggerating. Infinite wipes out a crapton of people but all you get is radio dialogues and some glumness before the game moves on like it never happened. Infinite himself goes full nightmare fuel a grand total of one time and then gets whooped by the power of friendship.[/sp] Christ, late game Sonic just sounds like he's quoting [sp]Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric about the friendship shit.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Lord Exor;52860658]I cannot hold my anticipation for what will amount to the most spectacular game of the year.[/QUOTE] BANNED for off topic discussion

Someone has a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye2KKO7sv6E]playthrough[/url] of Episode Shadow. [sp]Again, the payoff is almost pointless. 3 rehashed and altered stages from the main game, all just to find out that Infinite was originally some jackal mercenary Shadow humiliated, causing him to go batshit and rip off Shadow except eviler.[/sp]

[QUOTE=RikohZX;52864412]The problem is that it doesn't know what to do with the tone, it's like they wanted to push the boundaries but later rewrites had them undermine them entirely.. [sp]Sonic isn't even remotely phased by six months of torture, and the story moves on like it never happened like as if Knuckles was exaggerating. Infinite wipes out a crapton of people but all you get is radio dialogues and some glumness before the game moves on like it never happened. Infinite himself goes full nightmare fuel a grand total of one time and then gets whooped by the power of friendship.[/sp] Christ, late game Sonic just sounds like he's quoting [sp]Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric about the friendship shit.[/sp][/QUOTE] There were some minor rewrites, but Sonic's[sp]dissonant optimism and narmy pontificating over the power of friendship were there from the beginning[/sp]. SoA and Aaron Webber apparently attempted to hire Ian Flynn to rework the story, but SoJ wouldn't have it.

Beat my personal Rooftop Run (Unleahed project) record. Got up to 3:40:44 which is a near perfect time without glitches. I doubt Forces will test me as much as this damn stage did.

I hope this game does worse than Mania just to show up SOJ. Also maybe the next time they want to do a game with this kind of story, they should just base it off of SatAM.

anyone playing that sonic forces: speed battle app on iphone? it's like temple run but you race 3 other people. It's kind of fun

[QUOTE=Ricenchicken;52864842]anyone playing that sonic forces: speed battle app on iphone? it's like temple run but you race 3 other people. It's kind of fun[/QUOTE] I have. My main gripe is that the high tier stages really favor people with higher levels way too much.

[QUOTE=Megalan;52862139][t]https://i.imgur.com/JsDBhN8.jpg[/t] Wow, this looks fucking awful. Low-res background texture and rectangular plane as ground in 2017.[/QUOTE] I thought this was a Sonic 06 snapshot for a second.

It's now out on steam if you actually bought it. if you didn't I'm considering streaming it.

kinda sux on no preloading It's gotta take me the whole day to download it

[url]https://www.twitch.tv/redbadger_22[/url] Going to be streaming soon if anyone who is fortunate enough not to have bought this game wants to watch.

Out of curiosity, do we know [I]what[/I] the rewrites are? I feel like a lot of shit was chopped honestly. It feels like halfway through the game they got afraid of doing shit and rewrote tons of things.

Wow I'm crashing constantly after the second level and not sure why. [editline]7th November 2017[/editline] [url]http://steamcommunity.com/app/637100/discussions/0/1480982971182089042/[/url] Rip [editline]7th November 2017[/editline] Apparently we have Denuvo to thank.

[QUOTE=redBadger;52865787]Wow I'm crashing constantly after the second level and not sure why. [editline]7th November 2017[/editline] [url]http://steamcommunity.com/app/637100/discussions/0/1480982971182089042/[/url] Rip [editline]7th November 2017[/editline] Apparently we have Denuvo to thank.[/QUOTE] This is happening to me, except after the third mission. What a good port.

[QUOTE=Anyx;52865801]This is happening to me, except after the third mission. What a good port.[/QUOTE] To be fair it seems like a really good pc port. Just not this issue. [editline]7th November 2017[/editline] Turning off internet works. Thanks denuvo

[URL="https://steamdb.info/depot/715911/"]Persona 5 DLC has got great depot name[/URL] :v: [URL="https://steamdb.info/sub/219717/depots/"]Other DLC depot names are great too[/URL]

[QUOTE=redBadger;52865787]Wow I'm crashing constantly after the second level and not sure why. [editline]7th November 2017[/editline] [url]http://steamcommunity.com/app/637100/discussions/0/1480982971182089042/[/url] Rip [editline]7th November 2017[/editline] [b]Apparently we have Denuvo to thank.[/b][/QUOTE] Why do companies still use this POS DRM? Even if it didn't cause issues like this it would still be worthless because it has been shown that piracy doesn't harm sales and the DRM itself can easily be cracked. Oh, that's right, SEGA and many other video game publishers are extremely out of touch/ignorant when it comes to the matter of piracy and DRM.

Some kind of a patch has been released [t]https://i.imgur.com/DyxFEgD.png[/t]

[media]https://twitter.com/RandomTBush/status/927960923117105154[/media] Oh no