Sonic's 20th: Generations, Olympics, Storybook, All-Stars, CD, Episode 2

[DANGEROUS-3]

Why would he do the homing attack? This is Classic Sonic in the SG demo- the guy from the MD games. Homing attack is a move that Modern Sonic does. Modern Sonic is the redesign of the character who has different moves and first appeared in Sonic adventure in 1998. Classic Sonic from the MD games just has Spin Attack and Spindash. In SG the player will get to choose which Sonic they which to play as since both Classic and Modern hogs will be playable.

I think the demo is promising / awesome. The jump height / hangtime could be increased a little, but it does not bother me too much.

The main problem is the rolling / uncurling.
Sonic should not uncurl when rolling unless the player presses jump or he comes to a stop. Similarly the rolling physics are all wrong. Sonic should dramatically gain speed and momentum when rolling downhill NOT SLOW DOWN!

Here's hoping they fix these issues.

[abigsmurf]

Just played it, I think it's really good.

The frame rate really needs improving and the jumps could do with being slightly more floaty but other than that, it's great. The level design is much improved over sonic 4 which was awful in places (ie places where you'd fall down a bottomless pit because you didn't know to mid air boost in order to get to an offscreen platform) and it feels much more like a classic Sonic game.

[Goemon]

Do you think its too fast for its own good ? all that pritty scenery flys past in a blip.

This! A 1000 times this!

I really get the sense these days the Devs are all 'We gotta make it fast!'

This annoys me as the 'normal' pace is too quick and you can't react to things. I put this on, started running - and ran straight into the first enemy beucase I couldn't react in time.

breaks the game for me.

[Fader209]

Do you find that the enemies sort of blended into the background too? Might be down to the frame rate again but I ended up running into them.

Ordered Sonic Colours today to get me some Sonic action going on next week

[Judge]

Had a fair bash on Generations at Summer of Sonic yesterday. Very impressed with the handling on the retro version of Green Hill, which is a great improvement on Sonic 4, but I'd agree with those who think something's off technically with this part. It almost seems to defocus when you start moving at a decent speed, and his hard to keep track of. The modern version of the same level is pretty much finished, with none of these problems, so hopefully they'll be fixed before release.

['Press Start']

Do you find that the enemies sort of blended into the background too? Might be down to the frame rate again but I ended up running into them.

Ordered Sonic Colours today to get me some Sonic action going on next week

Haha. Me too. I played this demo and it got me remembering how great Sonic was. ?12.99 @ play.com

[Fader209]

We both saw it in the same sale then
I had been thinking about getting it for a long time and was waiting for a decent price drop...then I saw this deal! Same price at Amazon apparently, kind of wish I ordered from them as they tend to deliver a bit quicker than Play these days.

Prepare to compare times in the future

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/309907/news/sega-confirms-two-more-sonic-games/

Sega has confirmed a new All-Stars game is in development following up the Tennis and Racing games. Additionally a 3rd Storybook title is in the works though no mention of if it will be for Wii or act as an early WiiU game

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.the-magicbox.com/1107/game110731c.shtml

New images from Sonic Generations including Metal Sonic and Chemical Plant Zone

http://www.the-magicbox.com/1107/game110731d.shtml

Also, new images of the 3DS version of Sonic Generations' bonus stage

[abigsmurf]

Looks incredible. Hope they use the EU/Japanese music for the Sonic CD stage.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/gallery.php?game_id=15404&article_id=1390050

New 3DS version screens

[abigsmurf]

Hmm, a sonic and knuckles stage. Looks a lot less impressive than earlier shots.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-23-sonic-4-episode-ii-release-date-set-for-2012-article

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 will release next year and might be the last episode of the game despite the huge sales Episode 1 ultimately racked up

[CMcK]

And Sonic CD is coming to XBLA! Should be shown at PAX this weekend.

[DANGEROUS-3]

And Sonic CD is coming to XBLA! Should be shown at PAX this weekend.

That is cool.

But I hope they don't alter the graphics like they did with the Megadrive Sonics on XBLA by smoothing the pixels out. It makes them look horrible.

Why can't we have HD version with the pixels, how they're supposed to look.