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The engine has been used in a few games that I like, though none of them resembling platformers. It'll be interesting to see what they do with it I suppose. Maybe the time they save having a pre-existing engine will actually go into polishing the game and fixing bugs for a change.
From what I have seen the engine is only used for level purposes, like for instance, you can smash a generic robot into a wall and it comes tumbling down. I have also noticed some backround structures falling down, I don't know about you guys, but I think this is a cool idea.
I was kinda iffy on the idea at first too, but nontheless I will be picking up this game for my 360 no matter what, I just hope this "getting back to his roots" crap isn't just more gimmicks.
I kind of like the possibilities with the Havok engine. Remember the parts of the Green Hill Zone ... uh, hills ... you could roll through? Collapsing cliffs? I'd love to see little things like that using Havok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sega Uranus
Maybe even realistically-exploding ring monitors :D
It's just a physics engine.
It doesn't indicate that the game will play a certain way. . .
just that things will fall and interact with you differently.
The videos that are out so far show it to be a slightly more polished Sonic Adventure.
I'm also wondering about Sonic Wild-Fire and the new Golden Axe.
Sonic wildfire pls.
I liked adventure (especially 2) but I have little faith in this mainly because of how devoid of anything worthwhile the last of 4 games have been. And bring back choas damn it!
the last 4?
the last 2 new titles on consoles were Shadow and Heroes.
then there were the 4 handheld games.
I find myself hoping that we don;t get a repeat of Sonic Adventure 2/WorthlessGarbage.
From the footage I've seen (being able to actually select Sonic), my hopes should prove worthwhile.
I played Heores for PS2, and hated it.
I think it should be SOnic, tails, and knckles, ROBOTNUCK (yes, I suck at spelling) and the chaos emeralds. That is all you need. Maybe some robot/metal sonic.
yeah i know engines are mean't to be tweaked. Look at Alice on pc it ran on the Quake III engine and it wasn't a FPS. I think the problem with sega fans all the time is they are so negative about everything. I'm seeing all this "OMG STUPID SEGA WE WANT JAPANSE LANGUGE IN YAKUZA NOT HOLLYWOOD VOICE ACTORS" i mean WTF! The they address there big complains about voice actors to get pist comments?
The only thing that sucked about the adventure seris was the camera, i heard they haven't fixed it and its been awhile (since the game debuted in 98) jesus. But this new game looks cool (and by cool i mean totally sweet). I got used to the camera so i should be fine.
I see how there making Shadow not run around and just use tanks. maybe this will stop the lame topics i saw when SA2 debuted on DC. You know those "OMG WHOS FASTER SONIC OR SHADOW" everyone knows sonic is the worlds fastest hedghog.
Ugh. There's a problem with this approach. For there are three Sonic 'fan groups' on the putrid rollercoaster ride to hell that is the Internet: the 20-something-year-olds who were teens when the first games were released, the newbies who joined the party during the dying years of the Dreamcast, and the 'casuals': the people still buying the dreadful American comic series, the tweenage Sonic X-ers, new 'retro' fans, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by oneupthextraman
You can't please one group without pissing off two others: hence the reason I genuinely feel sorry for Sega/Sonic Team once a new game is announced. Take Heroes, for eaxmple - it's far too easy to go HEROES IS SHINY HAHAHAHAjAHAA, but did nobody notice it heralding the return of the Chaotix crew after an eight-year leave of absence? What about Shadow - yeah, let's all poke fun at the 'emo' character. Let's also conveniently sidestep the fact that characters with a fractured memory are always useful as plot devices, or that it provides a mature counterbalance to the 'woo yeah happy :)' Sonic Adventure incarnation of Sonic (as opposed to the 'raaaargh I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET SHADOW >:[' Sonic Adventure 2 Sonic).
I certainly noticed the return of the Chaotix crew in Heroes. I thought that was the best part of the game. My main problems with Heroes were: that the first few levels were extremely dull, the boss designs left much to be desired, the (awesome) special stage was too hard to get into, the whole 'collecting orbs to level up' thing was lame and completely unnecessary, the game pretty much sucked with Team Rose, and the characters were far, far, far too chatty in-game.
Also, while I think it's fine and dandy to include a bunch of characters, we seriously don't more new Sonic characters. I didn't mind Blaze, because she fit in well, and the plot made sense with her as a one-game character, and she kind of reminded me of that scrapped character from X-treme. But that new guy from Riders is seriously lame. I liked E-102 Gamma at the time, probably because he fit so well into the plot and he was a one-time character, but I don't like his reincarnations. Big the Cat fucking sucks. Shadow was unnecessary; they could've easily just brought back Metal Sonic. Silver is really lame. I don't like Cream either, but she's not so objectionable (aside from her annoying voice). Rouge is okay, but I don't think I'd miss her terribly if she disappeared.
I would like to see the return of Mighty, Ray, and Fang/Nack.
Me too. They were brought back for Sonic X, too, which I thought was nice. Personally, I don't care for the expanded Sonic universe, but I wish Sega would stop churning out new characters when it has a number of older ones still left straggling about and worth expanding upon.Quote:
Originally Posted by j_factor
I liked Big's segments in Sonic Adventure since they were fun, but they really didn't fit a Sonic game (then again, little of Adventure really does). :( The problem is not one of those new characters are particularly unique or interesting. It reminds me of when a show is winding down and running out of new ideas how they keep bringing in new characters to base episodes around (see Seinfeld, TMNT, etc.).Quote:
Originally Posted by j_factor
I actually like Shadow as a character, but I agree that there are enough hedgehogs in the franchise as it is. Wildfire looks disappointing since while it looks to excise all the chaff characters, it still is trying too much to be an adventure game with Final Fantasy style plots and cinemas. Just make a Sonic game, dammit!